harris they were as you mentioned there clashes with the police between students and the police it looked like the students were at some point during the police on burning fires and rubbing up against them but the police responding with quite some force some people describing it is 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 i said this is one of many strikes not just in 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 and the 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 t.g.v. service is that the high speed rail in france now those guys have decided that they are going to take a strike action even further they've combined for this nationwide strike action

today but they're actually looking at having another thirty six days of strikes up until the end of june the idea is five days of transport fire two days of strikes and those days are planned now for the next three months because they're determined to get mr maclin and his government to listen to the grievances and how unhappy they are about the changes the government wants to make to the railway service. facebook's chief executive mark zuckerberg has for the first time commented on the scandal surrounding the social network it was revealed the personal details of millions of its customers were used to influence elections while in a lengthy facebook apologies or detailed exactly what went wrong with privacy policies and what steps have also been taken to solve the problem he added that the company quote will learn from the experience to make the community safer for everybody going forward well for mine. do the scandal does involve

a data gathering firm called cambridge analytical it worked with multiple u.s. presidential campaigns including donald trump some reportedly harvested the details of fifty million facebook profiles for its political operations the company is now under investigation and is even suspended its chief executive and local media now report that the u.k. police have sealed off the road surrounding the firm's offices in london is they investigate a suspicious package or despite the fact the scandal concerns an american tech giant and a data mining company with offices in new york london and washington that have still been attempts to in the media to tie this story to russia is more against if reports. imagine being a liberal a democrat and being stuck in a trump presidency for a year is it must be horrible waking up every day guessing that what russia is songe boats or hackers have cooked up today cambridge analytic i had powerful

connections to candidate trump including one time top adviser steve bannon and billionaire donor robert mercer so presidential son in law jared cushion or and consultant brad parr scale brought in the company which is now accused of utilizing data from fifty million facebook users without permission facebook was how donald trump was going to win wait a sec something's wrong where's the bad guy who do we blame this on. there it is questions are also swirling about a possible link to russian metal cambridge c.e.o. reached out to julian a songs of wiki leaks seeking access to e-mails from hillary clinton's private server there's no evidence rikki leaks had such information but wiki leaks was releasing e-mails from the computers of other democrats which authorities say were hacked by russians and another trump advisor roger stone great

innings i actually communicated with what how do you even make the connection what's your logic if someone speaks to a songe their russian agent there is zero connection here other than the word russia being in every other sentence there is only one explanation cnn's report must have been put together by a random generator literally this explanation makes more sense than cnn's report asaad just the dia and see oil trump the russians cambridge had because we've got the keywords just fill this. basis with whatever he also directly message or russian hacker he says he did nothing wrong and despite another claim that cambridge had ties to a russian oil company the campaign insists there were never any links to russia are you comfortable that the trunk campaign through their cameras analytical had

a connection to wiki leaks. they did have a connection or wiki leaks let me demonstrate if you are of average height and your birthday is in july you are closely tied to. see how easy it is let's do this again if you like snow and the russians like snow you are aligned with russia or if you want lots of money and all the guards have lots of money you are susceptible to russian influence it's all nonsense but who cares it's about getting the keywords out there about confusing and confounding not explaining or investigating key words people key words the russians everywhere are against of reporting there still to come this hour

here in r.t. moammar gadhafi son says that he will run for president of libya will be speaking to his lawyer just after the break. around the world there's always a battle going on with the central bankers and the commercial bankers always trying to repress the population in one way or another recall the global insurrection against banker occupation we've been saying this for years on the show 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. the most expensive fish in the world each one is 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 is. welcome back saif gadhafi spokesperson has confirmed after months of rumors that the son of former libyan leader moammar gadhafi will run for president if the elections do go ahead to the sheer size father was driven from power and killed in twenty eleven spight holding no official position saif was described as the defacto prime minister during his father's rule saif was later held captive for six years

before being released last year and made to political unrest but we heard exclusively from saif on the presidential bid. saif al islam has lots of supporters they are ordinary people there are even those who were against moammar gadhafi back in two thousand and eleven and now they support the views of his son the situation we have in libya now is the result of the destruction of all the state institutions not only the toppling of the regime forty countries stood against libya back then our country was bombarded and shelled all the military and civilian infrastructure was destroyed many civilians were killed and now saif al islam has put forward a comprehensive overview of the situation in libya that's a reform project which will bring calm back to libya there are many young patriots in libya now they are so enthusiastic they are not concerned about political affiliations the main thing they care about is a patriotic spirit and they see it in the reforms by saif al islam they view them

