in case you're new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington or washington controls the media the media control over the voters elected to businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. spain prepares to revoke custody as autonomy are to the region's leader confirms its declaration of independence was suspended not cancelled. parties

adverts on the london underground or a host of reactions including from britain's foreign secretary and hillary clinton apparently taking the channel's comments literally. and a controversial russian artist granted political asylum in france faces also in charges after setting a bank in paris. you're watching r.t. international a coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. as we've been hearing the spanish government is planning talks on triggering article one five five on saturday which would revoke catalonia has autonomy the statement follows the council and leaders confirmation in a letter sent to spain's prime minister this thursday that the region's declaration of independence was not cancelled but suspended this is french and remains in place

if the government insists on preventing dialogue continues its repression the council and parliament may go ahead if appropriate with a formal vote on the declaration of independence well this came after spain had initially demanded that catalonia clarified the region's position on independence by monday which didn't happen and the next deadline for the council only to betray whether the the region would break away expired today. well article one five five allows the spanish government to see if any autonomous community fails to obey the constitution the government should ask for the senate's approval and once this is given madrid will then be able to give orders to that community spain's prime minister has threatened to use the article against the council and regional government several times formally require the catalan government to confirm if it has declared the independence of catalonia after the deliberate confusion created over whether it has come into

a fresh implement it's not difficult is just to answer a simple question have you declared independence of catalonia or not well the referendum on independence was held on the first of october and overwhelming majority of those who cast their ballots voted in favor of secession but they also sources of violence as police exerted brutal force against voters while spain has seen mass protests and increased tension since then thousands of protein unity supporters took to the streets of paso loaded up on by the same night. and i'm joined by jodi arias catalan literature and culture expert from santander's universe teacher d. thank you very much indeed for joining us once again well let's have a look at what might happen when do you expect the spanish government to trickle article one five five on saturday. yes it looks as if there will be the case of the article one of five five will be triggered but we do not

know whether the independent will we finally declare before or even after the article these triggered what we do not know either. how the the article will be vented android if it is implemented what do you have developments do you expect to happen after what can happen next basically. well it's very difficult to predict because this would be the first time when article one five five is implemented it sort of it's part of the spanish constitution that was from like in seventy eight. there is quite a number of issues regarding this article that seem to be clear. what i suppose will happen is the catalan government will have no. really no power whatsoever but these power has been a way for me because essentially although article one five five has not been

triggered the spanish government has been re centralizing. all kinds of activities . basically it has control of a cattle finances so in a sense you could argue that a war make that much of a difference but. politically of course but it's also then look at the wider picture i mean the head of the european parliament things that no country in europe would recognize catalan independence i mean do you agree with that. well the remains to be seen i suppose the european union countries are being very cautious some of them are said to the not keen to reckon by a new democratic republic because that might trigger some of secessionist movements within those states. but there are one or two governments that might be prepared to acknowledge and recognize the existence of

a new state in any case nations have the right to self-determination this is something. democratic politicians should recognize one way or another and we will see what happens once independence is a fait accompli if indeed it is ever a fait accompli i think it will be i think that if article one five five it's triggered independents will be. will follow suit or the declaration of independence will follow suit it may happen even before all article one five five is triggered and do you think then during the standoff that eventually there will be dialogue between these two sides and if there is the same. well it is difficult it is difficult to say it because the cattle norman has gone out of its way you know the doing gauging some form of dialogue with the spanish government that's

happened since over the first i mean before with the first in actual fact it's been happening for years now but all the thames have met with the. wall this blank wall it's been impossible to sit down with the spanish government in order to find a negotiated solution that would allow for the illegal referendum to happen and so on and so forth i mean we've heard some noises the spanish government would be prepared to change the constitution but that something that would not be acceptable to cattle probably depended sparta's so unless there is a dramatic change in the position of the spanish government dialogue. from where we stand. seems a very remote possibility. mr be saying jodi arias from stanford university thank you very much for time thank you. well this channel has once again

found itself at the center of the scandal adverts in the london underground have provoked an angry reaction from a high ranking labor party m.p. the times claims the party is now demanding the u.k.'s media watchdog of com investigates the ad campaign and associate reports with more from london and another case of r t scandalising apart a labor politician here in the u.k. as well as the times newspaper why all due to its ad campaign where we've seen yet another r t bashing piece of pier in the times with a headline quote kremlin t.v. adverts on tube trigger call for off common choir and quote note how they're not even saying kremlin backed or kremlin sponsored it's just kremlin t.v. at this point and in this articles the time reports on how the deputy leader of the labor party has requested that off gone which is the u.k.'s broadcast regulator that doesn't even actually deal with advertising issues investigate russia's latest

ad campaign on on the london underground which features posters along the lines of missed the train lost a vote blame it on us but it seems that the times weren't amused they called these ads ironic using these quotations even though clearly the ads were in fact intended to be ironic and what's even makes this story even better is that this times article claims that r.t. had denied to comment but in reality it was a little bit of a different story with two questions do you wish to respond to this complaint which advertising agency agreed to the adverts for what they made in house. high probably not much point in responding to a complaint to an authority that does not regulate out of two advertising campaign was developed in-house by the r.t.e. team and fully proved by all u.k. vendors we are glad to say many in the u.k. are engaging with. advertising understood thanks for the swift response.

well lovi asli none of those comments for some reason ended up making it into this article and it's curious that the times reports on the deputy a labor party leader saying that he wants our tea investigated given that jeremy corbyn the late labor party leader himself was a very frequent guest on our t.v. for he became party leader including having endorsed the channel on twitter let's take a look. i am very concerned. increase in u.s. bombardment of syria without as i understand it any legal basis. what we've done is involve herself in a civil war. well israel has been grabbing land from the palestinians ever since not in any sense an international law now it has to be said that this latest call

from a deputy labor party leader to investigate r.t. comes just days after boris johnson who is a conservative m.p. and also of course foreign secretary here in the u.k. went ahead and bashed labor m.p.'s for being too lenient towards r t let's take a look if you study the output of russia today it is a scam it is a scam that members of the party opposite continuing to validate to validate and lead you to make. that kind of propaganda by doing all those programs well loved boris johnson's comments of course can also be seen as quite ironic given that his own father had appeared on r t just recently but you know it has to be said that we are seeing all of this reaction and all of this commentary on r t in less than a week from both the conservative and the labor party and the times newspaper going . so certainly our team has been getting lots of attention here in the u.k.

. it certainly hasn't ciscos this with an independent member of the european parliament janice and concerned janice thank you very much indeed for joining us well we've been hearing it all that i mean why do you think we're seeing increasing attacks on our city. you know what because you're putting an alternative view and you're challenging the sun the establishment just as i do actually what i think all tea for is that we actually get there so across europe you know what populism rising and we are presenting our views were present representing the views of the millions of people who are voting for us but you mention boris johnson and jeremy corbett and you forgot hillary clinton only this week she's been in london and traveling around the country spreading the love with her book and she blames you for the state trying to destabilize. your opponent she's blamed for losing the election she blames facebook google as mr putin everybody but ourselves

so you got some quite powerful enemies out there oh yeah i mean john she raised hillary clinton there we can actually hear from them she jumped on those are she added she listed them as among the alleged threats coming from russia let's take a listen to what she had to say maybe you've even seen the ads in london underground from one russian state funded propaganda source bragging watch our t.v. and find out who we are planning to hack an act of trying to hack next you heard it there i mean can those advertising slogans really be evidence of russian interference. i think they're actually hilarious i was in the studio on friday common seeing on the the ice's orphans and i was up against two opposite numbers so when i come on i always always find that i do have rigorous debate with my opposite numbers but as i came off air my dutch assistant who happened to be on the london underground that evening actually sent me the photographs i thought they had areas i think you really trust tapped into the

