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welcome back lou mart is looking to enter the grocery delivery industry under this new program wal-mart will start delivering groceries and more than one hundred cities by the end of this year companies like over and deliver inc are already delivering groceries and more than six cities the idea also includes using jet the online retailer wal-mart purchased in twenty. sixteen and order to compete with amazon's same day delivery service other companies like costco and kroger are already delivering to shoppers thanks to companies like insta card amazon has also ramped up its food delivery options after acquiring whole foods last year amazon has recently begun delivering food in major metro areas like dallas and virginia beach. and volkswagen agee has thrown down the gauntlet valen to

overtake tesla within five years c.e.o. mathias mueller said that the company which also owns audi porsche and lamborghini will roll out a new electric vehicle almost every month starting in twenty nineteen the company has also secured their battery supply from china and south korea unlike tesla which only has a few production factories volkswagen has more than one hundred factories world ron wyden ready to start producing vehicles soon this shift comes after volkswagen by the way has pled guilty in two thousand and sixteen to cheating a mission's test in the millions of diesel powered cars. castro family legacy is ending in cuba for the first time in nearly six decades a castro will not be president of the country and the new leader is bound to face

numerous challenges including economic reforms artie's alex mahela bitches and toronto with more alex thanks for joining us president raul castro is stepping down next month allowing a new generation of politicians to take the reins what do you think we can expect and see with the change in leadership. well the process already started last sunday cubans went to the polls to choose a new national assembly april nineteenth and the national assembly assembly will be choosing a new president and as it stands it looks like the favorite going in is fifty seven year old vice president the country right now is news miguel diaz can now he is not a castro which is something very new for the nation and which could be a bit some mulch was and still yet to see what how that's actually going to go down with the public about. that we've heard of too much outside of cuba but obviously the man is entrenched in that nation and he has a number of challenges in front of him as you mentioned economic being one of the

biggest concerns cuba it's the growth rates but it will just over two percent for the past few years so we're not seeing too much growth in that nation and of course he has to take the helm and focus strongly on what's going on there foreign investments going to be one of the big things he needs to look into we know the way things stand right now the relationship is quite sour with the united states donald trump came in so big changes from that respect you'll have to go to different countries to get that kind of investment manufacturing another big aspect of what cuba needs to do they need to up their manufacturing most of what they have there what they consume are actually imports so creating jobs creating factories creating basically their own goods that they can consume is very big on the list as well as a new sector that's growing there small businesses when it comes to small businesses the laws that are in fact right now in cuba don't really address the growth of small business and so they're looking at changing some of the legalities so that this sector can grow but if you think for one second that rule is gone and

over with he is not he will still be there. all powerful communist party chief in cuba and that's going to last until at least two thousand and twenty one he's also written the book until two thousand and thirty so the country has a path to follow for the next decade or so alex i know that you listed a bunch of challenges there i don't know if there is more that seems like a full boat right there but internationally talk about how you think this administration may be impacting the future relationship with cuba. you know this is the issue of improv president trump has made it very clear the way he feels about cuba as a nation and this is the time if you're going to interfere in somebody who's country this is the time to do it when the something the big change like this happens changes like this can be dramatic for a nation we saw it with venezuela when of hugo chavez passed away we saw in the former yugoslavia when tito died the country crumbled so this is one of those situations that you have an icon or

a conic family that has lead this nation this guy does not have the historical clout the new president didn't wasn't even around during the revolution so he was too young or wasn't even born to fight in that revolution so you know you this is the whole thing this ban does not have the same clout as that castro name so he has to prove himself domestically and domestically that some of the the big hurdles he has are of course there's a to get this a two currency system that's in cuba right now as a traveler as a tourist in cuba we use one currency the locals use another that has changed over the years to the point that that currency is what divides the wealthy from the poor for example a cab driver can get this currency that foreigners years while doctors were under the government paycheck can't so these are things that this president's going to have to put together things that he's going to have to change and the way to stabilize the country will be the economy moving forward hopefully he'll be able to do it it's a lovely nation i've visited many times and you know you don't want to see things

