walking like a soldier that's intimidation to do it it's not an entire citizenry whether you have dark skin or light skin that is if behavior a police state that quite frankly is one of the reasons we left that country at that time because that police state particularly in miami was getting completely out of control that's the that's the norm now imagine being someone who doesn't look like me who has statistically a greater likelihood to die at a gun or at the knee of a police officer having that person walk into starbucks is could be a very different experience i talk to robert a professor of sociology at lancaster university joining us live here on r.t. international we appreciate your time thank you very much. thank you for joining us here with all the international we all facts are with.

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this is a bustling business where you can't afford to mess i'm rachel blevins in washington coming out the u.s. is now warning americans not to travel to 80 percent of the world as some areas look for church and one others consider the use of the controversial vaccine or what the social network parlor is making its return to the apple app store but what has it agreed to change and will google remove its ban now then. europe is facing a major shake up and certain teams announce the creation of a new super elite so will the backlash be enough to stop the deal with billions of dollars at stake well discuss it all next we have a lot to get to so let's get started. the state department is now warning americans against traveling to just about anywhere else in the world and

a new guidance that puts 80 percent of countries worldwide on the do not travel list they plan to add 130 new countries to the category which is currently at $34.00 and it already includes countries such as kenya brazil haiti and russia the state department says it is working with the guidelines set by the c.d.c. but the update comes as top airlines across the u.s. report their earnings for the 1st quarter of 2021 and despite an increase in domestic travel over easter weekend the ongoing restrictions worldwide are still having an impact take united airlines for example which posted a $1360000000.00 net loss for the 1st quarter of this year on $3220000000.00 in revenue that 60 percent less than the 8000000000 dollars that gender. rated in the 1st quarter of 2020 then there is the lingering question of how covert 19 vaccines will play

a role and if americans will be required to ride proof of the shot before they travel are to use turn each of us has the latest. airlines are reporting an uptick and traveled nearly 10000000 people took to the skies just last week but while the u.s. plans to advise americans against traveling to most countries some believe that axion passports are the ticket back to normalcy today the u.s. department of state preparing to update its travel advisories to better align with those from the centers for disease control and prevention a change that would imply adding $130.00 countries at level 4 do not travel to approximately 80 percent of countries worldwide we are taking very seriously the global threat from the band to make the update comes as more than 910000000 doses have been administered across 156 countries with the u.s. giving more than 212000000 vaccines a daily average of about 3000000 a day i want to recognize that we remain in

a complicated. on the one hand more people in the united states are being vaccinated every single day and i'm exonerated. on the other hand cases and hospitalizations are increasing this as some officials push for vaccine passports for work the news and travel i think the passports could be an important part of our recovery new york city already launching the excelsior pass the nation's 1st vaccine passport that allows new yorkers to prove their vaccination status or recent kovan 1000 testing history to participating businesses and then use by using a simple app on their phone i think particularly for some private sector settings it could be a really valuable tool i think government has a role to play in setting it up and making it work u.s. airlines also calling for vaccine passports asking the white house for federal guidance for temporary health credentials that would keep track of travelers negative kovan $1000.00 test and a vaccination something the world health organization is reviewing that's good for

everyone it's good for countries and and systems immunization programs and it's all too good for individuals who don't have to get any of b. . book around with them but that's very different from making it. for someone to have a certificate in order to travel that's when the problems really stop coming up the u.s. airlines do not want vaccines mandated for travel they do hope the digital health pass will help people avoid domestic and international court requirements hawaii moving one step closer to approving vaccine passports for travelers just last week all across the country florida governor rhonda santos is fighting the initiative the governor signing an executive order this month that bans state and local governments from issuing proof of vaccination documents and prohibits governments businesses and public venues from doing the same now again here in new york while some officials believe that scene passports could be the way to fast track getting things back to normal they say that getting vaccinated is still the number one

priority reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. . german chancellor on the americal maybe on her way out but she is speaking up about why her government continues to stand by the nordstrom to pipeline despite ongoing pressure from the u.s. while the biden and ministration warn the project would create unprecedented reliance on russia merkel noted that europe already relies heavily on russian oil and that backing out of the pipeline that is nearly 96 percent complete would have serious consequences and i think what i would like to. bring one which flows through ukraine is for that which. i have the impression that with north st do we may be waging a conflict that is much wider and touches upon the question of the extent to which we won. and the energy sector if you. the us itself also relies on

