he's taken a couple steps back he's got a look at what is happening right now because he knows one thing in this what donald trump did say and dabbles yeah we might be able to negotiate with the pact so that all eleven countries but we can also negotiate bilaterally with these countries so he's seeing opportunity here any way that you turn it even if this ship has sailed because of these guys are signing march eighth trust me they don't want to start opening up these negotiations again this has been going on for years so they want to wrap this up as soon as they possibly can and then maybe discuss it with the united states after and donald trump i think understands that that for him there's a lot of wiggle room here bilateral multinational anyway that he wants to make deals and he will play on his way i mean he's been a wild card in this is the way the stylings done with nafta with the e.u. with everybody he screams out this you know you know bloody murder that the you know fire and brimstone type of thing but the whole fact of the matter is the bottom line is the band is a deal maker and this just happens to be

a style and i think everybody is the band is a deal maker and this just happens to be a style and i think everybody understands that from europe to nafta and to the t.p. alex your interest in tow but you are a global trade expert thank you for your time and time now for a quick break but stick around because when we return natasha sweet reports on the border wall and those dhaka dreamers and here are the numbers at the closing bell. rung. the best out of the joneses. and says this point. to perform i had to actually prepare myself to die i.

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a white woman for the last three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my. question. it's been two years since it was announced that some of saudi arabia's state owned oil company saudi aramco would be sold as part of an initial public offering today however it's not clear if the aramco i.p.o. will be listed on the new york stock exchange on the saudi stock market or someplace else in november president trump tweeted his support for the i.p.o. being at the new york stock exchange the sale of aramco valued at more than one point three trillion dollars is seen as one of the highest priorities of the saudi government and crown prince mohammed bill bin solomon and b.s.

the end action has made some observers question if the i.p.o. will even be completed this year as was previously planned meanwhile in related news the large anti-corruption campaign in saudi which sought dozens of high ranking officials and businessmen arrested and imprisoned at the ritz carlton hotel has seen several of the businessmen including prince al waleed released it's unclear what sort of settlement was really was reached although the saudi government says there are forty remaining individuals who may go to trial. the u.s. commodity futures trading commission the c f.t.c. which i know well appears ready to fine european lenders u.b.s. h.s.b.c. and deutsche bank millions of dollars each per so-called spoofing and manipulation in the us futures markets spoofing which became illegal as a result of the wall street reform and consumer protection act otherwise known as dodd frank became law back in two thousand and ten that's when if a trader makes

a bid or an offer to sell a futures contract with the intent to cancel that better offer before another trader accepted bad actor traders do this to try and push or pull. prices in one direction or another the fines for u.b.s. and deutsche bank are expected to be upward of ten million dollars each while the fine for h.s.b.c. is expected to be somewhat less in august a u.s. appeals court upheld a three year conviction of former cheetah traitor michael kozak who was the first individual to be criminally prosecuted under the spoofing law. while the three day government shutdown ended last week in an exchange for a commitment to consider immigration related issues in the coming weeks the issues of funding president trump border wall and the docket dreamer's remains unresolved

r.t.s. natasha sweet has more. many wonder if congress will sign off on funding for the wall that the president has been pushing for republicans say they're willing to work with democrats in fixing the legal status of some eight hundred thousand doctor or c.p.s. if funding for the border is agreed upon the question is will a deal be made breaking here when i was through with my parents carlos and it is a doctor recipients coming from mexico city to the u.s. it only three years of age and is says he's had all of his schooling from elementary to college here in the states. melendez graduated from county at long beach last year and has been directing short films took a scene on the immigration issues plaguing the country i think our lives are more at risk now than ever and i think if you're going to create more hate by building a wall you need to find a solution a permanent solution for our live in million and people in the u.s. community and all of our dreamers speaker of the house paul ryan says he also wants

a permanent fix a we want to fix doc we do want to fix doc b. we want to fix it while addressing the root cause problem so that we don't have a doc a problem again i mean that's kind of common sense president trump famously ran a campaign highlighting the significance of building a wall while some question of his idea of a war has evolved he's confirmed the building of it in certain areas will take place we need a physical border wall we're going to have a wall remember that we're going to have a wall to keep out deadly drug dealers dangerous traffickers and violent criminal cartels mexico's having a tremendous problem with crime. and we want to keep it out of our country well the end is seize the wall as a symbol of hate esther valdez an immigration attorney who has represented more than three hundred talkin recipients sees it differently the wall it's not necessarily going to be a division between mexico and the united states there's going to be surveillance there's going to be drones it's going to be electronic that there's going to be

