people have been killed since the start of the intervention back in two thousand and fifteen and a saudi imposed blockade has left the country at the brink of famine which the un has deemed the world's worst humanitarian crisis. they're going to hurt their. lives. now even though the public has condemned washington's role the u.s. has been actively supporting the campaign by arming the saudis amongst many other things last year trump signed a record arms deal with saudi arabia worth about a hundred and ten billion dollars one of the biggest in history and trump hopes to make more deals with the country some senators have voiced opposition to u.s.

involvement and they even put forth legislation in the senate that would end cooperation with the saudis but that was voted down and they've even grilled u.s. centcom over the use of american weapons but the pentagon didn't seem to have any answers just sit com track the purpose of the missions that it is refueling what targets it strikes and the results of the mission sen we do not ok and apparently russia will also be on the agenda when trump does meet with the saudi prince senior u.s. officials say president trump and mohamed bin someone will look for ways to make russia pay a price for its aggressions and the kremlin has even responded expressing regret over the demonization of russia describing it as this maniacal desire to make russia pay for something but due to all of these protests and this vote in the senate trumps meeting with the prince might not go as smoothly as planned.

now facebook users are questioning the social network's credibility off to revelations that personal data was compromised auntie's honey she said he has more . deletes facebook is the hashtag that's been trending on twitter the social network uses off fuel reus facebook played a part in getting donald trump into the white house from fifteen million facebook users was harvested by a troubling analytic company and what appears to be the largest leak in the social networks history in two thousand and fifteen we learned that a psychology professor at the university of cambridge named dr alexander kogan lying to us violated platform policies by passing data from an app that was using facebook logon to s. you can which analytical firm that does political government and military work around the globe it all began with the cambridge university professor creating a personality up and passing the information acquired on to a third party cambridge analytic

a once facebook realised it violated their terms they wanted all data to be destroyed there has the potential to be a lengthy legal battle and the fuel to the fire is the fact cambridge and the let's say they were conducting separate work for the trump's presidential campaign surely the double trump campaign was the first opportunist in data gathering think back to a bar miss reelection campaign in two thousand and twelve is former media analytics director claims they managed to get a lot more person in from ation then their rivals if facebook users clicked on the democratic side it enabled campaigners to access a wealth of information all thanks the loopholes and facebook's privacy terms facebook twenty five election we got people to opt in and the privacy policies at that time on facebook were that if they opted in they could tell us who all their friends were where this gets complicated is that freaks facebook out. so they shut off the feature so that is out there you can take it back to the democrats have

this information and with this information gathered they would know which one of your friends would influence you most in making a favorable voting decision davidson also says facebook allowed the obama campaign . to do things they would have allowed others to do simply because they were on their size and whatever information passed to the campaigns of trump and obama they have one thing in common victory another common thread was the involvement of facebook status and both of victories whether in directly or directly and according to n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden facebook is really a surveillance company in sheep's clothing businesses that make money by collecting and selling detail records of private lives but once plainly described our surveillance companies rebranding us social media is the most successful deception since the bombing of war became the one of defense and while you're reading articles on how to slate your date or facebook remember this a simple facebook mean claim to be posted by russia and thoughts have caused chaos

in the us elections perhaps trivial in the grand scheme of things as facebook looks into the nuts and bolts needed to prevent data leaking political campaign isn't their party's better tighten their belts. well we had some diametrically opposed views on this story from richard goethe goodstein a former adviser to hillary clinton's presidential campaign and also legal and legal analyst lionel. looks like it's undisputed that they did things that either were clearly against the law campaign finance laws the involvement of foreigners and us election campaigns let alone kind of the moral approach of basically pretending to be something that they weren't. so they either clearly would over the line or they they went right up to it and i think that's what investigators where the state attorneys general i'm sure congress will look into it whether this justice department looks into it because donald trump was the beneficiary of his campaign that they worked with i wouldn't exactly hold my breath on that happening

and when bharat albino was the beneficiary of facebook data i'll be it not cold and i gleaned by these characters like especially don't forget legs and did in action american you say that and that immediately turned that's the dog whistle went missing the point this is about a surveillance world that we live in that's being utilized by everybody constantly this means of not being able to get to live it is not the issue the us intelligence community unanimously concluded both in the last administration and the current one that the russians did metal that i think is actually not disputed and if the question is well how do we know what influence the election at all is i would point to what alice ration i would point to one of those ration we know for a fact that there was a man in north carolina who read a facebook post that was planted by russian bots to the effect that hillary clinton

