even a giant trump baby balloon and americans being told to avoid drawing attention to themselves be aware of your surroundings and exercise caution if and expect to live in the vicinity of large gatherings keep a low profile. one would imagine a special relationship would be a little friendlier but what do we know who to say hip in this explosive and politically divided age of ours but why they hate ok trump did slap britain and europe with painful tariffs and steal an island minium and misses me certainly wasn't happy about it expressed deep disappointment at the unjustified decision of the united states to apply terrorists to steal and i'm moving in. it cannot be done by taking unilateral action against our partners then there was the whole iran mess so much effort years of work to get iran to

verifiably stop pursuing nuclear weapons and then trump torpedoes it but come on you couldn't have been alone britain's always been there for the states donald trump. undermined progress towards normalization of relationships with iran i have been very clear in a number of conversations with the president of the united states about the belief that the united kingdom the j.c.t. away the nuclear deal with iran should stay then there's the. maze of government and strategy are in shambles she needs friends the back and who better than the us the people voted. to break it up so i would imagine that's what they'll do but maybe they're taking a little bit of a different route so i don't know that's what they voted for well that wasn't very helpful though trump did offer the u.k. a tariff free trade deal if it really did choose the e.u.

but goodness me there's very little that special in this relationship aside from how fast it's losing its special pnas and on top of that trump being trump just had to rub salt in the wound i'm going to a few hot spots we have nato there we have the u.k. and then we have putin. and i said putin may be the easiest of the more you never know but i'm going to a pretty hard spot right now with a lot of rest a lot of resignations and more on just. saying it's easier to talk to putin then to your allies but there you go how's that for friends it's like the phrase goes with friends like these who needs enemies. next this hour russia's foreign minister has said that in the absence of any real evidence

highly likely now seems to be enough for some western governments to dam russia in a multitude of cases so again after i've made the comments while speaking exclusively to larry king he also touched on this channel's difficulties abroad the more quarter has the details. well the interview covered a number of hot button issues regarding russia's relation to the rest of the world and one of which was trump's recent comment at a nato summit where he said that germany was a captive of russia because of merkel's gas dealings with putin now this came after germany and a number of other european countries approved the construction of the nord stream two gas pipeline this is a pipeline that would run directly from russia into the european union now while merkel denied the allegations that germany is a captive of anybody lavrov had this to say about it how did you react when the when president trump said that germany is totally controlled by russia i can only quote what the president said when he was asked about the present news he is

in the middle of his friend who said he is compared to a strong competitor but speaking of competition i always believed in free competition because free market is about a competition and when the united states is. the period said the north stream. must be stopped and those european countries whose companies would be participating in this project would be sanctioned by the united states because because the united states useful computation and russia will to repay with us you supposed to be worse than the democratic american guess then you sort of but this is not because i mean this is not competition this is a deal that now shifting back to america larry king asked surrogate lavrov what he thought about the american intelligence community's conclusion that russia had meddled in the twenty six thousand presidential elections now citing lack of evidence lavrov had this to say about it the anonymous conclusion by the entire

american intelligence community is that your government influenced. the american elections in two thousand and sixteen it's a report signed only by three agencies out of the dozens of intelligence agencies who normally would participate in anything called the union of the entire intelligence community of the united states then i saw the report of the senate intelligence committee which assert that you know that russia has been interfering with the elections and then no single fact was produced no the investigation of these souls very poisoning is also going on without any transparent information highly likely thing and the assertion that there is no other credible explanation is becoming a rule on which the western friends try to base their policy on the russian

lover also went on to speak about artie's image internationally now r.t. america has already been registered as a foreign agency in the united states and the french government has already announced its plans to put together a blacklist of media organizations it believes contributes to fake news now let's see what lavrov had to say about that we are concerned that our team which is not foreign to you is being labeled by for example the french government as agents of influence. and they say in french government introduced a draft law to the parliament which is intended to come by live black least of media outlets we just suspected of spreading free can use and even more seriously this black least would be a company that by combining one at the government level at the legislature level

at least of media resources which would be recommended to national or. latest of cyberspace is reliable sources if it does not censorship then i don't understand much of this life concerning this program which is on our t.v. and all the sources are to you has never interfered with this show at all never and it never censored us or anything so i'd gone record as saying that now of course those were only a couple of the major points but you'll be able to see the whole interview tonight on politike hang on r.t. america. we have a football focus for you next this friday with the game's biggest weekend of the year on the way we'll get you up to speed and look ahead to the final two matches still to come. you know world a big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig

deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. with lawmakers manufacture consent to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final. lives only the one percent. nor middle of the room.

