as you heard a couple of minutes ago when cas initially overturned the i.o.c. bans of the sochi athletes the international olympic committee was very critical of the court thomas back demanded reforms and i asked the secretary general if anyone returned to these ideas after the final decision of the russian athletes was made and the answer was no so it turns out when the court of arbitration for sport came up with a verdict that fully satisfied the i.o.c. nobody wants to reform cas any more. in a hard hitting charge he had with the general you can see it in full for the day tomorrow on this channel. facebook and google are risk of losing one of the world's biggest advertisers if they fail to improve news transparency and tackle extremism on their platforms consumer products journey uni lever which makes some

of the biggest brands in food including products made that threat at a tech conference monday but the anglo dutch firm has been called out of course in the past with its own misjudge marketing daniel kids explains more same news different day facebook is again in the firing line having faced pressure from governments and activists over failing to root out hate speech racism fake news divisive comments and whatnot this time it's global giant universe leading the charge even threatening to reduce and withdraw advertising from the social media platform if things don't improve. unilever will not invest in platforms or environments that do not protect our children or which create division in society consumers do care about fraudulent practice fake news and russians influencing the us election they do care when they see their brands being placed next to ads funding terror or exploiting children now the message is clear no more deception

abuse and controversy and a new era of positivity unity and includes everybody but a closer look at unilever own p.r. record reveals a contentious history from this infamous dove soap placed on facebook triggering a storm of accusations of racism to fair lovely skin lightening products market across asia sporting allegations of perpetuating racist colonial there are types to control the seas with massage any and sexism culminating in a damning report on chauvinist that marketing. after apologizing unilever has said it's now to change its ways it's released new adverts advocating inclusive ety it wants facebook to follow suit or else let's face it though you leave out probably won't drop one of its biggest advertising

platform money talks but the story probably has generated some good p.r. that you believe or as any company is primary responsibility is to make money for its shareholders too to turn a profit and sometimes p.r. initiatives like this are part of it there are just an effort to elevate your brand i think it would be difficult for them as a company that makes consumer products to avoid advertising one of the most prominent platforms today but what about the central actor in the whole story. book the platform has shown commitment to the battle against fake news and abuse but the floodgates have now been truly opened on the pressure left right and center to moderate to censor to sanitize and seems to have buckled under the squeeze well it has made itself very vulnerable because it has made these promises and it's even done some things to try to filter misinformation out of its social network even

though they have tried to do things it doesn't appear to be working we're going to see a lot of pressure increasing pressure on facebook at unilever things that could fix it by giving putting marketplace pressure on facebook i'm a little bit skeptical that that will actually work facebook is tackling an ever growing list of calls and ultimatums first from politicians and security services now it seems corporations that shipping into facebook spending to dumond's could well backfire. a top u.s. democratic lawmakers call from urgency meetings and alleged russian meddling that's on top of the three major investigations already underway in the united states. thinks the current administration is not doing enough to address the threat which he describes as being equivalent to a bold bullets we ought to protect ourselves this is a very severe threat and this is as much an attack on the united states as if there were bombs and bullets this is an attack on our essential governing structure so

amid the continuing allegations of trouble russia ties one of the investigators on the senate intelligence committee has found himself in bold and controversy to jacqueline. in case you haven't noticed the democratic party is very worried about big bad russia the film portals into our society the kremlin clan russia has harnessed the tremendous and quite frankly to me frightening power of social media truly troubling evidence of the scope and reach of russia's interference in our last election and the top democrat on the senate's russian investigation mark warner is no exception to the rule i'm concerned. but the president still does not recognize the severity of the threat but apparently warner does and he will do anything necessary to battle moscow's reach based on leaked text messages between the senator and a second party it looks like when it comes to the russian threat the ends justifies

any means and could in attempting to carry out some collusion of your own several of the messages show warner trying to arrange a secret meet up with christopher steele the former spy behind the now infamous trump dossier we want to do this right private in london i want to send less yet because if we can't get agreement would rather not have paper trail so who was warner depending on the set up the clandestine meeting with steel that would be one mr adam wildman a lobbyist best known for acting on behalf of the russian tycoon did it and according to the tax womyn is also connected to julian asuncion another person accused of being a kremlin puppet now this is all way under the table warner repeatedly refused to make the invitation to speak to seal officially in writing while at the same time telling weldon that the paris efforts would be helping america and apparently in his mind the way to do that is to be includes with the confidence of one of the richest men in russia and according to republican senator marco rubio the whole senate intelligence committee has known about the contacts for months so if the