british humor and i think that's where lots of our politicians are going wrong there is no humor. you are attacking the establishment because but they're putting people like me and george galloway and boris johnson's father and authors putting an alternative view in america they've got the clinton news network c.n.n. is absolutely awful the way that it is the opposition to trump and n.b.c. is actually the only. conservative out there out there is fox news so i'm grateful for r.t. you give me an airing and i will come on and continue to talk about my agenda for as long as long as you have me well that's great that you're going to do janice but boris johnson says that any appearance by a politician on r.t. says it legitimizes propaganda if you think we're going to scare off any interviewees or any viewers it depends if you will if you if you. i don't get much airing on the b.b.c. and if i do i'm always up against opposition the debate is always very very one

sided so that's not to ask you have to be you can leave a group think like the european union wants you to or group think like the conservative party does but on the light of sort of note today you had trees amaze deputy damian green speaking at a press launch lunch today who said that. the former chancellor george osborne was just like russia today in his evening standard it just less of george galloway so i would say to my colleagues whether in labor the liberal democrats or the conservative party or across the you come and speak to r.t. go on the b.b.c. argue with them that's put our point in the point that is that you're putting across an alternative view you are sputnik i will continue to do that i go on arab t.v. i've been on al-jazeera i go on fronts twenty four i will continue to spread the message because millions of people have voted for me did it really with their

genocide concern independent any thank you very much thank you q. now russia's president vladimir putin has made some flashy comments on the recent international news speaking at a piña recession at the annual valdai discussion club in the russian resort of sochi where for more on this we're going to cross again live to danny hawkins who's in such a for us. hi there don yes so what more has the president had to say. well kate as we said earlier about imprudence speech was as deep as it was broad many salient topics of the day covered from syria to north korea to the situation in catalonia the latest one when taking questions from the audience in particular from our editor in chief will be the simonyan touched upon media freedom and the alleged repression of the media freedom she asked his opinion on the situation r.t. america faced in the united states and in the u.k. were of course in the form of the channels may be forced to register under the

foreign agents act and the latter were foreign secretary boris johnson recently chastised labor m.p.'s for even appearing on the channel or putin said that comparing western media outlets anglo-saxon media outlets as you call them. is futile the power they hold the scope is simply in comparables so r.t. didn't have the capacity to influence elections or choose presidents but he said that any move against media is bad for the media press freedom environment is undemocratic but perhaps most importantly has made very clear ending the speculation that's taken place over the last few days and weeks that if the moves were to be taken against r.t. as a media outlet the russian government would ensure that mirror moves are taken in retaliation against western media outlets in russia as well as now come from the president himself so we can be pretty clear that he will do what he says that's the latest from the press conference here in sochi thank you much indeed for that stan hawkins

in such a thank you may want a russian artist had a brush with the law in france after his latest stunt saw him arrested that story after the break. nor make this manufactured sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the crime.

listen to the one percent. written or middle of the routes to. relieve. the controversial russian artist is facing also charges in france following his latest stunt on sunday night he set fire to the door of a bank in paris because of him as he was arrested on the spot and placed in a police psychiatric unit r.t. france correspondent sheila do bensky has more well it was here on sunday night that the performance artist set fire to this building the bank of frogs and you might be able to see some of the damage behind me from that incident there he was

initially apprehended by the police and later put into the care of a psychiatric unit where they assessed his mental capability only be willy's from a psychiatric unit he was then arrested and charged by the french base for the damage caused here in the busty to the bank of france now he is a controversial figure not just here in france but also in russia where his performance art is attracted a lot of controversy in the past for example this is a man who cut off part of his ear saying that he was protesting against repressive psychiatry in russia and another time he also said to to plays. the front door of the. federal security service in moscow in november two thousand and fifteen for which he actually received some time in a psychiatric unit after that now he fled to russia earlier this year claiming that he needed to have political asylum in france because his views were being seen as

anti-government in russia and if he'd stayed in russia he would have actually faced jail time he was however also facing allegations of sexual assault at the time the teeth fled to russia now when he claimed a political asylum and he was then granted it here in france many people back to his claim that he's views were being seen as anti government and he would have been repressed in russia and fourteen jailed but what is interesting now is he's carrying out the same sort of acts that he did in russia and here in france and when you look at the headlines now and how they treating this artist they see him as a man who is causing criminal dalip damage so he's gone from being a political dissident to a man who is now facing criminal charges here in his new home country. in the u.s. florida's governor has declared a state of emergency ahead of a rally by white nationalists among the speakers will be richard spencer he was one

of the organizers of all this far right rally in charlottesville in virginia where one person was killed and nineteen injured well for a university where the rally is taking place plans to spend half a million dollars on increased security bus routes have also been shut down and nearby buildings closed and counseling is also being offered to those worried by the rally well almost three thousand people have signed up for an empty spencer event posted on facebook activists have also launched a petition to ban the rally receiving several thousand signatures from the state is on edge about potential violence between the two sides in the event as again raised the issue of deep divisions in us society were made here in the u.s. are linking the rise of these divisions and a disturbing number of hate crimes to donald trump's presidency several help groups have reported a sharp rise since his inauguration yet in some cases so-called hate crimes have turned out to be due to deliberate provocation as we go frances santiago explains. seems like there's been a lot of talk about hate crime in america i mean it's just pop culture these days

to be a victim isn't it in new york a jewish man reported to the police that swastikas were spray painted on his home i was horrified i thought to myself what i had to do something crazy like this and guess what it was fake according to local jewish leaders mr king wasn't even jewish himself local authorities did know that a falsely reported hate crime is just as bad as a real crime but it doesn't end there a professor at the indiana state university claimed he was receiving and a muslim threats via e-mail he also told the police that at university he was specifically assaulted now this sparked a frenzy throughout the campus the university doesn't tolerate intolerance if someone has experienced an intolerant act either in person or by e-mail or by thrown we encourage them to report it to law enforcement but oh no they all wound up over nothing but another hoax the investigation didn't find any witnesses to the

alleged attack and later the cyber department found out the professor himself sent out those muslim hate mails based upon the investigation there is no belief that hussein was trying to gain sympathy by becoming a victim of ons in muslim threats which he had created himself playing the victim when in the me hind bars and here is one more case for you joshua which call the police to report a stabbing because the attacker in his own words mistook him for a neo nazi. party i looked like a neo nazi and got stabbed for it luckily i put my hands up to stop it so he only stabbed my hand. but what really happened is joshua bought a pocket knife at a nearby store and accidently stabbed himself in the arm so he came up with the way to hide the embarrassing situation by playing the victim of a hate crime and sometimes it gets as weird as this earlier this month a michigan state university student found

a new saying on her door and immediately thought it was an act of intimidation and reported to the campus authorities i want to be clear this type of behavior is not tolerated on our campus and noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat that has a horrendous history in america well it turned out to be a tad more innocent turns out the news that was found hanging outside a dorm room was actually just a leather shoes and he says the shoelace and its match found outside the dorm were packaged in a way that someone could perceive them to look similar to a noose one of the most powerful of emotions one of the most powerful and frankly one of the most destructive emotions is the idea of victimhood certainly there are ways to even get money from the government for being a victim there are ways to get other benefits for being a victim and so the yeah there's definitely something to that and i think that is incredibly destructive i would say that the first answer a wiser or such a rising fake a crimes is that they want to square that there's

a hole in their invested in this narrative that donald trump is responsible for creating this wave of hate crimes because he's emboldening the racist he's a racist himself he's a white supremacist according to this narrative by the left so therefore they want to show that he's a bold in these races so therefore they want to publish that crimes to make it seem like that's the case. more news don't come otherwise my colleague neil harvey will be here at the top of the hour with the latest headlines. thank you.

