the e.u. as greek territory now the sovereignty issue ignited all the way back in december ninety ninety five one a turkish boat ran a greek vessel ashore it was followed by a succession of turkish and greek attempts to remove each others' flags from the island including journalists arriving to do that former bells in parliament member and political expert load but who says he's not surprised by the role between athens and i agree don't have a past of military conflict i mean in the seventy's they were even at war and some point it's not a surprise that these two could lead to all member states. in such a situation it won't make that much of a difference of course. all the countries are very poor it that this is might get out of hand you know that of course they do not like to nato members at war but need to has always survived this kind of skirmishes especially between greece and turkey we should not forget that all rhetoric aside need to it was never about

democracy and human rights i mean when needed was founded greece was a military dictatorship and turkey was a military dictatorship they did not impede the nato membership so i think on the whole things will go on as usual just the only thing that we actually care is that this does not get out of this can always happen. over to the u.s. now where the crime ridden city of baltimore has called for a cease fire this weekend in an attempt to me it's skyrocketing murder rates last year saw a record three hundred forty three homicides in the city that's the spike it's population shrinking the increase in violence has been linked to severe inequality the prevalence of illegal firearms and an opioid epidemic so we record has more now on the initiative. this weekend activists are calling for a seventy two hour cease fire asking for a weekend without any violence whatsoever this is the third event of its kind in the last six months but these cease fire weekends began in august when baltimore's

homicide rate reached a record high last year with three hundred forty three murders the highest in the u.s. people all around the city make commitments to just be peaceful and not be violent for three days and to celebrate life and do life affirming event so their events all over the city would distort what a weekend he would keep it is a week in no homicides the rise is partly attributed to a drastic drop in arrests made by the gun trace task force which is now dissolved as most of its members are on trial but there's been some damage control authorities have replaced its police commissioner baltimore police commissioner kevin davis was fired the notice shocked many this morning as mayor catherine pugh pushed out a press release at eight o'clock this morning i'm impatient we need violence reduction we need the numbers to go down faster than they are however his appointment came as somewhat of a shock his name almost instantly brought back memories of police shootings back in one thousand nine hundred five nevertheless the new commissioner came out guns

blazing with a bunch of reforms including predictive policing a computer system that can estimate the date place and even the possible perpetrator of a crime that's yet to be committed he's planning to install more surveillance cameras and deploy more patrols to troubled districts but stepping up surveillance doesn't really sound like a new plan even the department of justice advised against it both tomorrow and for its most widespread constitutional and is current replace thing has exacerbated community distrust of the police particularly in the african-american community as court hearings continue here in baltimore many fear that there could be a problem much greater than one rogue unit and some of the latest testimonies. jenkins the indicted officer told me he had hand-picked the gun trace task force to be a front for a criminal enterprise he also said there were officers from other units working with him baltimore police provided security for jenkins when he met with the drug supplier from new york despite efforts to reform the system it seems that every

testimony undermines citizens trust in law enforcement and there are still weeks of trials to come samir khan r t reporting from baltimore. can be difficult to appreciate at times especially when classical works are actually removed this was the case one gallery in the u.k. left visitors pretty buff old offer a masterpiece depicting women was taken out of an exhibition.

some visitors to the gallery criticized the decision they described it as an act of censorship. i think the government is just printing down and disguised as an opera form is wrong. i think you. can power over an artist right to. work within the law. because all the pages in the in the gallery then we do not so why should this. i don't see why it should have been taken down again we were just saying that it's another example of the. sexualization of the human form within. society today i think it's really that jumping on the campaign to sort of have an opera ties to the gallery if that's what he bought the objects implication of women then there are

hundred other paintings in the gallery. and some women not see fund really empowering. facebook's new messenger kids target six to twelve year olds parents on health professionals pretty boy were all the full story. all this getting away from us dollars wall reserve currency the one road one paul c. linking up russia and china is out of the dollar every last trade oil away from the dollar and countries are desperate to get out of the u.s. dollar so the dollar is going to lose value no matter what anybody says here's the

treasury secretary really trying to make it look like oh that's our balls are for a lower dollar really matter what he says the dollar is going lower as we've been saying for a number of years because the u.s. dollar is a currency that other countries recognize as funding wars and the weapons on the property that they're trying to escape. the program israel the spin described as a beacon of light on hope in the middle east by the u.k. defense secretary gotten williamson also stressed that israel has a friend for life in britain and has been asking people in london if they agree. if you were the u.k.'s defense secretary which country would you call it because of

