the election turnout and so we've declared chicago's going to try to be a trump free zone we have to make sure that prison trump reckon that is that not everyone believes that chicago is the freezone if he's serious about helping the people in chicago especially on the west side of chicago. the outpost of deadly gang fighting took place right after an protest on. people claiming the bloodshed is a consequence of corrupt in chicago we spoke to gregory livingston who organized the protest march. was intentionally segregated segregated in terms of geography. segregated in terms of educational assets health care assets capital investment clones it's been second grade for quite a long time matter of fact we martin king said all throughout the south he had marge but chicago was the most segregated city he had ever been in and we're still facing the the the 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 lack of assets poverty challenge of disadvantage which generate a certain level of violence. u.s. sanctions against iran which have just come into force have seen a spike in oil prices but analysts predicting the upward trend will continue and with the u.s. preparing to impose yet more sanctions. iran's second largest trading partner has shown it is ready to protect european companies doing business with iran. we are determined to protect european economic operators in legitimate business with iran this is why european union's updated blocking statute enters into force on the seventh of august to protect e.u. companies doing legitimate business with iran from deen pact of u.s. extraterritorial sanctions we believe that it is and it has to be up to.

the europeans in this case to the side with home to trade the first round of sanctions prohibits iran from using american currency and puts restrictions on the trading of precious metals it also includes limiting iranian currency flows as well as are constrained so in the car trade so america are now looks at the kind of impact u.s. sanctions have had in the past. the trumpet ministration has imposed so we think sanctions on iran with the goal of curtailing so-called iranian aggression 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 of the united states will not stand idly by as venezuela

crumbles we will enforce the embargo the question is are saying affected. the west 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. the u.s. has imposed round after round of sanctions against moscow but have any demands been met now even from russia hardliners have admitted that previous sanctions against moscow have been ineffective the current sanctions regime has for you to deter russia from meddling in the upcoming two thousand and eighteen midterm elections and the republican senators are 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 with. cuba has been under u.s. sanctions since the early sixty's and have and it's still under u.s. sanctions but those restrictions haven't been successful in 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 just 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 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. to kick him to the negotiating table but those things simply weren't unilateral but multilevel sanctions backed by the e.u. when he recounts we 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 that some would argue of sanctions lead to pretty disappointing results it is all an international thanks for sharing your choose to be with us here it's quarter past the hour here in moscow plenty more stories still to come your way we're back in just a. but

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it is good if you to join us today going on a hunger strike to stop his father being tortured that's what the son of a jailed buck granny opposition figure says he's doing right outside london embassy and we spoke to him about why he has resorted to this particular course of action. my father was seventy years or serving life in prison and behind it was they thought joining the military they are really in denial for medical treatment there

for me because the access to books even and what i put our. spies but my father court for robbing the dictator of regime in my country i'm talking about the basic rights which is medical treatment to man who is seventy years or. i'm calling for family visitation because he couldn't i mean see my family for me to come here in a few months what is the reason for denying medical people for seventy years one man it is not nor absurd if he does not support reason. yeah. he continues to receive medical examination

along with these prescribed medications and the special diet the squire of his medical regime. i don't look up to and be there for you more i started when i was asian about my father situation because nothing changed and they've been my father is dying destroyed me. i took place to raise my father is we have asked bahrain's of foreign affairs ministry to comment on the allegations of human rights violations. thousands of just. syrians are returning home as government forces drive out the last pockets of militant resistance in the country according to syrian state media a special refugee committee is being set up to coordinate the process of resettlement and to help millions of citizens rebuild their lives but some media outlets see the situation quite differently as aussies either stand 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 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 cross 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. have then i want to go back to syria returned home a lot less of that 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're 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 on 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 shop here thank god with electricity is back

and life went back to normal again and i want to fix my handsome 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 sad event stopping them but those who did and are returning may very well inspire hundreds of thousands more to go back to their roots. germany's homeland security office is raising the alarm over the rise of islamic radicalism among some people in the country this has prompted some politicians to call for the minimum age when someone can be surveilled 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 inhibition threshold for violence is