other the democrats nor the republicans care about warner's conduct is it just that collusion is a problem reserved for only one party or is the reality here that russia is just being used in a political game of chess one or said it one point we have to be careful of paraphrasing here i don't want a paper trail now if what he was doing was fine and dandy and innocuous and no big deal then why would he care if there was a paper trail he certainly should have or his staff should have known who he was communicating with who this lobbyist represented if you're going to talk to a lobbyist about getting a one on one face to face with christopher steele then you should know who you're dealing with in trying to arrange that need. the fix was in the ta is or between the democrats and russia more so than anything trump ever had to do with russia but it just shows what hypocrites they are and the american media just ignores these

things coming out washington's top diplomat admits islamic state hasn't yet been defeated in syria despite victory being declared last year we got that story in plenty more to come just eighty seconds away. here's what people have been saying about rejecting this a. bill the show i go out of my way to. really go back to. is the john oliver of a party of mary to say we are apparently better than. the c. . heard of. jack to the next president of the world bank. sent us an e-mail.

in the soft and in the president of turkey has sent a warning to the united states threatening aggressors with what roger bedouin called an autumn slap it came in response to u.s. commanders vow to use aggression if washington backed forces were confronted. we will respond aggressively we will defend ourselves. aggressive exchange of words is

heightened tensions in and around syria over how and correct washington currently view kurdish forces differently or monday washington emitted that some of the kurdish groups it trains are shifting to fight against turkish troops in the north of syria potential flash point here turkey is currently on the offensive against kurdish groups there it deems them as terrorists it's a complicated picture calum open as more of the situation that seems to be playing out now in syria. u.s. secretary of defense james mattis has confirmed that u.s. armed kurdish forces in the ass d.f. have been relocating to the northern parts of syria to protect territory from turkey. the destruction of was going on up enough and right now which is drawing off some of the syrian democratic forces to see the snuff and on the run so the schools and the police there are tensions to shift. now the kurds and turkey are both key u.s. allies in the region however there's been tension between all three of them in

recent months now we've heard of how the usa has been arming the kurdish forces and providing them with weapons now and carra has been quite upset by this action they consider this to be the arming of terrorists now at this point we do have a statement from james mattis confirming that he believes there are legitimate security concerns on turkey's part about these kurdish forces that have been armed by the united states will continue to work with and there is of disagreements which is how do we take them on as he was run at least possible they have a legitimate security concern and we do not dismiss one bits of them now there has been escalating tension between the united states and turkey especially in the aftermath of an announcement from the united states that it intended to create a thirty thousand strong border force to protect syria's border with turkey now u.s. leaders backtracked from those comments but that hasn't stopped turkey from being quite upset by these remarks now we've recently seen the beginning of operation

olive branch and this is turkish forces moving into syria to fight against the kurds two allies of the united states clashing with each other in syria as the tensions escalate we're even hearing calls to rename the street on which the u.s. embassy in turkey's capital is located there are calls to rename the street olive branch after operation olive branch the turkish operation to go into syria and fight against the kurdish forces armed by the united states there seems to be quite a bit of contradiction in the words and statements of u.s. leaders and there seems. to be rising tension between all three parties the usa turkey and the kurdish forces. with relations being tested between the two nato allies us talk to them a rex tillerson is visiting turkey now as part of his middle east tour and to listen admitting the fight against islamic state is far from over in syria despite washington declaring victory of the terror group back in november for younger for

major combat operations does not mean we have achieved during the few devices isis remains a serious threat to the stability of the region our homeland and other parts of the globe last month the us announced plans to maintain an open ended military presence in syria it says some two thousand troops are set to stay on in the country to prevent what they term an i sill resurgence and to counter iran's influence in the region washington also says it wants to ensure the civil war is resolved through a political process and that displaced locals can return to their homes simply to that end they've also pledged two hundred million dollars in aid but the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov things washington's present might become permanent. but you are still the police u.s. is its presence should continue not only into military goals are achieved but also until there's a steady political process that should end with an appropriate or in other words accepted by the us transition of power that means regime change overall we have

reasons to believe that the u.s. wants to stay there for a long time if not forever the united states would like to pressure damascus by whatever means it has to change to or to effect a political change over there that the united states would like to be you know would like to endorse and then later on they could probably say ok we like that sort of change and let's get out of here otherwise we won't be getting out of here now only the face of it the real thing is that we believe that the united states is preparing the ground for a long term separation or a permanent actually separation of eastern north eastern syria from the syrian state the two hundred million dollars that are being placed today are now going to bring back electricity and water to the devastated iraq we believe but probably bring more weapons to the kurds which is going to put some pressure on other

