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source not that that bothers anyone these days do not say congratulations on capital letters and then the president gets on the phone with them and says congratulations you shouldn't be congratulating president putin for the share my election but he just did it anyway a dangerous strong man who is threatening western democracy that requires a strong response so dark some call of up to say at a boy putin's critics in the hague bristled with indignation john mccain's twitter account always hyper sensitive to all things putin blew up poor it was mccain teed off president trump insulted every russian citizen he was denied the right to vote in a free and fair election to determine the country's future probably best not to show mckay in the margin by which putin won he's old and frail but twitter o'boy twitter do not congratulate actually trended and they came up with some pretty
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funny stuff do not stare into the sun followed by a picture of donald trump apparently staring into the sun that silly and not good for you then a picture of mike pence touching something that clearly has a do not touch sign on it funny because he shouldn't be doing that and this guy has do not congratulate on his organ donor card so if he dies don't congratulate him get it come to think of it i've seen funniest stuff but it's trump they'll take it and force any opportunity to bash him even if he does something normal that's called protocol and there are many countries from around the world that when someone. wins if you will i don't lakshman that you pick up the phone and you place that phone call angle of merkel and emanuel macro also congratulated putin many others did too. some god like for it some didn't it's nothing personal but thing to
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do with like or dislike just protocol you're going to have to work together anyway but these days not even that flies john claud younker president of the european commission he got flack nor seating and shameful they call it now a few years ago they called the diplomacy but down with the old let's all behave like angsty teenagers and post funny pictures on twitter. at least forty four people have been killed in damascus after a series of missile struck a market and a government controlled neighborhood. it's all about a bit of my relatives are injured my wife and daughter are in surgery right now. the. only moment my son told me he wanted to
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celebrate mother's day with me so i told him let's go to the market she bought a cake i was buying sweets and the explosion happened i saw only a lot of dust and my children under the table. as dandy my daughter visited me on mother's day she was five months on our way home from the doctor was told by the market it was right before the show and my daughter and i were wounded that my four year old grandson was cured and the shell and he was hit by the blast wave and it took us a long time to find his body. we are innocent people first the militants destroyed my house and then they killed my wife what do they want from us they call us infidels and in reality it's them not us. the syrian government has accused terrorists in eastern of carrying out the shelling local journalist abraham visited the scene yes i suppose is one of the largest single rocket strikes that ever hit
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the syrian capital damascus since the beginning of the conflict back in two thousand and eleven the rockets hit a popular market a marketplace that was very crowded at the height of people shopping because today people in syria celebrate mother's day and many people were out buying their gifts yesterday and when the shells hit leaving this large number of. civilians into a particular site. when we got outside we couldn't see anything because of the dust a real massacre i swear i wouldn't wish anyone to reduce a scene like this it's really sad. in the past forty eight hours the syrian army was able to make substantial gains in the syrian military now controls over thirty percent of what was once one of the most important and closest to the syrian capital damascus rebel held in claves it is believed that it is in this location many of the headquarters of the rebels were established perhaps this is the reason why the rebels have stepped up their rocket attacks on this rink up damascus
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damascus have seen an increase not just in the number of rockets that hit it in the past twenty four hours but also the quality of the caliber of the rockets that rebels are using to shell the capital damascus. the u.s. national security agency has reportedly been tracking users of the virtual currency bitcoin since at least twenty thirteen intelligence officials have also made efforts to unmask uses identities and transactions. picks up the story. question what's in it for bitcoin buyers besides the price boom last year when its rate kept go and up people got themselves crypto was to get rich but bitcoins have been luring enthusiastic with something else since long before the twenty seven thing boo no central bank control privacy and transaction anonymity i'm sorry this could have all been an illusion you haven't followed at snowden or have
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you. the n.s.a. worked urgently to target coin users around the world according to classified documents provided by snowden so let's look into the national security agency files which caught the eye of the intercepts journalists back in the days when the bitcoin was only worth less than one hundred bucks march twenty third the u.s. was already working hard on tracking down crypto while it holders and the n.s.a. is number one priority among the new currencies was bitcoin they did come up with a mysterious tool called monkey rocket and guess what analysts have found value in the monkey rocket access to help track down sanders and receivers of bitcoins how much value is the question here that no one will give you an answer to but come on the n.s.a. is almighty when it comes to getting hold of all kinds of data so no matter how underdeveloped monkey rock it was back then the agency could have filled in the
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missing puzzle pieces using a stunning array of other spying tools the whistleblower suggest with this sort of information in hand putting a name to a given bitcoin user would be easy monkey rock it is also described in the files as a non western internet anonymization service how many bitcoin owners have so far been tricked by the n.s.a. into using this product that we can only guess where in march twenty minutes actually five years since these n.s.a. memos where it said we should do our best to track down bitcoin users were written but the guys at the snooping agency haven't really been wasting time a million to try and go in moscow more knees after the break.
