but we appreciate so much you guys taking the time we're better informed because of the arctic correspondence alex my highly bitch and caleb op and thank you both for your time thank you. and time now for a quick pause for the promotional cause but hang here because when we return we'll talk with the c.e.o. of zap dot org nick spann host plus lauren fix the car coach is back and we'll get up to speed on the auto industry news including tesla that some say turned into a flame thrower you heard correctly as we go to break here are the numbers at the closing bell mixed day on start with bitcoin is notably up four percent for the day as we went to air above sixty seven hundred dollars we'll be right back. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics school business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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to have you back a year and a day after amazon acquired luxury and specialty food retailer whole food it's clear the formation of that critical leverage point for amazon to infiltrate brick and mortar grocery sales is reshaping those sectors specifically it pushed established players to find a powerful tech ally in the name of google google's new program shopping actions will promote certain retailers in exchange for a skim from the sales receipts target wal-mart home depot cosco wholesale and ultra beauty incorporated have announced as ben being partners google says the program was conceived as a response to countless google queries of where can i buy this which tend to end sooner or later in an amazon purchase meanwhile amazon has moved as expected to offer a ten percent discount on certain sale items and other special deals at whole foods for paid subscribers to amazon prime while only

a small fraction of items will ever be on discount at the same time the program may increase foot traffic in those stores and create an impression that prices have come down at whole foods which is sarcastically been tagged by some as whole paycheck the stigma of a reputation for high prices has been noted as a significant barrier to growth at whole foods. krypto bad hedge funds are seeing disappointing returns on their investment according to the firm hedge fund research global hedge fund invested in crypto currencies have in fact seen a negative return that this comes on the heels of bitcoin losing. more than half of its value in less than a year with a market cap dropping from three hundred billion to one hundred billion dollars a recent string of high profile hacks hasn't helped either additionally a recent report from the bank of international settlements or b i yes said that crypto currencies are more likely to suffer trust and efficiency breakdowns on top of that the swiss based group pointed that most people aren't treating crypto

currencies like money instead of holding them and using them more like speculative investments on that topic we now turn to crypto xin are pleased to be joined by nick spannaus the c.e.o. of zap dot org and a pioneer of bitcoin and blocking technology nick we're so pleased that you would join us we appreciate it spending some time with us as someone who saw a lot of this from the beginning where do you think we are in the development of crypto currencies overall or the way to be thanks for having me by the way i think we're right at the beginning i mean. we're so early i think it's like the wheel was just invented and. it's rolling downhill and world cave people and that we're laughing that we see it roll down the hill but we haven't seen the new innovations that come you know the bicycle the car the airplane the the steam. mill of the steam motor you know the steam engine i'm sorry of all these things

that come where in the flintstones or we're headed to the jetsons of that's a great analogy i love that i may steal it from you so what do you think are the things that kryptos have to do the people that are involved in this space to be more widely accepted and how does you know put my former regulatory had on this how does regulation play into more acceptance in the crypt of the crypto world. well. you know it's going to happen it's happening as we speak adoption is occurring. in the jihad geometrical at a geometrical rate there's no stopping it. companies are creating their own cryptocurrency their own tokens and tokenize ing that this service is their computation power their ability to store. information people are purchasing these things tokens and. being part of the ecosystem in

addition all the people that are. out in the book that have not been banked in the past have a way to be bank now there's three billion plus people that don't have a bank account and it cannot be part of the worldwide economy but as cryptocurrency becomes more prevalent in those areas and pervasive in those areas all you have to do is drop a android phone in the in the village and all the sudden they can get a crypto loans to to buy more farm equipment buy more seeds and they can be part of the world economy even maybe their kid knows how to code and get paid in the currency and it's just growing like wildfire there's no stopping well i mean i mean . you know i mean i'm a former regulator and i believe that they that we need some basic not overzealous certainly don't want to for innovation some basic regulation but not everybody agrees and that's ok i think if there's something there it people can have some

confidence in deregulation it will help but do you agree or no. well yeah you know . regulation has its place of course with crypto currencies the transparency. level is so high in comparison to what we've what we have now what we've had before that you know it's a better for regulators because the currency is so transparent the blocks is transparent immutable no one can go back and change or fix the books from in the past so i believe it's better for regulators let me ask you we reported last week about william shatner captain kirk from star trek getting involved in the crypto space and and we've seen snoop dog and dennis rodman and some other celebrities get involved in it do these celebrity endorsements help or are they somewhat a distraction and make it seem like a crypto currencies maybe aren't as seriously as i think you and i both think they should be well of course because of the currency in the crypt economics of sirius