cameras manpower tunnels because we're stopping the drug trade and we're stopping what now is even more lucrative than the drug trade it's the human trade well valdez supports the wall she's the path to citizenship for the eight hundred thousand doc recipients as a crucial step forward what do we do with approximately eight hundred thousand young people that the american citizenry has already educated they've gone to our public schools their skilled workers why send them back to a country that they know nothing about to establish foreign countries economies and their educational systems as points out many undocumented immigrants are ready to come out of the shadows and earn a livable wage but it will cost employers who have been increasing their profit margins through cheap labor and the rest of america it seems is waking up to it wow there's eleven million people who have been picking my produce so that i can have corn for three for a dollar well it has come at a price a price that employers haven't wanted to pay another twist in the fight for immigration reform being brought to the table is

a new report released by the department of justice and homeland security report indicated seventy three percent of individuals convicted of terrorism related charges from two thousand and one to two thousand and sixteen were foreign born i was reading there and i think it's kind of unfortunate because i think you can make statistics say anything and any wall criminal and immigration attorney says he doesn't agree with the numbers let's remember that there's some statistics you can show that three or four americans create the same amount do the same amount of activity and also says that the legal status of doctor recipients aren't fixed that it will be a huge blow to the economy a lot of doctor workers are. here they're doing their everyday job there's a lot of one who are in college they're paying to listen and then ended says because of the economic impasse the parents of dr recipients shouldn't be penalized definitely shouldn't be criminalizing our parents because of them the country has an engineers dreamers teachers. actors artists who can contribute to this to

society and that's something that needs to be recognized the valdez says the way things are going and the doctor recipients are able to stay and fix their legal status the economy will continue to soar when president trump last year announced that he was going to phase out the doctoral program to ask congress for a legislative replacement one that would allow dr recipients the right to work with protection from duplication made without replacement or a pathway to citizenship is one step closer and at a time a few at the border and possibly r.t. . and we thank natasha for that good report unfortunately it's an issue that will continue to be talked about over the coming weeks and want to get back to poverty inequality and that wealth gap that we spoke about earlier in the program with ashley banks and now we're joined by dr david henderson a professor and research fellow at the hoover institution professor thanks for joining us as an economist do you think that offset an report that actually was speaking about it you may have heard earlier but i know you're familiar with it are

there from an economic perspective is that sound and accurate findings. some of them are accurate but the reasoning is not sound let me explain the actual report which is over ninety pages long says that world poverty has fallen by half the number in extreme poverty between one thousand nine hundred two thousand and ten and to their credit they say that's a good thing at the same time as they point out wealth inequality has increased elsewhere in the report they say we can't reduce extreme poverty without reducing extreme wealth inequality guess what their own report says we can't we have wealth inequality has gone up and poverty extreme poverty has fallen moreover they say they their way to handle extreme wealth inequality is to take from the wealthiest and in fact that will reduce the incentive to produce wealth and in fact the report is titled report were awarded work not wealth well guess what wealth

dollars reward innovation. moreover there's one other distinction they don't make they do talk at points about crony capitalism they do talk about carlos slim in mexico who got his wealth he's one of the wealthiest men in the world he got his wealth from cronyism by having a monopoly on telecom but take jeff bezos it was mentioned earlier he got his wealth by innovating like crazy i bet you bart get things from amazon regularly i know my household does and that's great and we save money and he makes money and his employer employees do well or they wouldn't be working there so i think it just leaves out the whole idea about gains from trade and how both sides can be better off right i got you on that now let me ask ask you i mean is this something how would you deal with it i mean i was in davos last week and the whole deal was trying to create a consensus in a fragmented world and it seems that with this wealth gap it's even more fragmented

so you know how should elected officials or others economists maybe professor suggest we deal with this. i would deal with that by letting more and immigrants in i mean you think about the wealth gap what's the biggest gap it's between us and united states and say people in the poorest parts of asia in africa let them in and in the ninety plus page report where they actually even highlight the the dilemma of this real young woman working in a sweat in sweat shop conditions they never even mention the idea of letting more people in there's an economist named michael clemons who wrote a book i wrote an article titled trillion dollar bills on the sidewalk in which he lays out the fact that if we had open immigration in europe and canada and united states and japan a couple of the rich countries and say a billion people moved the world economy would actually increase by about thirty to

