well the striking guards are demanding the author of his do something about the dangerous conditions in french jails r.t. from spike to representatives of the prison guards who. said love for to do no no the government our representatives are to blame they don't want to discuss the problem or to find a solution to our poor working conditions we demand an increase in the number of prison guards and also the creation of a special high security wing for radicalized prisoners. some of them will determine if we are really determined to make ourselves heard and to ensure that our demands are met and we really want work conditions to be changed especially in terms of security. a teenager has injured six people including a teacher often access at a school in eastern siberia. command

into the class and inflicted injuries sustained free school children and a teacher with the next a child received a blow to the face another one was struck on the back and another girl lost some friends. let me say this in the school as they were totally calm nothing like this could have been expected from that action and i don't know many could have anticipated this would happen. that someone in the north of the super. well that was the latest in a string of school attacks in russia this week jacqueline vega has more details. the past five days have seen a frightening trend creeping up in russia with three different attacks occurring at schools.

and all of those cases the young perpetrators used basic weapons not an axis as that was likely all that they had at their disposal and a disturbing online trend may also link these incidents our sources believe that violent online groups that center around tragedies like the columbine high school massacre may also be a common factor just to remind you the columbine tragedy took place in the u.s. back in one thousand nine hundred ninety two students armed to the teeth killed twelve of their classmates and a teacher and that horrific massacre is apparently inspiring violence and children who weren't even born when it happened it's so popular that the followers of such groups even have a name for themselves columbine years now russia's version of facebook called v.k. has dozens of these pages open to all we did a simple quick search and found scores of them with post that promote violent behavior things like describing the power someone feels when they have a gun in their hands one of the alleged perpetrators of monday's incident has been

confirmed to be a follower of such pages and today's and wednesday's instance are being looked into see if the same is true for them as of today russian officials have announced that they will begin shutting down pages with extremist content group where he took a number of groups like this is relatively small it's not a mass phenomenon we're not going to do it every single mention of every bad thing we're doing with calls to action not with information per se we don't think that if a person reads about someone slaughtering somebody will pick up a knife and commit a crime. but the question remains if closing pages will really be enough in the long run especially given that a number of students have already taken the next stop and used violence against their classmates. the u.s. ambassador to the un nikki haley claims the trump administration's policy in afghanistan is working with peace closer than ever however the u.n. recently reported almost half a million people were displaced in the country in twenty seventeen alone here are

some of the latest pictures from afghanistan. the u.s. policy on afghanistan is working. we are all were victims of the bombing is ongoing are a lot of houses have been destroyed several villages about sixty seven thousand displaced families are living in this camp. but i think. we're closer to talks with the taliban and the peace process than we've seen before . as we were the taliban and i said we're fighting with them government forces launched a military operation against our houses were destroying our lifestyle. we

do not want afghanistan to be a safe haven for terrorism any more and so we continue to go down that path twenty one international terrorist groups operating in this country dozens of suicide bombers are being sent we are under siege we do everything we can to combat terrorism. particularly house to pretend that us policy is working because she's loyal follower of donald trump she can say that donald trump's policy is not working and his policy is very similar to obama's except to do is now sending another four thousand troops so soon there will be something like fourteen thousand u.s. troops instead of money so that. and the old policy wasn't working but it's not at all clear that the new policy of sending more troops will work the trouble is that whereas five or ten years ago the main proponents were the taliban since then we've

had people coming into the picture there was the hakani network there was. then the third group that's come up in the last five years that. they've been conducting some very dramatic suicide bombings in kabul itself so that kabul itself has become much less safe than it used to be. turkey has launched a military incursion into the kurdish controlled region of syria more on that after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the

world of politics or. i'm sure business i'll see you then. i think that is what the world needs confidence and confidence is based on on commodores i strongly believe that the u.s. and europe have you played a big role in that the united states has been. a partner in creating that rule based system. i'm afraid that. through air force and especially language president trump has been using and i'm not that confident that the contribution of the united states to that rule based system is as relevant as it's been. welcome back turkey's defense minister has announced his country has launched

