canada hosts western allies of the nine hundred fifty s. korean war to discuss the current crisis on the peninsula but with the absence of russia china and north korea itself the proposed solutions appear limited. the pressure. to intensify that pressure just couldn't include cutting off diplomatic ties with north korea and the specter of russian meddling returns a number of influential u.s. democrats claim the kremlin is behind whistleblower chelsea manning's decision to run for the senate. on what goes up must come down cryptocurrency is a double digit losses in the past twenty four hours and with global talk of potential regulation of the new money.

a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me at nike air and gets happy with it. while south and north korean officials are meeting for a third time in the space of just a few days to discuss peace efforts that includes the potential participation of the two countries under a unified flag at the upcoming olympics meanwhile the western allies of the nine hundred fifty s. korean war have gathered in canada for separate talks on the current crisis with a seemingly different approach. the pressure campaign will continue until north korea takes decides to do nuclear eyes i think. is to send out a very clear message that we want to intensify that pressure it is not the time to

pressure or to revert career the surest path to peace is to keep threatening north korea into submission after a long and challenging meeting that's the best the value of a group could come up with the purpose of our meetings today is to improve the effectiveness of the maximum pressure campaign and combat north korea's attempts to evade sanctions the united states looks forward to hearing from all participants on how we can best do that more sanctions toughest sanctions though one might wonder what the reason left of north korea to sanction or why they would work now when they haven't for the seventy years a few of the participants also proposed ripping up all diplomatic relations with the north that would to work and defuse things re-inforcing autonomous majors when where available. discuss the include cutting off diplomatic ties with north korea

solid meeting of north korea's former enemies literally almost all of these countries were participants off the korean war on the side of south korea states such as luxembourg colombia greece belgium difficult to imagine what relevance they have to the korean crisis these days but there you go noticeably absent with two countries that are actually relevant to the crisis apart from north korea itself the two countries that actually share a border with the north china and russia. closer to nuclear russia and china were not invited to this meeting so they just said the meeting will take place on the sixteenth of january you can come in the evening we will tell you what we have agreed on this was unacceptable what the state department said about russia supporting this meeting that's a complete lie we consider this meeting harmful to. the most important

parties involved in the korean peninsula nuclear issue you are taking part in the meeting but we don't know what the goal of this meeting is so i don't think this meeting is legal or representative from the very beginning china has been opposed to this meeting you should ok so you invited a bunch of countries that have little to do with the crisis and came up with all the tried tested and failed solutions they went a step further refusing any advice russia and china have long stood by a double freeze meaning north korea stops doing this. and south korea and the united states stop sending nuclear bombers to harass the north and poor's with the war games.

no said rex tillerson when the north does it it's a provocation when we do it it's deterrents have a jew away but couldn't you wait. at long last after years north korea and south korea holding direct face to face negotiations lympics around the corner and everyone with any sense once things settle down so what does the vancouver group do while it gathers all of north korea's former enemies and declares it intends to tighten the noose around kim jong un's neck house that for a path to peace international and independent china specialist andrew long thinks the presence of russia and china at the meeting would limit western countries options to pressure north korea. well obviously. the trauma administration doesn't the feel the time is ripe for them to talk to the north

koreans yet because they want to put more pressure on north korea and put it bring up the rhetoric and all sort of tactics of foreclosure for example they're not ruling out something like even up blockade probably seems to think that all his higher octane sort of rhetoric has achieved something at least the north koreans beginning to talk to the south koreans so they don't want to give up the option. of trying to talk with the allies so trying to group the allies together the exclusion as i said of both russia and china is because they fear that if russia and china are invited to join to scuttle. america's option for for for coercion. now a new theories emerged of russian meddling in u.s. politics the kremlin's supposedly behind us whistleblower chelsea manning's decision to run for a seat in the senate and is again trying to subvert american democracy well that's

the claim being promoted by some in the democratic party including the head of its leading think tank. senator cardin authored and released a two hundred page masterpiece on russian influence in western elections suddenly he has a primary from kremlin stooges songes weekly leaks prime resource chelsea manning the kremlin place the stream left to swing elections remember that oh my god this is how to arrange to fish to washington is the president of the launches them policy think tank genuinely believes chelsea manning's candidacy is a criminal implant conspiracy theories throwing more in mainstream d.c. than on internet fringes now exact connoisseur a prominent member of the hillary clinton campaign also tweeted out purporting this conspiracy theory that somehow chelsea manning's bid for the senate was a lockout plot now interestingly and now those proport in this conspiracy theory

