the protesters from back radio position activists protesting against saudi arabia's continued involvement since they helped to suppress the revolution of two thousand and eleven to those opposing the arms trade and the war in yemen one of the people we spoke to was the labor m.p. chris williamson the british military advisors to be involved but sixty two a whole new level and frankly trampling on britain's reputation. as a nation that stands up for human rights that we've got no place it seems to me selling almost to saudi arabia and certainly we should not be participating in facilitating the war by having military advisors there now since the saudi bombardment of yemen began in two thousand and fifty the u.k. has sold over four and a half billion pounds worth of weapons while the us. still worth over one hundred ten billion pounds some of the biggest deal in u.s.

history and the visits of the have been selma also being raised in parliament today by the labor leader jeremy corbett a humanitarian disaster is now taking place in yemen million his face starvation six hundred thousand children have cholera because of the saudi led bombing campaign and the bloc a germany has suspended arms sales to saudi arabia but british arms sales have shot me increased and british military advisers are directing the wall it cannot be right that her governments this is cannot be right that her government is colluding in one of the united nations ses is evidence of war crimes but it's also to be mentioned that in addition to these hundreds of protesters there is a school council protest numbering a couple of dozen people who are here. welcome i haven't been selma so long that

but in any case this protest definitely the larger of the two. a former russian policeman has been sentenced to life in prison for a series of murders which have shocked the nation yevgeny to pinsky killed at least nineteen young women starting in the late one nine hundred ninety s. it was only course two years ago. thank.

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truth. which i just want you to do so that if you know. there's been an outcry in the u.s. some freedom of the saudi national with suspected links to al qaeda was able to live freely in the country for seventy is lawmakers are now asking why the state department granted the man if he is a little thin as the details may be hard to believe but the alleged al qaeda terrorist has been living in the united states for seven years unnoticed saudi national naive flower flogged is now been arrested and at this point members of congress want answers about how this was allowed to happen in two thousand he attended an al qaeda training camp two thousand and eleven he moved to oklahoma on a nonimmigrant visa joining his wife in two thousand and sixteen he was even able to get a pilot's license however that was revoked when the f.b.i.

finally started an investigation now he is in custody awaiting trial on a number of charges the indictment charges two counts of these a fraud. the third countercharges health launch with making a false statement to the f.b.i. when he denied ever having associated with anyone from a foreign terrorist group he may not have been able to enter the united states of authorities had actually been able to pay more attention it turns out that back in two thousand and one his fingerprints were actually found on an application to a terrorist training camp furthermore his father was named as a person of trust in an al qaeda document now at this point that data was not able to be analyzed until twenty seventeen i'd say there was a number of breakdowns going back to where the original intelligence was maintained and stools he should have been on the watch this you know who was on the list oh marmont teen the pulse nightclub shooter recently released cell phone records

indicate that just days before the attack he was considering whether or not to attack disneyland he was on the f.b.i.'s radar screen after making threats against his coworkers and claiming to have ties to jihad ists however after ten months of monitoring and three f.b.i. interviews they determined that he was quote not violent or dangerous after he did carry out his attack the f.b.i. said he had self radicalized on the internet we're working hard to understand the killer and his motives and his sources of inspiration. but we are highly confident that this killer was radicalized and at least in some port through the internet so the internet did it hah well remember that florida school shooter apparently he left tips on the internet that he was planning to shoot up the school people called the f.b.i. about it but they never bothered to look into the matter as a term and the protocol was not followed. the information was not provided by me

heal the office. and no further investigation was conducted that. this is an ongoing failure of the united states and it's not just the u.s. it's also in europe to properly vet these people and the f. i had ample warning that the orlando attacker was a threat because he was muslim but they did not want to look into it they did not want this being that they were targeting these certain religious groups even reports of come out with school shootings in the united states where the f.b.i. many times received a phone call warning them about these shooters and nothing happened because of that the f.b.i. did not follow up so i think it's not so much a lack of resources at it as it is a lack of knowledge or understanding about threats that matter the most. ukraine has seized the assets of one of russia's biggest gas producing companies will not after the break.

