people love our channels.e hope to get on the skinny bundles overtime and partner with our distributors. they helped us build our business. in many cases we are, we are partnering with at&t on directv now. that is the best way to do it. there is an opportunity for us to go with to the consumer ourselves, which we are already doing in a number of areas. we could also go to those big companies. if you take a look at what the networks spent, three years ago, and how much is being spent by amazon, netflix, apple and google, that is a massive amount of share shift going on. these are global companies, the likes of which we have never seen before. if any one of those companies wanted to offer a compelling family friendly service, we would like to be most of it, or all of it and see how it goes. anywhere you go in the world and use a discovery or animal planet or i.d. -- you say discovery or animal planet or i.d., people know the brand and own them. host: how will you make the decision as ceo? david: the direct to co

people love our channels.e would like to partner with our distributors, because they helped us told our business, and in many cases we are, partnering with at&t on directv now, with brian on comcast, with his offerings. that is the best way to do it regionally. there is an opportunity for us to go direct to consumer ourselves, which we are already doing in a number of areas, but we could also go to those big companies. if you take a look at what nbc, abc, cbs, and fox spent three years ago, and how much is being spent by apple, netflix, and google, that is a massive amount of share shift going on. these are real global companies, the likes of which we have never seen. if any of those companies wanted to offer for $5.99, a compelling family-friendly service, we would either be most of it. we would argue we would like to be most of it, or we could be all of it and see how it goes. anywhere you go in the world and you say "discovery" or "animal h," people value our brands and know them. david w.: how do you make

in britain channels t.v. in nigeria. in italy now imagine those channels just fading to black one disappearing from most screens nationwide and when the governments of those countries are asked to explain why they say they simply don't know imagine the cable companies and broadcast regulators involved offering the same explanation and rival news channels choosing for the most part to ignore the story that is what has happened in pakistan with geo t.v. . who is suspending no one has accepted the responsibility of shutting it down then i've spoke to the cable operators on the record that or we don't know if the channels are being logged it must have been some mistake but when i switched off my tape recorder they told me that see the buzz who have instructed us to shut down these channels are much bigger than any government so who is that that is much bigger than this government. that would be the military establish pakistan has existed for just over seven decades spending almost half of that time thirty two years under mil

channel in moscow provides russians with the news they can use how to survive world war three come off of him and his love company yourself by the human spirit that it does love to you ask them they say that truth is the first casualty of war in the coverage of syria you can add evidence context and balance to that list when footage of an alleged chemical weapons attack was beamed out of duma it set off an outcry and lit the fuse for counterstrikes the narrative for many in the western mainstream media echoed their own governments a red line had been crossed it was a transgression that could not go unpunished but those demanding evidence that the assad government was behind the chemical attacks the skeptics question in the rush to launch were given short shrift for media outlets in the u.s. u.k. and france particularly the twenty four hour news channels there was less concern about cause proof than the telegenic effect of war w m d's and iraq do come to mind a big part of this geo political showdown is being fought out over the airwaves and when it comes to state propaganda you've real

the safeguards, one of the safeguards is having normal channels. and the uk have been closed by the british. with all agencies fighting against terrorism, between the military it was a lost long ago by the initiative for london. the russian council, which is a very useful mechanism to promote confidence and transparency, was closed for all practical purposes by nato, who only wants to discuss ukraine in that body. in the european union closed all the channels with russia except talking to us on syria. but do you feel you are in a new cold war? i think it's worse. worse? because in the cold war, there were channels of communication, there was no obsession with russophobia, which looks like genocide by sanctions. sergey lavrov, we are out of time and i thank you very much for being on hardtalk. hello there, good morning. the temperature on tuesday was just over 20 celsius in dorset but temperatures are going to rise higher than that over the next few days. this was the scene in cambridgeshire where we enjoyed a good deal of sunshine and warmth as wel

