entity and it's not government who is in charge right so i think you know it's a fraction walt on one side but technology wise to get. a full underlying trend towards a decentralized society and it's a good. one final quick question are you personally invested in crypto currencies. actually today you should know should know they do and then you statements about it but i think that was one of the best decisions i've made all the felde the bitcoin queen of switzerland and c.e.o. of smart valor thank you so much for being with us thank you bart take your. time now for a quick break but hang out with us because we want to finish out our week here at davos and here are the numbers at the closing bell.

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send us an e-mail. so we really only hear of davos like once a year for the world economic forum right but what happens to the town during the rest of the year what do they do there all year what does it have to do to get ready for the biggest economic meeting in the world let's go back now over to our children who's there and what's really. for most of the year davos switzerland is a quiet town of under twelve thousand people as the highest town in europe amongst the swiss alps most of the winter is about snow and winter sports there skiing and snowboarding and skating but the week before and the week of the world economic forum this city shifts and tremendously transforms fashion during the forum week one is as likely to see folks on sidewalks with old school wingtip shoes and

briefcases as they are with people with skis boots and poles even buildings shapeshifter just days ago there's a pizzeria dance club that is transformed into what is now called crypto h.q. a local longer a shop blue lemons for this week is a temporary home to sales force the cloud computing company costs for these rentals can run in the tens even hundreds of thousands of dollars a church was even transformed for the week into a money making venture as they run out the establishment even nations like argentina and ukraine have rented various buildings we've interviewed guest this week at the india house and the russia house and the local economy is also boosted by big bucks a hotel where if you can find a room it will cost you five hundred dollars at a minimum and at restaurants the cost of a steak meal with no frills can run you one hundred dollars this year has been especially transformative and not in a great way davos has experience more snow than any year since one thousand nine

hundred ninety nine st snowblowers fill large truck which take and dump the snow outside of town as another truck quickly replaces the older one and while the removal process is a fish and all that snow has made the already small roads not much more than a single lane making traffic totally terrible that's either with hundreds of police officers from neighboring communities joining the security and traffic effort on tuesday for example it took the boom bust team two hours to travel only two blocks as the forum ends today. many attendees will stay over the weekend come monday residents and businesses alike and doubles will begin to get back to normal but they will do so with a little more money in their wallets and their bank accounts. as you know the world is becoming smaller and smaller every day one of the things that's helped us connect is the ability to talk to virtually anybody almost anywhere with the

advancement of technology a person here in the u.s. could be skype being or on the face time with somebody in china in just a matter of seconds this theme of global messaging has played a huge role at davos and bart managed to catch up with one man who knows a little bit about the subject check it out. and we're back again and this time we are fortunate in actually honored to have philip metzger who is the director general of the federal communications office here in switzerland but more important than that he's also a global leader on technology and communication issues director general thank you for being with us thanks very much for having me and in davos of course the conversations about what we do in the world and how does communications and digitization play into creating a less fractured world server well of course that is that is the one million dollar question because on the one hand the communication per se we know that's that will

be used to interact as human beings but on the other hand digitization is changing our entire lives how we work our we live how we play and so i think we have on the one hand the challenge of having a communication that reaches anyone and that we can have open channels of communication that we have and certainly the freedom to express ourselves and on the other hand with the new digital potential that we have we have to make sure that we move forward into a digital world without leaving the people behind so inclusive inclusiveness inclusive it see it will be key and that requires i believe new forms of interaction as well to reap the benefits of that just as a show and director general you certainly know about our reversal of net neutrality which for lack of a better phrase rations knowledge because it rations choice and information whether it's on the internet or on television but how do you balance as a regulator the free market and demands for open access etc at the same time

privacy of individuals out how do you walk that tightrope and i think that's of course a key aspect of how we make sure that going forward we keep the internet open and free and that people can use that tool not only just to communicate to interact but a. so to develop innovation and to develop and new services new goods and of course to allow for sustainable development which is our overall goal if you think about the twentieth erkki agenda and so i think that having said said that the question of neutral access of open access is key if i look at it from a swiss perspective we certainly want to make sure that our networks are open that there is no restriction there is no blocking of content we are keeping a close eye on that we have good initiatives from the sector we have good business initiatives we have good interaction between the stakeholders because citizens are

