will not go for the built in road initiative and then it came out that washington was telling britain not to do. it which is that in terms of post bricks it plans arguably a disaster seeing as britain will obviously have to make deals outside of the e.u. and china is defacto the the main economy that one desires to trade with has for europe if tusk is saying that he's fearful of china that's hardly embracing the built in road initiative so whoever is it rising them actually you know who is advising them maybe some of these big audit firms which also have a. look together with them so maybe the same big four that it telling european politicians in brussels in strasburg little own down the road from here in downing street beware of beijing you don't want to get yourself out of trading with the communist party of the republic people's republic of china whatever goes around comes around option tang's the host of going underground on r.t.

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wall street journal and there is this huge two page advertisement for wells fargo it's a great advert it's right here and talked about the female chair at wells fargo a first for a top u.s. bank and i'm thinking good for them put your put your best foot forward and then two hours later the bad boy bank was back in the news as reported by the very same paper the wall street journal's wells fargo employees as the journal reports in the bank's wholesale unit altered information including social security numbers and other customer data without customers knowledge the additions and changes to the data reportedly occurred in late two thousand and seventeen and near the beginning of this year this year so get this just as the bank was reeling under the latest revelations of wrongdoing and their effort being to demonstrate and confirm their compliance with the consent order imposed by regulators over insufficient safeguards on money laundering some bank employees thought it was just a really dandy idea to alter data i mean i can't decide whether or not to cry or be

frustrated it's a tie i guess wells fargo has reportedly been in contact with the office of the comptroller of the currency regarding the irregularities. the vice premier of china lew he'd met earlier today with u.s. president donald trump as negotiator for paired to attempt a resolution of the simmering trade war the director of mr trump's national economic council larry kudlow signaled opposite some optimism earlier in the day about the meeting and talks treasury secretary stephen newton will leave the us side of the ongoing negotiations while fifty billion dollars a new import taxes the tariffs against china. could goods could be imposed any time after next tuesday china seemed to offer an olive branch going into the talks announcing this morning that regulators had approved the sale of a chip making unit of toshiba to a group of investors organized by the u.s. firm bain capital remember mitt romney as part of bain capital they're the file

this follows another possible suspect sign regarding china as it's reported an indonesian company partnering with the trump organization on a hotel and golf course project in indonesia announced a state owned chinese company is their newest partner but news turns heads given mr trump's harsh rhetoric and because the chinese consider the deal part of president xi jinping is belt and wrote a nation of two greater economic ties with these regional neighbors. we're almost a year after the u.s. made the determination that the governor of catarrh is a leading funder of terrorism and the subsequent trade embargo placed upon the nation by four middle eastern neighboring countries bahrain egypt saudi arabia and the united arab emirates the u.a.e. in an effort to change their outcast image katter has made some public relations

and media moves to improve things one such move was reported this week that the government of katter is seeking to acquire a ninety million dollars stake in the conservative media outlet newsmax which is owned by chris ruddy a friend of u.s. president donald trump according to reports newsmax recently has been publishing sympathetic news reports in opinion coverage of catarrh such a headline which reads katter is a mere promises to step up ties invest up to two hundred fifty billion dollars in the u.s. is catarrh looking for some public relations love in all the wrong places where we're going to figure it out with hollande cook and with on your perm pill thank you both i mean you've been covering the story. what sort of. fluence are they trying to place and i know it's not just on the us but what's kind of trying to do here well they're buying influence in many ways the new york times just happened to have reported a few hours ago bart that a company called brookfield properties is close to reaching an agreement with cushion or companies which would essentially amount to a bailout concerning

a troubled property kirshner companies holds in new york qatar owns the second largest stake in brookfield properties and kushner companies is of course run by charles kushner father or. husband of even trump that's one example but a little circuitous crazy because there isn't a jihad in another boat but a very bizarre story which broke last week actually rapper ice cube and his business partner jack required to claim quote that it could tare investor in their big three basketball league try to get access to steve bannon when he was trying to white house chief strategist and that the investor was a front for the qatari government basically what happened here bart is this investor promised five million dollar investment in the big three basketball league and then one span it will because business partner happened to be close with bannon but when bannon was ousted from the white house the money fell through the the investors didn't follow through on their it and then told them to get after it was

