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seven billion dollars the results beat the street's expectations the company also reported that they added one point nine million customers in the fourth quarter alone t. mobile is the third largest wireless company behind the risin and a t. and t. . you see. i was fortunate to recently sit down with sasha cramer founder and executive director of shaw ill soile stands for sustainable organic integrated livelihoods i caught up with sasha at the world economic forum and i can't wait for you to hear this interview so our organization has been working in haiti since two thousand and six on as you said transforming waste into resources but we're primarily focused on of developing dignified sanitation for the shed and for very dense informal urban

areas and finding an alternative to stores and a way to actually get those way out of the community and into a compost site where we transform them into compost and get it back down to the soil from whence it came such a haiti has this super high rate by bank one of the highest mortality rates for kids in the world why is that i was being dealt with shore so surprisingly haiti is a very small country but does have the highest rate of diarrheal incidence among children in the world and the primary reason for this is because there really is effectively no sanitation system so there are no there are systems anywhere and holding and prior to two thousand and nine there was no treatment as human way and then best. problem as many people know was greatly exacerbated two thousand and ten with the introduction of color which as people may not know was actually brought to

haiti by the u.n. mission there were peacekeepers who were infected with cholera and they had faulty sanitation systems on their u.n. bases that wastes got into the waterway and since that time over ten thousand people have died it's amazing and i think people will find this sort of mind boggling no place in haiti and you mention two thousand and nine we had a waste water plant human waste plant didn't exist when you started it how the heck did you do that yeah well i actually interesting that i never knew that i would get into sanitation my my degree is in ecology and i was brought to sanitation by an interest in compost and soil fertility and so as i came to haiti in two thousand and four as a human rights observer and spent several years really working on human rights

issues but over time it became very clear that really the most prevalent human rights abuse and haiti is poverty and all of the things that come along with poverty so certainly as an ecologist i was initially focused on agriculture and nutrition but we're all humans and i think everyone can relate to that moment when you really need to use the bathroom and you can find one and just the impact that that has on your day so that happened to me on occasion and it was also an issue that people often brought up to talk about soils philosophy as a fusion of ecological theory interested melech logical fieri and also liberation theology explain what that means short so when i went to haiti in two thousand and four i. i went because i had been very inspired by the liberation theology movement throughout latin america and also in haiti and really the root of that

theology is the belief that every single human being has value and worth and as an ecologist i believe that natural ecosystems are the same in the sense that one organisms waste is food or fuel for another so really there is there is no waste and everything has value and so i think there's a very nice alignment between liberation theology and ecology in the sense that we look for the value in everything so should you know we are course a business and finance show like to cover the spending that are interesting and informative for viewers tell us about the business model here we've designed a household tie that because we feel people will be more willing to pay for the product it is having an in home to it than a public toilet and people pay

a monthly fee for this type that which is around three or four dollars us and we use the revenues from the service fees to pay the people who collect the waste and get it to the compass site ten years ago it was strictly humanitarian or public finance and recently for the last five years there has been this interest and can we make sanitation into a business and there was so much enthusiasm about this that everyone thought this is the next big business and people are going to be making money hand over foot in it and i think we're now coming sort of down the other side of that mountain where there's a realise ation that in every country where there is a functioning sanitation system it is publicly financed and often to a very large extent so i think now we're recognizing that what we really need to be looking at a blended. nance models where consumers are paying some of the fees and the public sector is also contributing because from an ethical standpoint it's very unfair to

ask the poorest of the poor to pay for something that the wealthy don't pay for he has had a super tough time in recent years you mentioned the earthquake but there's been two really large hurricanes that have impacted the country. what's your take on sort of the long term impact of that it is faded from that the headlines of course but i know it's still having real residual impacts on people tell us what your take is well haiti is one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world and i think we've certainly seen that over the last decade with the earthquake and the hurricanes as you mentioned and like you said there there's a great. swell of public interest and willingness to donate and support and then that fades but the effects of these disasters take much longer than not to go away so i lived in port au prince for the last eight years since the

earthquake and although i have seen some significant changes there are still thousands of people who are homeless and living in tents that the south of haiti was decimated by these hurricanes and it will take decades for those trees to grow back and so although haiti has faded from the public view haitians are very much still feeling the effects of disasters josh i want to talk with you about something a little bit i've not talked about on boom bust on this program i really want to dignify it and i don't want to use the words but president trump use some vulgar language and inappropriate as far as i'm concerned about haitians not too long ago and i wonder if you can comment about that and about you know the history of haiti and and why that is such a piece his comments were really so injurious and wrong so i'd like to