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welcome back on a stray and so called bio hacker called meow has implanted a chip in his hands to ride public transport more conveniently what he didn't expect was to be taken to court and receive a hefty fine. i work inquire how you will be sorry i cry i'm sorry for technology inside my body i'm a federal politicians song political candidate with the science party. you can program there's the jews inside carbon your dog you can interact with a variety of technology at the moment this one has the back of my palm. so you can
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touch my. state government is encouraging people to hack the system but when somebody came and acted in a way that had meant she said i did it cause me to end up in court and i was on the it was surprising especially with the amount of interest that the case gone and it was a would have been a really good opportunity to show innovative ways of using the transport system a my way and basically stated that this is a case where the more hasn't for up with technology and i'm ready six months to a head of the way things are. if we see more cases like this how it might affect other people with implants jonna future power father the rights of companies extends with respect to the rights of the individual that has that incredible technology and. the president trying to pass come up with a creative way of selling arms to saudi arabia they gave a presentation to the saudi crown prince in the white house on tuesday. very very
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you know are five hundred thirty three million dollars five hundred twenty five million dollars the reverse that you. so here is a very wealthy nation and we're going to give the united states some of that well hopefully well while prince mohammed bin salomon was in the white house protesters gathered outside they called on washington to end its support for saudi arabia's bombardment of yemen the conflict in saudi arabia southern neighbor has been going on for three is killing sounds of civilians. well the saudi crown prince of the u.s. president are also expected to discuss a possible nuclear energy deal wow we've been soundman earlier said riyadh needed the option of pursuing a nuclear weapons program to counter iran to syria to consider it a saudi arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb but without a doubt if iran developed a nuclear bomb we will follow suit as soon as possible plans for nuclear
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cooperation with the saudis have caused alarm in the u.s. house of representatives a bill has been introduced which would force any countries in nuclear partnerships to announce technology that could lead to the creation of atomic weapons saudi arabia has previously refused to sign any agreement with washington that would prevent it from enriching uranium members of the house from both sides expressed their own about saudi arabia's intentions the idea of saudi arabia having a nuclear program with the ability to enrich is a major national security concern the our security risks to consider the potential boost for the us economy and renewal of the u.s. nuclear industry already desirable but that of but it has been made clear what we can feasibly expect so we need to be careful and not allow saudi arabia to develop a nuclear weapon just because we're worried about the nuclear program in iran. even
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the country that we think we have friends you just never know whose hands these weapons will fall into at a later date for political analysts come on alarm says when dealing with the saudis the top priority for the u.s. is economic gain. i think most key factor could be just economics and there's probably hundreds of millions of dollars or even billions for us defense industry. to see to make if they can foresee. as well as foster the relationship of the saudi nuclear advancement and that's what i think would be a reason for the americans to support it they cannot be any other rational reason because it's a proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the middle east is not good for anyone but we've seen before as far as the defense industry goes as many weapons as you can sell as many contractors you can sign they'll be construction they'll be logistics they'll be a lot of big companies that can benefit from this financially that can be the only
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reason nothing else. tear gas was used in kosovo's assembly on wednesday just ahead of a pivotal vote this was on a disputed border agreement with montenegro proceedings were halted when a member of the opposition threw tear gas canisters into the chamber the bill was on recognizing the boundaries between montenegro and kosovo opposed to it plain it would be tantamount to giving up land save want only. now so use rocket has taken off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakstan with a russian and american crew on board artie's around cos rove was following the launch. four three two one. the soyuz and mass all a spacecraft is just police said in suit the space from the baikonur cosmodrome
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here and kazakhstan it's really hard not to scream or hear a rocket. going in space. it's several thousand for a minute on earth. it's a horsepower it sounds set to the ever remember the whole thing expedition five to five hundred fifty six to the international space station and this particular mission is headed by a russian cosmonaut only cards and we have and that says and that's also not something light engineers and drew feustel and richard arnold's a few minutes after launch the spacecraft script the spacecraft will go into the earth's orbit and a couple of days later it will be it will be arriving at the international space
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station now after a docking this crew how will be joining their counterparts in the space station and so those are also one a russian commander and so on the air all five japanese a flight engineer nourishing it can i add american flight engineer scott tingle and those guys that have been up by the international space station since december from on call sort of artsy baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan well done wrong oh we'll be back in just about half an hour with the latest news but for more in the meantime.
