house filibuster if you will reading letters from dhaka people all about doc all about immigration all about how she cannot support any budget bill that does not include daca but she's not telling her members not to vote for it that's the important thing but they they've got they've got the minority leader they've got schumer right oh yeah they've got schumer i think that they're going to have some conservatives in the house certainly the freedom caucus is going to have a lot of problems with the left on the on the debt ceiling the left on the caps on domestic spending you know the democrats got lots of what they wanted i'm a little disappointed that mcconnell didn't stick to his guns a little bit more but this is what bipartisanship is i guess however it just shows how ridiculous the shutdown the schumer shutdown was a couple of weeks ago because there's no immigration connection to this budget bill at all now nancy pelosi wants paul ryan to do what mcconnell has promised in the

senate mcconnell has promised as a doc a bill and amendments will come up in a fair way when it comes to those issues on immigration and very soon paul ryan has promised no such thing paul ryan says he will bring up issues to the floor if donald trump would sign them and that's a hard line and i'm glad he's sticking to that and steve are there any details on the infrastructure number i know that they're talking about including that in there but if you heard any numbers. no i remember you and i after the state of the union discussed that it will probably come down to two hundred. two hundred million dollars from the federal government and a lot of subsidies now there's been no specifics that i've heard about that's not true there's so i think six sixty three billion for opioid abuse and eighty some odd billion for a military spending so there are some numbers i have not seen

a number for what you just alluded to as far as infrastructure and do you i mean with the debt ceiling that's a big deal i mean we've debated whether or not you know the government shutdown impacts markets much it depends about how long but i do think that with the debt ceiling doing the debt ceiling and the budget plus if you get and for chuck sure that'll help markets do you agree it might help markets i think it's going to disappoint a lot of fiscal conservatives though because this is what conservatives and the republicans have fought for for years so i'm a little disappointed there but you know let's move on and let's keep that hardline on immigration get all four pillars donald when i worked in the house and senate steve you'll appreciate this if everybody was grumbling when they went out of the meeting with a deal that was usually a pretty good deal conservative t.v. and radio host steve malzberg thanks as always. time now for a quick break but stick around because when we return we'll have a report card on the crypto champion oil down today with new large inventory

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a wild ride as we all know in past few days but the volatility and bit coin value makes those fluctuations look a little silly bitcoin was pushing twenty thousand dollars in december in the past few days it dropped from ten thousand to six thousand dollars today it bounced between seventy seven hundred eighty five hundred dollars this rebound happened despite a note from goldman sachs that predicted a total collapse for most digital currencies. and not long ago i sat down with the crypto champion a reef a con she was quite something i first asked her about the block chain. thank you very much bob and boom bust for having me here dialogue. the first part of the questions there are the various phases to block chan which actually skips the

comprehensive comprehension of people first of the enterprise blocked in which most corporates are trying to incorporate in the business cycles to improve their profitability their bottom line and their business models but that just a very small fraction of the potential of logjam the second part is what goldman's can do with block check so for example digitizing every sort of regard education regards land regard medical records public data that's that has a very big impact and when you combine it with another edna's of ways that technology is headed and its impact for you to follow your technology for grab for the skills jobs of to model that has a tremendous implication for gone ment's as to how they can shape the future of their youth that is the second one but the ultimate potential of block gen i

believe is in the centralized marketplaces and be centralized exchanges and decent allies platforms and that aspect is still hard for a lot of people to grasp including the policymakers the garment and the carpets of course you wouldn't expect the godric's to get this aspect of logjam because it's beyond their scope they're completely focused on their own profitability so they are not to be thinking about this but the ultimate benefit to the common man and to the public the gift of the bushies nakamoto if you will is in this decentralization and that will only be achieved by a new generation of entrepreneurs new generation of innovators and that's not those who. who are expected to come out outside of the incumbent outside of the existing institutions once they come and build these up negations will these marketplaces and platforms that is when the true potential of block general be unlocked and

