washington and there currently however seems to be no end in sight to the to for tat trade war what's the goal of the administration here just to draw this thing out or they really want to get something done you know but we've been talking about this forever it seems like in the whole fact of the matter is i i was wrong at the beginning i honestly thought the trip was going to play the short game and just basically you know come in and really hard line and that somehow he was going to push china into a position where or that he even talk to president jiang that they can add some sort of resolution after this you know tough guy image was allowed to show itself to the world but it doesn't seem that way and actually things are going to be drawn out by the looks of things because nothing was accomplished at these talks we're looking now next month that we saw a tit for tat now at sixteen billion dollars worth of tariffs thrown in by the states and of course china doing what it does is that same amount back and now we're looking at another two hundred billion in tariffs possibly next month from the u.s. side of course will see the chinese throw back at that and don't show up to even

saying he might push it to five hundred billion dollars now a lot of the analysts are saying that this might be a largely a long term game for trump that he's trying to push a new status quo which would be tariffs specially when dealing with china and some other analysts are saying and this is interesting that at this point if trump was to back down or if this was actually to be resolved he'd come out looking weak because the people would see that these tariffs have actually gotten done more harm than good to the states and that if he was in this terror of war that actually would be a one win for the states at all so it's better for him to look like a tough guy and just keep this tariff game up there's an old quote about how one of the most valuable philosophies is patience and time is that how china's plan this alex china doesn't really care for you know in the longer look we're playing chicken with a sleeping dragon here and the way it is for china it's going to be tit for tat. so

they look like the good guys shot of the americans come out they toss out tariffs and charges like well we're not going to put more tariffs on your we're just going to do what you're doing and this is what we heard from their from their trade minister and there's a quote directly from him i should say the finance minister luke own and he said china doesn't wish to engage in a trade war but we will risk resolutely response to unreasonable measures taken by the united states if the united states persist with these measures we will correspondingly take action to protect our interests now we're hearing that u.s. businesses are being hurt consumers are being hurt because prices are going up on products that they use you talk to china they're saying hey you know we are we're not really feeling this too much right now and if anything happens to our manufacturing sector we're just going to put money into it also china says this is the latest that basically we don't want to talk to the states anymore until the midterm elections are over so they're playing that game now hoping that some other people will get into government that they could actually deal with and that's one

of the said done and also there put out a complaint to the world trade organization so they're playing actually the nice guy game and who looks like they're the bad guy will that we don't trump on this one and that's exactly what they want to make that states look like yeah they bend all lobbyist have been here in town going up and down the street everybody from the auto makers to sausage casing makers saying this is going to be a problem are to correspondent alex mahela bench thanks alex great weekend to you tube. and time now for a quick break but hang here because when we come back attorney andre barlow joins us to consider the technology sector in light of a recent european union antitrust decision plus monsanto and bear's post say grief continues as work products are impacted and a cavalcade of court cases are filed r t correspondent sara month as the focus joins us as we go to break here the digital details of the closing bell all green arrows on the big board with both the s. and p. five hundred and nasdaq hitting intraday high rise earlier today. and nasdaq still

climbing to a new heights as we went to air we'll be right back. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. difficulty. coming up a bit. in the film. yasi will be reviewed just as we. were talking to this. earlier about them that i'm good at l.f. i got out my last bit a lot of the esteem in which i did. but not

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innocent the idea that we more executing innocent people is terrifying the is just no way that doesn't mean that we will even many victims' families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the get tell here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. welcome back updating the labor situation of irish airline iranian air the rolling strikes an underlying dispute between pilots and management that we told you about earlier this month appears to be resolved negotiators work for twenty two hours to

produce a draft agreement that will now go to a vote by members of the union representing four thousand ryan air pilots if the workers vote to approve ryanair will then take the issue to their board for some members have walked out more than over one one time over grievances that they're leaving transfers were unfair and their desire to bring their pay closer to rates of other airlines leading to hundreds of canceled flights even worse the u.k. guardian reports ryanair had to apologize last week after checks to compensate passengers who were impacted by those strikes one out with out needed signatures think the irish would say they were doing a number on their customers while. corporate crime news investigators at the u.s. department of justice and the securities exchange commission are scrutinizing the methods of microsoft used to get a foothold in hungary the wall street journal reports investigators believe microsoft sold their familiar software products to intermediaries at

