to oliver has the latest on the summit. briggs it has taken something of a back seat for theresa may as she has taken part in the first day of the european council summit in brussels drumming up support for a united e.u. message against russia has been what she's been about on thursday she had strong words entering the summit russia staged a brazen and reckless attatched against the united kingdom when his attempt to change the merger of two people on the streets of seoul spring i'll be raising this issue with my counterparts today because it's clear that the russians threat does not respect borders and indeed the incident insoles was part of a pattern of russian aggression against europe and its neighbors from the western balkans to the middle east federica maka raney is the high representative for foreign affairs for the e.u. that makes as close as the block has to a foreign minister she said on her way into the summit that she stands firmly in

lockstep with london we will also obviously express our strongest possible solidarity with united kingdom after the attack in salzburg the strongest political sign we can give is unity unity and unity but there are a number of other countries that are saying that if there to back more sanctions against russia are all there to take any further action or commit to a a unified harsh statement by the e.u. that they are going to need to see more evidence from the british side but when the european council president donald to skin the e.u. commission president claude good took to the stage the field questions from journalists they didn't really hope maybe the un says when it came to what type of action to take against russia in march we're all sort of always deciding to come back to an issue in june and in june we decided to come back to an issue did not talk and wonder we are never coming back were discussed. during.

so it couldn't in the brief come back to the question and you. will be back here in brussels on friday for more of this european council summit and we'll see if we see that united message coming throughout friday i think the british government's reaction and behavior has been absolutely appalling now of course a serious crime has been committed as far as we know in that's people and his story . seem to have been poisoned but beyond that we really don't know much and that what we have seen in the british government is a terrible rush. to condemn russia actually in the evidence and it's very interesting may has consistently fed and this is repeated by france and germany that this is the substance of a tight you know made in russia which doesn't really tell if anything

the road between russia and the u.k. follows the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter in salzburg with the use of a nerve agent so a scrip hour was jailed in russia for handing secrets to british intelligence to move to the u.k. in a spy swap in twenty ten u.k. police expect the probe into the attack to take months but that didn't stop british politicians from immediately pinning the blame on moscow. u.s. president donald trump a slapped new import tariffs on china now this is in a move that's intensified fears of a global trade war on thursday trump signed a memorandum on the measures against china he added that it would be the first of many the tariffs target more than one hundred types of chinese goods wages and clothing electronics other estimated to be worth up to sixty billion dollars to put also asked the chinese to reduce the trade deficit immediately by one hundred billion deficit which is more than double the u.s.

deficit with the rest of the world is the main reason the trump cited for his new tariffs the other being the problem of intellectual property and technologies there for the past year trumps unpredictable approach to china though it left a lot of people scratching their heads. money. we can't continue to allow china to rape our country. if you can have the relationship you know there's going to be conflict but we have a very good relationship people say we have the best relationship of any president president we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen president she was enjoying it i view them as a friend i have tremendous respect for president she gave a great relationship. and online our antiwar activist and author richard baca richard the chinese government's already responded saying it's ready to retaliate

with all the legal measures to protect their interests what kind of action would you anticipate from beijing. well of course there could be. tariffs that they apply boeing believe is the biggest exporter in the united states and has billions and billions of dollars in annual sales tens of billions of dollars. i mean what what trump is saying if he follows through on it would lead to could lead to a full scale trade war with really unknown and undetermined at this point damages to the economy and to the people because this is going to raise the prices for a lot of goods to people for people here and the whole presentation by the trumpet ministration that somehow china is raping the united states is just ludicrous i mean it from a historical point of view it was china of course that suffered from really

horrible horrible effects of imperialist intervention in domination for so many years and it was exploited without mercy and so what but what trump is doing now and saying that he thinks trade wars are great and they're easy to win i think poses a real danger of. economic consequences that are hard to foresee at this point speaking of some economic consequences that we can see the u.s. stock markets have been very negative in their reaction to the to the terrace the dow jones fulling more than seven hundred points why are investors so worried. well i think that a large part of the trade with china is actually u.s. corporations u.s. based corporations operating in china and then shipping goods huge amounts of goods

back into the united states and those get counted as part of the deficit but it's really you know those corporations are reaping billions of dollars in profits every year and you know underlying all of the safe to say is that there really is a world crisis of overproduction now over production in regard to in relation to need but over production in relation to what the markets can absorb and that there is overproduction in all kinds of goods agricultural goods industrial goods etc and that's sharpening the differences between countries and trump is now going on the offensive in that regard in ways that you know even the corporations here are afraid of also bundle a couple of questions together here because you know this is one of the things that donald trump to get himself elected off the back of you know this promise to tackle china in terms of trade so surely that's what his supporters want it is not a good thing but then will he support to stay within if prices start to go up

well that's i mean there gets to really the heart of the trump administration and the trump message which is has been one of complete deception complete deception in regard to the interest of poor people of working class people here who have suffered a lot because of the shutdown of industries who suffered a lot from the opioid epidemic which is one face that and the country really by the pharmaceutical companies but we're trump presents is the answer whether it's anti immigrant or tariffs or a trade war are really only going to do damage to the same people many of the same people who voted for trump and were deceived by his message. richard thanks so much for your time my guess is our richard becker antiwar activist and author thank you . onto the news the second son of the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi will run for president if elections are held this year saif al

islam gadhafi spokesperson confirmed the plans after months of speculation science father was driven from power and killed in two thousand and eleven spy holding no official position saif was described as being the defacto prime minister during his father's rule saif was later held captive for six years before being released last year amid political unrest but we heard exclusively from his lawyer about this presidential bid. then there's evidence that 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 today 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're 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 is raged in libya since while my gadhafi was overthrown with a power vacuum two competing governments have been vying for control of the country the conflicts lead to a massive migrant crisis widespread terrorism as well as violence among tribal militias is the lawyer again revealing that life is still in danger. one exit as about saif al islam is whereabouts are kept secrets 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 and will protect its resources which cannot be squandered the libyan people must decide their future themselves. so i'm a security firm kaspersky has identified a highly secretive piece of malware used to infiltrate the computers of intelligence targets but other people may also have been affected because person is not identified the people organization behind the malware but the media company cyber scoop alleges that it's part of a classified u.s. program citing unnamed u.s.