go bad especially when you have a neighbor so close to the united states are key correspondents alex mahela which we thank you so much for your expertise and chime in on this one alex thank you thank you. and with us now to add more texture and policy expertise to the specifics and what's going on down there in cuba is john cavalier president of the u.s. cuba trade neck anomic council john thank you for being with us again we sure appreciate it so tell us what you think's going on leading up to the. the change down there it is going to be a transition it is going to be a succession you still have the combined ages of the three elders nearing two hundred so. there are optically there's a lot that's changing and that's good vice president canal it will be the first non castro and that's going to play an important role unfortunately the relationship with the united states more now we've missed hasta sized and it's not moving

expansively it's not moving constructively it is in place what president trump wanted in place and pretty well u.s. companies are hostage to it i want to get to that in just a minute but i want to ask you just i mean is the election just a formality that they go through here or is it does it ever mean anything while in in countries that have government structures as cuba does the election is pretty much a foregone conclusion we've known that vice president canal was going to be president for a year and a half or so no surprise and are people required to vote is there or do they take attendance how does that work i'm not sure that i'm probably the best person to talk about the inner workings of the electoral system cuba but. they're very proud people and you know we always in the u.s. have that problem where we're always looking at from our standpoint toward them as

opposed to within them looking outward so there's people that are excited about the fact that this will be the first non castro you know different generation is thirty years younger than raul castro he is a. he's a bureaucrat he's a technocrat you know when you look at the leadership of the house in the senate for both parties in the united states very few of them are in their fifty's well let me ask you go on back to where you were leading actually about what's going on how do they look at the u.s. and how are relations. going on we see rex tillerson secretary of state just left all sorts of moving parts in the u.s. does that matter to the cubans with regard to u.s. cuba relations well the good news for the cuban government is that during the last two years of the obama administration they did take advantage globally of the perception that the united states's relationship with cuba had changed and would not change for the worse everyone expected hillary clinton to be donald trump so

for the cuban government where they were able to be successful as renegotiating long term debt billions and billions of dollars written off able to reestablish some trade relationships so they were able to do some good things the problem is that they didn't take advantage of enough of what the obama administration was permitting thus allowing an election result that no one planned for and everything stopped it should have struck while the iron was absolutely for things one away and so just we're running out of time but what do you what's your prognosis for what is going to happen and what you think should happen what is probably going to happen is nothing good during the next year and a half to two years likely there will be some more what the u.s. business community would and u.s. travelers to cuba wouldn't like to see and from the cuban side they're going to hunker down they're basically going to say we're going to have to sacrifice again

the revolution is paramount and we now have donald trump we're not going to be able to do all the things we wanted to do sacrifice is going to be the key word so for the cuban people it's not going to be a pretty couple of years for u.s. businesses we're going to just be looking and watching the russian federation people who are going to china india canada brazil and other countries. do much of what we would like to do now you can still do a lot of certain. cultural products that are health related products from the u.s. into cuba and you can still go down there if you're a u.s. citizen but you have to go down as a as a group on a cruise or something and have it approved in everything that's the case right well individuals can still go if they are under the support for the cuban people category basically they stay in a near b. and b. they go to a holiday ours they do other activities but. travel is down it's not it's not down as much as everybody thought it would be the cruise lines have been able to pick up

a lot of that slack. there are so many opportunities on both sides that were missed and it's truly tragic because now with a new president this would be the time john kavanagh the president of the u.s. cuba trade and economic council thank you for being with us in studio appreciate it my pleasure. stephen hawking their renowned physicist has died at the age of seventy six the famed scientist was diagnosed with a ls when he was twenty two years old and was given only a few years to live but he beat the odds and would go on to become one of the world's leading physicists over the years hawking would go on to research and theorize on subjects ranging ranging from relativity to black holes and his quest for a complete understanding of the universe why it is as it is and why it exists at all it wasn't until the one nine hundred eighty eight that hawking received international attention his first book termed

