and this is something that the really do not want to be negotiating about it's something that they want to keep in place and you know when when we were in davos with the show last week alex and thank you by the way for that reporting on prime minister today that was very interesting last week but at that president trump speech on friday he actually opened the door again a little bit to the transpacific partnership the eleven nations that have decided actually just the last several days to go ahead with with that agreement without the u.s. you know we were part of that with the obama administration but now that the other eleven are going forward now the president seems to indicate well maybe that means a little bit of a window for us to get involved in that what's your prognosis for for that is that ship already sailed or is it still possible. well it's interesting you know when you look at the eleven countries that are left i mean a lot of people be jumping for joy thinking let's bring the u.s. back in but really the devotion agents have moved far forward trump pulled out about a year ago it's a different deal than it was

a year ago maybe not much but it is a different deal and what donald trump is saying he wants to see some drastic changes you want to see something that does that this deal is actually a really really good deal he called it as he's called nafta one of the worst deals in the history when it comes to any type of trade pacts but now you know he's taken a couple of steps back is going to look at what is happening right now because he knows one thing and this is what donald trump did say in dabbles yet we might be able to negotiate with the pack so that all eleven countries but we can also negotiate bilaterally with these countries so he 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 is 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 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 and this is the way the style is done with nafta with the e.u. with everybody he screams out this bloody murder that the fire brimstone site but they but the whole fact of the matter is the bottom line is the ban 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 p alex you're here in toronto but you're 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 doctored dreamers and here are the numbers at the closing bell. you know.

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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 released 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 find european lenders u.b.s. h.s.b.c. and deutsche bank millions of dollars each for so-called spoofing and manipulation in the u.s. 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 accept it bad after 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 artie's the tasha suite 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 upper were sipping hence 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. or do some work. 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. in the 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 war 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 sees 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 walls are 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 a drug trade and we're stopping what now is even more lucrative than the drug trade it's the human trade well valdes supports the wall she is 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 well those points out many undocumented immigrants are ready to come out of the shadows and earn a livable wage but it'll 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 twenty 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 i'll do the same amount of activity and also says that the legal status of doc 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 every day job there's a lot of one who are in college they're paying to listen and then ended says because of the economic impact 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 he asked congress for a legislative replacement one that would allow dr recipients the right to work with protection from deportation made without replacement or a pathway to citizenship is one step closer and at a time a few at the border and possibly party. and we think natasha for that good report

unfortunately is an issue that will continue to be talked about over the coming weeks and when i get back to poverty inequality and that wealth gap that we spoke about earlier in the program with actually 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 ops and 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 who 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 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 other 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 going to get a more immigrants with this president anytime 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 is 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 we really appreciate it professor david henderson a research fellow at the hoover institution thanks for joining us thanks part. and before we go korea 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 of beverages in the united states dr pepper has a particularly prominent place in the minds of many americans and was the first carbonated soft drink ever it was invented by a waco texas pharmacist who received the atten 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 you tube youtube dot com slash boom bust r.t.

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in an unprecedented move the pentagon has banned the us watchdog which oversees the situation in afghanistan from publishing information on who controls what on the ground as they made a string of deadly terror attacks in the country. the us really just sweeping list of russian politicians and business figures in a so-called kremlin list that matches exactly the kremlin's list of officials on its website and mirrors some rich list of questions. about byrne a report funded by the world. doping agency exposes a much higher scale of doping among international athletes than ever thought we discuss with its authors of why its publication was delayed and why it went almost

unnoticed by water itself. tensions flare as peace talks over the syrian crisis get underway in the russian resort of sochi will guide you through the biggest developments in the negotiations so far. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with mina karen good to have you with us this hour. in an unprecedented move the pentagon has apparently instructed the inspector general for afghanistan a watchdog which oversees the situation in the country to keep quiet over how much afghan territory is controlled by the government and how much by the taliban and other insurgent groups that's according to the watchdogs the latest report this development is troubling for a number of reasons not least of which is that this is the first time sigur has

been specifically instructed not to release information marked unclassified to the american taxpayer. or you know of course live to the u.s. now and speak to r.t. scale of more pain caleb why so much secrecy and what exactly is being withheld here. well the instructions are coming from the pentagon and they are given to the special inspector for general afghan reconstruction and from what we understand he's been instructed not to give out certain information pertaining to casualties now one of the key things he's been asked not to reveal is actually the data on the ground about who controls what territory what territory is controlled by the taliban what territory is controlled by the afghan government what territory is controlled by i still this information he's being instructed not to reveal and that's key information if you want to understand what progress is being made and how the war is really going now at this point the united states has

