very. many seriously send us an e-mail. in two thousand and sixteen the panama paper has shown the world with a tax haven the secrets two trillion united states dollars pass through most of conseco in 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 an act of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. millions of most fun psycho documents were examined. the only people which basically have tried to get an advantage out of this thought it was his paper. and probably other politician which were tough other politicians the media would point to find their targets such as the kings of morocco and saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. and

russian president vladimir putin of course. a car that had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was very striking there were no more americans to go specially a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that this special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. of the panama chronicles. i think terry's indeed to have potential to kind of come out of this impasse of implementing the mainstream it's by next week on the un peace operation. very sensitive politically contributing countries to be eventually offer troops gets off to do so. i. they

have confidence and they have not. and. will willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but millions signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people that was nuclear biological and chemical products said do not find the truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between berm pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the burn pits would read literally send a v.a. grows and they don't want to pay it so they're waiting decades

a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they won't have to pay a. call for help and get the middle finger the movie is in the hole is. delayed and i hope you die. yesterday we reported on wal-mart's announcement of a wage increase in response to a tightening job market but talk about trying to spin the news not so fast after the wage increase announcement wal-mart then announced in a company wide email the closure of sixty three sam's club stores sam's club of course is wal-mart wholesale outlet many employees arrived at work to find locked doors and up posted notice while others receive letters be a fed ex some sam's club shoppers are right. to find crying employees happy new

year wal-mart says each sam's club location employs about one hundred seventy five workers suggesting that over eleven hundred eleven thousand workers rather have lost their jobs three of the close stores are in puerto rico where many still lack electricity after hurricane maria it's possible that ten to twelve online filament centers will take up the slack from the abandoned locations wal-mart is the nation's largest private employer with over one million workers and roughly six hundred thousand locations even after the closures. facebook is thinking of changing the formula for what comes up in your feed the company says they are considering using polls about which news outlets people trust and how facebook is would be willing to pay for their content to shift the formulas that determine what you see toward what they deem more trustworthy content and away from

so-called fake news viral content and that horrible quick bait facebook also says they pay may promote more posts from friends and family of users over new posts in order to generate more conversation and interaction content creators worry that such a shift could reduce traffic to their sites that are generated by facebook clicks last november facebook announced it would hire ten thousand contract workers to review post after criticism of alleged failures to police news and political content. well as president donald trump continues to say his administration we're being tough on trade canada isn't taking a backseat and is taking the us to the world trade organization to arbitrate matters many times and trade disputes with negotiations between canada the u.s. it involves lumber and this one does but it may mean much more from toronto alex

mccaleb it helps us get to the bottom of it all alex. yeah you know this is one of those situations where a candidate just thrown in a nother monkey wrench into trade negotiations with the united states so we know that nafta goshi ations have not been going too well and it's a lot has to do with president trump saying i've got to pull out of nafta he's going to pull out of nafta of the plight of the have to be heard over and over again so of course everybody around mexico and canada clued in are panicking every time they hear that so canada kind of a weird move has now gone to the world trade organization with a completely different view that as you mentioned lumber is a big part of this is this lumber disputes been going on since the nine hundred eighty s. and deals with softwood lumber meaning lumber that's used to build homes or for paper cardboard and it's just always been a back and forth for decades so this is really one of the big punches here also canada has a big problem with what's happened recently with the bombard jr airplane builder

the spat it's had with boeing we know that boeing basically coaxed the united states government to put a three hundred percent tariff bombards a product soar above our j planes the specifically the c. series and talking about that what does who does that hurt it hurts workers on both sides of the border so jobs would be lost on both sides actions like this continue but for canada right now as the world trade organization and the world trade organization the problem it has with the us is they're saying that the u.s. is popping up tariffs and that's against world trade organization rules so alex do you think that other is around the planet are saying other countries are saying. to the canadians for for this endeavor given sort of the stance of president trump his administration now it seems like canada actually had that in mind that's a thirty seven page document that they're taken to the world trade or have taken

