is our friend and veteran media consultant those of the big picture right here in our tier america holland cook welcome holland ok so let's get into this you know it just makes me think is this media merger madness are things always going to get better is that we should just expect is that it evitable bigger is inevitable because in olden times we got our video and our audio from broadcast stations over the air which had a limited geographic footprint back to the future we get the stuff on the internet and it is a worldwide well. and you know when we look at. we know a.b.c. n.b.c. c.b.s. americans know that but unless you watch boom bust you night might not know about sky news for example which is in the u.k. and the e.u. is this bigger that you're talking about holland is it going to get to a place where we all sort of know the players around the world but perhaps by different name maybe not the pipe itself but the content was always over the borders for decades dallas was a huge hit worldwide decades ago and you go on you tube and hear them say who shot jr in japanese and secret agent man was

america holland cook holland welcome good to be here commish ok so let's start with netflix emily sleep spoke about them before holland but they took a hard hit on stocks yesterday down about four point four percent rather and some are concerned that the company does not have the actual bandwidth to deal with the into supported growth what do you think well netflix is down obviously the whole market is down we've been in correction territory and you've been reporting how the tech sector has taken a hit look at the amazon wobbling around there the problem with netflix is it was probably high to begin with there's a lot of air under that stock price and to stay high they're caught in a vicious cycle they're spending ten million dollars per episode on the crown they spend a king's ransom filming the breakthrough house of cards series before kevin spacey is disgrace and they get the money to produce this original programming in debt and they get that debt because they're signing up new members seven million in the last quarter how long can that go on what they have to focus on is internatio

mean for the future of advertising dollars here discusses the host of big picture here in r t america holland cook and conservative commentator steve models were who combined have something like i don't know one hundred years of broadcasting business experience you guys. i know it's crazy we love learning from you guys see first of all give us some of the highlights from the q three for netflix i saw their stock was trading about three hundred fifty dollars today tell us tell us what happened yeah well you know after a disappointing second quarter they really rocked it the street expected about sixty eight cents a share on earnings and they were it came in at eighty nine they are thirty six percent increase in revenue from streaming services and the big news is subscribers they went up about seven million subscribers in the third quarter about a million point one here in the united states where they expected the. people expected half of that and the expectations for a global subscribers was about four point four million they came in at about six million and going forward they say in the fourth qua

at that isn't today's area streaming to do so we're joined by our friend holland cook host of the big picture here on r.t. america holland as always thanks for being with us is valid ok so are the cable companies in trouble giving the increased use of streaming by so many people in the u.s. and around the world nobody loves their cable company except for internet access and where i live in new england red sox baseball and around the country these sports franchises have position themselves to force use of cable but for the most part people are wandering away from the program guide because you got hulu netflix you to amazon and all these other internet interlopers which as we saw at the recent emmy awards this is mainstream t.v. now absolutely. you know we talk about a lot of these though that have come on and. it reminds me of other things that you can get for free or very cheap and then after they start to hook you or you become addicted to whatever it is then they start upping the price and it seems like we're seeing a little bit of this bait and switch in streaming right the introductory offer is irresistible c

a look at the increased cost and more of television streaming with holland cook the host of the big picture right here on r.t. america all that on the way but first we had a few headlines let's go. in the latest ploy in the race to capture the emerging market for self driving cars japanese auto maker honda is preparing to invest a total of two point seven five billion dollars in their u.s. rival general motors the two companies have announced honda will immediately invest seven hundred fifty million dollars in crews that g.m. is unit for developing self driving vehicles honda currently intends to invest an additional two billion dollars of capital in crews over the planned twelve year span of the project and joining with existing unit honda seems to be trying to compensate for their relatively late entry into the field of self driving vehicles that capture the capital infusion also gives researchers at cruise more space to pursue what industry insiders say will be a high start up cost per design and testing programs the honda deal is also a successful sequel to a cruise deal with japan's soft bank in may and that dea

