would be accept it terrorists would be available organizations. to say the they have good cause of course not the mainstream media has a habit of putting itself on a journalistic pedestal getting the facts right giving balance and using trusted sources but those standards appear to be selective and only if the story fits the cover. down of r.t. any more fighting is still ongoing in series italy province between government forces and the al qaeda linked news refreshment his exclusive video of the battle for key positions.

on the phone. now a german children's t.v. channel is under fire for showing a documentary about the relationship between a syrian man and his german girlfriend amid claims he had failed to challenge the repression of women is a clip. stuff i cannot wear short things always long things i cannot accept my wife looking like this this is very difficult for me and for arab men in general i do not like other guys talking to my girlfriend she belongs to me i belong to her those are my rules. why does doesn't mean we can't eat pork this is forbidden. that's just because it's what's written in the qur'an it's not ok to eat it pork is not normal meat and so i asked do i really have to eat pork to this will have to

live together i stopped eating it one concerned parent who describes herself as a qualified psychologist has written an open letter calling for the programme an attack on the emancipation of women criticizing the channel for showing repression in a positive light to young people we got reaction to the program which did range from claims of exploitation to a failure of integration. i'm not sure that that's the role of a publicly funded agency or a media outlet if a private company or a cultural center wanted to do it sure but the idea of german taxpayers paying for this kind of sort of fake romance i think it's really disturbing this is about i don't even know if this is a real romance this is about a story a channel what is it what did what are the ages for these for this channel there are seven and eight year olds this is not really about the ideas of those people

it's not really about freedom of expression or journalism this is actually about saying look at these we had muslims and brown people with funny views and pushing it on to white impressionable and vulnerable young people in society these are real stories and i think the most important thing of all is it's important we empower young people with good advice intolerance extremism is out there it was a lie right that guy pretended to be sixteen he wasn't sixteen so the kids were lied to from the very start and so i that's that's a knock against the whole program well i just think that this contrived romance was being deliberately sold to these kids as a way of undermining our setting the table for the undermining of maybe what i believe are the intentions of the parents parents have a right to continue their family legacies and their culture and this undermines it on the taxpayer dime you know if we have stories about this young syrian people

whether they're young adults whether the mine is who are mixing with into mingling with living lives alongside germans or other europeans i think the story should be told we have freedom of the press and we should enjoy it. you watching at a sil's comfy the sat police offices in new york taking legal action against the city's made is that releasing body cam video to the public we've got the details of the stories just after the break. it's all to see we have a great team but we need to strengthen before the free float world cold have been

alleged to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that 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 waiting 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 call. three. thousand zero zero zero zero zero. left left left more or less ok stop that's really good. welcome back now new york's largest police union is suing its own commissioner and the city's ministration i've been the release of body cam footage. this was this

has serious implications not only for the safety and process rights of police officers before the privacy and rights of members of the public as well the union claims the release of video from officers body cameras is a breach of citizens previously adding that the administration uses quote arbitrary and inconsistent parameters and these guided by political considerations one case in point it's an incident last september when a man was shot after pointing a toy gun police video was released despite theories it could jeopardize an ongoing investigation a former officer who blew the whistle on police activities believes the current system allows the videos to be used for political gains i don't think it's an all of a sudden decision if you actually read the lawsuit in the very first paragraph it states clearly what it wants and all it's asking for in the gist of the complaint is for these body camera videos not to be used selectively for political gain their best

that's all that it's asking for to asking for a better system for these to be disseminated out of the public and as of right now the two people that the complaint is listing against for this is seemingly abusing the authority is for murder blasio and the police commissioner itself so the complaint says that it why it's just not selective you videos being removed last year three body cam videos were released by the new york police department to them show offices shooting and killing suspects a local news channel paid thirty six thousand dollars to show additional footy but the incidents and the releases could actually be weeks or even years apart a warning you might find some of the upcoming images distressing.

under. fire for. her. she. put the character of. her well to. find out what.

