and you look from time to time since a call from the forty's or the rather dubious. but germany is of putin's only stop off on saturday before he gets there he's paying a social visit attending the wedding of the austrian foreign minister cameron can easily and businessman may linger the ceremony will take place that even the art in austria is derrius state and while some are guessing whether putin will offer dogs to the bride on what present he has for the couple others have slammed the foreign minister for daring to invite him. now the u.s. state department of defense plans to spend up to fifteen million dollars on enhancing soldiers' physical performance and insurance but

a scale of more than explains such programs have to be hundred with care. treated. hollywood science fiction often depicts the soldiers of the future with all the talk of a space force from donald trump and fighting robots across the silver screen our imagination has plenty of places to go. now on the surface a new grant from the pentagon for extramural biomedical research and development doesn't sound so bad the object is to create soldiers who can withstand even the harshest circumstances take a listen develop technologies to maximize the physiological performance of s.o.f. operators including enhanced in durance enhanced senses tolerance to environmental

extremes and enhanced overall fitness in order to maintain operational posture ability in high stress scenarios without noticeable augmentation and without hampering personnel mobility additionally the ability to accelerate the effects of sleep through methods requiring less time a vivid picture i know the prototype. three piece. now let's give this a little context this won't be the first time that the u.s. military has engaged in this kind of research. that. the.

you know. now at the time these grotesque experiments using american g.i.'s and civilians essentially as lab rats at the time they were taking place the public knew nothing about it it was all quiet so five now the public documents indicate that these new experiments will not involve human beings only human simulators however anyone who is familiar with the not so well publicized but very well documented history of u.s. military research they'll certainly raise an eyebrow caleb oppen r.t. new york. graffiti is being a pairing in the spanish city of boston logan are encouraging holiday makers to

jump off the hotel balconies some of it suggests that they potentially deadly practice known as balcony is fun one of the graffiti messages mockingly claims it improves the quality of life for locals can and can refer to jumping into a pool from about kony or climbing from one balcony to another they risky activity is growing in popularity was tourists some hotels have banned it and introduced fines for it. it was. the pro balcony graffiti that sprung up in barcelona has sparked online

anger with people pointing out that this year alone six people died performing the stunt most of them were from the u.k. or ireland the u.k. foreign office has warned brits against engaging in the practiced the victims were typically drunk and lost their balance with all the reaction from tourists in barcelona. it seems we're waiting to go so i am out last night ok then there is no sir like many messages saying violence like you against terrorists i guess the same of them like they want to have the city for over and they know it's important to maintain jobs to make some money out of the worst word and i think this is some kind of tax why can i have this many tourists on the on that it's not comfortable for and i've been in evidence of the says well i think last night such a sea change that's just so old and do so much and it should be accepting the

current foreign policy and should be aggressive things to escape this it's the main source of the thing. but not something i think it's just. nice it took me if i would live here and i see guys ruining my city. hall style sometimes as though i was still to come palestinian protesters tried to break through the border fence with is well on friday but that story in full after the show play. you know world's big partners. and conspiracy it's time to wake up

to dig deeper to get the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting task each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. the conspiracy their work. the bus forget about the back of the buses run amok. because they want rush limbaugh wonder bread and. welcome back now the former united nations secretary general kofi annan has passed

away at the age of eighty a former diplomat from gone though he spends much of his life in switzerland on the united states and then was u.n. secretary general between one thousand ninety seven and two thousand and six and in two thousand and one was jointly awarded the nobel peace prize with the u.n. for work on human rights the nobel committee also recognized the nuns commitment to fighting hiv in africa and his struggle against international terrorism since news of a nun's death broke there has been an outpouring of emotion with people globally taking to social media to celebrate a nun's unique contribution. two palestinians were killed in the gaza strip on friday as protesters attempted to break through the border fence with this where the demonstration is part of the great march of return which started back in march this year of the one hundred seventy people have been killed by israeli soldiers in that period television says the protests are

a cover for terrorists gaza based reporter hin to dari was that the latest protest . i list in the us continued to protest for the twenty first friday there israelis continue to fire tear gas canisters and live ammunition on the palestinian protesters. that the situation now is ask elating as the palestinian protesters are trying to turn you to burn some tires to blur the vision of those already snipers there israeli forces continue to fire more to gas canisters on the palestinian protesters to disperse them and to keep them away from the friends at least two palestinians injured in a very very critical condition as you see palestinians are are bracing the palestinian flag. throwing stones on the israeli snipers and this is how the palestinians have been constant in their days right the snipers and the israeli forces oh my god like many in this unit you guys come to search are now being fired

