as we continue to look at the infrastructure needs of the united states today we focus on airports nicolas o'donovan brings us the latest on the ratings for the country's flight hubs for most people coming into the u.s. the first thing they see is one of these and they're poles and all those america considers itself to be the leader of the developed world the truth is that it's airports are always passengers from the middle east asia or europe would expect president trump didn't hesitate and say in the americas airports a third world facilities when i look at airports in china when i look at airports in abu dhabi and qatar and the different places where like a third world country you land in new york and la guardia airport a kennedy airport it's like a third world airport system and its latest report the american society of civil

engineers graded the country's aviation infrastructure with a very unimpressive score of d. you know the united states has had. in an aging and. in aging infrastructure for about a generation so we sort of look back and the united states really built out our infrastructure in the fifty's and sixty's and early seventy's and then in some respects we've taken some time off from from from doing a lot of building and we've been somewhat maintaining our infrastructure but probably not as well as we can the a.f.c. east says that progress at airports and a traffic control systems is slow unable to keep up with demands of increased traffic and new technologies and passengers that feeling the effects according to sky tracks and based on millions of survey responses there's no usa pull it's in the world's top ten and denver international built in one thousand nine hundred ninety five is the first one on that list in the twenty eight. position the real

problem however is that with the explosion of people traveling many airports are operating beyond their design capacity so we have a situation where the airports are crowded they're basically bursting at the seams . and they're. looking to see traffic is increasing over there in the coming years over and beyond but there are already handling so there's definitely a need. to improve america's infrastructure according to the department of transportation a record nine hundred sixty five million a line passengers flew in the united states last year that's a three point four percent increase over twenty sixteen and more passengers mean more dollars in fact the federal aviation administration calculated that in twenty fourteen civil aviation generated one point six trillion dollars and supported around ten point six million jobs and not just any jobs because

a lot of the jobs that are done at an airport especially when we talk about aircraft maintenance and in other areas you know airport management these are high tech jobs these are jobs that pay very good incomes each employee who is a highly paid skilled worker you know he's going to be part of a chain of a whole bunch of other workers along the way so having a good airport having a well maintained. may get favorable destination is one of the best things you can do for a community the f.a.a. also estimates that the national cost of a full congestion is expected to rise to thirty four billion in twenty twenty before going on to sixty three billion by twenty forty of current funding levels. and this takes us to the issue of funding in america airports are funded in very different ways such as federal grants pass and jeff a silicon. and state and local grants it's not an easy puzzle to resolved and

coordination between different sectors is as important as actually coming up with the money and airports need a lot of that according to a study by ports council international u.s. airports need an estimated seventy five point seven billion dollars in infrastructure investment through twenty nineteen but when we talk about aviation infrastructure we have to consider different elements some are more evident such as larger terminals more gates or extra runways others such as control communications and less visible to us are equally important but american airports don't only need an upgrade they require a deep comprehensive plan if that doesn't happen the country that saw the birth of aviation will struggle to compete in the twenty first century. donovan.

time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return we'll get up to speed on the tit for tat trade war between china and the united states there's been more action the last twenty four hours plus the gibson guitar company may be headed for bankruptcy big bummer i'll give you the details as we go to break here with numbers at the closing bell another good day for stocks all green arrows for the stars we'll be right back. since the cradle of jazz. is america still america we. don't know of this jazz feeling. a city of climatic contest a phase of alligators on the loose of poverty and crime are used by the least swell

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welcome back u.s. manufacturing employment had its biggest monthly increase in over three years in march about two hundred forty one thousand jobs were reportedly added to payrolls in that sector according to market analysts cited by the wall street journal this number beat expectations which were closer to two hundred thousand jobs meanwhile the same figure for february has been revised upward to two hundred forty six thousand from an unadjusted figure of two hundred thirty five thousand jobs. and the federal reserve bank of new york has appointed the next president he is economist john williams who currently has a scent francisco federal reserve bank where he's worked for nearly a quarter of a century mr williams is seen as an ally of new federal reserve chairman jay powell