and france particularly the twenty four hour news channels there was less concern about cause. proofs than the telegenic effect of war w m d's and iraq do come to mind a big part of this geo political showdown is being fought out over the airwaves and when it comes to state propaganda you've really got to hand it to the russians if only their media could bring the same scrutiny to the kremlin that they do with the white house our starting point this week are the skies over syria. syria and sometimes news coverage has a quality to it that it's almost time. to talk. u.s. tomahawk missiles this is a russian violation worms that is. chemical weapons in the county planning. an economy like evidence shows. i know. none of those sound bites were from this past week they were broadcast the last time the us military targeted series in april of two thousand and seventeen but they could have the script this time around was beyond reminiscent tactlessness watched it. right down to the relative lack of journalistic scrutiny of the images that provoked the airstrikes whether they did indeed

the safeguards, one of the safeguards is having normal channels. the uk have been closed by the british. with all agencies fighting against terrorism, between the military it was a lost long ago by the initiative for london. the russian council, which is a very useful mechanism to promote confidence and transparency, was closed for all practical purposes by nato, who only wants to discuss ukraine in that body. in the european union closed all the channels with russia except talking to us on syria. but do you feel you are in a new cold war? i think it's worse. worse? because in the cold war, there were channels of communication, there was no obsession with russophobia, which looks like genocide by sanctions. sergey lavrov, we are out of time and i thank you very much for being on hardtalk. hello. the long—awaited spring warm—up has almost arrived. from wednesday, with high pressure close by, most places will be dry for a few days with some good sunny spells around and it'll be much warmer, temperatures widely into the high teens, low 20s, and in som

local television channels remain the primary news sources for millions of americans so there's a lot of stake here editorial balance accuracy and pluralism the kinds of things that those journalists mentioned as they do to fully read off their auto queues last week our starting point this week spread far and wide local news outlets right across the united states of america. this sharing by news has become a call to comment on that. this is a textbook example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts we work very hard to seek the truth and strive to be fair balanced and factual seen individually the sinclair editorials do not make much of an impact but when timothy burke a video editor in tampa florida collected forty four versions of that editorial from forty four local news markets and laid them side by side allowing americans to play them back word for word this is extremely dangerous to our democracy the effect was chilling this is extremely dangerous to our democracy orwellian it was actually fairly horrifying about a minute and a half and decrying. biased platforms pu

you were a kid with a child for his benefit street channel five benefits trickle headlines in the sun on the daily express when it comes to stories about welfare recipients the british media rely on a constant cliche charon they resign. and. those narratives in this kind of images create and staying divisions between. nations. dependents and hard working families. setup of these programs is around the pain lack of them and us all telling everybody in the studio and you're telling everybody who's watching right now that we're mugs that we're idiots and we're fools for going out to work because why don't we all just give up work in the benefits may present the idea of a benefits kocher and the benefits lifestyle as if people on benefits are choosing to be there and that language that they rocketry langridge feeds into casual content for the poor of course kelly's going to be comfortable in the benefits system chris called his money coming in what we say is programs like make a margaret we all pay your benefits which creates intentionally and very clearly a division between the idea of t

or one big broadcast channel you know if you were savvy about this you would buy local affiliates in markets across the country get into every major city in every region and to communicate a message and then if you can put that message in the amounts of hundreds of local anchors who have been on air in some cases for many many years that's a much better strategy for warping the discourse there's also something else worth mentioning for all the attention c.n.n. and s. and the c. fox get in fact most americans actually get their news if they're watching television from local news not from the national networks be they cable or broadcast the anchors they. very well known in their communities they tend to be active in charities they show up for special events we have are having an incredible night tonight we are crushing cancer and they're also the people talking about things that you might have seen on your street united see you know the next town over there giving you the weather from your community the question now is what a neighbor's do about it and you've come to trust over time th

the second time we heard about this back channel. there was also the report that jared kushner had discussed seeking a back channel. if there is a back channel, what is it they wanted to talk about that they couldn't talk about overtly, i'm sure that's something that piqued the curiosity of robert mueller. >> thank you all for joining this first round of discussion. thank you, appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >>> we will be joined by the winner in another surprise election loss for republicans in a state that president trump won. and the trump trade war is only going to make things worse in that state and other agricultural states for republicans. and the president's national security advisor broke with the president today but he has less than a week left on the job. whatever you do to stay healthy. you might be missing something. your eyes. that's why there's ocuvite. ocuvite helps replenish nutrients your eyes can lose as you age. it has lutein, zeaxanthin and omega-3. ocuvite. be good to your eyes. the kayak explore tool shows you t

