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 up his mind about the u.s. treasury 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 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. no wonder the treasure list didn't come out until the last minute six months is hardly enough time to copy and paste the force list of russian billionaires i know personally many of the business people on this list some very close to putin some and some see little work was done to distinguish between these two categories i think the logic of the list is that the russian version the approved list isn't available in english russian officials even had a little laugh perhaps the deputy prime minister. said that washington basically released a book that you may call who's who and russian politics 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 favor. there's little chills muscle to get used to union human and i don't understand the logic behind this move but it's definitely a hostile one and further complicates u.s. russian relations our security services share intelligence that helps prevent terrorist attacks do they need this or not will we start working together or not 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 what actually. several political analysts told us they believe the list demonstrates the trumpet ministrations unwillingness to ratchet up sanctions against russia i don't think it will have much of an effect at all if anything i think it's the white house telling congress they passed this law to try to keep the pressure up on russia this concern about the last election and doing this list seems to have very little purpose other than just filling a legal minimum i don't know if it will really damage any u.s.

russian ties it seems that trump is not certainly trying to make it any worse the situation already is it seems like he's really just trying to hope a lot of this goes away and bring it all to a speedy end people look at it i think and say this is a piece of lazy intelligence you've worked really taken a who's who of who's the rich and powerful in russia and copy down in names and it doesn't seem to have much substance to it president trump signed it off literally minutes the goal with no enthusiasm for these sanctions forward but he's under pressure though he's under pressure i say from his own intelligence from the military and from the democrats and we nor you know under pressure pressure presidents can buckle but the real question i repeat is why is russia the main threat at the moment the united states of america and the west i think the answer has to be no or. to pharmacies in the german city frankfurt to found themselves at the center of a racial storm and it's all being whipped up over their centuries old names with

details his piece of of all. what is in a name well frank first council the name of two of the city's pharmacies was enough to demand that change this is one of them exist so more and it's not final parts of the name that the city council here in frankfurt have a problem with it translates as the moon rish pharmacy now traditionally what that meant is that this was a pharmacy that would have stocked alternative medicines all medicines from the east as well as western medicine this building here you can see originates from nineteen hundred however there are campaign is that say that this type of name has no place in modern germany. the reason for the complaint was that people said this using the term morrish was racist and offensive against people from north africa but we spoke to people here on the streets of frank first and gauge their opinion

about the proposed name change i think it's a shame because it's part of maybe our culture to end it doesn't have any more to do with maybe we've. already. we shouldn't change our traditions. if you don't own the cd to me if something is to be racist it has to either diminish or belittle people in this case it has more to do with recognizing cultural heritage it didn't even appear to me that you know it's offensive because it is a historic it's simply a historic term and the pharmacy doesn't for sure doesn't use it to be to be offensive the owners of both pharmacies politely declined to appear on camera saying that the news that they were going to be forced to change their name brought nothing but unwanted publicity. interestingly enough the name up a ticket or more and is much more common place in the state of north rhine-westphalia but when the integration council in that state will ask. if they'd

be following frankfurt's example well they said no they had far better things to be doing peter all of frankfurt. in barcelona supporters of the sacked catalan president carlos put him on have broken through a police cordon to reach the council but. i i. protesters gathered to demand the reinstatement of the local government they threatened to occupy the building unless the mall was reinstated session intended to reelect the former president today was postponed to guarantee his freedom and the result of the democratic elections which known faces the rest of the space his involvement in last year's illegal referendum. and this is what is happening outside the capital in parliament right now live pictures for you and it seems like police have managed to ring secure the perimeter there but protesters have been

running in barcelona for five hours at this point they seem determined to stay as well in the streets we'll be bringing you updates on the situation throughout the evening. now a newly published report appears to show that doping is a much wider problem in sport that ever thought details after the break. when else should seem wrong but i. just don't. get to shape out to stay active. and engaged because betrayal. when some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

we've seen that market failure many times we saw in two thousand and eight we saw in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven we saw in one thousand nine hundred seventy and we're going to see it again probably in the very near future because the underlying design. has not been modified to account for changes in technology over the past fifty sixty seventy years and we keep having these catastrophic failure. there will be no russian flag flying at the twenty eight hundred winter olympics or paralympics in south korea this is after the international power of the committee held its ban on team russia though it is allowing clean athletes to compete as

neutrals two months ago a similar decision was taken by the international olympic committee and despite all eyes on russia when it comes to doping allegations are actually 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 doping appears remarkably widespread among elite athletes and remains largely unchecked despite the logical testing that 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 in doha whereas want to 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 water 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 wanna and the i w. f. and subsequently between 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 complain 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 for some reason it wasn't made into nonstop breaking news no probs were conducted and no bands were seen. we managed to speak to the authors of the reports they told us that their research indicates a doping epidemic and to international track in the us we are still made forty six percent. and fifty seven percent of the arab league says these international track meets were doping much higher than we expect our quarterly results are in this paper i would call it. i mean when you're when you are talking that half of the athletes at an international track me are asked to major to be doing some kind of their own.