and taking a world by storm and well sometimes maybe some entities. need a celebrity to get their technology out this people can actually go down and read the white paper and see what the technology does and but i think better strategic alliances with the corporate partners of people that have more ability is such as. mr sean combs who's a part of our efforts he. you know he's a businessman just yesterday who was rated top one hundred smartest business people in the world by forbes so there's little difference in what someone would determine as just only a celebrity endorsement if you have a strategic partnership with someone who. you know understands business and the business world that's even better i think captain kirk says to get involved in

something i am certainly going to pay attention and i'm glad he is quote unquote beamed into this space at an expanded to c.e.o. of sap dot org thank you so much for your time nick hope you come back here we were boldly going where no man has gone before excellent thank you sir take care thank you. and earlier today the c.e.o. of car maker audi was arrested arrested related to the ongoing scandal that started with volkswagen over emissions cheating devices installed on their vehicle audi as part of the v.w. group this makes rupert stadler the audi c.e.o. the highest ranking v.w. group employee to be detained related to the scandal he was reportedly taken into custody in order to ensure that there was no witness tampering connected with the ongoing investigations according to c.n.n. money the news comes days after german regulators issued a one point two billion dollars fine for emissions cheating that fine in addition to the already more than thirty billion dollars that v.w.

has already paid seem to be something people are taking note about and here to talk about audi and the other auto industry news in this story jammed up stories that are jammed up is car coach lauren fix lauren thanks as always for taking time to b.s. with us what's your take on that arrest. well we kind of thought that the somebody to be arrested researcher was v.w. group or is going to be staff from audi but the fact is these engines are all volkswagen engine so someone from volkswagen in their engineering department is obviously not the only one's going to take the fall they've been trying to protect upper management because they're not the ones making the final decisions that we know of so this is going to be interesting as it all unfolds but the fact is they cheated diesel does work if you use what's called add blue which is an additive in the exhaust made of your rio and then it does make it better for the emissions for the environment however when you cheat the system you pay the price and this is the price that volkswagen and all of their subsidiaries are going to pay more and do

you think that diesel autos not the truck fleets but do you think that we're really you know moving beyond diesel into regular gasoline or are they still going to be around. no diesel is still here as a matter of fact jaguar land rover is a full line up of diesel products and i'm actually testing a jaguar f. pace diesel right now which i totally love general motors has got a full lineup of diesels coming in mazda's got diesel coming in. got diesel coming in so and diesel trucks are very popular as well and the smaller the f one fifty in the ram and the chevy silverado so i don't believe that diesel is going to go away i think the answer is going to be mixture of solutions to paint on where you live i just drove the jaguar i place which is all plug in doesn't make sense in the middle of the country and may make sense on the edges of the country where there's an infrastructure so again it depends on your needs your driving style and of course there's a cost involved too and then we don't know the impact to the environment down the

road some people just don't want them to go lauren we reported recently on how a c.e.o. that you love to hate maybe i should say to you on must that is flamed by our own personal i know i'm talking in cheek but he reported about his flame throwers that were selling so incredibly but now that is news that they are as you might expect being incorrectly used for things like barbecuing food of all things but in a weird twist the tesla car company is now investigating that car is catching on fire the actress mary mccormick posted a video showing her husband michael maurice's tesla model s. suddenly catching fire on a busy los angeles street and it looks like there's a need that what do you make of all this while on the flame throwers i should tell you anyone that ordered one and a friend of mine did you have to pick them up because they can't be shipped because it's compressed so it's compressed gas and so that was an absolute no go in the end all those flame throwers he supposedly sold didn't sell but as far as that car was

parked in santa monica the car caught fire and oddly i was just having this conversation with someone about the fact this reminds me of battery one two three which was the battery company that supplied batteries to fisker fisker was a predecessor of tesla it was put together behind rick fisker who is a. powered and battery powered the car company died because of the fact these batteries were catching fire in people's homes here we are getting what an odd coincidence that now we've got cars catching fire this is not the only one when the national transportation safety board is now involved and they're overlooking this again we have a problem the reason is the batteries are cooled by ethylene glycol that material is highly flammable so when you heat up one cell that coolant that's supposed to keep it cool heats up the cell next to it and it causes a chain reaction so it's not like a fire that burns out it just keeps hitting the next cell so it's

a long term burn which causes firefighters to be very concerned where they think they control the fire it comes back and that's why you're seeing what you're seeing is that it's a chain reaction of battery cells catching fire so interestingly real quick we've only got about forty five seconds but tyo does their shipment from japan to the u.s. increased by twenty two percent in april and i was surprised at the camry has been replaced by the rav four as the most popular toilet vehicle the u.s. but will that large import increase united states make the automakers a target of the trump administration's trade tariffs and sanctions that we've been talking about on the show all the time. we have to remember a lot of these vehicles are built from toyota and honda nissan here in the u.s. even volvo is opening a plant in south carolina and wednesday and so everyone's going to build here in the u.s. and that's what's going to cause more products being used here to be built here and until that tariff balances out and we don't know what the results of that are going to be right now it's you know they're playing this negotiation game back and forth

we're all in limbo every manufacturer just going to try and build as much as they can here for this industry for this area for north america and we'll see what the results are not in the end but right now the red ford does not surprise me it's a very popular crossover lauren were fresh out of time but thank you so much for being with us lauren fix the car coach and the president of the north american car utility and truck of the year old ward thanks for being with us lauren. thank you and that's it for now catch us at boom bust slash r t we'll see you next time.

