sanctions and other pressures are beginning to have an impact on north korea soldiers are dangerously fleeing to south korea rocket man now wants to talk to south korea for the first time perhaps that's good news perhaps not we will see well apparently this was donald trump's knee jerk reaction to south korea offering to hold high level talks with the north after pyongyang suggested the countries should meet to discuss the next olympics it's not government policy it's the. ravings of a person who speaks before thinking tweets before thinking you know one would hope that the people on the receiving end of these things would take them with a grain of salt because. you know trump may say those things but he can't act on them because he's got a whole bureaucracy behind him that doesn't agree with them so. it's very destabilizing and i think it's undermining u.s.

ability to negotiate solutions to problems so whatever policy don't know trump is concocting stirring trouble on twitter is something that is going to stay done of. as we heard there of all of the world's leaders that north korea's kim jong un has perhaps been criticized the most in donald trump's tweets and after the isolated country's leader issued a new year's day nuclear warning to washington the u.s. president was keen to hit back. the entire u.s. mainland is within the range of zero nuclear strike the button is always on the table in my office space you clearly know that this is certainly not a threat but rather a reality when someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that i too have a nuclear bomb but it's a much bigger and more powerful woman his and my but this is certainly not anything to joke about but i think the situation despite the confrontational rhetoric

has been step ally's somewhat there's a recognition that there's a stalemate rex tillerson a few weeks ago did indicate the possibility of negotiations even without preconditions donal's from probably believe that this kind of talk remains popular with his right wing supporters certainly donald trump at this stage does not believe that he is ready to make the first small so perhaps a tool careers may make the first move while kim jong un has now reopened a cross a border communications link with south korea in what is being seen as a significant diplomatic breakthrough but the standoff between the u.s. and north korea looks set to continue into two thousand and eighteen after what has already been twelve months of personal attacks and vicious threats from both sides . the era of strategic

patience. with the north korean regime has failed. the korea best not make it want to read to the united states. they will be met with fire fury. the u.s. neglects the international community will establish peace on the korean peninsula behave like children fighting each other in kindergartens and nobody can stop them . and we can have. out there shooting rockets all over the place we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocket. is on a suicide mission for him so no one. is on a suicide mission. oh yeah. we need the

pools we need dialogue. he is a sick puppy. french president has vowed to take of the fight against a fake news to the next level in two thousand and eighteen during a media conference he also hinted at new regulations against media influenced by foreign states. you look at hours of the regulator which will be redesigned in twenty eight will be increased to fight against any attempt to destabilization by television controlled or influenced by foreign states all this it does it in wednesday's speech the french president wasn't specific about which countries could be influencing french media however are have already been in microns firing line he denied both outlets accreditation during his presidential campaign and later explained the move by labeling this channel and sputnik as propaganda. russia

today and have been influential outlets that have several times spoken mistruths about me and my complaint that's why they were not invited to my headquarters all media including russia had access to my campaign russia today and have not behaved as media outlets and journalists but as organs of influence and false propaganda that at the end of two thousand and seventeen this channel branched out to the french speaking world with the launch of our newest station our de france and it immediately caused quite the stir several french public figures published an open letter calling for r t france's license to be revoked they supported their claims by saying that our team has repeatedly faced various allegations from the u.s. and different european countries earlier we spoke with a political commentator who said that should be careful about taking legal measures i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as

a quote him from his press conference today i threat to democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. and sputnik as part of that but i think that he also wants to change the merit of the conversation to make this more about the use the of what he calls false news fake news and i think he needs to tread very carefully i think it's a very thin line between exercising new laws that protect. people's rights and what have their their views challenged by untruths and actually clamping down on freedom of expression so he could find himself acting unconstitutionally if you're not careful stay with us this is our the international.

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a german satirical magazines a twitter account has been blocked after it parodied anti muslim comments this magazine was mocking a member of the right wing alternative for germany party who castigated german police for publishing a new year's greeting in arabic however a new law against hate speech online puts every comment under the crosshairs even if tongue in cheek was more on this here's our correspondents miracle. well governments are now trying to regulate content on the internet by pushing the online world to crackdown on his speech extremism and of course the mysterious bots and trolls who somehow manage to elect presidents but so far there are attempts haven't exactly been successful for example in germany a new online hate speech laws only came into force on monday and twitter has already banned a parody account after users reported it as hate speech but under the law platforms have to delete violent or slanderous content by a certain deadline or face a fine up to sixteen million dollars well the first case

