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from our studios. at a deadly stabbing at a police station is now being investigated as an act of terrorism according to prosecutors the man who killed 4 colleagues on thursday was linked to islamic extremist networks. yes you with the investigation has revealed the perpetrator was in contact with several individuals likely to belong to the salafist an islamist movements in addition testimony indicates that he did hear to a radical vision of islam this knife attack was a catastrophe that shook paris to its core the assailant was a 45 year old michael harp and who had worked at a police station for 15 years and all that time the police who are tasked with

preventing such attacks had no suspicions that harping would kill 4 of his colleagues with a knife he smuggled in. i . what exactly are the authorities actually saying about the attackers about if this well anti-terrorism prosecutors are currently handling this case and they still don't have enough information to pin down the the assailant motivations exactly but they did reveal that the assailant converted to islam 18 months prior to the attack now of course the authorities say that that's not an automatic sign of radicalization but there's other information they also revealed that he had

a radical vision of islam and was also in communication with solid islamicists which of course is enough to keep terrorist motivations on the table in considering the situation but so far the police haven't found any evidence as to anything pointing towards religious motives after they searched his house in the suburbs of paris even told with some of the details 45 i think you say. what else do we know about the attackers but. well his wife was arrested after he was shot dead in the police state. after the murder and she told authorities that harp and was actually acting doraine stan was hearing voices in his head the night before this attack took place and that have something to do with his motivations of course maybe but so far the authorities haven't connected all the dots to say for sure it was my colleague you know neil speaking with donald quarter earlier now staying with paris police have attempted to remove hundreds of environmental protesters from

a shopping mall campaigners from the x. rebellion movement along with yellow vest activists entered italy tomorrow in the south east of the french capital on saturday morning they called their demonstration the last occupation before the end of the world stores in the complex were forced to close as a result of the arrest. switching gears across the pond to ecuador now it is in the grips of mass civil unrest over soaring fuel prices demonstrations began over the government's decision to end fuel subsidies which is expected to cause prices of petrol and diesel to more than double. i think the transport workers have been leading a nationwide strike and the president is using emergency powers to deploy troops in an attempt to maintain order but there have been scenes of chaos as police clashed

with protesters and there has been at least $350.00 arrests of the fuel subsidies it cost the government more than a $1000000000.00 a year and quito says there is no chance they will be reinstated it is all part of the president's plan to cut public spending to meet the terms of an i.m.f. loan agreed in march or 2 if he got it done of takes a deeper look at the impact. the i.m.f. is generous and open handed and giving and seeing whenever a country's economy is in grave need my immediate priority for the i.m.f. ease to help members minimize the risk of crises we focus on job creation we focus on productivity we focus on stability and stop military actually will be my my my key focus is to build strong calling miss so

people fly 30 proof except far too often when a state places its trust in the i.m.f. it ends up in scenes like these i. like like ours sure screeds i don't know these facts she doesn't seem to talk yourself. the last pictures we showed you are from ecuador a country that proves that the i.m.f. does business the same way on both sides of the atlantic at the expense of the people the ecuadorian administration reached a 4 point $2000000000.00 deal with the fund in exchange for

a form's abiding by its trusted playbook the i.m.f. marketed it in a non surprise fashion achieving their own last fiscal position is at the core of the authorities problem which will be supported by a 3 year extended arrangement from the i.m.f. well i've already kind of spoiled to you how this has turned out so far in turmoil in the streets and the state of emergency the authorities have voluntarily renounced their right to choose they must follow through with the tax reform stripped their citizens of some labor protections and cause fuel prices to double measures wildly unpopular among the people well but these are the commandments of the sect of a sturdy unlike with any cold it's easy to get in not to get out in 2002 the president of malawi a nation in africa said that the i.m.f. had to force them to sell big countries strategic grain reserves they did and as

a result millions of people were exposed to famine when the drought hit something the i.m.f. outright refused to accept any responsibility for the causes of food shortages in malawi are complex including lapses in the government's early warning systems distortions in domestic markets and mismanagement of food reserves in more recent cases the i am of bailout programs for italy greece ireland and portugal ignited europe wide and to your story to movement just when people realised that in reality the money comes not from the i.m.f. but from their wallets in ecuador just over 20 percent of the population support the. forms that came until with the funds billions because the i.m.f. is a robin hood who got it all wrong and now gives to the rich and takes from the poor they then the i.m.f. is given a credit to a country is under certain conditions but on the. day they control they're going to

