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. now 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 in that story here in canada as well promising a 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 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 turns 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 according 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 to trudeau our prime minister could stop this if you want 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 you 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 has 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 the saudi arabia was the present president trumps 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 around the world for 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 and 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 are some senators and some people in u.s. government that are saying or to try 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 were making billions both can of the u.s. and 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 to. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics school business i'm show business i'll see you then. the far right. isn't just on the march it's taking violent. action i don't like it at. all usually

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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 to good catch. it's only women and sell for much larger mission was once there and 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 the long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes. welcome back to boom bust the travel one 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 unissued of it 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 of 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 our two americas actually breaks. there is bipartisan support and congress to phase out the corn ethanol mandate the renewable fuel standard which forces the oil 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 benefit greatly the act 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 than conventional 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 and and. pendants 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 bust. 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. egg 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 you make a semi on the 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 of the disaster in one nine hundred thirty of smoot hawley we saw it in 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 have managed to forget 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 of but it was essential 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 of 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 on the head not 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. years ago now and tell us about what are the major not just the groceries but what are the major production agriculture

exports soybeans to the current 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 american export line has gone down while there 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 fate that's my favorite thing that's being mark because if you notice the great peanut producers in this country are all through the red states of the south in other words three of the great history of peanut producers in 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 that 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 artie we'll see you again. time buddy mailbag of the entire team i need them i get. them but again. and again and i mean i remember my family where i was cool well cooling and had me .

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you're right. the russian ambassador to the u.k. slams british foreign secretary scott. harrison of russia to nazi germany calling it an insult to the russian people also to come this hour in our. clashes erupt in paris between police and people taking part in a nationwide strike against president promised reforms. and as the son of libya's former leader moammar gadhafi runs for president we speak exclusively to saif gadhafi for. the situation you have libya is the result of the destruction of the state institutions not only toppling the regime return back to its roadmap become a democratic sovereign state.

hello there you watching r.t. international this thursday afternoon is just turned five o'clock here in moscow on our top story the russian ambassador to the u.k. alexander has slammed boris johnson's comparison of the upcoming world cup in russia to the lympics under hitler calling it an acceptable and an insult to the russian people. the roads like to go. the way we want to go to sleep. here so i think the comparison with these exist is right moscow considers this kind of statements made under the level of the foreign secretary in any way an acceptable and totally irresponsible. the british government is free to make

a decision about its dissipation in the world cup but nobody has the right to insult the russian people who defeated nazis and lost more than twenty five million people by comparing our country to nazi germany. did he goes beyond the common sense and we do not think the british war veterans including those of the arctic cornwallis would share this opinion while the spat between the two countries follows the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in seoul spray with the use of a nerve agent x. russian officer. was jailed in russia for handing secrets to british intelligence he moved to the u.k. in a spy swap in twenty ten u.k. police expect the probe into the attack to take months though that didn't stop british politicians from straight away pinning the blame on moscow britain's foreign secretary also went even further in his accusations against russia.

russians as ever responded with denial distortion and delay and that is their tactic. the of the cyber warfare disinclination middling in european election campaigns to say nothing of election campaigns elsewhere or a general feeling that russia is going to be moved. i want to be very clear that we do not wish to engage in a new cold war i deprecate that term i don't want i remember them of the old cold war that's a p.r. effort on virus johnson's part actually look the british government is not treating this event as a criminal investigation they're using it as an opportunity to spread more bellicose rhetoric against russia and it's up to the accusing party to present the evidence first and then the defense will counter that so britain has presented no

evidence whatsoever of russia's involvement in this to disappoint. well the russia blame game is also extended into areas once considered perhaps beyond political point scoring our london correspondent and c a chalk and found an educational project with an anti russian twist what's better than helping the young to try to maneuver the ever tricky world of global current affairs. of the day is an online news service that is used by one in three u.k. schools teachers my variance from subscribing schools user articles and activities across all subjects for lessons homework research. here's one handed to tory on provided by the service to help educate the young and broaden their horizons talks of putin on mission to poison west ouch and among questions to discuss is putin europe's most dangerous leader since hitler was this gas.

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accident. there is a victim of the car accident and we see what was the car and the car was a british me car let's say a range rover and just imagine that myself or foreign ministry spokeswoman makes a statement that the man was killed by a british made car in a car accident in center of moscow and highly likely a prime minister of prime minister of great britain may be responsible of that murder. is it crazy is it crazy it is crazy. we're not speaking about. attempt to murder or to murder a russian spy in great britain where it's bringing about attempt to murder a british spy in great britain if he's handed in so russia quits with him he's of zero value of zero importance. go ahead.

we're not as crazy as to to even to think about something of that kind. before presidential elections. and before such important global. temperature. france's face shift facing nationwide strike action at the moment with over one hundred forty demonstrations planned across the country one of the live pictures actually from one of them in paris public sector workers students workers have taken to the streets protesting various issues from my wages to job losses things like peaceful at the moment although earlier on we did see patches of violence there two trains have been canceled and schools closed as we mentioned we did see

protesters clashed with police also looks like to be flares being lit by some of the demonstrators there as you can see fix smoke in the air at the moment and we did speak to our correspondent in paris a little. while i'm a. protest of several. fronts this is th hospital workers people they've come up with the start of this protest which has become in the last few minutes because they're angry about the fact the president has said that he wants to cut one hundred and twenty thousand jobs from the civil service. five years at least. and you could see the fairly quiet atmosphere here people still so things that music looking to try protests quite quietly that's very different to what we've

seen that some of the other protests across paris today this is a nationwide structure crossroads but here in paris they were as you mentioned clashes with the police between students and the police it looked like the. students were at some point the police on burning fires and rubbing up against them but the police responding with quite some force some people describing it as being a violent force and what we've understood is that some people have been injured in those clashes with the police this morning as you said this is one of many strikes not just him paris but of course france as you mentioned many trains services are being disrupted today many schools are shut there's also problems with people who are trying to leave the country by the airports and that's because the air traffic controllers are also on the strike hit today a new regards to that rail strike the main strike which is due to start in about an hour that's affecting up to sixty percent of some teaching.