however when it comes to questions over whether german tanks are being used against the kurds. answers from the german government the norm the ground there's no official stance from the defense ministry from the foreign ministry or from those who deal with exports at the ministry of economics here no tanks see no tanks speak of no tanks that's the lying coming from the german government at the moment but when it comes to the german people they don't seem convinced that they should be providing arms to turkey right now i don't think so why not. because war is bad and all. the harm has caused a disturbance in this region so i don't think we should sell him tanks but i think that's awful became from the turks a fighting against an entire people should not be happening. it's terrible we should not be sending any weapons at all no matter who is behind them. now if

someone asks where are you from would you be offended because that very question has stirred to bait about racism online after sweden launched a social media campaign and he said explains. well a year from sounds like an innocent enough question doesn't it but it could land you in trouble here's what i actually had to explain that i first need to tell you about an online campaign launched in sweden to help expose racism hash tag no stranger we hope to raise awareness regarding the extensive issue of racism that actually does exist in sweden although many want to believe that we live in the world's most tolerant country the idea wrist shakespearean says of being subjected to racism and ten south asking why are you from rep some people up the wrong way even though i was born here people always ask me where i'm from i hate it when they do that nobody put on a decided well my home is where i come from doesn't concern you and it shouldn't

matter i say shouldn't we ever ask people about their country of origin to be on the safe side. well here's some advice from the man behind the hashtag no stranger campaign you can also question just make sure you do it right it's ok to wonder about someone's country of origin but it should not be the very first thing to ask a stranger about because the reaction that follows is usually very stereotypical and racist like oh you're from viet nam i think it's quite terrible that you guys eat dogs. so its name fairest originated and no follow up questions got it.

the world economic forum is underway in davos at the moment with some of the world's biggest players readying for talks at the luxury swiss resort among them is the u.s. president although not everybody is happy that he is turning up in fact around two thousand people marched through the city juric to denounce donald trump's visit and the entire gathering to several smaller protests also took place elsewhere in switzerland including geneva trump is expected to make a speech later this week selling his america first economic idea at a pro globalization for a wednesday morning in davos is focused on the challenges facing the energy market in particular or oil prices and production and we spoke to russia's energy minister to find out what's in store for twenty eight. and we were critical of this to all twenty four countries that agreed to the deal to cut oil production have to reach joint aims this is needed to find a solution and balance the markets the market is

a periodic mechanism this time the unusual decision that was taken for the first time showed the possibility to take joint steps to downgrade the negative effects detected between twenty fourteen and sixteen all our joint efforts are urgent i hope we can balance the market by the close of twenty eight scene but the steps that have already been taken shows they can be used again in the future without international still to come this hour we look at the findings of a new survey in the u.k. is people fall out with social media that the tales after the break. hey everybody i'm stephen. you. got

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vote again a new study has room for yours that just one in four britons actually trust social media people complain that it does promote fake news cyberbullying and also extremist propaganda and therefore requires better regulation. has more in the findings it used to be seen as an innocent way of keeping up with friends and family but the love affair between the british public and the likes of facebook twitter and instagram has soured it now less than a quarter of the u.k.'s population trusts what it sees on social media according to an international marketing firm seventy percent of britons believe that social media companies don't do enough to prevent illegal or unethical behavior the majority of those os think that more should be done about preventing the sharing of extremist called intent most think the same of how social media combo. cyber bullying and then there's the issue of fake news overhauls of britain's surveyed

worry about being exposed to it online so how to mend this broken relationship the british public thinks that tougher regulation is key to restoring trust it's time these companies sat up and listened the public wants action on key issues related to online protection and to see their concerns addressed through better regulation these findings present a major shift in attitudes towards the internet when it started the world wide web was open free and unfettered that was its appeal but two thousand and seventeen was the year of a fake news and the public is now where e in britain and the us politicians have put pressure on social media giants to disclose evidence of russian interference.

