and blocking all paths to iranian nuclear radiation now the outcome of such a move is hard to predict but from what we've seen so far unilateral u.s. sanctions are rarely successful but that certainly wasn't for lack of trying the department of treasury is sanctioning turkey's minister of justice of the united states has issued sanctions on key russian oligarchs we will enforce the ban on tourism. we will enforce the embargo the united states will not stand idly by as venezuela crumbles the trump administration has imposed so many things since even its own officials are getting things so you will think that russian sanctions will be coming down the secretary will be announcing those on monday if he hasn't already as it turns out she was basically following what she thought was policy the policy was changed and she wasn't told about it so she was in a box but the question is are sanctions affected let's take turkey the u.s.

announced it would be sanctioning turkish officials over on crowe's detainment of an american pastor turkey didn't respond so highly you know shown patience but the step america has taken does not with its a step taken towards a strategic partner in america has shown serious disrespect towards turkey as you can guess the pastor is yet to be released but what about russia the u.s. has imposed round after round of sanctions against moscow but have any demands been met now even some russia hardliners have admitted that previous sanctions against moscow have been ineffective the current sanctions regime has failed to do its a russia for a madman in the upcoming twenty eighteen mid-term elections and the republican senators groundbreaking solution more sanctions but years have gone by and crimea is still part of russia russia still in theory and russia is apparently still trying to influence elections at least according to some american politicians and media outlets. but the feeling of economic sanctions is most evident in the case of

cuba cuba has been under u.s. sanctions the early sixty's and have and it's still under u.s. sanctions but those restrictions haven't been successful in churchgoing a capitalist overthrow the cuban government was still very much a communist state the unilateral sanctions don't work we've seen that in cuba for many many years where the u.s. tried to unilaterally crush the economy of cuba didn't work it didn't work in iran under both republican and democratic administrations previously it's a stepping stone towards possible military actions what they do is to some extent they have an impact and to some extent their political organizing and by imposing the sanctions first it's a step that were in their view would help legitimize it or sit in washington you think that the u.s. is all powerful militarily and can win any war that it wants what about north korea

from tip to kim to the negotiating table but those things since you weren't unilateral but multilateral sanctions backed by the u.n. security council we've brought new accountability to the north korean regime when north korea continued its illegal missile test we brought all the nations of the security council together including china and russia to impose new sanctions but some would argue with sanctions lead to pretty disappointing results the u.s. can kind of take the attention away from what's going on domestically all of this keeps people from looking at the real problems in the u.s. which are quite serious inflation is growing the ball employment is down the wages are not are have not gone up there are very serious economic and political problems in the u.s. and by trying to blame everything on iran the u.s. tries to divert attention. going wolf it took over the streets of chicago this weekend with numerous bystanders caught up in the crossfire twelve p. . people killed sixty six injured including several children the police say

gangsters in the city no longer fear the law and order even bothering immediately to flee some crime scenes chicago of course famous as the windy city is now earning a new reputation for bloodshed. the being killed in chicago. locals have taken to calling their hometown shy rock. for one of the biggest street gangs. only. so much now that it's. how easy is it going to go there is. we need to create a culture of accountability of picking up a gun and using it. one

democratic lawmaker is now appealing to president all trump directly to intervene the city's mayor has long been for him in italy against trump. i think what he's doing is wrong for the direction of the city not how i wanted the election to turn out and so we've declared chicago's going to try to be a trump free zone we have to make sure that prison from work and that is that not everyone believes that chicago is a free zone these series about helping the people in chicago especially on the west side of chicago. they are deadly gang fighting took place right after an anti violence protest on thursday and people are claiming the bloodshed as a consequence of corrupt all authorities in chicago i guess gregory livingston

agrees with the protesters. but was intentionally segregated segregated in terms of geography. segregated in terms of educational assets health care assets capital investment it's been segregated for quite a long time matter of fact we martin king said all throughout the softy of march but chicago was the most segregated city he had ever been in and we're still facing the the. via product of this legacy because when you segregate the city you insulate one part of the city it's such a way in comfort and you ostracize the other in a lack of a lack of assets poverty challenge a disadvantage which generate a certain level of violence fired up and coming here on the program on our german authorities are taking measures against the rising is the mr radicalization of young people of the full story after the break.