concerned about this is well but ultimately also need a number of number of rules without over regulating it because that can be counterproductive as well and so as we speak we're discussing in switzerland the revision of our telecoms act where we would like to in trying a number of rules regarding transparency so that the customer actually knows how his or her data is being treated and that they have a choice and i'm familiar i've been in this circumstance before where you know there is often times and over reaction to by politicians and i don't say that a negative way they are accountable to the people but legislators they want to do something and it's really your job director general jobs like i had before where you have to say nah let's make sure we do the commonsense approach and you go in and listen to people so that's a really a complicated balance to hold as we've talked about all the other issues well of course i mean i'm speaking again from my own country you know our fundamental freedoms are key to us there in trying to our constitution the freedom of

expression is an absolutely key tool for having the democracy that we have in switzerland the direct democracy work and so we certainly want to make sure we keep that openness having said that we are also aware and that's one other point we're going to try and change in that act that would the government. proposing a telecoms act to make sure precisely as you mentioned the child pornography that we can crack down on that more efficiently because there are a number of rules today and so it is a fine line as you said it is a fine line that we have to walk and we want to be sure there is no overreaction but clearly there are fundamentals where days frankly a political consensus as well where we want to make sure that there are clear limits and with regard to big data this term that's often thrown around we're so your phone companies can follow you around in your mobile device eccentric how are you balancing that freedom of big data and at the same time looking at

scams and fraud internet crimes and well again i think for us to have that freedom and to preserve it this is key we have a believe a constitution which allows for a lot of private initiative to come up with solutions that work that people are hearing to that they're also buying in a sense if you speak about business but on the other hand what we realize of course is that we also have clear maybe european views if you will when it comes to data privacy and they may be different from other continents i think we have a sort of a common understanding that we want to have a control over our own data as well and i think is that one of the major challenges going forward big data and data per se is becoming an incredible resource and incredible. some people call it infrastructure rather would say it's like a raw material in any case it's something which allows us to progress a society the question is on the what conditions and the can and the question is for us also in switzerland is how can we provide for

a framework which allows us to generate added value because what we see at the moment to be quite honest is that a lot of its value is being created elsewhere and here there are major corporations global corporations which are of course have had fantastic inventions that they're using though that they're promoting that they're. we have great infrastructures i.t. infrastructures in our country but i don't think today we are getting enough of the share that we would like to get from the potential of data so we will have to find there as well find the right balance between the data protection which is a key component in our culture again and i think in the y. european context on the one hand but becoming better in trying to provide the right rules that allow businesses that allow a also the use for commercial purposes and i think the key component is to bring that together so they would be more tools for the individual to decide what he or she wants to do with his or her data and then enter into a kind of

a transaction mode with business director general i travel a lot all over the world but i travel in rural america too and i can tell you in the states there are some places that you know it's not how much how many bars you have it's whether or not you have a bar whether or not there's even service there and it needs to be much better but i'm curious what's the circumstance you travel all over the world to know what's the circumstance here in switzerland in the europe and in the world do they even have some of these internet or internet connections in some areas like sub-saharan africa etc well i think we have as i mentioned earlier we have i think we have certainly for speaking for switzerland very good connectivity and the providers the telecom providers operators are investing to keep investing a lot in that both fixed and mobile but as you mentioned i mean if you look at the global scale if you look at this this issue there is clearly. something a risk in a sense that we get to a digital divide where we have people with access and we have others which don't

and we know at the moment on the global scale it is not a really positive picture because too many people don't have access to the internet and again as important as the open internet the fundamental freedoms that can be expressed over the internet and unfettered. access is important of course is to get the physical infrastructure in place and there i believe technology helps us in the sense that we have a lot of mobile great mobile technology or satellite also that helps to leapfrog in a number of countries where they couldn't just deploy fixed wires in the ground and on the other hand we have to ask ourselves what policies and what regulations are actually conducive to investments we are right now working in the within the broadband commission for sustainable development to which i am a member on a set of policy recommendations which should be you know be looked into by decision makers when they decide what kind of rules they set because you can greatly