that gun on the palestinian protesters and down as you see it's kind of the fired on the palestinian protesters where your gas canisters are being fired from gaza directions as you see the place is first with white smoke everyone is separating from the tear gas fired this is also one of the injuries are from the tear gas fired just right now with. no funds for the first time i see this there is no fence where the palestinian protesters had that ability to break the fence was in protesters are from. was that. that billy did to break up. live ammunition on the part of. everyone is going back. meanwhile the israeli defense

forces there the response of their troops to palestinians trying to break through the phones was in accordance with standard operating procedures another protest was held in the west bank this friday where people marched peacefully against the demolition of a local village. russia is at it again that's the claim in a new article in us magazine the atlantic is there is the kremlin has set its sights firmly on meddling in the upcoming midterm elections with the pressures objective being to weaken america the article goes on to explain russia's alleged three step plan to break american democracy first unleashed the russian hackers second by corrupt us politicians and third support those who think favorably of putin and it's not just the russian state that's come under suspicion the atlantic also claims that this channel r.t. helps undermine democracy by inviting on guests to question mainstream narratives

they name a brand and struck her as an example he's the founder of movements and courage and democrats to walk away from their party that the atlantic fails to criticize other outlets that also gave that also have him as a guest. well i i myself was a lifelong liberal democratic voter i would say kind of a democrat by default because i'm a gay man and i think that the expectation for a lot of minority groups is that we are supposed to vote democrat and that we are supposed to be liberals friends drake is spent years as a liberal he now says he's concerned by what the left has become well before the election i was already starting to feel uncomfortable with where we were headed in terms of identity politics and p.c. culture. a political commentator leinil told us what he thinks is behind on two russian articles that like the atlantic's. nobody ever calls these people to task they are paid for by volume or how many lie how many how

many article factually incorrect. factually a baseless and also the mentality just feeding frenzy of this this monster dysmorphia this monster that you must feed constantly with us no rush no nato no bad guy no bogeymen so there's many reasons why the book you made the strawman the specter the evil image of russia must be maintained because it fills because somebody tried to but we're trying the power of nightmare it was all of a b.b.c. documentary and you need something to fear you need serving in historically this post cold war a red baiting russo phobic hysteria feeds into this is well there's an audience for . occupy london appears to be the latest victim of facebook's recent

spree of shutting down pages the social justice movement had its page taken down for several hours the movement says this is not the first time facebook is trying to censor its content occupy london is a social justice movement founded in two thousand and eleven as part of a global movement that's organized hundreds of protests against financially the movement ses its founding values are equality and diversity occupy london has a significant social media presence with around one hundred fifty thousand followers on facebook some say that certain pro palestine posts by occupy london might be to blame for facebook's action we asked facebook for a comment the social media giant has since apologized to occupy london saying it was all a mistake george baldo one of the movement's activists isn't convinced you were just you know sort of a blip on the state of the. very much it's all but the problem is this is part of a massive rear guard action i think by the establishment you know anyone can go

online and see the evidence this themselves chris hedges is a pulitzer prize winning journalist it's been one of those exposing most of the details of this but effectively what's happened is that in the name of dealing with fake news a many progressive websites that have been a major part of you know bernie sanders jeremy corbin etc. they used they found the traffic going down. websites like alter net truthdig that you know mainstream progressive websites are seeing that traffic played down by seventy percent literally and these algorithms devised in private nobody can inspect and have a huge impact on what information the world gets to see about what's going on and that's a hugely significant here going forward the relevant thing today in terms of discussion is still a very powerful force online and has millions of people engaging with its posts and so it's very important that they and others like them on not in the name if they can use effectively removed from most people's internet searches and i think this

is a huge issue going forward bearing in mind that google and facebook are very very close to the american establishment you know the washington post is owned by jeff bezos he was and is an answer but not surprisingly he's very keen on using the washington post to make sure that the internet allows his articles to come up at the top of such as in the ons. while here at r.t. we always love to hear your thoughts on our stories that do get in touch by following us on social media and we'll be back in about thirty minutes with all the latest thing that. good politicians to do something to. put themselves on the lawn. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be friends

