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through the late they wanted the new assurance to finish their negotiation by the end of the year they haven't been able to do so so the negotiations will be carried out till next year what they wanted was to avoid. in the u.s. and mexico and as time passes and the negotiations start getting closer to the elections so it sounds like there is a lot of uncertainty a lot of uncertainty well recently there was a house subcommittee hearing on nafta and leaders from all different sectors and government got together to talk about what they think we should do about nafta and so i want to take a listen to what the vice president of the council of the americas had to say. now after has directly supported mexico's democratic transformation while also establishing a framework of trust supporting close u.s. cooperation across a range of security issues including counter narcotics counterterrorism and migration so i thought that was pretty interesting i mean when we think about nafta we just think about trade and the economy we never talk about how it could impact
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mexico's democracy and their security so how is it had that much of an impact will not supposed much more than trade enough to support investment and i want to say here that enough place basically about the content about nafta today is between the rights of workers and the rights of investors so this is quickly this question these in the end. from nation it's about exploiting cheap labor in mexico that's what it's all about about enhanced investor rights so these are the two things that the mexican government is for it they sent to this cause and it's interesting how you don't agree with many police of the tribes presidency both one disruption that i got to think that's been if you go is to open up to these questions about nafta and it's important to sunder said it the other day also. in congress that nafta should be an agreement that works for all workers for workers
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not only in the united states for workers in mexico and it works in canada and this is i think that the center of it and this is. the government of my country is reticent to open up this discussion the government thinks it is the sovereign rights of mexico to deter mean salaries and labor labor standards and we mean the unions farmers are going to say since and others think that the discussion should be opened up. around labor day rights we're eight while we know that you're speaking of trump he loves to be unpredictable so he's saying that he wants to plant. but so far we you know we really don't know as we're just saying moments ago we don't know what's going to happen so do you think that the u.s. could really pull out of nafta i mean we're already very behind schedule here and we don't know what would happen if we did pull out we don't know what's in the mind of mr trump you know that's very true but if he was capable of withdrawing the
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united states from such an important box like the. courts on climate change and he also with all the united states from the transpacific partnership i think he would be capable to withdraw in the united states from the time he said it's very clearly that he wants to a bilateral agreements one with canada and well with mexico that's what's in his mind and i think only the corporate pressure because the benefits from left are the ones that can. proceed and trump. about what to do. in the belief that his mind about what the future of nafta he sees these two separate agreements what we come out on well with right well speaking of mexico mexico's economy minister said that mexico was thinking about launching a trade deal with the european union and he said that there are a lot of things that they need to iron out so it's not close to being done but it looks like it could really be a possibility if mexico did create a trade deal with the e.u.
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do you think that would make up for a loss in trade relations with the united states i don't think so the first thing is that mexico ready for it to remain with the european union in force in the year two thousand in this seven thousand years of the mexico you free trade agreement because i mean that to mexico mexico has a huge deficit because the group in union this agreement with europe into your two thousand was supposed to help mexico over its huge dependence on the u.s. market well we didn't it's mostly european companies exporting to mexico on investing to mexico to use mexico as a platform. for export. to the u.s. now what they're doing now is more they're nice in the free trade agreement with europe so there's a process of modernization a little bit like enough votes enough to break what is going more more rapidly it may be concluded. early next year and what we are concerned about i want to say we are going to sit around the world care about environment and social and public
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rights is that disagreement with europe will give more power doing restores most rights to investors to the detriment of workers. well canada actually just our prime minister justin trudeau of canada said that canada would consider an individual deal with the united states if nafta falls apart do you think mexico would consider the same thing yeah i think mexico in the end just given in to what the united states would offer i don't think it's just much more going to be probably. one other thing that i saw recently in a new york times article is that that this author examined how nafta sort of opened up the door of high sugar and high calorie processed foods into mexico from the u.s. and they point to mexico's high obesity rate which sits now around twenty percent and pretty nafta it was around seven percent but then of course the other side of the argument is that nafta you could make the argument that nafta has helped