as an effective tool to fight corruption well after the nato led incursion civil war has raged in libya since moammar gadhafi was overthrown with a power vacuum two competing governments are vying for control for control of the country the conflict has also led to a massive migrant crisis point spread terrorism as well as violence among tribal militias loyal revealed sayas life is also still in danger. about saif al islam is whereabouts are kept secret for security reasons as his lawyer i will do everything to protect saif al islam from all anti libyan plots masterminded by the country's interfering in libyan affairs as promised saif al islam will make a speech when the right time comes then everything will be revealed libya will return back to its roadmap and become a democratic sovereign state a state where the law will triumph libya will no longer be a country of organized crime illegal migration human trafficking as it is described

in the media we will defend the interests of the libyan people will protect its resources which cannot be squandered the libyan people must decide their future themselves. now it's been revealed that the much praise security of the virtual currency because may have been compromised by the u.s. national security agency classified documents provided by the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden do seem to demonstrate the efforts by the agency to track down uses of the currency something previously thought to be practically impossible with law. question what's in it for bitcoin buyers besides the price boom last year when its rate kept going up people got themselves crypto was to get rich but bitcoins have been mooring enthusiastic with something else since long before the twenty seven thing book no central bank control privacy

and transaction anonymity i'm sorry this could have all been an illusion you haven't unfollowed snowden or have you. the n.s.a. worked urgently to target bitcoin uses 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 thing the u.s. was already working hard on tracking down crypto wallet holders and the n.s.a.'s 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 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 and on them is ation service how many bitcoin owners have so far been tricked by the n.s.a. into using this product that we can only guess there was never trust in the institutions like the n.s.a. ever since know it and originally came out with those revelations a lot of the pretense of stopping terrorism but most of us governments want to know what all of their citizens are doing all of the time so nothing really changed reading the latest reports over a block chain and what the n.s.a.

is trying to do to track it i'm not surprised at all because when was never really doubt anonymous and when people were thinking of it as anonymous. those who are proving to be wrong time and time again the core properties of bitcoin are on confiscate all our assets if held properly and censorship resistant value transfer hopefully a limited tools will come in the near future but we're not there yet we're 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. dozens of children in the moscow region are being treated for gas poisoning residents are blaming it on a landfill site near a small time they gathered outside the hospital where the children were taken and then the regional governor when he came to visit.

was the was the more than one hundred eighty people in the area currently suffering from the with the dizziness that i'm cool sites allegedly made the air toxic former presidential candidate chakras to the hospital to speak to one of the children being treated. cliche shows she was thinking if you if you accept the risk the only issue which was cashing in was for. you a stomach ache it's just like the you know this was a kid we had to show you work yesterday if this takes us federal money actually

well let's just play each other well the word many parents among the protesters there and they did wave banners with a message is stop poisoning our children ati's video agency spoke to some of the. it is really wendy's night emissions happen my child coughs as if he's suffocating he can't sleep he cries he has a sore throat that it isn't just an ordinary call which is still pretty good question fights when we put the kids to sleep we seal the doors and windows with wet towels so that they won't believe the sin did when you wish it was up to you that's unbearable the smell is awful we adults suffer but our children suffer more we're always nervous sometimes we don't even know whether they will wake up in the morning because many suffer from or. following the outcry there from residents the russian general prosecutor's office has said that it will not a launch a probe into the poisonous. he without international thanks the company we're back

with more on that. well you know they were kind of adopted because we were called pirate it's long. been there in this small ball it's next to the harp along here and it's. the little self to big piece already ninety percent of the dark dot and it won't because. if things go seventy five tons they do it several times a day with a big lead now you get an idea of why. we have to understand we can not stay still but just. be within this he is he'll

be going to give our. i'm doing this because i want the future world to future generations to have out and enjoy the ocean we have. on. the far right and britain isn't just on the march it's taking violent my daughter's action i don't like need to read that gives you know again i see these organizations which usually split into which we see a different way how do you view that.

