2000 and. 20. parties. big gains across. italy france and germany. in the u.k. the party is expected to win big in the conservatives with. a big. right on the heels of. the. conservative party leader sparking the race for britain's next prime minister. but with a normal. country. and

in other news of the week. 17 charges of espionage by u.s. prosecutors from publishing classified military documents and diplomatic cables back in 2000 and. 5. the vote count is under way with polls now closed across europe as the e.u. picks its next parliament there has been plenty of attention focused on this election in fact turnout has been the highest seen in 2 decades that is due to the perceived threat posed to the traditional parties by anti-establishment movements.

well this. election seems to have caught the public's attention i've just seen it flush open the official e.u. parliamentary feat there saying the official turnout as it stands at the moment is 50.5 percent if it stays that way or goes up at all it will be the largest turnout since 1994 so the big this certainly grabbed the attention of people this time around what we have seen is wins for empty establishment parties in or from the anti establishment parties on the right we've seen then we in hungary where viktor orban body is doing very well it's really where. these parties seem to have picked up quite a few votes as well in poland in greece as well now in greece actually gone bad for electricity prices so it's a party this is actually called election snuffle lections in greece following

what's been a pretty much a drubbing for him and his party in the european elections in spain box will enter the european parliament for the 1st time 3 seats as well one of those stablish mint right wing figures though who didn't have such a good night get builders in the netherlands it seems his party they had 4 seats they will have no seats in the upcoming parliament while in france there's also be . marine le pen speaking to the media she says the fact that her party national rally upset to be the biggest winners in france means that the money will mark on the french president should dissolve parliament hold elections for that and she's also said that the good showing by her party shows that she settled to mount a big challenge for the french presidency in 2022 he led the 1st or so. the president has no other choice but to dissolve the national assembly and allow for

a more democratic voting system in order to better represent this country's majority political opinion the feeding of traditional parties and the polarization between the national rally party and the renaissance party confirms that the political scene is now split between nationalists and globalists and that's what dominates our political life well in austria it's been well a rough 2 weeks for the standalone ridden government there and the corruption scandal is cost them a vice chancellor and all of the junior coalition partners in the cabinet quit as well however since the end quote the chancellor has done really well in these elections his party is doing really well in fact it certainly seems to cause him off guard a little bit he moves country early release and we have 3 i'm usually not at a loss for words but i'm almost speechless we expected a lot we were optimistic but this is a fantastic result this is never happened before we achieved the best result of all

time with the biggest distance from 2nd place of all time it is simply unbelievable the cheery sebastien could there bear in mind at lunchtime on monday he will be facing a vote of no confidence in the in the austrian parliament in vienna elsewhere here in germany it was a night of it seems to be a night of big losses for engler merkel c.d.u. c.s.u. union they going to still be the largest take the largest share of the vote here in germany but they lost a lot of seats we have seen both big wins for the green party now they campaigned very hard on as you would imagine with the green party environmental issues but also. saying bay wanted to see reform in the they've been really one of the big protest votes also it's worth bearing in mind that the stuff that came out from these things 48 percent of germans who were polled said that the end. vironment was a major factor for them voting in these elections seems a lot of people have gone to the greens the conservative opposition alternative to

germany they've well they've done better than they did all their own cause to do better than they did in 2014 expected take around 10 percent of the vote however that is less than they took in the general election back in 2017 earlier i spoke to some of the members and they told me that they hope to be able to try and shake things up in the upcoming european parliament the good thing out of this evening is that we will end up a new and very strong group and they will send out this signal or the the wind of change is coming through the year for you to be a very happy that we got this resolved this evening and i think it's a good signal for europe because another conservative party is gaining additional votes and what we're going to do is we are trying to reform the european union together with the other conservative parties we have our roots and a rule that ordinary people and the mass media. pick

a big corporate because permissions. simply at the front line but it's not to the nasty nationalists and the. liberal as they are globalists but we are the commonsense party so to get a picture of how it looks across europe and how they the next european parliament will shape up it's very likely almost certain that the european people's party the center right group will take the most seats but it's been a good night for greens across europe a good night for liberals across europe as well and a good night for some of the anti establishment parties across europe as people have well certainly it seems shifted away from voting for one of the 2 big parliamentary groups in the european parliament and it seems we may see well a few new faces in the european parliament after this this election. in britain. upstart bragg's it party is on course for victory in the european parliament

