hello, administrative measures and these horrific conditions that they're going to put them in are fine. you know, they, they, they weren't convinced that this is the right thing to do. and then once they lost the case there, they started providing these assurances. and this is what needs to be determined by the supreme court if can a requesting state in an extradition give assurances to an appellate court to us to an appeals court that were not given that were not provided in a magistrate support. so this isn't just important to julian assange, it's important for all extradition, and it is 100 percent relevant to british common law and to the public. and we have to keep in mind that even if julian does end up free, he's not safe and other jurisdictions. if he's step foot in france or germany or anywhere else where the u. s. as an extradition treaty, that again start a new thing. i certainly hope that the supreme court will do the right thing. well, we'll continue to follow it as we have all the she has said. now that's a snapshot of some of the big headlines who brought year of the last 7 days. i live from moscow. it's kevin, now in a big thank you for watching the weekly and for checking in with our international

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19876. just like an average ordinary guy until you talk to him. and then you realize this guy's go on. always play and he knows what he's doing or what ah, number one is amazon founder and ceo jeff bay says he is a 1st 20000000000 active people to a dealer function do but hold amazon diversity. so media to do that. i'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting and infrastructure so that the next generation of people can have

a dynamic entrepreneurial explosion into space. is you're still large enough to satisfy the ambitions of jeff bezos. amazon is the largest store normal. it sends out $150.00 parcels per 2nd, adding up to 5000000000 each year.

it's boss jeff bezos has a single obsession to sell everything instantly everywhere. and to satisfy his customers every liar without delay. there are 300000000 amazon customers worldwide today. the multinational company is revolutionizing commerce and the way we consume it is even succeeded in shrinking time and space.

how exactly is amazon taking over the whole planet? what does jeff bezos want that he doesn't already have? what future does the multinational wish to impose on us and at what cost? with

our story begins in 1994 in the seattle suburb jeff bezos, a 30 something wall street expatriate creates amazon in his garage. and jeff basis and what are your, what is your claim to fame and the founder of amazon dot com. where did you get an idea for amazon dot com? well, 3 years ago, i was in new york city where he for quantitative hedge fund. when it came across the startling statistic, the web usage was great. 2300 percent a year. so i decided i would try and find a business plan that made sense in the context that grow with me. in the beginning, they were only 3. 1 of the things that was really happening in seattle of that time was grudge, so you had nevada and pearl jam and all that kind of music. so there were plaid

shirts on on everyone. paul davis is one of the programmers who developed amazon's very 1st website and amazon itself was out in a suburb dut really was very far from the city and clubs and any kind of obscene that that might be happening. there were basically 2 programmers working hard riding code. and jeff, working hard on, on the sort of business he side of the new company. there wasn't this kind of really fuel energy, you know, like, oh my god, you know, what? going to be a goal today? what are we going to take off today? oh my god, if that isn't done, isn't done today. things fall apart. it was more just a case of methodically working as quickly as, as we could buy books arrived. somebody was gonna have to pack them up and shut them out. and so, so until that will be jeff. this is by the super early days when it was really just

still the 3 of us plus his wife working part time. sometimes it will be white, mackenzie, sometimes it would even be shallow, right? if there weren't that many and we want super hide off in something. this is at a time where, you know, we, typically, we were handling, you know, maybe less than 20 books per day or something. mm . 25 years later, amazon no longer sends 20 parcels, but 14000000 a day. the company owns over 250 warehouses and delivered on 5 continents. mm i guess amazon success kotch,

stacy mitchell's attention. she heads the institute for local self reliance research center, studying the evolution of the american economy. for the past 10 years, she's been closely monitoring the growth of the beast. amazon is like, it's like this invisible force. you know, it's got, it's tend to holes in so many aspects of the economy. there's nothing that amazon isn't trying to get into there. now the biggest clothing retailer in the us and they produce a lot of clothing. bookstores, toys, stores, hardware stores, kind of grown invisibly. it doesn't get noticed are covered by the media in the same way because it's not physically present except in just a few places. amazon is growing so rapidly, they are creating a lot of jobs, but as they grow, they're destroying a lot of jobs. and we found that for everyone, new amazon job that had been created,

