an economic nucular in coal fired power plants this is an asinine proposal that could cost hundreds of billions of dollars and it's going completely against what we're seeing in the marketplace what we're seeing in the marketplace right now is huge deployment of renewables because increasingly they are the least cost option in power markets and so what you're seeing now is some politically connected companies like first energy like murray energy and some nucular companies like exxon are using their connections in the trump administration to turn back what we're seeing in the marketplace and force massive government intervention you know i don't know it's crazy but i can imagine a critic saying well wait a minute barr you like when some subsidies might support renewable sorts of fuels like like ethanol which are essentially subsidies to corn producers corn farmers so what's the deal the president decides he likes coal what's the difference what i

think the differences look i'm sensitive to displaced workers all the folks that work in coal country that are losing their jobs because coal has been displaced and out competed by natural gas and renewables but bailing out an economic power plants is not the way to save those jobs instead reinvesting in those communities to have them be the centers of you know solar photovoltaic manufacturing or wind turban manufacturing that's going to be the solution here we have to understand that we're in the middle of disruptive changes in the energy industry being driven by these technological innovations particularly in renewable energy bailing out these an economic power plants and forcing consumers to pick up the tab is not the right strategy we are always more informed and you make us question more and we do that a lot here tyson slocum director of public citizens energy thank you sir it's my pleasure. and time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return we go to moscow where our t.

correspondent caleb moore often spoke earlier of the global operates and we ask him about some of the international reaction to tariffs and sanctions plus we'll be joined by america's lawyer mike happen tonio to drill down on yesterday's ruling by the u.s. supreme court supporting all rattled bakers decision to not bake a cake for a same sex couple marriage what might it mean for other businesses we'll find out as we go to break here are the numbers at the closing bell for bitcoin is ups likely today. in the.

room. when the make this manufacture come sentenced to public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round the sun be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. room in the real news room. welcome back for the first time in many years greece has experienced

a surge in economic growth the country's gross domestic product grew more than two point three percent in the first quarter of the year while it only grew it point eight percent in q four exports also saw a seven point six percent growth in the quarter as compared to q one of twenty seventeen where there's actually a decrease a decline of almost three percent this follows nearly ten years of economic depression for greece the ongoing bailout of the country by the european union is set to expire by the end of august. as the u.s. continues to issue sanctions and tariffs alienating allies across the globe other countries are hoping to strengthen ties on issues regarding security and of course economic growth currently the development of parliament areas an international forum is taking place in moscow it started june fourth and ends on the fifth to help us get a more international look at the world as artie's caleb joining us all the way from

moscow caleb thank you for joining us you gave us some remarks there and if we have time i want to ask you about those because they were really eloquent but before we dig in can you explain to all the boom busters out there who may not know what the forum is and who was in attendance. well over one hundred different countries were represented and this was essentially a gathering of lawmakers from around the world people that hold seats in parliaments a national assembly is and legislative bodies in different countries and they gathered to discuss and talk about the ongoing issues facing lawmakers in the current atmosphere one hundred different countries represented and they gathered here in moscow it was quite a conference we heard many different voices from many different corners of the globe a lot of exciting stuff now it's interesting to note you know we saw you know we had speakers from indonesia we had speakers from both north and south korea were represented here now the united states was invited both houses of the u.s.

congress the house of representatives and the u.s. senate were both invited to participate but they and fortunately declined so the usa did not send any lawmakers to this huge international conference i know you were a very active it's late late at night over there now and i know you tweeted from over there but one of the big things to make international headlines was of course the president trumps announcement to hit allied nations and various other nations with tariffs and and there in russia with economic sanctions which have been going on for several years what has been their reaction from the attendees with regard to the latest round of trumps sanctions and tariffs. well we heard from the chairman of the russian state duma he opened the conference welcoming legislators from around the world and when he spoke he specifically called out the economic sanctions described them as basically an attempt to you know bully countries around the world into doing what the usa wants and from there he actually said that this shows that russia needs to strengthen the eurasian economic union and try to work

with other countries around the world to kind of overwhelm and are overcome while what's being what's being pushed by the united states furthermore many countries emphasize that the continued use of sanctions by u.s. leaders shows the need to build up the brics and the alternative bodies that are emerging in the global economy and that basically as countries see the usa impose these tariffs and and sanctions and different things that this shows that basically countries need to start trading with each other there needs to be more of what you might call a. you know just just just kind of you know countries trading with each other and not depending on the united states give and take always works best in a free market and we like that in the us and we should embrace it a little bit more than we have it seems to me but what other economic discussions have been happening there didn't seem to be any particular economic policies discussed between the a ten ten days. well in russia there are state run mining