you're seeing police officers being pawns in political games or get political games and they need to be protected they're in the middle buffer between the law's the law makers the people they're supposed to patrol and police the laws over and then their body camera usage their squad car video footage is all being used either for them or against them as a as a pawn moving game and it's just not fair. look at other news now on this being move on and in the news in capital ensuring anti-government rallies that rest has been escalating since new a stereotype measures were announced at the start of the year.

i i. well at friday's rally people held up yellow cards they're calling for the tough policies to be scrapped over the past week demonstrators have set government set dozens of government buildings on fire prompting authorities to police soldiers on the streets at least one demonstrator has been killed and almost eight hundred have been arrested. mark the seventh anniversary pro democracy arab spring uprising on sunday. now in a surprise move donald trump has announced that he will be attending the world economic forum in davos the decision was widely criticised due to miss america first agenda during his election campaign the us secretary of the treasury defended the move though saying that the forum is not purely

a hangout for globalists although not everybody is happy to see trump there as your it based group has launched a petition calling for the u.s. president to stay out of divorce and so far it's been signed by just over eleven thousand people they do accuse him of racism islamophobia war mongering and attacks on human rights. we will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism replace the present policy of globalism with a new policy of america's we are now putting america first. our wars is unique in terms of fried sweet just a cold dark road for issues in the world cannot be so for governments alone our

business alone we should get out to guide economic globalization and make it possible for all people to benefit from globalization. i don't think it's a hangout for global us i think the idea is that you can on the team is going to go over and talk about the america first economic strategery i'm totally surprised this guy has come out with that remark because it's so unbelievable the major attraction each year for the international calls not politan elite that have the best parties of the year.

by definition is a fact because he's been he's a property billionaire and he's very much hate to those people and his results such as they result that he loves going to down in florida so in that sense they're all going to be the same sort of people and that brings up so that's how things are looking so far today here and i say we'll have more news in just over half an. hey everybody i'm stephen bob taft hollywood guy you know suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v. to suggest this is my buddy max famous financial guru and well just a little bit different. though no one knows up with all the drama happening in our

country i'm shooting the road have some fun meet every day americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people which. in the heart of the swiss alps is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than for knox swiss customs i hear opponents place all the site is controlled by them and they impose the opening time so if you're opposite the possibilities from these all plus the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe must to pieces by artists like pecan so i'm modigliani i can't boards and sold in the side this warehouse so that's where the report comes in that it covers

up deals which are naturally discreet commercially discreet step but also discreet because they concern fraud before some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets a kept inside the geneva freeport strong position that you'll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousands is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the world's black box of the art business. the central bankers trust me there's the lender of last resort or to provide liquidity case there's a credit freeze the fact that you have central banks becoming the buyer of first order and that they're printing money to buy stocks is a complete inversion of what their role is supposed to be in the economy and they become a giant hedge fund. to

. say this is boom bust broadcast signal to work around the world from washington d.c. time park chilton. coming up hotels motels holiday you will talk about the hotel sector going into the new year and trinity charges joins us from the beating heart of the world's financial sector wall street where the bulls are still feeding as record market numbers continue to climb and canada takes the united states to court at the world trade organization is it about more than lumber and is canada really speaking for other nations which think the united states has gone too far in its protectionist policies alex mahela bit helps to unwind that mystery plus we caught

up with pollan cook about self driving cars before he left the consumer electronics show in vegas lots of really neat stuff first let's get to the business and financial headlines for the day. the european central bank might be moving to curtail their bond buying program known as quantitative easing or c q e sooner than expected as the one thousand member euro zone rebounds from the recession quicker than anticipated e.c.b. notes released from their december board meeting reveal that some think the e.c.b. q.e. is too aggressive for the times. the notes indicate that the bank may soften its previously stated policy of continuing to buy sixty billion euros worth of bonds through september and reduce that amount by patapsco half the eurozone economy is better than it has been in a decade with unemployment as we reported on this program last week at a nine year low. in related news e.c.b.

