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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 fake 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 zucker but 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 wide array of content including scripted unscripted and documentary programs netflix and the obama seemed eager to pivot away from politics with the shows instead promising programming that promotes empathy and understanding between peoples. amazon and apple all source said to have tried to woo the obama's but the former president reportedly has a good relationship with netflix c.e.o. reed things 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 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 the politicos mix of washington's conventional wisdom and insider tips lord help them unlike their expansion into europe political will hire no additional staff for their asian partnership for now politico and the south china post will share content politicos publisher says this is just the first step of a partnership that could yield greater investments.

we have spoken about the energy use 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's little doubt that the amount of energy crypto currencies are using is troubling artie's alex the harlem edge 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 condom use prognosis what's going on his name is 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 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 is gone up in the past six months by doubling just as we're talking about doubling with 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 that 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 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 are there's not going to be a you know enough room or cyberspace out there for all of us well there is and this might be the same story with bitcoin and other crypto currencies and we might be 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 labor has 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 to what we

communicate just because this is this current this technology itself it labels movements of koreans right now let's say through cyberspace and we'll 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. around for a while so crypto currencies are not we're going to be looking at last train 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 the heat that's generated from all these servers and maybe make that into something useful archy correspondent alex mohai live it's thank you as always thank you.

after nearly sixty years of cuban leadership by either fidel or raul castro miguel diaz can now was elected as president by the cuban national assembly last month the as can now has 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 a dive deeper under these stories and catch us up on all things cuban is john cavalier president of the u.s. 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 seeing 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 the venezuelan no longer has and the answer is probably no which means that president diaz canal 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 yeah i mean i think it's clear john that present my door in venezuela they can't help at all i mean that 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 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 us here carriers american delta united jet blue southwest to come in and perhaps operate intro cuba flights on behalf of cubana and i know that there's been some discussions about possibly doing that which would enable you know greater safety greater consistency of intra cuba 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 downturn in tourism 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 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 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 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 spill 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 treat to 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 the 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's it for this time thanks for watching you can catch

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i. in the headlines tonight yulia script the woman poisoned in the u.k. alongside agent father gives her first media interview since the incident saying life's been turned upside down and that she eventually wants to return to russia. north korea gears up to close its only nuclear site as part of that bargain with the us we've been given rare access and our correspondent is reporting on routes along the way as you can see behind me we're being greeted like celebrities here go . to north korea. and the u.s. ambassador to israel controversially poses with an altered photo of jerusalem with

one of the most sacred muslim sites removed and replaced by a jewish place of worship called a lot of problems that will report to germany admits that close to two thousand far right extremists there may be in legal possession of a firearm. this is r t hello when nine pm here in moscow my name is kevin i am bringing you this sapphire update we begin with developments in the u.k. were. given a first media interview since she was poisoned along with her father the former russian agent scruple they were found unconscious on that park bench in the english city of solsbury will share on march the fourth more details now from our london correspondent and to see a churkin that. now in this particular media appearance she does give a statement right. there's news agency of an undisclosed location in london so her

whereabouts are being kept under wraps and she appears to make a 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 as 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 paula 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 the 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 this is definitely quite a development since this became the first media appearance that yulia script hall has made ever since the quizzing took place on march fourth when this whole saga unraveled created creating a massive ground between the u.k. and russia and of course this was the first time we're seeing a video of. 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 so

now the next step we should be expecting is some kind of statements or information or appearance that he could possibly be making next. russia's foreign ministry is look to reassure you earlier saying it's been attentive to getting touch with her and her father since the poison attack we want us groupon to now there wasn't a day that the russian foreign ministry the russian embassy in london didn't try to contact her the main goal was to ensure she's not being kept against her will that it wasn't another person posing as her to get first hand information about her condition and her father's. post if you get more and now this north korea is gearing up of course to close its nuclear test site in the country's remote northeast have been six nuclear bomb tests there since two thousand and six which occurred inside the mountain it's the world's last officially active nuclear test site now north korea has described how this site is going to be dismantled they say they'll be controlled explosions hopefully to collapse in that tunnel in the entrances to it the result of the entrances being blocked they hope as well after

that they say officer that is above ground will be destroyed some changes have already been observed by expo experts check out these satellite images taken in april and earlier again this month to contrast with buildings have been demolished together with a railway line that appears artie's down offers among a very small group of international journalists who've been invited along to set out on a really arduous journey to eventually see that nuclear facility shut down plant worker who on a train someone very strong not want to thank you don't even know that the nation is where we go we don't. thank you so much for you. for what mean you have compartments. in the world and all when you are such well why you got struck. from anywhere in all of that phrase. journalist

currently on board the train have got an eleven hour trip in total with all the windows covered up for the duration of the journey of thought they were given strict instructions not to open the blinds then to get to the remote mountain area crews have to spend several hours traveling by bus and then a final with all that kitten stuff on foot as well to the site before boarding the train igor centers this report documenting his journey thus far from china to north korea's. or in the beijing international airport 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 journalists part of this press tour have been amassed in the chinese capital because that's where we got our visas 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 for you hopefully greeting you from north korea itself next time so this is for your 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 document 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 in order option but to find out on board the plane feel. this and see if you know we're going to pyongyang to once and. once i think you. saw the roughly twenty journalists here on this plane and we're going to one son i just want to give you. what's going on on board would be given out press releases like this one for example the pyongyang time it's mostly about politics but also featured pieces like recipes for this rice and monkey cake also we've been given

this. very karl colorful. magazine features everything from the latest one as to what's been going on like in the life of you on the supreme leader of north korea but also honored to be just around. young and like to be like the ones for example our b. . b. b. . so you walk out of any airport what's the first thing you expect to see it's a bustling crowd of people pushing and shoving it's a 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're sorry. this is. very rare. sorry for this. meantime rivonia to follow eager on twitter he's going to be posting details and photos from that reclusive country whenever possible always interesting to see what's going on there find out what kind of food you might expect to be to north korea and also to look around some a local hotel to see what they're like it's guaranteed to post but the up to date with him. america's ambassador to israel is kind of a criticism after he was seen posing with a rather controversial gift as it turns out david friedman 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 very site where the as well. the

dome of the rock is currently situated in the third term political reference to a new place of worship to replace an ancient one which was destroyed the u.s. embassies embarrassed to ask for an apology saying the envoy was unaware that he was being given a doctored picture richard of course still reeling from the deadly protests against the relocation of other embassy to jerusalem just last week is our middle east correspondent paula. the photograph immediately sparked fierce criticism from the muslim world sabah erica here's the secretary general of the palestine liberation organization the p.l.o. says that friedman expressed to quote rude and hypocritical behavior you then have admittedly who is an arab israeli law may care 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 for.