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. first six. program here and fewer and fewer pockets of militant resistance remain in syria with three provinces in the southwest of the country liberated last week citizens who were displaced by the longtime conflict have started to return back home but the western media see the situation a bit differently as easy goes down off explains. a brutal despot a mass murderer a children gassing animal the nicknames the international media tag the syrian president bashar assad with self-explanatory as to why seven million syrians had

fled the country since two thousand and eleven pundits prophesies the dictatorship must come down before anyone would dare to go home when we asked them about president bashar al assad they said they don't want him dead because that would be too easy it is the syrian government in fact more than isis that has ruined their lives and led to so much of the refugee crisis they escape with their children and if you possessions but as they crossed the border to safety many also bring their hatred of the man they blame for leaving them homeless come twenty team the syrian army is one by one retaking new areas from opposing factions and he assad forces once in charge of the larger part of syria are reduced to two small pockets of land and what's that a tide of refugees is coming home. to go back we want to return to our

beloved syria i want my daughter to have a future she doesn't. want to go back to syria return to our home alicia said as for why i'm going back there is no place like home we were not happy here thank god safety and security are back in syria and danny now we are hopefully returning home it's not a case of a few mad men who are for some twisted reason seeking to return under the regime of a tyrant according to the russian defense ministry out of those seven million that escape the conflict more than one and a half are seeking to come back to syria now there's more the path has already been paved for them the u.n. recorded more than seven hundred thousand series. who returned last year and began rebuilding their lives. when the shocking thing gardley electricity is back and life back to normal again i want to fix my hands and leave and sleep with peace

of mind of course there are millions who are still too afraid to go back for many it is indeed the dread of a society that's stopping them but those who did and are returning may very well inspire hundreds of thousands more to go back to their roots. the son of jailed bahraini opposition figure husain the machine has gone on a hunger strike of what he is calling his father's inhumane treatment in prison and we spoke to our leave who told us his father is being tortured.

my father was seventy years or serving life in prison and behind it was they thought showing him the good telling they are really in denial for medical treatment there for me because the x. is the book even what it but our. squad that my father court for robbing the decatur of regime in my country i'm talking are above the basic rights which is medical treatment to man who is seventy years old. i'm calling for family visitation because he'd been there i mean see my family family from haiti in a few months but this is it isn't for an eye or medical people for seventy years one man there is not nor upset if he did is not a support reason. he

continues to receive medical examination along with these prescribed medications and the special diet aspired of his medical regime i wrote a letter to and b.'s and a few more ice organization about my father situation but because nothing changed and they've been my father is dying to score and. i keep lists to raise my father is we have asked bahrain's foreign affairs ministry for comment. germans germany's our homeland security officers are raising the alarm over the rise of islamic radicalism among young people in the country and this has prompted some politicians to call for the minimum age when someone can be put under surveillance to be lowered the current limit is fourteen years old this is not about criminalizing people under the age of fourteen but about warding off significant threats to our country like islamic terrorism which also targets

children the bishop threshold for violence is lower in these children the authorities therefore need the tools to take care of traumatized and violence returnees on the views of fourteen according to the german homeland security officers report there are currently around three hundred children who have been quote educated since birth with an extremist world view at the document also says that these children come both from families that have gone to war zones and those that have not the german interior minister says that families that travel to conflict areas need to be prioritized when it comes to surveillance in sleep we have knowledge of more than one thousand is the miss german nationals all from germany who've traveled in the direction of syria and iraq to become part of the islamic groups about a third of these people return to germany is mainly about extremely meticulously evaluating the danger that lies within these people. the main opposition party in

germany the far right alternative for germany says that putting miners under surveillance could prove a useful measure but their counterparts from the left parties say that they all thought he should concentrate on adult extremists fast. do potential victims care whether they're being attacked by a thirteen year old with a knife whether it's a bearded islamists stabbing them it is necessary to go with an iron broom and transport all fanatics where they belong the real issue is not that sure no one is scared of some nine year old children are not legally liable for their actions under the age of forty one of them going to do they actually read you should step before seeing all the efforts on the real terrorists that we have and as long as we have terrorists running around on the streets and recruiting people of course their threat our children being recruited i think what the domestic intelligence services

try to distract from the air complete and utter failure to deal with the real islamic terrorists ever us. wildfires raging across california have become the second largest in the state's history the fires doubled in size over the weekend by the infernos of claimed the lives of at least seven people prompting the government to declare a major disaster a vast areas of forest have been destroyed with dozens of homes and with local services fully overloaded australia and new zealand sending over their fire crews to help tackle the blaze as. some chaotic scenes could be seen in europe as well. have been battling to contain wildfires in portugal local officials say over one hundred firefighters and eight aircraft are fighting the blaze which was caused by a blanket of. at least forty people requiring medical assistance according to

authorities the temperatures in portugal if at all time records in some parts of the country peaking at forty four degrees celsius. plenty more stories for you on this tuesday the program returns and. it was a. split. last time we chased . each one of them carrying twenty kilos of drugs. first offense to.

