and you need to see what the candidate has to offer and what the candidate whether the candidate can pull off what they are promising to do what they think of trump not just what they think of trump do you plan to vote in the midterm election. that they don't want to try to win again i don't like i don't like alan views so i'm not going to hold people. indefinitely that person and you can say what i believe in and about this now i know that it seems like america has already decided what the key issue in the upcoming vote will be and it's not going to be perceived or russian influence as some outlets would like you to believe it's going to be the donald but keep in mind he won't actually be anywhere on the ballot these are mid-term congressional elections but regardless the way american politics is developing it seems like the upcoming vote in november will be a referendum on one man he will mop and r.t. new york. just what cuba is there we talked to

a former advisor to retired congressman ron paul who believes the current crop of candidates have run know it all by two years. this election like most but this one especially this midterm election upcoming in the united states is not going to be about ideas it's not particularly going to be about policy there's a very anti intellectual mood in the country right now there's really three parties in the united states right now there's the trunk party there's the. trump or non trump republicans which is sort of the remnants of the old george w. bush reagan era party and then there's the democrats democrats have lots of problems and divisions among them but they're all united in their hatred of trumps that's not so much an intellectual exercise is that is a referendum on him and this device of the atmosphere we have in america. a woman wearing a muslim full face veil in denmark has become the first person to be fined since a controversial new law came into effect there the ban came into force last weddin

stay on our laws they're wearing a full face veil such as the burka the kneecap and public police also have new powers to instruct women to remove their veils or os them to leave public spaces fines range from one hundred thirty euro for a first time offenders to thirteen hundred euro in other cases muslims currently make up five percent of denmark's population of protests against the new goal have taken place in a number of cities across denmark in the capital hundreds gathered in solidarity with the muslim community wearing veils on face. pushing people out of how societies that have been too great saying and making our society able to to absorb all kind of people we have pushing them out the fact that you could actually make a law and. specifically targeted some minorities extremely scary and if we

don't do anything about this now i don't know where you will in like what will the next will be i think we should focus more on trying to understand. sometimes it's. just not allowing them to be proud of our society. where there are limitations on wearing full face veils in public areas and e.u. countries well france was the first country to impose a full bomb in twenty eleven other nations including spain the netherlands armed italy introduced partial bombs and outside the e.u. turkey has a parcel bomb as well despite it being a muslim majority country but we spoke with a muslim woman affected by the new danish bomb she thinks it's a little if further isolate the community they argue that it's going to integrate into society even more but the reality is that many of us we used to go to school we used to work as after this law we can't go to school we can't work anymore we possible for us to be a part of society now that we are criminalised were actually criminals so we think

it's a part of a bigger picture of the you pick you that in trying to discriminate against muslims take away the rights of muslims by going after a minority within a minority in the muslim community such as the women who choose to wear the op as muslim women from women in dialogue we made the decision that we're going to keep away than up we're not ready to throw everything that we believe in in order to fit this description that they're trying to make of what it in each person is the discrimination of the hate crime against muslim women is going to rise so much as a result of this law so not only is it not going to work you know cordons to the intentions that it was made for which was inclusion but it's also going to further hate crime against muslim women. ok an update on the story now you may already be familiar with a homeless man living in spain who is cool worse than to having a stranger's name tattooed on his forehead so use the cruel joke is actually help

to turn his life are raw and it's often the case gain widespread attention. k.f.c. . i was going to come on this for food or drink obviously and. british guy who have some particular focus for and. came up to me and offer me my first the two that was. my intention and he said i'm going to pay one hundred euro if you're going to choose something more on your fourth. i didn't know what is it because i was drunk.

we created a go fund me page we collected more than three thousand euros already at the beginning it was only to raise the tattoo but we know that tomic has problems walking because he walks from poland so we don't know if it's his hips or knees so this afternoon the benidorm clinic will take him over for free and they will also organize series the time to buy a laser. from the time to try to help and my life through it's like one hundred eighty degrees. you know up to two months because it took two months to the cave it's like a poem. and i think one of the interests me i've run one to help me i want to upset about those people who.