elections that is according to the 1st official u.k. results breaks the party is in the lead with 31.6 percent more than 2 thirds of the ballots counted have left the greens and blues who each have only half as much support of the liberal democrats are also showing good results at 20.3 percent prime minister many conservatives are among those being left on the sidelines earlier reacted to the returns. so that they are doing reasonably well but it. looks like at least with. the belief that. it's not really surprising when we look at the bigger picture there is a chance. that people's parties don't represent and more difference here did society this is that china will try and germany was kind of an exception in the process and now we see. the well opened up and in the past you have consensus on

the general narrative that european integration as such is good because it brings peace stability prosperity and we only disagree on certain ideological differences is it green enough is it fair enough is it parole. and now we have a large number of members of the bottom and who believe that the e.u. is not the solution but it is the problem coming along with the brags that parties success treece a mayor who has failed to see brags it through will step down as u.k. prime minister in an emotional speech outside number 10 may expressed regret for failing to deliver despite her best efforts she will resign as party leader on june 7th throwing open the race for a successor. it's now clear to me that is it it is in the best interests of the country for a new prime minister to lead that effort i do so with no ill will but with

enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. my own or. to be chosen by r.c. to become. a strong view of the ship for the future of our country let's it means bricks it will be no 2nd referendum no tents and that will that we can risk no breaks it is all we can. i. or we can choose to unite and support the best deal we can be because it is now clear to me that is it it is in the best interests of the country for a new prime minister to lead that effort theresa may made bragg's it

a cornerstone of her premiership but delivering on the results of the referendum proved an impossible task her deal was roundly rejected in huge defeat 3 times with m.p.'s on both sides of the house becoming increasingly irate mark almond a director of britain's crisis research institute oxford believes the country faces uncertainty and chaos. it's going to be a difficult task because the house of commons is still strongly against leaving the e.u. except on terms which involve remaining in a customs union almost certainly so that there's going to be a disconnect between the tory party members and supporters and presumably the people who defected to the briggs's party who are mainly conservatives who want a serious break with your appeal and the members of parliament and so unless you change the arithmetic in the house of commons whoever succeeds mrs may if they want . to leave the e.u. was going to face huge problems in the same sort can they force a new general election what will be the result of that we don't know but there's going to be a great deal of uncertainty and as i say there's this looming deadline of the 31st

of october which is the end of the extension of britain's membership and the british politicians seem to forgotten that in the modern world divorce can be initiated from both sides the remaining members of the european union may decide we find you too much trouble we want you to leave now i'm sure that could be a chaotic disorderly brigs it. where brags it goes next it's hard to tell what becomes of the official conservative stance depends on who succeeds may a labor the main opposition party except in the renda referendum result it wants a deal but not may's ukip and the bags at party are both advocating a so-called hard drugs that where britain also quits in the e.u. single market and the liberal democrats the green party and change u.k. all want to reverse bragg's it and have a 2nd referendum. and italian interior minister matteo salvini as party has maintained its a lead position in the e.u. vote salvini says he intends to create a euro skeptic anti-establishment coalition within the bloc matteo salvini is set

to make the northern league party italy's biggest political force after the polls closed he thanked all those who supported his party adding that a new europe is coming a little political experts believe salvini will find many allies in the new parliament. today's vote shows that the rules of europe are changing it's not just due to the choice of the italians but also of the french the germans the british the one gary and the poles the thins the swedes the danes a new europe is born structure of the european union is a failure many countries now have realized that you is not a solution it's actually a problem so every country have their own interests and. i'm not surprised if marine le pen will work with the leading a lot of people you know think about nigel throughout for those with the grace of movement if it works and if it's in to the interest of countries then they will

definitely work together and so when he's very close to or in looking as well so i don't see anything that will go against that. the former president of the government of catalonia carlos put your mont who is currently living in exile in belgium has won a seat in the european parliament however it is doubtful put him on it will be able to take up his new role without returning to madrid if he returns to spain to carry out formalities to take his seat he could be arrested over his role in catalonia as 2017 independence bid which the government considers illegal that same year he fled from spain to avoid prosecution. switching gears now we get a co-founder julian assange faces up to 175 years in prison for publishing classified files u.s. prosecutors this week slapped 17 new charges against him all of which fall under the espionage act of a come on top of a charge of conspiring to hack a u.s.

