it's 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 the blatant accusations provocative statements from the head of u.k. diplomacy. the u.k.'s representative to the p.c. wu sets out more claims against russia at the meeting linking the script poisoning case to the chemical attack in the syrian town of khalid shaikh last year back to talk led the u.s. to take military action against syrian government positions he claimed that russia had called wednesday's meeting in the hague to make a political point. ok history professor dave colon says that the nerve agents believed to have been used in salisbury is not to produce. the chemistry that was being claimed to be unique. i basically claimed it was not 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 in and i would say that the ones that i've looked at which is at least a dozen of them they could be made in two or three steps by pretty much any organic chemist in my opinion which is why this notion that it's specialized russian technology i picked the needle on that and said no it's not you might die trying to make them mine you'd need special equipment to keep yourself from getting a dose of the stuff but there's ways to do that for about twenty or thirty thousand dollars so there's nothing. about him except for not killing yourself it's a very simple modifications you could almost imagine making one by mistake which would be a catastrophic moment for that chemists but but there you know i could give a problem set in my first year grad course how would you make these and the students would all get it. facebook has admitted that this scale of

a data breach of its accounts that was used for political purposes and sent out to be thought a larger than previously thought the tech giant says that the profiles of up to eighty seven million people could have been shed with data research cambridge analysts a early estimate said fifty million. in total we believe the phrasebook information of up to eighty seven million people mostly in the u.s. may have been improperly shared with cambridge and. cambridge analytical licensed for no more than thirty million people the firm that has been using this information it's called cambridge and a little and essentially it does data collection and polling and analysis for political parties political campaigns and groups they use this information essential to craft their messaging craft their campaigning in a way that would be persuasive they kind of create a psychological profile of potential voters based on what they have collected from

facebook and social media they then use that information to craft their campaign advertising their messaging etc and now the data harvesting happened in a tacit agreement with facebook now facebook says they had no malicious intent. however this has really hurt their reputation the government of germany actually went as far as asking for a clarification from facebook for an explanation we also have seen the trend delete facebook all over social media with people you know tweeting out you know delete facebook calling for people to stop using facebook in response to this perceived you know dissemination of people's personal information that we do know that facebook is now in the process of changing their apps so that certain apps are more protected that the privacy of their users is more protected but as we see you know this call for for facebook to be deleted for people not to be used to using

facebook is expanding so a lot of questions are being raised and it's certainly true that the reputation of this very widely used social media app is is severely tarnished but we often see. cowen and media analyst timothy kafir that feeds on the facebook data scandal. kember generally the guys denying the figure they claim that it is only thirty million but i don't think it makes a lot of the from the very thirty million the late in the year and i think it is the principle behind the old story about but what about the use of internet robots as we call the bots in order to meddle with the us elections now still stories seem a little bit out of they are a little bit ridiculous nobody is talking about it but it was very interesting to hear was designed to beg only a couple of weeks ago. almost apologizing for allowing them to leave the boxes today that it was then being used to influence election is the the story was

about influencing election but by third parties. rather than access to news as they've done locally this is a company that roots so rapidly that the people who are managing facebook lost control of their creation and the whole business model of facebook is built on this idea that they they collect highly targeted data on their users and then sell that data to advertisers and others and i think there just wasn't enough oversight of that process basement to say that they can they can police themselves internally they can solve these problems with their own oversight that i think that you know there's a legitimate reason that that's not good enough we need to look at a new regulatory framework that will protect the privacy of users of social media not just facebook but people go on google and other popular platforms. it

seems the presence of american troops in syria has become a confusing issue even for washington last week donald trump announced he wants a with toll to happen very soon but reports in the u.s. media say he's being advised not to pull the troops out at all so with an ever tainting white house rhetoric chance he's backpedaling promising that a decision on the matter should be taken soon. we're knocking the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now our primary mission in terms of that was getting rid of isis we've almost completed that task and will be making a decision very quickly to pull the troops out so i want to get out i want to bring our troops back home i want to start rebuilding our nation the question of america's withdrawal from syria how it was raised it has some as an anchor out with the leaders of russia turkey and iran to round expressed it skepticism at