complex web of which russia. you know will really mow oh my gosh us. after so many those imax kaiser this is the kaiser report in puerto rico territory those currently under occupation by the current. unbelievably we're standing in front of some art that is representational a depicting the whole and what the heck is going on stacy this is the up way that they lavandera which means that the flag door on july first twenty sixteen it was

painted black prior to that it was the classic puerto rican flag blue at top red stripes down now it's black because from then what some dubbed into began to occupy this. territory i was going to say so nation but of course it's not totally a nation is the territory of the united states so on july first twenty sixteen they defaulted on a two billion dollars payment on a general obligation bond the first time since one nine hundred thirty three that it happened in the united states or any u.s. territory really set in motion a new period in puerto rican history so roughly at about the same time you had a whole new group of entrepreneurs in the crypto space to puerto rico could be a great place for us to come and de camp and set up shop and turn this into a crypto paradise and we're going to be looking at some of those stories while we're here in puerto rico and of course we'll be sampling some awesome most fungo and we're going to get into the culture we're going to do so on

a learn how to do some serious salsa dancing by the end of the show something i've been meaning to do for the past thirty years and do the horizontal mambo maybe a couple times who knows what the what's going on there let me just give credit to the artist alvarez she made this in two thousand and twelve and then painted it black and twenty sixteen when the obama admin administrator brought in pro mace which means promise in spanish but in english it stands for puerto rico oversight management and economic stability act. and the sign you mentioned to appoint a who of course was a puerto rican american his parents were from puerto rico he wrote that sawing song oyo. me reach mo so listen to my rhythm is what that means and so we're going to listen to the rhythm of this island you and i have been to many places in a similar situation whether it's greece whether it's ireland we've seen economic

collapse and troikas and outside bodies oversight fiscal stability boards coming in just full control boards and this situation coming in and occupying economically at least and that's really all that matters financial repression you know whether it's in the you. us when they artificially drop interest rates down to below market rates or whether you're in greece where you have the troika as it's known and now here we are four to rico with the one being called around the world there's always a battle going on with the central bankers and the commercial bankers always trying to repress the population in one way or another we call it the global insurrection against banker occupation we've been saying this for years on the show 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 four to reka way a lot of salsa a lot of beans and rice lot of dancing lot of sunshine and a lot of crypto baby by the way they are america and that's one thing to remember

that i feel so proud to be american this is a great location san juan is gorgeous and yet colonial city it's hundreds of years old france who is that guy. ponce de leon. ponce there yes he first of course basically found his old san juan is the first governor here and we're going to be here for the next few episodes we're going to be reporting on the financial situation here remember on june thirtieth two thousand and sixteen when obama first introduced this new legislation pro mesa appointing a fiscal control board over the island they are not allowed basically they don't have their own economic sovereignty here because the president of the united states appoints these people to the control board the fiscal control board when they went bankrupt at that time their debt was seventy billion dollars. that's about twenty thousand dollars per person on the island since then of course because

of the hurricane and because of the economic collapse hundreds of thousands hundreds of thousands have actually left so now there's only about three point three million people on the island this is the bay of synanon were all of the colonials all the colonial powers whether the dutch the spanish or the british arrive through here this is the new world the gateway to the new world it's so gorgeous reminds me of the south of france we should move here but decided we're going to move here and now we're going to join the crypt the revolution in san juan puerto rico i feel it watching in my veins watching stigmata pouring out of my trip the consciousness right here is a fuse with cyber christ on sunday it is a sunday and you know we've been walking around this island and that is a thing that is quite surprising to me i thought it was more like the bahamas and a tourist destination and kind of a hellhole of miami like situation but in fact it's an amazingly beautiful five

hundred year old it feels like you're in lisbon arbil fonts the marriage does feel like a remarkable european city we've been to a lot of beautiful places all over the world and this is going to be one of the most beautiful i've got to tell you. so i was talking about the fight the fiscal control board and the fact that they lost their economic sovereignty it's a situation similar to appen with greece however you can tell the difference max and i have been to athens many times other cities and lon no tear gas but also there's it's less much less depressed here i think because the fiscal control board is filled with americans who basically donald trump is now the guy who would appoint this fiscal control board and he's gone bankrupt more than anybody else on earth let me give you a comparison between greece and ireland you know greece was allowed made an example of and the economy went. and flames that tear gas was everywhere and their