which are the sectors that are most adaptable that will be adopting block change first i would i would say that that manufacturing has a lot of implications specially in supply chain supply chain law just six movement of goods tracking of fraudulent goods authenticity and also linking the movement of goods with finance in y. financing and those kind of things so manufacturing has a lot of potential specially where authentication of goods is important for example in pharmaceutical industry are very high value items like art even jewelry and vitamins and board and those kind of very high value movement and i would also say something that has been overlooked entirely is in the education sector where the certification and training you know that now is the area

where a lot of moves a lot of online digital courses have come about where the most reputable universities are offering the most valuable information for free so it is the first time the democrat eyes ational are equalization of educational opportunities coming about where people in remote countries can also access ready exotic courses like cryptocurrency what example so when they have the knowledge what thirty five is that they have the knowledge is a separate industry which is which is training and skill validation so those kind of new industries can come about which would completely utilise block gen of. in a way that has not been used in the education sector before so they're made up occasions like this which is it has escaped the attention off a lot of policymakers and also the goblets for example yesterday i was in

a panel where some media like fortune and so on they were asking the bloc of experts tell us via the publishing industry how can we use block chips so one of the u.s. cases is. you know the publishing industry is limited in their ability to deploy journalists are deployed people who can gather media who can gather information images videos incidents that are happening so what would come in handy is coach sourcing of information cultural thing off news if you will which the public of any idea gathering because they happen to be there at the place of the incident and they also happen to have the email just captured now there needs to be a platform where the public and he's probably sharing houses need to get together fiction lesley so brock's enables all these kind of new economies new crowdsourcing economies unlocking new thoughts of value that you haven't seen before on

a go back to the investment banks risa because they make money on transactions under the can the existing model in banking around the world and so block chain really would be disrupted disruptive for them because if it's a distributed public ledger not an insular. ledger that's just for the banks then they don't make transaction fees so this can be pretty scary for them right that's a good observation you make and if you go deep into what's happening in the finance sector of your right to an observation that the banks have a knee jerk reaction to block gen. in trying to come and forming a consortium private consortium or a private ally. or a courtly of banks actually if you look at the court of the there is no innovation there so it's just people joining hands and saying hey guys here's a threat here's a bad receipt coming and we can deal with that to let's join hands and let's call

it a strong alliance maybe the band gets veteran and goes away that's not what's about to happen saudi jamie diamond so the banks are trying to reinvent the or systems likes the fd for example what the swift shift was a messaging and a daily communication system and first was a next generation thing become a bar after mastercard and visa was mastercard and visa that was one of the van innovations to come about from the banking sector not the plastic invention and the that had a real potential for this up and this in the media had banks by did this not because who warned mastercard and visa the banks so the banks again form together and form swift so that they can still have profit making within their institutions and they're currently trying to reinvent the same thing by creating

a private block jen and by having creating a settlement and payment mechanism there but that is not going to change anything at all because what they said what they claim they're going to do with the block gente they are already doing anyway so maybe it results in a foster payment and in quick a payment and getting rid of them got us born in banking which they're not interested in because they're the kind of corn and banks so actually does not have the architect the process it does not. it does not create anything new so i would say if you look at it from outside the system looks the same the players within the ecosystem remain the same it's just a big thing there or ledge of it's a new niche. up and it has no impact whatsoever in the financial services architecture so what is about to happen to the banks is a new sort of a player coming about and creating something which gump legally does

a grave with this kind of a system and in rennes a new kind of system is does not need this go to the our alliance of banks of dong this doesn't have the swift kind of mechanism and creates an entirely different solution for example we're trying to come up with a decent allays exchange balkanized i.p.o. platform. vich can actually replace the existing exchanges which is an alternator which is the next generation exchange on a marketplace if you're up so if i talk to the stock exchanges i have actually spoken to some of the stock exchanges they say they have a lot of experience and knowledge in the way of the exchanges getting key work and where are the pain points and read custom of could do with some improvement and so on but that's knowledge and that experience is of no value to me because my mechanism and my solution is a completely different one which has not