a discount and then the middlemen then sold the software to public agencies and governments at a higher price gouging those and users justice an s.t.c. investigators want to determine if the profit those middlemen theoretically received was diverted into bribes and whether official charges can be brought under the foreign corrupt practices act microsoft's legal team says they began to investigate themselves once they learned of potential problems and are cooperating with justice and the f.c.c. officials the journal points out that microsoft came under similar investigative scrutiny back in twenty thirteen over such. practices in china romania italy pakistan and russia it's unclear if those investigations have been closed. while many search engines exist google is certainly the eight hundred pound gorilla in the industry space earlier this year the european union fined google over five billion dollars related to charges the company was inappropriately dissing

competitors by excluding them or placing them far down in search results the circumstances reminded us of the first major tech giant and i trust cases and we thought the subject deserved a little deeper dive in here to jump into the and i trust paul with us is andrea barlow of the firm doyle barlow and mazhar i'm very welcome we're glad to have you back with us you know most people had their computers back then they were microsoft computers and even if they weren't microsoft computers then the other computers had the microsoft word on it they had all the programs on it and then in one thousand nine hundred eight there was a really this big first court case take it from there all right the it's a fascinating case d.o.j. was alleging there that microsoft had a monopoly in the operating system basically windows and they probably had about ninety percent market share something to that effect and microsoft at the time was

concerned back in the mid ninety's netscape had come out with an internet browser and that was the most popular browser around the netscape doesn't exist today and that's what this case was about. you know so they had a very high market share and microsoft was concerned that netscape was going to basically take over that it was going to be a threat to its operating system so instead of just competing fairly and coming out with a new internet browser to compete fairly what they did is they came out with internet explorer and they integrated it with the operating system. and at the same time they entered into exclusive contracts with the p.c. manufacturers that would would make sure that the default was always going to be the internet explorer this basically ran netscape out of business and that was what the case was about the judge he ruled in favor of the d.o.j.

decided in their favor saying that. this predatory tactic that was used was was done to maintain the monopoly in the operating system ok so with that as the basis it was it was that sort of that sort of set the stage for future antitrust litigation in this in the in the case law and how is that standard being used if so now well you know it's interesting because i think it set the stage for companies like google and apple to be successful it allowed them to actually enter and compete so so and i trust and fauresmith lead to innovation and now you know when we're thinking about and i trust in forest rethinking about what actions may be taken against these major companies that have major platforms but yes i think you know the standard was set there basically what we're talking about is a monopolist of a platform has to be very careful in terms of what they do to exclude their rivals

ok so do we think that when you look at that standard that you eloquently described and is in place here do we see similarities between the u.s. and i trust circumstances and the e.u. circumstances that they just recently used you know there's a difference there's a huge difference with the e.u. and the cases that they've been bringing against google under their law there's a special responsibility for a monopolist to not hinder competition in the united states we focus more on an evidence based approach if you go back to that microsoft case there was a. a lot of evidence a lot of e-mails you know deposition from bill gates and you know so there is there was a lot there on what their motivation was and what their intentions were very interesting thank you for going deeper with us that we appreciate it andre barlow the law firm of doyle barlow mazhar appreciate every great weekend you.

and in the continuing story we've been covering the lawsuits against the month santo company are increasing exponentially as recall the chemical giant now owned by giant drug the german drug maker bair there are giant two was ordered to pay two hundred eighty nine million dollars to a california man dying of cancer after years of use of months santo's we've killed which contain the chemical glucose eight months into his weed killers including the well known round up are now this subject of intense and increased focus as lawsuits have risen from fifty two hundred to roughly eight thousand cases and here discuss the legal quandary and more is hard to correspondents. been covering the story for us what's been going on since we spoke i think on monday sara so a lot of spin going on since they are not so quiet anymore they have come out have