suffering and depression ireland played ball with the i.m.f. and the troika and they were you know got through the austerity measures and now there's a huge financial boom there except you have to pay a lot for basics like water to pay for it also the poor get ripped off of course but here this is more like that irish situation where they're kind of nursing them through fiscally until the crypto boom hits and it's going to hit in the next twenty four months i can feel it i can feel the block chain if it smells like victory. well max you know that twenty sixteen when they defaulted on their two billion dollar bond payment the first time since one nine hundred thirty three that a state a u.s. state or territory had done so defaulting on a general obligation by which you're not supposed to be able to do well they did it they were seventy billion in debt then by twenty seventeen they were one hundred twenty three billion in debt and then nobody really talks about it anymore because

you know i hurricane maria hit and hurricane maria was a category four hurricane. you already saw. her. there's a lot of bernstein knew what was going to come in twenty or twenty seventeen well you know old song won and so on one don't have that much damage that we can see apparently the rest of the island does we will try to get out there but it did cause ninety according to this headline rebuilding puerto rico will cost ninety five billion dollars and there. you could raise that other nice you know in a heartbeat nothing this whole place is going to go krypto street i'm feeling it well just so you know max is talking about that because there are three simultaneous big queen conferences happening on the island we will talk to some of those people we are over the next few days going to go there and talk to those people there are many stories about the new colonialists some people say they're

the new colonialists i did speak to a former government. he was somebody and he said that he welcomes them all he doesn't see them as connie so we're going to cover that over the next few days and they say oh the ninety five billion and they want the fall thing on there there's more solid to the territory incurred this debt willingly. has always been a debt toxic debt dump where wall street dumps you know and this is the story when you have. memphis fire like the u.s. and they picked out all the european countries and latin american countries were to take them puerto rico you know it's completely asymmetric warfare they dump dead here and people say well we'll take the money i mean why would you say no to money and then they come calling for the interest payments and like oh no we got a default then they say well we're going to come in with austerity measures and take over all your basic services and privatized and then maria hit and said.

that's right we're in hurricane alley deal with that wall street well so so max i mean the thing is that what let's talk about why they are so in debt because it is different between ireland between greece between here ireland went bust because of those banks the golden circle of bankers who lend to each other money and it was all basically private debt owned by a bank without even any retail deposits and the european union the e.c.b. forced the irish people to basically bail out this private bank in greece yes they did borrow so much money and that was because of the e.c.b. because of the euro zone and everybody lent money to them cheaper than it should have been you know what happened in puerto rico is that they had since one thousand seven thousand in the jones act they had the chip exam tax bonds so tell us about that because you sold those on wall street what happened there yes i said it's a toxic debt dump because on wall street you can always sell a puerto rico triple tax free double be rated bond to mr or mrs shorts out on long

island for that tax free equivalents you know you say it's taxable equivalent of seven percent on your money dr schwartz dentist in bay city and you know you just sell those all day long it's amazing trade to do and they just load this place up with debt convenience is debt from convenience and now they don't pay the interest on the debt they shouldn't pay the interest on the debt they should force it back to wall street where it came from and so take your toxic debt sludge and cram another strange thing is not going to pay the interest on this thing because you just manufactured it in your room. fracturing has nothing to do with our economy goal go into more fungo and drop dead well they did eat a lot of mofongo debt they had a lot of debt and that part of that by the way happened. puerto rico's recession remember everybody else in the world saw it hit in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine actually hit in two thousand and six here and what happened is that was the end of a ten year period set in motion from bill clinton basically every single thing in

the world that has gone wrong was because of bill clinton whether it was his commodities futures modernization act which allowed derivatives to be traded not as bets but as actual investments whether he got rid of glass steagall and then caused all the banks to turn into gambling zones as well but he also in one thousand nine hundred six he basically over turned some tax advantages to us corporations to manufacture here and most of them were in the south of the island we'll get into that how that actually impacts the electrical grid here but by two thousand and six all of the tax advantages to being here were lost and all of them like literally thousands of people lost their jobs overnight and thus set in motion the death spiral well of the spiral is being reversed thanks to innovation entrepreneurial pierce and the block change we're going to have a reverse of the death spiral toward the reinforcing.