tv The Alex Salmond Show RT April 26, 2018 1:30pm-2:01pm EDT
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they were kicked off the grounds off to the cohen or of the club and his father complained that the women were playing too slowly it's the latest in a series of incidents where african-americans have been arrested or asked to leave a public facility in the us. on sunday a black woman was arrested at a waffle house in alabama for refusing to pay for plastic utensils the video of her arrest shows officers wrestling her to the floor it was another case two weeks ago at a starbucks in front of delphia stop that called the police on two black men because they'd not placed an order but wanted to use the restroom that spoke to wave of anti racism protest. was just ok i didn't want to. write. my. response to that the c.e.o. of starbucks old and all restaurants to close the mandatory anti-racism training for having a nationwide campaign against the course which we got reaction from economist dave
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perkins and human rights activist and randy short. just. this side are you was racism against the two sions is real and that we're prejudice is real that's that we need to care about america as well as an entire society and look after everyone if we don't do this we're going to have worse problems i have enormous difficulty accepting the idea that this young lady trying to run her starbucks in philadelphia spends time thinking about class and segregation and trying to target blight people can't she's trying to run the restaurants and she's trying to. keep the business working and not let people take advantage over you guys loitering and not purchasing products from the store while using their facilities how do you stop that from happening again but i don't think that's a little girl running the starbucks as best she can really lucky. suddenly calling
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the police to sign saying saying loitering again is thinking about using loitering laws against black people yes there are people that have a literate and businesses yes there are folks out of water some of them of black but i've worked with a lot of white drunks in my day and they don't get handle quite the same way this is a fact i'm not going to last lanolin playing another slowly than men then five women together play very slowly and the entire culture is waiting for the fact that has nothing to do with it it's the fact that they are so low as a long ass people pretend that injustice and mistreatment of people is ok as long as it does not impact yeah that is the problem with the majority it they lack an understanding that it can be us today and it could be them tomorrow now this is where i asked myself the question at what point do you treat black people like ordinary people and subject them to ordinary rules of society at what point do you
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stop taking every incident as racism and started valuating them as human beings and how they're reacting that's my question you know. there's controversy brewing over the release of an american inmate who was sentenced to life for the motive to policeman herman bell is set to walk free on friday however new york's police union is making a last ditch attempt to keep him locked up and them open as the story herman bell notorious for being a cop killer and a member of the black liberation army will soon become a free man after spending nearly fifty years behind bars for shooting two police men dead back in one thousand nine hundred seventy one now the new york parole board's decision even had the support of a son of one of the slain officers it seems that individuals with no knowledge of ms to bellow the circumstances that led me to support his release many is a go have taken it upon themselves to drum up hate and then gins the parole board of new york might have shown sympathy and a willingness to forgive but not the policemen's union the patrolman's been leveled . association they are guilty then and they guilty now and no copula should ever
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walk the face of the year now siding with the police's n.y.c. mayor bill de blasio who called for the decision to be reversed and for bell to stay behind bars the parole board received over three hundred sixty seven thousand letters urging them not to free herman bell despite his record as a model prisoner well not quite there and not actually that many individual messages the associations website gave compliance the option of automatically sending a letter for each of the sixty two cop killers listed on the site that meant that fewer than six thousand objections to bell's release generated over three hundred sixty seven thousand messages completely distorting the level of outcry in fact according to one poll eighty six percent of new yorkers support the parole board's decision we decided to talk with some former cops about the associations ethics i
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can't comprehend a man who openly admitted to killing three cops. i can't comprehend how that person would be allowed to walk the streets i could picture every cop out there being absolutely outraged at the point of acting on their motion especially in today's climate where they are still be used to do your government is trying their back on the police officers i can absolutely picture not one cop out there not wanting six hundred thousand plus letters being sent to the parole board to eb requesting this man's parole be denied manipulation is quite a you know i mean incidents very tragic incident they actually have three people to put rose what it is you know we have murders rape is awesome this people get improved every single day and hell bent on if you kill a cop they want to do this right engine to jail is supposed to be phone people and now cops like to talk about the perilous situations they put themselves in and the public that they served. in order to do that but this incident will leave some in