corporations have been working with different countries especially in the african continent to help develop their own manufacturing and their own industries for example we heard from guinea the african nation of getting the speaker of their parliament described how you know russia has been there working with them to develop their own mining companies and their own mining system and they are actually helping guinea to work towards a long term goal of developing and producing its own aluminum domestically and that would be a huge achievement for this historically impoverished african country to have its own alumina manufacturing and that russia has taken great lengths to help them work toward this ultimate goal and so we heard a lot about russia's involvement in economic development in different countries around the world specifically and you know whether it's related to gazprom ross nafta in their role in the energy markets but also in mining and metal manufacturing well it seems a little bit maybe russia and china are singing from

a similar song with regard to trying to develop economic ties with others in hopes of creating better a-y. and says while the u.s. is perhaps pulling back caleb i want to shift back to what you told the audience there just briefly before we run out of time i watch what you said again think it was eloquent but can you give our viewers a quick taste of what you told the audience in attendance there. well i was invited to participate in the session regarding the issue of media and freedom of speech and how these kind of things play out and we heard from a lot of different speakers a speaker from sri lanka a speaker from burundi speaker from venezuela talking about the moves that they're taking regarding social media and news and ensuring free speech but also stopping terrorism and i got up and i talked about the pressure that's been placed on this t.v. network r.t. and how it kind of shows a little bit of hypocrisy on the part of our leaders in the united states and the remarks were very well received by those in attendance many are very interested in

the controversy surrounding r.t. in the usa. caleb op and thanks and if folks are interested in caleb's moscow remarks you can find them at youtube dot com slash r.t. america us chicken joint tyson foods the largest meat packer in the u.s. is acquiring to come suppose l.l.c. in a play to enter the organic chicken market tysons has been on a buying spree since two thousand and thirteen is acquired jimmy dean and ballpark hot dogs given that organic chicken sales have increased nationwide by twelve percent in the past year walk conventional chicken sales were only at three percent it makes sense tyson would acquire the nebraska based to come so which markets organic chicken and sausages under the brand name smart chicken what terms of the deal were not disclosed to comps are reportedly is predicted to clear forty million dollars this year in profits of one hundred seventy million dollars in revenue while tyson's move is a response to growing demand for again a chicken

a similar acquisition by competitors including perdue and pilgrim's pride continues while again excels did grow at four times the rate of conventional chicken sales totaled a whopping seven point seven billion dollars over the past year for conventional birds versus roughly three hundred thirty million for organic. leena to. seriously anti-union newspaper the chicago tribune has been forced to recognize a union to represent its journalists and april tribune workers voted by eighty five to fifteen margin for collective bargaining with their employer joining with the writers guild of america east. as their representative a month later tribune management reluctantly accepted the democratic result and recognize the w g a as the workers' representative the tribune's deferral to workplace democracy follows a recent labor organizing victory at the los angeles times which has

a record of hostility to labor rights similar to the tribune's the w g a represents about five thousand workers but over twelve hundred of those one hundred of those have been added in just the past three years workers that digital media outlets including garc are huffington post and vice have also won recognition of their rights to organize and bargain collectively. and yesterday as we reported the u.s. supreme court ruled in support of a colorado bakers decision not to bake a cake for a same sex couples marriage what might the ruling mean for other businesses let's find out and bring in america's lawyer mike papen tonio counselor thanks for joining us the contention was that the baker had a first amendment right not to create or bake a cake does the ruling set a precedent for other businesses here. no i think it's

a very narrow ruling the spring board handed down it's unlikely to have any real repercussions for other businesses at least for right now what the ruling specifically says is the original group that brought the baker to court was too overzealous a very interesting kind of language here to overzealous in in their attack on baker's religion and due to that incredible animosity that's us all through the opinion how they go back to this issue about incredible animosity how this is just a personal attack on his religion that they displayed a violation of this man's first amendment rights that's what the ruling says so this particular ruling only applies to one baker in this one instance but it does open the door for future cases to effectively decide this matter what i'm saying most importantly is they should have made a commonsense secular kind of argument where they just focused on the bigotry of this individual and relied on just just run of the mill discriminatory kind of

