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parliament that facebook hasn't done enough but it's also become clear over the last couple of years that we haven't done enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well and that goes for feet news foreign interference in elections and developers misusing people's information. we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility now is a mistake and i'm sorry for it. mr zuckerberg also said facebook is committed to europe noting their headquarters in ireland other key facilities across europe which dovetailed into a mention of facebook's plans to increase their european workforce up from seven thousand to ten thousand employees. u.s. video streaming service netflix has announced the details of a production partnership with none other than the former u.s. president and first lady barack and michelle obama the multi-year deal will reportedly pay the obama's one hundred forty three million dollars to create

a wider array of content including scripted unscripted and documentary programs netflix and the obama's seem eager to pivot away from politics with the shows instead promising programming that promotes empathy and understanding between peoples. amazon and apple also are said to have tried to woo the obama's but the former president reportedly has a good relationship with netflix c.e.o. reed a sting's and chief content officer ted serranos mr hastings was three fifty nine on the forbes four hundred list of the wealthiest americans for last year and made forbes twenty eighteen world's most powerful list in march mr obama's former national security advisor and ambassador to the united nations susan rice joined the netflix board last month. politico the us based digital media outlet is moving into asia after expanding into europe the company announced today it would be

partnering with south china morning post of the post is owned by billionaire jack ma who also founded the massive ali baba group as a result of the partnership asian readers will now have greater access to politicos mix of washington's conventional wisdom and insider tips lord help them unlike their expansion into europe political will hire no additional staff or other asian partnership for now political and the south china post will share content political publisher says this is just the first step of a partnership that could yield greater investments. we're talking about the energy used for crypto currency mining before the but new research shows that the mining is using up more energy than even some countries while the findings are somewhat debatable there is little doubt that the amount of energy crude currencies are using is troubling artie's alex heil of it joins us in

toronto with more alex thanks as always what is this news on the latest research telling us. well this is around one a con a means prognosis of what's going on his name's alex de vries he says that every six months that the use or the energy use of bitcoin is going up and that currently it's about consuming globally the amount of energy that ireland does as a country so that's a lot of energy here's a bit of a graph to give you an idea of which direction we're headed with this is a two thousand and eighteen bitcoin energy consumption for crack outs and by degrees math computers that mine for bitcoin we have a good idea what that is is basically going in labor intensive. code and doing all kinds of equations to get these bitcoins out of there is very very labor intensive but the same currently is using two point five gigawatts of power and on track to triple by the end of the year so this is like a lot of energy to be used every single second of every day and devise also says

that this has gone up in the past six months by doubling just as we're talking about doubling within in future months and this is due to the fact that where we saw bitcoin gold late last year it almost reached twenty thousand dollars u.s. at the value of one bitcoin and of course a lot of people became interested in getting into the market then and getting into the game of actually developing bitcoin now here's another reason but consumption has gone up because big coin as time progresses is harder to mine there's more equations it's more labor intensive and therefore it takes a lot more energy and time to get these bitcoins so energy consumption is up for sure the question is how long will this last and this question is how long will bitcoin last a lot of people don't have too much faith that the cryptocurrency will last at all well there are some crypto currency alex will exist that made it that it may be a bit klein i think bitcoin to be around for a long time but certainly some crypto currency i think is here to stay so what can

be done about this energy usage problem in the future. well you know there's a lot of aspects to this energy usage and the fact of the matter is a like you said i mean it's here to stay in one way or another the question is will it be less labor intensive will be less energy consuming in the long run or is there are different way of doing it right now really it's not that big of an issue before you know a lot of this was being done in mongolia there's a massive chinese company out there so coal was being able used to feel the electric grid for that now we're looking at big quinn farms moving to places like canada and iceland where we have cleaner energy and also the way that it's done i mean we have to think about let's go back a couple of decades and people are talking about the internet saying the internet is going to be so energy consuming and there there's not going to be a you know enough room or stivers space out there for all of us well there is and this might be the same story with bitcoin and other crypto currencies that we might be you know saying the sky is falling when really it's not that that this energy is