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mexico's economy and that the life expectancy there is longer so i just thought that was a really interesting takes we never really consider health when we're talking about nafta just like how we also don't really consider security or counterterrorism so what is your thought on that you know there was a previous study by the institute for recall children the truth polisi. one thousand to look into how mexico because it's the second most obese country in the world and canada us there's also still the civil kind of the moral beast because of nafta you and as well but yeah well the thing is that nafta changed the patterns of consumption of mexicans we have. much more fast food not going to name the chains but we've got chains all over mexico and make the dough of course they give cheaper food chipper. choices and this and those of course the soft suffering seen the story as well. so to us and mexico and start consuming goldy
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sport a big way and this has produced the these guys made mexico the second most obese control the world and this is interesting because sometimes they spin enough to see if enough to rescue in mexico it's better choices better consumption choices and in the end most of the choices are about choices like what to do with you mentioned this is two brothers full of sugar and refined flour and fortunately mexico has only a crisis so for obesity put and it be there because diabetes. this is the speed health problem so in these consumer reason it is very clear that it's not just have been difficult for for mexico very interesting discussion manwell her as roche associate fellow at the institute for policy studies thank you so much for your time thank you thank you very much what nafta talks up in the air many canadian business says are considering moving their operations south of the border to the u.s. in fact some companies in canada are saying that they're already being affected negatively
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because of nafta talks and thinks setting up shop in the u.s. could cushion the blow artie's alex mahila vectors in toronto with more for us alex how serious is this i mean are there that many canadian businesses that are actually thinking about making the move will you just think about what you just said it's the talks alone that are affecting businesses here in canada so if nafta was actually to go the way of the dodo it wouldn't be a very good thing for canada at least for these businesses that's the way that they see it look canada seventy five percent of our exports from canada go to the u.s. so obviously the u.s. is or biggest market by. far and for many companies lot of the business that they do so they are not very diversified krib the stuff that they sell over the merchandise or the services have to cross the border much more merchandise much more attainable things than services so when you look at these companies there's a large number that are saying they have to set up shop in south of the border so
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that they don't have to deal with the border when crossing the border. goes away right now the the way that the supply chains are set up move things quite smoothly so they think if they have an operation south of the border that that can somehow move around the fact of having to cross the border each and every day that's the stat that we have our export development canada it's a crown corporation meaning it's owned by the canadian government and they talk to over a thousand companies surveyed there's a quarter of these companies so actually twenty six percent out of a thousand survey back in oct say they indicate they are moving or considering moving part of the opera of their operations inside the u.s. border in response to the elevated uncertainty regarding trade with the u.s. or u.s. trade policy again this is what you were just talking about the very unsure of what it's going to be trump's next move now twenty three of these percent of these companies are saying that nafta talks just the talks alone are hitting their canadian operations now we know that this is all supposed to modernize what's going
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on the new modern version of nafta that's what canada hoped for but we're not really seeing it move in any direction but here's what canadian business is really rely on we have a graph for you and this is what it really comes down to it comes down to the american people what the american people want to do research center the poll done back in april we're seeing that more and more people in the states are in favor of free trade and canadian businesses view that as a good thing hopefully with that will affect the talks these nafta talks within the next couple of months well as nafta does fall apart i mean are there any other options for canadian companies or when they just have to move to the u.s. . what very much what we just heard what was happening with mexico and diversification canada has a free trade trade deal sita with the european union and these businesses are looking at europe as one of the biggest markets out there also we have to coast like the u.s. does the pacific the atlantic and when we look on the other side there's china china is a huge market potential for canada so canada is looking in that way as well so
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twenty three percent of these companies that were surveyed are saying they are ready to diversify that's the direction that they're looking in as they see tensions rise during these nafta negotiations another approach though is wait and see a lot of companies believe that you know what yeah the goshi actions of might have gone south right now but things might get better so wait and see i guess i guess that's that the moral of the story here lots of uncertainty and we must wait and see our two correspondent alex and helen that's thanks so much. thank you. time now for a quick break but stick around because when we were turned the reaction to the f.c.c. is net neutrality whirling was swift and largely negative r.t. correspondent ashley banks will tell us how the internet responded and we'll hear from daphne this. university and what the future holds for big data as we go to break through the numbers at the closing bell.