washington's plans. the united states is one thing one day and then a completely different thing the next so we cannot trust their words or actions it seems they want to benefit from syria as much as possible well the main focus of the ankara summit was to discuss the peace plan for war torn syria and despite some differences russian iranian and turkish leaders found common ground and trying to reports. the three guarantors have met here at ankara's presidential palace there's absolutely no doubt about the three countries commitment to what they're doing together though they're all here with their own different missions five aired on keep saying that his country won't tolerate any armed hardish militias in northern syria so the so-called fragile continues no matter what the iranian leader hassan rouhani says that external powers although he did specifically mention the

u.s. and israel keep trying to use terrorists on the ground to reach some of their own goals for tehran is strong foothold in syria is a strong message to tel aviv and some of its other regional adverse rees lot of our proven proudly speaks of russia's evacuation efforts and he's which have paid off although perhaps the most important point from the russian president here and was that moscow is in possession of some intelligence that points to plans by some radicals to destroy the road to peace with a chemical attack. on a joint strategic goal is to eliminate the terrorists who keep trying to destabilize the situation on the ground and sabotage the peace process but they are doing this in every way possible we have obtained undeniable evidence of plan provocation by the militants with the use of chemical agents there were no

questions planned but then suddenly type aired on encouraged the audience to ask some things and then the first question came in it was about the price that there is to pay dues for storing syria and a lot of my point was said that all three countries feel it's their duty to spend money on that and help syria recover but he also encouraged everyone else the entire international community to get involved in actually turn words into actions . donald trump's approval rating is only is on the rise but there's a scandal that refuses to go away i have the details for you after this short break .

they've been waiting. a long time because it talked about the dollar back to this world reserve currency countries are tired of america's wars because there's got to be a trainer in dollars including oil to buy oil got to buy dollars first that means america gets a commission use that money to wage wars all over the world. welcome

back well there's a david and goliath battle playing out in the us state of michigan has despite widespread public opposition food to nestlé is being allowed to extract more drinking water from the state's groundwater table it can now extract one thousand five hundred liters per minute which is over five hundred more than previously allow as well that has huge concerns about the environmental consequences eighty two thousand people voted against the corporation getting a permit to pump the water vs to seventy five if he thought it was a good idea but that was ignored with the authorities saying the poll was irrelevant didn't apply to their policies. in full transparency the majority of the public comments were in the position of the permit but most of them related to issues of public policy which are not and should not be part of an administrative

problem and decision opposition goes back to two thousand and one when nestlé was first sued for potential damage to lakes rivers and streams as a result the company had to limit water extraction people in michigan are once again voicing their concerns when we moved to. concede that there was no growth on either side nestle has a reputation worldwide of going to perp or rural communities are offering the kinds of economic benefits to the community that never really but to realize. taking as much water as they can get and one of the stream runs dry they believe and that's why contractor who receives the permit says it will carefully review the agreement and will comply with all its requirements michigan environmental council says the water extraction is going to be highly monitored. if they do pompano the

level of the water goes down this is something that groups like our own could take nestle to court and have the courts and force the permit we make sure that no nobody takes too much water out of the river so that out so that it runs dry or everything so that's why they're going to monitor the flow and make sure that that flow maintains a healthy glow and in cases where if the stream flow starts to dry out then they're required to turn back their wells and turn them down so it's going to be very closely monitored withdrawal and if we do see that impact happening then we'll be asking state officials to to void the curb it and make west mick nestle turn the wells off. students at a florida school where mass shootings took place have spoken out against new security measures there a teenage shooter killed seventeen people at a high school in parkland in february one of the survivors who joins the anti gun

lobby expressed her frustration at a see through backpack which is one of the school's new safety measures students saying they want well thought out changes not useless quick fixes as american reports. it's been almost two months since the survivors of the deadly school shooting in park when called on the government to take action what's more important is actual action and pertinent action that results in saving thousands of children's lives but some of the initiatives taken to curtail gun violence haven't been so popular like these clear backpacks made mandatory at marjorie stoneman douglas high idea to see for bad intentions my new backpack is almost as transparent as the end i raise agenda i feel so safe now starting over the last quarter of senior year wright was a good old violation of privacy now i can't lie about not having gum moving on to another state and another brilliant and this shift a middle school teacher in georgia asked to dance to write

a letter to congress demanding stricter gun controls the assignment enraged parents who complained that it was unethical to bring the issue into the school's curriculum pennsylvania has its own rather unique solution if an armed intruder attempts to gain at princeton the work class terms they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks and they will be stoned but apparently this is plan b. the district superintendent said that the rocks were his own suggestion after scrapping plant a which was great for golf balls so it looks like those in charge of fixing the issue of gun violence seem to be using the debate to score political points and one of the best examples of this is senator marco rubio i respect their view and recognize that many americans support certain gun bans however many other americans do not support a gun ban statements like this in makeshift solutions are perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action samir khan r t washington d.c. . president trumps the approval rating is on the rise this week he

