area ready so this would only add fuel to the fire. the head of the u.s. military central command general joseph votel says america will no shift its focus in syria destabilizing the region and monitoring the dangerous pockets that remain despite president trump saying only this month that the u.s. would pull its troops out of syria very soon while the u.s. decides and on whether or not to stay in the region a survey of arab youngsters in the middle east suggests the majority view the u.s. as an adversary it also concludes that russia has cemented its position as the top non arab ally or see a chorus bottom or a ghosty of looks and acts and how america's strategy has failed to win over hearts and minds you can see why trump wanted a new middle east strategy the old one wasn't working allies unhappy people aren't waving american flags forecasts failed remember for instance when they proclaim

that syria would be russia's end a new of ghana star russia will continue to. send troops home. in body bags these are hard lessons that the soviet union had to learn in afghanistan you have to dig back into ancient history to see how this is going to play out for the russians turned out it wasn't it was killing jihad ists and terrorists isis al-qaeda and all flavors they're of pointing case take this poll every year it asks arab youths who their biggest allies are in two thousand and fifteen america was voted second friendliest country by arab youth now it's eleventh russia is fourth despite or perhaps because of its intervention in syria but that's youth what about the older folks is an ally obviously

a strong partner certainly over the specter i saw and a friend. and a friend of the united states in a very turbulent part of the world. of america i told you many times you are either with us or all of these terrorist organizations are disaster the united states is barely on speaking terms with a nato ally turkey they're withholding weapons there are syrian kurds the white b.g. who a turkey's sworn enemies this friendship is dying and turkey thinks it can unite and need the muslim world especially after trump stunt with moving his embassy to jerusalem that robida almost everyone the wrong way condemn the u.s. decision on jerusalem because of its great bias against the historical and permanent rights of the palestinian people see the united states the solution to

recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel is a dangerous one it will threaten security and stability and frustrates efforts to resume the peace process with strong. bleeding allies moscow is making inroads with ankara now turkey russia and iran gather regularly on syria and trump isn't being invited but they at least friends still buy american guns right we signed historic agreements with the kingdom this landmark agreement includes the announcement of a one hundred ten billion dollars saudi funded defense purchase. and we will be sure to help our story friends to get a good deal from our great american defense company that was trump boasting before saudi arabia saudi arabia america's chief ally in the middle east declared that it is buying russian s.

four hundred missiles which turkey is also doing that's a new low for us policy and things aren't looking up you can bet there are no one filled russian bass or ships in countries that matter it's moscow's doris day almost unbelievably vacant american posts egypt jordan libya could tar saudi arabia syria turkey and of course iran where we have no embassy america's policy has been simple divide red versus blue shia versus sunni friends versus enemies problem is the world isn't black and white there are grays greens browns and purples which washington needs to recognize to talking here about. a region that has been heavily dependent on the united states in pretty much everything defense economy

cars technology everything and now people are thinking you know this is not reliable anymore this is not an ally anymore this is because. i mean more of an adverse or definitely a shift toward the huge shift in retore between the obama administration and the trumpet ministration has played a role to agitate people but we need to understand that in the policy there hasn't been much change that into a quick break now on the way as promised we're going to bring a live update on the breaking news from the u.k. the save details of the first media interview with us and share in a father who poisoned is coming right up. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten colored prime stamping each day . eighty five percent of global wealth you long to be ultra rich eight point six

percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one business shows you can afford to miss the one and only boom but. we've all gotten used to it the media hate trump and the president returns the favor in kind how is this mutually charged hate fest changed media and journalism does some corporate liberal media report the news anymore and is journalism a big profession in the service of partisanship. for breaking news story you loose screw poles given the first media interviews

since she was poisoned along with the father the former russian double agents who gave scruple a phone coaches to remind you of. the english city a soul's group back on march the fourth live to london of course but this is going to listen to this news just literally. scruple to say more fully in that interview that. well given this is definitely quite a development since this became the first media appearance that yulia script file has made ever since that poisoning took place on march fourth when this whole saga unraveled created creating a massive route between the u.k. and russia and of course this was the first time we're seeing a video. up until now the most widely circulated image of her and her father was one of them sitting at a restaurant together but there were lots of questions including by the russian ambassador here in london asking why we're not seeing actual current images or

