there is plenty of movie theaters too and they're not just one or two screens they're sixteen and twenty four multiplex theaters it's really incredible and speak about some of the anomalies also just down here a little bit is the naked cowboy the fellow that is it is white skippy's with his guitar strumming and his cowboy hat love to get a couple of bucks from you and there's probably more mini and mickey mouse's within a block of here than there are in disney world as a matter of fact when they rejuvenating times square they called it the disneyfication of times square it's really incredible a my favorite anomaly by the way is and i don't i don't see any right here now what is the statues of liberty so you'll find these folks that are on stilts so they're big statues and they're dressed in the gallant summer the teal color the rustic copper on the actual statue of liberty some of them are be dealt with with gold some of will have shades on glasses and all of these folks these different characters will be happy to take

a selfie with you for a mere gratuity of a few dollars it's really a neat place to be and of course on new year's eve they have the ball that drops from here they've been doing that for years and there are close to a million people here in times square a million people right here pretty nuts we are so happy to be here we will be here all week that is it for now but we hope you'll catch us on you tube at you tube dot com slash boom bust r t thanks again for watching c.l. later. it is an economy that's been created by financialization of everything and outsourcing manufacturing to countries like china totally ignore that just made that word means to ignore something. your local infrastructure bill. now trump

saying we want to do infrastructure we've got to go borrow a trillion or two trillion dollars from who our biggest creditor that will be china again china's owning all the cards in the twenty second century and america can't even get from point a to point b. . we're similar to the spurs to the reduced fields because in most of the snowboarding for them in some. beautiful us good new books and they're going to push we'll see you pretty much over the i'm close of them as material to my gym i do you know because you know my mom they're going through the you know focused. surfing demeanor will someday and someone was a woman in the sport of the b.o.p.'s dog to us yes so just a little. too cool suits and you put yellow to someone in the field coming to shows and pools

to the police ideations people still most of them so just to please go well what you could get that would you salute the nation as we see would you do you see just as i was telling me of some of the you know the playful to me is a symbol to me so. there is now three hundred trillion dollars of sellable wealth in the world today but i look at how much money we spent in the world the military. we just talked about a few more billion dollars save the lives of people around the world in doing such a way that doesn't create dependency and with that much wealth in the united states that much wealth. the rest of the world has a nice useable for any person in the world today to go to bed hungry.

decades of environmental damage on a picturesque portuguese island in the atlantic leaves locals fearing for their wellbeing as they continue to suffer increased cancer rates go to report coming up they blame the u.s. air force for the contamination. well i'm thirty four years old and i lived my whole life in prior to that already and right by the entrance of the american base both of my parents died of cancer when i was thirty three hours diagnosed with breast cancer coming up to a heated debate on germany's migration policy says angela merkel storm out of parliament just as a member of the anti immigration party just another attack on the chancellor. and also in germany leading tabloid publishes what it thought was indisputable evidence of russian meddling only to realise it had been pranked by a satirical magazine feeding them bogus emails. we knew how to feel like an editor

and what we did was we came up with a story that was checking like a spy and it was a good laugh. from out international kevin i am with you thanks for your company this hour if you tuned in around the world we're starting with this the windswept portuguese island of terrorists in the azores in the middle of the atlantic ocean is in desperate need of decontamination decades of u.s. air force activity of allegedly left it polluted with hydrocarbons and heavy metals and islanders say they're extremely worried about the prevalence of cancer another serious illnesses.

but back to twenty thousand years this is the constant oscillators of the same releases and of a constant as the now that's an eighteen twenty twenty thousand twenty thousand twenty thousand. new them freely and it's done so in a way from here as well ready to stay too long. mostly what we have is a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by heavy metals the hydrocarbons there are very high levels of lead in some zones that are copper zinc and molybdenum all of them heavy metals that in certain concentrations can cause to realty cancer arrhythmia and neverending amounts of problems associated with an excess of these substances.

