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around the clock across the world this is our to international from the team and myself you know welcome to the program our top story donald trump fired u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson appointing incumbent cia director mike pump to the position that he had once the surprise reshuffle on twitter the president later explained his decision to reporters saying he did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. i've been talking about this for a long. we got along quite well but we disagree when you look at iraq i think it's terrible yes it was i want to write something.

felt different so we were really. like we have a very similar story. well read very good i like read a lot. of commitment. i'll be thinking the record over. the rumors not tillerson was heading for the door i have been circulating for a months in the news with reports of disagreements with the president rex tillerson say in the job all until the end of this month on the millionaire businessman well then effectively step away from politics we're shit down off house more now on the mike pump aoe the new face of american diplomacy and his successor at the cia gina hospital. bork's nesting in washington my ponytail the new diplomat in chief

of the iron fist to lead america's state department has had the president under his spell for a while already the to see eye to eye on normal stev rethink the issue that sunk to listen diplomatic korea right. was. well. very good relationship whatever. whatever was. trump and pompei all share common spite towards iran and north korea both of them like to call torture enhanced interrogation and their fans of the n.s.a.'s warrantless bulk data collection where they stand on whistleblowers is one of the few things that trump and bone peo don't quite agree on well they have to differ on something. it's time to call out wiki leaks for what it really is a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia . i can't think of a thing that has put america in a better position as

a result of this deal we're a year out from the agreement and every single action the iranians have taken has been bolder and starker than the one they took before the agreement. a very real danger. i hardly ever escape a day at the white house without the president asking me about north korea and how it is that the united states is responding to that threat it's very much at the top of his mind they are ever closer to having the capacity to hold america risk with a nuclear weapon this is the man elevated to america's top diplomat and descending with them is his former deputy gina hospital will be the first woman to lead the cia with all bosses impending departure she worked undercover and in secret for years she clearly likes being out of the spotlight and it could be for a good reason. she was one of the tortue chieftains at the cia in two thousand and

two aspell ran the operations of an agency black site in thailand where two terrorist suspects were tortured one of them was nearly killed during these so-called interrogation agents slammed his head against the wall water boarded him deprived of sleep and kept him in a coffin like box and it was hospital reportedly who later gave the order to destroy the tapes which recorded the torment along with other evidence given trump's pledge to keep the guantanamo bay operational and he's advocating of waterboarding everything falls into place it seems now the state department and the cia will have plenty in common you know in hansing not just interrogation techniques a diplomatic routine to you course you don't know if both appointees will now have to go through a senate confirmation hearings before taking office or wherever they're already being called on congress from rights groups to reject both nominations human rights

watch says the track record of pompei zero hospital demonstrates that both are likely to endorse abusive practices well john korea who was the first cia officer to expose the agency's use of torture and who later served jail time following the revelations says appointing gina hospital as head of the cia is one of the worst decision trump has made. this is one of the worst moves i've ever heard of at the cia when i started i couldn't believe it because you know has bush should be in the dock at the hague not in the director's office at cia do you know has will i has blood all over her hands she's the godmother of the cia's torture program the president is certainly a fan of torture he's come right out and said so and the only thing that it's stopping them from returning to this torture regime is one piece of paper called the mccain feinstein amendment wrote it was an amendment to the national and that's up there is a fact that specifically banned it rather if it exactly the kinds of techniques

that you know has bought list was overseen in ninety nine. problems in a stir treason may is to chair a national security council meeting later on weapons they where she is expected to come up with reprisals against russia may earlier gave moscow an ultimatum to give a credible response to the origins of the nerve agent used to poison former double agent service and his daughter in the inner city of souls bring russia declined to respond saying it had nothing to do with the incident the investigation into the poisoning is the long going but authorities believe the perp were deliberately targeted with a nerve agent first produced in the soviet union traces of the substance were detected at the restaurant where they too ate before they were fined to find unconscious on a nearby park bench moscow say as it has no connection to the incident and if the