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physically close. deal with it will. face except the world cup in russia sees a famous victory for japan they've just beaten colombia to watch. the. more fans are gearing up for the big game in group a later this tuesday when russia take on egypt with a major question will egypt's star striker mohamed salah play at all after his injury thousands of fans have been descending on some petersburg ahead of the game . how muscle is going to be in the game today but. our team will be on top no star will frighten us. russia. and our star pundit jersey marina gives his insight on the upcoming clash between russia and egypt.

also this hour julian a song marks six years in confinement at the i could dorian embassy in london. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me nicky erin first up let's bring you up to speed on the football the world cup of that. for this world cup of upsets continues on day six where japan have just beaten a ten man colombia two one colombia faced an uphill battle from the outset getting themselves the second quickest red card in world cup history just six minutes into

the game with the penalty that came with it shinji kagawa gave japan relief thanks . however in the thirty ninth minute the south american support themselves back into its midfielder kintyre levelling the game with a free market. thanks there it is with japan we took the lead after the break where in the seventy third. minutes you are headed into the net i think three points for the team there you have it. as one from that game day six will see the final much of the first round of group fixtures when poland take on send i go and in group a russian and egypt to gearing up for that clash later tonight the teams have already held their training sessions and russia's northern capital they'll face each other at the same petersburg stadium a spaceship like every now that's been built especially for this tournament the

fixtures both thousands of fans from both teams to the city. how much. a lot of hard work i am i hope everything goes smoothly our team will be on top nossa law will frighten us we're going to lose today we are out of the look up so we have to give out a chance to do. how muscle has going to be in the game to the younger years with. the last game school. and that's the big question will it egypt star striker mohamed salah be fit enough to play following his recent shoulder injury although in his latest social media posts the liverpool player claims he's ready for action when most egyptians fans would admit starlight is key to the team progressing in the tournament here's the story of one of the strikers most devoted fans.

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has made his prediction for tonight's game and you can see from the full of food he's eating from his feline face lies with russia beating egypt to kill house good forms to correctly predicting the victories of russia over saudi arabia and other wrong at the rocco to wait and see but there's some professional predictions of the upcoming games he's artie's special co-host manchester united coach jason marina. version of egypt i think that's the match that's the message that is going to the sides qualifies for the. for them that's. normally they would get three points against saudi he sees their match because you know what i think is a different level of experience than the. men's already for the world for this level of competition so this is a big match russia has to stop selling because of the mix that makes the difference

and has to impose use physicality as one of the most important points for that matter so as they have been given his expert opinion on the upcoming games for several days now so let's see if any of his predictions have proved right. ok now before all this stoneman started to make some predictions for us didn't you mike and i think the predictions. for now a little i think a little bit serious but a little bit of i have a funny feeling in trying to bring some well some salt and pepper to it some of the great i can't wait we know that there was a prince in iraq why and russia would get active it there it is russia and europe they're in good position because they're almost nice that russia needs and russia needs a draw against egypt and job done why i. replay the end let's count three big cherries i said spain and portugal on it is

anyone going side iran portugal but nothing to really just me you just need to be careful when you play against iran you cannot lose against iran because if it on the six points is qualified and one of the big ones is a. sure. shot is. i say let's have a look at that one jos i said france australia the title says france denmark yeah but you saw how they lost yes they lost but showing clearly that they were competing for points and if they compete that's where you're going strong and i still think the can do obviously a better result against my own experience but. thank you. saying yeah in here i think i'm going to lose with nigeria not just because they lost the match but specially because the way they lost. i didn't like at all when i

look to paper i like many of the players i like. the names i saw nigerians typically strong african country but i was disappointed. thank you. let's move on to creeping in it's all said the official city did it i didn't like silver did look good so i told me to do my predictions that i was not thinking that sort of deal was going home i was wishing that serbia was going home which is a different thing because i want i want my man to go on on a holiday you could see that when switzerland got to point against brazil obviously they can get three against costa rica probably they can get one against serbia and

then if they go to five. my prediction can steal can still go with brazil and and switzerland. and. let's move on bank and germany i think is going to qualify with six points. and and mexico has a big chance now to qualify even with five so you from mexico doesn't lose against sweden we just very possible and doesn't lose against south korea which is very possible one between the other ones which is all from normal as in mexico but if i would five or six points and i don't believe that you are going to have a football scandal we germany going home so i think my prediction will be correct oh i. oh ok.