that's undercutting but what's good for the markets is not good for the global economy. french president emanuel necron proposes military intervention in libya to combat human trafficking that's despite france's last four into the country to help out the gadhafi or just regime leaving much of the state in tatters. the special relationship between the u.k. and us turns frosty over trump's choice for re tweeting. and reporters without borders tries to cancel a press event critical of the controversial syrian rescue group the white helmet something claims by the organizers as an attack on free speech very disappointed to see the job of. asking for the kind of censorship.

look into the program this is our team international coming to you live from moscow with me jacqueline bokeh the french president proposing a military action against human traffickers in libya claiming it would help combat the migrant slave trade. we are proposing to hear from the police and military action. this is a country political transition well human trafficking is indeed a huge problem for north africa but it's not a new one for years numerous human rights and immigration organizations have been alarming the public they call is more than slavery and no one argues that this problem before the french president and the proposal to try to solve it militarily has come as a surprise to you and member france already was part of

a massive military operation in libya designed to resolve the crisis of two thousand and eleven france played a very crucial role france was saying you need. to bomb tripoli and france was considering its actions very successful in libya will remember that after the death of believe me or leader moammar gadhafi and the president. the way to democracy in the world you would get rid of any card you died. but if we'll look at it we can say that the truth is. seize thousand eleven. proposal to actually work to help based journalist martin j. believes micron's acting like the e.u.'s foreign policy chief and taking on too much response come up with so far in six months the middle east which due to but i

think is just in such so i don't really understand why he's going ahead with this plan he seems to be under a certain amount of pressure to resolve the immigration crisis but root cause of the problem isn't in the real plan in two thousand and eleven that's been into the country we spoke about the private funds this is what he told us. for the hardest it's not right to see gadhafi betted say the libyan government the libyan government left about two hundred billion dollars in various banks abroad and the un has frozen the money in accordance with the security council resolution and when it comes to the money inside the country those who came to power after his afi claimed there are one hundred sixty tons of gold billions of dollars in libyan dinars in the central bank when gadhafi moved from tripoli to search he took nothing with him and. an accomplice of the older than i was government official not was how i dealt with

sarkozy as an official the french media pie and other media outlets claim that some people met with me and then there was a decision taken to be fifty million i said i have nothing to do with that. a lot. of nothing is known about that there are good afi statements and sarkozy statements now better believe because after all. i don't know this person and i never met him if he says he would recognize me if he sees me that's a lie if he has taken money from someone he should reveal from whom exactly but anyway that's a french problem not libya's. a cold front seem so blown over the special relationship between the u.k. and the u.s. but the country is at loggerheads over president trump tweeting is al explains what caused the bat. so this whole issue is started over mr trump tweeting

a number of or retreating a number of tweets from the controversial anti muslim group britain first. those three tweets that he retreated purporting to show muslims attacking non muslims and one of them proven to be a fake by dutch journalists and so he's come in for criticism for retreating those and that's created a political stand here in the u.k. with many m.p.'s calling on the government to criticize mr trump for doing so and in fact that is what downing street and the prime minister did in a statement through one of their spokespeople it's run for the president to have done this british people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right which is the antithesis of the values that this country represents decency tolerance and respect president trump criticizing to reason may actually and saying that the focus should be more on militants and terrorist groups who are attacking the u.k. and not on what he is tweeting but of course this. special relationship between the

two sides goes back many years the relationship between america and britain will remain strong our relationship is very special special relationship that exists between our two nations our people forge friendships together. that is what makes this relationship special i hope to have a good relationship with them has over the years been a special relationship but it would appear that the special relationship is under the thumb strain with mr trump mrs may looking decidedly or quit on their first meeting together in washington there have been many calls today in parliament for the u.k. to take back their invitation to donald trump for a state visit the home secretary rod here repeatedly saying that the invitation has been extended and accepted but a date hasn't been set but there have also been reports that that state visit has been postponed artificially somewhat indefinitely by mr trump himself who says that