start by saying that those comments i don't know if everyone knows this but they came on the eve of the anniversary of their skype and. i woke up the next day and went into a meeting with professional colleagues and people were coming in late to the meeting and i had numerous patients say to me that they just felt like they couldn't get out of fact in the morning they had already prepared themselves to mourn that day and to hear the president of a country say that they were not welcomed just by like they had taken a double blow and my experience in haiti has been that i'm sad i'm so proud and honored to have lived in such an incredible country for the last fourteen years i think that it's a beautiful country and it is a country that has always been an example to the world so haiti led the

struggle against slavery and colonialism and i believe that haiti will continue to lead by example and i think. the country of haiti is anything but what we heard in those remarks my take is you're an eternal optimist and i think our viewers are probably getting that from you let me just ask you what do you think the future holds for haiti. now that that's a good question and you snuck back question in on may because that's a hard one i think that what the future holds for haiti is that because there is so little infrastructure right now i think. what may appear to be haiti's largest disadvantage right now could actually be its largest advantage in the sense that many technologies are coming in that are leapfrog technologies so if for instance we and our colleagues working in the sanitation sector are able to develop

a waterless solution to sanitation if the energy sector in haiti is driven by so that or i think that haiti has a chance to jump ahead and turn that disadvantage into an it. it's such if people happen to listen to this interview and there is inspired as i am is there a way that they can help out what you're doing helps oil in some fashion yes so i had said earlier that we're working on a blended finance model and our ultimate goal is to set up a public private partnership whereby the haitian government can actually finance and support this work because we're not able to raise all of the all of the revenues that we need to cover the costs of it but in the interim because i although i am an optimist i also try to be a realist from time to time and i recognize that putting this public financing in place will take some time so right now we have

a group of individuals the owners called the cultivators and soil cultivators donate monthly and that gives us a sustained revenue source that allows us to continue to grow without losing money for every household and till we're able to put this long term solution and is there a web site that they can go to yeah our web site is w w w that our soil or so i should cramer executive director of soil thank you so much for being here and thank you for your inspiration thank you so much. it was such a kramer from haiti she's obviously someone who's trying to do good with the business attitude in that interview incidentally was done the day before president trump's good davos speech and while some of the attendees spoke we spoke with said they were going to walk out not many did but sasha cramer did and she wore this t.

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was. syria calls on the un to hold the u.s. coalition to account for wednesday's airstrikes targeting pro-government forces u.s. central command says the attack was to defend an american back room. where the winter olympics just about to begin dozens of russian athletes are still waiting for a ruling to decide if they can compete in south korea while norway is the latest country to face don't think allegations. and the public is no makers in the u.s. are threatening to cut funding to a global cancer research program after returning to america's most widely used weed killer played one giant company monsanto you counsel.

kate partridge and you're watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us. syria has called on the u.n. to hold the u.s. led coalition to account for wednesday's airstrikes against pro-government forces the number of casualties has not yet been confirmed but some reports claim up to one hundred people could have been killed u.s. central command described the attack as a defensive move but russia's defense ministry said the unit was hit as it was carrying out an operation against an i.a.s. cell. and for every decision while carrying out an operation to locate and terminate an sleep or so near form oil refinery a unit of pro-government forces was suddenly shelled and then hit by airstrikes by the u.s. led coalition vis was overkill if the numbers are true i would see a demonstration of she have brute force perhaps you know to send perhaps the send

a message nevertheless the united states says that it's it's in syria and it will defend itself and it has the right to defend itself in this instance syrian democratic forces acted in self defense with support from the coalition to defeat an unprovoked attack by syrian regime forces in eastern syria if the situation is like how they describe that they were indeed attacks while fighting isis to make up the right to self-defense one of you take them at face value you could think so but the people they just killed were also fighting isis and recently they had been making much better progress against isis then the united states led coalition or their partner forces the the s.d.f. the syrian government has of course called all of this an act of aggression unwarranted and unjust but just for your information all of this happened in there

is or near a rich oil field and refinery conoco it's called it was liberated last year by the u.s. led coalition very quickly and fact. u.s. partner forces seem to have a knack for liberating areas with oil under them much quicker than they do those areas that don't have oil under them since since all the oil rich areas were taken in there as ordered by the s.d.f. progress against isis seems to have dropped to a snail's pace but you know regardless. here america has said that it is in syria only to fight isis today isis has been all but defeated in syria but you don't see the pentagon packing its bags our military policy in syria has not changed our priority remains to defeat of isis whether it's in iraq or in syria that is our intent to defeat isis and not do anything more than that the united states will