what is interesting is that the midpoint of that channel is 2400 2200 is the actual bottom of the channelyou would in principle still number the channel. >> would you be jumping up and down bullish if we went there? >> the tell for that would be, it's how individual securities in drawdown of that magnitude react. are there leaders or certain stocks resisting or if it's dumping all cyclicals then there is no way to know whether it stops there or not. >> the activity in the tape reading al goes forcing the market in one direction or another just on light volume and just on reaction, how much of an impact has it have >> on impact on charts and everything but this is the world we are living in. 60% went to passive or automatic. it is the landscape. >> i love carter's work. >> we are going to so him in "options action." >> tim makes a good point. i brought up 2580 because we bounced off it a couple times. i also say the market doesn't give you a long time to sell the highs or buy the lows and we are hovering around this bottom all the time and i think there is an inclination to go lower. >> yo

channel has released this video supposedly showing the base coming under fire the t four airfield activated its interceptor system and eight incoming rockets were apparently destroyed well the u.s. has denied. any involvement a spokesperson said at this time the department of defense is not conducting air strikes in syria and according to several media outlets the missiles were launched from planes that pass through lebanese airspace a route previously used by the israeli air force back in february the t. four airfield in homs province was hit by israeli airstrikes but so far there's been no comment from the israeli government on this latest incident. well meanwhile militants in the syrian city of duma in eastern gooch are now leaving the territory through a humanitarian corridor in these latest pictures you can see them traveling by bus through a checkpoint members of the giant islamic militant group agreed to exit the city after negotiations with the syrian under russian governments the russian army says eight thousand militants and forty thousand of their relatives will be leaving tomorr

channel centers radio channels were also supporting feeders and many newspaper. especially law and.further ovaries and i playing that. opposition was very split it and position of was not to show big sure that it would be eight to two who were hungry crow coralie and the people just couldn't believe. that the opposition would be a bird to two hundred go the full back to future well i mean some comprehensive stuff that let's just look at one more point that obama is known as you said for his tough stance on immigration that was the key point and the second largest party your become mean they're even more extreme and looking at their votes as well i mean why do hungary in voters seem to have moved so far to the right. i don't think that. was all the extremists because in the last c four years. you'll be party. to try to go back into the center of the political into i do all of the spectrum that mean that all being that you won't be carter you want it sure to free for former statement that you'll be fighting wars until seventy two week and so on and. you know no you'll be quantity to b

the new york channel. the state department in the new york channel. this is significant, too. pompeo, if he's confirmed, hopefully the state department will lead the negotiated through pompeo. what happens if the u.s. president and the north korean dictator get together, can't come up with a decision on what to do and things don't go well? >> well, that's not good. i think this summit, the reason i've supported it, things couldn't get worse in the korean peninsula. the fact that they had this meeting, pompeo and kim jong-un, sort of -- >> shepard: i can think of something worse with great respect, sir. i can think of something a lot worse. >> what you want to do is instead of from the bottom to the top, you want the top to the bottom to send a message to the peninsula, to the world, that some potential break through is possible. the worry it is is that the president won't be prepared. there's no secretary of state. we just got the national security adviser, no ambassador to south korea. things are moving in the right direction. early june, you know, that still has some time. t

channel has released this video supposedly showing the base coming under fire the t four airfield activated its interceptor system and eight incoming rocket. it's were apparently destroyed it's still unclear who's behind the bombardment the us department of defense has denied any involvement saying it's not at this time conducting air strikes in syria while lebanese media are saying several israeli military planes were seen entering syrian airspace around the time of the attack back in february the t four airfield in homs province was hit by israeli airstrikes but the israeli defense forces have declined to comment on this latest situation. well meanwhile militants in the syrian city of do my easting and are leaving the territories through a humanitarian corridor in these latest pictures you can see them traveling by bus through a checkpoint members of the josh islam militant group agree to exit the city after negotiations with the syrian and russian governments the russian army says eight thousand militants and forty thousand of their relatives will be leaving to. me while a controversial