a single entity which exists in that ecosystem so my solution is completely different i don't even need to understand what they did before in the existing establishment so these kind of play us who would who can potentially completely the dropped the existing ecosystem i predict these players to come a bog north from the banking industry but from outside so this is taking a step farther from the think that wave but i would say the point that way of fan is in disrupting the banking sector because it was complementary to supplementary to the banks so synthetic grow why did interface of front office on an interaction with the constable and the banks do so. the back office of the balance sheet for the business so they must do complementary but the next three which is blocked is not going to be complimentary it is going to be ready to be dating to

the existing back. it's going to be intimidating for the existing banks it's going to be a disruptive technology that was crypto champion a riff a con it was a lot of fun to meet and speak with her and we do have some more of the future that's it for today thanks for watching be sure to catch boom bust on youtube youtube dot com slash boom bust r t c n x time. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to meet the people themselves with simple song alone even some company elsewhere they can find private companies to take over the utilities many by the telescope. allowed for miss you guys to go. by been this is. just because. of what you remember of the live. locals are ready to stand up for

the basic human right of access to water it's about water but it's also over much more than war it's about the hurt and the redistribution of all or whether it's. downwards do you want or will. national governments in various locations still don't even understand what crypto currency is how mining works what bitcoin does and that confusion and that learning curve that they haven't bothered to climb leads to a lot of missed policy choices messed up policy choices and it's just because of a massive confusion out there so little is known about bitcoin except the currencies at all levels. government most levels of the world and even within the crypto communities.

the u.s. coalition in the interest so-called defensive airstrikes against pro-government forces in syria accusing them of attacking a rebel group. on the eve of the winter olympics hopes diminish for dozens of russian athletes fighting to have their fans overturned. does. not have. a video of libyan children playing out a mock execution goes viral guest share their views on the effects of war on the young minds of youngsters. mirroring in the execute their mock executions one of the team and what she was it online or really were they watching the first time and if they push the first down team they're going to have strong are going to

struggle with mental health. m k partridge and you're watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us and we start with news from syria the u.s. led coalition has conducting what they describe as defensive airstrikes against pro-government forces in the country who more on this let's cross live now to our teens caleb wolf in in new york hi there can you bring us up to date. yes we have confirmation from u.s. central command that airstrikes have been conducted by u.s. forces against forces aligned with the syrian government now the u.s. central command is describing these airstrikes as defensive saying that the forces they struck first attack to the s d f now the s.d.f. are kurdish forces that are being supported by the united states now it's important

to taken into the context that these these airstrikes are taking place just after we heard on january seventeenth from rex tillerson now rex tillerson said that the forces of the united states are only in syria for the purpose of defeating the remnants of the isis terrorists and furthermore that they are there to make sure they don't return however in the past we've heard rex tillerson characterize the purpose of u.s. forces in syria both ground troops and air forces patrolling the east of the country as being there to help replace the syrian president bashar assad this is statements we've heard from u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson. united states will maintain a military presence in syria focused on ensuring isis cannot really merge total withdrawal of american personnel at this time would restore. it continue his brutal treatment because his own people. so there there's a little bit of

a mixed message there he's saying that forces are in syria to defeat the terrorists but then that withdrawing them would somehow restore the syrian president bashar assad and help the internationally recognized syrian government it's rather unclear at this point there are roughly two thousand u.s. troops in syria and in addition to that the u.s. air force is put patrolling the eastern part of the country u.s. air forces are patrolling the eastern part of the country and it's rather unclear about why they're there now we have had a reaction from the russian president surrogate aloud about u.s. forces in their recent activities that this is surrogate lavry of the foreign minister of russia. so as to put in some of the lack of a fundamental commitment to our agreement that is typical of u.s. diplomacy including the reasons why the americans stay in syria ricks to listen to the state which is not the only goal in syria was the piece of ice. that goes from

when bush's plans. now at this point it's in question why are the u.s. forces in syria now it's important to know that they're in syria without the permission of the internationally recognized government internationally recognized government has not granted the united states the right to send its forces into the country making this essentially an invasion under international law and now at this point as it's unclear if these forces are there to fight against terrorists or fight against the internationally recognized government that question is becoming even more vital as we see u.s. forces have now conducted airstrikes against the syrian government. that's kind of moving in new york thank you very much. all right time u.s. army general paul finally gave us his views on the ass strike in syria. i think there's always a motive to see a saudi. government leader put in syria you know less than one of the motivations of the united states should of course you have russia and you should see. assad the

