all the united states isn't it ridiculous once again letterman putting stress that russia is not interested in interfering in other country's elections and rather quickly after that the conversation changed its course when armin wolf practically started firing questions at the russian president without stopping much to listen to the answers and that of course caught the president by surprise is the. communion to move the way to motivate you to shift equipment but i think that it's going to do need to look good. because this with you in this business. i think you get to the president a little is used to it and so there's a little bit of his i thought yes he's just a scoundrel but. he did it. because you know just to. be something that i learned i mean how did you know people used to bomb you somewhere with having to do it in a post by the end the interview turned into

a full scale debates when vladimir putin started asking questions himself on the cost of independence the mh seventeen tragedy syria's alleged chemical attacks the russian elections and many other pressing issues but old these questions were laughed and answered by armin wolf so it really seemed that lattimer put in enjoyed himself during this interview and came out swear the smile. by the end of this presidential term you will be over seventy years old. i hope. after this presidential term will you leave politics or stay in power as prime minister a book which would you prefer it does not matter at all i am interested in what you prefer. my presidential term has just begun i'm only at the beginning of this journey so let's not jump ahead. iraqi court has sentenced

a french woman to life in prison sparing her the death penalty for joining the islamic state terror group. dear was captured last year in mosul and sentenced to seven months in prison for entering the country illegally after the end of that sentence she was due to be deported home to france but prosecutors demanded a retrial saying she violated the country's anti-terrorism law by following her husband to iraq they say that he went there to join myself now out of the almost two thousand people from france that went to fight with the terror group it is believed many were radicalized while serving time in french prisons with the authorities now raising the alarm over the problem let's take a look at that five hundred convicted terrorists are currently imprisoned in france while it is thought around twelve hundred other prisoners have been radicalized with forty due for release over the next two years now the country's leading counterterrorism prosecutor says that poses a major threat to the threat of

a public. these good measures a major brisk of seeing people who not a tool repentant at the end of the sentence leave prison and yet be even more radical over that time behind. which many questioning the initiative sharla dubinsky paid a visit to europe's largest jail. not only is there concern over the threats that these individuals may pose to the outside world but also while they're incarcerated this is a flaw it's europe's largest prison and amongst the thousands of inmates being held here some unknown joe hardest see. ya done every day in france prison guards are attacked we have been off the next

one thousand one hundred supervisors of the next four years but for now we don't see anything happening we're tired of this but you were the first t.v. channel i'm telling this to you but yesterday we had a suicide and since january we've had ten other cases exhaustion among staff and concerns for their own welfare spilled over into protests. still the calls for health a going on and sit and now prisons like this could soon be and locking their doors to let those radicalized inmates back into society zero say la pook on this prison is the largest in europe there are four thousand three hundred inmates it's overcrowded and we don't have enough staff and we have more than one hundred twenty radicalized inmates here so you can imagine i difficult it is for a prison supervised to handle this the forty alleged radicalized inmates who will

soon get out of jail will likely find themselves on a counterterrorism. watchlist and listed already run into the tens of thousands four thousand of whom are considered dangerous tragically even those on the watch list often slip through the fingers of security services. the french authorities say they have to do more to properly monitor for me inmates and with france having suffered so much through terror attacks in recent years many would argue it's about time they did charlotte even ski r.t.

paris. and the anti immigration party has come out on top in another european election sunday's vote in slovenia saw the democratic party or s.d.s. win the most seats although it fell short of a majority the increase in support for s.d.s. has been widely linked to the migrant crisis and of the party's hardline stance on the issue almost half a million people pass through the country in two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen as they are tempted to cross into western europe its leader youngish young claims that migrants would be better off staying in their own countries and were cheering the biggest wave of mass migration we told our european partners the better life for those who want to come to europe in should be secured in the home country is a lethal cattle slovenian philosopher. told my colleague collin bray earlier that the rise of right wing nationalist parties is being driven by a fundamental disconnect between tall titian's and large swathes of the public.