minorities in the region to accept kurdish supremacy and the united states you know under the united states and britain i suspect we've talked the human toll roads watch has called for international support in clearing the rubble in the mining the syrian city of rocket it says almost five hundred civilians were injured in the three months after it was liberated and many were killed it says in its report the organization also highlights the growing risk of more civilians being killed as people return to the devastated city that he now really is a counterterrorism program director he will rights watch and spoke to us about the group's findings. just describe to you what i saw in iraq residents are very desperate to go and check on their home and because of the high risk and because of the few working opportunities for many young men you can go to a couple of in the city and for about fifty dollars you can hire people to go clear your house. you know but also. run and some war

this is a time where you know they're not trained to do this it's very dangerous and many other countries. they need to provide more support what sort of support. to be more meant more funding and increase in number of the miners and really increase in the training the. local residents of the mining while there have been some of the mining efforts. by the mining we're going to be funded by the international coalition or through training this is not sufficient compared to the need and local residents are desperate for a morsel or the efforts. before i go keep going to the developing story currently in london look at what's happening at westminster magistrates' court so where the fate of the wiki leaks or the julian sound is being decided right now again the judge is expected to announce the result of his latest appeal against the rest rest

warrant for breaching bail in the u.k. so just so far it's not looking good he says he claims the judge is simply defending u.k. state actions the judge says the court has to consider the seriousness of his son just failure to surrender and the harm it's caused in the community a hearing a week ago held up that warrant there's no success for him and he's been stuck of course in the ecuadorian embassy in london for nearly six years now seeking asylum they'll keep. to adultery dot com. to which that's the way the world looks so father kevin i would think so watching out international live from moscow. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the

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extent but. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from the right here in washington d.c. i'm partial thing on tap first today in the broadcast president trump has given us more details on his infrastructure plans we'll take a closer look and as the markets melt down gold goes up we'll talk with peter schiff about what to expect now let's get to some of the headlines. the trumpets administration has unveiled its long awaited infrastructure plan this morning the

white house proposal includes two hundred billion dollars in direct federal spending but officials claim that the two hundred billion dollars will stimulate at least one point five trillion dollars in new investment the difference would be. covered by state and local government spending the outline does not include a financing plan leaving that decision to congress the outline notably emphasizes rural infrastructure and claims about permitting process delays the congressional research service has questioned whether weakening permuting processes would significantly accelerate building we'll have more on infrastructure from artie's ashley banks and just a little bit. and with the trump administration again they have also unveiled their official budget proposal today investors and analysts are looking past specific spending her quest to the assumptions about growth inflation and borrowing costs contained in the report the budget assumes a three percent annual growth for ten years with well above estimates by investors

and outside analysts in december the federal reserve predicted an overall rate of one point eight percent growth over the same period j.p. morgan on friday predicted two point five percent for twenty eight thousand and one point nine percent for the next year closely tracking the fed's projections from december the administration also is up to more optimistic about the impact of the recent tax cuts and what they will do then outside analysts the pace of growth in this scenario also would likely push interest rates above the levels predicted by the white house. google and facebook may lose a significant. significant form of advertising dollars if they continue to great create division or fail to protect children according to keith weed the chief marketing officer for unilever the second largest marketing and advertising spender in the world we gave a speech today at the annual interacted advertising bureau comforts and he came it

came as part of a plethora of calls for google and facebook to do a better job of policing their products we'd said quote we cannot have an environment where our consume. don't trust what they see online unilever spent nine point four billion dollars on advertising just last year. while many larger financial institutions are staying away from digital currencies some smaller european banks are actually taking the opposite approach and allowing their access to customers swiss bank von tobel and falcon bank and german banks theodore bank and the liechtenstein bank are now offering their customers access to general currency products some of the banks are even advising clients on unusual coin offerings the i suppose with larger institutions taking a pass on digital currency the door has been open and smaller banks seem to be taking advantage of that opening.

today the white house unveiled its long awaited infrastructure plan the proposal includes billions of dollars in federal infrastructure spending to be used to repair and rebuild the nation however some including democrats in republican soiled say the proposal fall short here's our chief correspondent ashley banks with more let's ride barnow and today the white house rolled out its plan to rebuild the nation over the next ten years and the proposal it says with its one point five trillion dollar investment over the next decade it plans to shorten the process for approving projects to two years or less address unmet rural infrastructure needs and power state and local authorities and train the american workforce of the future one of the newest elements to the proposal is excessive banding the use of tax exempt debt letting states at tolls on interstates and making it easier to