russian oil importing a record amount in 2020 but while his top officials have repeatedly threatened sanctions against germany president biden has called the pipeline a complicated issue and has stopped short so far from taking significant action over the project. president biden is now saying he's open to a compromise and in meeting with a bipartisan group of lawmakers he is hoping to garner support from republicans for his $2.00 trillion dollars spending plan which they have criticized for the use of the term infrastructure given everything it includes. your car mine where you do let me get together. thank you there's a lot of leaves and so we're. talking about. number one we're. back. here so you have my back you think it all to me. how to pay for.

the biggest complaint from republicans was biden's plan to increase the corporate tax rate to 28 percent from 21 percent by the trump administration but during the meeting reports claim a more modest tax increase was discussed but will it be enough and how are the markets reacting to the latest earnings reports during not just out there true must co-host christine and david mcelwain see mckelvey any financial group christine let's start with you u.s. equities fell for a 2nd day on tuesday as strong corporate earnings failed to boost a market are already near record highs what's holding the market back right now. well right now we're just not seeing the recovery and reopening plays actually play out right now so things like airlines cruise lines stuff that lever to recovery and things going back to normal like travel and tourism they're not bouncing back either rather they're leading the losses on tuesday so you have united airlines plunging 9 percent after the carrier reported it consecutive quarter lead lost and

that is a business and our national travel recovery is still a long ways away american airlines also fell 6 percent while carnival cruise lines are reaching cruise lines and royal caribbean they all try to lower as well so this stuff came as the world health organization warned that the ongoing global chrono virus infections were edging toward the highest level in the pandemic even though back nations are also being distributed at record pace the u.s. is still recording over $67000.00 daily new actions and also throughout this entire time the market has been rallying to all the robust earning season with our enticements the market you know 90 percent of the s. and p. 500 companies that have reported so far having top expectations i'm more than 20 percent on average so this rate is 3 x. the historical average but the markets are stretched at this point and all the good news is pretty much already expected and already priced in so it's a recovery does not actually materialize as expected then we could all be in for

now you fella yeah certainly and there is a lot of pressure on that continued recovery now david we've been talking about this 2.3 trillion dollar infrastructure plan we know that lawmakers at least from biden side are trying to make this happen is there some sort of a compromise like the one that they were talking about i mean is there a chance for this package to succeed. yeah we'll get a package the study of politics is somewhere between entomology and flip out of me polly meaning ticks meaning many ticks meeting blood 2nd creatures the art involved is really where what we're talking about 650 is where the republicans start $2.00 is where the democrats with their unchanged which wishless would like to go final number is going to be in between how to pay for it is the contentious part corporate taxes are the biggest talking point maybe a wealth tax we'll see but what we really need to focus in on is tax arbitrage transfer pricing and all of the tricks that multinationals use to knock their

effective rates into the low single digits multinationals do not pay 21 percent and they won't pay 25 percent or 28 percent when people bandy those numbers around you're talking about the small to medium sized businesses that get stuck with a much higher bill the larger the corporation the larger the financial budget for tax mitigation we're talking extensive teams of attorneys and tax experts playing games if you really want traction forget about raising the rate that just increases pressure on the little guy and reinforces monopoly dynamics take away the creative planning for any multinational and your 21 percent number will bring in extraordinary revenue yeah that's a really good point as well and it is interesting to see how the democrats and republicans can go back and forth and act like they're fighting it out but at the same time when it comes to them and their friends a lot of things continue to stay the same no matter what over they pass ok chrystia also i want to bring gold into this we saw the price hit

a major milestone at 750 as competition with bitcoin heats up how do these 2 assets compare i mean is there any really competition here. well i think you know my take on this there really is no competition as the coin is superior to gold in almost every category i mean scares me because it has a limited supply gold and scarce but there's an unknown supply confit resistant that coin when portability but when you can carry in a little while in your pocket gold bars are not very portable sometimes at the centralisation durability divisibility clearly bitcoin when the only categories where gold and the chance are fungibility whereas comparable to bitcoin and that stablish history or gold obviously has a longer life so both of them are safe havens right now and a hedge against inflation decline was responsible for stealing gold luster this past year as a precious metal saw its worst coralie woman since the end of $26.00 teams and both of them compete on the margin for investor dollars but over the longer term they