appearances of both yulia answer who's also now been discharged from hospital now in this particular media appearance she does give a statement to reuters news agency added undisclosed location in london so her whereabouts are being kept under wraps and she appears to make a quite brief statement in russian which then she provides in written form in both russian and english to reuters and in the statement among other things she says that she is going to eventually be returning to her homeland of russia but not quite yet let's take a listen to exactly what yulia had been saying. i was reasonable a bit as a child to come to terms with the devastating changes thrust upon me both physically and emotionally i take one day at a time and want to help care for my dad to his full recovery in the longer term i hope to return home to my country. well paul importantly had also said that her recovery had been slow and extremely painful and that she for now

will not be turning to the services of russian embassy again as a reminder this has been something that russian authorities had offered over and over again to the script palls any kind of cooperation or being able to get access to them which according to russia they should have been able to do given the conventions that exist on matters on this issue but there's not much else that she did say she only made that very brief statement and then did not answer any questions on camera and again her father sergei scrawl is also currently out of the hospital so now the next step we should be expecting is some kind of statements or information or perience that he could possibly be making next. from london. appreciate it. other news tonight nearly two thousand far right extremists in germany are in legal possession of at least one firearm according to the

government's own figures the green party says leaders is sweeping the problem under the carpet though reporting from berlin here's our europe correspondent peter all over. 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 value mark constitution remains in effect that's the same system that allowed out 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 and take their country back but these aren't just hollow empty threats eighteen months ago a policeman in bavaria was killed during a shootout between officers and a member of one of the sorites citizens' groups the number of these people is significantly significantly increased acts of violence towards the public officials policemen has increased in number if the numbers go on to increase if these fever

really used in themselves for a tosing in resisting public also reduced then indeed it is a challenge for the state opposition politicians have accused the government of trying to sweep the extent of germany's problem with far right violence under the rug first the federal government explains the right wing terrorist groups can form spontaneously and have a strong digital network but then many of their actions are not counted as right wing terra fences the impression is that the federal government consciously except blind spots in the recent past berlin hasn't pulled away you from publishing intelligence findings that showed as many as seven hundred radical islamists could be in the country and a capable of preparing a terrorist attack but it does seem that they're less forthcoming we're not threat potentially posed from elsewhere we now are facing the end of less being intellectual dominance and culture in politically gemini and under system bred

a lot of grown writing properly isn't of course right in the radical right wing extremists. protect it the german state district do their it with all the power and strength it is germany has very strict gun control laws thankfully gun deaths are a rare occurrence here but perhaps one way to keep it that way would be to not allow people who the government considers a threat to the public to have access to firearms peter all of r.t. believe. well a footnote to this a final word on this from the german government says that although the threat posed by right wing extremists is reportedly increasing the overall threat it says that level from such groups remains relatively low. google may get flak from many quarters but if there's one thing about the company the people admired it was the corporate motto don't be evil but that slogan has now been largely removed from its code of conduct with the internet behemoths new dealings appearing to have rendered

that particular principle obsolete. don't be evil the folks at google certainly thought so for the first eighteen years until that is they quietly removed probably the most famous phrase in their corporate philosophy and now it's a bit more vague striving for the highest standards of ethical business conduct and we all know how ethical business can be here's one example of google's interpretation it signed a pentagon contract in march to help the department of defense create artificial intelligence tools for drones to attack and identify ground targets all without human operators being involved me project maven technology is helping human intelligence analysts get a fine objects on video feeds from drones you know it's kind of like a facebook photo when you upload a photo in to facebook facebook able to identify which of your friends are in that photo project made in the same thing google staff and ai academics were shocked

with thousands signing a petition protesting the firm's militarisation. we believe that google should not be in the business of war therefore we asked that project me even be cancelled and that google enforced a clear policy sitting that neither google nor is contractors were feared technology google's not the only tech to get a pentagon paycheck i.b.m. and the computer graphics firm nvidia are just two which have worked on military projects still google balsa see nothing out of the ordinary with project maven. we have long worked with government agencies to provide technology solutions the specific project is a pilot with the department of defense the technology flags images for human review and it's for non-offensive uses only google claims it's a i won't be used to kill but it doesn't workers who resigned over the contract aren't convinced the ethical question now is whether it's the weapon or the brains