they they have quite a bit of explaining to do now with those who will recall chelsea manning was just in prison in a u.s. military prison for seven years now is it are they purported that somehow russia infiltrated the prison and was able to recruit chelsea manning at that point and then furthermore viewers will remember that barack obama pardoned chelsea manning as he was leaving office so then the question is was russia in on the plot to pardon chelsea manning did they somehow convince obama to pardon shell's the manning so they're operative could then get out of prison and run for the u.s. senate i it's not exactly clear so those who are trying to get to the bottom of this vast conspiracy theory that they have come up with have a lot of explaining to do about the details of how exactly russia is to blame for someone running for the u.s. senate in the united states finds ten of the us libertarian national committee often fire things the establishment has reasons to try and keep manning out of the

race. bless russia become an american code a capitalist which i don't think is. there's nothing for russia to gain there are many things however for established interest to get from keeping an anti-establishment candidate out so many people in america are so excited to see a true american hero really stepping up and standing up to the establishment and we know she can do it because she's already done it she has already put her own freedom and safety on the line to fight for the american people that's somebody that really the only against her even though i have some different policies that's someone i can respect. and barcelona almost twenty thousand people have demonstrated demanding the release of pro independence activists they're facing accusations of sedition after they took part in actions promoting catalonia split from spain.

protesters gathered outside the region's high court they accused the spanish government of repression they also held a minute's silence solidarity with those arrested massive rallies have been a common site since catalonia is a vote for independence was declared illegal by madrid. we demand freedom of prisoners and show that we won't accept repression and the spanish government's abuse against the democratic will it's a great injustice that is the reason we are here to free them now well it's not just pro independence activists making their voices heard and he break away movements have been gaining popularity as well meet bania it's a fictional land inside catalonia which includes the barcelona tarragona regions and the activists who came up with it wanted to split from catalonia and join spain this is their reasoning. yes but i don't know what it is that i can i mean we went

from being one of the main drivers of the spanish economy to a mediocre autonomy at the exit of more than three thousand companies was followed by encouraging the civil population to disobey the constitutional order to get a republic that lasted eight seconds and without any international support. pro and anti independence camps have been upping their rhetoric ahead of the first session of the new council on parliament which is now under way after a recent election in the region pro independence parties gained a majority in the parliament as you can see on the video the seats of those parliamentarians who are absent due to imprisonment or exile are marked with yellow ribbons which are the symbol of the independence movement the bodies first job is to elect regions a new president one of the candidates is carlos demond the former president deposed after the referendum and who fled to belgium where he still remains he claimed he could run the region via skype all through

a special representative. activist supporting the recent movement against sexual misconduct are taking aim at their peers authors actors and other public figures who dared to doubt the direction of the so-called me two campaign is going to face the furious backlash jaclyn view of the latest examples i feel like every time you turn around another me too headline has hit the press with new accusations from directors to actors to fashion photographers but it seems we've reached a turning point as renowned feminists are concerned that the campaign is becoming a witch hunt take margaret atwood author of a handmaid's tale and acclaimed work attacking massaging because she's starting to doubt the movement this structure guilty because accused has applied to many more episodes in human history than salem my fundamental position is that women are human beings the full range of center and demonic behavior as does entails including criminal ones they're not in

keeping of wrongdoing. the backlash she's received online and in the media has been ruthless strange how someone so brilliant can demonstrate some legal insight and self reflection i guess privilege is blinding wish margaret atwood would get back to writing dystopian future but a miscarriage in this world instead of you know actively creating it i mean seventy eight year olds on exactly knowing the progressive takes congolese a writes the first female african-american secretary of state also says me too maybe changing perceptions of women and not for the better i do think we have to be a little bit careful let's not turn women into snow flakes let's not infantilize women over in france one hundred influential female artists are being led by actress catherine deneuve and signing an open campaign letter against me to rape is a crime but in system comes the floor is not a crime nor is gallantry ocean of an ist aggression now this liberation of speech

has been turned on its head but the reaction to that was furious and another was forced to issue a hasty apology a few prominent men have also voiced their reservations one of them was actor liam neeson there is a bit of a witch hunt targeting famous people being accused of. touching some girls in the forest something suddenly they're been dropped from their prover imo something unsurprisingly nice and comments have also been less than well received by many the problem here seems to be that there's often a if you aren't with us you're against us mentality with movements such as me to those who are speaking out about their concerns are not condoning sexual assault nor attacking the campaign itself but more often than not their words are twisted or go unheard attwood may have said it best herself in times of extremes extremists when. thank you for choosing r.t. international still to come on the program cryptocurrency suffered