sure this house but the government and the election commission will examine these reports very carefully we must be open eyed about the actions of hostile states like russia. i was concerned at first that some of the social media platform companies did not take these threats seriously enough to get these ads and posts were a very small fraction of the overall content on facebook but any amount is too much . facebook will now prioritize so-called trustworthy media outlets and downing street has announced the creation of a fake news rapid response unit the fear is now that any subsequent plaints around censorship could be dismissed as the will of the people. r t

london. a suicide attacker has detonated a car bomb but of your next to the office of the humanitarian group save the children in the afghan city of jalalabad local journalists below has the latest. at least twelve people were wounded some of them include afghan employees of the organization but none of the injuries are life threatening the afghan special forces or attacking at least three attackers who are armed with rocket propelled grenades heavy machine guns and hand grenades we also know from very worried family members who are waiting outside and some of them have been touch with me clued in my own relatives that there are a lot of people who are stuck inside save the children would invite their afghan employees from the districts and they would train them they would invite them for

seminars in these are afghans do very important work in many of the districts of our province outside of the city of jalalabad be it where the health education or shelter for refugees or internally displaced people so obviously a major source of concern is how could this attack of taken place because the office is only two hundred or three hundred meters away from a police station and i think that's what you're looking at for two thousand and eighteen as well these security and intelligence breaches continue to really undermine the confidence of the afghan people in the afghan government. at a time when major cities have been attacked time and again while that incident in jalalabad has come just days after an attack on a hotel in the afghan capital of kabul the u.s. state department has confirmed that several americans were killed with local

officials saying that twenty two people died in the overnight by taliban militants . those people had no mercy it was anybody who came in front of them to try the. best basically it was that you know most of. the exact number of american casualties is not yet known the victims also included citizens of ukraine venezuela has inkstand and jim many nice working for private

afghan adeline political consultant the rockwell been a huge the us military presence is aggravating situation in afghanistan already talked about sending in more troops and more planes and other weapons so i think this is just for a further unfortunate back down from the campaign promises he made he said some very good things about getting out of afghanistan that the u.s. had no business there and then of course as soon as he was elected he switched and is now stepping up the war in afghanistan and the afghan government itself said that it would only last a few months if the u.s. pulled out there's a hint that the afghan government maybe they ought to go with the u.s. troops and have new people come in so that was why is the u.s. killing all these people spending trillions of dollars in afghanistan to have a very unpopular government in power. terrible these people were killed i don't think we have any idea how many afghan civilians have been killed in the seventeen years with this war the u.s.

needs to get out get out of afghanistan get out of syria a lot that needs to be done here at home leave other people's alone leave their countries alone. stop killing people all over the world and expecting to be locked . finally this hour a sculpture by an american artist to commemorate the victims of the twenty fifteen paris terror attacks is drawing heavy criticism in france not only over its meaning but also its shape and choice of location to its planned to be installed next the tokyo museum our tokyo modern art museum story in paris and as you can see it's a giant hand here holding a boat of balloons however it will block the view from there of the iconic eiffel tower and response artists and activists have written the open letter demanding the project is scrapped. the final look of the piece for me has nothing to do with what happened to the but the crown prince going to be used only that people are going way selfies in front of it and i don't i don't see very firmly for

me when i look at it i hope that all this was we are. victims i don't feel that at all it's not even in the area over there but. he has been gauging public opinion on the streets of the french capital this is where the sculpture would be installed there would be a huge hand for truth out of the ground grasping at twelve to lips with this view of the eiffel tower behind it which some say will be ruined as a result while it's clear that some in paris do not appreciate this gesture what's the view on the street so colorful it's nice to be different really stand out i don't like it so it's a modern horrid europe london jr to see showing his vision why not it's a good thing cheerful and full of color it's better than the stuff you memorial day

when the gesture is very very kind but if it's a whether or not that school teaches the people that lost their lives it's a little bit weird also to be donated by in america an architect maybe maybe it should be a french one remembering those people is. a really good idea but probably with something a little bit different if you saw a major what would it make you think of disneyland i think this better way after the membrane people have died and then terrible attacks and that's not the scope i would say for controversial reasons it's a nice culture but when you want to associate it with that day and what happened then. yeah i probably wouldn't actually know bones of the work include the u.s. ambassador to france who's been so. the heading this gift idea and the mayor of paris however so far it seems that the french are not seen and many people on the streets of paris just don't appreciate this piece of american martin aunt

charlotte even ski. harris thanks being with us this morning just coming up was just gone twenty five past eleven here in moscow i'm back with more in just over half an hour don't forget though plenty of stories for you to our website at our. days ago the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis updated in revived america's global defense strategy it is a dark vision of the world and calls for a massive defense spending what he calls a defense strategy critics say is a blueprint without it. prescribed