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new york questioning their integrity. r.t. new york an attack on a room a gypsy camp in ukraine has seen calls for an investigation and claims of nationalist commission but the authorities among all stories still ahead. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime champions each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the old for rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent i just want to secure some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit first second and bitcoin rose to twenty
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thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only boom but. still. alive again i'm just international is demanding that the ukraine government investigate an attack on a roma gypsy camp in the capital kiev. last week a nationalist group destroyed the camp children were repulsed and injured in the incident people fled while bad tents and other belongings were burned the attackers
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also used tear gas and also reportedly guns. currently no one can be sure that they want become the next week to swarm of radicals they shoot themselves with mattresses and caring for the public but actually they're terrorizing ordinary people the police in kiev say there were no reports of violence and that the fires were part of a cleanup operation a political commentator we spoke to thinks that nationalists in ukraine have the government's support. i suppose that on the local level some policemen of the world tried to prevent open violence but when the government and the parliament officially praise and glory finances how can you expect anything else and i said actually it's not they first came to jews is the very first said by their they came to obvious when they came to me it was too late i mean people in the west should not be silent about it meanwhile the authorities in another city in ukraine opened a painting contest to mark the creation of
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a nazi division in the country during the second world war teenagers are asked to draw something linked to ukrainians who volunteered for the nazi unit and that's a cash prize for the best one of a door as can again says the rise of nationalism is not confined to ukraine where many places in europe can or not see in their own radical. views are becoming more and more popular and this is a result of the whole crisis which was caused by immigration european union cannot provide an answer and this atmosphere of certain spirit today causes some right wing radical groups to succeed in certain places. american broadcaster n.b.c. has joined the dots and the scope of the arties online series in case you missed it is in fact linked to me in an exposé article the journalist say they look to the registration data of the show's web site and cross-checked it against the broadest ration for r.t.
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so we could save them the trouble though if they've just gone to our web site r.t. dot com clicked on shows there they are found it right up there at the top and in response to n.b.c. scoop the show has taken viewers behind the scenes to blow the lid off its connection to r.t. . so here we are very slick offices although there is a slight smell in the air a vodka and caviar. were in so it was probably a spy keep an eye on it. but first glance it looks like any other office but take a look below the surface and something starts to seem off we spoke to i see why in my eyes members of staff so tell me what's it like working for someone connected to r.t. well i always loved the topless game show tutti frutti when i was at school there you could get a skull right but that was that was on the sky channel r.t.l.
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this is this is r.t. this is this is funded by russia we're talking about well what do you mean r.t. is funded by russia for the russians well. yeah i mean if your parents is mainly just one in stuff over to poly and things like that to be honest i've never really had so much freedom at work no one tells you how to answer for over and i'm just really happy but do you work alone i mean do not you know really something i like to talk about. sure i have total freedom to study looked at who was what was it talks to move to for a shop or sort of. phone toss to look for fuel. or limited supply. on a good collection of approved for laundry. or more. i've just heard that the host of the show party boy has just arrived at work so let's see if we can get a word with. his book or hi you were. funded by the
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russian state through. all. yeah. yeah yeah i got the email yeah. so that we have it i see links to all you have to be pretty special i think it was a secret. group and dropped american political journalist joy reid from a to watch list move comes after a scandal surrounding alleged i'm a phobic posts blog she did apologize in december for all of comments but more recent posts have swung the group to finally resend the nomination. i regret the way. i mean with.
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that's the way it looks from here this hour thanks very much for watching i'll be back in thirty five minutes with your next well news from ati international see that. maximises financial survival guide stacey let's learn about fill out let's say on the troika and your theories on greece banks of the fight wall street fraud thank
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you for helping. the story that's right sell out that slavery. is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos the middle of it was dismissed it like a million pieces and my complicity is going to suddenly all maybe. john. the only palestinians who gets the most hope from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those. over vision the only computers. and the earth is all of us not just the heart of this lady of the muscle that your heart i'm going to compete in the doesn't seem to do more than it was all. that result.