and john podesta were running a trial of sex slavery ring out of a pizza shop in washington d.c. and he went with his rifle from north carolina to washington d.c. to shoot people who are responsible for that now if you can get somebody to do that you think you might actually get someone to switch their vote i think so we we had i pray president but barack obama. so basically when an absolutely not only colluded with but actively campaign to get bibi netanyahu no problem then he when we guarding brags that he said you're going to be waiting in the queue if you don't or if you vote for braggs it may be also when it actually involved himself in the scottish independence movement as well so we we don't seem to care about this not to mention my beloved republic our history. of not only fomenting resolver revolution and and stats and nations and i can't believe it that we have

gone from that to this dainty miniscule didn't move in and miss microstamping buying of facebook ad and somebody is going to say oh wait a minute hold it i was going to vote for hillary clinton but now where i just how did you say this facebook ad that said i mean really this is this with all due respect this is the best the russians have facebook ads if lionel is of the view that all the billions of dollars that's spent worldwide on advertising or news channels like arts here and others is just absolutely just wasting money to say you might as well throw it out the window if that's your attitude then obviously i'm not going to persuade him or anybody who believes that that by you know that's i don't want to go to affect anybody's opinion line oh no she is me i didn't really know what to do so i said my point is my point is my point is that yes i think facebook should be ashamed of itself because the evidence seems to be that it knew

exactly what it was what its role in this was and in a sense it was kind of facilitating this in the interest of making a buck and i think that's wrong. a police raid on an intelligence agency in austria has triggered a political storm that story on the brain. american minutes one is the melting pot and the second is the range you alledge are a mess of a day bootstrapping anyone can see that america works hard so this is a whole group of people all generation in america is saying that there is no melting pot we're not being assimilated there's no opportunities we can't live up so their response essentially is to go into conflict and this is a major cause. of

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has now been suspended a move the interior minister describes as unavoidable busier this as though we have taken legal action against several officials from the b.b.c. intelligence agents and accused by the prosecutor in this case i can tell you that effective immediately pizza goodling is suspended as bt director until further notice. however the opposition claims the probe is politically motivated the social democrats insist the government just wanted to seize compromising data on right wing extremists and they're now threatening an inquiry into the actions of the ruling party it took less than a hundred days to cause doubts among the austrian people over the security forces your actions intimidated those officials who were supposed to fight the extreme right is the signal that will embolden the right seem yohannes have no from the austrian freedom party says the criminal probe against the intelligence chief made

it impossible for him to continue his job. the. prosecution asked for this rate which was not actually rape but it was there was a pending criminal investigation against some members of the b.b. t. the b.b.c. the very sensibly institution and police because it is the so-called buehrle for to protect and of the constitution and to fight against terrorism that's what the abbreviations that stands for if the head of this group of this bureau is under investigation it's clear that the minister has no other choice but to suspend him for the time being because such a bureau was such a sensible tuscumbia run by someone who is under criminal investigation himself. this search was done and as it was a sensible subject to search for a unit which has absolutely nothing to do with crime against the state this was the

g.s. that is the group for the fight against street crime. and this group is headed by a man close to the freedom party which makes the saying now. easily to sell is a big thing they were only to help the prosecution in case they met resistance or the people did not cooperate so they actually didn't do the rape they were just asked by the investigators by the criminal investigators to assist. all information i got is absolutely untrue and unfounded so it was no raid to seize does that have to do with extremist investigation all the data remained in please if they took copies of the start as i am not aware of i do not but the fact is that no file was removed and in the way we investigate and against certain persons was inhibited or stopped or something like that so this is all the room or that made

around it to construct a big story as you have seen today in the parliament even had a special session dedicated to this matter this is of course something the social democratic party and the main opposition parties tries to exploit to now. cheers day mark fifteen years since the us invasion of iraq what started out as a promise to liberate the country from a dictator turned into years of conflict is a reminder of how it all unfolded less than a teaspoon full of dry anthrax to. shut down the united states senate iraq declared eighty five hundred leaders and. many iraqis can hear me tonight in a translated radio broadcast and i have a message for them. big. day if you live.