a far right politician of the alternative for germany party had her twitter account briefly suspended after users flagged her tweets as hate speech against muslims now that's after she lashed out against german police for putting out a new year's tweet in arabic and prosecutors are now examining whether or not her tweets do in fact incite hatred then on top of that twitter banned the account of a magazine that was actually mocking her but in doing so repeated her line now the magazine's editor said he was shocked by the decision and the association of german journalist said that it qualifies as censorship adding that they had warned of this danger when the law was drafted last year at broadwood company based in the united states decided the bone degrees of freedom of the press and the union in germany now this is even going on in the u.k. where twitter and facebook are facing sanctions after m.p.'s that said that they failed to thoroughly investigate how russia supposedly swayed the brig's it vote they need to be able to tell us what they can do about it and what we need to be able to do is say to the companies we recognize that you are the best place to

monitor what is going on on your own site and to get the balance right in taking action against it but also safeguarding the privacy of users so the only trace of russia the companies were able to find were three ads are worth less than a dollar however the idea that maybe russia didn't influence the election is apparently off the table so who exactly polices the internet is it government or is it the social. idea companies or is it the government through social media companies that's all very unclear at the moment. let's talk more about this with david perkins radio talk show host and political commentator glad to have you with us. so this blocked twitter account evidence that the new german law against online hate speech is well it's being applied but is it too broad like i mean if we're blocking satire accounts as well the same as serious tweets. i think vs the right way to look at this is the law is too serious and grim and

rigid and humorless as are by the way the group of people they're trying to prevent from rioting by them being spoken of on social media and in the end it becomes a matter of law being inappropriate i think there's a definite intrinsic tension between freedom of speech which we call a god given right in texas not something that comes from government and hate speech which is a are very recent development that i saw coming a long time ago and protested from the beginning the idea that what you say is against the law is directly contradictory to the idea of freedom of speech and there are things you shouldn't say like don't yell fire in a crowded theater but in an instance like that you're not committing a crime by saying the word fire you're trying to incite chaos and subject people to possible injury so it's your intent not your word the question here is did this tweet intend to arouse muslims to riot and even if it was

a serious tweet which you know it got generated as a serious one it didn't intend to do that there's no you can't just put it up on the wall and say should muslims riot because of this the question is not what's wrong with the tweet the question is what's wrong with the muslims for rioting at every opportunity and making entire countries pass laws and press their own citizens to be quiet just to prevent that particular thing from happening when hate speech is brought up it always seems to be associated with muslims when it creates the biggest friction and that's what's happening here legislating intent can be a tricky business also you bring up a good point of just because you can say something doesn't mean that you should say it but you also talk about freedom of speech what does this mean for freedom of speech in germany on the internet like in particular who defines what is hate speech and what is not where does that line get drawn. i think it should be drawn at zero and hate speech should be withdrawn from the books as

a crime i don't think it is appropriate and i think it's intrinsically up against freedom of speech in a way that means that it can't possibly ever turn out well there is no balance there is no line when government has the power to tell somebody that what they said is a crime that's a step towards authoritarianism that alarms me and i hate that my country has it i hate the germany has it it strikes me people should be willing to accept the consequences of what they say in public because what they say is true and honest and them trying to participate in a public dialogue if you're trying to cause trouble well there are consequences you have to pay for that but most people that they want to be silent are not trying to cause a riot they're just trying to tell the truth and the government says the truth will cause a riot that's when you start looking at government or with a gimlet i let's look at the law itself and how it pertains to companies they now have twenty four hours to remove posts that breaches german law after they are

flagged by users how is it to sift through all of that the complaints and you know they're all bound to flood and you know because everybody's offended by something these days. it gives a lot of power to two or three or ten people in a room all online able to log on to multiple accounts and pretend to be two or three thousand people and that is a problem for american business for reviews of customer service and that sort of thing a very small number of people acting like a big number of people in the internet amplifying them and that's certainly going to happen here but the biggest problem is twitter is not a media twitter is not like air it's not open electronic airwaves for radio and t.v. for anyone who can broadcast twitter is a private company in america subject to american law and when american law cracks down on twitter with a hammer that is the only tool in its tool box you know everything looks like a nail when the only thing you have is a hammer and american government is cracking down on two. letter to prevent this hate speech from being spread and government thinks it's doing people