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this is boom bus coming to you from the world economic forum in davos switzerland i'm bart chilton coming up we have a look at this and t.d. who is the general secretary of the european trade union confederation plus alex behala bitch tells us what canadian prime minister trudeau is going to be doing here in davos and lots more but first let's get today's business and financial headlines from back in the studio in washington with ashley banks. and the eleven nations that remain in the transpacific partnership or t p p have agreed to a new fallback deal that they call the comprehensive and progressive agreement for transpacific partnership canadian prime minister justin trudeau announced the resurrection of the t p p in his address to the world economic forum in davos switzerland now one year ago u.s. president donald trump pushed by a grassroots movement with it drew from the t p p. but drug administration

has announced tariffs on imported washing machines and solar panels the terror of thirty percent on solar panels am fifty percent on washing machine washing machines while phase out after three to four years of solar energy industries association says a tariff on panels could cost twenty three thousand jobs this year and the u.s. federal prosecutors have charged five former employees of the accounting firm keepie and she and a former government accountant with plotting to get inside information on the regulatory review process they are charged with the actions of securities and exchange commission as compared to literally stealing the exam and order to influence review by the public company accounting oversight board.

welcome to boom bust coverage of the two thousand and eighteen world economic forum here in davos switzerland on r.t. america and we are here to bring you a perspective on the world economic forum that you won't find anywhere else our team will be connecting across continents to bring the speakers the leaders and the events that will be making and shaping the news we'll bring it right to you on the air and online and we've got a really special week of fascinating guests breaking news and as you can see beautiful scenery ahead of us and we're so glad to be making this trip with you but before we bring in the players let's set the stage for this forum the world economic forum was actually founded by a business professor klaus shaab in one nine hundred seventy one first as a european management symposium here in the alpine town it's the highest town by the way in europe and that annual gathering became a forum for business leaders to learn about politics but also to discuss issues

like inflation and while embargoes that were roiling global markets and the global economy and later it became more of a political discussion with political leaders in two thousand and eighteen in davos it's really a combination of both and this is the premier symbolic gathering of global business and political leaders c.e.o.'s and heads of state we're going to assemble the assembly are to discuss the future of markets and nations and increasingly to hear about how technology can help some solve some of the social problems that have been built over decades much of the consensus that you find here on the fundamental questions of political economy is being challenged almost everywhere around the world from the right and from the left even within the davos consensus it's not clear who is the leader of the forces. trying to maintain the status quo many think it's angela merkel the german chancellor who is on the agenda by the way to speak here this week and she sort of picked up that sword and then the leader

particularly in light of donald trump who's sort of wanted to go backwards against the status quo ante but merkel standing has been undermined in recent years by challenging events such as the international refugee crisis the backlash and rise of the far right and of course bracks it that's led many people to chafe at both the current shape of the european union and the german dominance over the structure and while merkel will have a perfect opportunity here at davos for pushing back against the other surprise attendee us president donald trump president emanuel mccrone of france is openly promoting himself as the leader for the forces of stability that used to be seen as merkel's area will mccrone and merkel speak for europe will donald trump shout them out or push people out of the way to get a photo op and yes what about the role of the u.s. president as event over years well the first u.s. president participate was ronald reagan but he was via remote video the first and

last sitting u.s. president to come was bill clinton in two thousand clinton had attended regularly since leaving office but bush forty three and obama did not attend the return of the president the world economic forum this week is a big story if not a side show time will tell and we'll be here to cover it all these stories and so much more all the booms and of course all the you guessed it bust at the two thousand and eighteen world economic forum this week we're just getting started. we are here in davos and i'm joined by luke of this in teenie who is the general secretary of the european trade union confederation mr general secretary thank you for being here and can you explain for our international audience who you represent and what your goal here in davos will. european trade union call for the ration was the call for the single confederation i will say gathering all the trade union confederations in the european union but also in the county this associated or