the new york federal reserve is the most in pool actual and largest holder of assets of all of the twelve regional federal reserve banks the current new york fed chair bill dudley will leave in mid june when mr williams replaces him. and last month the co-founder of whatsapp brian acton expressed astonishment by tweeting it's time to hashtag delete facebook whatsapp has more than a billion users now however we learned that whatsapp which is actually owned by the parent facebook has a similar design flaw to facebook which places you to user data in peril whatsapp claims that they protect your messages photos videos voice messages documents and calls and they are all secured from falling into the wrong and however when using what's app group chat user data can be harvested by any. one in the group including your mobile phone number the discovery has led some commentators to suggest hash

tag delete whatsapp. and the mind goalie of prime minister the former prime prime minister second billet is being implicated in a corruption probe related to the infamous panama papers and large cash transfers from a swiss bank account to the state owned holding company the holding company contain shares in various mining projects including copper and coal mining projects the former prime minister's departure from office two thousand and sixteen was surrounded by a controversial four hundred million dollar purchase of a large copper mine. and china has issued a second round of retaliatory tariffs in response to the trumpet ministrations china levied roughly fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs on one hundred six types of goods from the us and experts say the list of targeted food negra cultural

goods including beef orange juice corn cotton and soy among others seems calculated to hit rural areas where president trump is particularly popular and make him pay somewhat political price the tariffs announced today were a direct and nearly a media response to the trump administration's tariffs on chinese auto an airplane parts among many other items china's vice minister of finance told reporters external pressure will only make the chinese people more focused on economic development china has also filed a grievance with the world trade organization over presidents trumps actions and with the latest on the new round of trump the tariff saga i'm joined by our correspondents alex behala bitch alex give it bring us up to date this really is a tit for tat the people that say that it's not a trade war i don't know it seems like you could look in the diff dictionary this would be what it is what your take on what's going on. i think saying for tat is basically exactly what it is a it's just you know

a trade war is pretty harsh maybe a train slapping to one another at this point not a full out war and what we're seeing is this buildup of build up happening first of the three billion dollars imposed on china by the us three billion dollars in tariffs on steel and of course aluminum and then there's threats it's not real yet there's a threat to impose fifty to sixty billion dollars more in tariffs and this would hit other industries in particular what you said the auto industry is a big one there robotics information technology communications technology and aerospace so that's sort of what the u.s. is looking at right now china but tat part so the retaliation china three billion put in tariffs against the u.s. and hitting exactly what you said a big part of it is the agricultural industry pork is a big one they're looking at apples but also things like steel pipes so it's industry hitting the heartland hitting hitting the workers hitting the people that need the money in their pockets this is strategic china's

a smart country and they're doing this for a very very deliberately trying to also now on the tax side of things fifty billion dollars another threat this is not say anything that's real at this moment a fifty billion dollars tariffs threatened against the states and this would include things like soybeans which is a big export from the states into china as well as aircraft so you're looking like a company like bombards being hit pretty hard u.s. deficit obviously a very big part of this discussion that's the reasoning behind what donald trump said in the beginning is why he's going into this little bit of a battle with china but there's also this thing called china two thousand and twenty five where china is working towards becoming the number one maker of electric cars as well as other things in the industry such as robotics and high tech this is something that the u.s. is prepping itself for it know with. china is moving forward in this direction but also knows that china to a certain degree has been taking

a lot of intellectual property from the states the companies that are in china foreign companies are often forced to give over information to the chinese government and of course this is the the states want to be prepped for this if this moves forward and they want a new deal china though has shown its willingness to talk they're saying that this is something that they can discuss in the future how to make things cooler in that respect and work together with the states so a couple of things there are always great information alex and one you know may be somewhat of a blackmail for china to get some of these trade secrets to allow particularly the high tech intellectual property in the to china and when asked about markets and a minute but absolutely correct on the politics of this now soybeans which are grown in many parts of the states are one thing but when you look at corn and some of the other crops that are grown in the dakotas again those that's trump country and even beast which china has retaliated on we're looking at that's texas and