ready to the world trade organization and it's an open document that allows other countries to jump. on board against the us now some of the the big players here are going to be china south korea japan and germany all countries that have complained about the u.s. the way it's done trade it's not a definite attack against the whole america first idea people don't really have an issue other countries don't have an issue for a country trying to protect itself but once they're not playing fair and a country does not play fair in the world community that's when issues come around and this is what canada is banking on that's why they've opened up this agreement to other countries to join in and they're all going to be like a bunch of little attack dogs on the big old usa how long do these agreements genera these disputes rather alex generally take to go through the w t o process i mean i assume it's many months if not years right. well actually what we're hearing about this agreement it's over this i should say disputed south it should take about a year to go through the process but let's see how it actually works with nafta

talks still progress and we know that there there's a meeting in montreal in a couple of weeks so when you look at that you know canada yeah sure they've pulled out this gun but it's not something that they might not put back in their their holster for later use if nafta talks go in the direction that canada want to see we're trying to play tough guy we're not really a tough guy that's a big problem with canada i got a quote here for me from our international trade minister basically breaks down exactly the way canada is viewing this that's a tax so he's the trade minister whose name is francoise if you leave some power and he says i think the american colleagues understand what you stand strong and sending a message that said well we will stand up for the forestry industry will stand up for aerospace industry will stand up for canadian workers well people see you that your firm so that's what you get respect i don't know about that you know like if you're a little kid in the playground and somebody tells you go stand up against a bully that's been bowling everybody well you just might get punched in the face and that's what canada's not looking at really we're not

a tough guy we've never been a tough guy and we shouldn't be playing tough guys that actually when negotiating teams are at this point with something like nafta well you do have to stand up to bullies once in a while and just and life like it or not you can't always turn the other cheek so i'm pleased to see people trying to get these things disputed and alex we're going to come back to you when we get to that meeting in montreal in a couple of weeks r.t. correspondent alex mahela bitch thanks as always have a great weekend you too thank you. the consumer electronics show is taking place in las vegas to some new and cool things there and our tease holland cook from the big picture is there hey holland we've talked a lot of times about driverless cars and some of that technology you seeing any of that out there in vegas. sounds futuristic doesn't it but we're told that ford

b.m.w. g.m. nissan v.w. and valvo say that their robo cars are going to be on the road in three years tesla says even sooner you probably won't be able to buy one until twenty twenty five and it won't be cheap but the first driverless cars we're going to see are taxis operated by labor and lift and this is going to be huge for the trucking industry where they're already testing platoons where the driver of the lead truck will also be managing unbanned trucks in the many convoy so this is a really big deal here and i have seen the driverless car it's very cool the seats face each other like two sofas they'll have to bring back that that song some of our viewers may not recall a memory that old convoy song holland we got out of the boy but only be one person in a bunch of driverless vehicles well some of the other technology is being used that they auto technology already is it what sorts of things are out there right now.

yet what the driverless car is really going to do is connect a bunch of preexisting functions you might already have in your car you probably have cruise control you probably have g.p.s. get them to handshake and the car will take you somewhere if you're driving a fairly new car you may be able to take your hands off the wheel and watch it parallel park so a lot of this has been evolutionary rather than revolutionary but cars are going to talk to each other and there's already a buzzword v two v vehicle to vehicle data transfer where the cars are feeding and reading the cloud and here's another buzzword can you picture hyper lanes they would be dedicated highway lanes where cars drive north of one hundred miles an hour very close to each other safer than if humans were driving

them and it's futuristic as that sounds that too is evolutionary because for the last dozen years john deere has been manufacturing robo tractors so this is just around the corner but i'm keeping my two thousand and five s. u.v. in the meantime hey i know you've got a v.w. too so you're really old school old school. we this is really going to be a big deal for insurers too with driverless cars they're going to have a field day so here boom bust we're going to keep an eye on all of this cars insurance and anything that's related to business and finance in that sector hauling cook coast of the big picture at r.t. america which airs fridays at seven pm holland thanks for joining us you bet. i want to correct what i said earlier i said there are six hundred thousand wal-mart stores when in fact there are only six hundred there are six hundred