it's just same process all at all western europe united states and so on and so on the ruling liberal elites is usually say last song doctor we saw quote we're going to be all of you know you want to get us all simply don't eat it but i stand by european institutions and these opens up the spaces in the forest so i don't see any good organizations as far as slovenia is concerned at the height of the migrant crisis when hungary closed its borders many migrants made their way through slovenia but they were trying to get to france to germany and into britain they didn't stay in slovenia so what do people where you are really think of the migrant crisis there was according to our established that a few days they were going to mostly intercepted at the border into boxes of trains and that sparked that directly to australia and we were a little bit surprised you see then tell me how many of them when i asked would you

like to stay here this trip no no you have a couple. of money laid away or whatever so. we will be tracking like at the highest. neighboring italy the freshly formed euro skeptic the government is also sending out a hostile message to illegal immigrants the new interior minister matteo salvini whom some described as italy's answer to donald trump has said his country will not become a refugee camp and that newcomers need to make other plans. if you know treatment is really a treaty i'm not. sure you're. going to be. speaking in the sicilian port of tanya he promised to see reducing the number of illegal immigrants arriving in the country and he also as you just saw pledged to get to work on deportations a policy that is proving divisive in italy. you know what i think you know roy i

hope it stops these illegal migrant royal ones what can they do here they are people without a house they have nothing. so vinnie should not be in the italian government today each country is composed of diverse i think groups and diverse people you can completely close immigrant traffic but i think it's ok to take a break he has to set rules migrants can come in discriminately they will create many problems in italy there are many problems already for example there is a lot of poverty and there is not enough jobs promised but i'm sure that so many will not be able to stop migration he will not have the parliament support. outrage protesters opposed to tougher immigration policies have gathered in rome they denounced of the working conditions of migrant laborers and also criticized his position they say that contrary to the interior minister's claims migrants have never had good times in italy and many jobs they take are dangerous and underpaid.

italy has been one of the main points of entry to europe for migrants and refugees coming from north africa and the middle east over six hundred thousand have arrived in the country since two thousand and fourteen and one recent poll suggests that fifty eight percent of italians are fearful of immigration the director of the italian institute for international political studies discussed the issue on artie's was a part. ninety percent of the migrants of biden's needs money comes from media. and it was a bit important trading partner is a source of gossip which is important as a whole you can buy all he wants on whether the gossip needs pipe and the pipe from the two to italy and it's a soulful problem for migration. so of course in reflecting and we played in your right every element role after the outing those that did get duffy.

an expert investigating the grunfeld tower fire in london has said that safety measures are inadequate or weren't adequate rather and that the authorities advice to stay put had effectively failed the damning assessment comes as part of a public inquiry into the tragedy in which seventy two people were killed last june with an update on monday's hearing his i t is an idiot with. the purpose of the inquiry is to obviously look at the circumstances surrounding the night of the tragedy. could have been prevented and the emergency services were looked at as well as the cladding now if you look at the emergency services it says that there should have been forty six minutes between the first phone call to nine nine nine and a response that didn't happen in fact they said that there was a total failure of the stay put policy they also looked at the clothing and this was really interesting actually when they talked about certain materials that we

use during refurbishment a material called polyethylene which is a highly combustible polymer was used in apparently it melts when exposed to fire and it acts as a fuel when it comes to fire mr mallock millett who is leading the inquiry said that this was the worst loss of domestic life by fire since world war two and we all know what happened that night.

following this tragic night the government obviously promised to have. all those who lost their homes but in fact what's happened in practice is only sixty two added two hundred nine have been house since this has caused widespread protests to car across the country over the year and people have been demanding answers but this inquiry it's not a quick fix i have to warn you that they gave a whole timeline as to how long it was going to take it's going to be months they have one hundred thirty five witness statements alone to look at so yes you know the public want answers but they are going to have to wait until they get all the answers and further action taken. it seems the american president believes he is in an invincible position with the white house donald trump tweeted monday that among the powers at his disposal you he is even the ability to pardon himself

is lawyer former new york mayor. rudy giuliani went on record saying that the u.s. constitution does not deny president such authority do you in the present attorneys believe the president has the power to pardon him self. he's not but he probably does may i guess no intention of poured himself but he probably doesn't get the comments come after the u.s. president pardoned a filmmaker and a political commentator who trump thought was unfairly prosecuted by the previous administration the move caused consternation in the american media and among many of the country's politicians are these kilmartin picks up the story. donald trump is once again drawing outrage from the democrats this time for pardoning right wing political commentator dinesh d'souza now d'souza pled guilty in two thousand and fourteen to making illegal campaign contributions trump is being blasted now from some quarters because they allege that essentially he's letting a political ally off the hook president from seemingly passing out pardons to

heroes of the far right almost as eagerly as oprah once gifted pontiacs to suburban moms there are questions about his judgment and intent the president reminding people my daddy can pardon you are. and i'm going to. but if you look over the history of presidential pardons and sentence commutations they've always kind of been handed out this way back in april donald trump gave a full pardon to scooter libby a former member of the bush administration scooter libby had been involved in outing the identity of a cia agent and then obstructing justice in order to cover it up george w. bush had already communities set back in two thousand and seven scooter libby decision was a sort of fair and bonuses don't forget about the biggest case of tax evasion in all of us history marc rich was convicted of defrauding the u.s. government of roughly forty eight million dollars rich was going to face three