fifty percent and we would be better off and they would be better off those are the the gains from trade we've got we have a relatively free trade world the big gains left are from people immigrating yep let me ask you do you do you think that it doesn't look like we're really getting more immigrants with this president any time soon but absent that do you think some folks out there are just saying you know this is ok to have this this is acceptable outcome is just a result of a functioning market is that how you see it that's how i see it but also it's going well it's not just that we're there sitting there in poverty way fewer of them are sitting there in poverty and the ones out of poverty are doing better so for example let's say you have someone there making ten thousand years a household income and their income goes up five percent that's five hundred dollars household income average household income earners fifty thousand their

income goes up two percent that's a thousand dollars so the gap can be increasing even though income is growing way more at the bottom end which is exactly what has happened. professor want to thank you we run out of time but i hope you'll come back and really appreciate it professor david henderson a research fellow at the hoover institution thanks for joining us thanks part. and before we go curry green mountain has announced its intent to buy dr pepper snapple in a deal that would stablished an eleven billion dollar beverage behold with the deal is the most recent part of an effort by j. a d. holding company that's the austrian entity which acquired pure green mountain in two thousand and sixteen and also owns pinera caribou coffee and other related breakfast and lunch and it is to become a major distributor of distributor a beverages in the united states dr pepper has a particularly prominent place on the minds of many americans and was the first carbonated soft drink ever it was invented by

a waco texas pharmacist who received the patent eight hundred eighty five the name dr may have been used to indicate there were health benefits to drink it you know the deal was still has to be approved by dr pepper and snapple shareholders but i hope they keep postponing commercials with little sweet the miniature prince looking dude for a diet dr pepper it's a sweet one those are hilarious that wraps it up for now be sure to catch boom bust on youtube youtube dot com slash boom bust r.t. next time. you seen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with the gun bad guy trying to get to my to my family member as he would have better a lot better and i think it's fair and hearty when i buy my baby says my book was published in the year two thousand more than home for

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the headlines on r.t. international the u.s. treasury names over two hundred russian politicians and business figures in a so-called kremlin list washington stresses that no sanctions are being imposed against the individuals on it it was drawn up as part of a new sanctions law signed last summer. the problem of doping in sport is much more widespread than previously thought according to

a recently released report that was withheld by the world anti-doping agency for six years. and fitness bracelets might be a soldier's worst enemy they could reveal secret locations around the world where troops have been training. welcome to the program here on r.t. international a busy day for news so far let's get straight into the program now the u.s. treasury has released a de classified list of russia individuals as part of a sanctions law signed by donald trump in august the so-called kremlin list includes the names of one hundred fourteen politicians and nearly one hundred top tier business figures but the treasury denies those on the list of being sanctioned now we will discuss this issue in full a bit further in the hour however this document was part of the new sanctions law

signed by trump last summer but now he has stated that he will drop the new sanction program and this has sent the us media and democrats into a state of meltdown after congress voted almost unanimously for a package of restrictions back in the summer today we have informed congress that this legislation and its implementation are deterring russian defense sales to trump and ministration had a decision to make whether they would follow the law and crack down on those responsible for attacking american democracy in two thousand and sixteen we estimates that foreign governments have abandoned planned or announced purchases of several billion dollars in russian defense acquisitions the administration that should not rest in this effort. if the law is working sanctions on specific entities when vigils will not need to be imposed. it's not just sanctions that have been complicating relations between russia and the u.s.

so have allegations of course of collusion the house intelligence committee has just voted to release a secret memo that could ultimately blow the lid off the whole russia collusion saga this memo should be immediately released to the american public i had that same feeling i was like wait a minute this actually happened from our justice department and this f.b.i. first and loudest voices calling for transparency for integrity and openness within all levels of government there has been a real attempt to undermine this president we're not attacking the f.b.i. . we are seeking clarity transparency and understanding of what went on it's still unknown exactly what's inside this classified memo but it's said the content relates to alleged trump russian collusion its claim that the document reveals that the f.b.i. and the department of justice severely misused their surveillance powers while