all right it is seventeen minutes past eight pm here in moscow this saturday evening we're back in about ninety seconds with more global world news.

this inflation very little inflation for decades interest rates have gone down for thirty years markets and rally for thirty years now the whole thing is reversing interest rates are going up so as inflation so we'll see how that plays out if wages rise faster than inflation. as such then trying to wonder if wages don't rise as fast as this neo inflation then we had trouble. with the r t international russia's foreign ministry say's the recent evacuation of the white helmets from syria shows the rescue group have been quote foreign agents

working against syrian interest for huge amounts of money israel helped them flee to western countries last month over fears they could face persecution as the syrian government recaptures territory in the south west of the country the group has been receiving funds from the u.s. and its nato allies but critics point to multiple controversies surrounding the white helmets among other instances its rescuers have been seen in executions and even waving terrorist flights with extremists some syrian civilians have also offered testimony against them.

debbie at all you saw with no they would bring cameras and explosives something to destroy for example this building here that find people in the streets and promised the money or food just say whatever they needed. to syrian first responders who risked their lives to say about theirs in war torn aleppo the face of on relenting brutality heroes have emerged. have to tell and yet whenever food aid was brought into the white helmets and the rebels would take it all for themselves they give us nothing not even bread. to give them all chose to risk their lives to save others. can do for when you see the little beaches when we go out to buy food we'd see them if there was a collapsed building of tourist shelling they cordoned off the area and save the

rebel fighters for people they cared about they would leave the civilians the same happened not far from here a building was destroyed in shelling and they came just to pull their own out as usual they lift civilians. we've been able to get these brave people and their families out of syria after the extraordinary work they've done saving lives why helmets nice people to help the rebels only did in save civilians the locals out for rebels. so plenty of accusations and questions raised artie's option written to the head of the controversial group on the latest episode of going underground. tell me about. the boy whose photos were awards he was covered in dust and the white helmets

bordley saved his life. the truth is as you know i'm run definitions home was bombed and he was extracted by our teams from under the rubble we did not photograph in the source of the photograph that was published was not to the white helmets but a journalistic reporter we saved him and his brother who stayed in hospital for several months until he recovered we were surprised at the way he was used and exploited by the russian government to speak in the media had emraan that me she's father been given the safety and been taken to a safe place he would have spoken differently than he did under the threats of the syrian regime he knows well that's we saved his son and his brother who stayed in hospital for several months until his full recovery because mother. told us actually the photograph was used to exploit him with regard to the white helmets they primarily when we had a pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh on the program telling us the way the helmets were a propaganda organization in truth

a man's father is obliged to speak in that way and he's not in total safety under the regime that has announced the assassination of eleven thousand convicts in the prisons over the last few weeks alone he is obliged to speak that way and i understand his position however we know that we have fulfilled our duty when we rescued his two sons from under the rubble after they were bombed by the syrian regime this is our duty and we do not expect thanks from anybody for fulfilling our duty towards our own people in syria as for the other journalists i don't know who they are the journalist that you are referring to those who have come up with such talk unless they are part of those journalists that create propaganda against the white helmets which have become known by the name we do not feel the need to respond to them because they are aware of the fact that they are lying and we know that they are lying i raise the subject of almer and the famous boy who was photographed. covered in dust the white helmet. leader rather seller said he was never filmed by the white helmets the boy was saved by the way it was

a brother and his father's interview on this journal amongst other outlets was under duress from the syrian authorities he would never say the guy did things that he said to r.t. if the syrian authorities were not forcing him to again a very interesting sperry but unfortunately full of holes when i went to the area and i met by from ron and his family it was in the attack was in my how captivity area so i went and met other families from that area and what they told me was that it was not a syrian government as right or a russian air strike it was shelling from the terrorist factions because that area was ninety inhabited by those who were loyal to the syrian regime and in fact the syrian government and in fact throughout the occupation of the celebrity that area had been targeted various houses had been detonated to shore and members of families had been kidnapped and tortured and then executed purely because they were

considered to be loyal to the syrian government so the entire but granted the amount story that of course has been revealed after the liberation of eastern approach from the terrorist groups and the white house that's reveals the fact that actually right salary is not very clear in his facts and. well if you'd like to keep going underground episode in the fall it airs here in r.t. international in just over an hour and a half or indeed alternatively you can watch it any time an r.t. dot com. tank crews from seven countries are going all out in a tank by awful on at an international army games competition near moscow they're driving skills and shooting accuracy are being put to the test during the six day event let's take a look why not. some

snazzy colors on show us well ok about is your news for now but the question being raised in our next program could meet created in a lab in an option for our dinner plates is an bust among other issues stated.