a favor by not antagonizing people who will react badly to the hate speech and i think the problem with hate isn't in speech it's in the reaction well let's let's let's talk about hate speech is this measure bottom line going to be effective when it comes to reducing the level of hate speech on the internet no people will say what they want to say if they can't say it on twitter they'll find some other way to say adele invent something new this is a genie that's out of the bottle and can't be put back in all right very interesting your thoughts always a pleasure to talk to sir dave perkins radio talk show host and political commentator thanks for being with us on our to international thank you sean. donald trump has publicly lashed out at his former adviser steve bannon over what he reportedly revealed it to the author of an upcoming tell all book on trump's presidency in a statement issued by the u.s. president he did not mince any words saying that bannon had lost his mind had only word for his own interest and was never really

a part of the troubles base steve benen left the white house in august a year after joining trump election team later serving as his chief strategist the mainstream media suggests that bannon was a pivotal figure in the president's circle reality is steve bannon was involved in many meetings the president signed off on including steve bannon is a member of the national security council president referred to that in this was shortly before his firing as mr bannon and i will tell you that that raised half goals. earlier we talked to legal and the media analyst lionel who believes trump relishes the opportunity to disrupt the mainstream media isn't narrative. there's a simple rule if you don't go after trump he doesn't bother you go after him in any way insult him criticize him take him to task and he's on you with a death grip you've never seen does anybody think that anybody in the drug

administration cares one i ota about this i mean it's what it does is it throws the mainstream media the washington press corps and the mainstream media news troops and throws them into disarray which trump thrives on and after he's done with bannon he's going to say something about france or italy or or some of his neighbor has someone this is his pattern does anybody not pay attention trump for rives on this he loves this that does it for me this hour i will be back in about thirty four minutes with a full look at your news you are watching our t.v. international. and when else truth seems wrong. why don't we just don't call. me.

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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton coming up one of the bright spots of the new us tax reform bill is the retention of a seventy five hundred dollars tax credit for electric powered vehicles will ask the car coach cool name right the car coach lauren fix if that will make a difference for automakers individuals and maybe even the planet plus our bond markets about to make major moves west brian gold martin of the trinity asset management group now let's get to those today stories topping the business and financial headlines. january third marks bit coins ninth birthday its total market cap is worth over two hundred billion dollars and a single coin is worth just about fifteen thousand dollars we'll give you the exact number at the at the break however other crypto currencies are also making waves

digital currencies like ripple is now the second crypto currency by market value with a cap of over one hundred ten billion dollars by the way topping out a bit coin and ripple is light and a theory of light coin and a theory m but ripples price has tripled its rallied more than forty five thousand percent in it and since that two thousand dollars per corn the company behind a ripple is a trip it attributed the increase to a series of trials it has been conducting with companies like american express which is interested in ripples usefulness as a cross border payment solution. worldwide sales of passenger cars and trucks at a new record in twenty seventeen topping ninety million in just topping ninety million industry observer site wards dot com which says passenger vehicle sales have grown at an annual rate of four point one percent since two thousand and nine

while population only grew by one point two percent per year asian markets are fueling the sales growth with nearly one in four new cars being sold in china the north american market however remains the most profitable even as twenty seven thousand sales drop slightly from the record set in two thousand and sixteen while china and the u.s. have the used tax policies to incentivize car production and we're going to dig deeper on that in just a moment words auto says real growth in electric cars will not occur for at least five years and while sales and use of cars are expanding so are. fatalities one point two million people die in vehicle crashes every year with ninety percent of the deaths occurring in the lower income countries where the ickle for less likely to have safety features like airbags and seat belts that are common in more prosperous nations.

the new us tax reform bill retains a seventy five hundred dollar tax credit for electric powered vehicles will it make a difference for automakers energy individuals and the world let's ask the car coach lauren fix lauren thanks for being with us happy new year electric car makers must feel a sigh of relief right. well happy new year to you as well well lector carmakers really are feeling the sigh of relief they don't even want to build electric cars the reason they don't is because they take a loss and every single vehicle they produce and the only reason they are producing them is because the federal government is putting the pressure on them to produce them otherwise there is a fine so if you don't incentivize that seventy five hundred dollar tax credit people won't buy them so it's kind of interesting if there's no tax credit and people don't buy them then you know what why and why is this going through the fact

is they have to sell them especially in california and there's a certain percentage that doubles every year and for the year of twenty eight teen manufacturers have to sell at least eight percent of their vehicles in california that are electric otherwise there's a fine state and now it's also going to be crossing every single straight state of the u.s. so we're going to be seeing an interesting development that because what's happening is if you're forcing consumers to buy them when you're incentivizing them will consumers still buy and what if they don't right now just i mean the seventy five hundred dollars tax credit it's something but as you say automakers are still not making a profit on on these vehicles but you know they need to make cars as you're talking about because of environmental standards that it's not just california of course but what they call the cafe standards and i know you know what that is corporate average fuel economy to feel it how can you explain it to our viewers what it is

