well and saying that their security concerns are legitimate this is what we've heard from u.s. leaders nato has only one nation and one of our allies. and insurgents inside its own borders and nato and america stand with turkey on a good image should curity concerns we have never given heavy arms to the y.p. jews so there's no one to take back the turkish military is in syria fighting against kurdish forces kurdish forces that have been armed by the united states now it turns out a number of the forces in the ass d. ath have actually relocated they've essentially gone to a wall from their position elsewhere in the country and gone to northern syria to fight against the turkish military turkey is demanding that kurdish forces be expelled from the anti islamic state fighting force led by the united states in syria however in the past we've heard u.s. leaders quite adamant about their support for the kurds in the coalition's war can

join him with democratic forces to stop mission train the new syrian border security force approximately two hundred individuals training in the b.s.f. sanogo close with the goal of a final force saws of approximately thirty thousand now the turkish government considers these kurdish forces operating in syria to be terrorists and feels quite threatened by them and has been a long outspoken in demanding that the united states and its support for these forces this is what we've heard from the turkish president. why you still here why do these weapons still arrive america is in the process of creating a terror army on i'll do it do nothing cruger not buddhas do not provoke us we will run out of patience tillerson has arrived in turkey and he'll be going to an embassy a u.s. embassy in turkey that is on a street that's actually a name for the military operation against those. british forces are by the united

states operation olive branch and it's sending a pretty clear message to washington that they do not approve of this policy of arming kurdish forces the united states is caught in a strange place between two allies it's aligned with the kurdish forces and it's also aligned with the turkish government a member of nato that considers those kurdish forces to be terrorists political sciences professor tomorrow sees that turkey no wants the u.s. to deliver on its promises. it's coming from america and this is a good to be you know i understand security teams of turkey at this big terrorist group there is you know not waiting any diplomatic. it's just want to keep its promises to deliver those promises to turkey. and and especially in member which are wise i think it doesn't work you know these

kind of diplomatic meetings for kochi. u.s. intelligence chiefs or advice to this instance stay away from chinese smartphones that includes it and while away after concerns were raised about their being used by beijing to spy on americans it provides the capacity to maliciously modify or steal information and it provides the capacity to conduct undetected espionage raise your hand if you would recommend that private american citizens use one way or products or services. not of your generation thank you for that. well the brothers just mentioned there are some of the biggest names in mobile communications or worldwide t.e.'s market share but the company an eighth place globally while away makes the top three. is investing massively to break to do or believe market leaders some certain. a lobby has huge stars advertising its

forums like football icon. scarlett johansson and and recover all. but only last week a conversation between two f.b.i. officials was leaked in which they pointed out ability to track users we heard from consultant told cheese right who saved the warning from u.s. intel chiefs is ironic considering the activities of america's old agencies anything's possible in trump's america we just don't know but given the size of the trading relationship between the two i think they'd have to be very cautious about damaging that seriously electronics one of the of the biggest markets going back and forth intellectual property and this huge contractual tire to speak chinese

manufacturers an american network providers so it would be incredibly difficult to translate the sort of statements into legal restrictions it's certainly ironic that they're putting so much effort into you blocking the entry of these companies into the u.s. markets without making a video available because as we know the one place where there is great evidence of spying activity happening here is largely driven by the u.s. government we know that actually ironically they try to insert software into huawei devices to spy on people that way so it's a difficult situation maybe they have evidence they don't want to share for security reasons but right now the one part you have evidence is not people it's the people who are complaining about. the white house has blamed russia for a large scale run somewhere at which targeted a number of countries in june last year including russian but it comes after the danish ministry of defense also accused russia of responsibility for the attack and recently the british government made the same accusation but it seems the u.k.

foreign office minister man who made the statement couldn't actually confirm that it was the doing of moscow the u.k.'s national cybersecurity sends a sense is that the russian military was almost certainly responsible for the destructive not patch of cyber attack of june twenty seventh. yet the mower behind the attack is called not petyr the first reports on the cyber attack came from ukraine but quickly spread around the world it's believed not petty one hundred at least two thousand organizations including transport systems bikes and hospital grids russia the u.k. the us germany and france were all hit by malware we talked to adam garri director eurasia future news media who say you scapegoating russia well it's all the rage these these. it's just a trend it's a it was communists were everywhere in the fifty's then it was everyone who's