a brief history of time put him into the minds of millions of readers he took complex scientific theories and made them easy for regular people to understand hawking covered the universe space and time and even god from there the rest is history hawking became an international star giving numerous interviews and appearing on t.v. shows even like the simpsons all while continuing his own research plus there was that great award winning movie in two thousand and fourteen the theory of everything artie had the privilege of interviewing professor hawking so please take a moment to listen to some of what the great not only scientists but great person had to say about the rise of artificial intelligence you've been warning people about the dangers of artificial intelligence don't think that it's an artificial intelligence will necessarily be.

and now we leave you with this quote from stephen hawking remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist curious and however difficult life may seem there's always something you can do and succeed at it matters that you don't just give up. because it will become all you. toward you as well but i guess it was a. gift. i feel like. he

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a sion and infantile ization narcissistic. britain. russia breaching the chemical weapons convention on an emergency un security council session over the poisoning of a former spine and his daughter. the u.k. government concluded that it was highly likely that russia was responsible for this wreck but we haven't seen anything but highly likely as of yet the british prime minister reveals her reprisal moves expelling twenty three russian diplomats even though police are yet to announce any specific suspects. also ahead in the program more claims that they are all new world in berlin is undermining the city's police force with criminal infiltrating its rights. the final

frontier frontline for the u.s. military as donald trump suggests a space for. your churning in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to r.t. international my name's o'neill our top story the u.k. government has accused russia of breaching the international chemical weapons convention the statement came out an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council called by london over the poisoning of russian double agents surrogate and his daughter in britain last week. the u.k. government concluded that it was highly likely that russia was responsible for this reckless act we haven't seen anything but highly likely as of yet we have concluded that mr scruple and his daughter were poisoned with a navi shock

a military grade nerve agent of a type developed by russia. if britain is so confident that it was an overture gas then that means they have the chemical formula samples and the ability to produce it the united states believes that russia is responsible for the attack on two people and the united kingdom using a military grade nerve agent. we demand that material proof be provided before making any accusations against us in this high profile case. we requested the russian government to provide an explanation by the end of tuesday the thirteenth of march on how this russian produce nerve agent could have been deployed in salzburg. they provided no credible explanation goodwood we are ready for open and constructive cooperation within the framework of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons we don't speak the language of ultimatums and we won't allow anyone to speak to us this way moscow also saying is that britain

blocked a russia drafted statement at the un security council that urge for a more thorough investigation and explains how events unfolded at the united nations. bashir is in serious breach of the chemical weapons convention through its failure to declare the novi short program now the u.k. representative who called the emergency meeting was then followed up by the u.s. representative nikki haley now nikki haley not only made reference to allegations against russia about the recent incident but she further fit it into a wider narrative a growing concern and all of this dangerous and destabilizing activity is russia. russia failed to ensure syria destroyed its chemical weapons program russia killed the joint investigative mechanism when it found the side liable for chemical attacks the credibility of this council will not survive if we fail to hold russia accountable in response to the heated words from the united states and the united

kingdom we heard from the russian ambassador pointed out that russia has actually given up its chemical weapons and that the o.p.c. w. has confirmed that russia no longer possesses chemical weapons from there he invoked the memory of when colin powell representing united states in dressed that very body the u.n. security council holding vials of powder that he said were chemical weapons from iraq he reminded the council and that there seems to be a history of rather unsubstantiated allegations against different countries regarding chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction from the united states and the u.k. . we are living in a very special time in front of our eyes incredible things are happening the process of replacing the presumption of innocence with the presumption of guilt has taken place in this criminal law principles being transferred into international relations and void as an experienced chemist has talked about crimes committed by