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was. not. to be. the city of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. simple fact in l.a. is there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in and it's been a struggle. to get this man from his own response to the problem and constructed
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dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such solution. me house on a city parking space is not a solution. someone monitoring the site otherwise it will be a free for all there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. this is beyond us broadcasting around the world. washington d.c. i'm bart chilton coming up today facebook is facing new challenges not only in the
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u.s. but in the e.u. and especially in the united kingdom where they are being taken to court the record which the c.e.o. of strobe mark will help us sort it all out what's going on and evaluate how facebook has addled some of their myriad messy matters and there's a new invention slash service that may surprise you which will be brought to you by volvo general motors and wait for it amazon's shipments directly to your vehicle lauren fix the car coach joins us to talk about the new revenue streams for automakers and more plus wells fargo one of the financial institutions that helped pioneer and build the united states continues to be stuck in their own must despite a whole host of us. a lot of us rather in the u.s. hoping for better days for the bad boy bank we'll be joined by david merkel a left investments to see if wells have an has an off ramp from the rough and rocky road what a visual on all this coming up but first let's hit some headlines. consumer
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confidence in the united states has come back in april from a poor march the april data beat economists forecast ratings for business in the labor market conditions were both positive including consumer optimism for their own short term increases in incomes and there is more housing data out from the can commerce department which shows that march home sales increase by four percent over february that's a greater than expected rate increase in a ten point three percent higher than a year ago and among the latest earnings reports coca-cola has beaten expectations to deliver three percent sales growth in the first quarter of twenty eight thousand however revenue decline sixteen percent from a year ago to seven point six billion dollars as the company restructures to shift away from bottling and distribution the growth of four percent in soda sales while water and so-called sport. drinks only grew by one percent was especially surprising in the midst of the historic low in consumption of sugary drinks coke
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credited the resilience and soda sales to the introduction of four new flavors of diet coke packaged in slim colorful and coke is also hedged against the turn against soda by acquiring steaks and brands of teenage juice and other beverages. apple has reached an agreement with the republic of ireland to pay an estimated thirteen billion euros to resolve allegations from european union the forty's over islands permissive taxation policies however apple and ireland still reject the two thousand and sixteen ruling by the e.u.'s competition minister that ireland's tax treatment of apple amounted to a legal state aid so while the payments will begin next month and continue through september the fund will actually held an escrow until the irish government settles their taxation fight directly with the e.u. the money will also be invested for profit so that if it happens to be go back to apple they will have made a little bit of money if they succeed with the e.u. . and facebook continues to have plenty of problems this week they're volved
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in taking they're being taken to the high court by martin lewis he's an investing in savings and wajir advisor in england who is seeking damages from facebook for publishing scam advertisements which use his likeness his photograph more than fifty such false ads in the last year contain bogus claims alongside mr lewis's photo while mr lewis context facebook and sometimes the ads are taken down sometimes not they seem to go right back up and mr lewis says that facebook has an advertising department they should simply allow not allow the ad to go up in the first place such false ads have reportedly also featured the like this is of are well known individuals such as sir richard branson mr lewis said quote i've been fighting for over a year to stop facebook letting spammers use my name. it continues i feel sick each time i hear another victim can one lady have had over one hundred thousand pounds
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taken and here to talk about facebook's continuing problems as c.e.o. of straw mark the report which hilary thank you so much for being here so what's going on over there on this particular case it's seems pretty interesting it's great to be back thank you you know it is interesting and martin lewis even though he's not really as well known over this side of the pond he's quite a celebrity ending and so part of this he had suffered mentally said is he on television rights. yet precisely and he's actually even said part of this whether he wins or loses in court is that ship published the stunt because he wants to protect other people from such scams and what's important is that even if he wins he's going to give everything to charitable causes that prevent such scams i really admire him absolutely yes and he said you know no news paper would run an ad over fifty times as it happened i think the issue that facebook actually has though is this is piled up on top of everything else going on with cambridge analytic of course the issue is that facebook purports to be
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a champion of good causes and so this actually flies in the face the second issue is they have plenty of money they just need to hire more staffers if that's their excuse and i think that's what the resentment is they have the money they haven't spent it in those kind of places they'd be making profits and not taking care of these issues you know i mean i heard mr lewis on radio the other day on a p.r. it is a work if the if they take care of the problem or you drop the chute absolutely just like you so you want out of there surprising department don't allow these ads to go up it's not just him he's right you're right about richard branson as well as many other celebrities. ok so let's talk about facebook generally is there any sort of escape hatch from their troubles now hillary or has that boat already sailed i mean they've got we've got the i forget the acronym but the new internet laws coming into play in the e.u. in may there are those even in this environment the us with republican house and
