that will consist of technical experts that will be looking at various components in and avionics of the aircraft and will also be pulling the black what's known as the black boxes the flight data recorder and the voice recorders and take bring those back which they should be back in washington already for analysis in addition to that team is the family assistance members who are there to assist those so they are used to be the dratted correct that's correct and so when they come back and they do sort of a they do sort of a forensic i know there are this time we've seen those images of airplanes and big hangars with all the parts laid out at that's what they'll be doing with this jet engine that will be doing that with this engine obviously this is less complicated than a lot of the other big crashes that are the aircraft's last we've had a in this particular situation we've had one fatality which one is always too many but when we they will be taking that engine apart they'll be looking at that and

doing a deep analysis of the metallurgical aspect of it what was their mental flaws with where the flaws in the manufacturing of the metal they'll be looking at all of those components but it's very interesting when he is doing our investigations it they typically. they will if they find something they will immediately make a recommendation rather than wait until the end of the investigation that's that's interesting let me ask you i mean airline travel is pretty safe generally compared to other forms of transportation right i mean yes not i think it was fifteen years since there was a fatality on southwest i think since two thousand and nine in the airline industry in general but do these changes that or do accidents when investigators look at it like you're saying do they actually result in anything any changes in regulations or law oh absolutely these are examples of the examples of that there have been changes as far as. well lou. the one two thousand and nine on the con their plan

for the plane where the pilots had not had enough rest they just be made recommendations on rest hours for pilots in between the flight successor in considering also the travel time back and forth to the airport except there been changes in the laws as far as the avionics as far as the the pilot training. any kind of component that they find there's been a change in the rules either by the by the f.a.a. or with congress and that particular case the family assistance act of one thousand nine hundred six or which followed after she w eight hundred where we were able to start working with the families and assisting them now we've seen just a couple of airline profits that have been been reported in the last couple of days and more to come next week we'll have them here on the program but by and large are there airlines that really lose lots of revenues when they have an accident or a circumstance like this airlines can go out of out of existence even from stuff like this i mean when they have a major catastrophe i mean what we don't have to look back too far to say which was

one of the major big flag carriers from the very beginning of aviation commercial aviation it went away after t.w.a. eight hundred you had value jet that went away after the crash in the in the florida everglades eastern had their crash in the florida everglades they're gone i mean so these could have a dramatic and completely devastating impact one unable to express what was the other one valued value jet was it value jet value jet i know you jet i gave the air tran value jet morphed into air tran but value jet itself went away so these things can have huge implications on them jamie french thank you so much for being here really appreciate your time you're very welcome. it's time now for a quick pause but hang here because after the break we'll discuss the new housing numbers for march with kathy that the c.e.o. of the real well network plus r t america's holland cook host of the big picture joins us to analyze net's definitively disruptive mood in europe and as we go to

break here are the numbers at the closing bell that toy the only green arrow up several hundred dollars will be right back. to living with a lot of conflicting when you. see the. to the problem between so do. no good american president is that going to do with. some. we heard the so did. so with. good reason the situation is very dangerous. the way the system should work is that every stock bond security underwritten by wall street or any bank in america one percent should be carved out and put into

social security so that americans whether they have a job as minimum wage workers or whether they're c.e.o.'s all across the spectrum everyone gets to participate in this thing called the american economy because if you don't all stocks are not part of the american economy. welcome back international monetary fund managing director christine lagarde told the i.m.f. and world bank spring meeting here in washington we've been covering this what guard all week says she's concerned about come. it's an tradition of ownership within the tech sector while dismissing the idea of breaking up the tech giants the guard told an audience at the meetings opening event that quote too much concentration and too much market power in the hands of a few is not helpful to the economy or to the wellbeing of individuals legard also

cautioned our audience to view this concentration of wealth in light of past historic examples a number of internet giants control much of the global movement of data and information and the founders of these companies count amongst the richest person in persons in the world so. does history repeat itself. and speaking of the i.m.f. their analyst reported this week that spain's per capita gross domestic product is now greater than that of rival italy the i.m.f. also projects that within five years spain will be seven percent wealthier than italy essentially reversing their relative economic positions from a decade ago twenty years ago italy's economy was roughly twice the size of spain's italy's per capita g.d.p. is also projected to be by the i.m.f. to fall behind that of the czech republic and slovakia by two thousand and twenty three italy's debt to g.d.p. ratio is the second highest in the eurozone after greece and could become

increasingly problematic for the eurozone. food manufacturer nestle has posted their q one earning statement declaring a profit of twenty one point three billion swiss francs on top of a strong two point eight percent increase in sales overall and a one point two percent growth rate in the u.s. this and while sales grew nicely investors say nestle profits are being held back by low prices meanwhile nestle and twenty three other chocolate trading manufacturing companies have made an agreement with the nations of the ivory coast and gonna to make cocoa cultivation more sustainable and prevent cocoa planting and protected areas illegal planting as harmed ivory coast forest home to rare endangered animal species including chimpanzees and the pygmy hippopotamus. the english premier league is one of the most well known sporting organisations in