influence the will and the willingness. of operators of investors to come to those countries who desperately need the access so i think it is a fundamental point if we don't crack the question of the digital divide we will have major major issues and we will leave the vast vast populations across the globe in a situation that they are not supposed to be that they deserve to be much better much better connectivity and so i think that's that's ultimately what we're here for director general philip metzger we thank you so much for your time for your dedication to public service and for being a global citizen and helping to work on these issues all over the world thank you so much for your time is an honor to be with you thank you. all right that does it for me here in washington today but be sure to join us next week we'll have a ton more stuff that we didn't get to share this week in davos finally back with

us here in studio next week thanks for watching i'm an elegy and let's check out now with art over and out of. that's all for now it's been an interesting and really fun week actually and we hope all of you got a full flavor of what's been going on here at the world economic forum in davos switzerland you can check out boom bust you tube you tube dot com slash boom bust r t so long now from switzerland see you next week from washington. we're told a secret society existed within the f.b.i. with the sole intent to undermine canada and then later president donald trump also we're told the f.b.i. lost text messages from members of this secret society which russia gave rapidly losing steam and we now have f.b.i. get. as you read the stand and hear from us and. our own.

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stalin chop is america as it actually is a bomber was a fantasy child is reality and he's doing what you'd expect a seasoned businessman to do cut all the nonsense out of the mix bring jobs back. i'm going to be. president trying to promote his america first vision takes us wife in the media last week and political and business leaders in town halls. i believe in america i will always support. the first america is rolling down america's future has never been bright. wiki leaks founder julian assange costs

a new cake or to overturn his arrest warrants in a bid to end his fines here confinement. the ecuadorian embassy in london. and the u.s. accuses turkey off destabilizing northern syria one pro urges washington june and didn't support the kurdish militias. thank you for watching the news headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate partridge. understand in switzerland why don't trump has been speaking to political and business leaders at the world economic forum the us president used his speech to promote his vision for protectionist trade policies and tax cuts adams to take a swipe at the media. reports from davos well probably to no one's surprise

whatsoever trump speech did feature his signature phrase of america first and his speech is actually rounding out the end of the forum let's take a quick listen to what he had to say i believe in america i will always put america first when the united states grows so does the world america is roaring back america is a cutting edge. that's what we're doing in america and the results. on mistake america's future has never been brighter i will always put america first i believe in america to come to america where you can innovate create and build now that pretty much wraps up his whole speech which centered on progress that's been made in the u.s. in the presence of opinion since he came to the white house he touched specifically on the booming stock market on the recent tax reform that he signed and the

progress against eisel he also went on to say that leaders should be cheerleaders for their own countries and that he's a cheerleader for the u.s. and that's easy for him because he loves the country so much now of course trump being trump he didn't forget to mention the media during his time on the stage let's take a quick listen as a businessman i was always treated really well by the press you know the numbers speak and things happen but i've really had a very good press and it was until i became a politician that i realized how nasty how mean how vicious and how fake the press can be as the cameras start going off in the back. now perhaps those booing at trump. commons didn't hear the recommendation that his transportation secretary gave to people earlier this week davos to feel very flattered that he has chosen this as a forum. for those that don't want to listen to him you can they can leave term speech was highly anticipated and according to reports lines were out the door

hours before it even started and here at this economic forum in true businessman fashion used the opportunity to promote himself and his country. we canucks founder julian assange has launched an appeal against his arrest warrant in the u.k. if he is legal challenges successful he may be able to walk free from the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been living for more than five years on he's an associate chicken a reports poor twists and turns in the seemingly endless and extremely legally complicated case of julian a songe the wiki leaks founder has been holed up inside the secretariat embassy in london for over five and a half years now a crucial lawyer hearing has taken place in london today where a judge is considering julian assange his appeal for a potential lifting over the arrest warrant based off of his alleged breach of bill conditions back in two thousand and twelve now the latest understanding that we have is that decision might call not sooner than a week from now the announce did so far seems to have been february sixth where we