light in the middle east jordan beautiful light on the whole. definitely not the us . put it this way i suppose i would think of lebanon where christians would. appear to work. away living together and sharing political power you're right perhaps he was talking about israel always now i don't agree because of the palestinian troubles i don't subscribe to that they're not very good at adapting to other people i think it's just going to home a two state solution but do you think israel is a beacon of light yes. because we have the technology i think you can use i think that's hope for the best he's also said that britain is going to remain one of the closest and best friends to israel so what's your take on that. i'm sure we will be friends with everybody. a facebook has been urged to pull the plug on

a so-called safe for children organizations of war on the social media giant at the called messenger kids poses health and safety risks is a quick look at its promotional video. it's a video chatting messaging app for families and kids and it's designed to give parents more control when their kids started communicating on line. was designed for children aged between six and twelve parents or guardians can control the settings from their own facebook accounts and approve contact messenger kids functions include sending texts photos and using video chat as well facebook has defended the platform there so it's a great way for families to connect families will be better off because it exists my daughter uses it on a daily basis now it has enabled me to be more in touch with her. a critic of the children's up argue they're simply not ready for the dangers of the digital world

on the other hand those in favor of the app think it enhanced is their online social skills i think and. emotionally and they're not ready to sort of go into anything like the need more time it's awfully hypocritical for a generation that created facebook to turn around and say that their kids shouldn't be on facebook because it's making them all happy i do think parents need to be aware that the future is is real and it's happening and that most of their children's lives will be spent inside of the digital cosmos i think the have to be an age limit otherwise. where is it going to end and i think children and just their emotional. to be able to cope digital cosmos is real it is a real place and it will exist in the future for these children and so we need to help them understand how to navigate the digital world part of that is understanding what the rules of engagement are so keeping kids keeping themselves

safe while they're online and understanding what information to share and what information they should keep private we need to be photographed with where we're going with and i think education is the k. if we can train them on how to use that but from the age of thirteen. maybe we can solve a few future problems but i do you fear. we take them down social means here in. the u.s. defense department published its nuclear posture review on friday outlining america's nuclear strategy apart from strengthening its nuclear capability the doctrine takes assuming you tougher stance on china russia and north korea i mean these states are presented unique and complex threat the review also points out that u.s. diplomats would continue to speak from a position of strength what the reaction of russia's ambassador to the united states. in order to justify the increase in military spending and the growth in

its nuclear capabilities america has come up with a scare story about russia we understand that the ideas aimed at boosting the military budget with trillions of dollars. while the twenty eight team nuclear review is already being compared to barack obama's from seven years ago we discussed the document with a us politician as well as the director from the nuclear age peace foundation the vast majority of the nuclear issue is word for for the well probably obama administration however the underlying tone of it is a throwback to the cold war what president trump declared in his state of the union address was that we need to ramp up our nuclear capability and make us so strong that nobody would be even willing to engage in or even trying to gauge with the united states because we have a strong nuclear arsenal that actually is really dangerous thinking and it's almost like into the amateur hour it's a little bit of everything sure it's a throwback to some of the cold war more explicit nuclear threats between the u.s.

and russia and between the us and other adversaries namely china and north korea but it's also a continuation of u.s. nuclear policy from past decades this is not that much different than what president obama had in his nuclear posture review in two thousand and ten this is more aggressive it does lower the threshold for possible nuclear weapons use and it calls for additional unnecessary types of nuclear weapons but in general this is much of this is the status quo. hurtling around the frozen wastelands of siberian old soviet era cars isn't something for the faint hearted it's exactly what one hardy group of russian drivers though has been doing at the ice drift madness race near lake baikal take a look at this. well

it's all for the self for myself on the team here at r.t. we're back sunday at moscow time for more global headlines hope to see that.