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senators financial survival guide i don't buy any i'm on a teacher's. face almost friday that's the last time i am from the future so krakow was kaiser. the most expensive fish in a will each one selling for tens of thousands of euros it continues to grow its entire life if it was thirty years old you might have a two ton fish out there and yet they don't get that big today because we're way too good at catching. it's only women and set off a much larger mission was one stand that was much more widely distributed we have politicians that are in office for a few years they have to get reelected everything is very very short term our system is not suited and is not geared for long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes out. of spite for many clubs over the years so i know the gunman saw god's. football
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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 money kill the narrowness and spend the two to twenty million one player. it's an experience like nothing else going to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy a great so well with. the base it's going to. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world unbar chilton coming up today we'll talk to gold bean c.e.o.
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jane barrett about the produce sherry rule and about investing and alex mahela which will break down saudi arabia's big arms purchase from the u.s. and canada as the u.s. congress debates the war in yemen and ashley banks will give us a tauriel about biofuels plus we'll discuss tariffs in relation to food and agriculture with bread called but first let's head to some headlines. german researchers say in a new report that the block chain which underlies bitcoin has been corrupted with files including images of child abuse and links to similar repugnant content the researchers at aachen university specifically found more than two hundred seventy embedded links to child abuse content one hundred forty of which linked to the dark web and bitcoin block chain. the authors of the study the first reported in the u.k.
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guardian say the odious content could make possession of block chain letter illegal in many countries while bitcoins can be spent without downloading the block chain downloading large segments is necessary for the so-called mining process that actually creates new bitcoins block chain has been touted as an incorruptible ledger that records all bitcoin transactions but it also contains some tiny additional coding information which normally relates to trading data in two thousand and fifteen interpol specifically warned that the block chain is designed could allow malicious content to be inserted into the ledger with no means to remove it the news may put bitcoin in multi-billion dollar crypto currency market in particular its legal position as a regulators are already considering what new legal tools may need to manage the market. but the media reaction is mixed bitcoins price actually rose above nine thousand dollars and after hours trading after the guardian's report this afternoon
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the price dipped below eighty eight hundred dollars but it seemed to be recovering as we prepared to go to air. amazon has topped alphabet the owner of google as the world's second most valuable global company amazon now is a total stock market value of seven hundred sixty eight billion dollars while alphabet has fallen behind with a total value of seven hundred sixty two billion dollars apple remains the largest of all worldwide companies and after apple amazon an alphabet comes microsoft and for those wondering facebook has been on some hard times lately in markets and they are this now the seventh most valuable company in the world. the federal reserve's open markets committee concluded their two day meeting this afternoon then as expected they raised the federal funds rate by a quarter point to one point seven five percent now the federal funds rate is the
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rate banks and credit unions pay for on collateralized overnight loans but it's also a key benchmark because it's used to make many other interest rate determinations today's increase brings it to the highest level since september of two thousand and eight when rate cuts were in the final days of the financial crisis. the u.s. department of labor will no longer be enforcing the implementation of what is known as the fiduciary rule which requires financial advisors to put their customers interests first how about that it's essential that up the level of integrity for vide anshul advisor professionals who work with retirement plans or provide retirement planning advice the obama era rule was first delayed but president by president trump but now the fifth circuit court of appeals in a three to two decision says the obama labor department's fiduciary rule was arbitrary and capricious and went beyond the scope of their authority under the law
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the decision is expected to be appealed all the way to the supreme court and we'll be following this as a story develops. here to discuss this and a lot more about investing is innovator jane barrett who is the c.e.o. and founder of gold beads jane thank you so much for being here what do you make of that headline about the rule that really been put on hold now because of the fifth circuit decision well it's disappointing i see it as another it's another bump in the road i don't think it's the end of the road the f.c.c. is still clearly very interested in making sure that people giving financial advice are acting in the best interest of their clients which is you know a common sense rule unfortunate to see so much resistance to this sort of crazy i mean it's really just put your customers interest to head of others and you know the department of labor did it because it's
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a risk of the retirement advice but it is just a general standard that you would hope people would would do i mean we understand people have to make money they're not just giving advice for free but boy i mean there's a moral thing there too anyway tell us a little bit about what consumers should be doing to make sure they have all the right information i know you're a big leader in financial literacy what should folks be doing so financial education across the board is absolutely critical and if you think of the really big picture of you know a trillion dollars plus in student loan debt based on people earning money right and then once they earn money a trillion plus dollars spent every day every young getting money out of your pocket so these are two very big forces debt and then consumption and then it's the you know you should have a budget is pretty much the help that most people get so financial education is critical it is not it's definitely an unmet need and when it comes to even things like the fiduciary role investors should have the confidence to say how much of my