make a legend and they're going to go on which is about the goal of i.m.f. what they are really following this try to open the economy affect whether just to make the. ecuadorian people in the future but not get access to a different kind of private services that they get they don't got but the thing is what is the cost of this kind of rest of the direction of the economy anything they're doing we know they're going to increase inflation we know they can increase unemployment rate at the moment but in theory yes in theory back with all of the future going to be an economy similar like the u.s. economy or mexican economy let's say but obviously with that with our high like i say with the cost of history and that's going to be. north korea's top nuclear negotiator has said that talks with the u.s. have broken down just hours after they started in stockholm we are disappointed that the united states has not put anything on the negotiating table now the responsibility for the continuation of the talks lies with the u.s.

. it was the 1st meeting between delegations from the 2 countries since donald trump and kim jong un met in the demilitarized zone between the 2 koreas in june head of saturday's talks u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o had said there was still a lot of work to be done to build trust and improve relations contrary to north korea's statement though washington has claimed the latest discussions were not a failure and allowed it to come up with a number of creative ideas now in the run up to the meeting north korea said it had tested a submarine launched nuclear capable missile the pentagon then fired its own intercontinental ballistic missile in response political analyst check told us he did not expect the latest discussions to be successful. actually what the expects and the only is expected this lifting of the sanctions against against. its multi-syllable it should demand too considering that the north korea never

attacked anybody. definitively doesn't pose much to prove to anybody in the region most korea all these demands a lifting of the sanctions on north america is not willing to united states is not willing to. even the go she'd on this point so i don't. understand the war except for the beyond avoid these meetings and they go she should take place because at this obvious ones that are now that they will end up. this way and if you look at the us negotiation community well since so they're all came to power all the basically the only country of the wall that never achieved anything it will be china well or any other country it doesn't seem to the us is really in willing to make it a compromise is only partly out of or enemy. billionaires

it should not exist and of all the people nodding in agreement with that statement from u.s. presidential hopeful bernie sanders is mega rich facebook founder mark zuckerberg sanders also says that wealth inequality is out of control but despite that surprising admission from zuckerberg the world's 5th richest person not all of the super rich are on board and willing to give up their luxuries some are even suggesting that part of an oppressed minority in his heart his killer mop and comment. billionaires pretty much rule the united states the president himself is a billionaire but apparently he is the most threatened and bullied man in the country he has turned american diplomacy into a cheap extortion racket let's be honest donald trump is a loser all his failed businesses trump cares about exactly one person and that one person is named donald trump i'm sorry that you're

a terrible president. well perhaps but the bullying of donald trump has very little to do with him being a billionaire billionaires almost live in a parallel universe with the elite parties private jets and little islands that they own but apparently some billionaires feel like they are persecuted minority it's the ordinary people that are persecuting them led by a boogie man named bernie sanders. billionaires bb billionaire billionaire billionaires billionaires are not a billionaire due to all that class hatred incited by bernie sanders the rich are forced to hide in fancy restaurants and the studio of the fox news channel is no longer safe for them to roam the streets with commoners let's go back to bernie sanders for a minute when we are having a standard here what the hell has he done it's aspirational i didn't start with anything. penalize everyone that's done well now steve schwarzman the

founder of blackstone says that the treatment of billionaires in the united states is starting to resemble the treatment of the jews in nazi germany seriously he actually said this it's the wall it's like when hitler invaded poland in 1939 and he's not the only one it's a rising trend if you get about 33 we've different words this is what hitler was saying in germany you don't survive as a society if you encourage and thrive on and view it genesee the wealthy t.v. preacher kenneth copeland has also reported suffering at the hands of the not so well. or a huge fire lines you can't manage that today right this don't feel the world right get in an air get in a long tube with a bunch of being been so the gap between the rich and poor in america has reached its peak in half a century sell do you think that billionaires are really an oppressed minority we decided to ask new yorkers what they think that's a joke right oppressed. not at all welcome to be approached minority when living in