russia we've known for years that for you in order to determine the guilty party no investigation is needed today the best kind of proof is suspicion it's no longer necessary to show to the council why. cubes with an unknown one substance in it it's enough to send a letter displaying an egregious attitude to religious over in states from there the russian ambassador went on to call for a thorough investigation of the incident and determine exactly who is to blame and what happened that he called for this to be done through the existing international mechanisms to find out who is absolutely responsible and he reassured the security council that russia was more than happy to cooperate with this proper investigation to determine who is responsible for the attack according to the rules of the international organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons or p.c. w if any state believes that another country myself used chemical weapons it has to provide all the necessary evidence within ten days after the request experts we

spoke to believe it's not russian but rather the u.k. which has broken the rules the o.p.c. w.'s got set procedures in place that need to be followed through with us and those are not being followed. those procedures investigation and formal steps are not being followed and from my understanding russia has offered to jointly cooperate but but they would like a formal request and they would like samples in order to do the analysis which makes complete sense to me and why wouldn't you want to cooperate together sometimes if you're trying to hide something or to shift the narrative in certain direction and maybe you don't want to cooperate it's unfortunate but i i do not think this looks very professional of the u.k. and yeah they're not following the conventions you've got set procedures in place and they're just not being followed or kind of a complete disregard to international law a rule of law or rule of agreements that are in place. well the u.n. security council meeting comes after allegations from britain's prime minister of

treason may on russia's alleged involvement in the poisoning of former spice. and his daughter make claims that a salvi to europe nerve agent was used in the attack and announced reprisal moves against moscow well the include the expulsion of twenty three diplomats the suspension of all high level contacts revoking an invitation for the russian foreign minister to visit britain treason may also announce that updated sanctions bill against moscow and that m.p.'s the un members of the royal family will not attend the football world cup in russia this. mr speaker it was right to offer russia the opportunity to provide an explanation but their response has demonstrated complete disdain for the gravity of these events. they have provided no credible explanation that they could suggest they don't control the agent no explanation as to how this agent came to be used in the united kingdom no

explanation as to why russia has an undeclared chemical weapons program in contravention of international law. or moscow's call the u.k.'s measures a crude provocation and a nonstarter there would be counter measures the u.k. no ses it is damning evidence or person's guilt and will submitted to the o.p.c. w. the investigation into the attack on the former russian intelligence agent and his daughter is still on going on there are still many unanswered questions as artie's daniel hawkins looked into. and i attack by the kremlin on u.k. soil for downing street it seems the case is all but closed russia is the culprit no questions or rather. as the prime minister taking the necessary steps to make a formal request for evidence from the russian government given the gravity of the accusations an official request seemed like a reasonable osc but law school though says no such requests were forthcoming we

haven't received any official request from london we've told britain we are ready to respond if they file the request instead of filing the official request the u.k. continues to pull political stunt moscow also said it would cooperate in a joint investigation within o.p.c. w. parameters it seems this offer was unacceptable to the u.k. government. has high resolution trace analysis been run on a sample of the nerve agent no answers from to reason may on that but the prime minister believes there's already enough evidence to make it highly likely this was an attack ordered by the russian state guilty as charged mr script and his daughter were poisoned with an. a military grade nerve agent developed by russia means motive and opportunity are usually needed to prove criminal guilt the nerve agent

chalk and used in that attack was actually developed in the soviet union decades ago and the o.p.c. w. officially confirmed that russia had concluded the destruction of its entire chemical weapons stockpile last year but apparently it was not only russia that had access to research labs on the scientists working there in his back is starting for example which became independent after the break up of the soviet union it was the pentagon that helped to demilitarize the facility it was in that very facility that never chalk was tested so they didn't even know. the gobbles up with good schools in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. western special services recruited a number of our chemical specialists their names are known they also brought some of the documents and continued research in this area including in the us in the u.k. for the results achieved by those countries in creating new poisonous substances that for some reason classified under their common name in the west are confirmed and represented in more than two hundred open us sources from nato countries.