government computer which forms the basis of an extradition request for a son who is currently serving time in the u.k. artie's done a quarter takes a closer look at what it all means for the whistleblower. the stakes are now much higher for imprisoned wiki leaks founder julian assange on 17 new charges by a notoriously anti whistleblower court and potentially up to 175 years in prison this new batch of accusations falls under the espionage act used to convict spies and detractors during the 1st world war the indictments legal ease of have taining and disclosure of sensitive government information which often just means exposing government wrongdoings is lighting a fire under a stablish when american journalists since after all they're doing it to this is to put it bluntly wrong unconstitutional and downright tyrannical this is a pretty aggressive new move by the justice department a big deal here for

a 1st amendment advocates the government is now trying to assert this brand new right to criminally prosecute people for publishing secret stuff and newspapers and magazines and investigative journalists and all sorts of different entities publish secret stuff all the time that is the bread and butter of what we do with the new indictment of a sauna the government is advancing a legal argument that places such an important work in jeopardy the administration has gone from denigrating journalists as enemies of the people to now criminalizing common practices in journalism notice anything not a lot about a songes work or fate but quite a bit about there's this is the hypocrisy of the mainstream media here in the united states just a couple of weeks ago the washington post editorial board ran an editorial saying that julian was not a journalist well guess what the washington post one pulitzer prizes you'll using the information that julian and we keep leaks published so you would think that in a normal world the washington post the new york times the wall street journal the

guardian and every other major news outlet we'd be lining up 100 julian to support him they're not the thing is though some might argue the war on freedom of speech began long ago back in 2012. songe fled to the ecuadorian embassy in london for political asylum over fears of extradition to the u.s. after exposing potentially incriminating acts by the u.s. military for 7 years he was interned there and conditions the u.n. said amounted to arbitrary detention at times he was denied access to the internet stifling his journalistic work and all the while an allegation of rape in sweden has hung over his head his lawyers claim the alleged victim said it was actually the police who sought charges not her the establishment media has had plenty of things to say back then and not much had to do with the 1st amendment the free press is not responsible for the origins of any material that gets to us. unless of

course we are responsible for it because we had something to do with how it was a leak illegally obtained if someone's life was potentially a risk responsible media you would know it published yes these are conversation hard conversations that are had in newsrooms around the country and the world at the end of the day what would you say to those people who do claim that look he's his activities he'd follow mold john made the good you're not allowed to help instruct you're not allowed to try to help somebody defeat security system they prefer to accuse the sonnes of working with the russians and of course to claim at the end he neglected his personal hygiene and like playing with his fecal matter for years they've been ignoring restrictions on the songes freedom of speech and smearing him for the sake of the narrative but the monster they created has now turned against them when the mainstream media is absolutely hypocritical you know they spent these last several years criticizing critiquing damning. stones for

constantly continuously all of a sudden now they've woken up and pretended to be so upset about the 17 charges of espionage they do feel through. now it has nothing to do with freedom of press freedom of speech they feel threatened because they do the same thing that a staunch is done every day of the week it's called national security reporting and so now all of a sudden it's getting closer to home and they're pretending to be more concerned about it just to remind you here are some of the biggest revelations made by a over the years back in 2010 thousands of documents and classified video related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan were made public that leak a detailed among other things the indiscriminate shooting of civilians in iraq a year later the so-called get mo files revealed routine torture at the guantanamo bay camp and the deaths of inmates through harsh treatment and in 2016 wiki leaks revealed a pro clinton media bias during the 2016 presidential campaign and

a plot to push bernie sanders out of the race. switching gears donald trump says he has no fears over the latest military test by north korea this is despite his top foreign policy officials condemning p.r. yang's actions north korea fired off some small weapons which disturbs some of my people and others but not me i have confidence that chairman kim will keep his promise to me u.n. security council resolutions prohibit north korea from firing any bill istic missiles in terms of violating security council resolutions there is no doubt about that. tweet comes during his 4 day visit to japan which has become increasingly concerned about pyongyang's military activity tokyo has been highly critical of the retests with of the recent missile launches landing in the sea of japan country also insists north korea's actions that violate un resolutions north korea launched

several short range missiles earlier this month trump himself had initially condemned to pyongyang tests which broke a $500.00 day moratorium disarmament talks between the u.s. and north korea collapsed earlier this year after washington rejected a partial lifting of sanctions without full denuclearization former u.s. diplomat jim believes trump is striking a balance between both carrot and stick approaches. now you know as far as mr trump's public disagree with mr bolton there are number of questions raised the most obvious one to anybody who supported drum since the election is why is bolton there in the 1st place mr bowles been quite clear that he wants regime change in north korea by military means of necessary whereas i believe president roh is quite committed to his relationship with god chairman kim and to bring about a peaceful resolution on the korean peninsula and i think this is something that the his his underlings have been trying to sabotage for quite some time they've

