purchaser of equipment and lots of other things and one of the biggest investments in 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 is 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 dictatorial here in the west but it seems i were addicted to weapon sales as well because people make billions off that in that store here in canada as well promising 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 than what was originally thought we do know it's saudi

arabia is probably one of the worst human rights violators in the world and for some reason canada thought that these light armored vehicles would not be used to abuse human rights well guess what these vehicles have in them we didn't know this before out of the nine hundred twenty eight labs or light armored vehicles one hundred one thousand vehicles have one hundred five millimeter cannons affixed to their terms and we also know that up another one hundred nineteen have thirty millimeter chain guns this is by a company called general dynamics land systems in london ontario about an hour and a half two hours outside of toronto they build it and the canadian government is patting them on the back and letting this move forward now accorded trudeau he says that this deal falls in line with canada's foreign policy or foreign and defense policies some people say that's very debatable but beyond that he's gone to pointing fingers now listen to this quote from our prime minister trudeau he saying we have brought new processes of transparency and accountability to international sales because canadians expect a higher level of accountability then the conservatives have offered us for ten

years now what he's doing is he's blaming our former prime minister stephen harper for this deal yes this deal was signed at the time of stephen harper's rain here in this country but looks are true to our prime minister could stop this if you wanted to if you want to talk about prime minister harper you should be pointing out something very different that's libya i believe seven year anniversary now since that libya got bombed by nato powers and we know what happened to that country and that was a war crime or if that wasn't a war crime i don't know what is maybe he should be talking about to see. harper about that and also our foreign affairs minister at the time jon baird maybe these guys should be held accountable for that and prime minister trudeau have to know that when it comes to this he's accountable if these weapons are used against saudis or if they're used in yemen and we know that the saudis are going hard when it comes to yemen and alex give us a take on the u.s. i mean that was saudi arabia was the president president trump first trip outside his first foreign trip and so we seem pretty much more willing to work with the

saudis than than other administrations what do you think what can you tell us you have a regime that's exported wahhabi terrorism a koran the world some reason we can work quite well with them both americans and canadians this is what mr trump had to say this is amazing he said to the saudi prince come share your nation's wealth and create more jobs here in america so by purchasing more weapons from america these are the weapons that are being used in yemen right now what some are calling the biggest global catastrophe today on this planet these are american weapons and there's also american logistic support when it comes to attacking yemen we know that there were some senators and some people in the u.s. government that are saying or tried to stop this as a bipartisan effort to do it but the senate is not stopping it they voted to keep moving along and just keep a blind eye to what's happening in yemen it is a massacre of unknown proportions it's something that everybody in the western world should be ashamed of but for some reason we're pushing forward and for that reason what do you think it is weapons sales we're making billions both can of the

u.s. if you could imagine many other countries in the western world as well. r.t. correspondent alex mahela bitch thank you so much for your time so you can time now for a quick break but stick around because when we return our own ashley banks will give us a take on the biofuels market plus we'll talk with fred kaufman about tariffs in relation to food and agricultural exports and as we go to break here are the numbers of the closing bell tough day for stocks with red arrows across the board and this point seems to be weathering the storm over corruption in their block. it would appear the more the political left and their allies in the corporate media attack donald trump the more we learn about the corrupt behavior of the deep state the firing of andrew mackay but the f.b.i.

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and there are going to. welcome back to boom bust the travel and trip planning web company orbitz a subsidiary of expedia has been breached by a hacker allowing data access of roughly eight hundred eighty thousand customer

records and some other customer records on related linked websites including the american express site amex travel dot com while remains uncertain if the hacker stole data or how much and what kind the culprit is believed to have had access to credit card information addresses birthdays and full names the affected companies are offering free credit monitoring to customers i'm sure it makes them feel good. google has announced a plan to provide three hundred million dollars to news organizations to assist them in entering the digital age the google news initiative is designed to assist news organizations with strengthening their journalism and reporting and technology in an effort to combat fake news google has been criticized for allowing inaccurate advertisements on their site the details of the new program have yet to be released . and with other forms of energy on the rise in the united states both renewable