welcome back anticipations building with the twenty eighteen world cup final just two days away now on sunday france will be looking to lift the famous trophy for the second time while it's croatia's first appearance in a final i will cup team will be across both matches and the reactions from fans of the tournament almost over the first president's been heaping praise on hosts russia on the month of football that it's late on for the world. it is the best world cup ever. the russians the russian people a big thank you to russia especially when i see a. pundit peter schmeichel along with r.t. is neil harvey been speaking to the head of european football's governing body to get his thoughts on russia twenty eighty. one but a lot of fans were around the world to change their opinions of the country just

because of the power of football the power of the world cup you have first of all i would like to congratulate feet below sea russian football union and the russian federation i knew would the world cup would be organized well but i'm still positively surprised and for me. it's maybe it's a joke but not completely one of the biggest achievement is that even custom is police started to smile. they don't smile anywhere in the world and they say welcome to russia so. i mean pressed and i mean press by the level of. of these fullness i don't see any aggression i don't see any any extreme fans. walking around the distance is quite big and some of the people who are support were a bit concerned about it before and the world cup started but it proved to be anything manageable so it's a nice things for the scene for us to know you'll be heading off and stand to watch

belgian england the fourth place that we be talking about really the significance of this match it's what it's like ok against cain is that the most important thing that i made today saying this is for if you look at the sporting it is not really it's not really a mark you've been knocked out of a semifinal you want to do really as a place to go home but i have a suggestion because i know that's a debate with. a new way for if there is any kind of element in there like we have in this game between burgeoning that it's looking back and skating they want to win the gold i think and for this world cup it should be down there in the rich. one v one ten minutes and whatever scores the most goals in that game win the golden boot and then everybody would but what do you think of the i think it's a fantastic idea but it should be your first of all that we. are the ultimate winner of the gold but will be decided in saturday's playoff for third place belgium will meet england for the second time of the tournament this time

though it'll be instant petersburg and it'll be the last chance for both belgium striker romelu lukaku and england's harry kane to be the twenty eighteen world cup top scorer the english captain is currently ahead with six goals putting into clear of the kaka who scored for this stage. just before we wrap this out of the championship one carrot has been particularly noticeable to football fans called. the world cup is almost done and dusted and sadly it will soon be time to say good bye to this guy. got. this one just for this month. everyone missed the note look at that no doubt.

but who would have thought this charming furry creature or his name could poke the hornet's nest says. the one who scores in russia very suitable name for the. charm and confidence for some a simple explanation like that is just. i was fairly late to the party in terms of making the connection between. all the russian players i have to deal with among other things violence and the recreational use of marijuana to be clear there was inspired by games that had been born. however as we all know no believe you can still speak for mascots or to the tactics that the world cup so for. older generation voted to do. then let's call it russia's. like. this to see cartoon character. with alcohol and cigarettes. is this

really the way to go to these kind of things to make you happy. it was more language related. from the word some people can go with the proposition that case that would mean not to care or actually not give a damn good. showing a few instances of. that there's no point in talking about all these associations with foreign fans who've seen. this first of all. one more try. thomas was. all i

think you'd say. it's a whole yeah right ok. i know. right. that's the best out of us and there was a time. but that's interesting. ok you're going to probably get cut off while that's so good you have a russian background or some. very good. that's a too much bog so what does. this quite a lot of. friends because. that's interesting because love peace judge well i'll tell you what call it was. maybe a golf club that. i'm. like i got

to know what type of mentality. you think god really believes. and you see he tells it like such. but however your. kind of talk about how. this world. it's doing something. still. breaking news just to finish off with metropolitan police in london have given an update on the amesbury poisoning and they say that they have found a bottle that was the source of the couple who were poisoned a couple of weeks ago they say that bottle has been tested by scientists at the porton down military tree and the bottle was found so say the police in the home of charlie riley one of the victims his partner of course died last sunday as a result of the poisoning charlie rowley came out of a coma a few days ago and has spoken to police albeit briefly but we don't know what's

been said but the update so far the source of the poisoning has been traced to a bottle that has been sent to the u.k. government's military to nearby important down for testing if any more details come out about that will be across that story for you here on r.t. international that's it for now though will have more on donald trump's trip to the u.k. in thirty minutes as well over one hundred thousand people marched through london's west end this friday while trump himself takes tea with the queen i'm calling great thanks for watching. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you then.