he only wants to come to the u.k. if he has a warm welcome in this latest it's unlikely that the road that the reception here will get any warmer for the u.s. president. the international federation of journalists has slammed the stripping of r.t. america's press credentials on capitol hill the decision was made on wednesday by a congressional committee that started the channel's new foreign agent status that's despite earlier assurances from the state department that no such restrictions would be imposed here's the letter r t america received from congress the executive committee of the congressional radio and television correspondents galleries exercised its authority to withdraw the news credentials of the r.t. network this action was taken in response to the registration of the art unit work as a foreign agent. when the united states tells someone

she register under a foreign agent requirement we don't see impacts or a fact the ability of them to. report. news and information we just have to register it's a simple as that seems to be the opposite of what heather nauert said because as of the moment we've received this letter which is essentially telling us that our ability to operate as a news agency and function and report on events on capitol hill a vital place in the us political system the legislative branch of the u.s. government that ability is now in question now at the moment we have this letter telling us that we need to turn over our credentials now this comes in the aftermath of r.t. being pressured and forced to register under the foreign agents registration act now this is a law that was passed in one thousand thirty eight to combat the influence of nazi germany and efforts and propaganda efforts by the nazi government back in the one

nine hundred thirty s. now it follows months and months of pressure that have been placed on our see recently artie's status in the united states with you tube and their ability to do premium ads in the united states was taken away without any real notice twitter has banned advertising by r.t. and there's been a series of hearings on capitol hill directed at r.t. of which are g.'s a name has come up people are calling this atmosphere a witch hunt so this is yet another move another amount of pressure making it harder for reporters like myself to do our job in the united states. we asked media experts how congress actions tally with the principle of freedom of speech well it's monstrous really the are closing down free speech in the name of free speech they're closing down freedom whilst posing as the champions of freedom it's monstrous because it was a pack of lies when the four started to register as

a foreign agent and then said the that would not affect the r.t. employees doing their job as reporters only know to make it impossible so it's part of this witch hunt while i a proud member of my republic i ask the question how does this look like to the world in the nation's capital the bastion of free speech the first amendment where scores hundreds thousands of people from every conceivable form of press that there is they get a badge but archie oh oh oh no they're all foreign agent very different be gone r t has been in the nude in one way or another as this for a bit in fruit this outlaw roe good news organization and you know what

happens in this country when you tell americans you can't do something remember when you were a kid your parents said don't listen to that music. the controversy a white helmets rescue group is again causing divisions that's after reporters without borders urged the swiss press club to cancel a conference critical of the syrian activists their request was rejected by the head of the organization as modern day censorship. if you were challenging our support for this conference with the name of our organization appearing on the list of media members return only dissociated ourselves from the savant and do not wish to be associated with the conference we invite you to abandon this project which will damage the image of this race press club it was very surprising and very disappointing to see the journalist association asking for the kind of censorship that was my first reaction and so i decided to reply writing your letter and

asking them to westpac the freedom of speech and constitution. my biggest and who has previously conducted his own investigation into the white helmet has more details on what caused the split between the journalist organizations so far almost everything you've been told about the white helmets is stuff from their press releases and review productions not from locals or civilians no know from white helmet sponsors and p.r. agents that's great and all but let's at least hear from the people they say they're saving shows them helping the people but they only help the rebel fighters they really to those close to them the last thing they cared about is civilians have to sit and whenever food aid was brought into the white helmets and rebels were taken after themselves to give us nothing not even bread and he us what there

were many people buried alive helmets would come to save their own and if they found civilians being killed and they might not oh that's a huge surprise what a shocker the white helmets aren't perfect who would have thought they were just regular people with their own shortcomings their own agenda just like everyone else so why on earth would reporters without borders want to censor this absolutely obvious fact calling it russian propaganda i think it was the topic which was this disturbing. disguise now having described. organisation they can look at it they were wrong and yes they didn't even admit to hear people who are criticizing. that's it was a taboo to speak. up that's for serious drama simply

hardest person to admire. so it should be of your own but it's the first time in the twenty years of the existence of this response that we received such demons from a journalist association which is supposed to support to to support the press freedom for whatever reason it is taboo no one in the mainstream media or in western governments says anything remotely critical of the white helmets you remember ever hearing anything unflattering. reporters without borders has all but taken sides let's not forget in two thousand and sixteen they named a syrian rebel activist and the journalist of the year he is taunting syrian conscripts buried under rubble he says he wants them to taste a slow death

