a statement on its failure to investigate the florida shooter. i think that is probably coincidence. you know i don't have any reason to think otherwise things these are both things that needed to happen and. the. they have been on the same day well ok. the it would have been worse for the f.b.i. if they immediately yesterday that they missed the tip on a florida shooter because no one strike the afternoon of the three a weekend that's not generally considered to be a great time to release new score it's a great time to release news if you want to bury it in there and also the document claims the indicted individuals who are carrying out operations to disparage hillary clinton in favor of donald trump i mean do you think this is aimed at discrediting the trumpet ministration. well their it's not new it's not a new story and if you look in the details of what's alleged.

it's alleged that all kinds of activities were under way. in not necessarily a very coherent plan some things allegedly disparaging hillary some things allegedly discouraging people from voting. some things before the elections on exactly the election some things in three states some things in states that were never. in play anyway so and of course the most important thing small in significance all the other things have been on social media. robin a member leave it there thank you very much a political commentator thank you for your. when we were all the governor of florida rick scott has called for the director of the f.b.i. to resign this comes after reports that tips were missed regarding wednesday's

school shooting in part and that left seventeen people dead and around a dozen injured the f.b.i. admits they had already received information about suspect nicholas cruz but didn't follow the necessary protocols in pursuing the case a person close to cruz had called the f.b.i. hotline on january the fifth about his allegedly disturbing behavior and him expressing a desire to kill u.s. attorney general jeff sessions has ordered a review of justice department procedures he called the deadly shooting a tragic consequence of the f.b.i. is failures. and to discuss this we're now joined by former m i five intelligence officer nation army thank you for joining us i mean some people are saying this shooting could have been prevented if the f.b.i. had followed up on the tips it received do you agree with that. i think we've seen time and time again over the last few years our intelligence agencies across the west dropping the ball in terms of getting tips being aware of potential threats

and not following up on those threats and. taking out preventive measures this could go back even to two thousand and one just before nine eleven where an f.b.i. officer called colin malley who became a very famous whistleblower in the in america became time person of the year for doing that act actually said that she was stopped for investigation persons of interest who were then alleged to have carried out nine eleven so it seems lessons not being learned and we see this as well across europe with the notion of lone wolf attacks and isis inspired attacks where all these people are being radicalized to carry out their attacks all of them across the western world have already been known to the police and the intelligence agencies and they're not reacting in time to stop the attacks so yes lessons do need to be learned i mean why do you think it is that the f.b.i. they have they haven't reacted why do you think they didn't follow the protocol. it

seems like a failure of communication it often isn't your bureaucracies and also big bureaucracies can be very monolithic and very slow to move. but yes they need to have a proper view about you know what exactly are the threats what are they trying to do how can they best protect the people of their country to protect against these threats and that doesn't seem to be done just hours ago i mean we heard special counsel robert mueller announced indictments against thirty russians for alleged election meddling think of the timing of that be an effort to distract from the florida case perhaps. it seems likely or it might be also a television for the publication of the newness memo last week which showed that the f.b.i. apparently was colluding in some sort of way to try and deal is just mostly trumped campaign in the run up to the presidential election who knows there are very deep waters i think this very famous russian icon it's called america doll where you can

take layer upon layer upon layer away and i think what we're seeing at the moment in america is not so much russia kate but intelligence kate where we are seeing larry larry living peeled away from what appears to be deep state collusion trying to just deal just mize the trump presidency and try and stop a real professional between america and between russia. and finally i mean do you think in the light of what's happened then we will see any one site or any significant changes in how the f.b.i. responds to these type of cases. we may well see one or two sacrificial heads yes we may see people being sacked but i don't think the general sort of monolith of a bureaucracy is very easy to change so it's a real shame because in terms of what a person trump said he wanted to do in the run up to his inauguration was try and regularize try and make normal and try and cooperate with russia and other world powers and to stop aggressively involving america in foreign wars and it appears

he's been corralled by his advisors by his generals by the senior people in his ministration to try and push him into doing precisely that and that's dangerous world peace. ok animation former m i five intelligence officer thank you thoughts thank you. now tensions between turkey and the u.s. continue to grow over washington support for the kurds in syria find out more on that after the break. if north korea really believes we're about to conduct a preemptive strike on them it's going to be significant and a serious preemptive strike that may. they may be motivated to make it to try to be just the gods have to push through. the other make their talking back on a banker then fiduciary to fiduciary in other words are saying that bitcoin as even