if you watch the futurama or the jetsons they are traveling inside tubes it's pretty normal with this they have gone to concepts like that there were several in implementations there were plans in the ninety's in the sixty's. so. when he runs for poles idea there and he says he was too busy this test in space if you want someone else to take it out. this is a poem bus broadcast around the world from washington d.c. i'm partial to thanks for joining us we appreciate you hanging out with us coming up today we focus on any quality around the planet we'll be joined by professor richard wolfe and our t.

correspondent on your part and bill looks at a recent united nations report on poverty in the united states and some reactions at home and abroad plus the c.e.o. of straw market we're word which looks at the wealthiest and poorest nations around the world and r.t. correspondent trinny charges goes to fisher island florida of the wealthiest zip code in the u.s. for a special report part of it from i got bus r.t. correspondent dan cohen looks at the more on work at the poorer areas in the nation including right here in the nation's capital the belly of the beast washington d.c. all that straight ahead but first let's get to a few has what we seek to bring a global perspective to the issues we cover here at boom bust so to get a real grasp on the problem of inequality we begin with a report from the library of the british house of commons which is analogous to the library of congress here in the u.s. on what our world will look like in twenty thirty if trends continue the report finds that the richest one percent of humanity is on track to control sixty four

percent of the planet's capital and wealth by two thousand and thirty up from the current fifty percent and measured in dollars that one percent will increase their huge holdings from the current hundred forty trillion dollars to three hundred five trillion dollars the labor party's m.p. lam byrne who requested the survey told the u.k. guardian that absent major reforms global policy makers are quote risking a new explosion instability corruption and poverty on the other side of the proverbial koinange. over twenty seventeen report from credit suisse found that people on the bottom fifty percent of the income scale on less than one percent of global wealth got that fifty percent of lower income folks on less than one percent o.-m. g. . turning back to the u.s. for more granular view of the problem the pew research center noted late last year that the so-called great recession of two thousand and seven to two thousand and nine further exacerbated inequality by race gender and income as one of most

trusted analyst of demographics polling and policy in the united states using figures from the federal reserve they found that among americans poor and middle class the gap between white households wealth and black and hispanic households increased in the wake of the great recession and twenty sixteen white households in these brackets had four times the wealth of comparable african-american families and three times the wealth of hispanic households interestingly pew did find that among lower income households white families lost more wealth than their african-american and hispanic peers. reports about the poor are unfortunately not a new thing over the years we've seen a steady flow of papers studies and reports about the growing poverty in ited states and what seemed to many people some obscene numbers separating the rich and

the poor the haves and have nots as we say with all of this information and data being delivered revealing the staggering level of poverty in the country we may need help to break it all down and put it into the proper perspective and in that regard we are fortunate and honored to have just such a person joining us now is a presser economics of merit to the university of massachusetts and her father richard will professor we're very pleased to have you join us again. thank you bob glad to be here so let's start with a benchmark i mean you teach classes and look at these sorts of things all the time has come in the quality always existed in the u.s. the answer simply is yes it has our economic system and there's no nice way to say this our economic system capitalism is at least as efficient in reproducing poverty as it is in reproducing wealth it has tried over and over again

to say that it is confronting the problem of poverty but if it's true that it did show it failed to solve the problem because here we are three hundred years into our history and we're still confronted with serious amounts of poverty and serious degrees of extreme poverty as the u.n. and others have been documented right up to this moment well there's another report out to professor it may go along with that but i want to get your take on it it's the united way the nonprofit organization they have a project called alice it's that action acronym but it's geared toward trying to quantify and describe the number of u.s. households that are are struggling financially and the result of that work indicates that more than fifty one million homes and there are actual people least one person in these homes cannot afford basic necessities like food aus and transportation and we have a total of about three hundred twenty five million people in the state so what do you make of the report and do you think that figure is accurate. there's no