, are not our digital channels, our website and our app, are not coping with the volume of customers the issues we would expect in a platform but it is proving very challenging. we should bearin proving very challenging. we should bear in mind all standing orders are being paid, all direct debits are going out, all atms are working, or debit cards are working, all credit cards are working, the bank is functioning. the issue we have and i apologise to our customers for is our digital channels, our website and ourapp, are not our digital channels, our website and our app, are not coping with the volume of customers we are seeing and we are on the case of trying to fix that. how soon will it be that everything is working we have just taken our everything is working we have just ta ken our internet everything is working we have just taken our internet channel tuesday. we have taken it off line for a couple of hours and we are optimistic that the fixes we are now putting them, the tuning we are doing will lead to the platform being much more responsive over the coming evening. typically w

said his goal was to cultivate a back channel to the crekremlin.s something we've heard from other players. this whole back channel concept and this activist added putin is deadly serious about building a good relationship with mr. trump. >> right. now they don't get the sideline meeting with trump himself. they get it from the kind of major activist of the nfamily. >> yes, and this story, a lot of go on something april said, we think because because an exchange of documents, there are so many different ways a foreign actor can try to exert influence and this is an illustration of one of the indirect ways, but if someone is trying to exert influence that is just under the radar, this is one o the ways. >> if it's dysfunctional, not saying that out of turn. every republican and democrat agrees. we know conway said she's russian informant, it's news to him, but doesn't think it's worthwhile of revisiting in any way. and now, adam, the top democrat of the committee says to jim that the republicans are not try ing to gavaes gait. >> here you have they

the channel as it's done. it typically hits its head and then does that i'm a seller of facebook here. if you're long and have great gains, take your money off the table. >> what a call and says to brace for even more pain ahead hey, carter. >> hi there you're kind to remember a good one. i've got my duds, plenty of them but thank you. let's figure it out from here. i thought we'd just look at all serious drawdowns in facebook since it ipo'd in fact, if your first day in life is right away a stumble, that's usually trouble it ipo'd on the 18th of may, 2012 and out of the gate dropped 43%. rallied back about 30% and did it again, another 48%. these are peak to trough draw downs. you see it again in 2013 let's keep going to put this current one in perspective here is our current sell-off, 24%. the issue is, is it finished they typically are sort of five to ten weeks this has been eight. let's look at a few charts and try to figure it out together. here is the chart of facebook since its ipo. the lines draw thems

the moment over a promotional announcement warning against fake news presenters on dozens of its channels were made to read identical scripted messages. this sharing of biased and false moves here you can call to karl rove you. think it was easy recently ruled out extremists unfortunately the summer of review was the secret. to control. for you and this is really dangerous for drugs you get the picture while the conservative leaning sinclair group owns almost two hundred stations across america reaching almost half of all u.s. households the broadcaster claims the project served no political agenda though adding that it doesn't understand the criticism however the initiative has drawn anger across mainstream media with critics warning that the move actually only strengthens fears that popular lets are actually spreading fake news while the us president stepped into the spot as well to defend this ng claire group however telling news organizations what to say and do is next ation that we have heard before shouting booga now explains russian media is a beacon of honesty truth and integrity

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very plaguing our country as you can see anchors from different channels reading the same script there which was by the way leaked to some media outlets and it looks like they only had to fill in their names. and i'm the greatest responsibility is to serve on northwest communities. and if you look closely you'll notice an absence of certain colors in their wardrobes that's no accident they were given specific instructions on how to dress in order to look neutral the goal is to look apolitical new trouble parties and yet professional black. man females should wear yellow gold magenta sign and not to avoid red blue or purple because everyone knows that magenta is the color that gives you and your bias away apart from these promo sinclair also distributes what's known as the must run segments to their stations so while the propaganda finger is so often pointed at russia it looks like we actually have quite a bit to learn starting with my wardrobe now polling stations across hungry just close will tell you who's expected to win after the break. we try to to construct all these manipulated

good news that it was offshore in the channel islands. more distance for the strongest of the shake. trace was just saying, not strong enough for a tsunami. usually about a 7.0 plus to create a significant shepard smith. we're below that. trace was just saying, it's been awhile. it was march 28, 2014. so just over four years ago of the last week. that was a 5.1 in the l.a. area. caused 10.8 million in damage. that could have been a comparable situation, this one fortunately offshore in the channel islands. hope untilly didn't cause any damage. >> shepard: hope not. it's considered among the planet's deadliest chemical weapons. worst than vx gas and sarin. the british prime minister is what was used on the former spy. now the daughter is speaking about the attack a could have killed her. her statement and why russia is trying to talk this over at the united nations coming up. dear great grandfather, you were persecuted, and forced to flee the country of your birth. but you started a new life in a brand new world. when i built my ancestry f

