the u.s. officials to taiwan under any excuse do seriously violate the one china principle and regulations of the three joint communiqué zp between china and the us it interferes in china's internal affairs and inflict adverse impacts on china u.s. relations we are to the u.s. to honor its commitment on the taiwan issue and correct wrongdoings so as to avoid harming china u.s. ties and peace instability in the taiwan strait obviously taiwan is a key issue for china china sees the island as a part of its territory while the taiwan government views itself as independent of mainland china's even though its actions don't necessarily reflect its stance the u.s. officially does not support taiwan's independence in many international circles taiwan is known as chinese taipei the name is widely used in sporting events like the olympics and that major global organizations such as the world bank the international monetary fund and apac in fact most of the countries of the world and the united nations recognized one china that said china is now demanding that

international businesses respect the view as well at least a dozen u.s. and other western brands and companies have been told to comply this includes marriott international zar apparel and mercedes benz at the center of it all however our airlines china has demanded the airlines refer to taiwan as a part of china and so far many of fallen into line they include air france british airways tons of emirates qatar airways malaysia airlines philippines airlines singapore airlines thai airways turkish airlines air canada air india and australia's quantas the above now refer to taiwan china in their list of destinations however among others america's big three airlines are absent from this list the companies seem to be taking cues from washington a united airlines spokesman said we have deferred the matter to the u.s. government since this is a dip. mattick issue to be resolved among governments and this is

a word ends with d.c. on this matter the us backed american institute in taiwan opened a new two hundred forty million dollar de facto embassy in taipei the taiwanese capital the u.s. also sells a billions in weapons to taiwan over one point four billion under trump alone and the american government's rhetoric continues to go against china's and its own policies speaking at a banquet in taiwan's capital back in march the us deputy assistant secretary of state alex once said the aim of u.s. policy is to ensure that taiwan's people can continue along their chosen path free from coercion one continued by saying that the united states wants to strengthen our ties with the taiwan people and to bolster taiwan's ability to defend its democracy still while businesses are trying to stay out of the politics most of those who work with china recognize that state friendly with beijing is in their best interest for r.t.

i'm alex model of each. era take a brief pause but hang here because when we get back our tesla batteries still hot to handle charging the revolutionary automakers image r.t.c. and calling takes a look from a tesla dealership here in d.c. for his report plus antitrust issues continue to impact technology firms under way barlow is back to help us track some of this and make sense of it and steve crist also is our t. american sports correspondent takes a look at sports and data and sports betting and how money man mark cuban is involved as we go to break here the new marrows at the closing bell oil down closer to thirty to seventy dollars and all green arrows for stocks on the big board as we go to the weekend. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see that.

you know world is a big part of the. us and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell us more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the past 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 washing clothes for watching the hawks. and welcome back medical and pharmaceutical supply giant johnson and johnson has been ordered to pay nearly four point seven billion dollars to twenty two women and

their families who alleged in their lawsuit that the companies tell compounder products contained as spastics and cause them to develop a very cancer mark len you're a lawyer for the plaintiffs allege that the corporation had been aware of the presence of a cancer causing chemical in their talc product for forty years one of the plaintiffs was unable to attend the hearing because of her continuing chemotherapy treatment while six others have already perished johnson and johnson has faced similar those smaller judgments over their talcum products and a court even overturned one and additional nine thousand nine thousand alleged victims of best bestest poisoning by use by johnson and johnson products have pending lawsuits against the company. and in ireland they are set to become the first nation in the world to completely divest from fossil fuels after the fossil fuel divestment bill as it is officially titled passed the lower house with a broad support the bill now expected become law before the end of the year requires the ireland strategic investment fund to pull out of roughly three hundred

eighteen million euros worth of investment one hundred fifty different companies in the greenhouse gas producing sector as soon. as it's practical they say it experts say that that soon as practicable term means about five years the executive director of the ngo trial care who helped write the bill told the irish times that a lower house quote sent a powerful signal to the international community about the need to speed up the phase out of fossil fuels if global climate goals are to be delivered. and we've talked with the car coach on the show about the batteries and tesla vehicles which of caught fire and take a long time to go out well now there is more news now is former test or technician martin tripp has filed a whistleblower contain a point with the u.s. securities and exchange commission saying that not only has the car maker inflated car production numbers talk about those a lot of times on the program but there is a controversy for with regard to these batteries and he says that tesla has been