there were 2 jobs that were lost at existing businesses. we've lost about 85000 an independent small businesses in the last 10 years. we've lost about $35000.00 small and mid sized manufacturers. you amazon is that the only cost, but it's the top cause of those losses. lou stacy mitchell investigates amazon strategy of conquests. there's a balancing act that they seem to walk between slowly taking over everything and rapidly taking over everything and yet not being so visible that people become alarmed. so in some ways we, you know, the train has left the station and as a society, if we're gonna try to figure out how to bring that back, it's much harder to do now than it would've been 10 years ago. if we had noticed

what was really happening in the united states, amazon now controls half of all online commerce. the company leads online sales in clothing, electronics books, dds personal care and the products ah, it also offers the video on demand, online music, streaming video games, data storage insurance, as well as drugs. amazon also embodies a certain vision of america, progressive and liberal. its acquisition of whole foods leader of high end organic produce is a good example. jeff bezos is a complex character. he's a ceo as well as an investor, but in 2013, he personally acquired the washington post. one of the most prestigious newspapers in the u. s. ah, step by step,

the amazon empire extends its grip on the world. he really hid amazon at this point, represents the transformation of the american economy. i mean, you know, the old saying when i 1st came the street and kind of back in the day was what's good for g. m is good for the country today. that's largely amazon as largest market cap company. it's, it's greatly intertwined with the entire american global economy. amazon essentially controls the marketplace. it's not really a market, it's a private arena. amazon sets the rules. it gives the side which companies get the best spots which companies rank in the search rankings. who can even be there, what they're allowed to sell, how they can communicate with their customers, what they have to pay in order to be part of it. the old saying is if it walks like a duck in quiet like a duck, it's a duck. so amazon looks like monopoly. trade like a monopoly makes money like

a monopoly. behaves like monopoly. so when i look at it, you have to use monopolies in the traditional sense, upon a comparable type company. the real definition of a monopoly is when you have the ability to control the terms by which other player is can access the market. when you have that kind of power to dictate what happens and amazon has that power, amazon has become a kind of gatekeeper. and their strategy is very much about being the e commerce platform for the entire world. ah

bring you the very latest every out the day. this is ok. now. snow fun. everyone had home with ah, those incidents of havana syndrome as you mentioned before, things like difficulty concentrating, insomnia memory problems. they're so big as to be experienced by just about everyone who was ever lived in any given week. right. and so now people all over the world who are military personnel, or intelligence officers or diplomats working for the american government,

are now on the lookout for these anomalous health incidents. and literally people are getting up in the morning and squeezing and attributing it to a central amy, because it's so bad. ah, amazon is conquering one territory after another. after the u. s. just basic still control of england. germany, france, japan, canada, italy, spain, brazil, mexico. and australia today, the decisive battle for the company is taking place in india. 7 ah, in 2013 amazon arrived in india with the intention of gaining control of

a market estimated at $100000000000.00. conquer are faulty water, amazon has been able to achieve globally, as they've been able to then pretty much all the major markets globally, right? whether it is in europe or in europe, some, some of the other asian markets, as with outside of china. the only but 2 feet of it is still open is india? so if this is the only battle field is open and be, does a significant be launched by 2 feet?

and as another one with india is the fastest growing economy in the world with a 7 percent growth in 2017. although only in recent years, some 200000000 indians have joined the middle class dramatically increasing the number of internet users and eager consumers. as a result, indian e commerce is growing by 30 to 50 percent every year. amazon is not the only company trying to tap is this gross competing with jeff bezos. as flip card,

the leader of the indian market founded by 2 ex amazon employees and paid him a new startup financed by chinese giant ali baba. the 3 of them are waging a multi $1000000000.00 commercial war. in his 1st year, jeff bezos invested $2000000000.00 and then $2000000000.00 more the following year . to gain market share, amazon has already invested $5000000000.00 in india without seeing a profit. all these tree, all players are armed, still the top. oh, they have a lot of commission, lot of funding, big guys, backing up so you don't see any one falling apart any time soon. the battle gets even more complex. as these multinational corporations are facing a very strong nationalist pushback in india. this is the case in all deli, the commercial district, to the indian capital here,

commercial structures have remained unchanged for hundreds of years. really that i might get limit that by just thinking of them. oh good. next bad. did you get money? some of them and i don't know that megan out with with sitting at this table and $15.00 angry men, the largest group of merchants in all billy each own several shops in the neighbourhood. they are the 1st to feel the impact of amazon's presence with a i do

with a, with the merchants of old delhi are worried, but they have a major asset to slow down amazon's rise. they formed the electoral base of the b, j, p. the party empower in india since 2014 it's leader, prime minister nor end remedy promotes an exacerbated form of nationalism and defends a protectionist view of the economy. the indian government recently introduced a bill that could severely limit amazon's room to maneuver. notably by preventing it from under cutting prices, jeff bezos had to engage in a diplomatic game. he regularly meets with prime minister modi.