will learn more about the fate of the julian assange case if the judge does decide to rule in his favor potential new doors will be open for himself and his legal team to consider in terms of how to move forward with his case and hopefully eventually get him out of this embassy here it has to be said of course that british officials have said time and time again that they would arrest julian assange were he to walk out of this embassy of course his concern was that he would potentially be extradited to the u.s. where he's not favored very much given the work of weiqi leaks that has been exposing some of the activities of the u.s. government and of course all of that said the the reason. this situation unraveled kind of in the first place was because swedish officials wanted to follow him following potential alleged sexual abuse concerns now what is important is that those have been long lifted now so julian assange arguments in this latest case to

have the arrest warrant lifted is that those have been dropped so any potential alleged breach of bail conditions should also be lifted crucially of course we have to see that organizations such as the united nations have said that his detention is arbitrary and in violation of international law and dorian officials here in london have concerns about his potential well being seeing the situation of him staying holed up behind sort of inside four walls for so long is obviously not sustainable according to them so lots of questions now in terms of where this case will move forward obviously what's crucial as well is that within the last month jorian officials have granted julian assange ecuadorian citizenship also raising lots of questions about the possibility of potentially him being granted diplomatic status which could make it easier for him to get out of the u.k. but all of those questions really yet to be answered as this hearing continues and now all eyes are going to be on what this judge decides in the weeks to come here in london. thousands of memos written by former penton in chief donald rumsfeld

made public they cover a wide range of subjects and just before nine eleven after his retirement in two thousand and six they give some rare insights into the workings of the u.s. government. delves into the documents. here's the age of the world's mightiest army being in charge of it is a hell of a job who else suddenly has to order a full list of languages spoken in afghanistan or worry about the pronunciation of the word is lie and even hassle their assistance for a dentist's appointment seriously that's what the only american who's twice been pentagon boss was up to donald rumsfeld forget the book he wrote for future generations about his career in case you're interested in his experience thanks to the freedom of information act you can now learn directly from mr rumsfeld's

so-called snowflakes what do you think i should do with this collins memo i look at it and i don't know what to do with it please take a look at this article and tell me what you think i want to do about it i need to start seeing films overheads video and photos everyone in the room is seeing all kinds of video and pictures and talking about them and i have no idea what they were talking about so the nickname snowflakes was for the tiny notes or memos for subordinates oh i'd love to have a job where i could go i've got an article here just read it didn't get a thing what should i do about it you'll find loads of snowflakes like that and the d.o.d. archive apparently that's how it works there something just pops up in mr rumsfeld's mind he types it out boom the word homeland is a strange word homeland the friend sounds more german than american let's visit about someday in a press conference the president is how many and see meetings. could be

embarrassing to think of that things are going to happen good things. give you a list of the next one will give you an idea of how tough the boss could get at staff misbehaved if people come late to meetings we should remove their plates from the table well what else can. do if assistance just can't do their job properly if i'm going to give gifts i have to know what's in them i see islam with an s. not a c. and muslim with an s. not a double c. i still needed a dentist appointment with a quick summary of rummy snowflakes i mean we have to try and go. when we watch a war of words is building up between the united states and turkey the turkish government has urged the u.s. to stop bombing the kurdish forces in northern syria or risk armed confrontation but the u.s. state department has pointed the finger at iran korea accusing it of destabilizing the region with its offensive against the kurds people now have to flee an area

that was previously considered pretty stable i mean what a shame that is think about all that this country has been through and now we're looking at another destruction in northwestern syria because turkey has taken its eye off the ball isis and going after the p.k. at this time and i mean then the the weapons have been provided to the wife by the united states the americans haven't kept their promise since man page lately trump statement saying that they won't give any way. and then saying that we are not giving them any during last night's telephone conversation and create a crisis of trust. well that's how the phone call mentioned by turkey's foreign minister has also become a source of dispute and current washington have given different accounts of what was actually discussed president trump relayed concerns the escalating africa violence in.