honest with investors related to safety laws including the batteries artie's then call and takes a more in-depth look at the fiery problem for the automaker. these popular cars are becoming more accessible to average consumers but like so many products they come with unexpected risks on march twenty third a tesla model x. selectric car crashed on a california highway the car burst into flames soon after causing injuries that would kill its driver firefighters struggled to extinguish the flames days later the fire reignited while the car was impounded before firefighters managed to put it out and on june fifteenth t.v. actress mary mccormick shared this video of her husband's tesla on fire on the santa monica boulevard in los angeles she said in a tweet no accident out of the blue and was glad their three girls were not in the car while gasoline powered vehicle fires occur two electric vehicles

a relatively new technology that are touted as environmentally friendly vehicles of the future and they're under extra scrutiny the national transportation safety board opened an investigation into the crash which is ongoing but questions remain about the source of the fire the car's a lithium ion battery lithium ion batteries like the one in the tests a model x. use a chemical compound called ethylene glycol to cool the engine it's highly flammable and when one cell heats up the coolant can cause a neighboring cell to burn causing a chain reaction that can be deadly and a nightmare for firefighters it's a problem the electric car industry has faced before fisker automotive the world's first production of luxury hybrid plug in cars face similar problems its battery supplier the highly touted company a one two three batteries also started fires and in two thousand and fourteen fisker was forced to go out of business tesla

manufactures its own battery for the model s. tests the publishes an emergency response guide for fire departments to handle accidents the guide says because burning with e.m.i. . batteries release quote toxic vapors including saw fear of acid oxides of carbon nickel lithium copper and cobalt responders need to wear self-contained breathing apparatuses the section adds that responders have to use approximately three thousand gallons of water applied directly to the battery and it may take twenty four hours to fully extinguish with electric vehicles promoted as the future of the automotive industry the viability and safety your questions consumers manufacturers and regulators alike will have to grapple with reporting from washington d.c. dan cohen our team. and we spoke about and i trust on the program on number of times but as many moves continue to unfold what's next in the area of antitrust pacifically related to the tech field we've been assisted in the past by andre

barlow of the law firm doyle barlow and mazhar and he joins us again now andre thank you for being here before we get to the text it is always for to us when you come on that some news is broken and today the news is that the department of justice has appealed the time warner eighteen team merger that you set for for six weeks what's your take on that not much going to happen or maybe there's something there you know they they file their notice of appeal so they preserve their rights you know the back story is really interesting because you had the solicitor general who apparently didn't want to appeal the case and then you had the and i trust a vision which is emotionally invested in this case and wanted to to appeal and it looks like they've gotten their way they filed this notice with it's a very difficult case to appeal because it's a fact laden opinion by judge leon he didn't really do much to change the law he accepted all of the government's product markets there and i competitive theories

so it's a difficult one to to appeal but i understand why they did it because if you recall when i was here last was the day after the opinion comcast put in a bid for the fall. sas it's as if it is going to do it they did it five minutes after the program was over and now their bit is clouded by this appeal just as it was with the trial very interesting and so this is just a notice that they may appeal it's not an actual appeal yet how long do they have to ninety days ninety days so we'll know within ninety days or less and i would think that they would act you know it will be interesting to see how quickly they do act there's a whole separate with. time warner until february of two thousand and nineteen so there's a six seven months here you know where it's ok with they want to start let's move on we talk about the merger madness and of all the mergers going on all over the world the u.s. has the highest number of mergers and that's especially true we talk about tech companies a lot of them are talking about merging and and let me just ask you i mean when you

look at all the companies out there google facebook etc me aren't some of these already monopolies and if you're a consumer i would imagine a lot of people would would think that are they going to be facing increased scrutiny by and i trust officials but i think they will i think companies like google facebook and amazon will be facing scrutiny i mean we're at a point now where the trumpet ministration republicans and democrats they're all on board that you know they're concerned about how large these companies are and how much data they actually have now that that doesn't mean that there's a trust problem here you know big is not necessarily bad. you know and these companies you think about it google facebook and amazon they have provided benefits to consumers as well get free search to get free social network and you know amazon provides the opportunity to buy products at your convenience and a very very good prices are lots of good but there could be some bad and there you

know what we're talking about in this country is and i think they have to see is actually concerned and wants to learn more about these digital platforms. that are two sided markets and their associated network effects and they're actually going to hold hearings in september through the end of the year so so more to come on that excellent and we know that the e.u. regulators as you say you know they're coming at it also with the google fight and maybe even more coming up in the future i'm very barlow thank you so much really appreciate you being here again always appreciate your expertise and there's been a big bone for the sports betting industry after a supreme court decision earlier this year sports radar is one company with some big names behind it including mark cuban and they're using artificial intelligence and more for making sports betting better r.t. america sports correspondent steve goes reports with particulars. sports betting has always been popular and prevalent in our society even though it was not fully