language they should have got off got it got after him not for his religion but the way that the attack was made was just bad lawyer and really when it comes down to it they focus completely around this religious animosity issue and it really did edge right into a first amendment problem which raised the standard for what the court had to had to review any time you move into religion things like race or religion you're actually raising the standard of the level of review that the court engages in so really this is honestly just bad lawyer but at the same time it does kind of it does kind of tweak the notion that this is a court that is interested in kind of taking a look at close look maybe at religious liberties and how they balance against i guess secular issues that's what it reads to me but this particular case there's no broad meaning to this case in in my reading of it it sounds like not only bad lawyer. to me but as

a former regulator it sounds like bad regulating to me you mentioned the colorado civil rights commission which originally ruled against the baker as as being hostile to religion because of the remarks of one of its members if that had bet not in the record if the regulators had done a good job do you think this decision was played out the same way i think if this had just been handled just as a regular discrimination case i mean if it was the chances of it the least getting past a seven to decision would have been much higher but somehow somehow that happens in the business of regulation we take our politics with this we don't actually stand outside and look at what the field looks like and make decisions according to that field we take this overzealous notion maybe this was somebody that had this overzealous notion in their need to attack religion and in doing that they actually were in the process of creating what some people might say is bad law because now

somebody is going to build on this they're going to say they're going to point out that overzealous attacks any time that falls within the religious realm that we could easily fall into this case so you know bad lowering makes bad laws and bad regulatory bath regulatory agency that certainly makes bad laws to bad soup where this seems like a real balancing act for the court and that they they must consider you know discrimination while respecting individual first amendment rights and that's particularly given the justice kennedy who wrote the majority opinion is written pretty much every major supreme court decision protecting gay men and lesbians on the other side is also an ardent free speech defender i mean how do the supreme's look at those two under the law free speech and nondiscrimination when they will be in conflict. there is not there's not there's never a formula ok but there are there are certain kinds of cases that are always going

to get what we call a higher level of scrutiny and then they're going to from from that higher level of scrutiny they're going to find the unique aspects of the facts situation that maybe can move it towards a free speech kind of protection were towards a route religious protection you could go two to two years and years of constitutional law classes and you would never come out with a formula beyond that but if this it's interesting to me that you have a seven to kind of decision here that's telling you that you know that people looked at this and they were upset by the by this vigorous anti religious argument and so that to answer a question that's one element this way the court of usually so is different case to case how good is the lawyer presenting the issue does the lawyer understand the president do they understand kind of the back stories to some of these supreme court justices this was totally misunderstood by the lawyers in the regulators in this particular might happen tony host of america's lawyer thank you as always and

that is it for us we're out of time catch boom bust on you tube dot com slash boom bust artie.

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. this hour's top stories on t.v. misty international says the u.s. led coalition in syria may have committed war crimes during the battle for racan last year and the coalition admits that the real number of civilian losses will be no. fury in germany over the american ambassadors are vile to champion europe's. conservative groups maybe he needs to be a little bit more careful. casting. and we have

a world cup special for you in this bulletin as manchester united manager joe as a marine you unveils his predictions for the group stage while another member of the. dog ollie peter schmeichel that's cultural in the host city of some people. so lose me. wednesday june the sixth there and most of this is r t international just after eleven am here in the russian capital we put it like this will you still say. it has been now one year since the start of the operation to liberate the syrian city of rocket from ice so the actual human cost of the operation does remain far from clear according to the u.s. led coalition the number of civilians killed in the battle for iraq will never be

known as far as how do we know how many civilians were killed i'm just being honest no one will ever know anyone who claims they will know is lying it comes as the international releases a report that accuses the u.s. led coalition of relentless air. strikes. reports. getting to the bottom of what was really happening in iraq as the americans and allies were freeing it who will be bothered to do that or it will take ages the prose of war behind these walls may have thought but scrutiny was inevitable coalition claims that its precision and campaigns allowed it to bomb islamic states house of rocca while causing very few civilian casualties do not stand up to