it's been almost fifty years since we've had human beings on the surface of another planetary body and i hope that we could actually put together an international lunar exploration initiative much like we have the international space station consortium and together the countries of the world cooperating with the private sector could afford to get back into real space exploration and i think that would that would create a a lot of excitement. in your column say that. something is good in course all all but for about a subtle and. all but for all for me. a whatever. either the principle is good or the principle is bad has to be apply equally and

that is not. welcome back ukraine has started seizing assets belonging to russian energy giant gas problem following a long term dispute over gas supplies earlier betraying co-joined kevin owen in the studio to discuss the story. well it's one of these cases when you can easily say not again russia and ukraine could be on the brink of an all out gas war again as you said kiev's begun seizing the assets of russia's energy giant gas but a few days ago gasper said it was scrapping all sales and transit contracts with kiev however there is something for you to bear in mind no matter what happens in politics all the difficulties between kiev and moscow the ultimate

reality has been that ukraine has been relying on gas imports from russia all along for all these years eastern and central europe to a massive share of these gas supplies is delivered through ukraine if there's jenga tower of contracts for purchases the transit and all the political issues to top all that off collapse as staying warm in eastern europe during this very cold spring as we all know could become an issue but a blip company is by and asked me said it was a blip in the. believe ukraine was siphoning off some of the guys will come out of it i'm sitting ok because russia wants to be seen as a reliable partner doesn't it so to try and get this kind of the catalyst for where we are now was a recent. well ukraine's nafta gas and russia's gas from have been settling their disputes and a stockholm arbitration court and in the last few years there have been so many

issues and between these two but just a short while ago one stockholm tribunals decision forced the firm to pay the russians a sum of about two billion u.s. dollars that was basically a gas bill that they hadn't paid but then the latest decision was that russia's gas brom must pay. ukraine's nafta gad's more than four point six billion u.s. dollars and that was for abusing their position as a monopoly and if you do the math then moscow and he have more than two point five billion u.s. dollars and the boss is aghast more extremely unhappy they were saying that the reasoning for that was completely unfair and that they're just bailing out a shattered economy which many times as we've seen just couldn't pay for the gas

that they were buying now bitrate is justified the decision by the sharp deterioration in the economy we're categorically against the grain is economic problems been solved expands so russia ukraine gas wars have happened before and it has previously led to energy crises in the region those in the west as you were saying for now they don't have to worry about anything and again it's not in any of russia's interest to spoil this reputation as a reliable partner but previously kiev has been caught for illegally siphoning off russia's gas intended for europe so there have been disruptions in gas deliveries but obviously russia had to protect its political and economic interests in technically it wasn't gas rumsfeld. head of nato yen stoltenberg says the alliance plans to maintain its military presence in iraq as long as it has the approval of the country's government played to all of the wrong

if we are invited to the gone wrong. reasons why we are planning for scaling up our training is this quest from the iraqi government. the second we have no intentions to stay longer than necessary stolzenberg are speaking during a rare visit to baghdad after the iraqi prime minister also arrived further nato operations against eisel but the premier's willingness to allow foreign troops to remain in the country is in stark contrast to the views of parliament last week nor make has called on the government to set a timetable for the withdrawal of all foreign forces well there are currently six thousand five hundred foreign troops stationed in iraq more than half of them are u.s. personnel australia has the second largest contingent followed by italy former u.s. congressman ron paul believes there's no justification for the continued military

presence in iraq. our governments whether they're of the democrat party or republican party they're generally in dorsey's idea that we have this moral obligation to straighten everything out and they use it as an excuse but there's always other reasons for doing this there's a group of people who see some secondary gain and there's a lot of property being made in oil is important all these things it's just time to come home where i'm buying their own business and we ought to save the money and we would be as strong as ever if not a lot stronger with our independence. because of the disruption and the chaos in iraq al qaeda has moved in so they weren't a problem under saddam hussein was not friendly with with al qaida it's a reaction to our policies our policies stir up these hatreds in the organizations of the radicals. now some news just in a student has died after

a high school shooting in the u.s. state of alabama police in the city of birmingham say they believe the incident was accidental two other people are injured one of them critically the building was briefly put under lockdown it's the third fatal school shooting in the u.s. since the start of this year well for more on all of our stories go to r.t. dot com otherwise i'll be back with the latest headlines in just over half an hour scene of that.

when. both the united states and russia have announced their nuclear weapons posture both countries are in tree a new age of war the age of hypersonic weapons are we now in the new arms race. under-performing the stock market oh my god blackstone arbitrage opportunity brought amongst yourselves i suggest you short yourselves a par lunny into your own corporate balance sheet and then blow your brains out on live t.v. they give us all kinds of fun experience for the financial predatory class.