lower in these children. your thirty's therefore need the tools to take care of traumatised and violent return these under the age of fourteen according to the german homeland security office as reported there are currently around three hundred children who have been quote educated since birth with an extremist world view 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 family has to travel to conflict areas need to be prioritized when it comes to surveillance. in sleeping can we have knowledge of more than one thousand is missed german nationals or 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 was the main opposition party in germany the anti immigrant alternative for germany says that putting miners under surveillance could be useful for their counterparts from the left party say

that they are thorough he should concentrate on adult extremists first do potential victims care whether they're being attacked by a thirteen year old with a knife whether it's a bearded islamist stabbing them is necessary to go with an iron brew 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 instead be focusing all the efforts on the real terrorists that we have and as long as we have terrorists running around our house reads every true day people of course there is a threat out children being recruited i think what the domestic intelligence service is trying to distract strong their complete and utter failure to deal with the real islamic terrorists and.

wildfires raging across california have now become the second largest in the state's history five doubled in size over the weekend in photos of claimed the lives of at least seven people prompting the government to declare a major disaster vast areas of forest have been destroyed along with thousands of homes and with local so overloaded australia and new zealand or even sending over their fire crews to help. while some chaotic scenes could be seen in europe as well where firefighters have been battling to contain wildfires in portugal local officials say over a one hundred five is an eight aircraft of fighting the blazes which were apparently caused. at least forty people require medical assistance the temperatures in portugal if it all time records in some parts of the country peaking at forty four degrees celsius. joining us here an

international you will be back in about well the program that is. the americans are still in shock they're still dealing with the psychological damage of nine eleven they still need enemies they still unjustified they still are having troubles walking through it meanwhile the rest of the world is a leapfrogging and. join me every day on the alec simon chill. picks. i'm show business. sure cameron. went through once they showed some lead for them.

uncool videos and so on with the broken string. line 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 chilton and 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 take compliance with the missions west tyson 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 giants 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 or do so with the able of this 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 struck. did that they should not observe demands from a trump administration 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 e.u. twenty eight members show 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 think 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 at 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 said 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 was such a missions 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 to think devices because they over promised and under delivered their bosses essentially by us and we could make these vehicles fuel. 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 it'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 yes and 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 you're taken can do you think the automakers can comply with. the standards of the exists now not the ones that are proposed. well let's start out 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 for goal lector 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 in order 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 stepped up like there 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 just of all buy new cars every year even though we're selling a lot of vehicles and 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 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 even though tyson doesn't think so i understand his position but i also under. stan that consumers especially in the bulk of the country don't have places to charge and they really don't want to go out and buy new vehicles every three years like some people did up we're going to have to leave it there just because of time i'm sorry we don't have more we could have gone on this for

a longer time that's lauren fix the car coach and president of the north american car trucking utility vehicle award your year of the war your own ward tyson slocum the director of public citizens energy program thanks to both of you thank you thank you. and the largest restaurant chain in the world by revenues is mcdonald's of course and the company's second quarter earnings report is out our two correspondent natasha suite took the time to look at it and now give us an update on what's been going on and which mickey d's endeavors are taking the biggest bite from profits competition in the breakfast sector along with higher price menu options are just some of the reasons behind the drop in revenue for mcdonald's executives say some just because the bites coming out of their profits has to do with mcdonald's changing the structure of its business model the hamburger giant said selling company owned stores to franchisees her profits as a result their second quarter earnings fell twelve percent from a year earlier the company said it already recorded

a pretax of ninety two million dollars for severance to the management they were tremaine along with costs involved for closing field offices but the overall picture is to provide more support to their franchises well they hope the extra hand will enable them to better manage expenses won't do scene sales innovations are now in the works for more than one third of company owned restaurants in the u.s. mcdonald's reported a net income of one point five billion or a dollar ninety a share despite the charges for restructuring the company profits were up from one point four billion or dollars seventy a share from a year earlier for the company's second quarter sales were up globally by four percent domestically sales were up two point six percent will delivery also field sales but it wasn't quite enough to meet analyst expectation of three percent growth for stores open one year or longer a new brand of beef was introduced on the menu and labor costs also increased during the second quarter some point to competition in the breakfast department which accounts for twenty five percent of their sales new.