texas is trump country so you're absolutely right this is impacting politics we'll see how that part plays out but the tech companies which you know we talk about them all the time on the program they're having a tough time in markets this can't be good for them now thinking that they may be a target of some future tariff endeavor by the chinese right. well you know it's been an interesting ride for all the markets the dow jones plummeted this morning as well as an end as tech went down but and this is this is the key here plummeted and a bounce back up so when you look at tech tech actually was a leader on the way up apple stock has actually gone up today it's things like john deere john deere and boeing companies that are in the transportation industry that have been hit hard so this news actually pushed forward by the american administration to get things basically ironed out with china when it comes to tax is seemingly good news a lot of people are saying this is a lot of market manipulation going on just imagine how much money some people made

today that saw those stocks drop in the picked up on the way up so this is you know i think there's a lot of facets to look at here but it looks like tech at least from american standpoint can be something that saves and is exactly what i said china is willing to talk this is not over yet we're not talking about these tariffs that are there in action these are two countries very strong willed china's not going to take a slap without giving one back and there are discussions coming up the pipe we will keep on it this will not be the last time we'll talk about it we thank you for your expertise r.t. correspondent alex my elevation toronto thank you alex thank you. and finally some sad news from the world of music iconic guitar maker gibson brands incorporated based in nashville tennessee may be forced to file for bankruptcy the story company was founded in one thousand open to buy or build gibson and the as

the gibson mandolin guitar manufacturing company ltd the company was responsible for many innovations including archtop and hollow body guitars though the company is most famously associated with one model that's the les paul name for itself top inventor among the myriad famous players of the les pauls are chuck berry the everly brothers chet atkins elvis paul mccartney bob dylan dylan allman sheryl crow peter frampton billie joe armstrong the edge eddie van halen the new slash totally iommi keith richards and ronnie wood carlos santana and neil young and led zeppelin's jimmy page who once called gibson's les paul my mistress and my wife while the company still boasts a reported one point two billion dollars in annual revenue it's way down by five hundred million in debt and many observers blame the troubles on gibson c.e.o.'s decision to reshape gibson into a music lifestyle company and sell branded consumer electronics the c.e.o.

has admitted it wasn't a great decision i'm doing my part these honkin gibson volume cufflinks that a friend gave to me and gibson management will have to make some hard choices coming up before that debt is due on august first let's all hope that like the famous les paul play or nigel tufnel from spinal tap that the gibson will find a way to turn it up to eleven instead of filing for chapter eleven. and that's all for now be sure to catch boom bust on youtube youtube dot com slash boom bust archie rock on and we'll see you next time. henry kissinger once said the brochure in the united states went into the ukrainian crisis i'm seeing russian that they are based on mutual misconception some tension is heightened over the scruple case all the sites guided by misconceptions and

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the poisoning. facebook admits that tens of millions more people could be affected by the data harvesting scandal but initially told its data research company involved in the scandal disputes the numbers. the u.s. state of michigan approved plans by a food giant nestlé to extract more bottled water despite widespread local opposition. very well welcome you're watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from moscow and the care and our top story russia has called for a u.n. security council meeting later this thursday mostly ones to discuss the latest developments in the case of the poisoning of former spy surrogate script powell and his daughter in the u.k. in a recent revelation a u.k.

military laboratory said it could not identify the source of the nerve agent used in the attack britain had earlier claimed there was a direct link to russia where our galaxy of takes up the story. it's a right old kid on drugs on the one hand you skip the trial screamed guilty and jump to the punishment part on the other your own guys come out and say hold on there's no evidence and i was his by were living experts at the defense science and technology laboratory at portadown made clear that this was a military grade novacek nerve agent produced in russia we have not verified the precise source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide you know the scientific evidence that identifies what the particular nerve agent is but typically you're not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that well that's embarrassing

alright keep calm first google back on your word and just to be sure delete any old tweets then riposte experts who say the opposite of what you said our experts have precisely identified in their region as novacek it is not and has never been our responsibility to confirm the source of the agent now pretend that nothing happened which is hard to do in the end to that really the brits ended up having to explain themselves and conveniently scapegoated the poor fellow who transcribed the briefing one of the tweets was truncated and did not accurately report and passed as woods we removed this tweet you remember what i said about scapegoating he really did but barge johnson himself had said almost the