actually there that it's available and that this part of the sector these crypto currencies actually you know really won't take up of that much in the long run as we put more energy out there first of all and second of all as this whole industry progress is as you mentioned there's not only one crypto currency out there there's a whole bunch of them they're all fighting to get their place in the market and who knows who's going to be the winner in the end and how that's actually going to look it's all about blogs and technology we know that's labor intensive but blocking technology is goes far beyond crypto currencies and it's something that might be used in industries all the way from health care to the food industry just the way that we communicate just because this is a skirt this technology itself it labels movements of koreans right now let's say through cyberspace and will do the same thing for your health records or for tracking for example just basically you know something from far all the way to the

table it's really interesting the way that this technology is moving and any way you look at it this will be a. around for a while so crypto currencies are not we're going to be looking at launching technology and that is labor intensive in itself and that's something that is can be very very helpful to us in the future so i'm pretty sure we're going to figure out how to put a little bit of space in our energy grids to keep it going you're probably right alex and you know it seems to me they could take all this heat that's generated from all these servers and maybe make that into something useful r.t. correspondent alex mann hyla bitch thank you as always thank you. after nearly sixty years of cuban leadership by either fidel aroud castro miguel diaz can now is elected as president by the cuban national assembly last month has canalis served as first vice president and has been seen for years as the anointed successor to raul castro and other news last friday cuba suffered their worst

airline disaster in thirty years when a airplane with nearly forty years old crashed killing one hundred eleven passengers hear dive deeper under these stories and catch us up on all things cuban is john president of the us cuba trade and economic council john thank you for joining us we always appreciate it first the cuban leadership transition what should we know about the new leader miguel diaz canal and what's his agenda and role as cuba moves forward. right now president cannot deal as canal is trying to get through the last thirty days and what he's seen it's been rather challenging agricultural and industrial production continued to decrease oil prices continue to increase venezuela's ability to support cuba continues to decrease u.s. visitor arrivals to continue to decrease last week the tragedy of the airline crash and then the continuing negative political rhetoric from the trump administration

so he's trying to deal with all of that and the main question he has to answer is will cuba's traditional friends such as russia china countries on the african continent countries in the middle east will they be able to make up for the role the venezuelan no longer has and the answer is probably no which means that president kanada is going to have a trajectory that's not going to be pleasant he may be a one term transitional leader to the next generation but he's going to have to make some tough choices they have a dual currency they have to solidify it's going to be very very rocky for him during the next twelve months you know i mean i think it's clear john that present majority venezuela can't help at all i mean they're struggling just to keep their country alive so i understand that part of it so who will fill the vacuum as i guess the the big question let's turn

a little bit to that tragic plane crash the plane was reportedly operated by a mexican company under license by the cuban national airline and and mexican authorities have said that they will participate in the investigation what's the latest on that crash and is this going to be any sort of impact from this on tourism. it will impact the visitor arrivals basically because of the the atmospherics and the optics even though it wasn't a coup by an aircraft and it wasn't flown by cuban pilots the fact is that cuba chartered it and it crashed now there there may be an opportunity here for u.s. air carriers american delta united jet blue southwest to come in and perhaps operate intro cuba flights on behalf of qubani and i know that there's been some discussions about possibly doing that which would enable you know greater

safety greater consistency of interest. airline traffic well we know that american you know they've got a hub down in miami of course and they are sort of seen as the primary caribbean carrier down there but anything to ensure that things are safe would be a positive so this down tore down turn into or ism is it also due in part to you know the u.s. policy changes and and how much how much of that is is from the u.s. and how much is other market factors. u.s. visitor arrivals during the first months of two thousand and eighteen are down dramatically compared the same period in seventeen and that is almost entirely because of the change in regulations by the trumpet. and when they made those changes they made them in a way that most of ministrations do which is to create a lot of uncertainty and generally when a traveler looks at

a potential destination and sees a lot of questions and not a lot of answers they'll go somewhere else so the trump administration's regulatory changes have impacted in additionally there have been some issues with operations at resorts in cuba where tourists go because u.s. visitors aren't tourists but where visitors from other countries from canada from europe and into cuba struggling to maintain consistency if its products so they have they've got a lot of issues primarily it all comes back to a lack of foreign exchange and that's because of the commercial neck anomic policies pursued by the cuban government don't give off as much foreign exchange as they could and therefore they're suffering because of it john i know that you know we always go to it's always about tourism but there's also problems with agriculture etc and we hope you'll come back some time to talk