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senate that are considering what sort of rules or regulations should be imposed upon platforms like facebook yes is there a way out for them or are they going to be in this mess for a long time well i wouldn't call it the state patch there isn't any escape hatch however i think it would give him the opportunity we saw when zuckerberg was testifying he was actually off the biologist by a number of congressmen and senators they actually asked him they said would you be willing to work with us to craft legislation to prevent this happening in the future and now of course that's like asking the fox to guard the hen house but i think that these issues a so complex i think our political leaders demonstrated they didn't have the solution for the complexity of the issues so i think facebook's only really escape even though there is an escape there only way out of this is to help croft a solution that would protect the public equal to responsible thing to do and like you say they have the resources and i've always argued that from my days as a regulator come in and tell us what we got done we may not do exactly what you
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said we may make an awful we may or may actually make it weaker in some areas but at least explain your circumstance rather than having something ill fitted right imposed upon us ok so let's compare for example hillary facebook's handling of this circumstance to like starbucks we know the reporting on that ten days or so maybe two weeks ago a couple of african-americans were in a philadelphia starbucks waiting for the turns out a white friend but they were about to be ushered out because they had purchased anything in we're using the. wife by starbucks handle that whole circumstance differently and maybe even better than what base books don't talk about that yet absolutely i would say hats off to kevin johnson the c.e.o. he did exactly what every c.e.o. should do it every audience of everybody watching anybody who's in a leadership position look at what he did he actually apologized he met with those two gentleman himself then he took action and the actions actually very clever the
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action is very public action they are closing eighty two hundred of the starbucks stores and those will be pretty much i think i think it's may twenty second right after memorial day weekend but we'll also something like fifty million this is in terms of the train and they're not closing it for barista training now they're going to train it in terms of this in a subconscious unconscious bias and i think what's very clever is they were swift he meant as apology he actually acted upon it and that was very different than facebook but you know if he took some time you know i mean i could just invision that there were people out there not not me but there are people that write opinion editorials and i do write a lot of them that we get to see a news story like this editorial for probably being written about well if you're a black person at a starbucks you can't use the y. five but if you're a white person and more fortunate exciter you can and starbucks is discriminatory. and this action as you say by the c.e.o. sort of nips at the bud a little bit they've essentially written the next news story and they got ahead of
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the news cycle and not only did they take action what also he didn't do he didn't blame his stock and he didn't call it a one out incident he took this across the corporation immediately and stocks every single facility in the u.s. will be shot for that afternoon and i think that's a very good move it shows they mean it and they mean it is the important part you know i was talking about a little bit of this the spin in they've written the next story for reporters and opinion editorialist etc but the bottom line is what they're doing is trying to do the right thing not just for their their their brand of their p.r. . but for their customers they're doing and very importantly now we'd love both you and i would love to think that everybody watches the news they go we love to think that everybody reads the news they don't however a lot of people go to starbucks they're going to feel this they're going to be aware of it and that's a huge difference versus it just being taken care of hopefully in the news cycle the public will feel this and they'll see the difference do you think just what before we go here we got about thirty seconds do you think there are any more big
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shoes to drop with facebook i know it's hard to know but what's your gut tell you that larry it tells me that they're trying to address things but that they're all over the place i think that they did a brilliant job in terms of their crisis communications about was wonderful on capitol hill i think it's wilma hail that takes the credit for that the crisis management team there the did all the coaching but look about a good a good job i think that they realize now they need outside experts as soon as a an organization realizes we need some external experts that are on the right track they need external experts and need a lot of them to get the best ones out there and even in the news department and even now also cause the political bias they're not hiring and he said that he's aware of this you know in silicon valley he's not hiring out of bring in young university they need to have more diversity in terms of their staff in terms of their political persuasion they wouldn't run into quite as much as this because that's where the anger comes from also in terms of the voting public hillary for which see your straw mark thank you as always telling about loving to be here. and time now for a quick break but stick around because when we return there's
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a new service in the works to be offered by volvo general motors and damages on where the packages will be delivered directly to your vehicle lauren fix the car coach joins us to discuss it plus david burchell of the left investments joins us to talk about wells fargo is there an easy action plan for them in their beleaguered the beleaguered bank we'll talk about it when you and your break your good numbers at the closing bell. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very
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