might be more complementary assets that complete rivals the bolder headed again you're responsible money printing both assets are going to be very important going forward and they're going to be winners if inflation get out of control and where i see it is traditional investors will probably tend it with gold and millennial it will go with thick line both should win the competition against the u.s. dollar that's the most important thing and in the meantime the underlying infrastructure is going to be very important going forward and this includes coal miners crypto miners gold dealers and crypto brokers as the ecosystem get built out and becomes more transparent and user friendly that's what looked at the scale and bitcoin ever that's a really good point as well and i know that there are some who are teaming gold some who are tim bitcoin but of course i've been to the day they're both good alternatives to be u.s. dollar now david i also want to bring the price of oil into this we saw that it fell on tuesday pulling back from one month highs on fears that india the world's

3rd largest oil importer may impose new restrictions as co-infections and death soar in that country now at the same time elsewhere in asia areas like the philippines are also experiencing a 2nd wave of infections where we too optimistic about the recovery trade and how it would play out. yeah so on that last point specifically on gold we're now 100 points above technical support at 1680 a double bottom put in over the last 4 weeks we believe and we've been in the precious metals business for 50 years that the floor is in this is a very important point jewelry demand is indicated by indian buying at 7 times last year's levels 98.6 times versus 13 tons in march 2020 that's put in the floor investors define the ceiling of that market juli jewelry consumption defines the floor now on the oil side series a factor that was overplayed by virtually every government around the world and that was largely

a 2020 story vaccines are out death rates are down globally with the exceptions being india and brazil at present i think smart and gauge when is the model for 2021 obviously india's restrictions are going to be short term negative consequential very consequential for the markets but short term as often as the case numbers tick higher there's going to be renewed concern amongst oil traders with a memory of cushing crude non deliverable if you remember the contract constraints last year and when the price went negative but i think the pain reaction is amongst oil traders and fades throughout 2021 the philippines is interesting it's a classic case of overreaction 16000 deaths from a population of 108000000 that's on par with deaths in the country from car accidents my parents live there it would appear like code that has been due territories excuse for markel martial law and i think this is one thing we have to factor in strong men flourish in a context of fear the statistic is point 000148 that's the

mortality in the philippines and they're going after another lock down i think it's so much on necessary suffering and economic damage so to answer your question i would say we are not optimistic and knopf markets heal quickly if governments don't interfere but fear sells and the media government big farm. are in sales mode can you remember a time when there was such a global synchronized experience like this and i think 2020 is one of those fascinating places where we get to reflect and say people behave in such a fascinating way when when more when their mortality is challenge yeah and i know certainly in the case will x. one point here all around christie i david mckelvey any thank you both so much for your type. time now for a quick break but when we come back could the creation of a new super league be the end of soccer in europe as we know it well the best the latest plans and the overwhelming backlash next and as we go to break here are the

numbers of the plough. russia u.s. relations are and how to resist this point there is no reason to believe they will be proved anytime soon it appears that washington is determined to force moscow to take the lead this is delusional this will never happen we live in the most dangerous of times. parlor the conservative social media platform similar twitter is coming back to the

apple app store and a letter sent to republican senators mike lee of utah and ken buck of colorado apple said monday that a revised version of the parlor out with improved content moderation would be approved for release to apple users so joining me now to discuss the host and investigative journalist ben's were on ari ben the biggest question is here why is parlor now being allowed back in to be out the app store. yeah because essentially parlor been the knee that's the term that we use here they were told by apple if you want to be back on the app store you've got to work with our teams in order to decide what constant can and cannot be there it appears a parlor is done that this is the way that apple is phrase that they say that apple employees have quote engaged in substantial conversations with parlor in an effort to bring the partner app into compliance essentially saying you are now complying with their so-called community standards and so part of there will be allowed back