our lunch the returns on bitcoin of made everything we do is a bank look stupid image shore and low performance even warren buffett has not kept up with bitcoin nobody's kept up with bitcoin so they're saying that oh it's a non correlating asset ok what does that mean that means stocks bonds then currencies are all in bear markets now and i'm going to continue to be in bear markets and they're probably going to wipe out a whole generation or two that crypto currencies are the only thing is going to save these people and us from being fired so we're going to middle of the group the currency market because even if we get a little bit of those gains about the last ten years of big point it will save us from our going to report big red negative year on year returns on every single piece of money management business we touch. back the u.s. secretary of state is in turkey in an effort to mend ties with rex tillerson has

met president as well as the country's foreign minister but i tell allies have been told so i will washington support kurdish militias in syria ankara is annmarie the u.s. banks groups that turkey coast terrorists to us and trying to ease tensions by claiming the support is limited however this doesn't seem to be enough. always been clear with turkey that the weapons provided to the syrian democratic forces would be limited mission specific provided all the experimental basis to achieve military objectives only we demand that this relationship and by that i mean we want them to and all the support given to the syrian arm of the p.k. k. the white b.g. well let's take a closer look at the two groups the defense minister was referring to there the p.k. k. is the kurdistan workers' party a group of fighting turkish authorities for more than thirty years both ankara and

washington consider them a terrorist organization however america until you have different views on the syrian based kurdish militia called the people's protection units or the wife p.g. and regards it as a branch of the p.k. k. and therefore terrorists but the u.s. led coalition sees the wife e.g. as allies in the fight against islamic state in syria when in january the pentagon and state was creating a kurdish led security force on turkey's doorstep in northern syria in response and current launched a military campaign against kurdish militias they're threatening a direct clash with american forces when rex tillerson arrived in the turkish capital he was met by a large number of protests against his visit earlier we spoke to the president of the kurdistan national assembly of syria he believes the differences between the u.s. and turkey will be hard to resolve. so u.s.

knows clearly that turkey has a lot of support for islamist groups in the only way to stop that is using the kurds working with the kurds therefore you will see the differences are and will continue in turkey if they want to resolve this issue not by attacking the kurds of syria and killing children and women and this is something i think the the u.s. administration knows turkey is to crush the kurds not to stop isis or element of that nature so therefore they will this issue will remain. it's now a week since the winter olympics in south korea officially began and there have been touching stories of mutual help and support and sporting controversy and they have also made the headlines r.t.c. as more. unfortunately with these winter olympics the story has been that every other day yung chang treats the media with some sort of scandal so far perhaps one

of the most disgusting ones for me was when a canadian short track speed skater was receiving death threats from the locals after she finished fourth first but then a south korean athlete was disqualified and then her position was upgraded to start place and that's when be ugly things started happening but you shouldn't get the impression that the olympic games are doomed because in many sports there is such a spirit it's the kind of family spirit that goes first after nationality rivalry politics etc there was one good example when george cross country skiing competition a russian skier lost a part of his equipment and then an american coach rushed to help him out if the russians here had to do this u. turn you don't come back to pick it up that would have been a disaster for the race but thanks to the american coach it didn't happen and we

talked to the men the cross country ski family is is exactly that it's a family we often benefit from russian or no region coach is giving our athletes a pole in a race and we'll do the same i would say it's very friendly when you walk by a russian athlete or coach will always say congratulations or if we've had a good race they will say congratulations to us three years ago and most of the entire russian women's team came up to our hotel and had tea and cookies with our own her continue and not many people spoke the same language we know a few words of russian a couple of them they knew some more english than we knew russian but we had a great time and that it was one of those moments in my career that i remember well i guess when it comes to pole winning. coal rivals russia and the u.s. helping each other out in sports it works both ways and here with me i got the

silver medalist in luge british master who definitely knows what i'm talking about and he's ready to tell us about a story that happened to him a few months ago as far as a distant chris hi again congratulations and what's that story with the russian athlete i guess helping you out yeah thank you very much it was a couple weeks ago where i was having a very difficult last season people were starting to reach out and help me and there was a specific russian athlete he offered me help technical help with with my pod with with fiberglass with with aerodynamics and although it didn't work because i'm much larger than he is the fact that he was willing to reach out and help me in such like a desperate time shows that sport can bridge you know cultures it can bridge politics that we can connect on the human level through sports and that's that's really what embodies the olympics here is that so many countries are coming together connecting through sport and it really shows the power of the human spirit absolutely this is

