from hacking into the danish defense ministry to trying to meddle in the maltese elections russia has had a truly diverse collection of accusations thrown at it russia is accused of influencing the bragg's it vote through social media probably yes sure i'm i believe all of this it's russia they're crazy right russia was accused of intervening in the french election yeah you know why i believe that to the german election sure i catalonia separatism yeah yeah i believe that to all take oliver about sending bots after a star trek star trying to take him down with sexual allegations star check no star wars i would believe i have my doubts about bots so i would say no. they were actually accused of that was. russia hacked into the u.s. irish and british power grids fake russia was influencing the braggs it vote

through social media fake russia hacked into cataloging a separatism and was promoting cataloging a separatism in spain real how about buying ads on social media in order to influence u.s. public opinion yeah yeah why not make up the budget actually all of those allegations were leveled against russia do you believe that do you think that they're actually doing these kind of things from what the seventeen u.s. intelligence agencies syndicate didn't think strong possibility that they did i feel it's just i knew that to sell newspapers people just wrote and one story then put it on everything else that listeners showed new yorkers is dwarfed from an actual file of things that russia has been accused of it turns out that if you point the finger at the kremlin you can find a convenient scapegoat for almost any trouble that you're dealing with it will mop and artsy new york. seems a rise in violent crime in germany's lower saxony. region may be linked to an

increase of according to a government bug study but is it really that simple polis leader takes a closer look why have reports of violent crime in one german state increased by more than ten percent in the last two years but this is exactly what a group of criminologist said stuart university of applied science sit out to find and what they established is that there is a link between the increased violent crimes in lowest sex to me and the influx of migrants but the authors say there are a number of important contributing factors the first and foremost is the age of the migrants most of man between the ages of fourteen and thirteen not generally speaking people in this age bracket are more likely to commit acts of a violent nature than people in other age groups secondly where they come from is important migrants who come from syria iraq and afghanistan tend not to carry out

the same number of violent acts as migrants for example that are coming from north africa and then third what is also relevant is the fact that there is a lack of women among the migrants only a quarter of migrants are female which means that you have groups of young men without their wives their mothers will be sisters and they are more likely to carry out acts of a violent nature now these findings do reflect earlier reportings that suggests that there is an increase in acts of a violent nature that are connected to the migrant crisis since two thousand and fifteen more than a million migrants have a arrived here in germany that's say that wolf is there is an important mitigating factor and this is and it could be that people may be more likely to report acts violent acts that are carried out by migrants than if they were carried out by local germans not criminologists believe that only. integration isn't the solution

and should bring down the high level of crime rates among my greatest kind of post from our point of view the study shows once again that you must not abandon those who come to us but actively provide integration so that means for example compulsory and comprehensive integration and language courses more places in kindergartens in schools let's ask people here in berlin what they think they're doing serious i would say that this is coming from both sides the more people that come the more the dissatisfaction will be from those who have lived here longer i think that's something that should be driven by politics but then it at the end of the day it's to us as part of the society that we all need to change and it's a great people better play by changing our behavior and that he colors are really up and one of the more radical solutions would be to deploy the immigrants from germany interracial stuff it's all day they need to work at some point being an

immigrant and working it's a different story we're kind of try to to get them get them something worthwhile to do while a solution to the problem continues to be sort of a sad reality is that a violent crimes continue policy on our team. the second the very next over chairman of respond academy for integration who believes the same behavioral patterns could be found there among any group regardless of whether they've got a migrant background or not. what is written in the report is basically common sense that people without any perspective with living standards which are very hard are more common to go into thinking about criminal activities if you talk about integration of immigrants it's a dialogue and once for integration you have to build perspectives and give them the chance to be one part of the society but on the other hand you have to hear the

worries about germans and find together with those people who have worries solutions which can help for a better future together. we time germany started the year by introducing a new law to tackle hate speech but it's already been criticized for blocking the twitter feed of one satirical magazine nexus americana explains applying this kind of legislation can be a legal minefield to. 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 fired 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 a private company based in the united states decides the boundaries of freedom of the press and opinion 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 that vote

but the has to be them there's some mechanism of saying if you fail to do that and if you ignore a request to arms if you fail to police the science effectively and deal with highly problematic content then the has to be some sort of sanction against you. so the only trace of russia the companies were able to find were three ads 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 media companies or is it the government through social media companies that's all very unclear at the moment indeed it is smear economy d.c. reporting this still to come all news channel we are on the international the french president plans to crack down on for a good news targeting foreign media. altie

we have a great team but we need to strengthen before the freefall world called better than a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that much qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that winning spirit to the r.c.c. . recently i've had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best fall since my last will come from that group. thousand zero zero zero zero zero russia. right.