behind it which does. killing don't be evil i always thought that really meant don't be evil yet because of course as google becomes a very powerful corporation one of the most powerful in the world and out places such an important role in the development of new technology inevitably they're going to be drawn into some very big and evil things like or like autonomous weapons and there's a lot of pressure on the high technology sector in the us right now to contribute to the military and i think that many of the in google employees don't agree with that and it's interesting to see the struggle to play out. well we asked google to comment on those changes see if they do get back to us we'll update you with what that response was for now though on that note also go by there some of the top stories like this wednesday the twenty third of may here in moscow i'm kevin oh it

was for me just over half an hour more great programs for you in your part of the world lined up right after this quick break and. when lawmakers manufacture consent to stick to public wealth. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. in the final merry go round certainly the one percent. tonight we can all middle of the room six. billion real news real world. in some american cities the police have built themselves quite a reputation people walk on the street to be united states are at risk from the

very people who are supposed to protect that we're evil and no more afraid of police than of criminals. you can see something happening and this is like i don't want to call the cops let that happen rather than call the cops in those young black men lose their lives chasing the with their fingers on the trigger you never know better safe than sorry i don't know that someone else is going to die so. unfortunately around around here we end up going our guns off the death toll from such precautions placed to.

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm part shelton thank you for joining us coming up today on the program we talk about the china and u.s. trade war with author and international investors rogers and alex mann highly looks at the enormous amounts of energy use for mining crypto currencies plus the president of the us cuba trade and economic council john cavil helps us take a look at the new leadership in cuba and how the cuban economy is doing all that debt ahead but first let's see if you have. the supreme supreme court of the united states has ruled that arbitration clauses can be used to prevent workers from taking collective legal action against their employers the five to four ruling written by chief judge by justice neil gorsuch president trumps nominee to the high court effectively overhauls the terms of employment for roughly twenty five million workers in the us preventing them from bringing class action suits

a critical tool for individuals harmed by general patterns of employer abuse and the absence of class action as a remedy any of the twenty five million workers seeking to sue their employers would now have to file a separate legal case on their own and assume the cost and risk as individuals justice ginsburg read her dissent from the bench on a rare in a rare strong disagreement the result of the new precedent she wrote will be a huge under enforcement of federal state statutes designed to advance the being well being of vulnerable workers in other business related arbitration news over is facing their first sexual harassment discrimination lawsuit after rescinding their policy requiring binding arbitration for individual cases which they announced and we reported here last week. to be clear ober still requires that all class action suits peers all through arbitration the former uber software engineers claim that she was sexually harassed paid less and suffered retaliation when she expressed her

concerns about hoover's corporate culture. and related news nine members of congress wrote to her on monday demanding more information on how hoover handle sexual assaults that occur in their employees vehicles. and more positive gender and business news the new york stock exchange is welcoming their first woman president stacy cunningham the appointment was a promotion for ms cunningham from her previous role as and why ses chief operating officer is coming hands assumption of the n.y.s.e. presidency also makes the second major exchange with a woman as president after nasdaq where friedman took over in january of last year ms cunningham is credited with merging n.y.s.e. s. former five trading platforms into one universal system outgoing president tom farley who i know i've respected for years took the reins of n.y.s.e. after the intercontinental exchange purchased a trading platform in twenty twelve mr farley will be moving on to become head of

farpoint a private investment firm and we wish him well. here discuss u.s. china relations and a foreign trade war could it be avoided is the author an international investor jim rogers jim welcome and thank you let's cut to the chase here president trump has been shouting about major tariffs on china and china says they're going to institute their own tariffs in response but is that a real possibility or are we just seeing major trading powers blowing a lot of hair hot air what you're to what your take at the moment it's there but and they say they're going to avoid it but bart what's going to happen is later this year or next year when things start getting bad in the world economy and the u.s. economy mr trump is going to have a start a trade war he's got trade war in his blood he's been talking about it for years and the people around him think trade war is good but it will come later one of the