i think that's a serious problem for asked radix will be very very important to understand why do we have the difference because over there. is we don't know much about the the athletes compliance and by compliance i mean whether or not they follow the instructions and they answer the questions to be instructed because if not it could inflate to figure out what we have to be in a future is understanding. how athletes react when they actually see that question because it's a quite serious question have you used prohibited methods in the past month and how to motivate athletes. honestly even if they are actually dopers. tensions have been high in the russian city of sochi where peace talks over the syrian crisis have been held today even the opening speech by russia's foreign minister was interrupted smug as the of explains. it's been

a busy and unpredictable start to the sochi peace conference first there's a deal for hours and hours while last minute arrivals couldn't quite make their minds up on whether to attend or not and when foreign minister lavrov finally got around to making the opening speech well this. difference i want to say. to friends we have to continue working you will have a chance to participate in the discussion. as for myself personally. the voters it's and once express my sincere is crusted she talks colleagues.

friends again i would like you know tension. is going to see does that if it's long live russia the let me speak please those last rivals we mentioned of the hard core opposition the real power the rebel power on the ground formerly the they voted to boycott the sochi conference nevertheless turkey convinced them to get on board a plane and fly over once they got here they had their preconditions they were also upset with the syrian government flags being put up. around sochi they had the blood that that there was to be taken down and. we were made to the airport refusing to work under the flag and slogans of the syrian regime therefore our delegation has decided not to take part in the sochi talks but boycott them and

return to ankara however the turkish delegation remains in sochi and it will voice our demands and our desire to see them implemented then boarded the jets and after spending ten or so hours in the airport flew back to turkey nevertheless the congress the syria peace conference went on went ahead it would have been great to have that opposition here to have that diversity here it isn't going the way that the rebels wanted it to go so there's more incentive here to sit down and talk nevertheless not this time around. my staying with the same thing about with more and often now. here's what people have been saying about redacted the night with us exactly just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to find you know really what it is

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this is pulling bus broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton. we are back in the saddle again here in d.c. and it is a busy week ahead president from state of the union speech on tuesday and by the way a programming note ed schultz will a special coverage starting at eight thirty pm tomorrow night plus a subprogram reserve open markets committee meets mid week and friday is jobs day with the new employment numbers a jam packed week but for today here's what we have on tap first actually bad banks helps us take a look at net worth and the wealth gap and extreme poverty in the united states and why ask david henderson of the hoover institution about wealth inequality around the world the tosh of sweet looks at border security and those doco dreamers that still are out there needs to be a problem needs to be salt and alex mahela big trip or funny global trade amid some recent statements by president trump and others and before we get going heard by dr

pepper creating the biggest beverage to home with on the. manage that and more plus we'll get to the boom busting headlines right now amazon the world's largest retailer has reaped tons of free publicity in its search for a second headquarters or h q two amazon says the facility will create fifty thousand jobs in one american city and received two hundred thirty eight formal proposals from cities and regions last october but after a round of apprentice style coverage for the selection of the twenty cities as finalist amazon once more secrecy in the bidding and the selection process many mayors have been eager to offer amazon special perks and incentives including tax breaks and special infrastructure projects new jersey for example offered a seven billion dollars package maryland governor larry hogan offered a one worth five billion dollars and critics have pointed out that the public bidding war is a race to the bottom on wages and social obligations economist dean baker tweeted

to to a call of the process as a jeff bezos version of apprentice and which we get to find out who is the stupidest mayor in america now finalists say they were told on a conference call with amazon to keep their offer secret last week the pennsylvania office of records declared that puppet pittsburgh's office or offer was a public record preventing attempts by local leaders to comply with amazon's request amazon seems to be in no hurry to bring an end to the publicity bonanza and has not announced when the h q e two location will be decided. consumer spending in the united states rose in december as demand for goods and services increased the increased spending may be due in part to the record gains in u.s. stock market in addition to higher prices however the increased spending came at the expense of savings which dropped to a ten year low more spending and less savings is usually a troubling sign for future consumption and economic growth the savings rate in the

us has not been this low since december of two thousand and seven just before the economic recession. since two thousand and six the inequality or wealth gap has been increasing all over the world on average the wealth of billionaires has risen by thirteen percent since two thousand and six and in two thousand and seventeen alone billionaires collectively saw an increase of seven hundred sixty two billion dollars which is enough money to end poverty several times over this isn't just an issue for underdeveloped countries but with the u.s. being one of the wealthiest countries in the world more than half of its population is struggling to survive here's our teams correspondent ashley banks with more from outside bar the any quality gap is increasing now cording to oxfam forty thousand people hold as much wealth as a three point seven billion who make up the poorest half of the world's population

