what's your reaction first to the tweet and second to the distinction between a spy term on the president is using an informant there one in the same a confidential informant is someone who is informing confidentially in other words spying you may call this person a confidential informant that sounds perfectly foreign right but what if it's a spa funnily enough and a breakdown of the coverage of translate this phrase by the washington post we were mentioned as having not picked up on it but you haven't said it yet but this whole time i haven't read it ok well then spygate spygate spygate and we move on now the man at the center of these so-called spygate is cambridge university professor the stuff on how the who apparently contacted several of trump's aides legal a media analyst believes the real issue has been lost in all the media frenzy it's amazing how they focus on the word to spy versus informant when in fact the real question is what is the role that this gentleman was involved

in what was mr helper. who cares is yes by what you mean by that they also go through these great graphics of how many times you used the term and and did he needed in this context the same thing happened when trump used the term wiretap they said there was no wiretapping and they technically were correct because they were focusing on the the age old wiretapping of your vs surveillance in the i mean are they that serious did they miss the point the point is not whether this gentleman by the way was outed by the media the question is not whether he technically falls under the the definitional rubric of spy vs informant question is what was he doing there in the first place why was mr trump the subject of this type of directed

intelligence scrutiny in the first place. other headlines israel has turned back to a group of palestinians ships trying to breach the gaza blockade and sail to cyprus the main vessel was carrying patients wounded in recent border crashes as want to students hoping to get education abroad seventeen people warned board the vessel trying to reach limits seoul in southern cyprus it was intercepted nine nautical miles off the coast of gaza that's the spite international accords on the which israel is obliged to let vessels travel up to twenty nautical miles from gaza local correspondent and could already was on one of the boats trying to get out. so now we're in the middle of the sea as you see there are expensive tens of goats take it to the sea turn out we know that there we are going to sail to eat out of

the line of where and not at the wild that is the last point we can we can reach what at palestinian started to do with it very much of it turned it back and they're continuing the protests but here today in another way this is more of it and that's not to break this season has been imposed on gaza strip for more than eleven years. so now we're entering the floor not of the law that you start to see is right the war ships that. go closer to the palestinian boat that they started asking them to leave this would still not clear were trying to get closer and to see what's happening all we see is right you want ships going closer and getting very close to the palestinian protester boats policy is one that won't go back to the seaport as something big happens with now we started to feel that it's getting a bit dangerous. now the israeli military said hamas was using people to carry out

a propaganda operation and breach the blockade the i.d.f. said they're also ready to provide medical assistance to injured palestinians who will later be returned to girls. i mean while the israeli parliament is the body of a new law to ban the film of its soldiers softer a series of videos showing the brutal treatment of palestinian protesters went viral. these amateur videos are insured like an aspects of the conflict that might otherwise not get brought up in the public debate here in israel and it's very important that we have that debate on the conflict and the bill if passed will

target people who attempt to undermine the spirit of israeli soldiers by taking pictures of them events will be punishable by five years in prison or ten years if there is intent to harm state security experts told us such punishments go against freedom of speach. this is an absurd piece of populist legislation just meant to limit the constrain the freedom of speech freedom of protest in israel something that contradicts the founding principles of this country and by the way this is very hypocritical as well because members of the right whenever settlers are evacuated they also filmed i.d.f. soldiers this is a time honored tradition in this country in this legislation goes against that value right we can do for us. soldiers. poorly they cannot. you can never take them to call you cannot go into figures and they think

this is this is. i'm against this law for this in the disclosure because you know when you don't allow people to take pictures of sort of jewels and starts we start to your store before the mall for a speech then you're moved we've taken photos of policemen and or whatever this is the end of them across the. crowds have taken to the streets of naples over the italian president's controversial move to block euro skeptic parties from forming a government but just as accuse the president of disregarding the results of the election the leader of the five star movement one of the parties which tried to form the coalition joined the march and made a speech. about it. i don't know if they said no to the government chosen by tally and then they said yes to a person who doesn't have the support of italians all the parliament with all respect to course they really it seems you can run in the election and be voted for

by the people and still be appointed. euro skeptic coalition failed to form a government after the italian president rejected their choice of finance minister who was seen as too anti european the president then appointed a pro europe prime minister fresh elections are now on the horizon the failed coalition has called for the president to be impeached accusing him of bowing to e.u. pressure shot to do with looks at brussels track record getting its own way. you couldn't win an election create a coalition put together a plan for reforms and a ruling cabinet but turns out you still don't get to govern well that's if you're in the e.u. and you have a euro skeptic agenda if you're president i asked for the ministry an authoritative political figure was not seen as supporting a line that could provide from the essentially this means that the majority of voters who between them opted for the five star movement and northern league two