a military operation in syria's kurdish controlled african region starting with cross border shelling auntie's policy and has more on how events have unfolded. we're hearing from the turkish defense minister that a de facto turkish military operation has begun across its border now this is been corroborated by the syrian kurds the white p.g.d. who say that since those day night some seventy shells have been fired by the turkish military on to their villages now it's one of the only a statement by the turkish president and the one in which he said that the united states had admitted to establishing a terrorist army on the turkish syrian border any chord on the united states to deal with that terror at its infrastructure and these comments by the turkish president so infuriated could see living in the afan region that earlier they took to the streets also they were protesting against what you see happening slowly on the ground interest turkish tanks needing to be extra in order this is what

citizens are going to say. right now our freedom will be the ones graveyard today hundreds of thousands are protesting to tell him that the people of african will never leave their man. the international community should send a message to turkey telling them to stop. the why putin and stand so we can defend ourselves. well this comes after the statement that the coalition forces were working closely with the syrian democratic forces to establish and train a new syrian border security force but what we've seen happening is the american administration backpedaling now on plans to establish such a border force essentially after it created such a huge and furious backlash from america's close ally turkey the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has said that the entire issue has been mis portrayed and misdescribed the u.s. state department has this to say is he saying that when the pentagon says we're

going to try to commit forces there because the people that took that long as you just just being i would not i would have to refer you to the department of defense on that i think they. we're clear in the statement that they put out so let me just refer you to them on that. but i'm asking that first comments yesterday we said there's no order security force that's not what it is like i have to refer you to the turkish government about what they became so concerned about and the fact that somebody misspoke and i'm not going to name any names and neither is the secretary but somebody clearly just misstated their policy it's as simple as that the situation is extremely tense on the ground and it has the possibility of igniting into something much bigger so i think what it does so us is that words have the potential to ignite a potential war. former u.s. diplomat jim jatra says turkey's reaction was unavoidable given the contradictory american policy on syria partially that is a very very difficult position and it really is part of being contradicted or

caught in the corporate policy is that we are supposedly in syria illegally as it happens but nonetheless in syria solely for the purpose of the feeding guy of war that's been done why are we staying well without have a new mission so we settle on the kurds as the only force we think we can count on that was inevitable it would provoke a reaction from turkey there's no way out of this quandary of that i can see and now they're back pedaling and dancing around trying to salvage something. returning to france and drug related crimes are becoming so bad in parts of the paris metro train drivers are reportedly refusing to stop at certain stations. went underground to see what those fears of based on. the most reasons the met true is a stake in the for life with its winding tunnels and lines that stretch across the city it's often the easiest way to get from a to b. but down in the underground the gritty of the capital is being exposed to

drug related crime and violence has been a longstanding issue on purpose. but now the unions representing the train drivers say it's spiralling out of control dealers and users including those taking crack cocaine and. doing. lighting metro drivers is so fearful of attacks it's some stations many are choosing to no longer stop there a survivor more fos if i'm not proclaim it's very dangerous and it's terrifying if you can range from a simple punch to people using nails knives. stations like marks door and market a year or especially troubled druggies has come here for their daily fix and gangs have taken over for problem of a more. the problem is very dangerous for both the metro workers and for the

commuters is even more dangerous they are targets of fast i've seen more than one hundred attacks take place. within minutes of arriving if mark's dorm or metro station we witnessed what looks like a drug deal the man with his back to the camera has just arrived with a bag in hand he was the platform stopping and exchanging some packages with people and then he left with his bag empty this seems to be the new normal. there are lots of drug users and i think that with everything that's happening in the match though they should be doing something most of the time the drug users are aggressive and everyone is afraid for the security of. children. twenty twenty five. lived there we've we've we've heard of course. been attacked just one time because. we had in the middle of the

night. smart for. playing with. that's the problem part of press about problem is the security robberies can happen sometimes it's maybe aggression physical aggression sometimes do was a sar man attack another young man. as we travelled through some of the most dangerous stations we saw metro security and police trying to crack down on the problem this exceeded in moving this bunch along but in reality all they've done is move the problem to another stop on to another day. r.t. paris. now moving on this weekend r.t. we'll continue to bring you the best from the world of football and here's a quick preview of the latest episode of the stan collymore show coming up in about an hour. i. know