major turning points in this whole story occurred yesterday after secretary stephen the new chin announced that the u.s. was going to suspend china terrace pending the negotiations with china is this good or bad thing at this point given the trump administration's abit of saying one thing and doing the other for example the president was pretty harsh with regard to eat follow his announcement last week that they were going to work on actually lifting. sanctions and as opposed to what the commerce department wanted to do what do you think. well it's always good when you don't have a trade or even if it's just delayed yes this is better than what was going on before but also what has happened thought is this interim suddenly realize oh my gosh the chinese buy a lot of our agricultural products he won the election because of agricultural states and if he makes agriculture of voters unhappy he's not going to win anything

and the chinese have an ace that they buy a lot of american agricultural products that's particularly true with with soybeans that's our largest export and china is our our major customer there you're you're absolutely right jim the financial times reported that chinese had cultivated mr minutiae as sort of their go to person in the meetings that they had yesterday they asked him to stay back secretary minutia and then ask robert light hisor the. sidelining him the trade negotiator and actually it led to what's reported we don't know this but reported to be an argument after the meeting but between light hisor and mr minutiae with some profanities and a lot of this may just be inside baseball and much ado about nothing but some are asking whether or not this was potentially even bought out by the chinese jim you know let's get in with this. and then maybe they'll be

a conflict or are people just thinking on it too much i hope i mean maybe the chinese are that smart i certainly don't know but we do know that lighthouse or lad has a very very strong on trade wars he thinks they're good he thinks he can win he doesn't know history and even if he knows that no trade war has ever been good he thinks he's smarter than history. he'll find out yeah history is an important thing you what you want you don't want to only use your rear view mirror as marshall mcluhan said but you you need to look at it for sure last week jim there was a star story we covered it but only peripherally and it was about a chinese state owned construction firm. five hundred million dollars into trump hotel and golf course in indonesia and when we covered that we just sort of gave the facts such just like the old dragnet series right just the facts ma'am but i'm wondering if you think there's any more to it than just that the chinese potentially trying to create some favor with the president. i have no idea if it

happened you should watch r.g. t.v. to find out what's going on but if they put five hundred million dollars into a trump project obviously they're trying to trying to make friends somewhere yeah they said it was part of this will. belton road initiative jim and let's move to that a little bit do you think the chinese might be worried about these tariffs cutting into their long term plans for the belton road initiative you know they are making all these great moves with with sort of in a vacuum of the u.s. right with the south america with europe to try to to some extent i guess you could say co-opt them a cynic would say co-opt them into being part of this one belt road initiative but do you think they have that in their mind in dealing with the trade war. we should all be worried about trade wars trade was have never ever been good for anybody even the people are not in the trade oil have suffered because trade wars have

negative ramifications all over the world we should all not just the chinese not just we should all be worried about all of us except mr trump in a satellite house and a few other people but trade wars are not good for anybody and they never have. jim you're a market afficionado watches all the time international investor in and we do see the markets moving mightily based upon you know every day until with regard to trade wars the positive signs coming in the last twenty four hours markets went up but and viciously whatever month and a half two months ago when present trump announced this markets took a tumble our global markets not just u.s. markets jim but our global markets strong enough to withstand a frontal trade war if it ends up turning to that. no hope i would pete no one is ever want to trade war trade was have never been good for anybody never ever in

the history of the world so no of markets many markets barter near all time highs america europe many markets are near all time highs and so they're vulnerable if we have a trade war in the other kind of problem so of course if we have a trade war you should be worried you should be very were you should learn to protect yourself well that's exactly why we had you on to to give that warning it to enlighten our busting viewers we thank you so much jim rogers the author and international financial investor thank you so much for your time jim show of art and into. time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return there is an enormous amount of energy being used for crypto currency mining and alex hyla but you take a look with us plus there is new leadership in cuba how's that working out and how is the economy doing cabalists the president of the u.s. cuba trade and economic council joins us with the latest as we go to break here the numbers of the closing bell bitcoin is down and soar stocks oil is the only green

arrow on the board today will be right. we've all gotten used to it the media hate trump and the president returns the favor in kind is this mutually charged hate fest changed media and journalism just a corporate liberal media report the news anymore and is journal a profession in the service of partisanship.