the world manchester city is enjoying ownership of the e.p.l. title but for the other one thousand nine hundred in the league there is still success to be found off the pitch world of sports anchor steve crist tacos took a deeper look into the finances of the gold standard in british sports. premier league teams continue to see their profitability rise despite the club success throughout the season the numbers are astounding and larger than fans might have suspected according to recent findings by below it sports business group total operating profits from the twenty sixteen twenty seven thousand season were a combined total of one billion pounds the equivalent of one point four billion u.s. dollars currently wages across the league rose at a much smaller pace players saw their pay rise by nine percent but their earnings to wage ratio fell to fifty five percent its lowest in twenty years the rise in profits also corresponded to the league's new television deal with english broadcasting stations the three year deal began during the two thousand and sixteen

twenty seven thousand season trends for broadcast revenue will continue. a decline in income from the league's domestic television deals however the league is hoping that revenue from international television deals will be on the rise the premier league boast some of the biggest names in football manchester united manchester city and chelsea have fan bases that stretch around the globe with the formula of broadcast revenue incremental wage increases and a twenty five percent hike in revenues the e.p.l. will continue to break financial records steve her stock goes. and moving to housing new numbers show us home building increased more than expected in march with a rebound in the construction of multifamily housing units but witness in the single family segment suggested the housing market was slowing here to break it down further and talk more about housing generally is kathy that the c.e.o.

of the real wealth network kathy thanks for joining us again according to the commerce department housing starts rose one point nine percent what do you make of the numbers. well when we look closely it really shows that multi family had an increase but we had a decrease in starts for single family however i was the family tends to be volatile so if we really the euro in on single family what happened there why did we not see more starts and that has a lot to do with whether we had a cold a cold march a cold february and i can slow things down lost the snow but also more regulations and that is slowing down the construction of homes said kathy what about what about the cost in general you know there's been all this trade tariff talk lately not just with china but we have a continuing dialogue over nafta and when we talk about canada we always talk about lumber canadian lumber prices have input costs for construction of homes in multi

family home has that those costs gone up kathy they absolutely have and across the board of the biggest problem really today is a lack of construction workers and when you have a lack of supply then prices go up so we're seeing wages go up for construction workers which is great for them but not so great for the end price of the new home and add to that new regulations that cost more with the holding cost to to get permits to get to the point where you can actually build that home and then regulations permit fees have gone up so it costs more than thirty percent now than it used to to build a new home and that's coming just at a time when there's such a desperate need for housing when prices have already gone up and now with interest rates going up it's getting more and more expensive to own a home let me ask you two things that you said there that interest me one on the permit costs those are really those aren't federal regulations all those are

usually state or localities right. that's right local planning commissioners and. basically local cities don't necessarily do exactly the right thing when that thing is needed right now what we need is affordable housing and so when you when you do what it takes so long to be able to get permits to build and when there's more fees and more regulations that is exactly what's not needed and some of those regulations involve. costs that make it cost prohibitive to a to provide affordable housing when that's exactly what they're asking for so it's cities would be more understanding that developers are trying to bring on the new housing they need support now l.a. los angeles did something that is unusual will california in general and that is allowing accessory dwelling units these eighty use this is new regulation that will actually allow people to convert their garages or put in

a guest house that will increase density in in just single family home neighborhoods let me ask you one final thing before we go we talk you mentioned there the shortage of affordable housing are there any positive signs for this we talk about the problems anything positive out there kathy. well we're seeing more innovation more technology we're seeing tiny homes and like i said these used in california local cities don't like it so much because it basically means a city can't say no you can't convert that garage they're not allowed to do that if somebody wants to convert their garage into living space they can do it and if they want to bring in that guest house they probably will be able to do it so that should help. thank you so much kathy you sure appreciate i know i've seen those tiny home shows and i'm not sure i'd want to be in one of those however if that's the option you have that may be what you take and we thank you for being with us cathy effect the c.e.o. of the real well the real wealth network c have a great weekend. netflix

stuffing their game in the european union by making a one billion dollar investment this year alone including new and original content that amount more than doubles netflix budget for the e.u. which is expected to expand english and foreign language programming into the area in fact it's reported that new dramas are already being produced in spain italy germany france the netherlands poland and turkey the move is seen as a reaction to other streaming content competition from providers such as amazon and here to discuss more about netflix the media and disruption in general is holland cook host of the big picture here in r.t. america holland thank you as always for being with us what's your reaction to netflix first of all well not surprising at the consumer electronic show last year their c.e.o. reed hastings spoke and said it took us it took cable twenty years to attain