you. like a jacket. is it important that russia have a good world called the team gets out of the group for the momentum of the tournament. i think that when one plays at home backed by their country one always has a higher responsibility is a plus and gives extra motivation which will shine through and i'll say this i wish the russian team the best because when we have played there they have always given us a friendly reception but i only wish them well until we crossed paths if we ever do . crystal or eldo portugal you spain first game of the world called. a very interesting going to start and this is i believe it's going to be a very exciting game and highly anticipated as well because it is

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on. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton. coming up the north american bitcoin conference started today in miami it will head there for a report from archies nicholas o'donovan and then talk live with jeffrey tucker of the american institute for economics was there. and we go to tucson not far from the border wall and talk with todd miller author of storming the wall plus we'll discuss the economic impact of sexual harassment in the hospitality industry that's all coming up but first let's get to a few headlines. the intercontinental exchange ice which owns the new york stock exchange has announced that they will join with the start up a block stream to launch

a data feed that will acquire information from more than fifteen digital currencies from around the world and deliver that data to financial firms the ice decision related to this digital currency space once considered fully on the fringe of financial systems shows that more mainstream financial analysts could be looking to invest in digital currencies and the underlying block chain technology which runs it in december the chicago board options exchange cboe and c m e the chicago mercantile exchange group started offering regulated bitcoin futures products. in a rare joint statement by my former agency the u.s. commodity futures trading commission and the securities and exchange commission and forstmann directors have put out a potentially statement that says potential bad actors should be on notice regarding digital currency. yesterday we reported on digital currencies it would be

a focus of financial regulators but today we have this joint statement and it says quote when market participants engage in fraud under the guise of offering digital instruments whether characterized as virtual currencies coins tokens or the like the f.c.c. and c f t c will look beyond form examine the substance of activity and prosecute violations of the federal securities and commodities laws and will continue to address violations and bring actions to stop and prevent fraud in the offer and sale of digital instruments it reminds me of that scene in meet the parents with robert de niro and ben stiller watching you. and now we go to miami where r t is nicholas o'donovan is at the north american bitcoin comforts nicholas what's going on there how is it for miami has become

ground zero for the crypt to munity hundreds of investors and to z.f. and experts have gathered here for the north american coin conference everything from chain technology to ice the and regulation is being discussed actually future regulation is a big topic within the crypt well some say in that regulation is necessary in order to avoid extreme volatility of this day and any sort of regulation would kill the idea of a crypto currency then there's the issue of countries such as china and south korea that coming down hard on big coins but this is a very new and many investors are approaching bitcoin from a let's say romantic point of yours hoping to hit a big jackpot in a very short period of time experts say the. education is the case let's take a listen to cryptocurrency is something that i know is going to be here for

a while it's going to evolve watching is the current technology or might be a new evolution of that technology over time i'm sure there's people here that are possibly even working on it it all comes down to like the education piece people need to learn what they're doing and it's going to continuously evolve so they're going to continuously need to be learning what's happening how it's happening and. learn from the people that are involved so on the one hand we have the debates around in the future going what could we eventually buy with it should we regulate it or not how could bit coin or other cryptocurrency help stop talk companies then there's the more immediate approach how is that point behaving in the markets all be asleep twenty seventeen was an amazing year the big call in that went from nine hundred u.s. dollars per bitcoin in january to about twenty thousand dollars in december twenty seventh team right now we more or less in the middle around the eleven thousand

dollar mark but this is a very volatile when you will but despite this bumpy ride many here a very optimistic let's take a listen you know you've got a lot of people that are selling. the smart investors the ones that have been doing this for a while i'm listening to them there and they're not panicking so i'm in it for the long going to look at other you know all coins all the technology i think this is the last year of like crazy volatility no we're going to have we have these big players big banks that are getting involved in you know regulation but the future of bitcoin itself is so volatile so up in the air that one many here are already preparing the next year's conference many say that by this time next year they will be no because donovan. for more from miami we're joined by one of the attendees and the editorial director for the american institute for economic research jeffrey tucker jeffrey welcome back thanks for joining us again