parties with an anti e.u. agenda in march actually don't get to decide the president awaits a red card because he doesn't like one proposed minister and q political crisis possible snap elections is this really how democracy is supposed to work. find a constitution the government can't commit to changing. this is a limited sovereignty it's a piece of democracy there is a way brussels hasn't shied away from warning the new italian government against disobeying the rulebook and it looks like it's got its way no matter what the tally in voters want it and when has that happened before oh yes back in two thousand and five a referendum was held on whether or not to adopt a european constitution here in france as well as in the netherlands voters

rejected the idea yet despite that clear unease that pushed ahead well branding it as the lisbon treaty three years later which contained many of the changes the constitution had attempted to introduce but this time the majority of the public didn't have a say because parliament simply ratified it island the only e.u. member which stuck with the referendum rejected this bill treaty. that was so didn't go down well with brussels but i believe we should not rush to conclusions believe the truth is a lie and we should now try to find a solution and despite a clear fifty three percent no vote the irish will back at the polls just sixteen months later for what must have felt like a day finally the e.u. got the answer it was looking for yes you are supposed to jump for joy what about

greece the mediterranean country drowning in a sea of its own it's voters decisively rejected the terms of an international bailout in two thousand and fifteen philip i would like to say that the greek people made a historic and brave choice they respond to the existing john logan europe but democracy worked in an unexpected way despite the greeks saying no to a sturdy government venture did agree to a painful bailout plan and what about the dutch who rejected plans by the e.u. to sign an association agreement with ukraine back in two thousand and sixteen. the court cannot just be ratified we have to take into account this no vote well despite their vote brussels went ahead and did it anyway so while many in the. blocks plans it seems that the e.u.

prefers to have its own way regardless. the russian journalist has been shot dead in the ukrainian capital kiev we'll have more on that story and others still to come after this break. the american political soap opera widely known as russia gate appears to have no

wind no evidence has been revealed the trump campaign colluded with russia there is mounting evidence the intelligence community or should i say the deep state monitor or even spy world. watching international russian journalist has been killed in the ukrainian capital . go was shot in the back in his apartment he moved to ukraine last year and was known for his criticism of the russian government the case was discussed at the un security council the russian ambassador voiced his alarm over ukraine's failure to investigate the killings of russian journalist musician with independents in opposition sports in general is a motive in ukraine and these crimes are not being investigated the russian citizen

journalist. who was killed in kiev we expect that the crimean government will blame russia for this is they didn't previous cases. when you scare stories making headlines ahead of the russia world cup british tabloids are claiming that russian hooligans are threatening to kill gay and transgender friends and associates who are going to takes up the story as the world cup is just around the corner it seems to be scaremongering gold war from some of the tabloid newspapers here in the u.k. centrally spreading the message of don't go or else and discussing all sorts of possible horrific scenarios that could take place among the one of just many of the latest stories being discussed are legit death threats being made against the community and this is by far not the first time that something like this is being discussed we've seen headlines talk about things such as russia about to unleash

its hooligans how the police are quote thuggish in russia how there is a threat of being whipped by cossacks horsemen during the world cup this summer as well as talk of racism in hoppers potentially breaking into your phones through wife i when you're there as a fan and while all of this whipping up a frenzy is unraveling we've been hearing officials from both sides really in russia as well as here in the u.k. say that everything is going to be ok among those people was britain's top football police chief who was speaking at a foreign affairs select committee hearing who said basically russia is on top of it and the same message came from the england football association but we've been engaging the last two years in conjunction with the foreign office pool so the f.a. and. to try to see those reassurances from the russian authorities with a great number of meetings with them and every time we've met them there is a consistent reassurance to us the racialist court to say that the shows. to the

best of the disability or security team have been impressed with what they see on the ground in russia city. particularly organizations went to the confederations cup last year the chile i think. you know coach for the school well the foreign office has also been releasing certain instructions that have been playing down any worry about what could happen during the world cup they have said that among other things since twenty sixteen five matches involving british teams have taken place in russia and those went without any trouble and of course the fact that british police and russian police have been cooperating ahead of the world cup and british police will in fact also be present on the ground as the world cup unravels we heard from. an england football fan in all four of the book we are quick and we should be here it's all a says experience with russian friends has been very different from what the tabloids depict. well i'm a black gay football fan and have been for thirty years and out here in britain and