a little bit more take a deeper dive into the cuban economy john cab which thank you for your time. thank you bart. the u.s. postal service has had a tough time with the meet with meeting revenues for many years that even drew the attention of president donald trump several months ago around the end a year where he tweeted that why is the united states post office which is losing many billions of dollars a year while charging amazon and others so little to deliver their packages making amazon richer and the post office dumber and poorer should be charging much more the president certainly has reason to be concerned about the post offices fiscal situation the post office has been in the red and losing billions of dollars each year for the past decade the president's concern is noteworthy however if you read the annual report to congress the post office mail delivery actually is one of the

few money makers that's not the problem that said now the post office trying to hand over another moneymaker that get this a scratch and sniff stamp or stamps many of us recall the scratch and sniff stickers that kids love back in the one nine hundred eighty s. and ninety's the stamps are called frozen treats at the post office and are images are works of ten different pairs of popsicles by california artist margaret berg the smell range from watermelon an orange to chocolate in root beer well the colorful scratch and sniff stamps get the postal service out of the red not likely but they will be fun. that said for this time thanks for watching you can catch boom bust on directv channel three twenty one dish network channel two eighty or streaming twenty four seven on pluto t.v. the free t.v. app channel one thirty two or as always hit us up at youtube dot com slash boom bust party will catch you next so.

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hour the old. god. we are working on shopping and you know there's a chance that it will work out there's a church it's a very substantial chance of the work there donald trump casts doubt on next month's planned meeting with the leader of north korea saying the highly anticipated talks may be delayed or may not take place at school. meanwhile north korea is reportedly dismantling its only nuclear site as part of a bargain with the u.s. we have access to the area and our correspondent will be reporting on his journey there as you can see behind me we're being greeted like celebrities here though. to north korea. the german government admits that almost two thousand far right

extremists in the country may be in legal possession of a firearm. and after eighteen years google quietly drops its don't be evil slow that the change is only noticed a month after it took effect company employees are also protesting against involvement with the u.s. military. a very warm welcome it's eleven am here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me good to have you with us. donald trump says his much anticipated summit with north korea on the twelfth of june might not happen the comment came during a meeting with the south korean president moon giant in the u.s. capital both washington and pyongyang have previously suggested they may not be willing to hold talks unless certain conditions are met samir khan reports from

washington well according to try the summit could take place or it might not even take place but the president has never really been one hundred percent sure we are working on so. thing and you know there's a chance that it'll work out there's a chance it's a very substantial chance that it won't work out that doesn't mean it won't work out over a period of time but it may not work out for june twelfth i think it will be very successful but as i always say who knows what's going to happen you know i often say who knows who knows but you know it all works they give you everything can be scuttled everything can be scuttled but speaking of mixed messages on one hand a special coin is being produced just ahead of the summit depicting the two leaders meeting and all smiles then there's trump guaranteeing him safety and promising that north korea will be a rich country we make a deal i think kim jong un is going to be very very happy and he'll get protections that will be very strong his country would be very rich then on the other hand

trumps threatening the libya scenario the model if you look at that model with gadhafi that was a total decimation we went in there to beat him now that model would take place if we don't make a deal most likely but let's quickly remind ourselves what happened in libya in two thousand and three i get off he renounced his nuclear program but despite that he was overthrown in a made a led campaign years later so not a fairy tale ending for gadhafi but it's not just rhetoric that could be jeopardizing diplomacy there's also joint military drills being held between the u.s. and south korea and north korea's thor set but thankfully some are questioning the need to provoke young yang especially considering the historic meeting that took place last month between the north and south and this also comes at a very special time just as the u.s. is going back on its word to adhere to the wrong deal pulling out of it entirely well it is interesting to see how trump and this is top advisors seem to be at all