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a king as any job that there is good business model helps to run a prison now we do it on like a nobody you know visitation i don't know what comes anymore we don't have to serve them anymore it's cold to do that's what they want to do that they don't give a damn if you do the jordan man they're virtually paying you know to put it back in the good the louisiana incarceration rate is twice as high as the usa bridge what secret is behind such success. the federal communications commission repealed net neutrality rules passed by the
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obama administration on thursday this move prompted immediate reaction not just from the public but from attorneys general in numerous states who are looking to the commission our correspondent actually banks has more on that for us attorneys general in new york illinois oregon massachusetts and washington have announced suits against the commission citing they want to preserve the regulations passed by the obama administration which were aimed at ensuring all the internet cars. content consumers want to access whether that streaming video audio or other material be treated equally by internet providers prohibiting internet providers from discriminating against content the decision to put an end to obama's net neutrality rules upset many and polluting companies like google and facebook over the fact telecom and cable companies that own news site san streaming internet service as well given benefit to their own subsidy or ease netflix weighed in
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saying quote this is the beginning of a longer legal battle and netflix stands with innovators at large and small to oppose this misguided the f.c.c. order twitter said quote we will continue our fight to defend the open and internet and reverse this misguided decision representative andre carson said quote if you agree that the internet was meant to be open and free for everyone not sold off to the highest better another twitter user said net neutrality is gone this is my last tweet as a free person rest in peace and to that although many are upset over this new move which would allow internet providers to charge consumers of more money into access sites like facebook and twitter some legal experts believe there is a good chance the f.c.c. rules barring states for making their own net neutrality rules will not hold up in court as of right now several legislators and congress say they will support
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a measure to overturn the f.c.c. is overturning of the twenty fifteen net neutrality rules. archie ashley artie's ashley banks thank you so much for that. advanced technology has proven to have a very meaningful role in almost every aspect of daily life as a result the job market for data science is growing at an exponential rate to talk more about that part sat down with daphne kis c.e.o. of world kwan university marc first asked her how many jobs are out there in big data and what the future holds for it here's what she had to say yeah so you're absolutely right we're increasingly a data rich society and across industries it is in demand but there is a talent shortage that goes with the demand for that rich data according to i.b.m. in by twenty twenty there will be a growing
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a twenty eight percent increase between now and twenty twenty and the demand for for data scientists and the skills that those people need are different than those that we've seen in the past and people need in order to be capable to use that data in meaningful ways to help make better decisions need to study statistics python machine learning those are all twenty first century skills that will be we can have the data you know i like to say. you know the internet of things everyone talks about the internet of things what is the internet of things it's data ultimately so we can have a student in nigeria some company can go and lay you know all sorts of sensors on an ag large agricultural field at the end of the day that's data and we need people who are skilled and equipped and educated to take that data and bring it together
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and help make develop knowledge and apply those skills analytically to make better decisions sort of the nuts are translators and interpreters if you will the data speak a little bit more. you know these these jobs what's the average pay for florida for an american the average american is fifty eight thousand and change i think it's fifty eight thousand three hundred dollars a year so how do the jobs in analytics compare to that right so according to glassdoor the average salary in the united states of course for data analyst is about one hundred twenty thousand dollars. the degree that we offer has a variety of skills that people can learn and were writing of industries the most obvious one of course is in finance and for trading for financial management etc but we're finding among our students there's enormous interest people in government
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who are involved in developing countries work and are interested in contributing to developing economic policies in their countries and to influencing banks and banking systems and modernizing and maturing those so it's a real cross-section of skills and financial engineers are also involved in general financial management i mean i i like to think in the next five years that that's the kind of someone who wants to run the financing of a business is going to need to know financial engineering more so then perhaps then having a business degree knowing how to analyze data complex data dynamic data is going to become increasingly critical to success right and you know you are so right when you mention government of course my years perk up after thirty years be in there even when i was a financial regulator regulator and for those of you who think what i'm going to say is still the case it's not that my old agency the committee futures trading
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commission is doing a great job but back in the day you know. you know i don't even eight years ago. even amidst all of this computerized trading the algorithmic to. grading that's going on in the markets the guy in charge of your computer stuff was the go make sure you had you know the most recent version of word on your computer so you do need these analytics jobs not just to financial regulators but all throughout the government you know whether or not interviewing with a cybersecurity there's a whole other night is dealing with terrorism threats there's all sorts of areas in the government so i agree with you a hundred percent at super here these are good jobs and you're doing a good job but one thing that you mentioned i want to get into just a little bit deeper let's talk of much more about this key component of world want university and that's about the opportunities and access to how you're helping people you know just not just in the u.s. and in europe but in some of these are merging and developing nations around the
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world you meant you mentioned subsaharan africa let's talk about that a little bit more i mean do they even have computers where they can access this and are they doing it now what's the future hold well i think for sure i mean fifty percent in excess of fifty percent of our students are actually in sub-saharan africa we have students in nigeria and kenya and ghana in ethiopia in south africa . certainly people need to have some requisite skills it is a master's program and people who come with. calculus or. statistics maybe linear algebra with those skills certainly are particularly well equipped as well as people who might have some experience in programming but these are all skills that are taught at universities throughout the world they aren't necessarily event translated are there isn't the opportunity to take those set of body of skills and turn them into a more advanced application that then has
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