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choose to look for common ground. camera. roughly once the show and some leave for the. uncool videos and some of them with the broken strings and. down more on string i don't roughly don't t.v. . this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart shelton thank you for joining coming up today on the program as a mission standards are being proposed to be relaxed in the united states what

should we expect in our automakers dealing with the various legal matters related to the use by some of those so called the devices to fake compliance with the mission's west price and slocum of public citizens energy program and the car coach lauren fix and with the second quarter profits in for mcdonald's the toughest week takes a look at the hamburger giant's major moves and lets us know what is taking the biggest bite on their profits and as promised we take a deeper dive into the july jobs report we do so with the able exist of steve malzberg all that on tap but first let's get to. the european union is effort to avoid e.u. businesses from being impacted by u.s. economic sanctions against iran as today the u.s. has asserted its plan to impose maximum pressure on iran by vigorously imposing such sanctions at midnight the bell will tall the e.u. effort known as the blocking statute is fashioned to guard against e.u.

companies from u.s. sanctions and keep a lie they deal plan to limit iranian government's nuclear ambitions european businesses have been straw. did that they should not observe demands from a trumpet ministration for them to curtail all commerce with iran those companies which choose to pull out because of u.s. sanctions will need to be approved by the european commission or face potential lawsuits by e.u. member states a joint statement by the foreign ministers of the twenty eight members showed their resolve saying quote we are determined to protect european economic operators and gauge and legitimate business with iran will have more on how iran is hedging their bets on the sanctions coming up a little bit later in the broadcast and breaking news today as facebook is asking banks to share their users personal financial information with the social media site so that facebook can send them new products no thank you the wall street journal broke the story earlier today the journal says facebook executives have

been talk with banks including wells fargo j.p. morgan and citibank over creating features such as displaying their account balances to facebook users or fraud alerts banks are reportedly wary of partnering with facebook especially after the cambridge analytical scandal and a steady drumbeat of corporate data breaches heightened concerns over online privacy but the other side of the ledger big banks may also feel pressure to make a deal from the follow from fear of missing out on the ground floor of the of the merger of social media and finance a merger with the norm is potential profits we'll keep an eye on this and other related stories as they develop. the global heat wave is taking a toll in japan where nearly one hundred people have perished nationwide including at least fifty deaths in tokyo alone last month the new record for the hottest temperature ever recorded in japan was set it forty one point one degrees celsius that's one hundred six degrees fahrenheit on july twenty third and many of the

deaths were of older people who didn't have or weren't using their air conditioning a spike in demand for electricity to power those ac units as. push prices japan to record highs and even have spurred the reactivation of some older carbon producing power platforms when the impact of trench will rains and landslides in early july is at over three hundred people in japan were killed by weather related events last month and meanwhile canada's heat wave took the lives of an estimated seventy people in the province of quebec in july and production livestock is also taking a heavy toll on producers as producers struggle to keep animals alive with limited water or feel our feet in the province of british columbia the power company b.c. hydro set a new hourly power demand record of seventy eight hundred megawatts on monday and the u.k. is experience with driest summer in fifty seven years while in spain soaring temperatures are said to be the cause of deaths of at least three people while

temperatures in portugal of one hundred fifteen degrees fahrenheit or forty six degrees celsius have reached near record levels. we spoke about corporate average fuel economy standards a bit on the broadcast last week those are the cafe standards that the trump administration is to relaxing and as promised we are going to talk about this is a little bit more and we'll get into these defeat devices used by some car companies to fake compliant with such a mission's test to help us out now we turn to tyson slocum the director of public citizen's energy program and lauren fix the car coach and president of the north american car truck and utility vehicle of the ward you're the work thanks so much for being here guys thanks to both laurent so we've talked about these standards in the past but these defeat devices that have been being used all over the world by i don't know what is it three or four different car companies now we've got who v.w. audi who else is out there nissan well that's volkswagen groups to get our volkswagen group is is audi and volkswagen it's also porsche so under that group