you criminalist released by the white house to shaming into an institution those included on the list are accused simply by association. being from russia or is no one accepted cause for suspicion so does the kremlin list really changes. zia says harlan kentucky. it was very funny. a co money since he was almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the wisest

said. that it was a laugh to see these people the survivors of a world disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened. timex kaiser this is the kaiser report you still a los angeles city of angels and no more angelic angel then stacy. you talk to an angel in the second half is well known we prince and you know what charlie's angels except max's angels we just see one more angel you know what she

is often talk about steve and steve minucci in our treasury secretary and the headline he's a horrible angel he's a whore while he's. in new. steam in the new. nexus angels show steve minucci and he's the treasury secretary of the united states of america and well he was over in the last week and basically altered the past thirty years of u.s. policy regarding the dollar of course they have not mind at the dollar going lower lower but they always have this fake you know a strong dollar policy and he's changed that over in. minutes comment surprises financial markets turns dollar decline into one way bet the dollar already on spiral lower sank to a three year low after treasury secretary stephen when you said a weaker dollar was good for u.s. trade the comments depart from the strong dollar policy of treasury secretaries

before him going back to robert rubin and the clinton administration but fit with the trump administration's america first message that we dollar policy could backfire and make us assets like treasuries less appealing and drive up the cost of foreign goods for businesses and everyday americans you know well this is a policy around the world beggar thy neighbor but try to drive your currency lower to help your exports and grab global market share and china's been the king of the . for a long time so this is a take in a china directly saying oh yeah you think you. will make the dollar even cheaper so it makes us you know higher value versus a dollar which may it's more difficult for them to export their way into global domination so now our currency wars venturing a new phase you know donald trump obviously has a lot more understanding of how to fight this currency war than anyone coming before him barack obama was really a novice coming into office knew nothing about finance he was financially

illiterate as he proved over and over again and the shop knows the rules of the game whether he's successful or not we'll see well you know in the second half you do speak to know me prince who has a new book out called collusion how central bankers rigged the world and in it and in your interview she does talk about the fact that china does view american policy whether it was the obama administration or otherwise the trump administration that they are in policy is and saying towards global trade and the dollar so they already of us as kind of insane steve minutia in going to switch is kind of a sort of meeting pushing globalization in fact francois. krohn from france from france was there saying you know france is ready to lead the way where the head of globalization this is kind of an anti globalization message is part of america first message so it's you know it is

a beggar thy neighbor policy is anti-globalization but yeah yeah exactly and of course you know the question is is the lower dollar the result of really a policy initiative or is the lower dollar inevitability of policy failure and now the policy makers are saying all it's our policy for a lower dollar i don't think it makes a difference whether see a miniature in your home or else describes a dollar as their policy going lower the dollar was going to go lower anyway because the world is getting away from you. us dollar is rolled reserve currency the one road one belt policy linking up russia and china is out of the dollar everyone wants to trade oil away from the dollar a countries are desperate to get out of the u.s. dollar so the dollar is going to lose value no matter what anybody says here's the treasury secretary merely trying to make it look like oh it's our policy for a lower dollar don't really matter what he says the dollar is going lower as we've been saying for a number of years because the u.s. dollar is a currency that other countries recognize as funding the wars and the weapons and

the poverty that they're trying to escape steve when utian standing in front of the globe's reporters standing in front of the world's reporters and saying that the dollar his policy as treasury secretary. the guy who signs the dollar bills the new dollar bills that he wants it to go lower according to this headline here they said that basically opens this up as a one way bet for traders and traders will keep pushing it and keep pushing it said one strategist there is a possibility that it could be a spiral that it gets out of control luckily we did hear on kaiser for tell you a few weeks ago to load back up on gold because of course we're going to get into that in the next headline buy gold has obviously done very well against the dollar as the dollar has been tanking it in the openings weeks of twenty eighteen i see

the world through gold colored glasses because stacey has been pointing out for a few months now the rotation back into gold is well underway hitting three year highs and you said and i agree that gold could hit a new all time high in twenty eighteen down that are over two thousand dollars an ounce i mean solar would be fifty sixty seven dollars an ounce and crypto currencies are on the back foot lot of money that was in the multi hundred billion dollars krypto spaces down flowing into gold we know that from watching the trade patterns and the reports we're getting. from the exchanges so yeah this could be gold year so before i move on to the next line about gold and silver coin and other things and how they responded and said dollars falling and how that reminds us of the past well on this is comments they say echo statements by president donald trump who famously helped turn a market trend of a stronger dollar last january when he said prior to his inauguration that the dollar was quote too strong and that u.s.