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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from right here in washington d.c. i'm part. and coming up with lots of news today on autos we talk with the car coach warren and we also look at block chain and kryptos with perry and boring from the chamber of digital commerce plus last time we were able to get to our conversation on why the u.s. department of defense is tapping still a convent only one artificial intelligence will have that interview with todd shipley of various software all that's coming up but first let's head to some headlines the trumpet ministration is preparing to level roughly sixty billion dollars of additional tariffs on china related to intellectual property according

to the washington post the report is that the president's aides suggested thirty billion and the president said double it the package which it to this point is to be announced on friday is said to target one hundred or more different products which the administration will argue were actually developed using american technologies that was either stolen or pressured by the chinese in order to release exchange for access to chinese markets it was bound to happen in an autonomous car has killed a woman in tempe arizona the news comes as the regulators and car makers have been increasing research and development of a. harness vehicles the vehicle of volvo operated by the ride hailing company hoover hit a woman when she was jaywalking while this appears to be the first fatality of a pedestrian a driver in an autonomous engaged tesla was killed back in twenty sixteen hoover has halted the company's self driving testing program. and other auto news a u.s.

senate hearing on air bags today in washington examined the tech caught an airbag inflator recalls the most extensive recall in auto history that many lawmakers have complained is moving too slowly infect r t america has learned that one of the hundreds of thousands of vehicles with the problem that air base airbag may inflate without an accident due to high humidity and deterioration that some auto owners have been informed of the problem without the automaker providing any solutions whatsoever one such automaker is a lincoln motor company which r t america's learned sent a letter to some vehicle owners stating an exploding inflator may result in sharp metal fragments striking vehicle occupants causing serious injury or death while what the vehicle owner to do well according to lincoln when parts are available the lincoln motor company will send a letter to inform you that parts are ready and to contact your deal to schedule a repair that's comforting not meanwhile yesterday it was reported that hyundai and

kia are now under review in the u.s. for their airbag problems in this case the airbags were manufactured by german auto parts maker z.f. t.r.w. formerly u.s. based t.r.w. automotive the national transportation the national highway traffic traffic safety administration said it is reviewing about four hundred twenty five thousand vehicles made by hyundai and kia due to for accidents in which airbags did not deploy last month hyundai recalled one hundred fifty five thousand sonata model vehicles for the same reason in two thousand and sixteen feet chrysler three car rolled over half a million vehicles for airbags which did not inflate. here discuss all of that more is car coach lauren fix lauren thank you for being with us again i mean what's an auto owner to do when the answer is no there is no repairing your problem right now from airbags but it could cause serious death or injury well i've got the same

problem i have two vehicles that are under an airbag recall and there are no parts available so you have to discount calling the dealer and being persistent it's not like one dealer has it and it doesn't the fact is you still need to be in the loop so it's up to you to be proactive i know the federal government is really trying to make sure that every single person out there that has an air bag problem gets it repaired the problem is if there are no parts because the manufacturer has to go back and retool it you kind of have to wait it out if you sell the vehicle or trade the vehicle in because you're concerned that's understood usually there is some sort of concession for that situation concession from the dealer if you take it back to the dealer and try to get it taken back. right this they wouldn't buy it back without having to buy another vehicle they're going to try and sell you something else on the lot because it's all about sales so they're going to try and up sell you into a newer model that doesn't have that problem or a used car that's on the lot so be prepared for that but they won't just buy it

outright that this won't happen it's really sort of strange what lincoln says lincoln says that you know their airbags and i don't know if this is the same for for all of the i know there's a couple of companies that are involved in the airbag demise the problem but lincoln says that there are bags are susceptible to temperature changes and the humidity variations therefore when they do get parts they're going to first go to areas in the southern united states then followed by i don't know buffalo new york maybe lauren then by canada so you'll be middle of the line now if you're in buffalo and you drive your car to i don't know daytona and you stay down there for a lot of the time you're sort of s. so well i guess right right whether you call it snow birds around here those are people that live up the northern end of the country during the summer and the southern end during the winter yeah you would be susceptible you would probably want to register your vehicle if you're looking for an airbag replacement somewhere down in florida you're more likely to get that airbag replaced at