a swiss press club has made the point not to judge from me i cannot see myself in the mirror or if i am good big censorship or deciding you have the right to speak you have not to speak because you are representing the bab the supposed bad part and it is paid off they've received an outpouring of support internationally and they vowed to continue doing what they do irregardless of pressure also received many people criticizing russia from the forms of gary kasparov for mrs name server who criticize criticizing russia so i am open to everybody even to the people who are supporting russia and not only criticising that's the goal of the real person and not the politically

correct. association. the bitcoin crypto. unsee hit a record high on wednesday eleven thousand dollars per token it sunk back down to ten thousand dollars later in the day but remains the strongest virtual currency out there the value of bitcoin has skyrocketed since january when one token was worth around one thousand dollars here's a quick reminder of how the virtual currency works. i.

think. that court has been controversial for some years now so my colleague neil harvey discussed the risks and the appeals of invents investing in crypto currencies with our financial guru max kaiser an economics professor steve keen. it's such a huge right across encourage people looking at the ceiling i've got to be there the entry cost is certainly less than buying a house and having the house model appreciate so people are dogging in because the process is rausing but that's one of the definitions of a bubble because it's not a bubble the u.s. dollars in a bubble they feel that currency world is in a bubble stocks and bonds you could argue are in a bubble something that's not a bubble would be a big coin you've got the dollar that is crashing in a hyperinflationary crash against a big point you are still is maintaining its value of the right inflation right

running about two percent per annum big corn is running at the moment at. which the die is increased ten percent in one day now that is in one week that means it will double in two weeks if it keeps up there will be four times for three weeks i tom's eccentric cetera it's like the old chessboard that simply com keep on going and i disagree the people using it for a transaction of this this is the floor it's a brilliant why you can create increasing in value it's a store of value sure at the moment but you'd be a madman to use that transactions you'd be a fool to buy anything and i'm hearing people refer to the now as not crypto currencies but critics are in suits because they intend holding them until they die that is not money it's already the number twenty five biggest reserve currency in the world it's heading into the top ten it all said to be the biggest reserve currency in the world you've got sovereign wealth funds like abu dhabi now buying bitcoins you've got russia and china now and japan actively buying bitcoins because they see that the fia bubble is bursting and again the u.s.

dollar is collapsing against big point this is a paradigm shift isn't there a really strong argument that it's being you speculatively is a store of value but actually where can you actually going isn't too many places in the come on you can actually spend it and isn't there a danger when people realize that the pony can sell this story value it's being a it's a there are hundreds of thousands of transactions now a day hundred thousand merchants accepted. going to the real estate market being up ended by bit going you can buy high end properties with bitcoin but again the timeline here has to be considered the travel from being a store of value to a means of exchange is going to take another few years because even though you can boil those things with it you'd be an idiot to buy those things now because if you wipe ten weeks you can botch washes many or three charms as many so it's a process to stabilize now my worry is when it stabilizes what will happen to the process i don't think it's going to necessary reach the stratosphere at a hundred thousand dollars and then stay there if you get to the stage where the only returns you're getting out of big coin modeling of the transactions then i

think the process to fall dramatically you have gold as a case study gold is used takes a lot of energy to produce gold gold is used as a means of exchange as well as a store of value it's been around for quite some time because it is gold two point zero the mother load it's still taking over the global finance in this way but if you have money out of business and the bankers on wall street are running scared jamie diamond is literally you know peeing in his pants at this point because he knows he's going to be out of a job in five years we don't need the jamie diamond of the world ripping us off we don't need wells fargo stealing money out of accounts we don't really just b.c. funding drug lords in mexico to the tune of billions of dollars we don't need those bad actors in society and because it gets rid of all those financial terrorists and it's about time somebody stood up and did battle because the government's not doing it the academics are doing it so we have to coin to do it. you can learn more about the surging popularity of bitcoin and the latest episode of boom bust which you can

watch right now on our web site r t v dot com. north korean television showing the first images of the country's most advanced missile to date reportedly capable of hitting any part of the u.s. . according to both north and south korea pyongyang's latest miss all reach an altitude ten times higher than the orbit of the international space station experts say if directed differently the missile could reach both washington and europe following the test the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. at one pm yang's leadership it would be utterly destroyed in the case of war the threat came out an emergency session of the security council the dictator of north korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war not farther from it and if war comes make no mistake the north korean regime will be utterly destroy