not compared to sixty one people and twenty six thousand and three hundred eighty people in two thousand and nine as you can see the gap is widening now in oxfam's latest report it cites over the past year billionaires were created at a record rate of one every two days at the same time the bottom fifty percent of the world's population has seen no increase and wealth they report added eighty two percent of the global wealth generated in two thousand and seventeen went to the most wealthy one person. meant experts say those holding financial assets during two thousand and seventeen saw an increase in wealth due to a booming global stock market for example and twenty seven thousand amazon founder jeff bezos saw a six billion dollar rise in wealth in the first ten days of twenty seven tina due to the bull market on wall street as a result he's the world's richest man and not sam's report it said nine out of ten

of the world's two thousand billionaires were men mark gold ring oxfam's g.b. chief executive said quote for work to be a genuine route out of poverty we need to ensure that ordinary workers receive a living wage and that women are not discriminated against so if that means less for the already wealthy then that is a price that we and they should be willing to pay. although bay's those is a part of a small group of american men making financial gains most people men and women living in america aren't so lucky the u.s. is one of the world's a wealthiest countries yet forty million people live in poverty according to the world and come inequality database the us has the highest gini rate of all western countries on top of that the us has the highest youth poverty rate across the o.e.c.d. which contains thirty five member countries and also has the highest prevalence of obesity in the developed world and the u.s.

ranks thirty six in the world in terms of access to water and sanitation what's more alarming is within the o.e.c.d. the us rings thirty fifth out of thirty seven and terms of poverty and inequality sam said this was unacceptable and unsustainable for the rich to continue to get richer while the poorest struggle to survive according to the charity in twenty seventeen billionaires made another money to end extreme poverty seven times over sam is calling on world leaders to put a stop to this by creating policies that will tackle tax evasion and boost the pay of workers part we don't agree with all that either we are not part of that one percent actually we are not ok thank you for that. trade trade more trade alex behala bitch joins us to talk about the trump administration mulling over economic courses of action from all over the globe which is joining us from toronto alex

let's start with the like and other cases the president says europe has been treating us unfairly and it's time for a change but what is he plan to do about it. yeah saying very unfairly actually saying that the way the goods are moving back and forth between the e.u. and the us that you know for the e.u. they can just send anything that they like over to the us and the vice versa that it's just not happening properly that there's taxes and tariffs and the u.s. just can't get their goods into the into the european union well we don't know how true that really is if you look at the breakdown of how the how this is actually happening between the two countries and we do have some information here for you in form of a graph. you have to take this into consideration first of all this relationship is obviously very important and the two countries trade a lot together and actually their most each other and most important trading partners of the for europe for the u.s. and when it comes to europe that is a trading volumes at five point five hundred seven point six billion euros that's

about six hundred thirty billion u.s. dollars followed by canada china mexico japan for europe when we're looking towards the u.s. that will europe the u.s. is number one and then followed by china russia switzerland and norway now the europeans are saying you know what if trump's going to do this they will retaliate and guess what they don't have all their eggs in one basket they're actually there's some stats that say that china is creeping up and maybe has even surpassed the u.s. as a trading partner when it comes to the e.u. and they're working on plenty of deals we know that they have a free trade deal with canada that's in place now japan as well as they're working with latin america and they're looking at new zealand and australia so for donald trump to do something like this to be very radical when looking at your europe not only could he hurt the european economy but can obviously hurt the u.s. economy as well yeah and you know europe's really high on getting together with china on that one belt run one road initiative alex so there is that they'll

certainly increase trade now there was a meeting not in toronto but up in montreal over the weekend another round of those nafta meetings anything any progress on that. well guess what actually this time we're hearing that there was probably progress at least there was optimism the the meetings ended on sunday so all sides are saying you know they're little bit more cheery about things there looks like things that might be moving forward but not forward the way that we anticipated in the beginning so march was supposed to be the deadline for these nafta talks everything was supposed to be done and over with now we're hearing they might be pushed all the way into two thousand and nineteen so there's a little bit more openness to these things dragging on a little bit longer obviously for the u.s. they'd like to see things happen a little bit quicker but with the other size i mean there's still a lot to talk about one of those things and i know this is something that you're very interested in is the arbitration part of it so when it comes to that canada and mexico this is a really touchy subject for them the u.s. wants to be able to opt out of investor state dispute settlement that's

a mechanism that's in there with built into nafta that lets us courts make their judgments for about any disputes now canada and mexico are saying no way we don't trust the euro us courts to make the right decisions here this is our red line we will not cross it and this is something that really do not want to be negotiating about it's something that they want to keep in place right 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 to go that was very interesting last week but at 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 in the last several days to go ahead with with that agreement with out 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 little bit a window for us to get involved in and that what's your prognosis for that as 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 big ocean asians 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 he want to see something that this that this deal is actually a really really good deal he called it as it's called nafta one of the worst deals in history when it comes to any type of trade pacts but now you know 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 and 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 and 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 the you know you know bloody murder that the you know fire and brimstone type 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 in toronto 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.