. that's a good way to be for us this is what the forecast three of the book can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters about how the. question. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. plus the most just as they would a simple they want to become lost and i've wondered about some just about. many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentries sides of the drug used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities only best person as bank. policy to point out that it up next time i get i'm in a lot of class and they want that. they had to watch as they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the one time move the political rivals. both of

you what is the who could be about to do. a sit sit scramble to many couples won't . deal with the put simply the bills and spun both both a hold of you up of a few of the hope of the. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton thank you for joining us coming up on the program today we take a look at ten some more of the world's largest investment companies and asia's largest tech company with a market capitalization that had been close again on six hundred billion dollars

the giant company took a stumble this past quarter for the first time in thirteen years thirteen years we have to see all the stocks wash most of our mode to give us her two cents on ten cents and other stocks including some of the retailers whose earnings we reported on last time. plus artes nickel so donovan looks at incoming president to get the president memo low present over a george ambitious plan to transform the mexican energy industry and the c.e.o. of straw market reform which joins us to talk directly and the diminishing chances for a deal between the united kingdom and the european union before the u.k. leaves next march it could have large and long lasting implications and we spoke about the trade in tariff or as many times and specifically the impact on us and grains in particular soybeans but what might be the impact on livestock and therefore meat prices and which big ag companies might be impacted the most we asked while in malls further of this market you spoke to us

a few days ago from columbia missouri now let's get to a few stories topping today's financial and business headlines financial regulators who came to power after being nominated by president trump and confirmed by the united states senate are reportedly getting big bank blowback on their proposal to relax the so-called volcker rule which was approved in the wake of the financial crisis back in twenty thirty and i actually helped write and vote for the final bowker wrote that money futures trading commission one of the five financial regulatory agencies which crafted the measure the bowker rule banned speculative trading by big banks although it allowed such trading on behalf of bank customers big banks speculative trading was one of the culprits to the economic calamity according to the financial crisis inquiry commission established by congress to examine the causes of the crash but the big banks are saying the proposed efforts to relax the rules could end up making it even more complicated the wall street

journal reports representatives of j.p. morgan chase bank of america citigroup wells fargo and six other banks all met with federal reserve officials to complain about the proposal which is currently out for public comment the specific concern relates to an accounting definition of what speculative trading and compass is by air. to relax the rule financial regulators have proposed using a standard accounting term called available for sale securities that financial term of art according to the banks is overly broad and would make determining which trades are speculative on behalf of the customers were difficult to determine the public comment period on the proposal ends on september twenty. third of measures announced by the u.s. department of treasury are again targeting chinese and russian companies which the department says have assisted illegal shipments on behalf of north korea treasury's actions are aimed at one individual and three specific companies including chinese logistics syndicate daylon sun moon star and it's singapore based affiliate in

addition to the company profit a russian based firm the move comes as the u.s. remains concerned that efforts to denuclearize north korea the democratic people's republic of korea or d p r k needs to continue international pressure of economic sanctions to be effective that apartment contends the chinese and singapore based business use falsified shipping documents to transport alcohol tobacco and cigarette related items into north korea in violation of u.s. and united nations economic sanctions korea has reportedly profited generally from the it's a list illicit cigarette trade to the tune of get this one billion dollars per year and profit is accused of providing port services that shipping services plus providing fuel to those ships the to north korea on no less than six occasions and continues to do so even after the company's employees were informed of the oil

related sanctions on d p r k last year the us ambassador to united states nikki or to the united nations rather nikki haley said quote oil is the lifeblood of north korea's effort to build and fund a nuclear weapon profit its director general a russian national was also accused by. treasury of personally aiding in the endeavor and interacting directly with north korean representatives in russia u.s. treasury secretary steven the new ssion said in a statement quote treasury will continue to implement existing sanctions on north korea and will take action to block and designate companies ports and vessels that facilitate illicit shipments and provide revenue streams to the d.p. r. k. . highest paying jobs in the united states or in technology according to glassdoor that is of the twenty five highest paying jobs fourteen are in the technology sector that's up from last year with the leaven of the top twenty five earning jobs

the positions include software development and engineer managers and enterprise architects even the lowest paying of those positions average one hundred thousand dollars of annual income each year incidentally see street level positions were excluded from the report's calculation. and speaking of the tech sector ten cents the giant norma's chinese investment company which is also asia's biggest technology company with a market capitalisation that had been closing in on six hundred billion dollars last year has taken the first quarterly earnings stumble in thirteen years what's that all about here discusses a c.e.o. of the stocks which most are most to weigh in on ten cent and other stocks melissa welcome back thank you so much a ten cent became the first tech company to breach that five hundred million dollar capitalization level last november yet this year the company has lost twenty five percent of their share value and more than three percent on the single day earlier