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hard watchers. we had back to somalia for the latest on the investigation into the car bombing that took the lives of over three hundred people last saturday the guardian is now reporting that the tragic bombing may actually have been an act of vengeance in response to a botched u.s. and somali military raid that took place last august in the southern lower show battle region of the country according to officials the man responsible for the attack was a former soldier in somalia's army whose hometown was raided by local troops and u.s. special forces two months ago in a controversial operation in which ten civilians were killed in u.s. military involvement in somalia as was ramped up in the waning years of the obama presidency presidency and has only been intensified under the trumpet administration the raid last august so the deaths of three children between the

ages of six and ten at the hands of u.s. and somali forces in the attempt to battle the al shabaab militia and despite what the folks in the military industrial complex and all those neo liberal columns would have you believe i'm sorry but violence does indeed beget more violence especially in africa where a recent u.n. study discovered that in a majority of cases state action appears to be the primary factor finally pushing individuals into violent extremism in africa in fact of the more than five hundred former extremist group members interviewed by the un seventy one percent stated that the killing or arrest of a family member or friend by the state was directly responsible for their extremism again this time for those hard of hearing in the cheap seats those humanitarian intervention who just don't want to listen violence no matter how just but gets

more violence. you know let's start watching the folks. what would you. like. to pull out of it. like you know what i got. this. week so. well the watching the hawks well the time to have a lot of you noticed i didn't start with the greetings and salutations today because i felt very strongly that i wanted to dig right into this story because too often we hear that we need more violence in order to stop violence and i'm tired of tired out isn't it strange that the most like basic concept of human life that

violence is going to make more violence violence doesn't bring peace bombs don't stop wars they don't they never have the network to grow more terrorists and we create more anger and they create generations of people who hate each other for no reason like we have with the russian the u.s. now what happens if you have a bunch of military stuff a lot of politics and then this happens and then we don't care about another side of people a gap and destruction we kind of point it off like who care and death pushes extremism especially state sponsored death because because there's always going to be a push back you know the moment someone loses a brother or a daughter or a cousin of friend whatever it is there's going to be pushback i mean more than thirty three thousand people over the last six years have been victims of violent extremism in somalia this is africa as well you know this is causing widespread displacement was created an aggravated humanitarian crisis that it's affecting millions of people across the entire continent of africa thirty three thousand and

one continent that's that's far too. especially dying by extremist hands rise also hit their economic prospects as well because it's hard to do business in a place that's constantly in turmoil right and part of that turmoil as this you understudy points out because the state for better or worse is you know killing people and that's driving people in the economics that's driving people into this extreme ism you know it's what's really interesting is that you want to study also found out that eighty three percent of these five hundred people interviewed believe their government looked only after the interests of the few seventy five percent place no trust in their politicians or state security agencies that is where you need to be good you have to rebuild the trust between the government and the community if you're going to stop the extremism you're seeing in africa today and one of those huge huge reasons and we've talked about it a million times in study after study one of the big reasons that they would say

during this when they were asking these extremists what happened what turns out economic conditions were the most acute they were the most in need at the time that they joined the group while their families were starving you didn't have money you didn't have a home there so much to sort of deal with and some extremist groups even paid salaries and we saw this with with my soul and a lot of other groups is that when there's something going on it's mercenary so they'll pay higher salaries you know to go fight against the americans or whoever happens to be there and you take it because your family starving they need bread and they need you know clean water and those things take money and when you put someone in that situation feed your family or they don't care that it's you know it's a terrorist organization like these guys are blowing us up with drones these guys are shooting us. i'm going to go to whoever i can find several going to be yeah i mean what's interesting is you see that when you go bring safety to moyo safety protection goes their family to yes it isn't just them it's that they're they're buying the safety they're putting their life on the line to keep the rest of their

families say and what's interesting is and we were talking about earlier today when you talk about you know where have i heard about you know people joining a dangerous group because of the economics involved in the there's more economic you know convenience and freedom and joining that group you see the same thing in the streets of the united states most people will tell you that the reason that they join the street gang is it's generally because of the sale of drugs and the shadow economy which is the shadow economy and there's no other upward mobility in their neighborhood the only people they see with money are drug dealers and i saw the same thing on situations and other groups not about drugs it's about extremism most of the people who have money are again you're much terrorist groups are mercenaries so i want to be like them feed my family that way i can protect my you can see that the trouble is though is that there is also the u.s. that empire that you know bigger bigger country coming in and can try to trying to control smaller countries of the people in that country which is where you see the

military intervention isn't happening all the time which is highly dangerous at the end of the day. the dominance social media in our lives has come with a host of positive benefits whether it's your grandparents being able to stay and loop on every family vacation or reunion or allowing people in danger to easily let friends and family know they're safe but as with any other medium politics has found its slippery way into what originally started as an innovative force for good and has resulted in employees and anyone with a hint of political aspirations fearing for their lives over what may have lingered on their online profiles all this recently came to a head when conservative activists started launching extensive online investigations trying to out mainstream media journalists for harboring a liberal bias or partisan leanings in private which prompted the. nicol of the mainstream media establishment the storied new york times to issue an extensive memo last week to its employees instructing them to avoid posting liking or being connected in any way with anything remotely controversial or partisan on social

media but what about the first amendment you might ask what about the simple fact that these journalists are intrinsically human and however much you want to conceal it will always have some kind of opinion and bias as apparently the new york times feels those concerns are secondary to protecting itself from the president's accusations of being fake news but what kind of precedent does this really set great question and i think that in my opinion you know when you really look at it. journalism. you can't hide bias in journalism that's always going to be there it's been there since the journalism i mean yes they will tell you there shouldn't have biased stories and you're right you have to strive you're straight up journalist you've got to strive to be able to know where you can't put your bias aside or you can put your own feelings aside and just report the story as it is that that's where you have to be more and that's that's one of those things that sometimes maybe you should more of court on a very specific story or do it as an opinion. to keep yourself making that

situation which i did last week with the weinstein scandals because i worked there i had my own experiences i chose to speak about it not specifically in that case because i can't be unbiased right i know i can't i'm good i can't be completely unbiased not such i'm not some opinion or the so i'm taking myself out of being a reporter on that piece for the good of the story because i can't do it without being like what's wrong thing with like this policy the new york times is trying to lay down like ok well no one should be you know posting anything political or no one should be doing that i actually think it's better for your audience to make that oh ok well this this reporter does lean right lean left or whatever maybe your likes you know purple elephant so whatever it may be. that way i know when i'm reading that story i can have more context as a reader to you know is this person being a little tilted this way or that way so that way when i read i have context and i can make an informed decision now there's people that can go online and go on

social media as well no and go off the rails and of course there should be you know a company has every right to look at their employer and say you post something really ridiculous you know you shouldn't do that. but i don't think trying to hide it i think that nobody believes i don't think anybody should believe that the highly educated brilliant young minds are the hope of the world in the future but these these young men and women who are working at the new york times they're not robots are not our tama times they're real people and i don't have to realize that when we as journalists become our brand and who we are becomes part of the story as much as anything you just have to be honest about it you know a lot of this you know came out of project. wonderfully controversial group. you know attempts to describe here and i was an audience was really opposed to you know reveal the personal employees kind of exaggerations and what they believe so me ask

you this do these groups have a point or are they exaggerating it for their own agenda we know project veritas is a you know they're a heavy right leaning group i mean there james o'keefe a boy put on osama bin laden last to make a point where he crossed a border an invisible border so ridiculous but they've also been known to selectively and things like that you know you know are they exaggerating the bias that we see i don't think so i think it's their own you don't need to know what they're leaving on the other one you have to do is look at any c.n.n. reporter or fox news reporter or reporter any of these people are hosts or pundits they are talking about their personal things they have charities for certain kinds of course if you have a charity for people in syria then you're probably not going to report on the syrian conflict completely as unbiased. as unbiased or with this much clarity as you would if you weren't because you have a personal stake in that we all do because we're human beings but i think making journalist pretend like we're not humans that we don't have feelings that we don't

understand and that sometimes what we do to bring are going to feel like you've got a facebook page that's your professional facebook page that represents your work at the new york times or any other place whether whether it's journalism or whatever you know work says hey we prefer this on social media they're your job they're paying your salary that's their right to do that you signed on but it's your private page. is that really their right to tell you what to put what you can and cannot post on your private page i will say this. and the thing that i worry about this is that millennium goals are much more interested in their internet privacy of holding on to who they are as a person they understand that that has value and i think they're going to lose out on a lot of really talented people are because they are going to want to give up those right great point in that corner a point all writers are going to record quarters don't forget to let us know what you think about topics we've covered and facebook and twitter see our full shows at our to dot com coming up shawn tone stone talks the complicated struggles of puerto rico in the second part of his interview with former new york assemblyman nelson

denis then our brings us the latest on the school district to kill a mockingbird keep watching. this manufacture consent to stick to the public will. when the ruling class isn't protect themselves. with the famous merry go round certainly the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. to lose. the real news is really.