hundred years in prison until bill clinton stepped in to give him a second chance now it also happens that marc rich was a big contributor and supporter of bill clinton's presidential campaigns marc rich was on the f.b.i.'s ten most wanted list bill clinton on his last day in office pardons him a lot of people were shocked and surprised including his political allies even after marc rich died money from his estate continued flowing into hillary clinton's foundation and then there was an investigation that determined there was no foul play between marc rich and the clintons richard nixon stepped down after it was revealed that he had spied on his political. ponens and then obstructed justice in an attempt to cover it up now gerald ford who were placed in the oval office decided to let bygones be bygones he said it was an act of mercy all right your own our lord. president of the united states granted and by these presidents to grant. a fool free and absolute pardon under richard

nixon the first presidential pardon in u.s. history was handed down by george washington the leaders of a rebellion that had taken place at the time the man dubbed the father of america hoped that this act of forgiveness would help bring a new country together but roll on two hundred years and it seems that presidential pardons and sentence commutations are little less about honor and healing and a little more about you scratch my back and i'll scratch yours over centuries now there's been a process involved where you have something called the office of the pardon attorney people meticulously review the cases and decide which one should make it to the president's desk dinesh d'souza he was railroaded under the obama administration he was aggressively prosecuted for an offense that is generally not prosecuted to the level this one was and his life was virtually ruined root in this country we have a crisis because the mainstream media the corporate media refuses to accept the

idea that donald trump is a legitimate president united states entitle to wield the legitimate powers that every united states president has wield it while in office that's their core problem until they get over that they're going to be writing a lot of fake news. is just ten days and counting until football's biggest event kicks off here in russia so what better time to catch up with former brazil defender and two time world cup winner cup who he gave us some insight into how his nation might perform at this summer's tournament. well expectations are really high not only concern in the world cup in russia but also concerning the world cup in general especially regarding the brazilian seem pressure is high you are fighting for a world cup with the brazilian team there are more than two hundred twenty million brazilians that's two hundred and twenty million football coaches two hundred and twenty million football fans so there is additional pressure on players to have a great world cup when we come to the world cup we come to when no one plays at the

world cup just to say that it's late we come to we know of course sometimes it doesn't happen the way you wanted to but you can be sure that the it won't be and the lack of commitment and brazil is going to have a great world cup. our team our team is fired up and ready to go with our special coverage of world cup two thousand and eighteen it will be russia's first time hosting the event.

the. embassy a lady called. to the summit can donald trump and kim jong un start a meaningful peace process as well as what's italy's democratic process needs for the e.u. and much much more on this edition of crossfire. this

is boring basra. yes to go around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart children thank you for watching coming up today will the whole back of some financial regulations healthy economy or risk another big bank bailout financial policy advocate bartlett naylor from public citizen and mcdonald's has increased the use of automated kiosk rather than hiring more workers is this part of a wave of robot replacements our team is actually banks takes a look and there's more reaction and positioning on the trades front as a coalition of finance ministers from europe and canada. warning to u.s.

treasury secretary stevens and with the united states are two thousand highlands that has the latest from toronto and before we go i'll tell you about a study which shows how the game companies in tendo and health are braised all that directly ahead but first let's get to a few headlines the global economy is slowing down that's the verdict of a number of recent reports including the global purchasing manufacturer's index from analyst at i.h.s. market and j.p. morgan the end x. fell to a nine month low of fifty three point one in may down from fifty four point eight just two months ago furthermore the baltic dry index a shipping cost tracker as fallen twenty two percent in the past month indicating a slacking in global demand while no sudden drop bar quick economic slowdown is indicated other metrics such as low but low government bond yields and world events including trade tensions strikes and political turmoil in europe may impact and result in

a more rocky economic road for the remainder of the year. social giant media facebook made written agreements with at least sixty device makers to allow them to access personal information of its users including religion relationships event plans and political beliefs according to the new york times' device makers with agreements with facebook reply. blee include apple amazon blackberry microsoft and samsung among others the agreements with facebook also allow the device makers to obtain personal information about the facebook friends of people who use their devices the times reports that most of the agreements are still in effect although facebook did and some starting in april the month after the cambridge analytic a scandal. the agreements may violate facebook's two thousand and eleven consent to create with the federal trade commission which was meant to protect users a facebook vice president defended the agreement says consistent with the consent decree and facebook's own stated policies that same representative also said device