scrutiny based on information from amnesty international's field investigation and public reporting coalition air and artillery strikes killed hundreds of civilians and injured many more open amnesty's report and you'll find words like this proportionate and discriminate bombing the use of white phosphorus claims which could turn into a reputational disaster if proven things that amount to war crimes the u.s. led coalition mission to free iraq a went on for more than four months from june sixth took tobar twelfth last year and the pentagon proudly told the world they'd fired thirty five thousand artillery rounds while they were at it that fired more rounds in iraq to syria than any other marine that tillery battalion any marine battalion since the vietnam war yet we kept hearing from those whose orders matter how cautious they war there is been

known military in the world's history that isn't paid more attention to the limited food bill you think we should just administer and trying the battle for you and the coalition military we're not perfect guys we can make a mistake and in this kind of warfare will happen but we are the good guys and munitions people on a battlefield know the difference you can't help wondering how. many innocent locals general mattis has actually met i'm sure you can find many of those who are genuinely grateful to the coalition for kicking myself out but just compare his words to some of the witness accounts our team heard while in iraq there was that in effect in washington when we were directly targeted by the coalition after the recognizance craft filmed us it was a low altitude it was very clear there were no terrorists in the area but there were kids playing in the streets and we were collecting water and i knew that i thought i knew that if the aircraft bomb using phosphorus targets everyone it is

not hidden i still the coalition is boman randomly if you're sitting at home a bomb may come down on you there are houses that collapsed on their residence and they could not get out all this happened because of the aircraft they were plane comes in strikes for instance a five story building i said would be on the second floor while civilians on the third and fourth floors how comes the plane still strikes then more civilians died than once will terrorists and we weren't alone in hearing those worrying calls from that devastated syrian city humanitarian groups on the high alert had to many more whores to share with us and the rest of the world there are worries about how this operation will affect civilians we're concerned about the safety and protection of more than four hundred thousand people in iraq as these operations commence to strike again it is. not a year in coalition already so you actually believe that the actual number.

under if you thought any of that led to a change of tactics by the coalition or at least an apology i have to tell you they seal that themselves from scrutiny with monthly casualty reports we've been largely focusing on the fate of rock of civilians in our coverage and nationals now weighed in with some serious work it could be high time we hear something new from the u.s. pros of war. on friday the russian president vladimir putin will visit china for the shanghai cooperation organization summit it will be his second foreign trip this week ahead of the gauge when he was asked by journalists whether he would be bringing any first chinese counterpart. will you bring me give peace here it won't be a surprise if i say in advance what exactly i'm bringing. i

told you before how the chinese businessmen told me how chinese love russian ice cream i promised him i'd bring some over myself and so i brought you an entire box of ice cream as a gift. let it be a secret between me and you i will whisper it to you later. the interview touched on various topics from regional security presence to football and he has more details there's no doubt that president casey will be bringing

a gift in with him during his state visit to china. to meet the president see him take it still a very good friends to present. day with him as well take a listen. chairman cieszyn pink is the only world leader with whom i have spent one of my birthdays i just have not had that kind of relationship with anyone else and my schedule did not allow spending my birthday with any of my other foreign counterparts but i was able to do so with decision. now during this three day state visit the president he said let's end the shanghai cooperation organization seventh also known as the s c i am together these countries make up the fourth largest production of world g.d.p. and they also make up forty three percent of the world's population now it's also a security organization as well so the topic of north korea will no doubt to billy come up but when talking about the korean peninsula in the instigate president

putin said that they want to go down the path that will have to use tensions between was a red. suit a courteous go to was stopped by the north korean leadership has taken unprecedented steps towards deescalation of tensions and frankly i did not expect that. i can understand the north korean leadership when they say that for the full denuclearization of the peninsula they need absolute guarantees of their security and how else could it be it is not possible to imagine it any other way especially after the tragic events that happened in libya and iraq the north koreans remember them very well. because i still hope that this meeting a very brave and mature decision u.s. president donald trump has made to have direct contacts with north korean leader kim jong un will take place and we all expect a positive outcome during this interview and the chance to ask the president and

some questions they were obviously related thing is there which kicks off on the fourteenth. that's a difficult one there are many title contenders there are latin american teams like argentina and brazil but we also know that the german team showed great game at previous tournaments and the high quality of football was also demonstrated by the spanish team i am sure there are going to be other title contenders but the strongest will win you for the most. i have a couple of footballers whom i consider extraordinary and who can obviously lay claim to the title of the among russian and soviet players it is live yes among foreign footballers it's pelayo well i also like mario dawna the people in there making his world cup predictions.