managed to tank the hanoi summit and i think what we've seen with some of the recent tests from north korea are showing a very impatient of that and that's one reason mr trump is saying i don't care so much about that because he still committed to the agreement most of the news conference coverage thank you about trumpeters because your hand has been about korea i think there are other rankly bigger issues on the table because we know sometimes destruction is one thing and that says another thing he wants to look at the way that he can he can keep some pressure on the north koreans but also keep the door open to an agreement can realize he can't trust the people he has around. while donald trump is coming under pressure from his top diplomats over north korea in syria it's the u.s. arms industry that supplying force demanding he keeps thousands of soldiers in the country artie's kalam up and comments. so who sets us foreign policy well when it comes to the projection of military force of the constitution and common sense says

that's the president your sound george w. bush put it but i'm the decider and i decide what is best but recent statements from donald trump throw that into question here is what he said if you do have a military industrial complex they do like war you know in syria with the caliphate so i wipe out 100 percent of the caliphate i shall want to bring the troops back home to place one crazy they want to keep it there you have people here in wa she want it they never want to leave some day people will explain what this is and if you will do have you do have a group and they call it the military industrial complex so according to trump he wanted to bring troops back from syria but he was compelled to leave several 100 of them there why well according to him the usa has quite a powerful military industrial complex and if our president is fighting against it it seems that he is hiding this fight rather well recently donald trump appointed patrick shanahan as his new secretary of defense shanahan spent 30 years at boeing

which is one of the largest defense contractors in the united states and one of the world's biggest arms manufacturers and like many other companies contracted by the pentagon boeing is having a great year. folks in this industry have actually pointed to what they call the trump effect have you seen that in terms of our allies and our spending not only have i seen we think it's the best time we've ever seen in a long time for the defense industry but it's not just the truck presidency that has been a boon to the military industrial complex many different political leaders in the united states have campaigned on a platform of peace and then expanded wars once they've taken office. nations making progress toward freedom will find america is their friend. we're promoter of values.

we've lost thousands of american lives spent nearly a trillion dollars. to the murders and all of the calls of fighting a war for well over 5 years in a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 911 attacks. i will never send our finest into battle unless necessary and i mean absolutely miss and will only do so if we have a plan for victory with a capital. it's as if we've learned nothing from history the 34th us president dwight eisenhower warned the public about unwarranted influences when he left office over

60 years ago in the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or runs on by the military industrial complex . the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist . we must never let the weight of this combination in danger are limiting our democratic process. we should take nothing for granted. more of the weekly coming up at the top of the hour stay with us. they were going to see that happen too close also unfortunately it was most feet with a militia to overthrow the previous government. the former president and c.e.o.

of oil rich to 40 years the country people wanted much more and they didn't want just. travel freely with europe they wanted for it to become part of. this is very far way to go still you mean you can bring. back geysers financial survival guide. housing bubble. oh you mean there's a downside artificially low mortgage rates don't get carried away that's cause report. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

so we ended 2014 with the u.s. marshals auctioning off some more of their big coin enter 2015 and we see the arrival of the banks and them trying to figure out a way to how to have block chain without bitcoin this was the year that we had blocked chain not that queen and in fact i'm going to skip ahead to this headline from bloomberg markets on october 25th 2015 and it has on the cover live masters the former head of the precious metals trading desk over at j.p.

morgan and it's all about the block chain they claim this is attempt by the banks to. nudge their way into this emerging market and they can't recognize bitcoin as such because it's a competitive threat so they've decided that the underlying technology of block chain is something that they want to be involved with and that if they can push block jane over bitcoin they can get into this business but without having the competitor of bitcoin and blith masters is a well known character on wall street who created and invented the credit default swap to help exxon void all kinds of taxes and environmental penalties there is a very good. buy bill gates. are writing on a book in 95 that they think that it would not be important what would be important

is instead of the highway of information. an intern would just be a small part of the i would information but the most important thing is not the internet is what is the concept beyond internet broaching is the same i think it comes from the typical. ross elaboration of loss theory basically at the beginning something bad something this scares you something that is causing a loss for your business for example at the beginning if the nile it doesn't exist then it becomes a rage it does exist but is evil and we are going to shut it down then it's about again so it does exist but only at my own condition and i would create a new warts in order to to deal with it at my condition and the chain is this 3rd phase basically 1st doesn't exist it's a joke then because does exist but is dangerous and we're going to shut it down but then we don't want to appear like dinosaurs so we don't have to we do have to say something we cannot say so we say blocks in.