a muslim is somehow a danger now it's russians maybe next month it will be the chinese but since russia and china are our allies maybe they can both be the scapegoats of the failures of western governments to actually do their job for their own citizens so yes it absolutely is a trend in the allegations continue to get more and more absurd there's only one thing in fact that is consistent about these allegations and that's that they don't lead to any tangible evidence there's an allegation there's a giant question mark and then there's an anti russian saying sions anti russian statements the persecution of russian individuals but to get from step one to step three that crucial step to evidence is always missing. or the russian embassy in london has reacted to the accusation saying there is no proof that moscow is to blame the statement of foreign office minister lord is like many other similar accusations not backed by any evidence it is another example of

irresponsible and hostile rhetoric of british officials towards russia. ok switching gears now there are two unusual teams out this year's winter olympics one is the united squad from north and south korea competing together for the first time in a dozen years it's widely seen as a positive move on a sign that relations are warming between them the other team is a limp dick athletes from russia the owners or they are competing under a neutral flag jew to a disputed doping scandal well to trickle are some spectators whether they recognize team rushes rebranding. it will take a long while for russian athletes journalists like myself that i can tell you first sure to forget the acronym oh ok r after chang twenty eight inc well just before the winter games a group of russian designers thought they could take advantage of the international olympic committee's language sanctioned.

i put one of those on myself and decided to walk around near the olympic park a little bit. what kind of team did people with this kind of sweatshirt support i'm grocery. it's a limb take half really believes he can beat the russians north korea i think north korea russia the russians the food there will be here he goes they do interviews do a limp. something with a limp think athletes of russia what would you chant if you were annoying our team supporter. we come from really. close.

leg some people say a russian animal can make it sound like that there you go russian fair siberian tiger the fear was. fear would make it sound like it's hungry. for gold medals well judging by the first few days of the winter olympics the russian fans have chosen to stick to the more traditional chants and symbols. you know you have to try and go r t and young chang. the british government is again being accused of turning its back on interpreters who helped the military in afghanistan many have received death threats from the taliban and save

a counter remain in their homeland polish boy who spoke to an afghan interpreter who is facing his final bid for asylum in the u.k. . they only give me the notice for deportation they told me that you have to leave the country so they're going to send me. i will do differently because abdul barry was a front line in ten percent with british forces in afghanistan from two thousand and eight to two thousand and ten. i know that if i join the british forces. trust for me but i have to cross our country was. the situation in our country was very bad so i have to help the international forces to protect other countries so they came to my country to protect us so why should i not hopeless but working with u.k. troops made abdul a target for local taliban forces that was a phone call from my from my father and a letter put in my door so you know that your son is working for the infidels so

tell him to leave the job that they were still be slatted the threats soon turned to violence the taliban raided on my family my father and my mom and my dad so on that time when that happened he was completely angry and all the problems happened to me just because of you creating problems for us with his and his family's lives in danger abdul was forced to flee i did i had enough time to go and see this for protection or something like that only twice was for me one choice to leave the country he came to britain illegally through cali and applied for asylum on the very first day since then the home office has rejected his initial application and his appeal the government says it's safe for abdul to return to kabul where he says his life is in danger that was. ours

and justice. because when i heard i helped the british forces in a very risky time but at the moment i'm at risk so i need help but this still ignoring me. as an asylum seeker can't work and this is the modest accommodation that the government provides for him he also gets thirty five pounds a week in living expenses and he has the constant threat of deportation looming over. him there are around a thousand afghan interpreters that worked with british forces around four hundred of them have been given u.k. beezus which means abbeville is one of around six hundred who haven't qualified the system has been described as unfair and a lot of. abdul's best friend how much managed to win hashmarks applied for his visa while still in afghanistan and after a two year wait he was brought over to the u.k.

under the government's official afghan interpreter scheme do you feel guilty sometimes that you got the visa and abdul didn't buy one visa for everything to those who spend time over the telephone isn't it seventy per cent you know going to be almost all it will be able to be you searching for people. that they worked with . for me. like night before so. if you want to get back in afghanistan abdul was a professional boxer he can't compete in the u.k. because he doesn't have a work permit but he can still train since i came here he can do nothing to staying at home going out sometimes they keep him busy with my turnings you google bob barker the woman if you're human being. told you would be. overcharging.