legal but now with an expected boom for the industry after the supreme court decided to strike down a federal law banning the practice sports data companies are looking to cash in one of those companies sports radar is setting itself up to be at the center of the legal us sports gambling industry sports radar uses artificial intelligence to provide sports organizations media platforms and betting operators the most accurate and fastest sports data to improve their business operations and provide deep insights and strategies it's the official partner of the national basketball association the national football league the national hockey league and nascar the company recently acquired two investors which now give sports radar a two point four billion dollar value the canadian pension plan investment board and silicon valley based growth equity firm c.v. acquired the stakes from private equity firm e.q. t. c.e.o.

of sports radar carsten curl said of the recent acquisition quote having two new investors with a strong north american footprint is ideal given our increasing focus and expanding operations in the u.s. as the sports industry evolves to meet the expectations of today's sports fans sports radar will continue to develop best in class integrity and technology driven services as we expand into new market segments and we're excited to have such a strong team behind us additionally big names in the sports world see the long term investment opportunity and are among the existing shareholders of sports radar washington capitals and wizards owner ted leonsis former n.b.a. superstar an owner of the charlotte hornets michael jordan and dallas mavericks owner mark cuban are all investors with a strong focus on the u.s. sports gambling market ever since the supreme court ruling two months ago new. delaware have been the first to take advantage with many other states are likely to

follow beginning with reviving the casinos and racetracks and now single game sports betting companies like sports radio may be the future of artificial intelligence that's betting houses rely on the put and most accurate data to drive up wages in washington state for stockers are to. stand on sports it's been a wild ride but this weekend marks the end of the world cup in russia england and belgium vie for third place in croatia takes on france on sunday for the best team on the globe a billion people will be watching and one of the big winners here has been russia reportedly done a very good job on these games that's it for now thanks for watching in catch boom bust on you tube you tube dot com slash our to see you next time. i think more do good is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful

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u.s. judges twelve russians with hacking offenses linked to the twenty sixteen presidential election just days before a highly anticipated trump putin summit. and head all meeting on monday coming out we speak exclusively with kremlin spokeswoman to me to put on u.s. russia tugs. the israeli military strike targets some with gaza strip with violence once again along the border. good morning out to the weekend eleven am saturday morning here in moscow and now my name is kevin our first that the u.s.

justice department is charged twelve russians with hacking offenses it's part of an investigation by special counsel robert mueller into alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election. the indictment charges twelve russian military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the twenty sixteen presidential election. eleven of the defendants are charged with conspiring to hack into computers steal documents and release those documents with the intent to interfere in the election the twelve russians said to be members of the russian military intelligence service are accused of hacking democratic party e-mails and also hillary clinton's campaign the indictment says that they created online personas to publish the stolen information the justice department though says there was no evidence the alleged interference changed the course of the election. there's no allegation that the conspiracy changed the vote count or affected any election

result. moscow says no the timing of this announcement shows that it's designed to have a negative impact on monday's trumpeting summit my colleagues he goes down often you know neal discuss the controversy in more depth everything in this investigation when it comes to the hacking of the democratic party it provides around the d.n.c. server so we don't know as i've said where moolah got his information from but what we do know is where he didn't get it from apparently and that is the f.b.i. as they themselves have numerously admitted to fail to examine the server themselves have a listen when the d.n.c. provide access for to the f.b.i. for your your technical folks to review what happened. we never got direct access to the machines themselves call up begs the question doesn't it if the f.b.i. had no access to d.n.c. servers who hurt in this exact case we don't know exactly but we know that

previously all the information about this server came from a company named kraut strike it's a company that was hired by the d.n.c. received money for the from the d.n.c. for maintaining in taking care of their servers and so they were the ones who provided the f.b.i. with all the logs and all the information and although strike itself says that the information they gave it's a carbon copy of it's like the exact same thing as what was on the actual server there's no way real way of proving that. you know very fine that because they have tampered with this quite a bit they have already restructured it back in twenty sixteen in this whole server so that did raise some questions as well you did see never turn the server over to law enforcement if you're investigating either from a law enforcement or from an intelligence standpoint hacking by foreign hostile government would you want the server would net help you number one identify who

the attacker was if they had turned the server over to either you or director call me maybe we would have no more so i guess what i'm asking you is why would the victim of a crime not turn over a server to the intelligence community or to law enforcement and this question is what many many people are asking because think of it from a following standpoint say there was a crime in some apartment the police show at the door and then the victim's roommate shows up and says look i live in the same room i saw everything happened here's your forensics like fingerprints you know traces of hair d.n.a. you pictures from the crime scene you're all good. and the police they say oh then fine then we won't examine the actual crime scene since what you're showing to us is the exact copy and the exact like account of events of what happened this is pretty much what the f.b.i.