what they had already attained seventy million viewers and as he spoke they lit up one hundred thirty other countries including russia and india so now who's wondering why susan rice is on the board of. netflix a state they need a state department it's a very global thing but there is more to success than scale because content has become a commodity if you're just showing other people stuff they can get at other places so acts like the crown orange is the new black house of cards which you can only get from netflix is a prudent investment and then that those shows are really shows that people sort of binge and you and i were talking earlier about how binge watching became into effect sure and when the sopranos was a big hit on h.b.o. people didn't just subscribe to h.b.o. they got connected to cable so they could see the sopranos when howard stern went

to satellite radio people subscribe to satellite radio so content is driving consumption and they really are getting bit bigger i mean netflix now is one hundred twenty five million subscribers they've got a market capitalization get this one hundred forty four billion dollars one forty four that's more than g.e. and i.b.m. combined but this disruption is not happening only in the media space i mean we talked about before about time warner eighty and t. bird spoke about that on the program a little bit earlier today but disruptions happening all over the place right and this typifies that the world's largest movie exhibitor doesn't own a theater it's netflix the world's largest taxi fleet doesn't own a car it's the world's largest accommodation provider air b.n. b. they don't own any brick and mortar so what netflix is doing is not only an example but it's survival because they started out putting d.v.d.'s and snail mail to you and i remember the end it was to get them quickly which is

a big deal that you get them in a day i don't know how they did it and you had a list and they gave you the next item on your list but you notice they didn't call it d.v.d. by mail dot com it was netflix because they were thinking down the road you know absolutely that they morphed into new markets and if they don't continue to morph like they. are doing in the e.u. perhaps they could be surpassed before we go holland your program actually airs tonight seven o'clock the big picture with you all and cook what's on tap for today it is earth day weekend so we're going to talk about mother earth and the circular economy how we're evolving from the linear sense of take make and dispose into reusing the stuff we pull out of the earth and because easy waste is such a big problem we have top radio tech talker dave grave line talking about why not to bring your computer to the landfill and while we had them we talked about the i phone battery controversy is planned obsolescence baked into apple's recipe will total go out at seven and ten thirty eastern on r t america we will be watching it

i will be watching it hala cook host of the big picture here on r.t. america thank you my friends about chemistry shade it. and as we round out the week we wish you a happy birthday which as paul and said is this sunday will have some environmental business news next week thanks for watching or you boom busters be sure to catch boom bust on you tube you tube dot com slash boom bust r g m a great weekend. well the best cyber place to go with a meal for the person and then to plant the seeds and over the books they have the upper hand so the dog. in the zoo wanted to play is a song go bust buy stuff by going to. jail being funny as

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will not let you know it blow. the brand oh you want to build my own home. north korea announces a freeze of all missile launches a nuclear bomb tests ahead of a summit between kim jong il and donald trump. four palestinians are reportedly killed and more than a hundred injured in israeli gunfire as thousands rally on the gaza border. i do you see that everything is running such. like that. a journalist working for r.t. is treated for tear gas exposure while covering the latest events on the israeli gaza border. r.t. visits the site of an alleged chemical attack in the syrian town of tomorrow's doubts are raised over videos claiming to show the off tomorrow of the incident.

thank you for watching the news headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate part trick north korea is holding old missile launches with immediate effect and shutting down the country's nuclear test site the country's leader kim jong un made that announcement at a party meeting according to the state news agency now that nuclear ization is complete and verified circumstances we do not need any further nuclear tests medium long range intercontinental missile tests. for more on this we can now cross live to r.t. samir ican hi there samir mean could you tell us more about this announcement from kim jong un and what led up to it. well they will be suspending all nuclear and ballistic missile tests and like you said shutting down its nuclear testing site and in its official announcement the d.p. r. k.

noted that this is an important step towards global nuclear disarmament which is apparently the ultimate goal and why they were willing to join the international denuclearization effort in the first place now the ruling party released a statement outlining six crucial decisions but to quickly summarize the d.p. r. k. will be focusing on a building a strong socialist economy intensifying dialogue with neighboring countries and fortifying its presence in the international community now this remarkable development comes shortly after north korean leader kim jong un's meeting with secretary of state to be pale and right before his meeting with his south korean counterpart that's scheduled for next week now trump who's been planning to meet with kim jong un welcomed the move tweeting that it's quote good news for the world and he is quote looking forward to meeting him however it's worth reminding that when trump initially announced his willingness to talk to kim after months of