investigating meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. elections we discussed this with political analyst and author gina luden she says that if the allegations in the memo turn out to be true it will be a scandal of unprecedented proportion. we entrusted our government with the powerful tools of surveillance in order to fight terror and our worst fear i think was that they would use those tools to spy on us but if we find out this is true then that means the unthinkable has happened that the party in power was using those powers to them to spy on their opponents to stay in power that is by far the biggest scandal in u.s. history there's no comparison i think our american intelligence services will need an entire over our overhaul and we're going to have to re-evaluate the kinds of powers that we the people give our government because power here comes from people

and goes to government if this is all true they did this to protect their own power which is the greatest aberration of the trust that we put in the. fitness of truckers have unexpectedly highlighted a major security flaw for military forces and australian student was able to do so and the locations of secret military bases by looking at a global map indicating where people exercise the most are to use a loop a trunk or explains. did you know now anyone who's got an internet browser can locate even the most secret army bases around the world say journalists thanks to these little things so how come people are saying fitness trackers could have become the soldier's worst enemy look at this global heat map by a g.p.s. tracking company wherever it gets bright are the areas of the stronger apps most active use some places seem totally black like of ghana's stand for instance but we

know there are american soldiers and parts of it zoom in tot all the little bright dots is where sam must hang out or to be more precise exercise it was a twenty year old student who first noticed how easy it was to find the u.s. bases this particular track looks like it logs or break you or jogging routes i shouldn't be able to establish any pattern of life from this far away so that's a real threat which the pentagon's admitted while only a few years ago they were happy to distribute thousands of fit bits among staff by the way there must be a number of temporary or even permanent u.s. bases that we don't know about journalists have zoomed in on areas around mosul and iraq and roc-a in syria we're told uncle sam is there to train and assist since the rest of iraq and syria are pretty much all black perhaps locals

don't really have many of these devices so it's fair to assume that the bright spots are where americans train others and train themselves another journalist remembered this article and scrawled all the way to the capital of somalia some heavy jargon activity on the beach around with the reported cia. no one can say for sure all of this is correct but the. cern is out there u.s. troops security issues aside i was going to show you the koreas how's that for a contrast but even in pyongyang there are a couple of bright zigzags could it be mr kim enjoying a bit of western technology well i bet he'll never tell us. they'll be no russian flag of the twenty eight winter olympics in south korea the international paralympic committee has upheld its ban on team russia though it is

allowing clean athletes to compete as neutrals two months earlier a similar decision was made by the international olympic committee but while all these are on russia right now allegations of doping violations are surfacing elsewhere in the world. in the run up to next month's winter games the issue of doping has taken the main stage once again seeing the majority of russian athletes banned and those eligible to participate forced to compete under a neutral flag and frankly at this point when you hear doping you think russia but is the problem really reserved to just the one country i'm afraid the answer is a resoundingly no an investigation conducted by a group of international researchers at two separate sporting events back in two thousand and eleven produced a rather shocking conclusion where more than two thousand and eight athletes were surveyed anonymously to encourage honest answers the open appears remarkably widespread among elite athletes and remains largely unchecked despite a logical testing the report revealed that at the thirteenth athletics world

championships in south korea over forty percent of those competing emitted to doping in the past year and almost sixty percent at the pan arab games and doha whereas what only came back with point five percent of test as positive in south korea and three point six percent at the pan arab games needless to say that is a massive discrepancy and the other surprising thing is that the research was actually funded by wada and yet no one heard a peep out of them about the result which they've known about for years we would note that there was a delay of nearly six years between the completion of the data collection and the publication of this paper due to negotiations between want to and i ws and subsequently between us and the authors regarding the authority to publish the results now it goes on to say that neither of the organizations impose restrictions on the writing of the report although i'm not sure how he thinks here delay isn't considered a restriction the president of germany's athletics federation for one was infuriated

by the hold up but i think that publication has impaired the possibility of taking important measures in the anti doping can pay much earlier this is more than annoying you could also call this condo and guess what the report was actually released months ago but i'd bet good money that you haven't heard a thing about it because first summer. it wasn't made into nonstop breaking news now probes were conducted and no bands were seen this was a study which of course would raise alarms with the world anti-doping agency instead of pursuing it and doing further tests to determine the accuracy to try to verify or disprove the results of that study they simply blocked the publication so in my mind it's an example of the lack of transparency and the bias and the efforts to censor. studies and news that is problematic from their standpoint we managed to speak to one of the report's office about the rose.