clear it wouldn't actually get them close to the white house that's not like it's a circuitous hollywood you're a media veteran you look at all this are they taking a page that could tarries from you know the old book how to win friends and influence people dale carnegie's old book if so are they doing it the right way your time will tell but this list honor just to keep open and all the same people with the golden handshake don't you it's enough to make you wonder if they're kissing up to trump because there is no marketplace dearth of right wing media first of all qatar already funds al jazeera and you've got your fox news channel you see our t.v. that did. little thing with mark levin and ailes and o'reilly were talking before roger ailes passed away and frankly fox news was vulnerable they've been moving sean around they lost you know who the n.b.c. gretta left so there's been a bunch of moving parts over there and their shares have suffered so maybe they

think there's a media play with fox vulnerable but there's no short of shortage of right wing media out there so it's not like they're filling a void well on you to follow on what holland said so. whether or not they are going to be good or bad for them it just seems to me that all of this coverage of what we're doing right now and what's been going on this week can't possibly have health and chris ruddy not only president trump's friend but a member at mar a lago the president's club were supposedly he met with the tories to negotiate this deal he says there's no truth to this now but is this whole debacle just that a debacle and maybe they wish they hadn't and engaged in it this story at politico was based on information brought by two sources who apparently had a close early information about the deal they were working on the negotiations so

it's it's possible that somebody planted the story in order to generate negative press and kill the deal because if chris reddy of the nine charities if chris reddy is denying it it might be suggested it might not actually happen right if he's going to go away deny this deal i doubt we're going to hear in a few weeks that it actually went through but who knows maybe that's possible but as you say it is ironic because they're out there the qataris are out there trying to get in good with the white house and get positive press but then when these stories of how deals fall through once they're not going to get the connections they wanted it doesn't look very good. media is saying and i know i don't recall it but i know you will something about you know all in all news is good news even if it's bad news long as they spell my name right or. and it's finally come to this point there's fake news about fake news and tower of power saying there's

only so much oil in the ground maybe they're trying to diversify newsmax is a profitable entity they have big web traffic they've got the cable channel on direct t.v. in fy zero seven on line they've got the magazine etc and the hill reports that they're on the verge of assembling a fox greatest hits team where they're going to have all riley on at his old fox time eight pm after gretta at her old seven o'clock slot they've got fox rejected eric bolling coming on at nine and get this ten pm sean spicer so stay tuned oh my gosh can't get any more exciting unless you're watching r t america holland cook on your per pill thank you both for your time sure appreciate your bad commish. in one thousand nine hundred ninety one the first web site went live over the internet today there are more than one point two billion web sites and nearly four

billion users logged on last year we're becoming more connected and at the same time more exposed to criminal elements the nine month study estimated that annually cyber crime nets more than one point five trillion dollars in revenue even as cyber crime continues to rise the trump administration decided to do away with the top cyber security official at the white house seems like a mistake to me but perhaps that's just me let's ask an expert joining us to discuss the impact of this decision is todd shipley the c.e.o. of vera software who's been with us before he's so great to join us from reno todd thank you for joining us again it seems strange to think that no matter. how many times we see it a little bit of time passes and then government officials almost seem blahs a about cyber threats do you what do you make of the president's national security advisor john bolton's decision to eliminate the top cyber security post at the white house well thanks for having us on seven embark well i think we have to look

at what that position was actually doing and if you look at the position over the past decade in the past several different administrations what effect did that job position actually have and i think bolton actually looked at this and said it's not doing the things we needed to do a good friend howard schmidt had that job under the previous administration and he was able to do a lot of things in the space of making recommendations but he had no real authority to make change within government and over the course of the numbers of years that he was there he actually made some good recommendations but there was no way for him to implement those things and so i think what bolton did is he looked at his position and made a decision that it's not affecting anything that we're doing and we have to find a better way to control the cyber security issues on the global scale that the government needs you know currently to affect the change that needs to be done you know it makes me think you know regular boom busters know that i worked in

government probably for too long the early thirty years but to have a position at the white house is a lot different than having cybersecurity experts like at that apartment hall and security just the proximity is important and so you know i get concerned about it do you think the government is actually doing enough forget about the role of this top role are they doing enough to protect not just government cybersecurity threats but the rest of us. well i mean that's always going to be the thing that we have to try to figure out i think government wants to do the right thing and i think that they're trying but as this example if he's removing it and he doesn't have a plan in place to solve the problem then he's not effectuate in any change that's going to be good for you and me so we have to wait and see what his plan is which hasn't been truly announced yet as to where he's going to go with this dispositions gone it was a you know minor level position within the white house really but we've got to find a better position in the white house to make the changes in effect cybersecurity