president mario draghi credited with saving the euro zone economy in july of two thousand and twelve when he pledged to do quote unquote whatever it takes to preserve the euro will be stepping down at the end of may when his eight year term ends. the united kingdom's hotel sector received a thirty five percent increase in investment last year totaling five billion pounds more than fifty percent of that five billion came from foreign investors as the u.k.'s would tell just you saw an increase in travelers including more tourists to the u.k. than ever before. and on that topic we are joined by president founder of straw mark a global business development firm henry ford which gallery thank you for being here you're welcome ok so how has the hotel sector done in the past in the last

year or so and put it in perspective given to related things like food service industry yes the hotel industry has just taken off and it will continue to do so particularly over the last two years and what you're finding particular when you mention with regard to the u.k. a lot of this has to also do with the chinese traveling the number one destination for the chinese is the u.k. and you know anywhere that the chinese money is going is going and it's probably not coming here as much we're not as welcoming right in the u.s. it seems with the new president it's not that when we would as welcoming but it has affected actually in terms of globally you look at what mario just made that big mistake in china because of course on their website they by accident i suppose posted a separate site for taiwan for tibet from macau and hong kong. entries and china doesn't like that chinese are now boycotting marial which is american and agro that has ramifications well jump around here a little bit so you mention mere. what about these programs. like myriad starwood

joining together how is that working or do we see more consolidation like that in the hotel industry yes we are going to see it in the middle market the middle market is growing exponentially mainly because of the experience will demond versus product demand you find that millennial is and also actually the graying of america millennialism graying of america both want greater experiences and that's what's causing a lot of this growth what's the number one experience trouble that's what's causing . things like the exponential growth is coming from the drive for experiences versus products now when you when you talk to the growth i know dylan did this report recently they talked about a five or six percent growth in hotels for this next year are they right in that report that report that not all the right notes yes i wouldn't question anything that report it was accurate only one thing that it omitted did not touch upon the

fact that while the hotel industry is a cyclical industry as a many to usually sort of like a ten year cycle it will be different because as i mentioned graying of america this huge bubble from the baby boom is going to travel again with the forces of how exponentially experiences are growing but also the technological factor it is easy it doesn't matter who you are way you are it is an easy thing to do was travel was more time consuming than it is now with the click of your phone you could be at the airport and on the trip. and absolutely don't from experience as a prime sure you have to yes so that's what might change the cycle and they didn't mention that in the report otherwise yes accurate ok well that's appreciate you sharing that intel with us right here for better than do it good for you now i wouldn't say that even though i have a k p a g background i wouldn't say that you know you're definitely see if you have a cape in the back row ok now what about expedient and these sorts of sites that seem to be consolidating themselves or is that working out for them what do you see

in the future what i see is that they have to be globally more sensitive than they've ever had to be we just mention mariel's a little snafu so to speak everybody remembers the car example of one of the car that went into south america it was called it was a nova nova doesn't know my god doesn't know i forgot about doesn't go so you know i think that companies have to be very sensitive in terms of sensibilities actually if you want to touch upon a p m g when i was head of global business development we had a strategy it was called global strategy local implementation what's important for expedia is that they locally have to tweak their offering the world might have become more homogeneous in terms of many things many aspects of their site will work but there are some that they have to be careful about that will be the number one difference and the concern going badly you know it we get all the accounting firms in here my wife works for you and why the young and and part of her job was to ensure that you know throughout these countries all over the world they had the

right language they were saying the right thing they were particularly respectful of what was going on in china where as you say people need to be sensitive not just politically sensitive but they need to be sensitive to the customers are in the consumers so with expedia what the number one tip i have for them is that as they expand into foreign countries would be to find someone who's either from that country particularly somebody who's also had american education living somebody who is you know trans a transatlantic type person or a trans. global type person because that person will understand the cultural sensitivities of doing business in that particular nation or that particular region of the what we are very into that we can do it all sometimes don't we that everybody around the world does not speak english i'm not saying that we can't but i think it's an advisor ball to take those local cultures under consideration so what are the big things that. things go into this year that the c.e.o.'s in the hotel industry need to be thinking about other than being sort of politically sensitive to customers consumers the other big trend of course is health and