hit fifty one percent in a major poll in the u.s. house higher than barack obama had eight years ago. while but some of the scandals that have hit his presidency have had an impact and other polls suggest trump's approval rating is facing a gender gap it shows he lost some support from women and the wider backing of men pollsters claim the figures reflect the so-called stormy effect referring to stormy daniels the adult film actress last month she appeared on t.v. with revelations on her affair with trump back in two thousand and six. trump to turn around to grab his votes yes. yes so you turn around and put his pants down a little you know he had underwear and stuff and i just gave a couple swats. denies the accusations and his lawyer is now off threatening daniels with a million dollars fine every time she speaks on the matter in two thousand and

sixteen days before the presidential election she reportedly signed a so-called hush agreement and was paid one hundred thirty thousand dollars but according to t.v. and radio host steve molds burke it's all a storm in a teacup and will blow over. talk about a harris poll that shows that he lost four or five percent with women but he gained from fifty to fifty three with men in the same poll and it was conducted after the stormy davis sixty minutes interview well i'm again it's constant hammering and badgering by the media if there is any negative effect if this is more than a coincidence and there really is a stormy daniels effect i think it will fade away very very soon i mean people heard the the tape people knew that he was not a saint during the campaign they elected him anyway white women voted for him over hillary and of course hillary claims that it's because of the fact that white women

were told by their bosses boyfriends and husbands who to vote for so i don't think this stormy daniels will have any lasting effect on donald trump's poll numbers when push comes to shove. i do get in touch and share your thoughts on the matter by following us on social media well back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines say that. it's the cradle of jazz. america is still america we have. the oldest jazz feeling. a city of climatic contest trophies alligators on the loose of poverty and crime forty years about at least twelve members of my family close most. of street racing in the heat of the night

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to let me know when you come in with a nice concrete so for us to do with the question is to yes but all the chest. here for everyone that is for you before but. i this is my skies are this is the kaiser report the show that drives people crazy because we drop so many troops bombs bang bang bang. max there's been so so so much happening in the world

a lot of the news understandably missed a pretty significant story that might one day in history look much bigger than it did the week it happened and that is explain or china aims to challenge brant. oil with crude futures launch the launch of china's yuan denominated oil futures will mark the culmination of a decade long push by the shanghai futures exchange s h f e aimed at giving the world's largest energy consumer more power and price in crude oil sold to asia so some are saying the petro yuan is here and it's here to challenge the petro dollar yeah we've been waiting on the us for a long time because we're talking about the dollar factors world reserve currency countries are tired of funding in america's wars because ever there's got to be

trainers in dollars including oil if you buy oil you got to buy dollars first and that means america gets a commission and they use that money to wage wars all over the world people are tired of it they're tired of war they don't want to subsidize or no more so china saying you know what here's the weak point is this dollar we're going to introduce of petro un and we're going to take over pricing of oil and we're going to get what well i mean you could prison as a conspiracy theory however it could be a conspiracy theory people die every day now i know it could just be practical part of becoming part of the global monetary an economic power china is on a purchasing power parity the number one economy in the world without adjusting for purchasing power it's the number two behind the u.s. so at some point they do have to join the game and allow their currency to float

it's not convertible at the moment it's you it's know it's. they control the exchange rate so at one point they will need to provide more of the quiddity to global markets there's no more market in the world perhaps gold is the closest to oil so if right now it's all traded in u.s. dollars and that's why every country in the world doesn't mind having a huge surplus of dollars on their books because they could use it to buy oil but you know it could just be china i'm just playing devil's advocate here to conspiracy theories because a lot of people say this is like a direct challenge and i think it is a challenge it will ultimately be perhaps they get the exorbitant privilege one day in a world of fear but here it could just be a practical thing of how to. you know how to make your currency part of not only the s.d.r. the i.m.f. special drawing rights but also a global reserve currency well why china name dollars