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uncool videos and so on with the broken string that. down more on string i don't roughly don't t.v. . this is boom bust broadcasting around the world i'm part showman thanks for being on board coming up the other day i sat down with the father of financial futures dr richard land or was embarking on a new and innovative project that will address these scandals and manipulation of interest rates over the past decade it's called a mirror bore and that energy was coming right up after headlines plus eminent economists richard wolffe weighs in on immigration is donald trump daughter of calls the immigration bill lowest point of the trump administration. and with all

the trade wars going on one is donald trump trying to reshape american industry or go back to the future i'll ask steve smalls bird and fred kaufman author of bet the farm how foodstuff being good is back with me to talk about get this produced in a test tube some things never cease to amaze look at all that but first we had a few headlines. the trump administration has announced their long expected plan to curtail fuel efficiency standard of brueggemann for future years that were enacted by the obama administration to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve public health and substantially reduce pressure on automakers to make such improvements the rule affectively obstructs a twenty twelve rule that would have pushed the standard to fifty four mpg by twenty twenty five the proposed rule was officially published by the trump environmental protection agency yesterday and is out for a sixty day comment period if adopted the rule would freeze the so-called cafe

standards that corporate average fuel economy standards in place at thirty seven miles per gallon in twenty twenty one barring any other further improvements through twenty twenty six there will also officially start of the truck administration's legal assault on the state of california climates paul climate's policy by revoking an obama era waiver that allowed the state to set their own carbon dioxide fuel economy standards at a higher level than the federal standards and we spoke on a program about these important policy financial matters in the past and will do so again in the coming days. the old advertising slogan for visa it's everywhere you want to be won't ring is true if a plan by the largest us supermarket goes forward later this month we all know about those pesky swipe fees that credit card companies charge vendors and how they are a constant source of friction well now those tensions are developing into an open conflict between the a because these a corporation and the largest u.s. supermarket chain by revenue kroger the cincinnati ohio based kroger corporation

says that they will no longer accept payments made with cards at therefore less food stores in california after august fourteenth they are also considering or perhaps threatening is a more appropriate word to broaden the number of stores outside of california if visa doesn't show more flexibility on fees at the food for less stores a kroger spokes person reportedly said quote it's pretty clear we need to move down this path and if we have to expand we're prepared to take that step then pay an estimated annual total of ninety billion dollars in swipe fees to credit card companies. if you're a regular boom buster you heard us discuss the live or scandal that's the london interbank offered rate on the live or rate impacts really just about everything anyone on the planet purchases on credit from a whole mortgage to an auto loan to

a student loan and that libre rate was manipulated multiple times and attempts to manipulate it went on hundreds of times over the years and i was part of the investigation of my own commissioner job at the commodity futures trading commission it started while i was there and we did a lot of good in a bad circumstance to getting it stopped but some has questioned why banks all over the planet need to be held essentially hostage to this oh this one interest rate the benchmark from london well now us mid-size. banks are no longer in that category discusses dr richard sandor who's been a great historian or all of these things financial invented financial derivatives financial products back over the years and he started what's called a merab or richard thank you so much for being with us part you know we great to be with you tell us about america for it you're working it out of chicago how are you

doing so far we're doing very well we started with six banks were up to ninety five members with the combined essence of one point three trillion bark you're always a charm for me we're having a record week trading about nine hundred million dollars a day from ten million dollars. we have eighty one banks and fourteen. non banks insurance companies hedge funds private equity broker dealers f c m's all competitively bid being an offering. overnight funds and it's all transparent it's regulated without partners cboe who runs the board options exchange of goggle board options exchange we wanted to create a transparent regulated competitively determined benchmark that everybody