for the work that you love. you'll be all right but i have a full. view of the rugby. for which you would go to people who would trust the rules and if we. were needed but if you were all abdul can do now is wait for his final appeal against deportation to be considered by the home office. yes the problems are five in afghanistan. are the same because there was a big target for me the taliban and here i have a very bad depression my depression is getting worse so my life and nothing could happen to me. i see greater manchester officially the u.k. government says it investigates every claim of intimidation on considers all cases on an individual basis. the french president is on course

to take another campaign pledge off the list and money will mcroberts promising to bring back compulsory military service and his party has been busy trying to support because we call it the national service because it's the place where the youth of our country and the nation meet one another where they get to know the military service on the one hand and civil and gauge meant on the other it's where one gives his time to the nation and to society. what about the age range it will cover all age ranges both boys and girls will take part in the service will be obligatory for polls three years ago suggested that eighty percent of people were in favor of the move but now that's dwindled to a little more than sure do people in paris what they know think. but to play as you're ready to serve your country yes i have even tried to get in the army.

think there are many ways to help your country and not on the in the army it's not all about taking a weapon in your hand. but. army training is definitely way stricter than the school curriculum but this experience gave me a new perspective on things. as well i think military service is something good this creates unity around the country but serve and should be optional. at the moment the total seems quite crazy person they say it with the obligatory this is them they say not. the french national anthem at all it's all fall.

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oh max kaiser this as they report yes we're back oh codes are good things are happening. so max we're back from the round table where we were down in mexico enjoying the sunshine and we both looked a little bit funny and in the second half we have an amazing interview with patrick byrne of overstock dot com he's coming out with some of the same exciting platform called t zero you talk to him about that and that is a surprise setting actually for the second half get ready for that i shot it on my i phone i thought i did some pretty good camera work there but while we were in can tune on february eighth or february sixth actually twenty eighteen there was an interesting story that happened that was breaking while we were there and i was the price of being quite crashing down into the five thousands but there were testimony given by the c.f.c.'s sea chairman and the f.c.c. chairman to

a senate committee and we're going to look at that headline as you see and see if to see hearing more legitimate i ceo's or if there was no bitcoin there would be no blah chain the commodity futures trading commission and u.s. securities and exchange commission f.c.c. met the morning of february sixth twenty eighteen to discuss their roles and block chain virtual currencies and i c.e.o.'s set in washington d.c. of the dirksen senate building the committee on banking housing and urban affairs in open session for about two hours we'll go over some of their quotes but the shocking thing was just how positive in particular christopher john carlo who is the chairman of the c.f. to c. was about bitcoin he seemed to be a huge fan his kids his niece everybody's involved and big question in this family all the millennial in the youngsters he says you know you know very positive stuff from those regulator may seem to be paving the way for a more positive disposition toward you know the world is clearing of those who

supported those who don't support it it doesn't seem to matter really who supports it or does the support of this as a life of its own and of the gender you know the protocol is high. coded to dismantle the world as we know it and those who try to get the way will be destroyed by it but those who want to come on board like a friendly regulator that's ok a bit wary though you know it's the classic good cop bad cop so there you go you know when regular anyone from the government comes with a gift you have to be a little leery well he isn't in fact was saying compared to the internet development and the internet he said developed without regulation and he believes that this space should also develop without regulation his quote was during the oh most twenty years of do no harm regulation about the internet a massive amount of debt of investment was made on the internet infrastructure yielded a rapid expansion in access that supported swift deployment and mass adoption of

internet based technologies internet based innovations have revolutionized nearly every aspect of american life from telecommunications to commerce transportation and research and development do no harm was unquestionably the right approach to development of the internet similarly i believe that do no harm is the right over arching approach for a distributed ledger technology yeah well then in the internet was destroyed with net neutrality a so-called laws so it was a trojan horse that brought in all the gospel as a monopolist like jeff bezos and others who are now a dominating the economy and completely on healthy ways so yeah this regulator's all about come on into my warm fuzzy hot and we've got an agenda for you oh i hope the big i knew that big going has the strength to put these guys in their graves who are you know johnny come lately who are talking the good talk but we know from experience on the internet being an exact actual example that they speak with