and nonrenewable some members of congress are looking to reduce what they think is inappropriate spending on ethanol here with more on the topic is r t a. actually banks. there is bipartisan support and congress to phase out the corn ethanol mandate the renewable fuel standard which forces or you'll refiners to mix corn based fuel into gasoline but corn ethanol mandate was created under the energy policy act of two thousand and five two years later president bush signed the energy independence and security act this act expanded the program corn growers and ethanol blenders benefited greatly the and provided them with a large tax credits and subsidies however when it comes to the american corn crop the mandate force about forty percent of it to be removed from the food supply according to reports what's even worse is the shortage because corn prices to rise from two dollars per bushel to more than eight dollars per bushel back in two

thousand and twelve that's praise surge resulted in detrimental consequences for the farming industry according to reports farmers plant at seventeen million new acres of corn at the expense of soybeans wheat hay and content as a result prices for these crops were driven to an all time high cattle farmers were also a fact in many weren't able to afford corn gluten food causing beef prices to rise sixty percent between two thousand and seven and two thousand and twelve the u.s. has endured a great amount of economic disruption due to this mandate according to reports ethanol is an inferior source of energy producing thirty four percent less energy per value them venture no gasoline one of the reasons in which the ethanol mandate came to be was to wean the u.s. from its reliance on foreign oil however the us is already approaching independence thanks to offshore drilling programs while many environmentalists want the mandate

removed some politicians want it to stay with bipartisan support in congress to phase out this. mandate the u.s. can see improvements to a practice that many deem as an effective and washington national banks are reporting for boom but. the world's largest maker of agricultural equipment john deere company based in good old moline illinois is concerned about the trade war between the united states and other nations and deer executives are not so concerned with steel imports used to make their signature green and yellow machinery according to chief executive officer sam alan deere is more worried about the retaliation on u.s. agricultural exports to other nations which if reduced could result in a surplus in u.s. ag production leading to decrease prices here in the u.s. and therefore a sluggish economy here discussing a lot more is fred kaufman author of bet the farm how food stop being food fred

thank you for being here what do you make a sam allen's comments well sam allen like any other person thinking a c.e.o. anybody who understands global relationships right now sees the fullish nys and shortsightedness of any policy of tariffs and increasing tariffs we have seen this historically at the disaster in one nine hundred thirty of smoot hawley we saw it in the one nine hundred eighty seven with tariffs imposed on germany and japan on semiconductors which led of course the one nine hundred eighty seven stock market crash which we somehow would have managed to forget this is a bad policy all the way through and clearly our president is trying to please his base who don't understand any of the intricacies of international trade you know just as people hear about smoot hawley and they remind us but it was a century a tariff that was imposed in the early thirty's and a lot of economists then and looking back say it really extended the great

depression by a long time what are companies like deer and are there other. companies like deer not not farmers in the those folks but other agriculture related implement dealers seed manufacturers. are they just concerned about the retaliation and what what mr allen is concerned about the grocery manufacturers of america are up in arms they cannot believe what they are looking at in terms of their manufacturing and we have to remember bart we are looking at the number one producer of manufactured goods in america that is the grocery sector we are talking about one hundred actually more about one hundred thirty billion dollars worth of exports every year we're talking about more than two million workers we're talking about more than thirty thousand communities being affected by this it is just bad policy all the way through and if you just just look straight at the kentucky bourbon makers for example they are

delivering more than a billion dollars to the tax base every year and of course the e.u. is saying well if you bring these tariffs on us we're going to go directly towards kentucky bourbon we're going to go directly towards cranberries harley-davidson motorcycles but why cranberries well of course like harley davidson it's in wisconsin home state of the speaker of the house they're going to knock down cranberries they're going to knock down bourbon they're going straight for florida orange juice gee is it a float ends i have got a whole list and it was interesting fred the e.u. list of all the products that they were going to put tariffs on total seven point nine billion dollars which is exactly the amount of steel and aluminum imports from the e.u. to the u.s. so for those that say this is not a tit for tat i'm sorry they're just wrong you know hasn't anybody told mr trump that mercantilism was over about three hundred years ago now tell us about what are