you noticed the plane tests have now risen from fifty two hundred to eight thousand now so several lawsuits cases waiting to be tried there also is committed to the full integration of monsanto and bayer as you know there is that tend to great by the end of this month they are still fully committed and the c.e.o. werner bowman released a statement saying nothing has changed concerning our strategy attractive synergy potential and longer term growth and margin expectations for our combined crop science business we are very optimistic for the future so still saying that they're going to by every verdict that they've come across and will come across will be fighting for a long time i'm so glad you had more time this week because i know we had to cut short the other day and there a couple of questions that i just wanted to get to and one is that when these things cereals accept or are processed does that somehow mill your rate or lessen

the. of these things so it wouldn't be weird if you're eating like a wall to be healthy and then all of a sudden you're getting more gleeful shaped right and that's that's kind of the problem so far in twenty seventeen but in jerry's for example tested some tubs in in europe ice cream tubs in europe found that thirteen of the fourteen tubs contain traces of life to say now they found they didn't find any in the u.s. because they didn't test so still they are committed to providing a life is a free ingredient and they've come out with the statement as well on their page saying that they want to go organic and be. free but people like just yesterday nature valley granola bars just released a statement saying that they're removing one hundred percent natural from their label because they really want to commit to avoiding these litigation costs and fighting this and really trying to go one hundred percent organic so they're moving the label and this could set a precedent for future brands and things that they're going forth general mills was

found themselves with their first lawsuit by a florida woman just last week because she's been eating cheerios regularly so she too is suing for saying that cereal knew they contain glyphosate but never it was never labeled in the ingredients so the labeling here to this is very interesting we've just got about thirty seconds left sure about what's next on this front well the f.d.a. should be releasing their results soon but they have found life to say in honey unfortunately so the farmers aren't actually spraying life to say onto the bee hives this is collected via the the bees who. follow the crops big states and honey and that's not controlled but that is not controlled so how that can be regulated they're not even sure when believably thank you so much. appreciate your time thank you very weakened. and that's all we have time we have for this time thanks for being on board you can catch boom bust on directv

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out top stories washington really says the details of its latest sanctions against russia saying they will heads on monday we take a look at what effects they'll have. of being a news channel plans trump russia occlusion stories again head headlines t.v. channels are now being caught in the crosshairs will say this hour. butlins fest minister rejects claims of sexual misconduct leveled against him and mounts a legal challenge against the scottish government a brit come to think of the complaints alex salmond's talks ossie about what he pulls his unfair treatment. stored in

a situation where the scottish government starts to believe it's important confidentiality to the shooting everybody connected with says that that was going to be absolutely protected from the process. just going for and in the russian capital we are watching to see international welcome to the program the united states has said that fresh sanctions against russia will kick in on monday the penalties are linked to claims that the kremlin orchestrated a nerve agents talk in the u.k. and we'll talk at russia's financial sector as well as some cells to moscow reporting from washington this american. now the new batch of sanctions will come into force on august twenty seventh and will prohibit russia from importing secure u.s. goods and technology related to national security but there were also

a few waivers first the foreign assistance act which would have terminated all aid to russia except for urgent humanitarian assistance is waived second the prohibition on arms sales that was introduced in two thousand and fourteen will also be waived determined on a case to case basis a state department official said that these waivers are essential to national security third arm sales of financing which has been in place already sanctions will deny u.s. government credit and financial assistance ban exports of secure goods and tech a few days ago president putin said that these sanctions were counterproductive let's take a look. regarding the sanctions those actions are counterproductive and meaningless especially when it comes to a country like russia it's not just about the u.s. president's position it's about the position of the so-called establishment the ruling class in broader terms of the realisation that this policy has no future will come one day and we will cooperate in a normal fashion these sanctions were announced earlier this month over russia's alleged involvement in the script paul poison in which there is still no evidence

for russia has repeatedly denied its involvement and has even offered its assistance to the quay and investigating the incident but this was apparently ignored now as russia gets slapped with sanctions it's very likely that we'll see russia respond with to for tat measures. can stay in hamilton coalition to stop the war joins us now ken lovelies have you on the program first of all are you surprised that some of the sanctions have been wave it will partially waive it is it about national security for the us. no it's a carrot and stick approach that the u.s. is trying to use here they are trying naïve really to change the behavior of the russian federation by not imposing all the sanctions at once and. frankly from the point of view of the peace movement we were guard the whole