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton on this day march seventh eight hundred seventy six the u.s. patent office granted a patent to the scottish born in venter an innovator alexander graham bell for the first. telephone his first words used in the device were mr watson come here i want to see you eleven years later and eight hundred eighty five mr bell founded the american telephone and telegraph company a t. and t. bell was a true disruptor of the day and worked upon many inventions in his later life including those related to hydrofoils and aviation he even along with thirty three others was

a founder of the national geographic society and served as its second president and coming up sticking with phones and telecommunications a little later on ashley banks joins us to take a look at the world's biggest telecom companies and just how much money they make and we take a look at the housing market in the u.s. in our broad with debbie boyd plus we sit down with gary left to talk about airlines and their profits but before we get going let's get to the headlines. recently we reported on the growing cooperation between the right hailing company and toyota well not to be outdone nissan is set to begin field test in yokohama japan of its autonomous self driving car service nissan will become one of the first major automakers anywhere to test hailing software developed in-house using its own fleet of self driving electric cars the service will be called easy ride

and it's set to be launched in the early twenty twenties in addition to taking passengers through their desired locations easy ride will also make suggestions on destinations based upon customer queries such as restaurants near me all while the vehicle is underway in related news renault nissan and mitsubishi motors will move closer to becoming a single company with joint executives leading all of the major functions of the the companies. alliance dubbed r. and b. for renault nissan mitsubishi of course rivals of volkswagen which is currently the word largest producer of vehicles by sales. in the world consumed by quick expanding artificial intelligence experts are warning of their growing capacity to independently produce malicious things such as fake news however that's nowhere near the worst of these predictions that experts warn

a new report titled the blisters use of artificial intelligence that's pretty explanatory researchers on the subject have cautioned about things such as cyber attacks and even hacking of our infrastructure over the past five years in the field of a it's become really rapid the development and these experts warn that this at the current pace things could go south very quickly another hypothesis of the report claim that if left unchecked a i could even hack into drones and driverless cars and my question is what does all this mean for jobs we'll keep an eye on that here bust. we're two plus months into the new year and home sales may be signaling a downturn joining us today to give us some insight is debbie blois c.e.o. of deal b. financial services debbie thanks for joining us let's get right into it home sales

are already seeing a drop in existing home sales which represent the largest majority of home sales saw the sharpest drop in three years what do you make of all this well you know the housing market is alive and well i wish people would just remember that the housing market is a local so in every local city it's going to be localized and yes interest rates are the same across the board and they are going to go up but i don't know if you remember we used to have nine and ten percent interest rates for mortgages so everything is on sale now i think it's up to. mortgage professionals to educate our home buyers and remind them a lot of them are new they've never been in the market before they don't they heard that we had three percent it's now up to five percent they're freaked out but this is like still on sale it used to be so much higher so it's we've got to do our part to educate our our home buyers now yeah you're right i mean we have been at five cents five percent since two thousand and eleven i think i read that the thirty year is four point five now but it looks like we're going to see an interest rate

rise jay powell just recently sort of indicated that the federal reserve will raise rates in march and we already do have the highest rates in four years so how how would this four five rather percent plus impact the housing markets i know you say it's you know localities eccentric but overall throughout the nation debbie is it going to impact want to be home owners i don't think so i mean if you want to buy a home that's just the price of buying a home there's nowhere you can go to find it cheaper is like buying a car there's only so many entry level cars that you can buy and the cost has gone up over the years interest rates mean it when they rise you might be a have to buy a little bit less house for the money but you're still wanting to buy that home and provide that for your family you're going to pay whatever it takes exactly now there are some areas where you talk about you know local specific things the new tax reform laws you know makes it more expensive to live in some of the high tax

states like that in the northeast in california fact new york new jersey and california already have some of the highest home prices across the nation do you think this tax bill is sort of a longer term problem in that it puts downward pressure on home prices in some states with already high taxes. you know i don't think so and i think time will tell though but i think people in even in these high tax states they want to provide a home for their family it's still a good investment it's the main part of an investment portfolio so i still think you're going to see people buying homes people are older now when they buy homes and they have to look at the tax ramifications we don't have first time home buyers in their twenty's now first time home buyers in their thirty's but another reason that we have a so-called slowdown in the mortgage market is because the homes that we have to pick from on entry level homes are three hundred four hundred thousand dollar homes now they're not one hundred hundred fifty anymore with the home buyers being older

they have more classic tastes they don't want to come in and fix up a home they're not to do it yourself or is anymore so i think our our home selection has to change a little as well it's very interesting now even with higher mortgage rate you know is credit available to those new home buyers like you say i mean it's no longer going to be you know one hundred thousand dollar home it's going to be significantly more is it available now. it is we still have f.h.a. loans in this country for three and a half percent down that's not much at all then you get mortgage insurance to protect the lender in that case v.a. still has one hundred percent financing so if you're a veteran you can still buy a home with nothing down and most of the closing costs are picked up by the seller there's something called the seth program s e t h program and that's available throughout the united states it's based on a county and it's based on state specific limits and allows people that are not even have to be first time homebuyers but just with lower income levels almost up