a double digit losses in the past twenty four hours we have details for you after this break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. is iran must going to fit in to steve jobs by coming up with innovative products you know the electronic gadgets market is a little bit different in the car business because the car business is you know you kind of bound by the highway system and you're bound by the whole infrastructure that is the automotive industry and the lobbying of the automotive industry so it's a bit difficult to be disruptive in the industry in a way he's going to open up his charging stations with one nine hundred fifty style burger and shake joints with servers on roller skates ok that's that's an idea that

might take off that might be a new like starbucks like third place that people go to to have an experience that might work. welcome back bitcoins being on a roller coaster ride of late but the last twenty four hours have seen its value plummet to below eleven thousand dollars in fact all major cryptocurrency ease on down in theory i'm fell drastically in value by thirty one percent and is currently just under one thousand dollars the crash follows a global crackdown on the digital currencies in terms of regulation in brazil

investment funds are now prohibited from buying cryptocurrency s one in china all thora t's are targeting online platforms that offer exchange services and india is actively targeting wealthy bit corners through income tax regulation some believe asia will bring in even harsher measures and there are warnings this could now be a survival of the fittest for digital currencies. china has always been opposed to or to but quite korea now is becoming increasingly concerned japan has gone wild but most of the action but quite all crimes are. speculation is really extreme particularly and. then all of this is going to have shown sure they're corrupt and you know trying to i might add. the communist congress has taking a turn to deal with speculators the only issue right now is that this sector is so technologically advanced it went. outside the bounds of the national

government and what they're doing is catching up the world doesn't need on a business sense all of these. all of these projects they're not necessary some of them are performed compete their peers just because they have a better management teams better products better solutions their technology etc just look at the very speculative start of some of them as it happened in the not in the nasdaq bubble of the late ninety's some of them will be a dominant company dominating business in ten to twenty years but most of the way the underlying technology watching technology is good. when you're about energy benefits everyone also we're told that turns out in germany the wind turbines are costing taxpayers money strong winds have resulted in

a recent oversupply of electricity and energy prices going below zero in germany this extremely rare phenomenon is called green electricity peaks and while the difference between fixed and market prices increase is it tax payers who have to plug the gap in germany the issue of renewable energy is of clear importance and now as the new grounds coalition with the social democrats looms the issue has risen again if successful the new coalition proposes to double the new about energy production by twenty thirty. we are aiming for about sixty five percent of our energy to be renewable by twenty thirty the production of renewable energy must be significantly increased we want to further develop and modernize our energy networks and a recent survey more than half of those questions said the cost of moving to renewables has been too high and seventy four percent want the shift to be much

better organized what your political analyst rayna rothfuss says concerns the government's not addressing the problem of taxpayers having to pay extra for renewable energy. what really goes wrong in germany is that. some of the costs that are attributed to the renewable energies they in fact cover other costs of. their energy providers and if it comes for example to the dismantling of nuclear power plants normally expect. power companies themselves how about that hot sauce that you know all that in the end also be covered by the consumer by the taxpayer and therefore we don't have really a transparent and system of attributing because. in the way that it. is reflected by the real cost of. energy production.

facebook's being accused of revealing to prosecutors detailed information about a group of anti oil pipeline activists now started documents were obtained by online news site the intercept now after an executive order from president trump to build the dakota access pipeline across native american land and pass underneath the missouri river the activists organize a protest using their facebook page the local prosecutor had twice thought information on the demonstrators from the social media site and according to the documents facebook apparently helped get to get a warrant approved through the department of justice co administrator of the page tina macand thinks it was part of a deliberate effort to scare demonstrators away. the group received many threats at this time for several persons that certain members of the public believed to be at the action personal information such as home phone numbers addresses and workplaces

were posted in various places online not only does this warrant attempt to scare people from organizing this warrant attempts to scare people from even looking at information the protests saw around one hundred indigenous people block traffic on a motorway for about an hour although they later peacefully dispersed and no arrests were made appropriate launched after a couple of minor road incidents took place due to the protest leaving one injured thousands of native americans along with environmentalists and activists from around the world have been fighting against the pipeline since two thousand and sixty journalist myron do we hear reports on native american issues things facebook violated constitutional rights. violations or continually. facebook is being an outlet in the beginning where seem to also be used and

violated in our constitutional rights as us citizens present because people are going to do what we can to protect our land and we've been seeing that abuse for five hundred years and secreted it's important for us to protect the earth we can't violate that actual law and we're soon to happen we're seen man we're seeing individual corporations give their individual ration of dakota access having all assets federal and state and local. officers and mercenaries and national guard and all much security and border patrol and disposal. now we have requested comment from facebook and we're printing any out day so soon as we get them in the meantime to share your thoughts on the day stories by following guys on social media i'm follow the latest headlines back with you at the top of the hour.