sanctions business and the hysteria against russia the election the the so-called election meddling and all this other stuff that comes without any proof whatsoever as a means of are preparing the american public for a possible military confrontation with russia in the future and not only the american population in canada we have the same hysteria from our government and mainstream media and they and britain that's the same as well. it's in our opinion it's time that the united states started to realize that the days of the uni polar world are over. now that occurred after the collapse of the former soviet union but today it's a multi-polar world and russia is a big player in this world the us has to realize that russia is

a big player and it has its own national interest and the united states needs to have a meaningful products will take action rather than hysterical accusations with russia in order in order to achieve. a working relationship with russia and other great powers and in order to maintain peace so these sanctions are dangerous well one area targeted is he u.s. military assistance to russia what effect if any will they have on russia. well i believe president putin was right that these sacked lose will have no effect there counterproductive they only lay only build out a monster the hysteria among the population russia does not need us military assistance or russia has developed coming age cutting edge i should say aircraft cutting edge tanks cutting edge anti aircraft systems which are in demand

all over the world and by imposing sanctions on russia all the how all the u.s. is really doing is forcing russia to become even more self-sufficient than it was before and becoming more creative and more dynamic and developing its own system so all these sanctions these military sanctions against russia are going to be have exactly the opposite effect that the u.s. administration foresaw and in your opinion to what extent is this sentients push being driven by domestic pets call considerations rather than any action that russia may have taken for example. i don't believe russia has done anything in violation of international law these sanctions however are in violation of international law because they were not approved by the un security council

therefore they are legal and i believe that they do serve a us domestic agenda which was to promote. war and to promote the military industrial complex and those in the us without an enemy without an external threats they could not sell to the american people one trillion dollar budget from for arms every year while make while millions of americans don't even have basic things like health care so it serves with domestic political agenda of the billionaire class just as president putin said and. in my opinion the polls have shown that in the united states the people are not concerned about russia at all they're much more concerned about putting food on the table and finding enough money to keep the lights on so this is completely

a fabricated issue this hysteria over russia and the sooner the american government grows up and acts like an adult then the sooner the said for the american people and the rest of the world of course will be thank you well we appreciate your thoughts that the us can stay and from the how mountain coalition to stop the oil thank you very much. the trump russia collision stories again gaining momentum but now one t.v. channel is under fire with it even suspected of being in that case with the kremlin taste on you a whole conflicts into the claims. we've all heard about trump russian election collusion you know the great scam that brought the u.s. president to power whose ation of collusion collude passably smells a whole lot like collusion there was ample evidence of collusion but where is the closure you know there's no looking for collusion where is there to lose your finds

a to lose your little did we know the conspiracy goes deeper now it's in the media it started with a trump tweet on proposed land expropriations and alleged murders of white farmers in south africa covered prior to this by fox news president of south africa's pows has begun and you may have seen this in the press seizing the land from his own citizens without compensation because they are the wrong skin color that is literally the definition of racism it's a story that's been making headlines for quite some time in different outlets and in multiple countries but there's just too many coincidences here our coverage by r.t. to that list throw in russia and things get heated i'm simply shocked shocked shocked that r.t. has also been pushing a story line similar to tucker carlson's about threats facing white south african

farmers including this family they claim sought refuge in russia. thanks for pointing out i did know that threats to south african farmers was a major story on r.t. there must surely be a link here of fox news reports trump's twitter feed r t there's a clear pattern if of course we ignore the fact this shuttle has covered related issues in south africa for quite some time the south african parliament has voted in favor of new legislation that could see land from white farmers seized. so africa's government has vowed to tackle violent crime a problem that is there's poses an equal threat for all races living in the country . just outside south africa's capital stands the statue of the man who was behind the policies of apartheid it's a whites only enclave which allows black visitors only under special permit. the discrimination of the apartheid in south africa has long come turn that.