the major not just the groceries but what are the major production agriculture exports soybeans karn wheat well. we have this great tradition in this country of exposure exporting grains and seed grains and oil grains and china is taking our sorghum for feed and for bio diesel so really across the board these kinds of exports have been the key to american diplomatic power in the world and economic power in the world since about twenty fifteen other countries in the world in south america and canada parts of europe have understood the power of exporting food and agricultural products and so they're far are the the american export line has gone down while their is has gone up a policy like this is only going to exacerbate what is already a bad thing and what about before that another big one is it in japan and china are we've got big beef exports there and that's something that could also be retaliated

against by those nations very well there is beef but how about peanut butter that's my thing that's my favorite thing that's being marked because if you notice the great peanut producers in this country are all through the red states of the south in other words through the great history of peanut producers when it outright and two of our presidents have been peanut farmers person. let me let me just ask you real quick before we go. did i sort of set this up right about john deere is concerned and i imagine others farm all the other tractor companies that if we get retaliation and we don't have as much food if there's oversupply because we can't export it and that the prices drop and then the whole farm economy tumbles that is that the right at least thing theoretically to think about look there is a reason why grocery manufacturing has never been vertically integrated let me just explain richard branson had a fairly profitable record selling company virgin records but then he said ok i'm going to go into record making an artist management he integrate the whole thing

vertically and made a lot of money there is a reason why the big grocery manufacturers are not farmers because farming is a risky business there's not a lot of profit in it and these guys can have the bottom ripped right out of them fred kaufman author of bet the farm house of food stop being food thank you for being with us. and that's it for this time be sure to catch boom bust on youtube youtube dot com slash boom bust r.t. will see you again. the far right. isn't just on the march it's taking violent month daughters action i know what i need to hate against you know you know i see these organizations which only use me split into which we feel different names how do you view that.

complex web of which is fascism. the most expensive fish in the 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 whims of a much larger mission was once there 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 catastrophe zone. around the world there's always

a battle going on with the central bankers and the commercial bankers always trying to repress the population one way or another recall the global insurrection against banker occupation they've been saying this for years on the shelf so now we're going to look at it from the puerto rican perspective they are similarly being oppressed by the overlords of finance and they are reacting in a very. specific puerto rico way. brace for a single. day of. training very young. eight months of intensive school. rats. and they save lives.

thanks. russia says it regards the poisoning of former spies said goes cliff fall in the u.k. as an act of terror and the british government must provide more information. a rocket kills at least forty four people in a damascus shopping district in one of the deadliest rebel attacks on the syrian capital. and leaked documents reveal the extent of the u.s. national security agency's efforts to crack down on identify big calling news this . one case carter's you're watching the latest headlines here at r.t.

international thank you for joining us. the russian foreign ministry says it considers the poisoning of former double agent surrogates going to powell and his daughter to be an act of terrorism the ministry held a briefing on the case with several ambassadors attending. to reports. the foreign ministry spokesperson said a number of things firstly he. he reiterated that russia could have in no way benefited from the attack moscow says they consider this to be a terror attack secondly they stated that the u.k. refused to cooperate with russia which is against the convention on prohibition of chemical weapons and he mentioned the attack could have been orchestrated by another party but then clarified that russia is not pinning the blame on anyone and asked that his words not be distorted let's take a quick look. we see that the british authorities are becoming ever more nervous and it's clear why the clock is they have backed themselves into a corner they will eventually have to provide an increasing number of unanswered

questions we expect from london and from you all been a solution for the prohibition of chemical weapons and official. developments regarding the scruple we need comprehensive conclusions and detailed confirmation a spokesperson for the defense ministry also spoke out he said that it seems that britain is afraid to conduct an unbiased investigation into the scruple case and that the u.k. presented no proof that gas illegibly used to poison scruple was made in russia he went on to say that the formula of the subs and not the child was published by scientists. who is working with the us government the russian foreign ministry went on to talk specifically about britain and said it was and is one of the states that have been implementing a program on the development of new chemical weapons since one thousand nine hundred seventy s. he added that the porton down lap in britain is used to conductance parents involving use of chemical weapons now we did have a reaction from