by the mainstream media intentionally gaslighting the public against president donald trump three first appears to be equally true trump does with style gas like the media what kind of body politic is this creating as the oh it's become a collection of hysterical drama queens. prescribe medication is widespread on the us market and a frequent cause of death at that point in my life i just felt like everything with my family was literally coming unglued i had actually planned. to commit some site what or who has made antidepressants so commonly used we were doing what the

doctors told us to do you know we were being responsible and what the real side effects. was actually all to what i did was done on a cocktail of legal drugs. just because something's legal doesn't mean it's safe. i'm after a time she went back with a brand new series of going underground is today the u.s. senate holds hearings with facebook you tube and twitter about terrorism against the united states coming up in this first show of the new series is the liquidation of the taxpayer funded private contractor karelian one of the final nails in the coffin of the post that your employer privatization of u.k. society we get the take of the chair of the u.k.'s national trade committee i guess

what we'll have the s.n.p. who reveals plans for a new scottish independence referendum to break up the united kingdom within fifteen months and of the birthday week of love into king jr who along with malcolm x. had a different vision for the western hemisphere what makes this. told us army veteran margaret stevens of the speculation that the catastrophic me poor life outcomes of the caribbean. referenced by donald trump barbie island of cuba the headline is why you should get your panties pulled away from the hard fast homeless but think about sending them to bank from gaza all this and more coming up in our first episode of this new season but first straight to our top story the minority u.k. government led by prime minister theresa may is today scrambling to keep british public services running because of monday's liquidation of taxpayer funded multibillion pound transnational contractor karelian allegedly one of the most shorted companies on the london stock exchange meaning the city of london knew it

face problems karelian continued to win taxpayer funded contracts even as it paid out shareholder dividends while it faced a pensions blackhole tourism a presided over two billion pounds in contracts being given to former advisors company after a profit warnings and with a civil service oversight role concerned with karelian unfilled questions in even mainstream media now center on whether it's time to rethink capitalism after decades of labor outsourcing joining me now is angus mcneil he's the chair of britain's international trade select committee as well as being on the u.k.'s national security strategy committee and the s.n.p. shadow spokesperson for the environment and rural affairs analyst thanks so much for coming back on before we go into the iraq other issues surrounding this debacle are your only national security strategy committee what implications for defense of the realm given that karelian is in charge of certain facilities around britain's nuclear deterrent in scotland a naval base well the tentacles of cotillion seem to be jerry where they are the

tarmac in the past a company that i was a very weird if i did a degree in civil engineering they built some of the floating docks. in there would undoubtedly be still be. delivering for the ministry of defense it's a concern in defense of it's a concern on the civil side as well primarily of course my my sympathies and understanding was forced into the workers employees who are losing their jobs who file. it sounds in a precarious situation he's forty thousand affected indeed you know what's the management penalty here we see managers here on bonuses clawbacks been taken away. on their watch this has happened to this big company also a question for the u.k. government to full question they've taken away their own order to the current representative i should say who who kept an eye in companies quite closely in what closely with these companies that didn't happen also when the give the profits warning the u.k. government kept pushing money in the direction of clearly and which could only mean

they were putting taxpayers' money at risk public money at risk whereas the scottish government at that point was trying to manage and move are we being aware of the difficulty that could arise that no hazardous and because i was and what a prime minister whose corporate responsibilities zala top adviser on called responsibility up until recently was the person who then became chairman personal of caribbean village green here sure do you have the regular phone calls saying these are normal profit warnings you just cyclical nature of the economy nothing to do with the systemic existential threat to the got raises huge questions though about the relationship and the overlap on the coziness that an e.t.s. between the highest levels of politics in the u.k. and the highest levels of some of the biggest companies in the u.k. delivering for the government and shooting the prime minister that all is fine when all was not fine and then we see the pieces line in front of us huge questions political questions have to be answered and what was the prime minister was she

didn't do diligence that we should just take in a friend's word is ever going to be fine let's have another jenin tonic system interact this way of putting lives over government yet again another version of it ok i want to get on to the philosophical implications of this as regards the economy but there will be people in this country wondering whether in your country wondering about what happens in the abilene western peripheral road what happens is that will scotland's railway electrification whatever to edinburgh's waverley. the capital of scotland's rail stations are in trouble because of the really well having governments have to do the best for continuity here we have we have to make sure that services are delivered for the republican or bailing them out just follow the other government the problem here with with companies like this is the privatization of profit and the socialization of loss when clearly and we're making the money and the money's gone in bonuses the money is gone and she told the dividends but when.