my personal experience was one of safety feeling safe and feeling secure during the champions league two years ago. the c.s.k. fans against racism we managed even to be interviewed on the pitch but the nice stadium of c.s.k. with a rainbow flag. so i didn't need to hide my identity while i was there and i hope it will be the same for l g b t fans traveling to the world cup. the polish defense ministry has asked washington to permanently deploy thousands of u.s. troops in the country poland says it's directly appealed to the us off the nato ignored a similar request for almost twenty years. because. this president is of great importance because it deters the adverse three you through things are the only ones in the world that have the ability to defend their positions against the adverse

three actually the request came in the form of a document from the polish the defense ministry and it was titled proposal for a u.s. permanent presence in poland and now this document outlined the government's willingness to dedicate two billion dollars to the construction of a military base permanent military base there and it also suggested the location for the base as well as locations for military hospitals and housing facilities for the troops that would be stationed there now russia's already reacted to this the kremlin spokes person dmitri peskov called the move expansionist basically he said that it would inevitably lead to russian countermeasures it's a bit difficult to see how this stablish min of a permanent us military base in poland would give the government there any more power than it already has because thing is there's already four thousand nato troops stationed in poland and other ball and the baltic countries such as the stony a lot feel it. mania they're constantly rotating between these countries and maintain

essential a permanent presence there another thing is that there's military drills going on throughout europe almost every month actually and a lot of them occur on russia's border one of which is called ball tops and it actually occurs in poland it's a u.s. led maritime exercise it encompasses troops from seventeen nations it's five thousand seven hundred troops in total forty two ships and two submarines but actually that's going to look like basically nothing in comparison to another military drill they have scheduled it's called anaconda it's supposed to be coming up in november it's happens actually every every two years it's also in poland but this year they have scheduled something different ten thousand troops are supposed to be in attendance from around ten countries allied to nato and that's all according to nato as website so it's hard to see how a permanent military base in permanent u.s. military base in poland would give the government there any more poll with russia for example. as that runs from the scene with myself for this i would join us again

in about thirty five minutes for the latest global news update. china says are going to buy a lot more stuff from the u.s. and so trump is having an effect i mean is that weighing into the minutiae of trade deals which no president has done that i can recall the usually they just paint a broad stroke and hope for the best so he's actually getting into the details of trade deals that will see if that goes. for men are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. for a different version of what. one of them is on the death row there's no way you could have done it there's no possible way because the owners do not shoot around

a corner. or. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm part children thank you for watching coming up on the program today the phenomenally huge farm bill failed the house of cards it's hit a snag why is that important fred kaufman offer a bet the farm joins us from new york to bring us into the loop plus the philippines is heavily reliant on coal with other fossil fuel to power their growing country but how are they trying to distance themselves from that party correspondent alex point i will this brings us up to speed joins us from toronto to discuss and later. we'll be joined by hilary for which the founder and c.e.o.

of drill marks who joins us to discuss rexx it and all of the alemany that has ensued as we approach the two year anniversary of the bricks and referendum all of that and more coming up on today's show but first let's get some headlines pretty fast in a hard world one of wall street's largest computer driven kuan hedge fund and that is headed by called chin ski and manages roughly five billion dollars and is offering another fun and this fund will be open to outside investors world point currently employs more than six hundred fifty people one hundred twenty are ph d.'s with offices in twenty six cities in fifteen different countries. while investigators have not yet reported on the southwest airlines flight that took the life of one woman there are increasing calls for enhanced inspections since it's been determined that there were warnings about the suspect plane engine nearly two years prior to the accident lawmakers and regulatory officials at the u.s. federal aviation administration are considering increased inspections to date

limited budgets and staffing at the f.a.a. have focused inspections on the greatest areas of need and threat airport on the south accident is expected in several weeks. and wal-mart says they will continue but on their buying streak as they endeavor to compete against amazon reported on the program before that walmart recently purchased eight hundred seventy eighty seven rather percent of the indian company flipkart which is india's largest e-commerce company and at the end of april wal-mart merged with u.k. based asda grocer with their are larger rival j. sansbury while warmer currently operates in twenty eight countries around the world more appear to be on the way as their strategy shifts to owning or at least partial ownership of additional global retail companies. and now we move to talk about the farm bill

a huge eight hundred fifty six billion dollars piece of legislation the numbers matter here and while we don't talk about every bill time a bill passes the house or senate this one is different not only because it's huge and taxpayers foot the bill but because the farm bill impacts so very many people and a lot of people that you may be unaware about here discuss it fred kaufman offer a bet the farm fred thanks as always for being with us this is huge money program and it's paid for by taxpayers but what does the farm bill actually do why is it important. the farm bill has been a signature piece of legislation and bipartisan legislation since one thousand nine hundred thirty three bar every five years it has been passed into last monday and there is parts in it for everybody in this country the farmers get their price of ports they get their insurance that's for the rural population in the urban population we get school lunches we get assistance for food everybody is