and why do they sell stuff to the us for dollars like into wal-mart because without dollars there in cable or participating in the global economy since it's all priced in dollars so to escape the yoke of being colonized by a dollar based economy they would seek to escape. possibly through the u.n. petro dollar contract as an expression of economic freedom. so this is something that we see in other countries russia for example is coming up with an alternative to the swift money transfer system they don't want to be colonized by the american dollar swift system they want in their own system so all these countries that are emerging now and multi-trillion dollar competitors to the u.s. economy need to figure out the dollar question or they will remain

a colony of the us well one thing of course that also happened is when trump was threatening all sorts of tariffs on steel and intellectual property six billion dollars worth of trade tariffs on there is that one there are many people in the communist party of china and one official did say oh we might not buy any more u.s. treasuries they didn't threaten to dump them but every single financial and economic analysts on earth said of course china is kind of stuck in a quagmire because they hold so many u.s. dollar treasury bonds and what are they going to do they're just going to ruin their own position so this is also a way to not have to accumulate even more u.s. dollars on their books because they need to diversify their portfolio because they're right now. you know they're not diversified they're not hopefully giving up

to some biopic relationship that people thought was unimpeachable and unbreakable between these two but china signaling that maybe it is breakable maybe they will attempt to go it alone so let's look at some of the risks that reuters says the people are concerned about and i'm just going to pick up on one matter that you are a special this on because it's about market making and market structure and price discovery and things like this and one of the issues they point out that people are concerned about is that the shanghai international energy exchange the unit of shanghai futures exchange running the contract has strict daily limits on the number of council orders allowed per account aimed at curbing spoofing this involves placing bids to buy or offers to sell futures contracts with the intent to cancel them before execution by creating an illusion of demand spoofers can influence prices to benefit their market positions for

a larger client placing orders of more than three hundred lots of quibbling to thirty thousand barrels of oil the limit is fifty a day users with smaller orders are allowed five hundred cancellations that's different to international exchanges like the c.m.e. which uses a ratio based on an investor's traded volume so they're actually targeting spoofing this is an matter we've talked about for many years a lot of people who look at commodity markets in the west point to spoofing in many of the markets including from the high frequency traders write all spoofing as a way to defraud markets and if china is a party that wants to get the u.s. defrauded to defraud a china trader from coming from china they would use spoofing to defraud them and to steal the money so china is saying ok we want to be in this market and we don't want to be defrauded anymore we don't want to have our money stall in the way it's been stolen by the c.m.e. for years and years of them punitive. so we're going to introduce our own contract then we're going to bring integrity to that contract to do some anti spoofing

tweaks to the way that these contracts are traded and they will become probably a lot of pop you know very popular contract because a lot of people don't want to have their money stolen by the c.m.a. you know that's a common thread again well with markets of course blocked chain technology could be used to remove a lot of this fraud rather than going through a complicated regulatory measures but another thing that some people are concerned about in terms of the this new shanghai futures contract is that you know the western markets are pretty much twenty four seven and oil but this one this particular contract the they won't be open twenty four seven and also what will happen during china's national holidays well trading will stop for china's weeklong national holidays but the spring festival in golden week leaving the shanghai market out of sync with the western exchanges shorter trading hours with just three slots each day compared with almost twenty four hours on western exchanges means

that the market may sometimes play catch up with the rest of the world so there is a bit of an arbitrage and a weird it seems like it might be more chaotic if there competing we see that within the big point market between us twenty four seven and then you have currency markets and gold markets shut down over the weekend and you see this huge catch up where you see e.t.f. so something like gold barry celebrates gold e.t.f. that on the weekends if the price of bitcoin falls by fifteen twenty percent then you know somebody in g.t.c. can't sell will monday morning yeah varies but going e.t.f. yeah that's true they're going to have to expand the hours of training i think they need to roll it out slowly they're going to do it on a limited basis and then they've got to go twenty four seven for those very reasons within a year they will be twenty four seventh's. and before i know people leave comments is not see is not an e.t.f.

but it's close to it to say it's structured similar to it but who will use the domestic industry they ask in this article in reuters well china has opened more than six thousand trading accounts including the country's oil majors and about one hundred fifty brokerages ten foreign intermediaries have registered including j.p. morgan benz financial straits financial services and other hong kong based at philly it's of domestic brokerages it will likely attract however mainly mom and pop speculative investors who dominate the country's other often volatile commodity futures markets from dates to iron ore through although transaction fees for crude are relatively higher so they're predicting it's going to be the mom and pops speculating on this. enormous buying power and they do affect prices on the margin you know we know in japan for example the mrs wants an army the housewife prototype .