they were using defeat devices because they over promised and under delivered their bosses essentially by us and we could make these vehicles fuel. mission as well as not have to carry blue which is the rio they put in the exhaust so that it actually lowers the emissions coming out the tell pipe well they couldn't do that so they cheated the system and did it and put it in a test mode whenever the vehicle idled in certain factors occurred so they got caught and then sure that does happen pretty much any time other manufacturers have been fined the only ones we know a hundred percent for sure because they were found guilty is volkswagen and of course two c.e.o.'s went to prison for that c.d.o. a v.w. and the c.e.o. of audi right out yeah they came at them in the middle of the night like they were real criminals i mean i guess that's all relative and depends upon what you think a criminal is but they certainly didn't murder anybody but i thought it was a bit aggressive yeah tyson sorry we got you back now at the audio sorry about that give us a little bit of history on these cafe standards they've been around for

a long time but really been pushed to the forefront by the obama administration when whence they came and what are they doing now right so they were first established in one nine hundred seventy five as a centerpiece of american policy response to the arab oil embargo of the early one nine hundred seventy s. and from one nine hundred seventy five up until now fuel economy standards are the most efficient way for not only the united states but nations all over the world to control. gasoline consumption and so they have been wildly successful as a policy tool to not only prompt innovation in the automobile sector but deliver savings and safety standards for american consumers and global consumers and so the fuel economy standards had lagged for a bit during the one nine hundred ninety s. and then there was bipartisan legislation signed into law by president george w.

bush in two thousand and seven that vastly expanded opportunities to increase fuel economy standards and that's exactly what president barack obama. did first in two thousand and twelve and then in his last month of his presidency extended these fuel economy standards forward into the future so right now the united states the combined fuel economy standards of light trucks and automobiles is about thirty two miles a gallon and under the obama proposal they were going to go from thirty two miles a gallon up to forty five miles a gallon by two thousand and twenty five what the trumpet ministration proposal would do would be to wipe out most of those games you would only see the fuel economy standards increase from the current thirty two miles a gallon up to thirty seven miles a gallon and this would be probably the most significant regulatory rollback by the

trump administration in terms of its impact on increasing oil demand in the united states the estimates would be increasing demand by as much as eight hundred thousand barrels of oil per day by twenty thirty five it also would significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions because the more efficient that an automobile is in its use of gasoline the less it consumes per mile driven and so you would see a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions by getting rid of the increase the trumpet ministration we're going to see increase in greenhouse gas emissions equal to the state more than seventy countries in the world so this is going to have a big impact also on consumer wallets about two hundred billion dollars in increased fuel expenses by two thousand and thirty five more and what's your take and can the do you think the automakers can comply with. the standards of the

exists now not the ones that are proposed. well let's start off with currently is thirty four point five miles to the gallon is the corporate average fuel economy and right now manufacturers are coming in around a little under that can they meet that fifty five miles a gallon no only if we go left or vehicles we make cars lighter which makes them on safe and you've got to remember what are people buying right now just look at the numbers the car sales have dropped almost five percent just in one month people buy s.u.v.s and trucks nor to make those electric you're talking about large batteries that are powered by cobalt neodymium cadmium lithium these are all rare earth minerals and who owns all these mines china owns all these mines so we're now going to shift our ally from saudi arabia to china that's not a wise idea based on today's situation with tariffs and so forth even if that gets washed you still have a problem with what are we going to do with these batteries down the road and how are they going to affect the environment because there's no there's no way to

recycle them they can only be used so long and then all these very dangerous rare earth minerals are going to be stuck somewhere stacked up like that are solar panels all around the world so one of the things that the trumpet ministration had said is this is actually a relief to manufacturers yes they project out five years ten years in advance to produce products the only reason they're producing electric vehicles is because they're forced to produce electric vehicles sales of them are less than two percent the vehicles are lighter and more expensive and consumers aren't buying new cars they're not keeping cars longer over the last four years the average car length of keeping a vehicle used to be ten years now it's fourteen years because people do still go out and buy new cars every year even though we're selling a lot of vehicles look at the big picture if people buy less cars they're less likely to go to electric vehicles the sales aren't there the investment is not there and a cost of insurance is higher on these vehicles consumers cannot take that burden so it makes sense why they did this this is actually helping consumers.