a sooner date the big thing that i tell everyone if you're ever concerned you never want to be closer than twelve inches of that airbag to the center of your chest and the reason for that is that is the proper distance closer if that airbag as a ploy or an accident whether there's a problem in a recall or not you're likely to get injured so you want to be at least twelve inches i did as i mean be back as far as you can have to reach the pedals and the steering wheel but keep that in mind from the say keep perspective get there by replaced when you can if you're totally concerned you're thinking i'm not willing to take that risk you may have to invest in another vehicle that's great consumer information lauren let me ask you real quickly before we go we saw this first autonomy's car related deaths the called off their testing program is that going to have some chilling impact. on the longer term autonomous cars where you think it's just going to last for a while it's going to cause some serious government regulation which we know is coming the insurance agencies are going to raise their rates because they know one death is one too many and then of course you've got the hackers who are waiting for

this network to start going for these autonomous cars to communicate with each other and the only winner in all of this is only one group and that's the toward attorneys they're very excited they're going to sue bull and the insurance company the driver anybody that hires the city that they're going to sue every one of the only ones going to make money out of this is going to be the attorneys oh my gosh we thank you for the information either way but we're glad to know the status lauren fix the car coach thanks for your time as always anytime. master card says they would be amenable to considering offering crypto currencies if they were backed by a central bank ari starker the co-president of master card asia pacific business said that so long as it's backed by a regulator we look at it in a more favorable way some national banks including sweden's are considering a crypto currency master card already has thirty patents related to crypto currencies and walk chain and here to discuss this in all things

a blog chain in crypto is parry i'm born the founder and president of the chamber of digital commerce perience thank you so much for being here i'm really pleased to have you we've known each other for a couple of years and your real expert in this field what do you make of that master card headline it's really exciting stuff there's actually a number of major central banks around the world that are looking at the possibility of issuing fee at currencies on block change just last november i went to singapore at the invitation of the monetary authority of singapore the central bank for singapore where they were releasing the task the project then this is one of the most exciting things we're seeing in central banking and monetary policy today said the central bank of singapore has taken the singaporean dollar and they've tokenize that across three different blocks chains and then they release those the data from that test and wait last year there's other central banks that are looking at this as well and creating the in the u.k. canada is actively exploring on open box chains such as a theory m.

and just a couple of years ago i had the opportunity to present at the federal reserve with janet yellen and with over ninety central banks all in one room at one time where we have a chamber assembly members got to help educate central banks around the world on the potential benefits of block change what's really important that whole education you know the g twenty finance ministers are meeting down and going to sorries right now actually and if we go all the way back they take it a big interest. in financial regulation back in two thousand and nine in the pittsburgh meeting they came up with some of these sort of suggested rules of the road to deal with things that later became like the dodd frank law etc so i'm wondering whether or not they're going to come up with some sort of rules on crypto currency and maybe block chain maybe if not now later given that we've seen as mother european monetary authority and others that the f.c.c.

and other regulators saying be cautious to consumers is that reasonable i mean it's always fraud in the financial areas right but it seems like there's more babies just because there's so much going on with crypto currencies but is there more to something we need to really be worried about if so what the regulators are really concerned about is the consumer and vaster the retail investor being led astray by a fraudulent scam so as with all the new technology and sometimes criminals or some of the early adopters and there absolutely is a legal activity out there it doesn't represent a huge percentage of the actual activity that's happening but it does end up taking the majority of the headlines but i would say for the retail consumer who wants to invest in crypto currency is buyer beware because there are scans and you need to know and understand what you are investing and don't invest in anything that you do not understand or that you're not ready to lose in case you know something something happens so how do we go about you and i talked over the years about this

how do we go about sort of professionalizing the crypto space of the blog chain space to make it really to bring the adults into the room and get away from the scam stores well this is a big reason why we found of the chamber and july of two thousand and fourteen we represent over one hundred sixty companies that are both investing and invading with chain based technologies and we're here to be a resource to the policy community so these are companies who want to deploy this technology for. at the coal and productive reasons and we want to make sure that the regulatory community is comfortable with this technology and they understand the benefits of it and that we work together to build a regulatory framework that addresses regulators concerns like. consumer protections but also does not hinder the innovation you know it's really a double edged sword as you know you know for years i was the first financial regulator to say you know we need to regulate these things but it wasn't because i didn't want them around i wanted i want them and i still do.