the us economy is dead because competition is dead because free markets are dead because free money is being given to the lords and oligarchs and there is no small to medium enterprise. thriving in america to create the jobs and real wages and g.d.p. growth that would pay down the debt. or increase success and failure of a thriving economy and we see that in the volatility and that. was . by no means was still the problem oh well you know. the name.

was a little bit you know it was. the hurricane season hit areas around houston and florida extremely hard this year and caused billions of dollars in damage the devastation seems to be markedly more permanent and serious in puerto rico where not overwhelmed infrastructure and a significantly more complex response has left the island without much of the relief seen in the mainland united states but many of the reasons aren't mere coincidence they're actually part of a much more structural problem with puerto rico's overarching relationship to the rest of the nation so to put it in the tech world's colorful jargon according to many in the puerto rican community the issues puerto rico now faces are

a feature not a bug to go in-depth on what the island territory is now struggling with and how to write down earlier spoke with nelson dennis a former new york state assemblyman and puerto rican advocate. so how is how is protocol currently dealing with the crisis as far as being able to feed and get water and you know obviously fresh water food and shelter to the survivors of the island obviously many people are fleeing but how is that how are we actually dealing with the crisis as it now stands. as as you know it's amazing it's almost body. because. only fifty percent of the island has electricity now i did it to speak to family members only twice. but all the information that i've gathered at some stage that i've had indicate that people are really helping each other especially the rule only at us and central areas. the interest your theory

is down and female has done the best it could under chaotic conditions and fourthly that has to do with the person at the top. so it's going to take about six months or put out by the electrical power authority to to come back to full power and it's then anticipated that without a real concerted conscious effort the puerto rican infrastructure which is a won't recover. and political will be it will be the same it will be the political that was there's an opportunity there because now we can rebuild in a strong and it in and digitally and powerful way if we employ some of these reforms that that i that i mentioned to you but right now it's robbed a lot of people close to have so have of full access to to clean drinking water. you heard the reports as as well and so it's just it's really it's a it's

a it's i hope that it is a understood as a humanitarian crisis because i don't think something he understands that. well could be a ticking time bomb is this could get worse. and fuller eagles that is now going to could be an albatross around the neck of the of the united states and their world opinion may may may shift the twenty five united states between puerto rico if it does as it continues always done it for the last hundred years we're trouble because when we go it never registered on the radar screen this is a time for people to wake united states and and terrorists to realize that there is a structural revision starting with this reconstruction that needs to occur on that island. well certainly asian it strikes me that it's coming from a place partly perhaps of racism in the fact that a puerto rico is not part of the united states proper although it's still

a colony as we've discussed and you've written a book of war against all puerto ricans want to tell so a bit about the history of what what the war has entailed what does that mean that there has been a war systematically in your opinion against puerto rico by the united states. there is a man in the francis race from who the police chief of puerto rico he's the one that unseated he's the one that declared war against all puerto rico's when they tried to get a minimum wage in the thirty three the great depression and and that is the title to sign in the book war he said if we instigate the sugarcane work errors of the policy of with there's going to war to the death against all polar regions and unfortunately it's sort of in a cold war because there's been a red carpet stretching from san juan to wall street for a hundred years of very first governor charles heard allen only means governor for only seventeen months he had that in this first year fiscal report to william mckinley and it was really a business plan for how to turn puerto rico into

a one crop economy that is sure that he could be conducted soil sample studies while he was governor he devoted most of his energies to that it was really a business plan he ran the wall street became a vice president morgan guaranty trust and then within ten years it became a treasure then president then chairman of the order of the american sugar refining company which today is also known as domino sugar this man the first civilian governor of puerto rico from the u.s. became the king of sugar and when people realized that from timothy and the profits that could be derived from puerto rico as shown by that first governor it just became. just a wave of carpetbaggers that ever since so puerto rico has constantly only existed basically as a profit center and there's a mis understanding of puerto that that is changing of the american economy that that there is more galley extended into puerto rico that's not so under the jones

act alone that next transfers to the u.s. economy are about triple a one of whatever the transfer payments are going into the items and yet it's historically as you said it's before capita income will. it's less than half that in mississippi and so it's just been constantly kept in this subordinate condition. to the point of surrealism and when george orwell proposed the novel one thousand nine hundred four in one nine hundred forty eight. you know the transposition of it to two digits data already that same year in. puerto rico the u.s. pressured the passage of lasik with ethan s. public law fifty three which is also known as lay that i'm going to gag law that will made it a felony punishable by ten years in jail to say a word sing a song make any utterance against the united states or in favor of puerto rican independence or to even own a flat in the privacy of your own home only

a flag would be that the size of a postage stamp or of this little phone you can go to jail for ten years and that law was passed in the same year that george orwell's full ninety four became a bestseller eight united states so you see they have this sort of this surreal double standard where what happens in vegas stays in vegas but what happened in puerto rico never happened at all the only things like the homestead massacre where seventy men women and children were slaughtered. polluting a seven year old girl shot in the back or killing two hundred people were injured because they were pro independence we never heard about it here i mean very few people know about the poll it's a massacre very few people know about the central event in my book oregon still. a revolution that an aborted revolution of over nine hundred fifty that the united states put down in puerto rico quickly they mobilized five thousand national guard troops arrested three thousand puerto rico and bombed two towns in broad daylight

the only time in american history the united states bombed its own citizens if they like. and not in war time. people don't know why and so. if this is the condition that they need for this long after all the years and people weren't even aware of the jones act i was lucky that that night new york times finally published an op ed that i had been submitting to the poor a long time then there's some weirdest look given that that history of basically eight nation fifteen hundred miles away a lot of united states but not really and always being misunderstood i think it's really at the time is that now to consider some alternative relationship to the united states we closed this one is manifestly this functional you can see it not working now and thank you so much for joining me today i really appreciate your time. thank you shop. the first amendment's protection of the

freedom of speech here in the united states is arguably our most projects fought over and ultimately most probably most significant of the constitutional amendments we have this is why the mississippi school districts recent decision to ban from all school classrooms the classic you would surprise winning historical fiction novel to kill a mockingbird this is why it's caused so much controversy that bad blood the blocks the school district the site of the racist language in the book about racial injustice in the south could make students and more faculty uncomfortable artie's marine important i reports on this battle how it's not the first time censorship has prevailed over sprit speech in a country whose foundations are built upon the freedom of expression. at least seven free speech organizations are publicly condemning the biloxi school board for unilaterally removing the american classic to kill a mockingbird from the eighth grade required reading list in

a letter to the school superintendent the national coalition against censorship and other first amendment advocates protested the move arguing that banning the book without a formal committee review violates district policies and raises serious educational and legal concerns regarded as a masterpiece of american literature harper lee's nine hundred sixty s. novel deals with reese's and injustice in the south as a black man is unfairly accused of rape it contains racial slurs and the n. word the vice president of the blocks the school board defends the book ban saying quote there were complaints about it and there is some language in the book that makes people uncomfortable unquote now the book remains in the school libraries while eighth graders will no longer be required to read it the move has drawn criticism on social media with the former secretary of education and others

insisting a ban against to kill a mockingbird is a form of cultural cleansing the decision is just the latest in an ever growing list of historical references up on public chopping block last year a philadelphia school board banned the adventures of huckleberry finn from classrooms because mark twain's rating was not inclusive and made students uncomfortable of mice and men suffer of the same fate after an idaho school board said the classic contained too many profanities even oscar winning classics aren't protected in august memphis theater ended its thirty four year tradition of screening gone with the wind after several patrons reportedly complained than one nine hundred thirty nine. film was racially insensitive now while the list of things people find offensive continues growing critics say a racing history ultimately prevents the public from learning from its past