u.k. has grogs to believe a nerve agent came from russia it should share the evidence for moscow has received no access to the substance or to the investigation reporting on a case that has spiraled into an international diplomatic crisis here is honest to see a truck. in just over a week an incident in a quiet city in southern england snowballs into the biggest international spy scandal in years pushing ties between russia and the u.k. to breaking point on sunday march fourth a couple are found slumped on a bench and souls bury reporters arrive at the scene for what was thought to be a local incident but soon after a global media frenzy unravels with accusations allegations and speculation moving at the speed of light exposure to an unknown substance and her comparisons to the two thousand and six death of alexander litvinenko march sixth the u.k.'s counterterrorism police take control of the investigation the u.k.'s foreign secretary boris johnson has this to say while it would be wrong to prejudge the

investigation i can reassure the house that should evidence emerged that implies state responsibility then her majesty's government will respond appropriately and robustly. russia says it has no information and offers to help in any way it can but this part of events is much less exciting for the media than the spy story unfolding before them by wednesday march seventh police confirm the use of a nerve agent downing street remains cautious in finger pointing it being too early to explain what actually unraveled but that approach will soon make a swift exit these headlines leave little to the imagination long before any conclusions are drawn russia is being vilified the dots have been connected in the eyes of the world press details of the kind of punishment russia could face range from diplomatic expulsions to measures connected to the world cup to be held in russia the summer on march twelfth amidst a media hype and under pressure to take

a tough stance from her government british prime minister theresa may is expected to provide clarity the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the act against and to the script how this highly likely comes with a pre-determined conclusion can be no suggestion of business as usual in relation to our interaction with russia mr speaker this action has happened against a backdrop of a well established pattern of russian state aggression and the ultimatum is given to russia come clean or else while russia asks for proof evidence and facts we're waiting for the united kingdom to respond to requests that we filed in accordance with the very same convention about the necessity to provide us with the substance in question and the necessity to make the whole investigation open to us but the clock keeps ticking and the deadline set for russia to explain itself is wednesday march fourteenth all the while here's the u.k. police were of course getting many questions regarding how it went that nerve agent

was actually admitted i called comments on that at this time we're not declaring a person of interest or a suspect at this time in a court of law this would at least mean a time out in the world of political game play apparently means very little and as i said you're going to r.t. london. staying in the u.k. in country terror police there are investigating the death of a russian exile in london he's under stood to be nicholai glue scoff a friend of the now deceased russian oligarch boris birds of ski group skull was granted asylum in the u.k. in twenty ten after serving an earlier five year prison sentence in russia for fraud he was reportedly fined did on his home in the british capital late monday night well given the current political turmoil between london and moscow the western media has been quick to link the case to the poisoning of the former spy and his daughter in salzburg. while london's metropolitan police say kuntar terror

officers are looking into the case quote as a precaution because of associations he british authorities say there's no evidence of a connection a security analyst and former u.k. counterterrorism officer and self charles schumer bridge told us it's far too early to attribute blame for the poisoning according to the legal system for example in the u.k. if it was a person being accused of a crime they would be in touch with to know what the evidence is against them and of course to be able to use their own scientists for it came to a court of law to challenge that evidence perhaps to show that actually this material this chemical agent could have been produced elsewhere for example we know that. it's not in the ninety's the united states itself was helping to clean up plants not in russia but in his back is thrown where this material was allegedly produced and so that's just an example of how this material could have come from anywhere in fact that there are so many very many questions still outstanding over

this matter and of course it's massively premature for the government to be saying to rush or any suspect you've got to forty eight hours to respond or else we're going to take action in other words take some punishment against you. with ickes ations that russia is highly likely to have been behind the poisoning of the former spy it seems there are a series of phrases to use if you're not exactly confident in the evidence. the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the act against segue into the script so how likely is it the twenty eighteen alexion is going to be compromised by russia it's sadly likely that they will be doing something we just don't know how much and when whether. in the high confidence assessment that was released this past october the intelligence

community made very clear that this was activity directed by the highest levels of the russian government. what russia was doing when it khan comes to slide with not only that interference not proven in the american presidential campaign probably in the referendum last year we did have the evidence for that. the conclusion that the russian state was probably involved in the murder of mr. is deeply disturbing. the unlined technology block chain is not only making waves in the banking world it could also be the fund ation of her future cities but chain is where since the data such as financial transactions are held on a network of computers rather than in one central place and not potentially make