parlor is not commenting by the way and acknowledging what community standards they've agreed with here to enter saying that so much more concerning we're hearing about this new content moderation but we don't actually know what it would mean ok so apple says that parlors coming back but what about android devices i mean is there any chance that google is also going to let it left its band here while google says that they will lift their band if parler reaches out to them with a new form of moderation content moderation on their app they submit it to google and then apple will review it and then allow them back into the play store same thing that apple's already done google says will do the same thing but you into the end replaced or look at the end of the day it's the same thing right which is that you're suggesting going back to these companies and you're saying we will agree to allow you to have editorial control over what we're doing allow you to have control over the kinds of users and post that are on our site and ultimately google and apple get to decide that that's what part of their has alternately agreed to here it's actually a pretty said day terms of the tech space yeah it really does seem that way and

it's crazy to think that i mean google and apple don't really have to do anything they've got to just kind of sit by and wait for parlay to come to the table one on one ok so overall what does this signify about what this new and improved version of parlor means for the site and what about those other up and coming social media companies. well you know i would not call it a new and improved i would say it's a new no longer improve right it's actually been damaged as a new damaged version of the fact the partner is not even acknowledging this this all came about because of a letter that apple sent over to. a couple of republican senators that's how the information came out because that information was sent to the senators we now know about it which means parlor for their part has not made an announcement saying hey we're coming back to the apple app store they couldn't keep us down actually they did keep you down you've been the knee and i believe ultimately parlors done in terms of being able to grow with subscriber base hopefully

a lot of those other companies will learn the lesson on that one benz ron thank you so much for your time and insight you got the. european soccer is facing a massive shake up as 12 of the league's biggest clubs an ounce the creation of their own super league which would create a series of midweek competitions for the elite teams involved the league will also be bankrolled by j.p. morgan chase to the tune of $4800000000.00 but it has already been hit with a backlash all around with many calling it a disaster for soccer so joining me now to discuss their victory matheson professor of sports economics at the college of the holy cross now a professor the president of the union of european football associations is calling the creation of the super league a complete ignorance of england's football culture why are we seeing such a passionate response in opposition to this project. well the big thing going on

here is that the super league guarantees slots to 12 members that have already that already signed up and actually 15 members in the end would have permanent positions in this league and that goes totally totally contrary how european soccer has grown over the past century which has opened leagues where you have to earn your right to participate in the league and to stay in the league and the teams that don't do well get voted down and relegated down to or levels we hear that are up and comers get promoted to higher levels. this is not the proposed european super league would be like it would be much more alike to be closed leagues in the united states where members of these leagues are there permanently a matter how hard and how well they play a season to season it even decade to decade and you're saying ok so you can certainly a say why there is a lot of frustration about this and at the same time there has also been

a lot of concern about the funding that is making this super league possible we're saying j.p. morgan chase is offering $4800000000.00 so with such a focus on propping up the most a lucrative teams here how much to the last valuable team stand to lose with this new alliance. yeah the real problem here i think for most fans is this would further entrench what is already a serious problem and competitive balance in in most leagues in europe for example if you look at spain pretty much every year the title races down to one of 3 teams of the other 17 are just playing for 4 place in any given time. this league would do is it would take those 3 teams who are even more money into those $3.00 elite teams make it even less likely for any other team to be able to make it into that crack into battle elite 3 but also have to believe this will happen well so it would exacerbate what are already significant financial lot of differences between

the top teams and the little teams and make it even worse than it already is and secondly the elite teams that would be included weren't mad about it at 1st and now in the sun nephew of them are kind of backing down and it seems like so many are now uniting in opposition to this plan so is there a chance that it could fall apart before it even takes off. well i think what we see today is a massive grassroots campaign and not just among the teams that have been left out but actually the teams that were part of it i think we have anyone to thank for this this is our opposition is looking like it's going down in flames it's actually the chelsea supporters one of the team that was going to be in this and they were actually protesting their own. inclusion in this chelsea has just announced already today that it's i was asked to back out of the league that it just announced yesterday that it was joining so i think this is it doesn't mean that the financial

the spirit is that soccer in europe but solved these are underlying issues that are going to you know be continuing on this is not the end of this discussion of the big teams versus minnows in europe but it certainly looks like this version of europe's super league appears to be due and i don't really mean interesting us the what seems new next and if there is any other attempt any superleague if this one doesn't work out excellent points to consider here professor victor matheson thank you so much for your time. that's all for now you can catch him bass on demand by downloading the portable t.v. app or apple or android device one thing you hear next time and as always don't forget to question morning.

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