the twenty eight teen facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg public apology tour continues prefer to failing to protect privacy of users they've made a stop in europe now earlier today mr zuckerberg told leaders of the european 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 a 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 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 crypto 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 is news 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 eight hundred bitcoin energy consumption for crack house and by degrees math computers that mine for bitcoin we have a good idea what that 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. 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 that going 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 specs to this energy usage and the fact of the matter is like you said i mean it is here to stay in one way or another the question is will it be less labor intensive will it be less energy consuming in the long run or is there a 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 cool was being able to use to feel the electric grid for that now we're looking a big firms 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'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 as 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 cryptocurrency is actually you know we really won't take up that much in the long run as we put more energy out there first of all and second of all as this whole industry progresses as you mentioned there's not only one cryptocurrency out there there's a whole bunch of them they're all fighting to get their place in the market and who

knows who is going to be the winner in the end and how that's actually going to look it's all about blog change technology we know that's labor intensive but blotching technology is goes far beyond crypto currencies then something that might be used in industries all the way from health care to the food industry just to when will we communicate just because this is current this technology itself it labels movements of coins right now let's say through cyberspace and will do the same thing for your health records or for tracking if 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. and 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 he 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 trumpet ministration 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 that venezuela no longer has and the answer is probably no which means that

president kanada is going to have a trajectory of 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 is 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 qubani 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 to the same period and 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 a problem 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 at 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 spittal 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 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 get us up at youtube dot com slash boom bust party will catch you next time. with the whole make this manufacture come sentenced to public wells. when the ruling class is protect themselves. with the famous

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the clock across the world this is our international from the team and myself you know me oh welcome to the pro. in our top story north korea is gearing up to close its nuclear test site in the country's remote north east there have been six nuclear bomb tests there since two thousand and six which were carried out inside a mountain it's the world's last officially active nuclear test site well north korea has described how the site will be dismantled saying there will be a controlled explosion to collapse all the tunnels. in all the entrance points being blocked well after that the above ground facilities will be destroyed some changes have already been observed by experts on satellite images taken in april and earlier in this month buildings have been demolished together with

a real. and a group of international journalists have set out on an arduous journey to witness the dismantlement of the nuclear facility there taking an eleven hour train trip with the courage is windows covered the journalists have been instructed not to open the blinds throughout their journey but to get to the remote mountain area crews will spend several hours traveling by bus then an hour on foot to the site itself artie's down off is among them here says most recent report. we're in the beijing international airport and as you can see behind me we're being greeted like celebrities here 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 so now we will be proceeding to check in to our flights and

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 our 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 of the plane see. the sky it seems to you know we're going to pyongyang or two once on. one time ok i think it's. 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 with a glimpse as to what's going on on board would be in the even 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 or 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 him going on the supreme leader of north korea and also power if each is kind of rama's old young and the like two pieces like the ones for example and how he's be the local be being. 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 this sort here it's just

an empty parking lot and three buses that will take us to the city. we got to explore the place the surroundings would be and this place really makes it very difficult to associate north korea with the usual things that is being associated with for example nuclear weapons threats being seclusive sort of no fun allowed state. should run off with the report he is always a way to the nuclear test site and he'll report back right here when he arrives meanwhile if you like you can follow we go on twitter where he's posting details on photos from the reclusive country whenever possible find out for instance what kind of food you might expect in north korea and how to look around local hotels see what they're like. donald trump meanwhile is casting diet's on the much anticipated

summit with north korea jus to take place on june the twelfth during a meeting with the side korean president in washington trump said the event might not happen at all. we are working on something and you know there's a chance that it'll work out there's a chance it's a very substantial chance it will 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 a lot of good things could happen a lot of bad things are going to happen we'll see how it all works maybe maybe in a lot of things change everything can be scuttled everything can be scuttled. but washington appears to be sending mixed messages with the white house issuing a commemorative coin ahead of the summit it depicts trump facing the north korean leader kim jong il however earlier president trump was threatening north korea with

the libyan sonority oh just to remind you to be gave up its weapons of mass destruction but still faced an intervention from nato doesn't make albums from the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity believe such threats make washington irrelevant for peace talks there you have basically talking about libya as the model for north korea we know what happened to libya libya voluntarily gave up its weapons and was overthrown nonetheless if that's not a red flag to the north koreans i don't know what is i mean if i would north korea particularly watching it how the u.s. tore up the iran agreement i would believe if you have any mind at all you would be very very skeptical i think the u.s. is essentially irrelevant to the solution of the korean problem and that may be one of the silver linings of the fact that the trump administration seems to have no clue what it's doing the north and south are clearly moving ahead we saw that historic meeting on the border we saw for talks progress moon was elected to do

exactly what you're trying to do and i think it's actually the u.s. the intervention it's the neoconservatives who are isolating the us and making us irrelevant i think that the ball is in play. with norton so the u.s. is irrelevant at some point the deal is made between the north and the self eventually the u.s. will have to be. america's arm buster to israel has come in for criticism after he was seen posing with a rather controversial gift david freeman was presented with a photograph of one of the most sacred places in jerusalem but the image had been altered to show the jewish third temple on the site where the islamic mosque is currently situated the third temple is a biblical reference to a new place of worship to replace an ancient one which was destroyed but the u.s. embassies asked for an apology saying the envoy was unaware that he was being given a doctored full picture the region is still reeling from deadly protests against

the relocation of the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem should middle east correspondent paula slayer be photographed immediately sparked fierce criticism from the muslim world saba erica who is the secretary general of the palestine liberation organization the p.l.o. there's a friedman expressed to quote rude and hypocritical behavior you then have asthma tb who is an arab israeli law maker and comes from the israeli arab dominated political alliance called the joint let's and he has responded to the photographs by saying that this madman wants to bring peace a good thing you didn't put the embassy there at the same time we're hearing that the american ambassador has apologized friedman must not the word of the image thrust in front of him when the photo was taken. he was deeply disappointed that anyone would take advantage of his visit to cruise control the u.s. policy is absolutely clear we support the status quo on the her arm should use

temple mount now here which is the organization from which the man who gave the present came from has expressed its own concerns about the incident it says that the man who presented the picture actually acted on his own behalf but the problem is that the american ambassador already has a record of controversy even before this event he is a supporter of israeli settlements in palestinian territory and in the past he's also called on the u.s. state department to stop calling the west bank israeli occupied territory and this will still go on for up to the time it follows the inauguration of the new u.s. embassy in jerusalem from its original base in tel aviv and as you well know that sparked a barrage of both international and regional criticism. google may get flak from many quarters but if there's one thing about the company that people admired it was their corporate motto don't be evil but times are changing and the internet became its.