the way we should be done what will cross our fingers here's what i know about government if there's a hack on government pretty soon there's going to be some positions filled real quick let me ask you before we go what about facebook's they've got another p.r. problem it was announced that another row gap on the site grabbed three million users this is additional users their personal data as someone who works and talks to law enforcement all the time about data protection cyber geraghty how should companies be dealing with this todd. well i think they have to understand what other companies will do to get personal data facebook's problem is this is just one of probably a dozen different companies at least that have done this we've all seen those things on facebook that say what kind of pirate would i be or what kind of dog would i be and you go off facebook to take a survey where the problem is they get your log and their credentials to facebook and then they get personal information that you provide them not realizing that

it's a secondary or tertiary company having no affiliation with facebook facebook needs to think about these things and what the privacy issues are and the protection of are there there are customers data is going to be and prevent these things from occurring so that can't happen anymore it's already done our information is out there that ends up being the problem but facebook needs to take far more progressive you know actions against these companies and prevent them from taking the data without the individual user understanding what's going to happen with that data. todd shipley c.e.o. of vero software thanks very much for your time that's it for now thanks for watching look at it next time. i play for many flips over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the

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a tax on our country's. economic sanctions or are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries attorney talking about. and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country. it's a responsibility for the whole. to make rules for the rest. because without us there will be. summit or no summit that's the question north korea's threat of a no show and signal for on june twelfth is a reminder to washington that north korea will not merely cave to american demands

if there's going to be an agreement it's going to take time and patience. the u.s. senate confirms gina hospital as the new head of the cia despite widespread concerns about her role in the torture of terror suspects. who actually have a good relationship there so we have to believe you can still make something comes of it and he'll get protections that will be very strong. donald trump urges north korea to strike a deal with the u.s. after pyongyang threatens to cancel a summit show jeweled for jews. and europe as legal action in syria protect firms from u.s. sanctions in a bid to say it's the wrong deal. thank

you for watching r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow and. gina hospital has become the first woman to lead the cia after being approved by the u.s. senate donald trump's nominee won the support of almost all republicans and off a dozen democrats despite her controversial career and role in torturing terror suspects well even after the calmer controversy the final vote was fifty four yes and forty five nays and this comes a week after she faced some tough questions from the senate intel committee regarding her role in the cia's torture program but she never really gave a direct answer check it out even leave the program in terms that you interrogation program was consistent with american values we have decided to hold ourselves to a stricter moral standards are they consistent with american values senator i believe very strongly in american values i want to trust that you have the moral

compass that you said you have i have conducted myself honorably and in accordance with u.s. law do you believe that the previous interrogation to. weeks were immoral what i believe sitting here today is that i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to answer the question. and i think i've answered the question if not to vote shows a split within the democratic party six in total supported her including senator mark warner from virginia i will feel safer knowing that the cia has miscast but at the helm more importantly i believe she is someone who can and will stand up to the president who will speak truth to power. and if this president ordered her to do something illegal or immoral i could turn to torture she were the fuse according to the american civil liberties union hassle overseed torture that included chaining detainees to ceilings for days slamming them into walls simulated

drowning and deprivation of food and sleep but lone behold the she was confirmed by the senate anyway we also have to look at the bigger picture we have john bolton destroy a national security adviser mike pompei as secretary of state and now gina haskell as head of the cia what we saw in the senate today was a collapse among democrats a collapse in democratic leadership you know how hard it's going to be to convince our european allies that it's ok to have a torturer as the director of the cia what's the united states going to do when when the german federal prosecutor for example follows through with his recommendation that charges be filed against you know has for crimes against humanity how can you have a cia director that's not permitted to go to europe because she has serious felony charges hanging over her head this is something that the democrats could have seized on and they had the support of john mccain and they had the support of jeff