and i think if you correct me if i'm wrong that the trumpet administration may be reviewing those standards sometime later this year right. you are correct actually corporate average fuel economy is currently thirty four point five miles to the gallon so what they do is they take each manufacturer and they get an average fuel economy that they are offering if it comes out to be thirty four point five or higher you're fine there's no fine but if you're below that number let's say you're coming in at thirty miles per gallon that's all your vehicles your trucks your cars whatever that might be and you're coming in below that number you're fined by the e.p.a. and that money is supposed to go into helping the environment and it's supposed to incentivize you to try to produce cars that get better fuel economy that may be very reasonable to reach thirty four point five but they want to raise it to fifty four point five and that's where auto manufacturers say we can't we can't make these numbers if we do that we're taking a loss on every electric car that we're producing and then there's also carbon

credits and it gets really convoluted but sticking with just that cafe the current administration is actually looking at those numbers seeing if that's possible and as the e.p.a. is concerned scott peretz thinking about taking away the current credits so this could change everything the whole dynamic will change and of course manufacturers are watching very carefully because they don't just plan for twenty nine thousand and twenty twenty they're planning five ten years ahead for their production schedule and that could throw a wrench in everything right so because so interesting to talk to you thank you for being here let me ask you these these levels going up to fifty miles per gallon is that on the slate and it will happen if the regs are changed or do you think that scott pruitt at the v.a. will do something to reverse that or lower that rate some time this year. well right now manufacturers are hoping to make that by offering lots of electric vehicles that's why you're seeing every manufacturer say we're going to offer more

and more electric cars not because consumers want them because the total sales were less than one point seven percent for twenty sixteen and we may be very close to two percent for twenty seven thousand sales that's not a lot of vehicles we sold seventeen point seven million vehicles in two thousand and sixteen and we're just getting the numbers in for today so more around seventeen point one million for twenty seventeen that's not a lot of vehicles so manufacturers are producing these vehicles as quick as they can whether you buy them or not to say hey we're offering these vehicles in order to make that fifty four point five now it is highly likely that scott pruitt at the e.p.a. is going to get rid of that regulation of carbon credits and change that fifty four point five miles to the gallon manufacturers will be happy because they won't be selling so many cars at a loss because hey they're in business to make money they're not in business to take a loss in every car right i mean they'll be they'll be people on the other side for sure on the climate change issue lauren are your companies us

we talk about u.s. manufacturers but what about the foreign automakers are they don't have these cafe standards but so i assume that they're just you know producing for the market what's going on with them in electric vehicles toyotas except through volvo's of the world. well there are all allan any time you sell vehicles in the united states you have to meet that corporate average fuel economy or you're fine with the ad but not a good idea and. yeah it's outside the u.s. as a whole nother animal they have their own regulations and they're much stricter of course we have the diesel gates and arielle so that's impacted a lot of things but electric vehicles are selling because they're incentivized certain countries are really putting heavy incentives on including china were other countries have said you know what we're going to reduce the incentive or remove the incentive which happened in the netherlands and sales dropped off by ninety percent and then in hong kong they removed the incentive to buy

a lector vehicles and they sold three vehicles three to b.m.w. or one tesla that was it so that says if it's not incentivized consumers are buying and states here like georgia did the same thing they removed the incentive it cost them too much money and sales dropped by ninety five percent so that's telling us that people are only buying them if you're basically giving them money to buy it right given given president trump is calling for all this manufacturing to you know move to the u.s. and some time sort of trying to budge companies off the dime on this given that and the new tax reform law do you see any additional auto maker jobs coming to the u.s. whether or not it's from foreign companies producing here or maybe a ramp up in u.s. production by u.s. automakers. yeah automakers are actually starting to build more factories here we're hearing from different manufacturers of course key builds in west point georgia they've expanded their facility they're putting together

a battery facility you've got hyundai building vehicles in alabama audi has decided to build for some reason in mexico we'll see how that's going to change with nafta which may go away if nafta goes to the north american free trade agreement that could really impact product going to and from mexico which could increase the cost to manufacture so they're really doing everything they can to build more vehicles here g.m. is on board with that chrysler is on board you're seeing every manufacturer think you know what there's got to be a place somewhere in the united states that would like to have our facility and you've seen even toyota they moved to texas and built a huge facility so they know exactly what they're doing lauren we're about out of town but i got this really weird bizarre question i want to ask you. and with that preface here it is so driving cars that are becoming more popular but we also.