a world in which i don't think they should be hated they didn't get that way well most people did a really successful got that way because they work if they have enough money so they can protect themselves don't believe in demonizing the successful i mean their majority of them has created a product or service ness or result of. the good work that they've done theirs is their success so i don't demonize him for being successful now this notion that the rich are somehow mistreated by society is certainly not a new cold war novelist and philosopher i know rand wrote an entire book called atlas shrugged it was about how the rich of the world go on strike against the ungrateful rabble who levy taxes against them but average americans just don't buy the argument seems that when the ultra rich claim the world has been unfair to them they don't really know what fair means kaleb up and archie new york. almost 100 people have been killed in 5 days of protests now gripping iraq that

story much more after the break this is r t international. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport i'm sure i'll see that. the. problem in syria. became exacerbated because probably because the united states and the russian federation both of them decided to deal with it at an arm's length. their regional allies to take care of things there are a number of opportunities there were if they were seized and there were real serious attempts by moscow and washington to solve the problem and i was witness to

a number of them and it could have been possible with a short in the war and would have saved a lot of lives 1st no doubt. welcome back this is our international now iraq has been left reeling by 5 days of nationwide anti-government protests in which at least 93 people have been killed this according to rights groups young arrest began on tuesday as thousands rallied in. an employment police fired tear gas and live rounds to disperse the crowd internet access has now been cut in most parts of the country curfews were also

temporarily imposed iraq's prime minister a dual body has defended the use of lethal force against protesters. and security measures that are being taken a difficult choices but it's like a bitter medicine it's in dispenser. because your security cannot be risked. the iraqi prime minister also said there is no magic solution to the country's economic problems according to the world bank just 43 percent of working age iraqis are either in employment or seeking work that is despite the country having the 4th largest oil reserves in the world and iraq is still coping with of the legacy of the 2003 u.s. invasion and war that followed almost 2000000 people are internally displaced and 7000000 are in need of humanitarian aid the government says it would cost at least $90000000000.00 to rebuild the country's infrastructure iraqi kurdish iraqi kurdish

journalist he told us that the public has been making the same demands for years. unfortunately the u.s. policy in iraq has been a failed failure after failure or really not knowing iraq well their demands are what most iraqis have been asking for for over the past 16 your sister 1003. it doesn't seem to be any real practical response from the government they are still resorting to the old fashioned ways of either using violence with these protests or trying to talk to some of the leaders and the with the one thing very important about these protests is that they really do not have leaders chronic corruption the chronic problems that have been in the country says 3003 i have not been solved cutting the internet is not going to work they posing a curfew will not work live bullets would work. the impeachment inquiry into

donald trump over his phone call with of the leader of ukraine as he white house officials subpoenaed over the u.s. president's contacts with kiev the democrats spearheading the probe say mr trump has left them with no other choice as for u.s. military aid which plays an important role in the whole scandal the u.s. state department this week approved the sale of nearly $40000000.00 worth of anti-tank weapons to kiev 150 javelin missiles come on top of the $200.00 sold into the country last year our correspondent i gather you have has unique commentary now on how ukraine has turned into a gold mine for the u.s. . at 1st sight you wouldn't take ukraine for a land of opportunity unless you're into peddling weapons the javelin system will help ukraine build its long term defense capacity to defend its sober instance oratorial integrity in order to meet its national defense requirements now

ain't that just the american dream selling weapons to a nation that can barely afford to keep itself warm in the winter and not just any weapons the javelin by far the most expensive and its class more than $200000.00 for the launcher and a rocket was uneasy though it took a concentrated push by arms manufacturers lobbyists and politicians to overturn a ban on lethal weapon sales to ukraine and this man this man was at the center of it the significance of this is that he lifted the bombing your arms did provide anti-tank weapons. and now we're prepared to treat you crazy like any other normal country which is this just look at this face doesn't it radiate honesty and empathy but appearances can be deceptive curt was naughty

