we see in the united states that because of bad publicity and some calls by people like senator bernie sanders amazon raised its wages to fifteen dollars an hour from about twelve dollars an hour so we see that they are amenable to pressure look it's a consumer oriented business and so particularly if consumers are willing to put pressure on them they will change their way but also again people do care about working conditions of others in the pay of others and i think people are realizing that while jeff bezos is making many many millions of dollars in his people or working in prison my conditions it is unacceptable. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has answered questions as a news conference and misspend about this compile case as well as u.k. claims ever russian threat that south to meeting his portuguese counterpart. it was that for us. the portuguese foreign minister began by saying that countries should work together to fight terrorism internationally yet he didn't exclude russia and that is in stark contrast to what we've heard from you please keep general staff recently he said now tha

we see in the united states that because of bad publicity and some calls by people like senator bernie sanders amazon raised its wages to fifteen dollars an hour from about twelve dollars an hour so we see that they aren't. i don't hold or pressure look it's a consumer oriented business and so particularly if consumers are willing to put pressure on them they will change their way but also again people do care about working conditions of others in the pay of others and i think people are realizing that while jeff bezos is making the many many millions of dollars and his people are working in prison my conditions it just isn't acceptable. i don't know rights activists have been accused of headed thinking off the calling for the english town of wall to be renamed apparently the name trying to be an animal friendly thing to do not everyone is entirely convinced. with a simple main change huge can take a stand against cruelty and remind everyone that it's easy to see warmth and be warm hearted to sheep by choosing the good will. the name should remain as its news media or three main the village is possib

in the united states there because of bad publicity and some calls by people like senator bernie sanders amazon raise its wages to fifteen dollars an hour from about twelve dollars an hour so we see that they are amenable to pressure look it's a consumer oriented business and so particularly if consumers are willing to put pressure on them they will change their way but also again people do care about working conditions of others in the pay of others and i think people realize in the larger bozo is making many many millions of dollars in these people or working in prison like conditions but this is unacceptable. a group of american lawmakers say that they do plan to investigate president donald trump's response the death of. a possible double standards when it comes to treating allies and enemies was killed in the saudi arabian consulate in the stumble last month riyadh has denied any awareness of the orchestrated killing and has launched an investigation charging eleven officials. takes a look now at how u.s. foreign policy that can be a very flexible thing depending on who's involved. no sign

can we see in the united states because of bad publicity and some calls by people like senator bernie sanders amazon raised its wages to fifteen dollars an hour from about twelve dollars an hour so we see that they are amenable to pressure look it's a consumer oriented business and so particularly if consumers are willing to put pressure on them they will change their ways. well let's look at the consumers then how likely is it that they will ten away from amazon and over claims of mistreatment of well the think. always hard to know but i certainly know in the us many many people will not using amazon because of bad working conditions you know and because they feel that you know it's creating this economy of low wage earners that just is not good for this country so no out of people who who vote with their conscience and i hope that continues. and amisom see jeff bezos recently said that obsessing over customers this case into to ensure the fem survival so wouldn't looking after employees also working on this and favor in the long run. of course because first of all let's be clear there workers are

in the united states because of bad publicity and some calls by people like senator bernie sanders amazon raised its wages to fifteen dollars an hour from about twelve dollars an hour so we see that they are amenable to pressure look it's a consumer oriented business and particularly of consumers are willing to put pressure on them they will change their way but also again people do care about working conditions of others in the pay of others and i think people realize that while jeff bezos is making many many millions of dollars in his people or working in prison like conditions it is unacceptable. some news just in now from the russian defense ministry said that forty six people including eight children have been injured in an insurgent attack on syria's aleppo it claims that shells containing a poisonous gas fell on the northern district of the city which is under government control the victims a said to have exhibited symptoms consistent with chlorine exposure russian military chemist so working at the scene syrian state media said the country's military launched a counterattack in re

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melissa: another company feeling the burn after taking on amazon, senator bernie sanders is now targetingith a bill to raise its minimum wage. the stop walmart act would prohibit large corporations from buying back stock unless they pay all their employees at least $15 per hour, allow employees earn up to seven days of paid sick leave, insure ceo compensation is no more than 150 times the median employee pay. adam, jonas are back with us. adam, this is an interesting one to me. so he put pressure on amazon. whoo-hoo, i got them up to $15 an hour but they're moving automated as fast as they possibly can. i think all he did there was push them quicker in that direction, if you judge the deal they did with new york, as you just saw there. jeff bezos ain't no dummy. i don't think he will just raise wages for no reason. what do you think? >> well, the linkage is one of the dumber parts of a policy perspective. we have a federal minimum wage. we can debate what the right number is, but to say that, it is tied to other things is probably confusing matters. the, the really confusing one there is

david: first amazon now walmart, senator bernie sanders planning to unveil legislation tomorrow aimedwages at wal-mart. tweeting in part last year feuer members of walton family of walmart made 12.7 billion in one day. it would take a full time worker over 300 years to make that much, does bensche have bernie h political mojo. >> in a word, no. i am supportive of where his heart is. it never -- most basic thing we work for is food, they are on food stamps, we are subsidizing walmart to their employees can eat, same with healthcare, they employee people at healthcare to give advice to employees how to navigate the medicate system, why not give them a decent health care program. i don't want to count their money. >> just get rid of food stamps and medicate, terrible thing, minimum wage hurts those people it keeps them out of the workforce, look, you can't hire them at $15 an hour. >> i am not couching it in terms of minimum wage, my issue with minimum wage varies regionaly. there is another way to approach, amazon approached it right, they look at their, model, said we can afford to pay

. >>> first it was amazon, now walmart. senator bernie sandersng america's biggest brick and mortar retailer over the stock buy back policy. ylan mui has details and i hear it's snowing there today. >> it is snowing here, bill. this bill is called the stop walmart act, and it would prohibit companies from buying back their stock unless they do three things first thing is they've got to pay their workers at least $15 an hour. secondly, they have to give workers seven days of paid sick leave that they can use either for themselves or for taking care of a family member. finally, companies have to cap ceo compensation at 150 times the median wage for workers. senator bernie sanders is the sponsor of this bill in the senate and over in the house it's congressman ro conna who introduced the legislation he told us he thinks the public will be on his side. >> the tradeoff is pay employees more for the work they're doing or give that money in stock buy backs to shareholders and investors. the americans i think will choose that people who are working hard

month. >> all right first you took amazon over minimum wage now took on amazon over minimum wage now socialist senator bernie sandersintroducing the so-called stop wal-mart bill which would block big employers from stocks buybacks unless they pay all of their employees 15 dollars an hour in hear reaction are to varney and company fox business network nine to noon. stewart you have a problem with this? >> i certainly do. don't want people to get paid more. don't badger me, brian. [laughter] point number one. politicians -- should not be legislating wages. when you do that, look with the seattle, saying you have to have 15 an hour minimum wage, you get fewer jobs. fewer in entry level jobs. if bernie sanders is successful in pressuring wal-mart same thing will happen. nower entry level jobs politicians should not legislate wages. second problem, politicians should not be telling businesses how they should invest their money. wal-mart is trying to compete with amazon got a big online operation trying to compote they need capital to put into their online operation. who is bernie sanders to say, oh no you can't do that w