wal-mart stores we have one on every couple of blocks apologize for that and before we go former vice president joe biden is at it again in response to an interview question about public service he said quote the younger generation tells me how tough things are give me a break no no i have no empathy for it give me a break now i really like the vice president a lot and his new book by the way promise me dad is inspiring i cried a little bit even not ashamed to say but i also like the vice president am a baby boomer and i'm afraid these remarks are a little bit of a disservice to the millennial and the young people out there millennialism the generations to follow are facing real challenges on every front most importantly on climate change it's a crisis that my generation our generation mr vice president has failed so far to solve but boom bust is a financial business and economics related program so i'll try to stick to the

numbers across the board the economy is tougher than the vice president and i faced as young people by one estimate based on the federal reserve data the median income from workers aged twenty five to thirty four is more than twenty percent lower than it was back in our day pew research says more millennial households are in poverty burp poverty for heaven's sakes than household headed by any other generation millennia old are less likely to own a home than boomers were and they are facing higher rents in real terms all of this despite being the best educated generation in our entire us is three we can't just tell them the more you learn the more you earn as president clinton used to say sometimes it just doesn't matter i remember getting lectured as a youngster and that certainly has a place but in the words of pete townsend and sung by roger daltry i think the kids

are all right and if you don't know the song ask your grandparents the kids are in fact all right. thanks for watching be sure to catch boom bust on youtube youtube dot com slash artie had a super weekend see you next time. in the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than for knox swiss customs are here permanently all the site is controlled by them and they impose the opening times. opposite the possibilities from stop us the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe must to pieces by artists like pecan so and modigliani i can't boards and sold inside this warehouse that's where the report comes in it covers up deals which are naturally

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a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat somewhere i would sleep. i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. well you know to be honest. i thought the love the glory like going to school you know to simulate it to still give up food for the still. very much. as you don't really feel like he would be you know. and then. the guy just came over to me soon the good news changes this book. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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one last chance president trump agrees to waive a submarine sanctions but warns the u.s. will quit the nuclear deal unless small revisions are made also to come down out in the washington post bureau chief in beirut is called out on twitter after praising a syrian t.v. journalist with suspected links to terrorists and new york's biggest police union sues the force commissioner and the mare claiming to be selective release of body cam video politically motivated. but i welcome to day here in moscow you watching are seen to national. president

trump has fired a warning shots over the iran nuclear deal he's agreed to extend sanctions relief but says it's for the last time in one hundred twenty days from now the u.s. president will again have to decide whether to continue this to spend ssion of sanctions or not and trump is again insisting to revisions to the hard forty agreement or the u.s. he says will walk away. in the event we are not able to reach a solution working with congress and our allies then the agreement will be terminated we cannot abide by an agreement one of the worst deals ever negotiated we cannot and will not make this certification well on saturday the russian foreign minister did say that more sco will oppose any attempt to undermine the existing nuclear agreement which echoes of the world powers behind the deal as america now reports even though trump has repeatedly

vowed to tear up the iran deal he has decided to keep the deal intact extending sanctions relief but also warning that this will be the last time until the deal is strengthened a bit sanctions will be added on iranian entities for their alleged support of terrorist groups now this comes after his national security advisers and other signatories have all urged him to comply with the agreement and the e.u. has been urging washington to stick to it for months and great the value of the j.c. p.o. way that you do we erode the deal is working we want to. protect just a few a white support for this deal is crucial for the security of the region but also for the security of the well the agreement was signed in two thousand and fifty and it was hailed as a breakthrough in u.s. iran relations as it ended international concern over iran's nuclear program and its often described as obama's signature foreign policy achievement but trump has always accused the country of violating the quote spirit of the deal now at the

last deadline trying to waive sanctions but decertified iran's compliance with the deal which is completely unrelated to all of this a it's not part of the deal and b. iran's ballistic missiles already been capable of carrying nuclear warheads now we'll just have to wait and see if congress and u.s. allies will agree to trump's demands smeary com reporting melissa bean reaction from. in officials to the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. says that washington is looking to take further action against iran she said more sanctions could be imposed on iran outside the nuclear deal. the iranian foreign minister has hit back at donald trump for trying to scupper the nuclear deal he said that iran will not accept any changes in the deal needed nor in the future one former advisor to iran's nuclear negotiation team told us that trump has no real reason to scuttle the deal with. because the president makes decisions and you have to go one day at a time and don't place too much. in his all to meet them today because