curt had a little side gig going on that was all hush hush the side from representing trump in ukraine he also worked for b.g. are huge and powerful lobbying group which surprise lobbies for a theatre the company that manufactures javelin missiles and will make millions by selling them to ukraine kurt unfortunately resigned in september and aside from the whole potentially corrupt thing with b.g. are in great here he was also embroiled in the trump ukraine scandal speaking of which trump has recently put on hold almost. $400000000.00 in military aid to ukraine please out. a scheme to use the leverage of the presidency you use the leverage of the. vital military assistance to

a foreign nation. to provide or obtain dirt on political opponent it's hard to imagine a more serious set of allegations than those contained in the complaint surely they can't all be rotten this is adam adam has a much friendlier face than kurt adams seems genuinely concerned about ukraine alas adam doesn't seem to be any better see among adams sponsors is a fellow named igor pasternak who makes a lot of money on military contracts with ukraine is the pasternak recently hosted a fundraiser for adam after which the congressman began all but the mounding that the us said money and arms to ukraine which would allow his generous sponsor to real the entire ukrainian military just last year the m 16 project was conceived some time ago as ukrainian own forces border guards and national guard we

time switch to nato standards honus to you could probably film sin city 3 with characters based and these guys but even if you don't sell guns and don't get kickbacks or donations from mama's manufacturers you can still use ukraine here for example as ukraine's national and t. corruption bureau chief sit nick recorded bragging about how he helped hillary clinton during the 2016 election yes yes i don't know trump but hillary i helped hillary belongs to the co-hosts of politicians who. comprise the who germany in the us both in the us and in the entire world for us that is sort of better oh you could definitely film sin city 3 with these guys but the audio is real confirmed by ukraine's attorney general it was missed the city by

the way who published dirt on trump's campaign manager in 2016 in the real last anyway but the fellow tried so what if you don't have guns to sell or elections to win what if for example daddy wants to get his young boy a nice cushy job where he didn't have to do much well ukraine's the help booth john biden's son and john kerry's stepson landed executive jobs at a ukrainian energy company now strap yourself in hunter biden earned $50000.00 a month 50000 in a country where the average wage is a few $100.00 and you know what in the weird and wacky world of us politicians and i think it gave you a taste of just how wacky it is that's normal but underlying problem here was of course hunger by receiving $50000.00 a month from ukraine energy company do you think that that is evidence of corrupt

behavior no people are set on. monetary payments it was always a playground for america and ukraine in 2013 victoria nuland boasted about the billions america spent supporting democracy in ukraine or meddling in its politics you pick since ukraine's independence in 1901 the united states has supported ukrainians as they do democratic skills and institutions as a promotes it in participation in good governance which are preconditions for ukraine to achieve its here p n aspirations we've invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in knees in articles. it rained sure secure and prosperous and democratic he trained well thank you mr newland didn't ukraine turn out great but then again look at it like an american senator you don't care that ukrainians are poor cold stressed and

hopeless what you care about is that your sponsors can make money and keep doing anything to you what you care about is ukrainians helping you in elections what you care about is ukraine providing your kids with comfy little jobs that pay millions over the years and if you are an american senator well ukraine couldn't have turned out any better. international. world is driven by shaped by.

the day. thinks. we dare to ask. in 2040 you know bloody revolution to tikrit the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just always here i mean you are liz put the video put him in the. school and you go to the ukrainian president recalls the events of 2040 and. those who took part in it invested over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. or

this is the kaiser report we get into it like you probably are used to so if you're not used to it get ready stacey hey max well you know what we have a topic today that is right in your court and that is i know you used to be an options trader on wall street so we have some stories from the options market and the topsy turvy world where the black in shoals formula was supposed to get rid of risk it was supposed to help separate risk and reward this paper was published in 1983 the black initials options formula and negative rates are rewriting the rules

of modern finance negative interest rates have quite literally broken one of the pillars of modern finance as a columnist and central bankers weigh the pros and cons of sub 0 rates and their impact on the world traders have been contending with a rather more mundane fundamental issue how to price risk on trillions of dollars of financial instruments like interest rate swaps when their complex mathematical models simply don't work. right now the black themselves model didn't get rid of risk that separated risk from reward so i make the analogy to the atomic weapons or the atomic power of the whole idea of einstein's discovery that energy equals mass and by understanding that you could create an atomic weapon that was based on a fusion exciter 0 so in the financial world. the black controlled model basically pried open risk and reward and you could.