maintain a military presence in syria focused on ensuring isis cannot reemerge total withdrawal of american personnel at this time would restore assad continue his brutal treatment against his own people so as to put its ability to the lack of a fundamental commitment to our agreements that is typical of current u.s. diplomacy including the reasons why the americans stay in syria rex tillerson peter he stated that the only goal in syria was the defeat of ice or now they've got far more ambitious plans with more of the most with the mixed messages here is the pentagon staying general mattis said that the united states will stay in syria we'll fight in syria for as long as the united states wants to fight in syria i mean that's you know pretty direct now you see how this might sound strange go to syria and a vital and while there you start killing syrians in syria in self-defense.

or regional experts told us that with islamic state practically gone from syria washington is now targeting the country's government instead. they are not just in syria to fight their own. have been in syria for a long time because they want to throw aside as the spate of feeds as it becomes clear that it is the syrian forces themselves and largely defeated di age the priority of overthrowing assad begins to reassert itself in the pentagon and in the white house so i think that's really the answer the question the overthrow of assad was always the prodigal prone the reason why the americans were in syria the army in treating these groups intervening with air strikes and so on they were diverted from that by no with the possibility of a defeated diet inside syria that policy be reasserts itself this is coming at the end of a long war the united states has taken is about twenty eight percent syrian

territory and over fifty percent of its oil this is leverage in order to roll back iran and get rid of assad also just like it he wants that oil for himself there was a race only a few months ago would get those fields and he's proving undoubtedly under the pretext that by the isis the united states didn't think it was so the united states is trying to lay down the law here and not let anybody approach and as we know the turks threatened and rendition to take on the americans over there so the united states i think it's very agents that both syria and turkey will begin to push america out try to push america out of northern syria but he likes there. now is just hours to go before the winter olympics start in south korea dozens of russian athletes are still waiting to hear if they can compete forty seven of them have appealed to the court of arbitration for sport to overturn the ban over and

ledge don't bring violations among those who have filed appeals are some of russia's most celebrated athletes they include six time olympic short track speed skating champion on and defending biathlon champion anton shipman in. reports from the olympic host city. for almost two and a half hours the court of arbitration for sport was listening to the russian side which have now left led by their lawyer so these people won't get another chance to give their arguments to the court and now it is all to the cast members they promised to announce some sort of decision by noon korean time on friday over the phone we came here to defend the gas pump listen to our arguments and the decision will be reached within twenty four hours so things won't be decided to

with a few hours before the opening ceremony which of course puts extra pressure on the russian athletes on wednesday the secretary general hinted that still their mind to be at delay now here we are looking at three scenarios either cast decides to do nothing about the international olympic committee's move not to invite the russian athletes who have never been caught for cheating and without specifying particular reasons for doing that or the court of arbitration for sport chooses to give the green light to the russians and in that case that would be a massive blow for the audio see and that would in turn mean that the international olympic committee discriminated against the russians the third scenario we heard about from an online leak that cannot be confirmed but reports are suggesting that there could be a split decision on the russian athletes i'm standing by here at the temporary home of the court of arbitration for sport and i'll give you any news as soon as it

comes out. with sports fans have been showing their support to russia's athletes by projecting a light show onto a building opposite the world anti-doping agency headquarters in canada in expressing support and love for the russian and picked team and it ends with the message that russians are coming. but other athletes whose participation in the games isn't in question are now also employed in control of a c that's after a norwegian state broadcaster published a list of drugs that norway's team doctor has brought chung. well are remarkable amount of ass medication was noted six thousand doses containing banned substances that's ten times more assman drugs the neighboring finland brought to south korea well the quantity of asthma medicine has raised a number of concerns most of these drugs contain substances banned by water and the doping watchdog argues they can enhance an athlete's performance by expanding their

lung capacity the norwegian anti doping agency has also admitted the country has a problem with the overuse of assman medication. it is common practice in no way to occasional use as a medicine in major elements in the respiratory system even with the diagnosis vastly is not specific. well the latest revelation comes after the release of a documentary that alleges the existence of an organized doping system at norway's ski federation one of the journalists behind the film told us there are major doubts over many of the competitors at this year's winter games the region ski federation is very angry about this they don't want to talk about this problem and that's very sad in the region as finland it's more strict ration ski federation doping program we can see that forty one percent of the middle.