intense back and forth of the domestic media harshly criticized his diplomatic effort to engage in political dialogue arguing that there was a reason other u.s. presidents of the past refused to sit down with him so it'll be interesting to see how the u.s. media reacts to this will they applaud trouble they give him any credit or will they just divert to russia now considering that north korea's various tests frighten the international community in the past even though norwood no nuclear tests were conducted since november this latest move will likely provide some much needed relief but given the history of countries that have willingly surrendered their w m d's we can only hope that the u.s. truly welcomes this decision day that way to be seen. thank you very much thank you . now four palestinian protesters are being killed and one hundred fifty six injured in israeli gunfire according to the gaza

health ministry around three thousand people gathered on the israeli gaza border on friday for another so-called march of return is the fourth of six weekly demonstrations led by families of imprisoned palestinians local journalists in who three was in the midst of the clashes. oh my god it's crazy everyone is running from the tear gas canisters they're randomly shooting to got something everyone. i can't wait. for you know who was rude to her to do it we were covering the protest and coming closer to the protesters and suddenly they in they intensively started to fire tear gas and we were trapped by at least five tear gas canisters we started to feel our nose and eyes burning we couldn't even take take a breath and at that time i literally fainted i didn't know what's happened what

was going on so i'm two hundred meters away from the fence that separates between gaza strip and israel we can see the israeli snipers stationed along the borders there are heavy weapons they have been firing tear gas canisters live ammunition on the protesters and demonstrators and it's very dangerous here but you can see at least three thousand palestinian demonstrators prisoners families and a lot of palestinians are marching towards the fence so as you see all the ambulances are in state of emergency where they are ready to take on the injuries from the near the front and as you see the palestinian protesters are very very very close to define some only demanding the right to return but are also demanding to break the siege on the gaza strip that has been imposed by israel for more than eleven years did god just filling the place and is surrounding i actually won from all the sides if there is surprise i left up and down here totally surrounded by

tear gas canisters i can hear children crying from the tear gas i can see those children and trying to run away. kids families and everyone the palestinian protesters are again trying to close at that. sense that there is really i mean i did this pilot funds that they added last week and that you see they're trying to target these palestinian protesters by get your gas to your gas canisters palestinians are not only demanding the right of return but they're also demanding the right that they're demanding the release of the seven thousand palestinian prisoners in their israeli jails and as you see the palestinian protesters are holding the pictures of these palestinian prisoners and there is really daily. globally brokaw's video footage claiming to show the aftermath of an alleged chemical attack in the syrian town of duma is now being called into question a team from our sister channel r.t. arabic has visited the turnaround my colleague or our associate discussed what they

saw there with r.t. . what we've seen so far from this place was and much mostly it's been a video released by the white helmets activist group you're looking at right now it's shot in the hospital and it's shows some truly heartbreaking pictures these scenes of chaos of panic confused children being hosed down with water everything pointing at a potential chemical attack but are to rob a crew managed to talk to a boy who was featured in this video of the white house and he gave his account of events in that hospital have a listen to that had asked who were outside and they told all of us to go into the hospital i was immediately taken up stairs and they started pouring water on me do you remember where it happened. here with the hose lucidity. here it is. that the

porch water on me they put me here and then took me off serious to my mother where exactly up stairs the second floor. of abstainers over there that alley that is the doctor started filming us here they were pouring water on taking videos and then my father came and found me someone had told him we were here so he came and took me away i like honestly i didn't know she was being seen i went up stairs and saw my wife and children i was very surprised and asked what had happened when my son's eyes were red i found out that it was water but it was cold and he could have got sick and he was undressed when i took my son there first told me that they still needed him but i still took him away from that. the boy is clearly in shock still to have to go through something like this to go through such terror at his age is unthinkable really

we've reached out to the white helmets resting in statement of some reaction to what's been what's being filmed in duma right now but we're still to hear back from them even as i understand there was other footage from the alleged senior of the attack was and yes indeed there was another video released by another activist and it is apparently from an apartment building where the actual chemical project tile the alleged chemical project tile landed this is the initial video that we're showing you right now and this is the project oh we our crew again managed to get inside this very building so to the left you can see our video and to the right is the original one and initially how the media reacted to the first the released video well they saw it as rock solid evidence of a chemical attack the chemical weapon that killed dozens of civilians and the stairs that the asshead regime has previously used in chemical attacks the assad

regime has used this same yellow gas canisters the n.s.c. telling fox news they have a high degree of confidence that it was yours apparently the project was still toxic was still fuming with the something toxic and that's why they had to wear a mask to protect themselves but we've spoken to a number of experts and they've told us that a me a gas mask is basically not enough to protect oneself from a toxic substance if that were a nerve agent whether he's got his face covered or not it's going to go right through his skin and the only protection that he could have. were in a chemical control suit if there were chlorine gas. that would protect him from from some small leaking of the korean gas for a while and it doesn't make any any any sense i could see it going through a roof and never even breaking its silly way and even if it did great the dispersal of the chlorine might only kill the people in the room but not.