reporting from miami marina r.t. . while houston and other american cities have been covering their urban areas with concrete and destroying wetlands at an astronomical pace italy and china have been looking to integrate modern green technology into the concrete jungle they're both building vertical for a second take more than twenty thousand trees and plants per building in an effort to reduce pollution but we're using the trees to absorb micro particles and c o two and then adding one thousand ladybugs per each of these buildings but you parasites and a lot of vegetation to be pesticide free and now they're setting their sights on space so if no bouyeri architects who design the chinese and italian vertical forest buildings teamed with the chinese space agency and universities future city lab to create a conceptual design for a possible shanghai colony on mars new shanghai will use ecosystem like seeds and something they call the door which will function as an antenna and site a giant pod with vertical forest cities inside of it see these pods are seeds would

provide infrastructure and atmospheric gases needed to preserve life on mars the only question now is where do i set up there as that's brilliant technology and i just futuristic technology if i ever saw it you know massive hanging gardens and mars that's not is the standard of care to space from good good makes me glad i live this long to see greylock attacks out there saying that we can do this in order to try to make this work it's pretty rare that was pretty amazing over. everybody remember in this world we are told we are above the sorts all you wall i love you i am filled with dirt and on top of the law and keep on watching those hawks of the great day everybody.

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of. the islanders controlled by the us government. independents. either. still do wish to join the us. leave every day. with the country at a crossroads anger of the island is on the rise. again this is how it works the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington. voters

elected businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. says that russia will take action against the united states with its measures if washington moves to restrict russian media. in the u.k. all tease out of london underground draw strong reactions from public figures including the labor party deputy leader demanding an investigation even hillary clinton. prepares to revote count alone he told them after the region's leader confirms its declaration of independence was this council.

and a controversial russian artist granted political asylum in france faces charges of . bang on in paris. and. russia's president vladimir putin has hit back at washington in the recent scandal involving russian media in the united states putin was speaking at the annual valdai discussion club in the russian resort of sochi for more on this we can now cross live to daniel hawkins in sochi. what the president had to say brings up to date daniel. well press freedom was one of the salient issues covered by president putin of what's been a very long hours conference on question and answer session the issue of pressure

on russian international media outlets such as r.t. raised in fact boil editor in chief specifically the threat to make r.t. american budgets that as a foreign agent in that country and also boris johnson's recent public just tired of labor m.p.'s just appearing as guests on this channel roger putin was very clear that any move to restrict press freedom was such laws and such threats and rhetoric was damaging to the media environment take a listen to. what we're seeing right now and what is happening around our media isn't comparable and much less powerful than argue worse and you create counterparts i don't even know what to call it they're flipping everything upside down we're going to mirror any action we take and we will take action fast as soon as we see any steps being taken to restrict our media outlets now that statement finally clarified days of speculation about what the chinese should

emerge as could be taken against western media in russia should these laws passed and should these threats and pressure continue. and hold his reporting on events by discussion club in such thank you. last month the u.s. justice department demanded that r.t. america that's the us based branch of r.t. register under the foreign agents act russian authorities claim that the plying this act will have serious legal consequences and they would also they say compromise the safety of its employees they also claim it the channel have to then disclose confidential data that would include an employee list and personal data but the deadline given to r.t. america that has already passed and it remains to be seen what actions could be taken next. it's not just that our channel is under fire in britain to verse in the london underground have seen an angry response coming from a high ranking labor party m.p.

the times newspaper also is claiming that politicians are now demanding the u.k.'s media watchdog or health com investigates the actual campaign in reports from london and another case of r t scandalizing apart a labor politician here in the u.k. as well as the times newspaper why all due to its ad campaign where we've seen no yet another r t bashing piece of pier in the times with a headline quote kremlin t.v. adverts on tube trigger call for off common choir and quote note how they're not even saying kremlin backed or kremlin sponsored it's just kremlin t.v. at this point and in this article is the time reports on how the deputy leader of the labor party has requested that off calm which is the u.k.'s broadcast regulator that doesn't even actually deal with advertising issues investigate latest ad campaign on on the london underground which features posters along the lines of

missed the train lost a vote blame it on us but it seems that the times weren't amused they called these ads ironic using these quotations even though clearly the ads were in fact intended to be ironic and what's even makes this story even better is that this times article claims that r.t. had denied to comment but in reality it was a little bit of a different story with two questions do you wish to respond to this complaint which advertising agency created the adverts for what they meet in house. high probably not much point in responding to a complaint to an authority that does not regulate out of two advertising campaign was developed in-house by the other team and fully proved by all u.k. vendors we are clients that say many in the u.k. are engaging with our advertising. understood thanks for the swift response.

well lovi asli none of those comments for some reason ended up making it into this article and it's curious that the times reports on the deputy a labor party leader saying that he wants our tea investigated given that jeremy corbyn the late labor party leader himself was a very frequent guest on our t.v. for he became party leader including having endorsed the channel on twitter let's take a look. i am very concerned. increase in u.s. bombardment of syria without as i understand it any legal basis. what we've done is involve herself in a civil war. well israel has been grabbing land from the palestinians ever since not in any sense an international law now it has to be said that this latest call from a deputy labor party leader to investigate r.t. comes just days after boris johnson who is a conservative m.p.

and also of course foreign secretary here in the u.k. went ahead and bashed labor m.p.'s for being too lenient towards r t let's take a look if you study the outputs of russia today it is a scam it is a scam that members of the party opposite continuing to validate to validate and lead you to make. that kind of propaganda by doing all those programs well loved boris johnson's comments of course can also be seen as quite ironic given that his own father had appeared on r t just recently but you know it has to be said that we are seeing all of this reaction and all of this commentary on r t in less than a week from both the conservative and the labor party and the times newspaper going out and so certainly r.t. has been getting lots of attention here in the u.k. . and it turns out that labour's deputy leader tom watson who called for the probe

against the r.t.i. ads by the u.k.'s media watchdog has actually been in talks to appear on one of the channel shows this is former fellow and pay and host of r.t. sputnik show george galloway revealed tom watson negotiated with me for a long time to come on my r t sure and the only didn't because we fell out over an internal labor party martin namely his leadership of the coup against jeremy corbin so mr watson was more than happy to appear on r t and i have the written exchanges to prove it on a visit to britain hillary clinton also jumped on the r.t. ads listing them among the alleged threats coming from russia maybe you've even seen the ads in a london underground from one russian state funded propaganda source bragging watch r.t. and find out who we are planning to hack next mrs clinton has never recovered from

the fact that the american voters rejected her and quite right they were to do sort to blame russia to blame paul came on to blame anyone but themselves is of course par for the course in western politicians. the spanish government is planning talks on triggering article one fifty five on saturday which would revoke can't alone is autonomy the statement follows the continent leaders confirmation in a letter sent to spain's prime minister on thursday that the region's local ration of independence was not cancelled but suspended this is pension remains in place if the government insists on preventing dialogue continues its repression the catalan parliament may go ahead if appropriate with a formal vote on the declaration of independence. this came after spain had initially demanded that catalonia clarify the region's position on independence by monday that didn't happen the next deadline for the catalan leaders to proclaim

whether the region would break away expired today article one hundred fifty five allows the spanish government to act if any autonomous community fails to obey the constitution the government should ask for the senate's approval and once this is given to do it will then be able to give orders to that community spain's prime minister has threatened to use the article against the catalan regional government several times formally require the catalan government to confirm if it has declared the independence of catalonia after the deliberate confusion created over whether it has come into a fresh implement it's not difficult is just to answer a simple question have you declared the independence of catalonia or not. the referendum on independence was held on the first of october an overwhelming majority of those who cast ballots voted in favor of secession but they also sore scenes of violence though as police exerted brutal force against the voters.