wellness generations previously older people what do they do they want to sit in a deck chair on the on the cruise ship no longer you don't have to look at some of those do some of us don't but you don't have to look at any further than your local mall where actually in the retail industry they're finding that while the department stores people actually go to malls to work out they used to be the bad guy in the mall the more owners didn't even want them now they're big revenue generator so the whole hotel industry is looking at how can they almost become a wellness center how can they have health experts on site how can they be almost like the spot retreat that they never were previously and i think an industry that's also finally going to turn to that is the golf industry the golf industry historically was you know your belly to the bar type of the car the montgomery look and now after tiger woods all of them jordan spaeth and all the rest they're fit they're healthy they're lean so every traveler to a certain degree has that aspect of desire not every the majority and that's

a trend that did not exist ten twenty thirty years ago super insightful hillary for bridget strong work c.e.o. and president thank you so much what a pleasure to have your oprah comeback thank you. with stock market trisha new horrors every few days our team is trinity charges puts the numbers in perspective she joins us from the heart of the global financial center manhattan right there near wall street trinity twenty eighteen is off to an amazing start for wall street we've seen the market close at record highs almost every day even surpassing the twenty five thousand mark. what it means is every time you see that number go up on wall street it means jobs mean success it means for one carries that a flourish the most impressive milestone yet for the dow jones industrial average twenty five thousand which really shows the explosive growth in stocks over the past year high is closing record hit twenty five thousand five hundred seventy four

point seventy three on january eleventh marking a milestone among the year's highest closing records since president trump has taken office we have seen a more than ninety two stock market record highs and president trump certainly argues that this is all about the make america great again agenda we did in fact break twenty five thousand very substantially break in very easily. so i guess our new numbers there he says that the president tweeting out on january fifth quote dow goes from eighteen thousand five hundred eighty nine on november ninth two thousand and sixteen to twenty five thousand seventy five today for a new all time record jump one thousand points in the last five weeks records fast as one thousand point move in history this is all about the make america great again agenda jobs jobs jobs six trillion dollars in value created we're seeing a trend that white house is putting out to people like. american the blue chips for the first time ever hit twenty thousand on january sixth two thousand and seventeen

and the market for the most part has been steadily climbing ever since and two thousand and seventeen for the first time ever the dow reached for one thousand point milestones in one year in march the dow hit twenty one thousand an early august twenty two thousand and. tobar twenty three thousand and just thirty trading days after that mark the dow closed at twenty four thousand the dow had seventy one record highs for the year the nasdaq had seventy two and the s. and p. five hundred had seventy three the dow was up more than twenty three percent last year compared to two thousand and sixteen this year's rising stock prices have largely been credited to a global economic recovery and growing optimism that the republican tax bill cut will provide a boost for u.s. growth and help american companies make more money and wall street is betting that companies will use that spare cash to buy back stock and beef up their dividends oh markets are also increasing and we were also getting investors from foreign markets and an american company so this is all really positive for the dollar meanwhile

german and british stocks aren't far from breaking record highs of their own this week the european market closed higher than usual five days in a row marking a new two and a half year high and closing above four hundred for the first time since mid two thousand and fifteen meanwhile nikkei in japan is trading at its highest level since one thousand nine hundred ninety one according to market watch now although the dow has surpassed the twenty five thousand mark and hopes are high for strong earnings for companies across the board many are still wondering exactly how long it will take to get the dow jones to thirty thousand in the financial district four boom bust turn of each others are to. really great data points the dow has risen and there's. a rather four percent so far this year a time now up or a quick break but hang with us because when we return we'll see why canada is taking the united states to the core of the world trade organization and ask alex mahela bitch if it means more that it seems now as we go to break here are those

numbers at the closing bell to close out the. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the us senate it's full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it is that really packs a punch. yampa is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than. c. people you've never heard of love back to the night not the president of the world bank so take. me seriously send us an e-mail.

in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers show the world with a tax haven the secrets two trillion united states dollars pass through most sake and the amount of time that we've been in panama papers exposure that's what it shows a lot of money it really is. journalism it's a fact of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and i'm asking why would they want to keep these things secret. millions of most like fonseca don't commence where examine. all the people we basically have tried to get an advantage out of this sort of. newspaper. and probably other politician which what. other politicians the media would point to find their targets such as the kings of morocco in saudi arabia the president of argentina sever.