would think was fair and represented the real cost of money looks like you're well on your way and being from chicago it makes me think about all the everett dirksen quote you know a billion here billion there it starts to be real money you know nine hundred million is certainly a lot particularly from whence you started is that enough at this point for banks to actually rely upon it or is this still in a period where they want to see a little bit more liquidity a little more volume we are getting close to the answer you know a bar that i feel like sis if it's rolling the stone up. and waiting if it to christ down but where where that tipping point now in the reason that as i mentioned to you before the show we're on the p r two or now we hit in chicago we didn't want to really represent that thought we wanted to represent

a concrete number that was out there and have it competitively determined so where are probably six to nine months away from critical mass if we hit it the fourth quarter which is our goal of a billion a day will be there and then we'll launch futures options e.t.f. so all of the e.t.f. so my got all of the complementary related products a product suite for america gets untasted don't let me ask you the i just said mid-sized banks but and i don't know if you're if it if you it's appropriate to ask you some names but sort of what are the mid sized banks what sort of a. level of banks are we talking about and what are some of the names associated yeah we're talking about anybody less than two hundred fifty begin so we're interested in the six thousand small banks they disproportionately lend to small and medium size businesses they really are the job creators so specifically

at the opening of the change there were four people. frost bank in taxes which is the largest the independent bank there there's a regionals that are bigger. associated in wisconsin m.b. in chicago old national in indiana here in new york signature and new york community city national on the west coast the banks range from key banc it on hundred fifty been down to smaller community banks sit under a bit it's really quite weird democratising the way interest rate benchmark so determined a couple weeks ago you and i were in contact because i had read a news story about how financial regulators were even even now where

a lot of the lie bore scandal is cleaned up and we're saying that banks should move away from libel or that's got to be a good thing for america before but what do you s financial regulators think so far i imagine the you're talking with the fed i would assume yes we are talking with the fed we held a conference the american financial exchange where are merab or traded jointly with the university of chicago and we had dr david bowman who was the chief of staff for the chairman powell and in charge of the alternative rates committee spoken you know where his major. the message was you know live bor has some problems and he hoped that so for the secured overnight funding rate developed by the fed would would step in he was a gnostic on whether it was so for or a member of bor but they would be

a suite of rates so banks would have a choice so for the fed rate is the fills an important role it's secured merab or isn't secured and reflects the borrowing and lending of americans mid-size regional and community banks it is there a place richard where people can find out more about zero merab or is there a bear board dot com or some player f.x. com am fix. or a member of board dot net and our partners the c b o e two weeks from now will be releasing it over the tape. and it will be distributed through all of the terminals that you find financial information so we're just about getting ready to get a little liquid oxygen. if anybody can do it you can do it you're the father of financial

futures you've written numerous books i know good derivatives is one that i really love but what's your most recent book richard it's called from electronic trading to the blocked chain and this very week barred we put our pre trade in posts trade on the block chain so we've implemented the block chain as part of our suite of products that provide electronic distribution capability so everything that's pretty trade post trade is now blocked change all that transparency which is the key thing in my view i mean when we did that live or investigation the the stuff. we found a new vibe and i've talked about it offline but it would rock people's socks about some of the verbiage that we people use and about manipulating that rate that went on for years so i view mirror boars a godsend and i'm glad it's happening right here in the united states and in

chicago and there's nobody i would expect to do this other than you richard sandor the father of all futures and the head of america thank you sir thank you very much bart always a pleasure. bucket truck the president's daughter and senior policy adviser to the president has called the administration's enforcement efforts related to separating more than twenty five hundred families a quote low point for me and says she felt very strongly and the it really opposed to the policy up until now the first daughters are made fairly silent on the issue and the other day i sat down with professor of economics samaritans at the university of massachusetts amherst richard wolfe and ask him how we got to this place in a nation of immigrants were so many americans bizarrely seem to hate immigrants here's what he had to say. when did it become you know a country of immigrants how did it become popular to just trash immigrants give us some history on that and your views you know we've been a country.