been in afghanistan for almost two decades and we've heard kind of an admission from james mattis the secretary of defense that not a lot has really been achieved this is what he said. understand the urgency to understand it's my responsibility we're not winning in afghanistan right now and we will correct. now there has been a bit of a change in strategy in recent months there's been an escalation of bombing in afghanistan in two thousand and seventeen the government the united states dropped over four thousand three hundred bombs on afghanistan as collating the bombing it hasn't really done much to improve the situation from what we understand at this point the taliban and the ice still forces are continuing to step up their operations let's take a look. now

the u.s. government is sending mixed signals to the taliban about the possibility of negotiations we heard back in october secretary of state rex tillerson said that he was open to dialogue with what he called moderate voices among the taliban that was in october well we've now heard from donald trump that there will be no negotiations with the taliban whatsoever he simply will not negotiate so it's really unclear exactly

what's going on let's take a listen. this is no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish what nobody else has been able to finish we're going to be able to do it. now at this point that the taliban has responded to trump saying that he will not negotiate with them and will not talk to them by putting forward a video saying that the usa knows where to find them and pointing out that the taliban does have an office in doha out that they would use for the purpose of negotiating if the usa were open to that however at this point it's come become pretty clear that neither the taliban nor the u.s. government are really up for negotiations at the moment so with no negotiations in the process it looks like the war is going to continue and there will continue to be fighting and violence and wreaking of havoc on the ground in afghanistan. i think that that's not he's a tele mopane. the u.s.

treasury has released a declassified list of russian individuals as part of a sanctions law signed by donald trump in organized the list includes the names of some two hundred top officials and business leaders although they are not actually being targeted with new restrictions. or reports. for now the russian government won't do anything about what was called the u.s. kremlin list that's how the russian president for now made obsolete his mind and dodge the u.s. treasury the document it had to be published before the monday night deadline under the so-called countering america's adverse stories through sanctions act and so it was ten minutes before the deadline america's saying that being put on that list which includes one hundred fourteen top russian government officials as well as nearly one hundred richest businessmen doesn't mean receiving some kind of punishment so you may well ask what's the point something to do with sanctions

that's not actually sanctions by the way something that i found rather amusing was the fact that the putin administration section matched the kremlin website name by name while the part about the businessman was almost identical to the forbes list of russia's richest men now vladimir putin's press secretary dmitri peskov who also found his name on the list said that the treasury document didn't mean anything and other high ranking russian officials even had a little laugh perhaps the deputy prime minister of the dvorkovich said dead washington basically released a book that you may call who's who and russian politics and one senator thought of the release asked the sharing of the kremlin phone book anyway back to vladimir putin's first public reaction to the list he said that the u.s.

officials weren't doing u.s. russia relations any favors with the missile to get used to union human i don't understand the logic behind this move but it's definitely a hostile one and further complicates u.s. russian relations in the security services share in. that help prevent terrorist attacks do they need this or not we start working together we can do without that but i think it's in everyone's interests it would be absurd to reduce our relations to zero so. now joined live by tom brooks the dean of deborah low school mr brooks thank you for joining us on the program so we're being told this is not a sanctions list then what is the logic behind such a broad place do you think well that's effectively the trump administration doing the very bare minimum to in their legal obligation right after trump won the presidency when the first things that went to

his desk was this law that was meant to target russia. in this kind of wider climate about what kind of russian interference if any happened in the election that saw trump when there was a real move by congress to have something in place so there was a real worry that trump would end saying sions or would or we can say actions that were already in place so this there is a law put in place to address that and that required yesterday that there be some type of list published and so he has published a list but but a who's who that probably anyone could find with a look at forbes magazine or they look on the crimean websites and it comes with those sanctions attached these are simply doing the legal minimum required of him to keep congress quiet and doing nothing more and you are exactly like you said if things like this list has been thrown together in a matter of minutes you know just copied and pasted from the russian government

website and then taken from forbes list of russia's rich lefty a thing that undermines the credibility of this list. well i think it does i think that the list it doesn't seem sound very serious as it sounds like there was much thought put into it seems like it was kind of cobbled together and i think it doesn't really come to much of anything i mean some of the comments we heard. in that brief clip from putin about you know worrying about relations you know there are some in congress the majority that passed the law that put this into place that thought that relations between the two countries have hit a new low that there are voices that accuse the russian government of having interference in the last election and you know want to see some consequences from this and former f.b.i. director mueller is currently doing an investigation to see what was the situation and and and what ties if any or activities the.