same thing said it's on video you argue that their source of chalk is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly when i look at the the evidence i mean the people from from porton dollars. they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt wouldn't want to be in the shoes right about now yet they did find a way around it a simple statement saying that boris johnson didn't mean it like that what the foreign secretary said then and what putin donna said recently is fully consistent with what we've said throughout having to get things so far so far they can't afford to do a u. turn this investigation could end in two ways with proof of russia's guilt or with an uncomfortable silence and hope that everyone forgets until then boris keep doing what you do every day are you ready for the break on earth stuff and we

are russian production. is the government going through russia. being a surrogate is not isolated case but the latest path of reckless behavior by the russian state the russian the russians of russia russia russia russia russia the knowledge i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that it is russia and boris johnson has serious questions to answer the claim from german television that this was a russian booster nerve agent porton down and then examine it and said that was just not true they couldn't say where it came from. there's also been a tirade of criticism from the british labor party on twitter of the bush johnson's assurances that russia was behind the poisoning one commented on paris johnson's

now infamous t.v. interview asking if he wanted to delete that to others stressed the need to check evidence while labor m.p. chris williamson called johnson downright dangerous the m.p. told. this case was being abused as a diversionary tactic seems to me the government were indulging in political point scoring particularly boris johnson who raced ahead of the evidence and used this terrible incident not so much as a smoking gun but more of a smokescreen really it was a very convenient wasn't for the government to use this as a way of diverting attention from their own difficulties over. policy and you know at the end of the day it's pretty clear that boris johnson did not tell the truth he told the german interviewer. scientist that said it was without doubt the agents had to come from russia so i think germany called him was absolutely royds to caution to ask for clear evidence before we start

to raise international tensions but we need to get to the bottom in the evidence and jeremy said this seems to point towards russia but let's be absolutely clear before we start raising international tensions in this way this is huge implications for more sensible to take a measured approach and be clear about the evidence all the evidence the u.k. blaming moscow for the nerve agent attack resulted in a number of countries expelling russian diplomats in solidarity with britain russia retaliated and sent u.k. and other foreign diplomats home to thursday is the deadline for u.s. staff to leave the embassy in moscow russian foreign minister sergey lavrov used some colorful language to sum up the standoff. the chord you pick at the world. we haven't seen such an open mockery of international law diplomatic ethics and basic manners in a long time it's unacceptable to push unfounded accusations instead of an honest

investigation because in the famous book by lewis carroll the queen demands to first sentence the defendant and only after that listen to the jury's verdict to find out whether he's guilty or not it after all lewis carroll wrote satire using the genre of fairy tales which are talks at the hague demonstrates that self-respect in adults do not believe in fairy tales. like a script pal and his daughter yulia were found unconscious just over a month ago in the u.k. city of souls bree it was later revealed that they were both exposed to a nerve agent of a type produced in the soviet union called not a chalk score pal used to be a russian intelligence officer before he was charged for availing confidential information to the u.k. secret services he now remains in a coma with his daughter reportedly in a stable condition. the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. met on wednesday over the school pell case russia proposed

a joint investigation but that's the idea was rejected. we will not agree to russia's demands to conduct a joint investigation into the attack in solsbury because the u.k. has assessed that it is highly likely that the russian state is responsible for this attack and that there is no plausible alternative explanation there's no requirement in the chemical weapons convention for a victim to engage the likely perpetrator in a joint investigation to do so would be perverse. unfortunately we didn't manage to get the needed two thirds of votes for the resolution to pass obviously the brits and americans voted against and then nato and some e.u. member states and u.s. allies followed suit they fear the truth they fear to take responsibility for their words blatant accusations provocative statements from the head of u.k. diplomacy. the u.k.'s representative to the. more claims against russia at the meeting linking this group our poisoning case to the chemical

attack in the syrian town of qana last year that to talk led to the us to take military actions against syrian government positions he claims that russia had called wednesday's meeting in the hague to make a political point well chemistry professor dave cullen the says the nerve agent believed to have been used in souls worry is not that hard to produce the chemistry that was being claimed to be unique. i basically claimed it was not there really remarkably simple compounds and they're all very similar so they all have basically a phosphorus group with four groups attach they all have an oxygen and a fluorine which are invariant and so so the trick is to get the other two groups and i would say that the ones that i've looked at which is at least a dozen of them.