and there's another pro to plan this rally happening right now in central barcelona let's cross over to journalist color sun and that is who is there for us. is the mood any different today. well nothing different today about right now not to many people on these numbers to sure of a nice bike the most independent and progressive party in the council on government right now a demo man as we can see not much people on the street there are fifty to sixty people but we have to say that today when i was reading a lot cats and dogs so these are the most issue and that has been announced by who has to be held from six to eight pm but we're not sure if we will continue until eight pm because right now people they are starting to go from these almost station actually to the most station to start at ten minutes late because of the string as you can see more generally is that people on the streets some of the others about nor many of the sunlight is remembered as a cut on flag with the stars we can see in the front of a d.n.a.

of these and more as i said more journeys or more police and people right now we have to thank to the heaven that we don't have brains right now and it allows us to make these life from this central demonstration in the heart of course a lot of these congress on this from our side are not the rush of the day many things call us a pro independence rally there but as we can see not too many people out to get involved. spain a c. mass protests and increased tensions in recent days thousands of per unit its supporters took to the streets of boston on wednesday night many more than we're seeing right now meanwhile the head of the european parliament said no country in europe would recognize catalan independence catalan literature and culture experts jordi told us what could lie behind that stance. the european union countries are being very cautious some of them are said to the keen to record a new democratic republic because the trigger of secession movement is

within those states. but there are one or two governments that might be prepared to acknowledge and recognize the existence of a new state and. nations have the right to self-determination this is something all democratic politicians should recognize one way or the other and we will see what happens once independence is a fait accompli if indeed it is ever a fait accompli i think it will be i think that if article one five five history that independents will be. will follow suit or the declaration of independence will follow suit it may happen even before all article one five five is triggered. two suicide bombers and several gunman have killed forty three soldiers and injured nine others in an attack on a military base in afghanistan's kandahar province local journalists belong to

worry has the latest on the attack which was claimed by the taliban extremist group the ministry of defense has issued a statement saying last night around two fifty attackers targeted base in the district of maya one killing at least forty three soldiers wounding nine six of them are missing and clearly this sort of attacks or a huge blow to the morale of the afghan national security forces if these attacks are only increasing this is the third attack this week in which the taliban have used onward how is packing them with explosives and driving them in against major military bases i think what we're seeing is a very deliberate shift ass strategy and part of the militants almost for a year or so now where they are taking the fight to cities in creating another headache another front for the afghan government in its international allies the

taliban still controls a large portion of the country that despite years of afghan and american military operations to eradicate them the group is apparently growing even claiming more provinces of the last sixteen years and since the start of twenty seventeen the taliban has carried out many deadly attacks. russian officers is not a brush with the lower in front suffered his latest stunt saw him arrested details

on that story after the break. in case you're new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around corporate perforations from washington washington controls the media the media. voters elect the businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. but politicians do something. to put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be trusted or injury. or somehow want to be rich.

to go right to be prosperous like them before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. special. welcome back a controversial russian artist is facing awesome charges in fronts following his latest stunt on sunday night he set fire to the door of a bank in paris who had problems he was arrested on the spot and placed in a police psychiatric unit auntie's france correspondent charlotte dubin ski has the details while it was here on sunday night the performance artist set fire to this building the bank of france and you might be able to see some of the damage behind me from that incident where he was initially apprehended by the police and later

put into the care of a psychiatric unit where they assessed his mental capability on being released from a psychiatric unit he was then arrested and charged by the french place for the damage caused here in the busty to the bank of france now he is a controversial figure not just here in france but also in russia where his performance art is attracted a lot of controversy in the past for example this is a man who cut off part of his ear saying that he was protesting against repressive psychiatry in russia and another time he also said to plays to the front door of the he chew over the federal security service in moscow in november two thousand and fifteen for which he actually received some time in a psychiatric unit after that now he fled to russia earlier this year claiming that he needed to have political asylum in france because his views were being seen as

anti government in russia and if he'd stayed in russia he would have actually faced jail time he was however also facing allegations of sexual assault at the time that he fled to russia now when he claimed a political asylum and he was then granted it here in france many people back to his claim that his views were being seen eyes. antigovernment and he would have been repressed in russia and fourteen jailed but what is interesting now is he's carrying out the same sort of acts that he did in russia and here in france and when you look at the headlines now and how they treating this artist they see him as a man who is causing criminal delate damage so he's gone from being a political dissident to man who is now facing criminal charges here in his new country. terrorists are preparing an attack on the scale of nine eleven the u.s. security chief has warned homeland security you heard elaine duke added that the

threat of terrorism is severe the terrorist organizations be that isis or al qaeda or others want to have a big explosion like they did on nine eleven they want to take down aircraft the intelligence is clear on that. source one of them in a car now has more on the story joins me live now pretty worrying stuff i would think to anybody listening to that samir what else did you have to say. well alain ducasse who is a u.s. senior security official has warned that isis and al qaeda are planning to conduct a terrorist attack the scale of nine eleven which was the deadliest attack in u.s. history causing over three thousand casualties now do do believe that the threat is still severe and said that terrorists are using a smaller attacks to keep their members in gage saying that quote creating terror is their goal ablated web it weapon attack causes terror and continues to disrupt the world but that doesn't mean they've given up on a major evasion plot but do didn't actually see any evidence to substantiate these

claims but the but she did use the terror threat to advocate for tough internet control saying that the internet was hitting the proliferation of terrorist propaganda of course the terrorist attack the threat of a terrorist attack is obviously. requires immediate concern but it's uncertain whether the american public will agree to it and especially considering the fact that past ministrations have used the terrorist attack and the threat of a terrorist attack to justify harsh surveillance laws the latest now from washington d.c. the bank. now in the u.s. florida's governor has declared a state of emergency ahead of a rally to be carried out by white nationalists among the speakers will be richard spencer he was one of the organizers of august's far right rally in charlottesville

virginia where one person was killed and nineteen injured florida university where the rally will be taking place plans to spend half a million dollars on increased security bus routes of also been shut down the nearby buildings closed counseling will also be offered to those worried about the rally and almost three thousand people have signed up for an anti spencer event posted on facebook activists civil salutes the petition to ban the rally that has received several thousand signatures the state itself is on edge or about potential violence between the two sides events again raise the issue of deep divisions in us society media in the country linking the rise of these divisions in a disturbing number of hate crimes to donald trump's presidency several hope groups of reporters a sharp rise since his inauguration yet in some cases so-called hate crimes are turned out to be due to deliberate provocation as mr francis santiago explains seems like there's been a lot of talk about hate crime in america and it is just pop culture these days to

be a victim isn't it in new york a jewish man reported to the police that's why stickers were spray painted on its home i was horrified. i thought to myself what i had to do something crazy like this and guess what it was fake according to local jewish leaders mr king wasn't even jewish himself local authorities did know that a falsely reported hate crime is just as bad as a real crime but it doesn't end there a professor at the indiana state university claimed he was receiving and muslim threats via e-mail he also told the police that at university he was physically assaulted now this sparked a frenzy throughout the campus the university doesn't tolerate intolerance if someone has experienced an intolerant act either in person or by e-mail or by thrown we encourage them to report it to law enforcement but oh no they all wound up over nothing but another hoax the investigation didn't find any witnesses to the

alleged attack and later the cyber department found out the professor himself sent out those muslim hate mails based upon then this to geisha there is no belief that hussein was trying to gain sympathy by becoming a victim of ons in muslim threats which he has created himself playing the victim when in the me hind bars and here is one more case for you joshua which call the police to report a stabbing because the attacker in his own words mistook him for a neo nazi. party i looked like a near nazi and got stabbed for it luckily i got my hands up to stop it so he only stabbed my hand. but what really happened is joshua bought a pocket money for the nearby store and accidently stabbed himself in the arm so he came up with the way to hide the embarrassing situation by playing the victim of a hate crime and sometimes it gets as weird as this earlier this month a michigan state university student found a new saying on her door and immediately thought it was an act of intimidation and