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paying it is that product you're selling me to you making money out of that you know how much did i make this is the mark. and those three questions can be the difference between massive returns and you know the advisor sending their kids to college versus your kids going to those great advice and i think if i had even narrow it down to one i'd say how do you make your money and it gets to be you're in this conversation with an investment advisor and they're they're acting chummy and that's fine and you want to be nice with people but how do they make their money i had a circumstance years ago where i trusted the the individual and you know every three six months as a we we've talked the big and the smart people says you should rebalance your portfolio you ok or do i know good and then they rebalance it but every time the rebalancing it they're charging you transaction fees to rebalance all that it wasn't until later i'm like wait a minute i have the money left for all these fees so thank you for that great
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consumer advice now i have been a big fan as you know of gold being your company the founder the c.e.o. tell us a little bit because it's different than what other financials advisors do so we're very firmly focused on the beginner investor and often that doesn't mean younger but many people make it to their fifty's and sixty's without knowing actually how money can grow so we come at investing from a very different perspective which is you know you make consumption decisions in the world you go shopping every single day and you know brands and you know companies so why not put that knowledge and that data to work so we start with the person's spending history and use that to build them a portfolio of companies and funds of things them all familiar with like as a fiduciary i do have to give balanced portfolio advice but bringing a little more color into the portfolio is something that if i go to starbucks all the time you want me to look at whether or not i should invest in starbucks or or whatever coffee company if they are a great performer and they have good long term growth potential yes and it's just
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this idea of you're more familiar and frankly you've been making starbucks rich for a long time all the shareholders retro long time so. it's a just a much shorter conceptual leap for people to make from being a non investor to being an investor and it feels great to say i'm a part owner of this company but things like if i buy a ford or a buyout those sorts of things i like i like whatever joseph banks shirts or men's wear out pies or whatever it is those are the sorts of things that you encourage your investors to sort of look at learn about those companies the you have a connection with it and then you'll feel more vested exactly so you're not just a consumer in the world you're part of the bigger economy so great now what about kryptos lot of people are worried about investment buyers particular because they're not traded on regulated exchanges what's your view on those so it's still clearly very early days for crypto i think a lot of people have made a lot of money and then the people have come late have since lost a lot of money i would like to see krypto have some actual assets behind us is just
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you know technology woofs so i think it's a very interesting as a class the people who have a great base of savings have got their for a one k. maxed out who have an investment portfolio and they've got a little money left to speculate like that's a great use case for crypto people putting crypto on their credit cards a mortgage in their house is a disaster and last question what do you think about markets where we see the today the federal food markets committee raised interest rates and so we've got that going for us i guess but where do you see the economy in markets going through the year so i mean last year was such a big go from twenty to twenty five thousand on the dow was just massive growth and so even just to stay steady this year in light of most of the good news was baked in last year companies continued to perform well but with rising interest rates it could provide real pressure on the everyday people who drive the economy through this spending if they've got less money in their pocket because of us in debt is higher that will go to the top line of companies and no financial shenanigans can
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keep stock prices up when that starts to slide jane barrett c.e.o. founder of gold being what a pleasure to have you here thank you so much great advice. despite concerns about saudi arabia's schuman rights record at home and abroad the canadian government is defending a deal to sell that nation armored vehicles including what have been revealed as heavy assault vehicles the united states government has also been a big player in providing weapons to the gulf monarchy last year president trump signed a multi-billion dollar arms deal with saudi arabia and the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon was in washington this week meeting with president trump where mr trump showered him with praise saudi arabia has been. a very great friend and a big purchaser of equipment and lots of other things and one of the biggest investments
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of the united states is there are i guess it's your big investment is buying stock in companies and various other things in the united states and creating jobs. artie's alex behala bitch is following the story for us from toronto alex we've talked about this deal before on the show but new scathing information has now been released about the nine hundred plus armored vehicles to be sold by canada up there to saudi arabia what can you tell us you know people say that we're dicta to oil here in the west but it seems i were addicted to weapons sales as well because people make billions off in that store here in canada as well prime minister trudeau he is defending the deal that's worth about twelve billion dollars u.s. to sell these light armored vehicles to saudi arabia now there has been controversy about this in the past but new documents obtained by the c.b.c. show that there's a lot more to worry about that.
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