this week on tuesday i have been some concern related to their growth in ten cents mobile gaming what's that all about what's going on melissa. well the problem is that china has the regulators now are not approving any more of these gaming licenses so that's cut into what ten cent does but overall just looking technically at the chart the chart is now in a down trend it's not a body at all it really has been trying to hang on for quite a while it could have turned around and these earnings but now with this coming out about the game mean that really has definitely hurt the company and they are it down try to i will say this in china gaming is huge it is huge it is the number one country in the world where there's about a thirty eight billion dollars in revenue for gaming and there which is incredible when you think about it there so many people that are doing that online on apps and for whatever reason they put a halt to this for some of the approvals and we just have to wait and see what

happens in the stock might turn around but as of right now it is definitely not a buy. and i mean that's an incredible level i think i said it right in correctly you know five hundred billion with a b. and i think they're up at five hundred eighty billion not too long long ago but you know it is a chinese company and how is the chinese government dealing with it i mean it's strategically important for the nation right. well well yeah i mean obviously they do a lot of things but i mean this game is big as i was saying because it's huge in china itself so they've got it here too whatever the regulator say so i'm sure they're trying to work it out again i they're not really disclosing why they put a halt on this but that's what the chinese government has decided and they do like to control a lot of these things more so than even the regulators that you see in the u.s. you know and you know we talked about tech stocks last time and i know you're sort of on them but when you talk to go talk facebook which has had troubles of we've

talked about over the last several months and that really some slumpy trading sessions this week it hasn't been a good few months in general for in the media at least for facebook how are they doing overall melissa. facebook if you look at the bulk of tax cuts at tech stocks right now facebook i would say is at the bottom and i and that wasn't the case before they had just recently made brand new all time highs but now the stock isn't looking that great it's under two hundred it's around one seventy seven or something it was trading at this week and the previous high was to thirteen but overall facebook i wouldn't go along here but it doesn't mean it's disaster for the stock i would say though that it's a wait and seen as far as buying back into the stock after the earnings and after ike you said all the media problems that they've had this year i don't think it's over with them about the scrutiny they're still on board for having to deal with some of these issues that have happened i don't look at them the same as a company like apple is on their netflix even though these are all tech stocks in

the bucket i would put facebook at the lower end of the list right now we're very very interesting we've only got about sixty seconds melissa but i do want to talk about some other stocks particularly the retailers wal-mart reported this week and boy they were doing gangbusters but there was others as stocks out there to target and macy's and what's with wal-mart real quickly and is there any sort of commonality among retail. well i will just let me just quickly address wal-mart for a short time here wal-mart was the stock of the week wal-mart kept up huge huge stepped up time points on the air against wal-mart i absolutely love i will tell you we've talked about amazon before wal-mart is going to compete against amazon it had the best revenues it's had for ten years more than forty percent of americans shop on a weekly basis at wal-mart and that's huge they're going after it they're going to try to compete with amazon they're the only ones that can i love that stock right now for a buy it's really almost at previous highs which was one time and expect wal-mart

to continue you could buy wal-mart stock i love that stop going into the end twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen wal-mart is doing it and i tell you they're the only ones that could compete with amazon the always interesting and ever informative melissa are mostly over the stocks which thanks very timeless thanks. to mexican president elect congress member low price obrador has said his administration will invest billions of dollars to boost refining capacity in order to curb growing fuel imports and what about those foreign investment in exploration contracts have been so controversial in the country r.t. correspondent nicholas o'donovan gives us the details on the incoming president's proposed energy plans. mexican president elect and that is manuel lopez obrador announced in late july a plan to invest billions of dollars in pemex the country's state owned energy company this plan aims to reverse years of decline in production appendix the country's existing refineries have been operating at less than seventy percent

capacity since twenty twelve according to mexico's energy department require in the country to import more gasoline diesel and other refined products part of lopez obrador strategy involves invest in some two point six billion dollars to upgrade refineries as well as building at least a new one for approximately eight point six billion dollars obrador also. reaffirmed his intent to review more than one hundred exploration and production contracts awarded to private oil and gas company and gas companies since the controversial twenty thirteen reforms which let's remind our viewers open the country's energy sector for foreign investment for the first time in decades so it's an ambitious plan to boost mexico mexico's oil and gas production but critics say it could potentially slow down the country's energy reforms and it struck.