to ten percent down to help them with closing costs and there are initial down payment so yeah there are programs still out there available and then again you're going to find owner financing available for rather first time homebuyers or people that have had a credit mistakes in their past that makes me want to ask the guy who sort of fashion some self as a consumer advocate throughout my career are there things that new home buyers should be particularly aware of or wary of things to avoid you know we remember back in two thousand where we had the you know the bubble loans etc are the things out there now that people right expression cautious about. well you need to look at what the fees are when you do a loan you can get an f.h.a. loan and a lot of people qualify for that because they're only looking at the three and a half percent down but there is a two percent funding feel on f.h.a. well if you can put three and a half and two percent down then you got five and

a half percent down you might as well do it a conventional loan it's going to be a lot cheaper that funding fee is just a one time fee but it doesn't go to the overall equity of the house so you need to look at both of those also do every county in every city has down payment system programs in it it could be just how many people are in your home it has nothing to do with good or bad credit it just has to do with what you earn how many people are in your household there is money available out there ok good to know now a lot of our viewers around the world i want to ask you about places around the world london paris what's going on with housing worldwide. i think you're going to say well everything is much more expensive now than it's ever been and i don't care what country you're in australia canada london i mean it doesn't matter everyone wants to a piece of home they want to have something that they own so you're going to find that people are going to be struggling to get into that save that money down to

make that down payment on whatever costly housing is in your area they're just going to have to save more money they're going to have to be more frugal they're going to have to learn to stick to a budget everybody we say that's the american dream to own a home but i think it's everybody's dream to own a home it's just going to take a little while longer and some areas you know and the rest of the rest of the economies around the world in aggregate are doing better and better some of them are you know china and india were you know doing gangbusters better than the u.s. but you know europe is coming right now so some of those folks may be able to get back into the housing market or get into it for the first time you know usually in the spring and we're talking about the world here at the state in our spring in the early months of the year is when the housing market gets jump started people are willing to get out of get out of their sweaters and go out and look at homes but given the recent data are you still optimistic about the housing sector for the

remainder of this year in the u.s. and abroad. i am you know when spring not only is it the weather that makes people decide to take moves but we're getting kids out of school in may and june over here you're not going to disrupt your family and move them in the middle of the year and change school districts or cities or states so you're going to wait until afterwards or people need to start early so they start like maybe february march april in listing their homes and they can have a long closing date so they can close in may after the kids are out of school and then they move their family companies are still moving around the country trying to find the best tax rates in different states texas. it has been a great recent being of that with the way our state runs a lot of major companies are sending their people here from across the country or across the world so texas has got a big influx of people but it's always in the spring and summer when families are able to move in upset the school districts or i'm going to ask you a little bit of a tricky question say that you're a parent and your kid is not a kid as

a young adult just get not a college and they're looking at someplace to go and one of their priorities is to buy a home and right maybe you're not going to say texas maybe you're where should they go they go in the analytical anywhere yeah and why is it matter where they go well because the same rules apply everywhere you know but but those kids that are just coming out of college some have a lot of debt some of them are going to get a new job you know they're not staying in their jobs as long as wealth other generations do you know some people retired after thirty years these millennial is are buying are getting their first jobs and maybe they're going to live there two or three years and they're going to trade to a different job you don't want to buy a home in today's market with all the closing costs in the down payments and have to sell it again in the stress of all that just rent if you're not going to be there five years you're not going to recoup your money save your money double down on your four zero one k. get make sure you get those matching funds save for

a nest egg you know emergency funds are needed and a lot of our families don't do that you know they think i'm going to take all their money for a down payment a house i can't do that by law i have to leave them a cushion most families that's where we get into the road they don't have a cushion so if you're younger pay off your student loans pay off your credit cards don't have any car notes that's enough said to get you busy out of school the first few years and then if you're not happy with that first job and you're going to plan to move in the next five years don't invest in a home which is too expensive debbie thanks for joining us lots of important information good advice on what to do and some things to avoid debbie blood see. deal b. financial services thanks for your time. still more to come so stick around because when we return we speak with gary left about airlines and profits plus ashley banks joins us to talk about the biggest telecom companies in the world and just how much they make and.