a small little step it takes a lot of people to get one of these and i can't think simulate enough for thinking about me and just trying to help me out and it's a time of need i am very close friends with with so many different russian athletes and yes there's been a lot of scandals and i'm really i can't wait for the day that we can move past this and we can just be right back to sport clean sport it's so easy to talk about negative things but it's really difficult to highlight these positive situations you know who knows maybe one two a lympics this will all be behind us and we'll get right back to you know clean competition and a lot of fun. well meanwhile russia's team have also added another silver in the skeleton to their tally but it was a medal that might never have been the key to three guwahati considered boycotting the games in support of his fellow countrymen who abandoned overdyed being claims through google of hats to prepare all his equipment by himself as the reduced team

had led to a lack of coaches at the competition even did the same for his teammate. and other results from beyond chang on friday twenty three year old natalia but only took bronze in speed skating and cross country skiing then he spits off also claimed a bronze in his event that makes a total of eight medals for the olympic athletes from russia. well for more on these hours plenty of other stories go to r.t. dot com otherwise i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest news see that . thing. i. use for most news in the spokesmen film. just music was there in the both of them

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classes project themselves. with the famous merry go round lifts and be the one percent told. us to ignore middle of the room signals. the real news is really the world. this is a boom bust broadcasting around the world on bart chilton thanks for joining us coming up there's a new type of safety deposit box and it could change everything about how we nor some of our valuables alex mahela bitch filled us in on the newest innovation and

we speak with victor matheson about the a libyan competitors and how money fits into what they do plus my interview with n.g.k. perry the president and c.e.o. of first technology about an extremely efficient and effective effort to last solid foundation for the future of many people in the developing world all of that and more bust first let's get some headlines. royal dutch shell is immersed in the largest energy related scandal ever the billion dollar bribery investigation involves a questionable one point three billion dollars payment and wire taps of shell executives and italy's state backed oil company according to the italian prosecutor the issue surrounds an toward agreement between shell officials and senior any executives that shell would actually pay any but the payment would be funneled to another company controlled by dan attempt to say who would pay off nigerian

officials for valuable offshore oil related rights and sent kickbacks to any i know it's an elaborate scheme but the prosecutor contends that even the high former rate former president of nigeria president jonathan good luck who is alleged to receive payouts during his presidency mr he does not. of course any involvement the trial begins on march fifth in italy. on saturday must space x. will formally begin a program to offer internet access to all parts of the globe with the test of satellites for a world wide same with communications network last week the company launched the largest rocket called falcon heavy watching the hawks talbot the wallace by the way was that care cape canaveral for the launch the plan for a space x. communications system may be several years away with an estimated eleven thousand

satellites will be ready in two thousand and twenty four in low or orbit incidentally google had previously considered doing something similar to space x. but now is a one billion dollars financial backer of the space x. effort. the largest regional bank in the united states u.s. bancorp based in minneapolis has agreed to pay six hundred thirteen million dollars to the u.s. government for faulty compliance related to money laundering according to a government statement about the matter the bank willfully failed to maintain adequate safeguards against money large during leading bancorp to miss many suspicious transactions over a five year period ending in two thousand and fourteen the settlement signalled out in the fairest trends that singled out the various krenz actions related to one high profile bank customer former racecar driver scott tucker who earlier this year

was sentenced to sixteen years in prison for his involvement with a fraudulent payday lending scam. and air bus the french plane manufacturers saw its largest stock market market increased over ten percent in five years on thursday that's despite delays in the new a four hundred m. military plane and a large us tax hit the arab us stock performance closes the gap between air bus and their key competitor u.s. based boeing which has outperformed air bus by twenty percent this year alone until thursday airbus also confirmed that they will increase production of their popular a three twenty plane used in commercial air travel by seventeen percent to seventy planes each month there's been no announcement as if as if air bus will increase production of the a three fifty wide body jet in response to boeing's large seven eighty seven dreamliner. a canadian bank is hoping to become the fort knox of

digital assets verse the bank is on its way to setting up a block chain based digital safety box a digital safety box which will amongst other things protect those who invest in crypto currencies artie's alex mahela vich has the latest from toronto. a small bank in london ontario it's a city about two hours outside of toronto well they're tackling what the big banks don't want to do and that's crypto currency it's an industry that a lot of banks just simply don't want to touch now we're talking about verse a bank verse a break it's thinking a little bit outside of the box the process basically is instead of having vaults or a safety deposit boxes like we traditionally see in banks they want to do the same using block chain with crypto currencies and other things such as deans and contracts a lot of those things right now are digital so that's what they want to secure but cripple currency is the big one here and there's