such info more secure and easier to verify well for artie's online serious crypto liam a gala francis santiago has been meeting some of its biggest proponents in silicon valley and finding out how it could see old and new type of city be built in puerto rico. the detent the world's leading conference on. brought all the stars of watching together once again this time in silicon valley we caught up with our friend from singapore founder of ever coined nico matsumura the view from silicon valley is absolutely amazing i mean i'm talking to general partners of venture capital firms they're renegotiating their l.p. agreements they want to hold crypto all they want to have custody they're started by treasury wallets it's unbelievable what's happening here you know i think as well we're starting to see the movement of institutional break capital it's a very very large institutional capital sorry to get interesting for joe i think that's really positive we also got to take on crypto from bob mcdermott the

original manufacturer of a mousepad who apparently has been in crypto and mining for five years now but most people think that big calling is like the corner in is the essence of the watching in reality the block change the magic and that will affect i think in the next ten or fifteen years virtually every major industry from pharmaceuticals to law enforcement recordkeeping accounting everything will be tied into that the bitcoin is really more of a symptom or a child of the blocking of the block chains the mother i think if the banks allow us to survive and are not too threatened by the competition i think we're going to do very well imagine a city that's operated by block change the knowledge what could a place like that show the world currently brocken crystal roast beers of detainee and block in unbound are under negotiation with the puerto rican lyrics for the purchase of several thousand hectares of land for the creation of such a place the idea is to expose the power block chain on a global scale by taking a place that's been devastated by natural disasters and help that we build with

bricks and block infrastructure the first step is rebuilding what is there by using better technology more sustainable energy renewable resources and just really bringing green light to the place that exists i think based soon is to find our ability to build something new and bring all of that he says that we have. our surroundings like to see the local governments of the local population and really build a new type of city stay tuned for border crypto watching city built together with puerto rican government which will showcase the world the full scale of what crypto can do to a post devastated state. some sad news now legendary physicist professor stephen hawking has died at the age of seventy six he was perhaps best known for his work with black holes and quantum theory which he said could predict what happens at the beginning and end of time

hawking was diagnosed with motor neuron disease when he was in his twenty's and given only two years to live he spent most of his life in a wheelchair able to communicate through a specially invented voice synthesizer the englishman was the author of several popular science books one of which a brief history of time sold over ten million copies stephen hawking will also be remembered for his sense of humor which we caught a glimpse of when he was a guest on our king show two years ago what still mystifies you about the universe universe and all the laws of nature exist are they necessary in one sense or because we were here to ask the question but it's there in six years ago you told me the only thing you don't fully understand is women. have you learned more since we talked. i have learned a lot about women since then now it is my turn to ask

a personal question you have been married eight times to seven different women is that the triumph of hope over experience you make a good point steve in the big dance is yes. but not to see stephen hawking turning the tables on larry king more news after this. it appears and highly likely these are the words used by u.k. prime minister to resume painting blame on russia for the poison attack on a former russian intelligence officer turned british prime claims are made and threats long course without evidence. apply for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the

passion from the fans it's the age of the super manager killian erroneous and spending two to twenty million a one player. it's an experience like nothing else not to be true so i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful game but great so will more chance for. the base this minute. i. twenty minutes into the program you're back with r.t. international right wing canadian activist has been detained and from sunburn from entering britain lauren southern was held to a british border point in cali the u.k.

home office told her she was being bombed for distributing racist material in the town of luton last year one of the posters said is a gay gold officials describe the twenty two year old as a threat to u.k. public policy southern ca she was interrogated in the french ports on to the u.k.'s terrorism act i got a knock on the door from the kent u.k. police who handed me this form and that's when things kind of went sideways it's the schedule seven terrorism act and they said you need to read this you are being brought in to be questioned under the terrorism act well other right wing activists have been barred from britain for similar reasons austria's martin's cell or on american commentator brittany pettibone where this month the tane for three days before being deported had been scheduled to speak at a free speech conference in london's hyde park. last week and from entering the

u.k. for various reason for me because i wanted to give a speech about freedom of speech on speakers corner and for me i am an american conservative commentator and i simply wanted to enter the u.k. of course i was going to watch martin speak but i was primarily going in to do some interviews i wanted to interview tommy robinson who is outspoken against islam and they essentially labeled him a far right leader who incites racial hatred and that's why they didn't want me to enter to interview him so it was very interesting why they suddenly are deciding to crack down it seems like a court unaided attack on conservative media that's what it really seems like to me that it's a huge crackdown of censorship but not only you know them banning us but also on the internet right now as we're seeing on platforms like you to been twitter well the bones and of course the anger in some quarters with supporters saying that while right wing activists are being banned radical islamic preachers have been allowed to speak freely

