and here are discusses r t r t s alex mahela bitch who joins us from toronto what he's been following where he's been following the story alex what do we know so far this news just been breaking in the last twenty hours or so what do we know so far . well you know if what you said i mean this has been years in the making for years down and back during the obama administration this merger did not seem like the best of ideas simply because of the regulators you spoke of it as well as the f.c.c. they were inclined at that point not to accept the deal of this magnitude to go through of course you know the thought of monopoly pop in your mind when you only have three massive providers so now the climate the according to both team obama and sprint seems to be a little bit better under the trumpet ministration they're going to gamble they might toss out the dice and hope for the best and see that if this deal can actually be pushed through under this administration look it's a twenty six billion dollars deal mostly stocks and the t. mobile is basically taking the sprint t. mobile as the bigg

change its ownership structure which in turn may greatly reduce the restrictions on the firm artie's alex mahela which joins us from toronto with the latest alex thank you for you and you're so great at that filling us in on all these myriad issues but we're talking about easing restrictions now on this russian company that by the way i think they were about to be delisted from the stock exchange in london so it's a huge deal but we're hearing some news from the treasury department what's the latest. now the company that was going to list it is and plus actually and that is one of the major shareholders like a mother company of rue saul and steve said the u.s. secretary of the treasury secretary this is not about rue solve this is not about destroying a company and making it go under this is about a very different because of that and that's ownership in rizal and particularly we're talking about the russian billionaire oleg deripaska i know there are a pos got is been on the u.s. list of people that the u.s. wants to sanction and he has tons of shares major ownership in roussel so this is what's

change its ownership structure which in turn may greatly reduce the restrictions on the firm artie's alex mahela which joins us from toronto with the latest alex thank you for you and you're so great it filling us in on all these myriad issues but we're talking about easing restrictions now on this russian company that by the way i think they were about to be delisted from the stock exchange in london so it's a huge deal but we're hearing some news from the treasury department what's the latest. now the company that was going to list it is and plus actually and that is one of the major shareholders like a mother company of rue saul and steve said the u.s. secretary of the treasury secretary this is not about rue solve this is not about destroying a company and making it go under this is about a very different book of that and that's ownership in rizal and particularly we're talking about the russian billionaire oleg deripaska i know there are a pos got is been on the u.s. list of people that the u.s. wants to sanction and he has tons of shares major ownership in result so this is what's happenin

have a dream to join forces but will antitrust officials allow the merger to go forward parties alex mahelajoins us to discuss all that ahead but first to some stories topping today's. and speaking of an i trusts final arguments were made today in the antitrust case related to the proposed merger of a t. and t. and time warner the justice department originally filed suit last november to prevent the merging of the two media goliath's the antitrust unit at the department argued that the intraday shouldn is just your buescher of assets including direct t.v. with time warner is content sources including h.b.o. and turner networks would create an entity with the motive and the means those are the keywords the motive and the means to get out of direct t.v.'s distribution rivals with higher prices if rivals were to bucket the higher prices a unified eighty and t. and time warner could demand the d.o.j. argued the newly merged entity might simply expand market share by keeping the content for itself the eighty five billion dollar merger will now be in the hands of federal judge richard leon who ha

president says the idea is motivated by common sense some are calling the pipeline a pipe dream artie's alex mahela bitches in toronto where he's following the story alex thanks again as usual bulgaria already gets natural gas from russia why are they so when favor of this additional pipeline. well this request was made by president reagan radovan his visit to moscow it's mostly boat energy security here i mean and the country needs gas it it's a it's a vital part of its energy makeup but you know right now the gas that it's getting from russia goes through ukraine and we know that ukraine right now is a culture was country it's a nation that's not necessarily stable so the gas pipeline you never know what's going to happen also bold area buys from other countries in europe or at least they get the gas from countries that get gas from gazprom so there's nothing that directly goes into ball garion bulgaria right now the demand for gas is increasing we just saw it now recently basically of the if we look at last year the bulgaria one up by four point seven percent from the year before that was three

have agreed to join forces but will antitrust officials allow the merger to go forward artesian alex mahela the joins us to discuss all that ahead but first to some stories topping today's. and speaking of and i trust final arguments were made today in the antitrust case related to the proposed merger of a t. and t. and time warner the justice to.

change its ownership structure which in turn may greatly reduce the restrictions on the firm artie's alex mahelaij joins us from toronto with the latest alex thank you for you and you're so great it filling us in on all these myriad issues but we're talking about easing restrictions now on this russian company that by the way i think they were about to be delisted from stock exchange in london so it's a huge deal but we're hearing some news from the treasury department what's the latest. now the company that was going to list it is and plus actually and that is one of the major shareholders like a mother company of rue saul and steve said the u.s. secretary of the treasury secretary this is not about rue solve this is not about destroying a company and making it go under this is about a very different aspect of that and that's ownership in rizal and particularly we're talking about the russian billionaire oleg deripaska i know there are a pos got is been on the u.s. list of people that the u.s. wants to sanction and he has tons of shares major ownership in roussel so this is what's happening her

and here are discusses r t l r t s alex mahela bitch who joins us from toronto what he's been following where he's been following the story alex what do we know so far this news just been breaking in the last twenty hours or so what do we know so far . well you know if what you said i mean this has been years in the making for years down and back during the obama administration this merger did not seem like the best of ideas simply because of the regulators he spoke of as well as the f.c.c. they were inclined at that point not to accept a deal of this magnitude to go through of course you know the thought of monopoly pop in your mind when you only have three massive providers so now the climate the according to both team obama and spirit seems to be a little bit better under the trumpet ministration they're going to gamble they might toss out the dice and hope for the best and see that if this deal can actually be pushed through under this administration look it's a twenty six billion dollars deal mostly stocks and the t. mobile is basically taking the sprint t. mobile as the bigger of

it's mahela bitches and toronto with more alex as always thank you coal seems to be sort of the addiction of fuel for a lot of folks but it's a dinosaur in many ways why are the philippines having trouble changing up the dirty fuel for something cleaner. well with the philippines it's a big problem in the sense that this country's having a massive push forward to grow its economy and it just happens that whole of the coal is a part of its infrastructure obviously an older infrastructure but they need power to be able to push them forward here's a graph just to give you a bit of an idea of what coal means to the philippines look as well forty five percent of the energy in the country comes from coal only twenty five percent renewable some politicians are saying that this is a necessary evil to build infrastructure such as roads and airports etc but from the private sector also many people know that manila when you look at asia has more cranes up than any other city so they're building high rises more than anybody else in asia and the fact is i have a lot of ex-pat money coming in meaning t

common sense some are calling the pipeline a pipe dream artie's house mahela ventures in toronto where he's following the story alex thanks again as usual bulgaria already gets natural gas from russia why are they so when favor of this additional pipeline. well this request was made by president reagan rattled on its visit to moscow it's mostly boat energy security here i mean it's the country needs gas it's a it's a vital part of its energy makeup but right now the gas that it's getting from russia goes through ukraine and we know that ukraine right now is a mulch looked to help to his country it's a nation that's not necessarily stable so the gas pipeline you never know what's going to happen also bald area buys from other countries in europe or at least they get the gas from countries that get gas from gazprom so there's nothing that directly goes into ball garion bulgaria right now but demand for gas is increasing we just saw now recently basically above we look at last year the bulge area up by four point seven percent from the year before that was three point three billion cubic meters of natural gas a four p