candidate to enter the european union so we have a few dates from more or less for thirty five thirty seven countries ninety affiliates they are the configurations in these countries the main and most important considerations and we represent more or less forty five medium warchus india. india around the european union well regarding doubles you know inequalities probably is the top topic. on the one side in terms of wages for distribution of wealth about profits and the fact that the european international economy is facing finally some kind of growth he's even if it's mainly jobless growth or very low quality jobs being created but anyway there is some kind of sign off change i mean in the in the prospects of the economy but as not been reduced to that tall i mean to people to walk in people into the city this morning general so this is i think the major topic also because these generates poverty social exclusion and

margin nation i mean of people in the societies and these again creates then settle for be a populism and a lot of mistrust and anger among people and does exactly what we would like to address i mean we all have that whole the big players i mean the international finance and economy would listen to that and so you do represent more than as you say more than thirty five countries and forty five million workers but part of those are in the u.k. right of course of course they are still part of the e.u. for the moment you're here for one year all is it more or less with regard to brics it you what you said back then and i want to read it so i have it for sure is that . we are the ones with high poverty exclusion and unemployment behind the xenophobia and the populism that was an economic problem that politicians weren't able to solve that's what you said with regard to bret's it how

do we solve those problems even if you analyze the regions of the u.k. that the voter for bracks it or against blacks it the ones that voted for blacks massively are not the ones where you have a more migrants you know migration was the burning topic i mean at the base of the company for blacks it we need to get help to these migrants aiming and to recuperate a lot of solar tea etc etc so so for an easement was more or less and all the red line i mean the discussion but actually the regions that voted for rex's are the ones where there are less migrants but at the same time more poverty socialist pollution and more unemployed people so the people it by globalization finance there is a show that cetera are exactly the ones that have been left behind that feel to be left behind and so they voted for bracks it thinking that this way probably they could recuperate some all for the future actually does exactly the opposite that is happening because if you look at the economics of the u.k. even now they are still in the negotiations in the middle of the negotiations while

he's going down and down so it's absolutely although we mr general secretary can you explain how we deal with these problems of refugee immigration and at the same time native workers and them wanting jobs these two things really you're saying aren't mutually exclusive it's not just refugees or native jobs right well you know we have to have a step back because the original problem is that the political particularly reach politicians and the ones that are on the right side of this expect them i will say they are cheating people because they are the ones that create a d.c. to ation. in the fight and so it is a show no rules timing and all profits concentrated in a few hands at me. and this is exactly walks as you're reaching the roots i mean of the situation of the eye level of unemployment of social exclusion so the low wages and no. fair share in the economy etc etc and then it seems they have created this

but they have now to fix the problem because of course this this kind of an unregulated and unmonitored globalization has really it people and created incredible social unrest now they are simply looking for a scapegoat and this cable are migrants you know the problem is not that migrants called to steal their jobs or our jobs the problem is that we didn't create jobs enough for everybody and we did a create an economy that benefits people interest instead of only corporates and profits this is the problem if we don't change the. all beyond hold the well really the migrants will become the scapegoat but you know when the then we will look for another scape scapegoat and solve and so on and so on but this is not the solution to the problem mr general secretary it really is about a widening wealth gap and that's happening all around the world and i'm going to read a quote of yours again with regard to immigration welcoming a couple of million migrants is not

a problem on the contrary you said if you were able to provide both refugees and native workers with new and better jobs the problem will be solved so this really is a macro economic determination in your view the first element is to change the macroeconomic mold and of course we need to move from austerity nearly broadly zooming in. to a few hands as they say to do something that is more a sustainable growth from all the let me this is possible because these exists if we take for example one european continent the sweden in the last five years they increase public investment up to three percent of the internal g.d.p. they have increased wages by. to thirty percent in the last five years they have rainfalls social protection system so this doesn't create a tall i mean unemployment or economic. cetera et cetera on the contrary it has

created an incredibly cool is eve and sustainable growth model in the country they became the most competitive country demoed country the most technologically and digital country in the european union they created an enormous number of jobs quality jobs and at the same time they have integrated two hundred fifty thousand migrants they have the highest ratio between migrants and not eve citizens in the ward i mean of course sweden is a very small country i mean comparably to other countries i mean eight to ten million not eve city since amy and they have integrated not only welcome because you know it's not only a matter of welcoming people and putting them in the temps amy and seen in several countries i mean the problem is that first you have to create economic environment to to integrate them and then you have to put in place policies for integration that means languages their language teaching that means a pro.