this deal sears uses interest as. a defense to. another's and you feared from the various european leaders just a couple of days ago or this is working. through all nine reports as confident as iran has fully fulfill its obligations or do is really you know alls rationale or justification for trying to war against the. really. big stop on the us is could debility international scene while the us does try to suppress around nuclear industry the pentagon has been busy working on a major revamp of its own atomic weapons the plans were due for release next month although they have now been leaked to the media the nuclear posture review is called as outlined extensive plans to upgrade and replace some of the outdated

nuclear arsenal and develop new warheads for submarines it also wants funding doubled over the next decade and the document lists russia china and north korea as threats which need to be counted the federation of american scientists says that the u.s. already has well over a thousand low you will to nuclear warheads and they are as powerful as the bombs dropped on japan during the second world war the proposed expansion is in contrast to present early a pledge to see global denuclearized. number one we're going to the world i would like russia and the united states and china and pakistan and many other countries that have to get rid of well for me just foreign policy campaign told us that the plans would mean a windfall for pentagon. tracht it's. it's a troubling development that they would put this out but the administration doesn't

get to do this by themselves congress will have to approve it and hopefully there will be pushed what is. obviously a religious in foolish idea you know i don't think it already has more than enough nuclear weapons the idea. building more is robbery other priorities contractors are going to make money off of producing nuclear weapons so they'll create parochial interests there are pushing these things there are now something that is not in the interest of the world it's not in the interest imagery . that the washington post is under fire after one of its bureau chiefs in the middle east posed to the tweet apparently praising a journalist from free syrian t.v. the questions were raised over the reporter's possible links to al nusra front terrorists is. now explain its everybody needs

a hero even beacons of independent journalism like the washington post and what better candidate than a man doing his job despite the constant threat of bombs. this syrian journalist standing in the open field well bombs explode all around him is very lucky to be alive not flood jacket or helmet you can barely hear the explosions he and his colleagues are very brave a professional for all of us journalists to look up to right wrong this book may have a pretty cover but it's the gripping content that's of most interest this man in the video is to hear our model and possibly the best way to understand them is this tweet shiite militia turned into minced meat sixty people killed in an eyesore suicide attack some respect for the dead maybe no now i'm satisfied he writes the different mission of bloodlust if you ask me in this picture is all

smiles and handshakes with the saudi cleric a jihadi role model here. is sitting down against the backdrop of terrorist flags here's the one of i saw and here is not as he worked as a mediator trying to reconcile the groups back in twenty fourteen he set up and ran a training camp for child soldiers in syria and has reportedly made repeated calls for sectarian genocide no wonder he's on the u.s. security blacklist masini is far from the only terrorist has rubbed shoulders with many bells that night at this hour now learned that if that. thought the group is embedded within this video. is internationally designated as terrorist born as a branch of an al qaeda affiliate later they swapped sides figuring i still flavored terrorism was more to their liking when i reached out to the washington

post's beirut bureau chief about her tweet she disputed the fact that she ever gave praise to the man or his so-called journalism. i dispute that they gave praise to the journalist or his journalists i pointed out that standing out in the field and continuing to talk while explosions or go no fall around you is brave she still admires is bravery though the mainstream media has a history of becoming in chanted by jihadi affiliated want to be reporters take beloved all karim the story teller when it came to the battle for aleppo people are executed it's as simple as that what can i do here and see a blend in the crowd i don't think so am i going to turn my so over to regime forces absolutely so what that he's giving a platform to a suicide bomber right at least he's taking all the right boxes they say you have to protect human rights. they support the terrorism so how on earth. of poor human rights supporter is of that's that's the bottom line of the

hippocratic the have double standards. if this happens in the u.s. mainland would they accept that terrorists will be available terrorist organizations . to say 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 you've done of r.t. . meanwhile fighting still ongoing in series italy province between government forces and the al qaeda linked news reference his exclusive video of the battle for key positions.