reported to the campus of forty's i want to be clear this type of behavior is not tolerated on our campus and noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat that has a horrendous history in america well it turned out to be a tad more innocent turns out the news that was found hanging outside a dorm room was actually just a leather shoes lace and he says the shoe lace and its match found outside the dorm were packaged in a way that someone could perceive them to look similar to a noose one of the most powerful of emotions one of the most powerful and frankly one of the most destructive emotions is the idea of victimhood certainly there are ways to even get money from the government for being a victim there are ways to get other benefits for being a victim and so they gather there's definitely something to that and i think that is incredibly destructive i would say that the first answer a wiser or such a rise in fake a crimes is that they want to square that there's

a hole in their invested in this narrative that donald trump is responsible for creating this wave of hate crimes because he's emboldening the racist he's a racist himself he's a white supremacist according to this narrative by the left so therefore they want to show that he's a bold in these races so therefore they want to publish that crimes to make it seem like that's the case. but thank you all right up to date thanks stay with us here on out international join me for the very latest news headlines see top of the hour . colin is still exist. or rico's treated as one visitor no economy calls an online fulsome alito. on the fourth recall as you know little can i do a lot as he does and then. the island is controlled by the u.s. government and some puerto ricans crave independence joe it was the only god you

know it was getting about on a. good at either election but i mean to sort of randomly go over that again again waiting in the last year earliest. still many do wish to join the u.s. hundreds more leave every day knowing. that i'm alone if i mean. beings. with the country at a crossroads for anger of the island is on the rise. of . the five zero zero defeat it was still before the idea of those. that i got up. that there. was at the top of. that was the most out of.

i'm lindsey francis is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. tonight tesla cuts loose hundreds of workers and claims it's just a natural calling process after annual performance reviews it's enough to strike fear into the heart of employees everywhere something could be going on behind the scenes here we're going to look at that also china's communist party meets for its congress which is held every five years president xi jinping says it's time for china to take center stage and my guests tonight take a look at the economies of china and india both are powerhouses both are saddled with debt we've got their growth forecasts and now it's time to read the tea leaves . room for us start right now.

a judge has rolled out a seventy two million dollar award for a deceased cancer patient and her family the lawsuit accuses personal care product manufacturer johnson and johnson of contributing to the ovarian cancer which took the life of jacqueline fox in missouri appeals court vacated the previous ruling citing location problems a recent supreme court decision limits where injury suits can be filed since the plaintiff's place of residence was alabama and should not have been tried in st louis courts the original ruling awarded the millions it was one of four jury awards totaling three hundred seven dollars or three hundred seven million dollars rather in st louis now johnson and johnson is accused of not warning consumers

about the cancer risks of talpade. products like it's baby powder the manufacturing giant faces lawsuits by forty eight hundred plaintiffs nationally over similar claims regarding those how how based goods in california a jury awarded one woman alone four hundred seventeen million dollars. one of the world's biggest mining companies is in hot water with the securities and exchange commission rio tinto and two of its executives stand accused of lying about the value of a mine purchased in africa back in two thousand and eleven it paid three point seven billion dollars for the mine in mozambique and then received a rude awakening less than a year later when it realized its investment was worth significantly less than the purchase price that c.c. says the mine contained not only less coal than previously thought but also had

coal of a much lower quality this meant it could only sell about five percent of it rio tinto kept those findings from shareholders until two thousand and thirteen that's fraud the company says it will now vigorously defend itself in that case they ultimately sold the mozambique mine for just fifty million dollars in two thousand and fourteen rio tinto already paid the u.k.'s financial conduct authority thirty six billion dollars for failing to carry out an impairment test on that mine and failing to recognise the loss in asset value. under obamacare insurance companies are required to charge customers with lower income levels a lower rate on their health insurance the government offsets that cost by giving insurance companies money a subsidy but president donald trump has decided that is not legal without the

approval of congress so insurance companies should not count on that automatic injection of cash congress votes against it and as the tussle over the details of the ac intensifies on capitol hill it's important to remember that the argument over paying insurance companies has a story past and it's about to get more dramatic hadley heath manning director of policy for the independent women's forum joins me to discuss pretty much what we're talking about a bipartisan agreement possibly extend these obamacare subsidies to insurers. explain to me sort of the fight that's gone on the state's attorneys general numerous of them have come out fighting against the trump executive order stopping payments. but you say the fight took place long before trump sort of declaration tell us about that right this was a fight that started between the obama administration and the u.s. house u.s. house filed a lawsuit against the obama administration when these subsidies called cost sharing

reductions initially started to go out and the claim from the u.s. house was hey we have the power of the first we're the legislative body and we never appropriated this money so earlier this year a federal court actually deemed to be subsidies unconstitutional and they've been continuing to go out operating under a temporary stay so that litigation was never really settled and this week of course the president from announcing that the cost reductions were not going to continue to flow from his administration and inviting i think congress to act and actually appropriate the money if that's what they wanted to do what about this agreement bipartisan agreement looks like to extend these payments for the next two years obviously there's going to be a lot of discourse going forward over this is the week goes on but on the face of it what do you what do you think about this. it's not a surprising deal we know that the niggers lamar alexander and patty murray have been trying to work together to find some kind of bipartisan compromise that would

shore up the obamacare exchanges where people go to buy their health insurance plans if they don't have employer sponsored plans or medicare or medicaid and so there has been a deal shaping up i think president from gave republicans a little more negotiating power by announcing that his administration was not going to continue to send out these subsidies because that came a bargaining chip as a part of this deal so in the deal we know democrats are getting an extension of the subsidies so they are actually going to get appropriations for the subsidies if the deal passes both houses and in exchange republicans are supposedly getting some kind of increased flexibility for states in terms of how they implement the affordable care act and flexibility for states with a theme we heard it many times over the summer as the senate tried to pass different versions of a repeal and replace type piece of legislation but we don't know exactly what that looks like yet we do know however it's not going to include flexibility on the so-called essential health benefits or their fireman's of what every health

insurance plan has to cover so let's hope that we get more details on that and president trump seems interested in the deal he would be interested in finding it if of course that can get through congress politically does this frustrate the issue for republicans on the hill with donald trump making this sort of an action post you know in the house and the senate and these executive orders these declarations it's already a very difficult issue. well in terms of the politics there has been an ongoing blame game between the republican controlled house of congress and the republican controlled by house and i think a lot of the positioning here from the white house is congress failed to act on the affordable care act therefore the white house is going to act by shaping up these executive orders stuffing the cost sharing reduction payments to insurers and in a way that sends the message that president tromp is doing everything that he can to respond to his voter base whom he promised he would repeal obamacare meanwhile

the ball is back in the court of congressional republicans who made the same promise to their constituents but so far have failed to act so i think in twenty eighteen when we come back to these midterm elections it's really going to be up to members of congress and u.s. senators who are up for reelection to explain to their constituents why they failed to act you know and that's yet to be seen maybe they'll act before election time rolls around but so far the president is definitely protecting himself giving an answer to his voters for ways that he can act within his executive authority right and we've watched it time and time again he's sort of sues his base and then congress goes it's got to take up the reins and do these the real writing of of what goes into these bills romita the juice of the issue and it seems like the g.o.p. better start up some sort of preemptive strike because midterms are coming up and how are they ever going to have an excuse for not getting health care don after all

of this time how are they going to shore up the base that their constituents who have benefited from the a c. a and those who are unhappy with it. it's right it's a really divided country even within political parties we see some people benefiting from subsidies in the medicaid expansion under they see other people feeling the strain of additional costs whether it's higher premiums or higher out of pocket costs or having their health insurance plans canceled some people getting cancellation letters over and over again because of the shifts and they see exchanges in the carriers that are available to them but another important consideration here is the timing because right now the executive orders that we saw issued at the end of last week as well as the cost reduction payments that are going to be stopped will not have a big effect on the twenty eight thousand planned year because so many of those contracts have already been written and signed and open enrollment starts november first so that's right around the corner but by the same token what happens this time of year next year when for example some of the changes that republicans have

the opportunity to make could impact the rates that people are facing in the plans that are available to them for the twenty ninth teens planned here so that's i think where publicans really need to focus their attention now in a lot of ways it's too late to do anything about the plans that are available and the prices that people are facing for next year but certainly this time next year this will be a very hot topic politically as they face those midterm elections ok so back to this bipartisan bill do you think it's got legs on the face of things. on the face of things it does have legs in the u.s. senate where we thought very close margin republicans almost passing with a simple majority some of their repeal and replace plan said again had that team a state like the ability so i think you'll see a handful of republican moderate senators join senator alexander and showing interest for this the question is will there be a full party of democratic senators coming behind this deal because of course any

changes to the affordable care act require democrats to admit that the law does need shoring up that it does need help in the case of the cost sharing reduction payments i think you'll see a lot of enthusiasm but the question really lies with democrats how much flexibility are they willing to give states what does that mean for the future of the law thank you so much for joining me on this hadley he's manning director of policy for the independent women's forum thank you. test blood the famous cutting edge electric car company has let go between four hundred and seven hundred employees some of those hundreds have spoken to media now and it's not painting a rosy picture for them or for their former employer current and former employees say it's a cost cutting measure the management says it's just a part of the annual employment review process a report by the san jose mercury news claims that the numbers last reflect between one and two percent of its entire automotive workforce people given their walking papers have claimed they were notified of their employed status or unemployed