now are left left left more or less ok stop that's really good. again thanks for watching r.t. so the french president's phone to combat fake news with a law to regulate media influenced by foreign states and announce the move to journalists in paris on wednesday when it was finished between fake news machines and the professional media we run the risk of losing the truth the barriers have been destroyed presidential campaigns in almost all modern democracies have displayed their weakness and our collective failure to come up with a response. in his speech he wasn't specific about which countries and things could be influencing french media but russian media including us and the sporting news agency of already painted microbes far in line last year both were denied accreditation showing his presidential campaign last year later labeled by him as

propaganda or outlets. it's russia today and sputnik have been influential outlets which have several times spoken mistruths about me and my campaign that's why they have not been invited in my headquarters i can tell you though the r.t. family had a christmas present for the french speaking world with the launch of our newest channel r.t. france and immediately ruffled a few high profile feathers maybe not unsurprisingly several french public figures published an open letter calling for r.t. from his license to be revoked they said repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the u.s. and several european countries political commentator adrian yellen though believes mike rogers be careful about taking legal measures against any media 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 threat to democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. in sputnik as part of that but i think that he also wants to change the merit of

the conversation to make this movie about the use of the pedal what he calls false news fake news i think you need to tread very carefully i think that it's a very thin line between exercising new laws that protect. people's rights and not 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 in other matters at home and or microbes themselves become infamous for his difficult relations with the media he's repeatedly accused of being mrs cystic and often refused to speak with journalists giving comments is not the role of the president. this is difficult not to listen to it when the quest is for something for something or six assists simply don't have more forces or force it was covered under such a way that. i consider for my part that it is not worthy in the debate to take place in a public forum the reality is the international media television news internet is now a fact of life and if you wish to be

a statesman on the well scene you need to engage with media rather than running away from it he in my view did himself no favors and i do think that he's very clearly now trying to do a bit of a huge and trying to sort of embrace those who support him whilst perhaps shunning those that don't so you hasn't done himself any favors. ten people have been killed in a fire in the siberian city of novosibirsk on the first day that's coming from local officials there broke out about nine of the morning local time flames quickly engulfed the premises filling the two thousand square meter building with toxic smoke emergency services say the victims were workers at the factory foreign nationals reported it to be among the dead it's believed in electrical fault course the. big news today them from sloyd is threatening legal action against former advisor steve bannon he reportedly made explosive comments about trump's family members in this new tell all book due out about the president trouble earlier publicly lashed out at his former right hand man he said that part of that lost his

mind and only worked for his own interest and was never part of troubles in a circle the white house press secretary added even more fuel to the fire no two was furious what these reports first came out supporters so. i think furious disgusted would probably certainly fit when you make such outrageous claims and completely false claims against the president his administration in this family so the spot is over what biden reportedly revealed to the author of a book called fire and fury inside the truck white house he's quoted. that a meeting between members of trumps and a russian lawyer during an election campaign was treasonous and there was another word to come say that he also allegedly hit south of the president's daughter ivanka trump steve bannon left the white house in august a year after joining trump's election team was his chief strategist but it was a pivotal figure for the president during his campaign through two taking

a porpoise indeed legal and media analyst lionel thinks trump's reaction here now is par for the course 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 eye over a about this i meet ex what it does is it throws the mainstream media the washington press corps and the mainstream media news troops it 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 thrives on this he

loves this. starting but a year yet but with his first anniversary in office approaching the us presidency even be no talking up his own economic record in typical trump style economic miracle created more than two million jobs unemployment is at a seventeen year old well the stock market is at an all time high fantastic for the economy our economy has already surged to three percent growth unemployment is at a seventeen year low the american academy of our economy. well ok but what money doesn't share president trying to solve them isn't his former u.s. congressman ron paul he spoke to us he told us that the growth in the u.s. is principally benefited those already at the top. if you're in the stock market no wealthy person here doing quite well but what we're forgetting here when we listen to this rhetoric of all this optimism is that there's a large segment of our population that's haven't

a difficult time where there is prosperity and more jobs it depends on death yes an individual can feel very good if they have a line of credit to the bank but eventually that line of credit runs out we in this country benefit because we have the reserve currency of the world we can run up a lot of debt and we can spend a lot of money and even with that we've had a great deal of difficulty is last eight years trying to get out of the recession now i see everything we do is a big bubble and all those q e's that we have dealt with in these last eight years have just created a huge bubble and everything is in excess whether it's our military budget our overseas engagements whether it's the welfare state and that bubble will come to an end we're going to have a sudden cataclysmic a on which it is sort of what happened to the soviet system it's not going to be identical and our states aren't probably going to break up but i do sincerely believe that we will no longer be able to afford our empire around the world. was

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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 know of the trinity asset management group now let's get to those today stories topping the business and financial adeline's. 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 sits at two thousand dollars per quarter and 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 set a new record in twenty seventeen topping ninety million industries topping ninety million industry observer site wards dot com which says passenger vehicle sales have grown and it 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 incentive by 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 when letter 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 took 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 it'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 could 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 that thirty miles per gallon that's all your vehicles your trucks your car. 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 kirpan 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 one 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 it got 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 b.p.

will do something to reverse that or lower that rate sometime 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 p.a. is going to get rid of that regulation of carbon credits and change that fifty four point five miles 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 and 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. yachts outside the usa as a whole nother animal they have their own regulations and they're much stricter of course we had 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 sometimes sort of trying to budge companies off the dime on this given that and the new tax reform law do you see any additional automaker jobs coming to the u.s. whether or not it's from.