a london embassy spokesperson who stated that moscow doesn't have to present anything in terms of script or case but is ready for a joint investigation london has proposed russia a dialogue over this case however it doesn't see a constructive approach from moscow now the ambassadors that did not attend were britain u.s. and france britain and the u.s. sent embassy workers. instead a criminal spokesperson reacted to the u.k. decision by saying that it showed unwillingness to hear russia's aunts as to its questions that moscow today has denied any involvement in the attempted murders of circa annulus cripple the russian former intelligence officer and his daughter you were allegedly poisoned insult three both of them remain in a critical condition and so this diplomatic spat that has gone on for a while now looks to continue to go on for some time and meanwhile the u.k.'s foreign secretary boris johnson says he believes the script poisoning leads inexorably back to the kremlin he cited

a number of allegations but claims he doesn't want a new cold war. i want to be very clear that we do not wish to engage in a new cold war. that i don't want i remember. the road. putin to the way you see marking thirty six. years i think the comparison with the sixty's is right. russians as ever responded with. distortion and delay and that is their tactic. this information middling in european election campaigns to say nothing of election campaigns. a general feeling that russia is going to be moved. well independent

journalist joe luria says the british government has a responsibility to back up its allegations against russia that's a p.r. effort on boris johnson's part actually look the british government is not treating this event as a criminal investigation they using it as an opportunity to spread more bellicose rhetoric against russia and now during that meeting in moscow the british did not send their ambassador they sent the worker there name emira nodding and she said that russia has offered us no explanation how this agent came into the u.k. well it's up to the accusing party to prevent present the evidence first and then the defense will counter that so britain has presented presented no evidence whatsoever of russia's involvement in this to this point if this thing does die down it will be followed because britain didn't come up with any real evidence and all just go away if they do it will be a major major incident obviously that russia would have to add to that if it does die down something else is going to happen you know something else will happen in

the next few months that the american british governments particular will make as much out of it as they can to continue to david to try to deal with your demise and we can have the russian government. us president donald trump has spawn town trajan mongst some politicians and parts of the media for congratulating vladimir putin on his picture in the russian election on twitter trying to describe their reaction as crazed and said getting along with russia is a good thing he added that russia could help in dealing with many shared problems artie's but i guess the of picks up the story. trump's gone and done it again something completely normal but it struck so what the hell lay into him he called putin and congratulated him despite very clear instructions not to literally his brief said do not congratulate in capital letters according to an anonymous source not that that bothers anyone these days do not say

congratulations on capital letters and the president gets on the phone with them and says congratulations you shouldn't be congratulating president putin for the sham election but he just did it anyway dangerous strong man who is threatening western democracy that requires a strong sponsor so dark some call of up to say. putin's critics in the haters bristled with indignation john mccain's twitter account always hyper sensitive to all things putin blew up 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 mccain 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

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 well i don't like action that you pick up the phone and you place that phone call angle of merkel and demand your macro also congratulated putin many others did too some god like for it some didn't it's nothing personal

but thing to 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 you president of the european commission he got flak no seating and shameful they call it now a few years ago they called it 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 in a government controlled neighborhood. this is all about a bit of my relatives are injured my wife and daughter are in surgery right now. the was the earth early moment i love my son told me he wanted to

celebrate mother's day with me so i told him let's go to the market she bought a cake i was buying sweets when the explosion happened i saw only a lot of dust and my children under the table. that has done my daughter visited me on mother's day she is five months pregnant on our way home from the doctor was told by the market that was right before the show and my daughter and i were wounded my four year old grandson was cured and the shell and she 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 is them not us and the syrian government has accused terrorists in east enders her of carrying out the shelling local journalist abraham .