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to hear president she's remarks on the economy and it was during the last congress that she became the party's general secretary and ever since has emerged as one of china's most prominent leaders ever during his speech he said china needs to innovate more and work on protecting the environment while also staying true to socialist brutes. all right we must uphold and improve china's basic socialist economic system and socialist distribution system there must be no year resolution about working to consolidate and develop the public sector there must be no resolution about working to encourage support and guide the private sector we must see the new resource allocation the market plays the decisive role during the rest of this three and a half hour address he painted a bright future for china to the chill hundred thousand two thousand plus delegates in attendance but he also acknowledged some challenges ahead corruption and climate

change something that everyone agrees requires a unique solution. political structural reform is not something that can be achieved overnight china will not blindly copy or replicate the models of other countries she did not touch upon certain global conflicts like the growing tension between ally north korea and the u.s. but he did briefly commend the building efforts made in the south china sea which has been a source of contention between a handful of nations she also warned against what he called separatist activity in regards to taiwan and the gathering is expected to last for about a week where we could eventually hear comments on those hot topics and hear more about the next five years ahead. taiwan always a hot topic and i think that's going to go anywhere any time soon to wrap it up what are the main sort of takeaways from this first day of the national congress i understand it was a pretty long speech we haven't really thought of hours but there was

a lot of focus on innovation and encouraging and in order to expand their presence in the world and there really was a lot of focus on the economy president said he wants to level the playing field for foreign companies that are trying to get into china which that complain that the restrictions are just too burdensome and make it hard to be successful there which makes them question why they're even approaching china to begin with but they also have some pretty lofty goals about eradicating poverty he essentially wants to lift everyone out of poverty across the country by two thousand and twenty so in three years he hopes to get rid of poverty so they have lots of goals basically you know push everyone up and then expand their presence throughout the rest of the world he's just trying to leverage his power and stay as is as a very strong leader of this party in ways that no other leader there has has shown in generations and really was broadcast all over the country all the the world in

some cases but wasn't fully accessible via social media what can you tell us about that because some people did see some of it but not everywhere some of us were watching closely so the message was very controlled which i'm sure doesn't exactly how much as a prize the night before the congress began we bow when we chatted several there are social media apps in china all the sudden underwent maintenance and that companies did not know how meant on why the government obviously didn't say anything so most china watchers are assuming that it was a direct order from the government so they could control the message during the duration of the entire congress because like i said it last for about a week but we saw some other similar restrictions air b.n. b. in for the entire month of october took their listings in beijing down and when they were asked why they did that they said well several other companies in. hospitality industry are doing the same things they kind of they like the most information everyone else or i'm very quiet but it was clearly very much an industry wide thing for every sort of company that was put on hold for this week and i know as we watch is going forward we can at least have something to grab as

we watch these speeches unfold thank you so much good about. sticking with china growing debt in two of the world's largest economies india and china have analysts the world over warning of possibly another financial crisis joining me to discuss marshall auerbach research associate b.v. economics thank you so much for coming and very timely discussion for this sort of some are concerned that the recent debt boom in these economic powerhouses such as india and china could be what causes the next economic meltdown do you think this is a reasonable fear or is it just an overexaggeration. it is somewhat of an overexaggeration it's a good headline the reality is that most of the debt in both countries is

domestically denominated so it's not really tied in as much to the global financial infrastructure in the same way that say would be if it was europe or north america and you can always inflate away the debt domestically because you can always create the water the rupees needed to. offset the the debt itself and that's probably what both countries will do so down the road they could both have an inflation problem but as of yet the foreign debt component of the overall debt is not large enough to create international repercussions ok well china has faced some setbacks recently with regard to its that s. and p. downgrade of china's credit rating because of the potential risks from growing debt the ratio to g.d.p. is pretty pretty astounding if a financial crisis were to emerge because of china's surging debt would that

government be able to to handle it. you know it's a good question well first of all i wouldn't take the s. and p. downgrade that seriously i mean they've made similar calls in the past for example on japan and japan thirty years on and still running fairly steadily so. the rating agencies have not had a great record in that regard but the other consideration which i think you pointed to in your question is that you know your you've got some fairly important political anniversaries coming up. not just the. ascension of the communist party the government but the but also been important anniversary got into the formation of the communist party and there's going to be a lot of celebrations in china regarding those events and clearly it would not hoof the country's leadership if there was a price on their watch so i think they will pull will pull all stops but you know if you look at the most recent data has actually been reasonably robust so it

doesn't look like you're in a point where things are slowing down dramatically i think things were much weaker back in two thousand and sixteen but i think you've had a reasonable rebound since that time in china and in india again you've got a country where there's been a lot of talk about reform it's been more talk than reality at this point you've got a very very rigid system both in the sense that the federal government can exert a comparatively small amount of control over what the state governments to and that does make any substantial force and to remove impediments to growth be much more difficult and that's a real challenge that india has right now well india you know they do monetization changing of the tax code to centralize it and make things run more smoothly across state as you mention is that just moot is that not going to work i mean the big credit debt credit i'm sorry economic growth forecast was downgraded from seven

point four percent to six point nine. what do you think do you think that this monetization process is affecting that i mean how is india going to look based on these huge reforms the government has made well the they've announced but implementing them is always the problem exactly you know you don't really have a well developed infrastructure and you know as far as the tax reform goes there's still a comparatively small number of indians who actually pay the tax i mean it's virtually impossible force and you've got so many people that are below a threshold where they would actually start paying a tax so the main concern they've got to get is to have more people growing and becoming middle class so they could actually. pay taxes but the reality is that you know it's they've still got a very very archaic and. almost a prehistoric. infrastructure in regard to the tax collector collect taxes

and i think that that just creates huge challenges and that's something that you know it's a generational problem but something you're going to fix in the next two years. i want to get your opinion on shadow banking in china it's very interesting if you take a look at this graph we can see that china's shadow banking is asked mated to be up in the trillions the world bank has said that that shadow banking is the biggest one of the biggest threat to its regional prosperity is this something western economies should be paying attention to. yeah and let's be clear here because shadow banking as the term is used in china is not the same is a labrat system of. debt that we have in the us and it's really more more akin to. the kind of stuff that you saw in the you know you you almost want to call them back alley bang right and so in time into this system that it's not even worth calling them an entity it's just well it's right so it's

a way it's much harder to regulate it creates and if you go to them of course it creates all sorts of problems for if you don't pay it up it can create a again it's the kind of thing where ultimately it will create a problem and it will be met by the federal government probably by the states introducing some form bailout to these entities taking them over and probably putting a few people in jail and they won't actually solve the underlying problem but it certainly could over the some of the create and problem depending on the scale of what's actually. what's actually done to prevent it but it's it's old style loan sharking is reality thank you very much for input on this marshall auerbach research associate with levy economics institute thank you thanks for having me. we all know this the world loves alcohol we brew it for bryce we eat grapes and so much more and in france it may be getting

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