yeah going to court for harming the public why does he know all about it well he's been representing those corporations for most of his life as a corporate lawyer in fact the two most high profile cases facebook and equifax are both his former clients now that little fact did not go unnoticed. instead of demanding accountability the f.t.c. puts equifax is hired gun in charge of the bureau that's supposed to protect consumers this is corruption plain and simple he's on the wrong side of these issues i can't imagine worse choices but not money so an activist group calling itself public citizen filed a request under the freedom of information act to find out if there were any potential conflicts of interest in relation to andrew smith consumers deserve a consumer protection advocate the miss position not a hired gun for corporate sharks they were provided with documents over four

hundred ninety five pages on the new consumer protection sheet and potential conflicts and cronyism associated with them however almost all of it was blacked out nearly every page was redacted so no information was exposed there so no new evidence about alleged conflicts of interest that certainly doesn't ease the doubts this is andrew smith in twenty eighteen my name is andrew smith and i'm the director of the bureau of consumer protection at the federal trade commission were dedicated to pursuing law enforcement actions to stop unlawful practices including fraud against consumers but this is andrew smith less than a year ago representing equifax a company investigated by the f.t.c. for a massive data breach my name is andrew smith and i'm a partner in the law firm of covington and burling i'm appearing today on behalf of the consumer data industry association c.d.i. its members include the three national credit bureaus equifax experian and trans union we have the mr smith a twenty eight team heading the watchdog that is still probing the corporation that

he defended in twenty seventeen a clear example of the revolving door between the federal government and its trade secrets cable company r.t. new york. a passenger jet has overshot the runway and caught fire in southern russia and. early hours of saturday leaving eighteen people injured including three children the boeing plane operated by you tear airlines was unable to land for more than half an hour due to adverse weather conditions at sochi airport when it finally touched down the plane skidded off the runway and into a riverbed the wing and undercarriage were damaged when it hit the airport fence and burst into flames there were no fatalities among the one hundred and seventy people on board but airport officials say one rescue worker died from a heart attack russia's investigative committee has opened a criminal investigation on suspicion the airline may not be up to service standards mean also chair port continues to operate without any reported delays

still to come amazon's in the firing line over working conditions for its american staff and one former senator's got a plan to balance things up the details when we come back. you know world is a big part of some new things. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past 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.

make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is to protect themselves. with the famous merry go round listen to the one percent. nor middle of the room. welcome back to the program there's a call for web retail giant amazon to be taxed to make up for low wages and poor working conditions for staff in the united states democratic senator bernie sanders says some employees at the nine hundred billion dollars firm are paid so little

that they qualify for food stamps so america has more. the story of the american leftist movement bernie sanders is at war with amazon the world's largest online retailer accusing the company of not treating its workers sparely it is important to take a look at the power and influence that the answer is that all over this country amazon employees pay wages so low that they are having a real hard time getting bar they are forced to pay and upon pacs play a funded programs and you know who pays for those programs. this isn't just empty rhetoric either sanders announced that he'd be introducing legislation that would require these big corporations to cover all federal benefits their employees receive from the government like food stamps and public housing if they can't pay them a living wage he's also encouraging amazon employees to speak out one former employee claims she was forced to work with an injured foot it was like a something there was a loud crack i really feel there's an injury

a little we don't seize your flights not stolen or anything this just goes to just some disturbance about you through fish your fish it's either finish your shift. cliff face time at one time however amazon c.e.o. jeff bezos presented himself as an employer who truly cared about his employees and the environment they were working at i'm very proud of the culture that we have with him so if you're giving great customer experience. there's the only way to do that is with happy people and now amazon has issued a response to sandra's criticism something that doesn't happen very often urging employees to write to the senator and prove him wrong senator sanders continues to make inaccurate and misleading accusations against amazon we are encouraging all employees to take senator sanders up on his request and respond with their actual experience some did respond positively to the senator's tweets but that didn't change his mind he called on amazon to publish info on the number of employees it

hires along with our. early wages and benefits amazon says its median salary in the us is just over thirty four thousand dollars around what jeff bezos makes every ten seconds now imagine how much money he's made in the time i've taken to report this story. america on our team washington d.c. . to syria now where the russian defense ministry says it has received reports that a terrorist attack on the ancient city of palmira has been ported it comes on the back of the u.s. secretary of state accusing russia and president assad of escalating the syrian conflict he described plans to liberate libya province from extremists as an assault my pump a also said civilians there would bear the brunt of the offensive against terror groups r.t. spoke to the syrian foreign minister about the fight against jihad us and his country. first of all the international community should

recognize that. syrian territory and this syrian government must regain full control of it secondly as president assad said our priorities so liberate it live by that peacefully which we prefer or use in the military thirdly it is clear that the new city is listed as a terrorist organization by the united nations to protect c.b. then. we have opened and humanitarian corridor it has been open for two weeks and we have already received hundreds of families on these bases and i can say that if military action is considered necessary it will be only. the new set of those groups who are in favor of a settlement deal should voice their position and me their commitments in terms of for reconciliation. it led has been a haven for rebels and their families evacuated from areas retaken by the

government almost three million people currently live in the province the cording to the u.n. there are also thousands of jihadist militants there as well italy has another fact and we have to be connected and extremely high concentration of foreign fighters as the mates all. know for what they've been named they want to quote themselves is it more or less around to tell thousand of them investigative journalists work sterling says western nations don't want to see the highly trained foreign terrorists in syria returning to their home countries elements within the united states and nato for that matter want to prolong the conflict they basically want the syrian government to let the terrorists stay in the province we can just imagine what might pompei a would say if there were thousands of terrorists in oregon and washington states in the united states they wouldn't have any patience at all for that the situation is complicated right now it's difficult because there are thousands of foreign

fighters there these are trained terrorists with a lot of battle experience and they've been supported by the west they've been supported by the gulf by including including turkey turkey and none of the countries that have supported the terrorists want them to come back to their own their own countries of course and it's kind of hypocritical for my pump aoe to criticize syria for trying to expel terrorists from its own its own territory that's a global news update for now and thanks for tuning it. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only move really i'm going to resist i

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a lot of the atrocities that were for the soon to africans as was the result of one of the slave trade and which was invoked by empire then i would it be then. account like a bad thing for me to do to upset the. and then be a member of the opposition empire it's a subject that has come under renewed scrutiny in the wake of the so-called windrush scandal in u.k. prime minister tourism aids hostile environment which led to deportations of british people with africa or be in the street and one icon of caribbean cultural interchange celebrates half a century this year trojan records a label was promoted by a d.j. who did so much to fuse the rebellion of political music in global culture don let's we sat down with the celebrated director and clash videographer at the.