companies can't compete because of it particularly against the chinese the dollar index has lost more than ten percent since then and after we knew comment last wednesday morning it sank to a new three year low he said that obviously a weaker dollar is good for the u.s. and good for trade i'm not so sure if you don't actually produce that myatt's other than weapon system it's not like. you know there was any problem selling weapon systems that's one of our biggest exports i'm not sure it definitely improves the profits. of big u.s. multinationals like apple and i.b.m. sell things overseas so that their profits if they're booking their earnings and euro's which is now at one twenty four where it was only about ten just a few months ago so they're booking profits in these foreign currencies so of course their shareholders are quite happy but whether or not it benefits the

workers in america i don't know. the pressure for stuff like oil are going to go higher you know oil still priced in dollars or dominantly in price of oil last i checked above sixty you know heading higher and people start paying back five six seven dollars a gallon again at the pump that's going to cut into their economic activity for sure now when i go into another bit of this story about the dollar tumbling into twenty eighteen in just the first few weeks and this brings us back to some. where max keiser is quite well known from the one nine hundred eighty seven crash because you were working on wall street in one nine hundred eighty seven remember those days and it was fun fun fun but first we're going to look at this take by zero ahead of the steve newton story when he was in the minucci massacre precious metals surge amid dollars a worst start in thirty years the dollar was smashed with the ugly stick

as new chins comments sparked chaos and foreign exchange markets and as precious metal surged and bond yields jumped and stocks actually sank briefly we were reminded by the mainstream media that a falling dollar is great for america so the dip in stocks with all your money on the sidelines so it was the worst start to the year. for the u.s. dollar since one nine hundred eighty seven and we actually have a little chart here this is one nine hundred eighty seven the dollar into the first month of one thousand nine hundred seven right here is two thousand and eighteen it's looking as bad as one nine hundred eighty seven right so eighty seven crash it was long overdue in this particular market going back to these charts the dollar heading into eighty seven started to you know we you know a lot of weakness here you've got in this market a huge concentration of money in the so-called fang stocks facebook app all

netscape and google and apple's kind of been weak in the last couple of few few weeks there's a lot of weakness in the stocks of the fang the fang group of stocks that say they start to lose favor after having this enormous run amazon is also in that group and amazon ok it's trading at something like over one hundred times forward earnings so that's starting to drop fifty or sixty percent and still be on a chart basis in a bull market i mean these stocks are trading on some incredibly lofty. well you ations and like eighty seven you could see a twenty twenty two percent crash in a day which would be you know that would be quite quite a move down wouldn't stacey so let's look at the chart that they provide that interestingly stocks soared just as they are now as the dollar crashed just as it is now in one thousand nine hundred seventy before things went pear shaped so that's the chart the green line is the s. and p. five hundred the red line is the u.s.

dollar index and as you saw the dollar started out twenty nine hundred eighty seven declining rapidly that some the s. and p. five hundred soaring in one thousand nine hundred seven max you were there for that your hop that was twenty percent in one day is that possible well theoretically no because the circuit breakers they put in but i don't really have confidence in those going to work and the helicopter money and head off their money will come in and they will try to mitigate any huge losses but i think that overwhelmingly the system will not be able to handle do you want to and you'll have another kind of computer aided crash you know in front of computer aided design cad this is computer aided crash ative kak it's gone entropy everything must. she you toward chaos. that why is that your explanation that's the law of the universe the multiverse if not miss universe that

a parallel universe you know there's a guy like me living in a parallel universe saying the inverse of what i just said who is having lunch with billy bob thornton right now i'm going to tops out at the marquis hotel sunset marquee in west hollywood yeah i saw you mentioned apple and that was another interesting story that's happened while we were here and california is that the california based company reported that they apparently the rumor is that they're already going to get rid of the i phone ten the next update that they do in. next year this is a rumor started by a guy in china who always has the top info he's usually right on his rumors about what's happening i phone eight sales i phone ten sales disasters like fifty percent less than they expected an i phone ten we did know that i remember tweeting from an apple store before christmas so there was nobody at all at the i phone tend to ask and i noted that that doesn't look very good i was surprised when eighty seven the

masking effect of so called portfolio insurance so the market was trading well above its real fundamental value thanks to the aid of derivatives here you've got the market trading at these extraordinary levels thanks to the ada stock repurchases fueled by zero percent money so if you start taking that away and it's trying to go up that apple could clearly drop thirty forty percent well if you look at the chart history rhymes or even repeats it looks like we could have another few moments of these ever rising stock prices so all those millennial that we cover diving in via their schwab and t.d. ameritrade accounts could ever another few months and then they could have a sort of october november surprise that looks a lot like one nine hundred eighty seven you know speaking of repeating this cop sounds repeating on me right now hey stay tuned for the second half exclusive interview and know any prisoner new book.

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