flake junior senator from arizona and they did nothing with it we were looking for leadership on the anti haskell side from the likes of mark warner the senior senator from virginia who is also the vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee and he flip flopped and decided after saying all these things about you know haskel and how terrible it was that what she did that she should never have destroyed the tapes and then when it really came down to it he voted yes that was a complete abdication of leadership among the democrats. well meanwhile the u.s. president is aging north korea to dismantle its nuclear program donald trump claims the north can become very rich if it agrees to washington's dumond's that's ahead of a summit between the countries needed to shed. we make a deal i think kim jong il is going to be very very happy i really believe he's going to be very happy and he'll get protections that will be very strong his country would be very rich is people are tremendously industrious if you look at

south korea this would be really a south korean model in terms of their industry in terms of what they do the hard work an incredible people you have to remember that for the last several decades donald trump has been very well known as a businessman he actually wrote a book a best selling book called the art of the deal so we shouldn't be surprised to see donald trump out front promising all kinds of riches to north korea if they agree to his deal and furthermore we shouldn't be surprised with him indicating that things might not be so rosy if they don't go along with it this is another statement we've heard from donald trump and i think what. john bolton made that statement. yeah i think that's what denuclearization means and we have very much in mind the libyan model from two thousand and three two thousand and four he was talking about if we're going. to be having a problem because we cannot let that country have nukes we just can't do it the

model if you look at that model with gadhafi that was a total disarray should we went in there to beat him now that model would take place if we don't make a deal most likely now libya by bringing that up that's certainly a threat now libya was the most prosperous country on the african continent until two thousand and eleven the government was overthrown and the country has been in a state of civil war ever sense you know people are fleeing it's just in utter chaos so bringing that up is certainly you know using both the carrot and the stick as some would say now we've recently heard north korea threatening to pull out of the negotiations over the provocative military exercises that are taking place in south korea you have the u.s. forces there there are essentially a rehearsal according to north korea for invading north korea and the united states kim jong un and donald trump you know playing a hard negotiation game in the lead up to this planned meeting hopefully resolving

the crisis on the peninsula so the whole world is watching them waiting to see what happens next. the european union is taking steps to counteract u.s. sanctions against that deal with a wrong the president and the e.u. commission john clune. the so-called looking statute to be imposed. put of work as the european commission we have the duty to protect european companies so we now need to act and this is why we're launching the process of activating the blocking statute from one thousand nine hundred six we will do that tomorrow morning at ten thirty start off with just what is the blocking statute well it's the strongest weapon in the e.u.'s legislative arsenal when it comes to tackling sanctions placed upon businesses and entities from the european union the law itself goes back to one thousand nine hundred six it's never been acted but the closest it ever came into operation was back in ninety six when the u.s.

was considering placing sanctions on european businesses importing things and doing trade with cuba what we are going to see is that on ten thirty on friday morning a written version of this law specifically for the current situation regarding the threat of sanctions against businesses who will continue to trade with iran what may have been but final straw and pushing the european commission towards implementing the blocking starch it may well have been these words from french petrochemicals giant to tell saying they weren't sure whether they were willing to risk sanctions by the u.s. would not be in a position to continue the project and will have to on wind all related operations before for november twenty eighth seen on list total is granted a specific project by the u.s. authorities with the support of the french and european authorities speaking at a summit of e.u. leaders interfere the french president emmanuel mccann vowed to protect european

business but is a fear that we will work to maintain the framework of the twenty fifteen deal in spite of the american decision and we will do so in a concrete manner by maintaining our political engagements by ensuring that our companies can stay in iran and also by getting all parties to pursue negotiations for a larger. indispensable but despite the words from politicians in the action of implementing the blocking statute that still hasn't stopped other companies from already saying it they weren't going to do any more trade in iran we've seen ali answer the german ensuring giant say they were going to pull out they also alongside the danish shipping company maersk the pull out by donald trump from the iran deal that unilateral decision to take the u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal that really has soured relations between some of europe's leading leaders if you will and got merkel said just this week that europe

was at a crossroads when it came to its relationship with the u.s. it certainly seems if it continues down this route it's a route that doesn't bring washington or brussels closer together donald trump is testing the patience of the european union and the u.s. needs to understand another part of the international community and they call just throw their weight around as they've been doing and expect everybody to fall into line donald trump has as damaged relations is no doubt about that bought. clear that the e.u. are prepared to stand up to him now a new office they have to always advise will have to reflect on where they go now hopefully it will be a wake up call for the whole trump and you know he will start to see sense but if he doesn't there is a real danger the so i was still further. italy's euro skeptic parties have come up with a plan to quit the single currency and write off most of the country's national debt and that's it.