what's your take on the happenings there has toshi nakamoto the mystery man appeared or won it would anybody even know. i don't know he he might be here i think and i'll be able to you know. now we're not going to talk that way. how's it going to go in there it's been an amazing conference you know i know from the organizers they expected maybe six hundred forty two hundred people registered and at the last minute they released thirty takeouts which they sold for twenty five hundred dollars each so that's that's a level we're talking about here and it's been an interesting crowd because you do have intellectuals you do have old world wall street people who are trying to figure out the sector and find out whether what the actions of we've got regular regular investors i had a guy come up to me and say listen you know i used to drive a truck because of you i watched one of your speeches and i moved into the because

space now he said i'm a very rich man and he had tears in as i was when he was talking to me so you know you've got people from from all kinds actually most of the presenters have been merchants of course floating new ideas new i c o o's all over the place so that was most of the presentations by own talk i went back to economic fundamentals i tried to explain what is the source of value. because of all these crypto assets what is the purpose and what is the biggest threat they face that's what that was what my talk was and what did you tell them jeffrey about the biggest the biggest threat. i think you talked about earlier in the show it's i think the biggest threat is is the regulators going after people's property what jeffrey between you know market regulation where you're you know making sure somebody doesn't mean to pilate a market and then fourteen innovation i mean me well that you know writing code and stuff yeah that's that's the problem i think the sector is capable of regulating

itself in fact i know it is i think the other day we talked about the mt gox thing that's never going to happen again this decentralize there's there's due diligence . being done by all the top investors in the space there are a lot of scams there's a lot of scams in every sector you know but i think it's the sector is capable of regulating itself and the regulators have been an annoyance now for years in this space are not actually achieving anything what the what the typically trying to do is to get this new cutting edge technology to behave as if it's some old growth technology and it's and it's been very costly for for business it's made the sector less competitive is driven out this is true it's driven a lot of innovation assets outside of the united states i've talked to so many people at this event who want nothing whatsoever to do with any u.s. bank or any of us and to take anything to do with any us jurisdiction because they

assume that i could be favorable to crypto and to me that is crazy that's crazy i mean if the u.s. regulators had any brains that would be celebrating not issuing these annoying endless press releases don't do bad things don't engage in front right we know we get it right this is these are just weird weird threats that are just chilling the investor climate for crypto in the u.s. years ago i mean i'm effort that there was two years ago i did a op ed for c n b c and it i wrote that perhaps the digital revolution should take a key from the development of the the internet where really government was a clinton years of course sort of pulled back and didn't destroy institute all these regulations to try to fuel inject innovation is that something you think should be sort of in here to hear listen i think that is an outstanding point the

reason it wasn't regulated you talk about basically early ninety's up through the end of ninety nine maybe early two thousand the reason it wasn't regulate is because nobody took a stats or. well this is these are nice pictures you can you can look at on a computer screen that's all and most people thought about nobody was worried about it well in chat room right no no and i guess the first time anybody got really involved in this was the whole microsoft. you know wars over the browser wars you know that if you trust decision which is what went on for ten years by which time you know windows that i lost this monopoly and move regulators are not smart enough to move as quickly as these markets move and we thought we think of move quickly in the in the ninety's of the internet i mean the crip the world is crazy i mean i've been coming to this conference in north america because conference now for i guess four years i mean most of the vendors that are that are exhibiting here are gone by the next year and there's all new technologies there are things going on today that

would have been. able last year last year and that's how fast it's moving jeffrey thank you for spending time with us i know it's a big ask as you've got some. dinner at a mansion but we really appreciate you spending the time with jeffrey tucker thanks for being here and enjoy your rest of your time down in florida my pleasure thank you. time now for a brief pause for the promotional cause but stick around because when we get back we go live just north of the border to tucson arizona where we'll speak with todd miller the author of storming the wall plus we'll discuss the economic impact of sexual harassment in the workplace with diana with mirrors as we go to break here are the numbers at the closing.