. united states russia can solve this problem. how do you work something out with all syrian elements all working as nations you can't just be rogue regimes you've got to look at some of the residents of the first of three sure you normally they have to look at you kurds. and each group sure. brought together. we're going to see continuation of these conflicts. the twenty eighteen winter olympics get underway in south korea on friday but there's still some doubt over who will compete the court of arbitration for sport has heard the cases of dozens of russian athletes who've been banned despite being cleared of taking challengers . trying to reports the olympic dreams of almost fifty russian athletes right now depend on the court of arbitration for sports and for the chang games this is

their new home. the court convened for a few hours on wednesday but there was no decision we resumed the hearing tomorrow at twelve and possibly a final decision can be rendered at the end of the day tomorrow but if the decision to come after the opening ceremony the goal is really to finish before coming out when they return so i would say that for me the last moments for the announcement should be arriving too but possibly could be a moment firstly it is a huge court case as many as forty seven russian athletes and coaches where the queen doping test history against the international olympic committee but in a sense it's a battle between the court of arbitration for sport forecasts and the i.o.c. here's why. a group of russian winter athletes were an issue a few months ago banned for life by the i.o.c. their medals were taken away but then all of this was overturned by cas last week

regardless of that the olympic officials decided to flash a red card plus there were more russian winter athletes who didn't get lifetime bans but despite the fact that they had never been caught cheating before as well they still heard that they can't come to pyung check so it's the careers and the olympic dreams of these athletes that a swiss law firm is trying to save and the hearings are happening right behind these doors swiss lawyers are saying that the grounds for the lawsuits are the nontransparent nature of the criteria plus the on lawful nature of the verdict itself and most importantly discrimination on basis of citizenship and remember that some of the people whose fate is being protected here are reigning olympic champions.

movement does not consider me an athlete who deserves to be a part of it without even providing an explanation i've never given a reason to doubt my only city and my integrity. the games in korea were to be the first in my career together with my partner we've been working towards this in the mix for many years it was my cherished dream. i was shown to be lympics my dream and i was working towards this goal throughout my entire sports career i've given reasons to doubt. so to put it very mildly cass in the i.o.c. don't see eye to why the chord clears a group of russian athletes but the olympic officials can't be bothered this situation put the two organizations almost on

a brink of conflict the secretary general of cass says that there is no crisis but see for yourself who these kind of decision is extremely disappointing these decision shows the urgent need. for reform. in the internal structure of couse i must support my panel which reaches so far i think the procedure was fully respected the reaction was very strong and the disappointment of the i.o.c. because they expected another verdict but we should not. better to wait before criticizing the decisions themselves because they are not being drafted yet so again there is very little time for cast to make up its mind the opening ceremonies coming up on friday february ninth but whatever the decision is the russian support

cas and the i.o.c. will never be the same again russian speed skater or go for the corner there didn't receive an invitation to the games despite being cleared by the court of arbitration for sport a week ago she thinks the i.o.c. is penalizing rusher after their success at their home games in sochi. the new grocer's method it is sad for me to see other russian athletes posting videos and photos from korea clearly the first explanation which comes to mind is that they want to get rid of the strongest competitors maybe they were upset because we were ranked first at the sochi winter olympics they give no explanation do not share their reasons that's why the fear of losing seems the only plausible motive behind the decision i saw those looks from my foreign colleagues i heard them sneaking around some foreign athletes even took pictures of me it wasn't a pleasant feeling when other athletes refused to enter in the elevator with me i felt helpless because there was.