question that it's accurate it's been reinforced and validated by other comparable studies what's remarkable about the united way documents is that it gets away from formal statistics of the government to really look at what a family's situation is it's not just do you have enough food this evening on the table but can you rely on next week and next month when your children go to school knowing that there's food that they'll be heat in the house when they come on to do their homework in other words are the basic qualities of life secure and adequate or not and for them to have discovered with no axe to grind that somewhere between a third and a half of the american people aren't secure in the most basic way is the most profound criticism of our economic system that i could imagine it's really

disconcerting and we you know that's why i said there we're asking the question now they're not just homes are real people that live live there and you know bring it to a personal level we often hear about people and politicians tell these stories sometimes about how difficult the decisions are between choosing between you only have a certain amount of money in your paycheck between health care and housing or health care and food to eat and you know those are tough choices that all folks that are financially strapped have to make but when we consider the basic necessities like those things i was in food health care etc which of these has become so privily expensive for some that they're just increasingly inaccessible i think the key culprit among several is housing. the problem with housing is we allow that in this country to be a private profit making enterprise and to put it as simply as i know how the money

to be made the profits to be made in building housing is building housing for the one percent the luxury apartments the luxury mansions the luxury condos and all the rest and that's where the money goes meaning that the mass housing for the mass of people isn't growing and so what happens is there's a scarcity not in the sense that we couldn't produce the housing but that we don't in a private profit driven economy with the result that the rents are going crazy and we believe in general that a family should never spend more than twenty to thirty percent of its income on housing because if it goes above that it starts eating into the minimal levels of everything else education transportation health care and so on and we have a reality in america that if you look at what's happened to housing particularly rental housing it has driven people into that precarious state that the united way

discovered so much is being spent for housing that they literally cannot provide the basics in the case of a third to a half of our households of what's needed in a modern society like ours professor just got a little bit of time but let me ask you do you see any signs of hope for reversing this trend wage and income inequality. well as your report from the london. you know documentary library there shows no the trends we are stuck with now are trends that do not give us hope they are trends in which this is them works to make the rich richer and everybody else a spectator of their wealth and that's why many of us are realizing we really have to change the system if we're going to deal with one of its worst outcomes which is this level of poverty after hundreds of years of seeing that it's

a problem that needs to be solved i want to keep an eye on it we appreciate folks like you speaking out will try to do our part here a boom bust professor richard walter resurrected omics america security master and earth were in your debt sir thanks kindly for your time thank you. and we mention the united nations report with the professor the report looks at poverty in the united states r.t. correspondent on your heart bill looks not only at the report but at some of the reactions surrounding its recent release. for fifteen days in december two thousand and seventeen professor philip alston the un special rapporteur tor on extreme poverty and human rights traveled to the united states in order to quote evaluate and report to the human rights council on the extent to which the government's policies and programs aimed at addressing extreme poverty are consistent with its human rights obligations his findings paint a dire picture of life in the us the report states that

a staggering forty million americans live in poverty eighteen point five million in extreme poverty and a whopping five point three million americans toil under third world conditions characterized as absolute poverty of the thirty five member states in the organization for economic cooperation and development the report finds the united states has the highest youth unemployment rate and highest infant mortality rate among comparable countries the us also has one of the lowest voter registration levels in the o.e.c.d. the report reads quote its citizens live shorter and sicker lives compared to those living in all other ridge democracies are radical tropical diseases are increasingly prevalent and it has the world's highest incarceration rate and the highest obesity levels in the developed world professor alston's conclusions have drawn a harsh response from members of the trumpet ministration us ambassador to the un nikki haley wrote in

a letter to senator bernie sanders of vermont quote it is patently ridiculous for the united nations to examine poverty in america the special repertoire wasted the un's time and resources deflecting attention from the world's worst human rights abusers and hostessing instead on the wealthiest and freest country in the world and haley may have a point about the united states being one of the wealthiest countries in the world it just so happens that the vast majority of the nation's wealth is hoarded by an ever shrinking elite in march of this year for example amazon c.e.o. jeff bezos amassed an estimate. a net worth of one hundred twenty seven billion dollars and that amount is equal to the combined wealth of the two point three million poorest americans and november two thousand and seventeen a report by the institute for policy studies found the three richest americans bezos bill gates and warren buffett were worth two hundred forty eight billion dollars combined that number is equal to the wealth of one hundred sixty million americans who make up the bottom half of the.