those that would use the gets difficult to move towards any such as long as north korea fears that its security is threatened in the current situation we urge all parties involved to stop escalation in the tensions that accompany each new cycle of reactions in response but as yours we only pause and think carefully about the consequences of such steps hugo's donald trump meanwhile has denounced the north korean launch and he broke off a speech on tax reform to take a jab at the north korean leader will be rocket fuel. little rocket man rocket fuel so the americans because. he is a sick puppy. besides that president trump tweeted he discussed the launch with china's president and said major new sanctions will be imposed on north korea but

the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has questioned whether there's a hidden agenda. because of those issues the americans should start with explaining their intentions to assume that if they are really looking for an excuse to destroy north korea as the u.s. envoy to the u.n. said it's a security council meeting let them spell it out clearly and let the u.s. leadership confirm it then we will decide how to react if it's really concerned about north korea's nuclear program it would again dialogue that's the only way to resolve the problem and north korea said many many times that the people are not willing to give up a nuclear program unless the united states rough tough policy i think like a reasonable request to me the more the united states wants to punish north korea the more they convince north korea that they need to develop nuclear terror and protect themselves so has the opposite effect. if the united states were truly interested in. ramping down tensions it would engage in dialogue with no reason not

to engage in dialogue. you can find the details on all of those stories and more on our website r.t. dot com that's a wrap up for this hour but i'll be back with today's headlines in about thirty minutes. the village of collect she has been nicknamed sleepy hollow because for some unknown reason its local residents have found victim to sleep potemkin. the world war two was just daniel to choose. the one you should teach him how do you write your initial. what to do with the kind of son that's it but also an issue in the sort of but i'm also going on with the question are still talking superthin you've got to go back i don't need to put in the position i don't have so. many.

growing grass from where did you do what we have i do agree. that though it's the wall of. this with all the more. so what initially is the. bottom of my ceiling there did you have both styles there of the gods who. was your old you if you will if you know first of all that i i think .

nice guys or this is the guy's report on preferring my initial going offering the i.c.a.o. for a new crypto sensation much as fisher magic you know so many bankers are jumping off buildings and jumping off beers about the world is being crushed by a group so of merchants fisher magic you can fish with these good burgers are. dead big get a good look at those dead bait right here and you can go fish for dead bankers i see you know if they will broadly rose one hundred fifty or two hundred fifty million dollars for the station i'm giving you precisely zero coins eighty nine percent discount when you think why eighty nine percent oh i have to share some with brock and this is the deal he negotiated with well i have a headline here and it doesn't have anything to do with your i.c.a.o. but it has to do with that dead banking system based on debt debt debt and too much

debt and this is the only things that have the only way to wealth is through debt and i'll tell you why because it's time to call the housing crisis what it really is the largest transfer of wealth in living memory this is from open democracy and they're looking at the data that the o. and the mass the office for national statistics in the united kingdom released recently and what they found is the office of national statistics released new data tracking how wealth has evolved over time on paper the u.k. has indeed become much wealthier in recent decades net wealth has more than tripled since one thousand nine hundred five increasing by over seven trillion pounds this is the equivalent to an average increase of nearly one hundred thousand pounds per person impressive stuff but where has all the wealth come from and who has it benefited just over five troll. in that seven trillion pounds in increased wealth

since one thousand nine hundred five or three quarters of the total increase is accounted for by an increase in the value of a dwelling another name for a u.k. housing stock yes it's a wealth transfer mechanism enabled by the bank of england and other central banks around the world how does that work well households in order to wealth quotient at all would be engaged in something called savings what the result of having a wage that was war then there are costs but because of the scandalous crash in the banking system and the response from central banks to bail out the creditors by bringing interest rates to zero we had this magical wealth transference for anyone who had savings got wiped out anyone with a job got wiped out anyone with a house or an asset or a stock or bond was given hundreds of billions a trillion pounds in free money as long as they kept the current status quo in place and voted for stupid things like that and that's what happened so the other

interesting thing about this oh and asked data is that for the first time.