lease airports and other public and sets of the one point five trillion dollars two hundred billion of that would be considered federal spending the rest would either be paid for through cuts in other parts of the budget or it would fall on the shoulders of local governments by leveraging state and local tax dollars and private investment kevin has slipped associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at virginia tac university said quote trends and from structure planning flips the traditional capital expense funding model from eighty to ninety percent federal funding to ten percent federal funding the majority of the funding mandates get pushed to the states and private funded with the administration taking credit for the investment transfer polls all has been met with praise and opposition business and industry groups are praising trump's focus on improving infrastructure and pledging. to work with congress to enact the plan while

environmental groups and democrats are accusing the administration of trying to benefit a corporate entrance and distract from a lot of federal investment just last week democrats unveiled their own one trillion dollar infrastructure proposal and tirelessly consisting of direct federal dollars experts say the trump administration may run into issues selling this proposal and congress republicans are concerned about overspending and democrats are already saying the plan falls short but democrats are disappointed saying the president and you missed an opportunity to provide a much needed federal injection of dollars into the country's infrastructure you know actually thank you so much for that report and i tell you what here it is it's fifty three pages you've been poring over it since eleven o'clock this morning and i've been doing the best job i can but you gave a great summary no i don't want to be tough on the administration or the president if there be enough detractors out there i'd wish he'd done this earlier that it's

a pretty good plan. we'll see if the money's actually there but one of the things that just stuck out to me is allowing tolling restrictions to be relaxed and that is if the states allow more pluck flexibility in the tolls that they charge or even allow others to privately operate the toll roads and you don't know this but i grew up just on lake michigan in indiana and that the toll road there is actually under nineteen or a seventy five year lease to a spanish company so indiana doesn't own the toll road the federal government does it well they own it but they don't lease it so does this language in this report here in the proposal actually will it allow foreign countries or foreign private entities to own more toll roads in the u.s. oh bart obviously there's nothing in this proposal right now to stop it from occurring in fact the proposal gets more flexibility to the states with regard to how and their state. running throughout the states or treat it so we could

essentially see more foreign control of us toll roads under the proposal and bar the proposal also calls for commercializing rest areas so they could be operated by private firms all of the firms operating the rest areas cannot charge a fee for basics like rest area water and rest from facilities while there is that what other thing that i noticed in here actually it just seems in general this goes back to. you know what reagan was trying to do with community development block grants and giving a lot of monies back to the states is that the thrust of this in general that is essential going to give money back to the states and let the states do whatever they want yeah that's definitely right there are a few interesting alm exceptions to this one is with regard to a section of the proposal it's called and powering the workers and calls for abandoning state requirements for workers and gauging them for instruction projects working across state lines so basically workers from another state could actually

end up working in any other state despite individual state rules and regulations or testing and licensing criteria so of course any such changes would need to be approved by congress and experts say that approving such a change would be difficult at best i'm going to be positive for today i'm glad he's put it out there we need the infrastructure good for the administration good for the president we'll get into more of these details archie correspondent ashley banks thank you so much. turning back to the day's big story this morning donald trump tweeted about infrastructure saying after just after so stupidly spending seven trillion dollars in the middle east it's now time to start investing in our country and that's hard to argue with but now here to talk with us about the choices president trump has framed in that tweet his tweet is former pentagon official michael maloof michael it amazes me that he would do that because it seems to me that we're spending that and more and he's actually calling for some of this

so what are the numbers that we are spending in the middle east well it it's been at least seven trillion dollars six trillion dollars in iraq when you consider the out years alone for your veterans for your for the handicapped for dealing with families and this is for out to ten years that that some hasn't even been figured in yet that doesn't include afghanistan and afghanistan the still a slippery slope so seven trillion isn't even enough in their view no no not when you consider the out years because what we probably have already spent about two trillion in afghanistan we've been at it for sixteen years now he's increasing troop levels that means more supplies more more training plus you gotta. keep that government of float in afghanistan otherwise u.s. influence in that area wanes so you mentioned supplies and training need seven trillion plus as you say over and over about another ten years ok remember the

everett dirksen quote right i mean sooner or later you're talking about real money sounds like real money what else are they spending this real money on michael other than supplies and troops i mean to their infrastructure over there we have you're going to have infrastructure we've had to be roads you know have it was schools keep order just to go in systems and in the rural areas and that is in in addition to having to deal with fighters from various clans that that don't. any of that western influence in that region so it's really going to continue to be in an endless struggle for quite some time and that that seven trillion dollars michael does that include the veterans and what we're doing here at home it will yeah it has to it has to include them and their medical medical attention and and also the families and and taking care of those who have been. severely wounded over time and taking care of them and it really all adds up over.