makers unlike app makers are considered service providers and therefore they're not subject to the limits of the two thousand and eleven consent decree. u.s. tech giant google has moved to preempt a growing rebellion among their own workers by not renewing project maven the project was an alliance with the u.s. department of defense to apply artificial intelligence or ai to images for better targeting of drone strikes the maven contract envisioned a payout as large as fifteen million dollars but an internal google e-mail intice of pay to grow into as much as two hundred fifty million dollars per year and serving as the first of many similar weapons projects the head of google's cloud computing division which managed project maven revealed the change in a weekly employee meeting using ai for war and weapons development picture the terminator movies is highly controversial with many experts absolutely opposed to

such applications other tech titans notably amazon and microsoft have a number of pentagon contracts but have not seen this kind of internal pushback that impacted google in this case a number of employees cited google's motto don't be evil to argue for google to quit project maven. and the federal reserve has proposed a change to the so-called volcker rule the provision named after a former federal reserve chairman paul volcker was crafted in the wake of the great recession and included as part of the wall street reform and consumer protection act of two thousand and ten more commonly known as dodd frank five do. financial regulatory agencies devised the final regulations based upon the law specifically the volcker rule made it unlawful for banks to speculate using their house accounts that is it made it illegal to use investors or bank money for purely speculative

purposes they could still speculate but only as a legitimate business head the reason being big bank speculation on things like mortgages related to credit default swaps those c.d.'s were part and parcel to the economic calamity and lead to a big bank bailout using taxpayer money to the tune of seven hundred billion dollars well now the fed is proposing to scale back the volcker rule some like me who had a hand in writing and voting for the original volcker rule are extremely concerned that if adopted the new fed weakening rule will once again open the big banks floodgates to increase an unbridled speculation but that's just my take here whether this is another person who worked on the original volcker rule and has been following this proposal closely bartlet naylor the financial policy advocate at public citizen thank you again for being here this is such a interesting issue and troublesome in my view that it's coming just when i felt like maybe a lot around the world were taking what was done in the u.s.

and saying ok this is how we protect markets what's your take on the circumstance yes it's troubling that the federal reserve and the other agencies are falling in line to weaken this rule you mentioned hedging that's one of the clear problems now these bats can be taken and be called a hedge and the bank won't have to explain what's being heads there's another rule that neither provision that says if you're trading less than ten your book is less than ten billion dollars they're largely unregulated if you're less than one billion dollars book and trading assets that are basically are not regulated at all made major rollback i mean ten billion dollars seems like real money to people like you and i and i suppose. there's a lot of the boom busters out there watching so it's pretty much a a a hands off for less than a billion you're saying and for ten billion of your book your trading book at a big bank it's reduced regulation that's not right and and what they say is that

if you're hedging you need not explain what you're hedging which means that if you make a bet you can call it a hedge and not explain what you're you know hedging against so it's opening the gates to to more speculation so let's explain for our viewers how this works so say i'm a bank customer and you're the bank and i want to buy you know a bunch of crude oil futures well then you say well i'm going to buy the crude oil futures for bart but since i'm the other side the bank is the other side of this you want to offset that risk so you place an appropriate hedging bet by buying future is another way or maybe going short on the futures that's a legitimate use of this right and that's part of the market making and ideally we want a robust liquid market for the exchange of such commodities and futures that you don't want it on the other side where the banks just say hey we've got some either funny money that is maybe parts money overnight he's not using it overnight or it

may just be bank profits that they have in a pool and they want to go out and speculate on that to make money on that that's what this is really all about they can't do that that's right and again imagine how much money you get paid on your checking account it's pretty much zero because of f.d.i.c insurance at a huge amount of money is made available to the banks abundant and cheaply take the morgan has one point three trillion dollars in deposits for which is paying essentially no interest it's got about eight hundred billion of that deployed in two loans the rest of it's the hair as funny money now some of it is it's needed to be liquid in case there's a news will demand for. the return of those deposits but a lot of that money unfortunately is in speculation the volcker rule says you can't it does say you can make markets and it's in that market making exemption that a lot of the mischief is taking place there's still many things about this that are

interesting bartlet one is that one of the reasons when i was commissioner that i fought so hard for this rule was that there were a couple large banks that we were talking earlier sort of beat the heck out of them bunch i want to mention their name but they were two major investment banks that actually encouraged their own customers to invest in a new product a financial product and then when their customers had populated that tooth filled to the brim they took the opposite position because they were speculating to make money on their own customers now they were tried with that but that's what the volcker rule is trying to get at and to just trust the big banks that they're going to do the right thing we've just seen time and time again that it could be a problem do you think that this opens the door to potentially another big bank bailout or is that a little bit of a stretch well obviously i hope it doesn't unfortunately loan making goes bad gradually and over time bad bets happen pretty.