did there what happens now is there a trial well naturally yes this is what mueller is pursuing but there is a catch because look at who he's indicted is indicted several intelligence officers of russia and obviously if there is a trial that's based in russia of course and if there is a trial it is said to happen on the u.s. soil no one in their right minds would be sending intelligence officers to a foreign country i mean it doesn't really matter whether or not the are accused of anything whether or not they're guilty or not it just it's intelligence officers they have like information clearances and everything the some of them may not be allowed to travel abroad at all so miller has found is finding himself with this indictment in a very comfortable position because of the trial happens it will be a trial in absentia which means the chances are nobody will represent these intelligence officers which pretty much guarantees a guilty verdict della mcadams executive director of ron paul institute believes

the timing of the case is highly significant. if you're the victim of a crime why would you not want to hand the evidence over to the police the fact of the matter is the company they had doing their security is that it was a politically biased company that was involved involved in all sorts of things to have us say another thing so it is a it is a big question but the other big question really is the timing but once again we have an indictment on a friday before a weekend but not just any weekend this is the weekend before the much anticipated clinton summit of the political implications of dropping indictments to poison the waters in advance of the trumpet and summit this is clearly the work of the u.s. state. russia's ties with the u.s. can be repaired says kremlin spokesman to me too peskov he was speaking to our. head of monday's summit between donald trump of lithium of putin. we knew that mr pascal wouldn't really spill the beans just before the big head to head advantage

however we did hear a few things from him lately the media and the west as well as some politicians have really been distressed or even agitated about the summit coming up in the capital of finland feeling that one of the two the leaders may use some sort of leverage in a bargaining game while the spokesperson of mr putin says that kremlin isn't looking into any kind of bargaining options i also asked him about some specific potential bargaining chips up and leave me go right up to the western journalists are going on about some possible big bargaining game that could on ravel in helsinki what should we be watching out for anything like that at all does moscow have any bargaining chips for the americans when you over towards the word has absolutely inappropriate here instead positions will be compared and there will be

clarification as to confirm or dispel any fears you know that relate all. in a quite pitiful state and you know that russia was in the one who initiated the ruining of the complex of our relations we hope there is a political will to normalize relations but in middle nick a place for him at the top of it so rumors again in the american media that russia might hand edward snowden to u.s. authorities have nothing to do with reality if they think that. no they have nothing to do with it it's out of the question i kind of got into the whole of the orbit for the charisma but you know enough about why are you so stubborn when it comes to even the slightest possibility of discussing crimea more some believe it's donald trump who might be ready to start discussing the matter from a different perspective the gonna like other western politicians maybe it's worth having a go with him though it. might look there's only one way to discuss this and continually saying until russia gives crimea back there will be no this or that repeating this

is like some kind of mantra which is absolutely a logical it's a road to nowhere it has no perspective and nothing will come of it and with more. in view what if mr trump is the one to stop this is there any hope of that. no you know we are not and never have been wearing rose tinted glasses but we can count on that dmitri pascal hasn't ruled out that the issue of the north stream to buy blind for direct natural gas deliveries from russia to the you will be brought pain to hell thinking lately mr trump has seemed to be just a step away from even pulling berlin for working together with russia here is the reaction we heard from mr putin's press secretary to that it would you mr bush. let's not forget that north stream too is an international project it's not even russian german or german russian it's

a multinational enterprise which has many shareholders among them very big companies from farias countries and let's put it like this threatening the shareholders as well as threatening russia and germany with sanctions if this project goes further these threats are a big concern. speaking of the enormous amounts of work in terms of craps by both administrations the press secretary admitted that the agenda is far from being for here's mr patch dolls with more on that very process. there's no clear agenda existing as it will be created by heads of states as they go. we will be showing the full version of that exclusive interview with the press secretary of the russian president on monday just several hours before donald trump and vladimir putin me and helsinki. it will end the elsewhere this.