odds with each other i don't know because management style is to create chaos and so you have some order comes from what or what in fact may be his style problem is that washington confuses the idea. negotiation with the idea of surrender the meeting for trump and him in singapore should have been the beginning of a dialogue of a process instead john bolton others of lay down the law here's what you're going to do working bolton said tell us where we should send our planes to pick up your stuff and take it away i mean if i would north korea particularly watching it how the us tour of your own agreement if you have any mind at all you would be very very skeptical it's very important that people understand that president moon of south korea is really the most important president here not trump i know trump thinks it's always all about him but president moon of south korea i believe is the one who's really in the driver's seat here and they are playing a very important role both in terms of south north korea relations but also bringing the united states along it is possible that north and south korea could

continue to build their relations there are a lot of economic issues that they could work on diplomatic issues really for cation of families that have been separated. to meet its end of the bargain north korea is reportedly preparing to dismantle its nuclear test site in the countries with moats northeast there have been six nuclear bomb tests there since two thousand and six which were carried out inside a mountain is that while the last officially active nuclear test site north korea released an official statement describing how the site will be dismantled is says there will be a controlled explosion to collapse all the tunnels this will result in the entrance points being blocked as well after that the above ground facilities will also be destroyed and some changes have already been observed by experts on satellite images shot in april and may buildings have been demolished together with a rail line well r.t. is one of the few news channels that's been invited to witness how north korea is

fulfilling its end of the bargain it was done of has this report. we're in the beijing international airport and as you can see behind me we're being greeted like celebrities the of those who go to north korea we've been here for the past couple of days and all journalist spots of this press tour have been amassed in the chinese capital because that's where we got our visas that's what we where we got our tickets and now we will be proceeding to check in to our flights that those are the windows that we're waiting for the personnel and so i'll be signing off and meeting you hopefully greeting you from north korea itself next time so this is the choreo flights we will be taking to get inside north korea thing is we aren't even exactly sure as to where exactly we're headed because according to a media to documents we're going to the southern port city of one sound but according to our boarding passes we're headed to the north korean capital pyongyang

so i guess the north the option but to find out on board the plane see. the skies and see if you can you know you're going to pyongyang or two once on. one ok thank you. so there are roughly twenty john that's here on this plane and so as we're going to one son i just want to give you what glimpse as to what's going on on board would be given out press releases like this one for example the pyongyang times it's mostly about politics but also features pieces like recipes for this rice and month cake and also we've been given and at this very very karl colorful a career magazine which features everything from the latest one has to what's been going like in the life of people going on the supreme leader of north korea and also power if each is around still young and the like two pieces like the ones for

example of how you speak the local be speaking in. so you walk out of any airports what's the first thing you expect to see it's a bustling crowd of people pushing and shoving it's the taxi drivers offering their often overpriced services well check this out nothing of the sort here it's just an empty parking lot and three buses that will take us to the city we will be taking an eleven hour train to get there and then we will be writing for four more hours by car and hiking for another hour but we're being told that the spectacle is well worth it the whole site will be razed to the ground technical buildings reduced to rubble tunnels in the mountains also blown up right now we don't know when this

trip or when this is going to happen exactly but definitely in the upcoming days and for more details on pictures from north korea you can follow eagles journey to the nuclear test site on his twitter page. the german government has admitted that around two thousand far right extremists signed illegal possession of at least one weapon according to media reports the country's green party says the government is sweeping the problem under the carpet or he's paid to all of it takes up the story. here in germany almost two thousand people identified as far right extremists have a permit to possess a firearm that's according to the government's own statistics twelve hundred of that number described themselves as reich citizens and since november of twenty sixteen around four hundred fifty of them have had their firearms licenses taken off them by the state but he was right citizens and dangerous right citizen is

a catch all term for a loosely affiliated bunch who claim that the federal republic of germany is illegitimate and say that the pre-war constitution remains in effect that's the same system that allowed hitler to take power well today's reich citizen groups come in several shapes and sizes but almost all of them have some link to either neo nazi groups or far right ideology. the historical revisionism forms an ideological link that connects various right wing extremist currents and right wing extremists among right citizens use those connections to cause confusion to provoke authorities and to create a social platform for right wing ideology it's estimated that there's around eighteen thousand of these right citizens in germany and some are allegedly preparing for a day when they'll rise up.