all my family lived in that area both of my parents died of cancer my mom of breast cancer and my dad was a different kind of cancer when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer. much confusing the more cancer cases there are the more that appeal ation asks why is this happening why if private story on the roads is that on one side all houses have a had at least one case of cancer and on the other side it's almost every other house that is not normal your. well the u.s. has maintained a presence on the island since one nine hundred forty three to sara serves as

a stopover for transatlantic military flights and is home to the sixty fifth air base group although it's not known how many personnel are currently stationed there there are one hundred sixty one houses to accommodate the meantime while former employee told us about the health risks that workers at that facility say they've also been exposed to called them but if you're going to have meant there was also a senate commission that came to check a legal process from some members of the american military who are dying of terminal cancer and were exposed to radioactivity on to so we were here for about a week and during the time i found out that we are doing here we were here to confirm the existence of radiation on the island radioactive contamination with. the dire environmental situation of our land was first acknowledged in a classified report written in two thousand and three which has since been leaked it details seventeen major fuel spills in one fifteen thousand gallons of jet fuel

released when a pipeline was unintentionally activated that was in one thousand nine hundred four we believe since then there's been no cleanup after that the report stresses that the island's inhabitants risk from contaminants in the soil in the air and water is what local experts have been telling us. well. we found in the data that was published referring to the two thousand and seven two thousand and eleven period a higher number of certain cancers in the prior area than the rest of the laws especially regarding the rarer cancers for example i can see with thirty three percent of those or cases being in prior divots aura while the area has only eight point five two percent of the population. but we. think this is a hell of the repeats itself on various islands occupied by the americans this is almost a scorched earth policy where the problems accumulate and the local government doesn't react the population has no capacity to take a stance maybe as

a result of scientific illiteracy or a lack of knowledge on the cause effect relations. we can't know but contacted both the us and the portuguese governments they've not received or not got back to us by the specific questions we asked them still waiting for it but there was something back towards the us government did their ever for the press release from last december it states the two countries are aware of the situation and this seeking expert advice on how best to proceed will keep across that one track in this next is germany a top representative of the nationalist parties loves to scathing attack on chancellor merkel he told a parliamentary session on thursday that her policies are a failure and that she's part of a push to impose he said multiculturalism not just on germany but of the whole of europe our europe correspondent peter all of them reports. finger pointing and a walkout by the chancellor is this the new normal of german politics it was

a very heated session in the bundestag on thursday morning here in berlin angela merkel was outlining how she see some of the challenges facing germany and europe and what needed to be done on that but it was really the performance from the political new kids on the block alternative to germany well certainly true a lot of the attention first off we heard from alice vidler who's one of their co-leaders she said that the e.u. no longer represented the german taxpayer in fact going as far as to call it pure socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and a few boos from her fellow members of the bundestag she also called for a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks it but then it was the turn of her co-leader alexander gallant to speak he hits out directly at angola merkel's support for the proposed e.u. refugee distribution system that would see an overhaul of the dublin treaty that

would see mandatory quotas for e.u. nations saying that they have to take set amounts of refugees you know countries want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national deal to with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here well that prompted this reaction from the chancellor angela merkel clearly having enough decided she was often not going to stick around to hear mr cowen say that he supported cooperation between e.u. member states but not the formation of the united states of europe well is this the new normal in german politics because like them or loath them alternative for germany have the votes there in the parliament we've actually seen them growing in the polls of late but one can't really presume that every time they say something that mrs merkel doesn't agree with she's got to decide she has somewhere else better to be. well merkel being bashed by the opposition

a prominent politician from germany second biggest part of the s.p. days been embroiled in a scandal the country's best selling newspapers published what it thought was smoking gun evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics but its rush to break the story the tabloid failed to check its sources and that backfired spectacularly would go as the of explains build thought they had a bombshell the makings of an international scandal here's the meat of it bill the published a report about how the socialists the s.p.d. was trying to buy the services of the mythical russian troll factory it's huge it would be the first direct evidence of russian meddling in german politics here the actors kevin kuhn are head of the s.p.d. youth wing who is running a campaign against forming a coalition with angular merkel the no grow cold campaign yuri

a mysterious russian agent offering the services of an online army under his control to spread the message what build got their hands on was the email exchange between them it reads wonderfully cold words mistrust secret meetings like something out of a spy movie deal kill him i'm yuri i'd like to talk to you about supporting your new group who campaign thanks for your mail jay already told me to expect a mile from you but just to be sure could you name me g.'s favorite beverage as you can certainly understand this is a delicate matter me oh me oh marty ginger oh dear yuri perfect that's a relief so what can you offer me. basically we can offer you everything an opinion campaign with schultz social bots on twitter and facebook or even

a targeted facebook advertising campaign front page stuff but that was on friday by wednesday germany's satirists from time inc magazine revealed that it was all a prank they had written the entire exchange and said to build but build rabbits without jew checks and verification what with there and t s b d stunts and tabloid routes even the email tributed to kevin kuhn or was think he couldn't have sent anything from it other german publications saw the exchange and realized it was specious but as to tally it explained bill that was just too excited an anonymous email two or three.