forked tongue so again he turns to first of all he said if there was no big coin there would be no block saying so he destroys all that argument of the likes of jamie diamond and jim rickards and everybody. he says well blocked chain technology is interesting he was asked by senators asking whether or not what they thought about a block without bitcoin and he said it's the value in the crypto currency which secures the block chain so there is you can't separate the two then he said as we saw with the development of the internet we cannot put the technology genie back in the bottle virtual currency is mark a paradigm shift in how we think about payments traditional financial processes and engaging in economic activity ignoring these developments will not make them go away nor is it a responsible regulatory response so again you know the likes of jim records had said and many others around him many other people like him many people who have gone on c.m.t. see him bloomberg have said the regulators will destroy it and you know just get

ready for the i.r.s. to crack down on you or you know regulators to squash you or the department of jet justice to squash you and the next episode we're going to talk about arizona and their tax policy but welcoming bitcoin as payment of taxes but in terms of this. the c.s.t. seaguy. chairman was very very positive he's now got a huge following on twitter of all the twitter folk. but then we'll go into the f.c.c. guy he was he was positive but not quite as positive no ok so i mean he's making some correct noises about the relationship between bitcoin and the blog chain you know there was an attempt to split these two and say oh the blog change is great i don't like bitcoin understands that you can't separate the two in fact the block chain is enabled by bitcoin not the other way around so it makes it secure and so he's got now bitcoin one zero one again but i remember the regulators like for our

children to look at the silver market it was given ironclad evidence of manipulation and somehow we overlooked that and somehow didn't call time on that scam later we found out vocal believe that the market was being manipulated but by the time he was gone so will this guy be thrown to the wolves i mean you know the force of the banking industry jamie dime is not going to go away just because some regulators you know sway is singing a sweet song you know i don't think jamie dimon is hiding under his bed you know he's reloading you know this fight is going to be ramped up this is not going away it's important to note for those out there the rest the world who might not know understand american regulation system c f t c is basically regulating commodities and futures markets out of chicago is the primary center for that s.b.c. is you think of wall street and even though they cover the whole u.s. you know it's mostly wall street and wall street banks so the f.c.c.

guy steps forward with his he also says disembodied technology i block taina bitcoin are ok there are new developments we're going to see what happens with them whereas chairman jan carlo of c f t c mentioned i. scio's initial point offerings only once of course j. clayton the seat the chairman of the f.c.c. mentioned it one hundred thirty two times and he says simply said we should embrace the pursuit of technological advancement as well as new and innovative innovative techniques for capital raising but not at the expense of principles undermining our well founded and proven approach to protecting and best fares and markets so we did have a lawyer at the event who spoke about after watching this testimony and this lawyer said that clayton was essentially putting the gatekeepers on notice that the way the f.c.c.

regulates is they regulate through lawyers and accountants who are supposed to guide their clients. about the correct procedures. clayton says when he looked at every single ses every single i.c.a.o. he looked at was the security none of them did register a security maybe one or two of them did. so she did that so this lawyer did mention that there will be enforcement action some enforcement actions coming soon probably against some exchanges and probably against i.c.a.o. is initial quite offerings that we're offering steep discounts to certain insiders and people oh yeah i see no market the initial coin offering market is a distinct market and it does come under the purview of the f.c.c. as a security that they would monitor closely as

a securities offering those comments did overlapped somewhat with crypto currencies like bitcoin and the theory i'm they were talking about bitcoin when the question came up well would you start to be taking a more aggressive stance toward bitcoin and they said well we're not sure because they don't have anyone to talk to it bitcoin there is no one eight hundred bitcoin to call there's no headquarters there's no person like of a taluk at a theory i'm so against my point here's a regulator talking tough there's a regulator talking sweet kisses good cop bad cop this is what cops do this is what the government does big coin itself is on an agenda it's has a rock you know i love this story that the british banks are being hacked into and people are mining big coin because if anything you can do to destroy british banks and wall street banks is a positive toward a better humanity they are the pox on our civilization big oil will attack them in

many different ways if you're going to undermine them by mining and basically collapse from the inability to have the energy to survive then that's another good . a way to destroy. this plague this this locust this infestation called you know the banks. of course i c.e.o.'s have nothing to do with bitcoin or theory other than riding on top of it they are finance offerings whether or not ever anybody was trying to pretend otherwise in the second half you do talk to patrick byrne about regulators and his he is doing and i say oh but as a security so he's doing above board with it when it comes through the whorehouse they take the piano player and i'm saying so they'll come in there or say all these i.c.a.o. zoeth they're all securities you're all going to jail and by the way you guys in the bitcoin camp are coming along with those really awesome questions for you right so i mean.