a part of this bill that also happens to be the largest conservation bill in the country in the country for land conservation the last when we saw it on monday that all that funding had been cut but it didn't pass the bill did not pass and congress is looking at a major impasse right now fred you and i both know about the farm bill as you know i worked on it for the several of the many many years but for our viewers the boom busters who don't let's talk about just a little bit more of sort of the table setting here you say that it includes a food assistance program but we still have millions of people on food stamps food assistance why is that if we're paying to support them. well really what we're looking at here in terms of the snap program that's supplemental nutrition program is that before the commodity crisis of two thousand and seven two thousand and eight we had about twenty six million people in the program that shot up after the

commodity boom of two thousand and eight and twenty eleven to about forty nine million people it is now back down to about forty two million people on food assistance and what we're looking at every year is roughly a sixty five billion twenty billion split in terms of in terms of the money sixty five going to the herb in the supplemental nutrition and the school lunch programs and the twenty going too far farm assistance but the thing bart that's important to see is that in the past we could see these coalitions if they were all in the urban with the suburban in the middle that has completely collapsed that is no longer the political reality of this country i want to get to that in a moment but i want to hit on a couple other basic issues in the farm bill first you mentioned earlier the and environment a lot of people hear the phrase they say well the farm bill produces pays producers farmers for not producing and one of those reasons is for environmentally

sensitive areas so explain that a little bit more. well one of the this is this legislation allows farmers to put aside and conserve great parts of their acreage so that it can remain natural its it is the largest single program of this kind is the largest conservation program but also what we're looking at here is legislation which is taking away any kind of oversight for using pesticides that could conceivably harm endangered species it is taking away funding for clean energy programs and in farms and rural populations this is why all along with the work requirements for snap that it did not get one single democratic vote just crazy and i want to move on to sort of the politics of this but before we do i just want to say it also includes the farm bill real development programs and that is rural housing assistance.

programs if you're a member of a rural electric co-op a lot of those grants and loans come from the farm bill u.s.d.a. and it also has a rural business programs to help fuel inject a smaller business in rural areas so if there's a whole wide wrath of programs that are included fred now let's talk a little bit about the politics here because it's so important this has been a bipartisan bill one of the reasons that i liked working on it got to work with republicans and democrats but it's broken down in a pretty big way why. well that's a really interesting that's a very interesting question look the politics in this country is broken and so what we're seeing is this extreme partisanship and that what we're seeing in the news is this idea of the far right the republican caucus is no longer following in lockstep with paul ryan that paul ryan the speaker of the house has lost control the scheduling he's lost control of his party and we have the freedom caucus saying

we are not going to vote for this bill until we see an immigration bill and effectively taking themselves out of it now what is really going on here what's really going on here is we have a lame duck speaker of the house somebody who everybody knows is no longer going to be the speaker of the house and we're seeing a lot of political positioning who will be next in fact the freedom caucus just today demanded that mark meadows the far right of the far right throw his hat in the ring to be speaker of the house here's a guy who voted against funding for hurricane sandy here's a guy who led the efforts to shut down not just the farm bill but the entire government in two thousand and thirteen mark meadows i've got to watch out for these guys absolutely i mean my experience for as i jokingly say in government for too long a part of the problem perhaps is that trying to work across the aisle is the best way to do it and these outliers on the left or the right by the way really aren't

the way to get things working and government to too many politicians say they campaigned against government how it doesn't work and they get to washington and they seek to prove it let me ask you this before we leave what do you think will happen in the midterm elections that's important we don't talk about politics on boom bust a lot but that's important because the tax cuts because the transportation infrastructure bill what do you think's going to happen. you know i am not a soothsayer. i am. i'm going to call the democrats bart i'm going i'm going to hope democrats take control the house and the whole question of who will be the next speaker for the republicans will become immediately moot absolutely we will also be looking at the senate i worked in both the house and senate and the senate tends to be a place where cooler heads do prevail there is only one hundred of them so they will try to work in concert with each other we'll see that maybe we'll have you back after the senate passed the bill fred kaufman author of bet the farm thank you fred for joining us thank you bart. and time now for

a quick break but hang here because when we return we'll talk wrecks it and to help us break down where the process stand will be joined by the c.e.o. and founder of strong market works which the latest development but first we'll go to toronto work alex higher living will join us to talk about the philippines and their kitchens the hole and what they're doing to move to clean energy back in a flash status. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers available to us but there was one more question and by the way who's going to be our coach. guys i know you on the list is a huge star among us and the huge amount of pressure you have to meet the center of the problem here with you and with the great game they're great.