officials they're also quoted as saying that the spyware was used to target terrorists by collecting information from their computers a spare explain why didn't stop them from revealing them our would it take to remediate all forms of malicious programs regardless of origin or purpose furthermore the company does not whitelist any malware samples not even malware used for so-called legal surveillance one can easily imagine the situation in which such malware falls into the wrong hands and can be used to launch attacks against law enforcement were just regular users. code named slingshot the malware is main purpose is cyber espionage it's able to retrieve large amounts of data including images and passwords from infected computers and suspecting users are targeted through compromised routers targets of the malware of been detected as far away as sin african and middle eastern countries and it appears to compromise the computers of individual users but others including governmental institutions may also have

been breached we spoke with a kaspersky security expert about just how this tool works but this wasn't of the most awful one that disposition yeah it's sophisticated malware we discovered it last year after examining it for some time we can confidently say that it is intended for cyber espionage because all it does is collect data from your computer what makes this malware so dangerous is that it stayed under the radar for quite a long time our estimate is that this malware has been operational for about six years in other words the operators of the smell where we're using it obtaining data and remaining unnoticed because this malware is so advanced and uses many tricks to avoid detection we detected about one hundred infected computers mostly in africa especially in kenya and a few more in libya and afghanistan we can't see huge use this malware all we know is that the people who created it speak english very well because the code contains some text lines and even brief descriptions of portions of code which are written

in very good english but here a bag of mini founder of the news website shout out u.k. thinks that everyone should be concerned by the revelations. it's a continuation from the edward snowden leaks that happened quite some time ago and now. it's also if you think of it at the back end of what happened with cambridge analytic around data the issue is that the internet has yes given us tons of opportunities is given to send less amount of information but it's also allowing private companies as well as setting governments to gain our information and use it for whatever manner we see fit and what's clear is that most of us ordinary people have no idea what actually goes on with our own security so yeah it's a we saw something we do need to be concerned about. finally this hour the u.s. senate intelligence committee has now officially completed its trump russia probe the committee launched the investigation last january and since that time it's

spoken to more than seventy witnesses including the u.s. president's son the genius as well as trump's son in law and senior adviser jared cushion and on top of that more than three hundred thousand documents were looked at their car reports from washington. in a partisan vote the house intel committee has voted to shut down its investigation into alleged russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen election finding no evidence of collusion between trump and russia the committee also voted to release the g.o.p.'s report on the investigation but the report however will not be immediately made available to the public it's expected to be released in a few weeks after it's reviewed and declassified by the intelligence community but the house intel committee did publish a summary of its findings reiterating that they found no collusion coordination or conspiracy between trump and the kremlin but democrats of the committee voiced opposition to the move saying it was done prematurely to protect the white house pledging to continue the probe let's take a look house intel republicans have prematurely ended investigation and jump to

unfounded conclusions that they've yet to share with democratic members like the nunes memo it's hear no evil see no evil speak no evil instead of conducting an honest investigation house republicans chose to put partisanship over national security and run a shameful interference campaign to give cover to donald trump instead of protecting our democracy house republicans have worked overtime to protect president trump and his family and friends despite objections from house democrats the house intel committees investigation into russian interference is now over however this is only one of several probes into the matter so now we'll just have to read the report when it's declassified in a few weeks to see if it debugs the trouble russia accusation for good. fantastic have appreciated your company throughout the evening that is all for me for now rest assured that you are in safe hands sean thomas will bring it right up to date at the top of the hour.

the most expensive fish in the world each one selling for the 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 themself a much larger mission was once there 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 toward long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes. fifteen years ago this month the united states in its so-called coalition of the willing to illegally invaded in occupied iraq and iraq continues to grapple with that fateful decision many call the invasion of iraq a blunder should we call it would it really is

a crime. about your sudden passing i fondly just learned you were yourself in taking your last wrong turn. to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was a cave still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question or are. secretly promised to never feel like it said one does not leave the funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with this one to. speak to us then we know what they're takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker.

yeah well really moe oh my gosh those. after so many will get those imax kaiser this is the kaiser report in puerto rico a territory those currently under occupation by the coolant. unbelievably were 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 where 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 i'm 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 as well 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 in twenty sixteen when the obama admin administrator ssion 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. smoke 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 fiscal 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 forced to recall what the current as it's 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 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 repressed by the overlords of finance and they are reacting in a very specific for it to recruit away 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 it's a 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 twenty 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. 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 let 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 why hurricane maria hit and hurricane maria was a category four hurricane moon and. you already saw. her.

wow there's only a lot of bernstein knew what was going to come in twenty or twenty seventeen well olds on one 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 a. empire like the u.s. and they picked out all the european countries and latin american countries but they picked on 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 lent 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 hundred 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 puerto rico triple tax free double be rated bonds to mr or mrs shorts out on long island for that tax free equivalent you know they 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

an easy trade to do and they just load this place up with debt conveniences 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 we're going to pay the interest on this thing because you just manufactured it in or the revenue. factory has nothing to do with our economy goal go into most 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 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.