it's a significant stick for amazon and for, for the kind of investments which amazon has been doing didn't market is reflection off the find a house heedlessly the take this market. and if it fails all to deflect bod in a global, be all for amazon it's. it's not a regional story, it's a, it's a global story forever. i ah, ah, to counter the americans, the merchantable deli, have a plan to ensure the government doesn't forget. ah,

a pleasure for the 5 or 10 years down the line to go down deep pockets. if they can afford to offend big office, that is why they're coming to in via you can see any example in there was that about of the event in the process that it had been to one market as of now again, then you did that one. hopefully, guy that is one of you ah, this bus will go around the country to alert other merchants and the population at large of the threat that looms over india. i need

to do with . 6 in 2018, amazon announced its intention to invest yet again another $2000000000.00 in the country. its operations in india have so far resulted in a net loss of $883000000.00. investing massive amounts of money often at wash in order to conquer market share is the foundation of jeff bezos global strategy. despite this risky plan,

amazon's boss still maintains the competence of the financial markets. amazon stock value rises constantly. ah, in the last 4 years it is increased fivefold. ah, amazon lots about $3000000000.00 and it's for 6 years in business, selling books at a loss. and it worked, you know, i mean, now amazon is the dominant book retailer with more than half the market. and they've consistently done that in one sector after another where they go in, they lose money. other companies that are not, don't have the same backing from wall street, aren't able to operate at a loss. they go out of business, amazon takes over, you know, and this is a company that's, that is, you know, able to lose money like that in a way that no one else is jeff fees o c. o. i mean, one of the things when you're analyzing a company is management's credibility. he spent time on wall street at

a large hedge fund. i believe he saw intuitively knew what institutional investors were looking for, knew how to educate them about timeframes. i mean, as an analysts, it's not just about how much cash but you want when that cash is expected to come in the door. that helps you build better financial models. and so i believe he did a good job being able to speak language to financial market participants. jeff bezos has been very astute and how he communicates what he's doing to wall street. and he always talks about this idea that amazon is for the long term that he's not focused on the short term that what he's building is something much bigger. and it's over the long term. and wall street investors have have very much bought into that idea. and they have backed this company, even in the years when amazon lost a lot of money, years when they made very little money, was continued to back. this company, jeff bezos was successful in imposing his long term vision to an economy geared

toward short term profits. having secured the confidence of wall street, he was able to make all of the world's commodities available in one click. this ideal of accessibility was born 50 years ago and san francisco capital of the american counterculture, gaffer google, apple, facebook and amazon or the unexpected airs to these california hippies. a collection like that. press your middle finger to your thumb, drag them apart, snapping like that. you can find adult pajamas with cat names or typewriters, fashion manual, you can add insulin syringes in wallets,

greeting cards in books or poor. you like that. you can have any delivered to your door, snap and forever to consider where you did. ah, in the 19 sixty's in california, thousands of young americans turned away from industrial society, the vietnam war, and the atomic bomb they decided to return to the land and live in communities based on new principles. this was the birth of the commune, movement. they were anti big technology. they didn't like bombs, they'd like heavy industry, but they loved l. s. d, they love automobiles. they loved the w vans. they love the products, the kind of consumer products of industrial society. and what they wanted to do was take those consumer products and re purpose them, turn them into the foundations of a new kind of society. a society built on shared experiences, personal ambition,

consumption, consumption for the, the communal lists was going to be the foundation of a consciousness oriented society. ah ah i

ah, in the stories that shape the week, the new crane dominated both the headlines and the minds of nato states with lethal obs ammunition and military equipment handed over to clear. while the u. s. and u. k. prepared to send troops soon through eastern europe, but not all night members agree to weaponized crate. germany was slammed by allies for going against the blocks line while some spanish opposition party say it's not their country's war to wage. spain has no police in this conflict. we are not interested in any worse. all this is a pro cation of the united states and nato in an attempt to reshape the world order in which they are lose an influence. elsewhere this weekend, candidates prime minister reportedly rushed now to a.