a reason why we've seen in the past few years of a number of heists when it comes to cryptic currencies hackers going in and stealing money one of the biggest happening just a little while ago actually just last month five hundred million dollars was stolen from japanese crypto currency exchange called coin check that affected two hundred sixty thousand customers now verso bread bank as i said wants you to block technology to basically make sure your crypto coins secure as they would a money you know good money in a regular bank so when it comes to this type of technology really the thought process again is that this comes this bank itself it is a bacon existence it's not a big bank but it is already in existence and not brick and mortar type of form it's more like i n g or something along those lines which you find online but being an established and known name is an important thing because other companies right now the do that security for crypto coins we don't even know where they are half the time it is going to find them online and really you're just playing

a game of roulette with that now breaking everything down really for canada the big picture here is that canada itself wants to become a huge player in the crypto currency market japan also is biting at canada's heels these two countries really think that the crypto currency is something for the future other countries like china japan and china india and south korea have a very different view of. there are putting up laws actually to block crypto currencies in these type of the i.p.o.'s when it comes to crypto currencies in their countries bottom line here is that when you break everything down canada wants to be a big player and when it comes to verse a bank itself they were hoping to have this technology out by june of this year back to you. as the first week of the two thousand and eighteen winter olympics draws to a quota of millions around the globe of tuned into the games to see if the best

athletes around the world are competing effectively countless people watching means no it means one thing money but how does the money affect the athletes and other things for more we're joined by victor matheson professor at the college of the holy cross victor thank you for being with us these winter olympics are seeing lots of winners with the u.s. already taking five gold medals in different events i really liked watching seven seventeen year olds chloe kim and red gerard and shaun white always a thrill and even jamie anderson but you know these medals mean something but do the athletes actually get paid for their efforts so the olympics themselves does not pay the athletes however individual nations might pay their athletes depending on how well they do so for example in the united states a gold medal is worth thirty seven thousand five hundred dollars

a silver is worth twenty five thousand and a bronze medal is worth twelve and a half thousand dollars that's actually a record amount paid to a limb pick winners by the u.s. so see this year. and when we talk about you know athletes in professional sports we know those a lift athletes make you know millions and millions of dollars but do the libyans actually make money through sponsorship deals with companies like kraft in red bull or do you see that the snowboard with burton in the skis with fischer etc are they paying somebody to use those products etc yes so of course if you're an olympic athlete the big money isn't in these the money you get from winning the gold medal the big money in the gold medal although we wouldn't turn down thirty seven thousand dollars would me but the big money is that that gold medal makes you a pretty hot commodity for the sponsors so if we look at someone like shaun white for example he makes an estimated five to ten million dollars

a year on sponsorship deals so while he's happy with that thirty seven thousand dollars from that gold medal he won what this really means is an ability to extend his ability to put those sponsorships out for those big companies like burton and does it really i mean shaun white won one gold before this one another one but if we look at those athletes in the past and i know i'll date myself but other lympics champions like like mark spitz hussein bolt even bruce now jenner you know once you've won the gold does that really set you up to be have a financially lucrative career after the olympic games. well it obviously does pen's what sport you're in right we as americans are thrilled when someone wins the biathlon or some sort of long distance cross-country ski race but to do much for

you in the long term however we have athletes like obviously michael phelps the most successful olympian in the water in history he made about two million dollars more by winning a vents outside of the olympics over his career but he top that off with about one hundred million dollars more in lifetime endorsement earnings to this point and there's no reason to think that he's not going to be able to make indorsement earnings for a long time yet even though he's been retired from the pool. and how do some of these folks it must be difficult i mean i shouldn't say they're kids but clearly the seventeen year olds are or are not adults yet but how do the olympic these olympians make the transition in their careers you know whether or not it's going into the n.b.a. or the n.f.l. or something do they you know they get agents and and they just you know go with

the flow i guess or what's it like for them well for some sports you actually do have a professional tour so both lindsey vonn and mckayla shifrin have made over a million dollars each in prize money on the ski tour over the last four years others have fewer opportunities and so you can go into coaching announcing like for example tara lipinski or into coaching like folks like not a company each or part conner. victor matheson always a great to have you thank you so much for the information victor matheson professor at the college of the holy cross thank you have a great weekend thank you. time now for a quick break but stay right there because when we return we'll see the interview with magicka berry and her efforts to bring back opportunities to the developing world as we go to break here are the numbers at the closing bell.

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