a known terrorist suspects are allowed entry into britain. a bit ridiculous if you look at us that both of us are as i called i'm acceptable characters for you katie if you pose a threat to the court again piece of the local communities wired to same the very same country lets radical muslim extremists just freely enter the country they have all these muslim grooming gangs but still we are the main threat and we are kept out of the country i think is just ridiculous yes we are the ones that they target . now up to sixty people have been detained in the moscow region suspected of forging documents and are legally smuggling isel supporters to syria and iraq the arrested are also suspected of helping illegal migrants into russia from central asia a video posted on the russian interior ministry website shows their detention on searches as well as a large number of seized documents such as passports border stamps bank cards and

migration certificates money or seized as well there are both men and women among the detainees one suspect admitted that she works as a career and transports documents that she has been paid for selling migration certificates for up to one year. having it stateside again nowhere on his first visit to california since taking office donald trump has inspected prototypes for one of his most controversial come pain promises a wall along the us mexico border where the president was met with both protesters are supporters of the plan. there is friction between trump and authorities in california he loved busted the state governor for being soft on crime illegal immigration while the justice department is even suing california over its loss hundreds of demonstrators against rome gathered in beverly hills were also held in

sunday ago on the mexican border city of tijuana. but because of this ruling he's making it more humane he separating families. jobs it's hard at work out right that was. it weird to say. we don't hear to. what your racist policy california. i love it. there's going to be a lot they can they can try and stop it all they want it's a federal issue california can't do squat about it what more can be found on the story and others are t. delta coming get right up to the moment developments on our twitter page as well i mean in the mail here with your next world news from r t h q and often our stuff.

is a. church secret indeed just like priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it literally i like to call this the geographics solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out that the priest says is a perpetrator is simply moves him to a different spot where the previous standard is not the highest ranks of the catholic church conceal the accused priests from the police and justice system to

that end of that's known as the i didn't and then i think you'll hear about it tuesday's out in the. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest in the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. business boom bust broadcasting all around the world from washington d.c. and bart chilton. today we talk about jobs and interest rates with the and the

economy with danielle de martino booth and we also look at china in the wake of the change the constitution which allows a president to serve unlimited terms and we consider the monumental belt and road initiative in china caleb maupin joins us from new york plus r.t. correspondent manila chan tells us about the infrastructure deficit as it relates to rail and compares high speed rail in the u.s. to others around the globe but first on to some headlines. trumpet ministration has blocked the hostile takeover of u.s. based chip maker qualcomm by asian rival broadcom over national security concerns the decision by safest the committee on foreign investment in the united states determined that the singapore based broadcom could benefit chinese competitors in the effort to lead the way in next generation mobile technology it could also a limited a key supplier of telecom technology to u.s. defense agencies. and apple incorporated officials have said that they will acquire

next issue media l.l.c. and its digital magazine subscription service texture and offer digital magazines and other services including a ten dollar per month digital subscription to magazines like time sports illustrated vanity fair good housekeeping and national geographic the apple purchased reflects the changing landscape of how consumers gather content transfer . coming paper magazines into digital and online last year alphabets google and facebook both accounted for over sixty three percent of u.s. digital spending the purchase of next issue media is an effort to add to apple services which already include streaming and mobile payments apple currently takes a fifteen percent cut on subscription services that are purchased through an apple app like netflix and h.b.o.

last year apple revenues for services were roughly thirty billion dollars with the next issue acquisition the company hopes to increase that amount by another ten billion dollars by twenty twenty. we've reported in the past about cboe the chicago board options exchange is a bala tilla t. and x. called the vix or sometimes the fear and x. during the volatile market period in early february there were many who claim that the vix had been manipulated and therefore the products that are based upon the vix were also impacted costing investors millions well now there is a class action lawsuit filed in chicago which alleges widespread manipulation of the vix futures and options markets resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for investors across the nation the litigation is the first lawsuit on behalf of investors impacted claiming market manipulation and violations of the the cea.