out of the crosshairs amid mounting disapproval of trophy hunting i'm holland cook in washington this is the big picture on r t america. f.c.c. chairman had been an outspoken critic of his predecessors policy few issues have animated protests in the past year or more than the f.c.c. has rollback of obama era net neutrality rules in twenty fifteen the commission treated the internet like a phone company and rules prohibited your internet service provider from blocking content throttling back your speed or creating preferential high speed lanes new administration new rules president trump elevated the f.c.c. commissioner to chairman and didn't want to regulate the internet like phone companies and pilot the republican party line vote to undo net neutrality last december that change took effect in june but not before various states took action governors in hawaii new jersey new york mine ten rhode island and vermont have issued executive orders state legislatures have passed laws in oregon for a moment washington and now in california where the law goes beyond what the other states have done this week the justice departm

look at the increased cost and more of television streaming with holland cook the host of the big picture right here on our team america all that on the way but first we had a few headlines let's go. in the latest ploy in the race to capture the emerging market for self driving cars japanese auto maker honda is preparing to invest a total of two point seven five billion dollars in their u.s. rival general motors the two companies have announced honda will immediately invest seven hundred fifty million dollars in crews that g.m. is unit for developing. driving vehicles honda currently intends to invest an additional two billion dollars of capital in crews over the planned twelve years span of the project and joining with the existing unit honda seems to be trying to compensate for their relatively late entry into the field of self driving vehicles that capture the capital infusion also gives researchers at cruise more space to pursue what industry insiders say will be a high start up costs for design and testing programs the honda deal is also a successful sequel to a cruise deal with japan softbank in may and that deal

international panel on climate change i'm hollande cook in washington this is the big picture on r.t. america. climate change deniers chant drill baby drill and talk up clean coal and they scoff that the whole issue is a hoax sounding the alarm scientists more than ninety cold over six thousand peer sources in the united nations rip. that reckons preventing a single additional degree of human caused warming heat over the next few decades can result in lots less drought and fewer heat waves it would lower the chance of irreversible melting at the arctic ice sheet which would help keep seas from rising more than four inches there will be fewer deaths and less illness from heat smog and infectious diseases and we could save the world's coral reefs reacting to the un report al gore says solving the climate crisis requires vision and leadership unfortunately the trumpet ministration has become a rogue outlier in its short sighted attempt to prop up the dirty fossil fuel industries of the past is this u.n. report scary stuff or scare tactics let's ask dr greg myre land department of geological and

longer new but first bombs and bombast and now the blame game i'm holland cook in washington this is the big picture on our t.v. america. none exploded but pipe bombs were sent to the obama's and clintons and former attorney general eric holder billionaire political activist george soros congresswoman maxine waters and cnn's new york headquarters were evacuated broadcasters went live from the sidewalk then similar packages went to joe biden and robert deniro and senator cory booker and former director of national intelligence james clapper by the time you see this show the list may be longer what all of these recent peons have in common they are critical of president trump and or he is critical of them and the dialogue got nasty early during the campaign i mean he so blatantly stupid. he's a punk he's a dog he's a pig he's a con artist mutt who doesn't know what he's talking about doesn't do his homework doesn't care to talk so he wants to punch people in the face. i'd like to punch him in the face you see somebody getting ready to throw tomatoes knock the crap out of what you seriously. just know i promise you i will

holidays and if you're making air travel plans brace yourself i'm holland cook in washington this is the big picture on our t. america. for road warriors like me air travel isn't just a routine it's a constant game we play and the rules of the game are changing for instance this video gone viral of a passenger being forcibly removed became a public relations nightmare for. a night at airlines and now it'll be a no no and you can thank uncle sam for an every five years formality congress recently reauthorized the federal aviation administration and in the process your senators and representatives convey your concerns and bake several of them into the best air travel recipe in addition to that prohibition against kicking you off the flight you will be relieved to hear that you won't be hearing everyone around you yapping on the phone and the f.a.a. has a year to determine the minimum distance between seats based not on your comfort so much as how quickly passengers can evacuate the plane and the government accountability office will look into lavatories literally are there enough of them and are they big enough and the