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back channel implies a flow of communication. intermediary usually passes information back and forth. was there an actual exchange of information between you and assange through this back channel? >> you can argue there is hyperbole, but no more hyperbole than cnn last night saying that my interview was recently unearthed or newly discovered when it's been on youtube and on their website for the last eight months. >> but there was -- i guess i'm just asking, was there any exchange of information between you and -- >> no. no. i'm sorry. yes, let me answer your question. i had no advance notice of the content, source or exact timing of the wikileaks disclosures including the allegedly hacked e-mails. i never received anything whatsoever from wikileaks, julian assange, anyone associated with them, or anyone else including allegedly hacked e-mails and passed them on to donald trump. >> did you ever give anything to julian assange? >> no. i did not. >> okay. the e-mail that you sent sam nunberg where you said that you had dinner with

we used our social media channels on linkedin, facebook and twitter to promote critical services that these rates are supporting. so the total number of impressions for those three social media channels during those three months was just over 700,000 total impressions. finally we also used -- oh, i also want to mention there was an interesting new -- brand new rate

to the kremlin and that back channel is what robert mueller wants to open up. >> you're right. when this story first broke a year ago and other pieces broke earlier this year. it was one of those stories that everything looked fishy but it was hard to explain what was going on. the more we learned about it, the more fishy it was. you have nader, there representing the united air of emirates. and eric prince. a couple of things that don't make sense, why was the trump administration eager to set up a back channel with the russian government. they were going to be in the white house in a couple weeks. there's no reason to have a back channel. and the second thing, why did everyone lie about this. we know erik prince didn't tell the truth about the nature of the meeting. if it wasn't on the up and up, >>> we will be joined by the winner in another surprise election loss for republicans in a state that president trump won. and the trump trade war is only going to make things worse in that state and other agricultural states for republicans. and the president's national security adv

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last week general dynamics fellower in the channel and today it broke out above the high end of the channel. and he really likes what he is seeing here. this oscillator, let's see, that one is making a bullish cross over based on today's move, marino thinks this stock could go to 230. i have been losing faith in part because of the commercial jet business finally let's talk about the daily chart of raytheon which is an especially high-tech defense contractor the most bullish of the whole group. while the other defense names were selling off, raytheon barely batted an eye lash. but in the last few days, it is definitively broken through ceiling of resilience. a lot more room to run but just broke out above a rising triangle pattern up 20 bucks from here before this move runs out of steam. meanwhile, the chaikin money flow is very strong and that is why marino views this chart as a thing of beauty. this makes a ton of sense for me it is why we own it with my travel plus. you can follow on by joining my actualownersplus.com fund. the charts suggest that they are going to have nice upside here,

facing a backlash for a promotional announcement warning against fate was presented on dozens of channels were made to read identical scripted messages. the sharing of biased and false news here you can call to comment on the media. recently you aren't really sure you first unfortunately receive the. gentle control. over you and this is really dangerous to our democracy while the pro conservative sinclair group owns almost two hundred stations across america reaching almost half of all u.s. households the broadcaster claims the project serves no political agenda and they do not understand the criticism yet the initiative has prompted anger across the mainstream media and critics warn the move only strengthens fears that popular outlets are spreading fake news while the us president stepped into the spat to defend the sing play group however telling news organizations what to say and do is an accusation we've heard before as r.t. jacqueline to go explains russian media is a beacon of honesty truth and integrity we work hard to maintain our outstanding level of work unlike foreign outlets w

documentary channel. you never know what's around the world seem to be the. excitement now is first where the dream. of violence is a part of it and it's almost a schizophrenia going cold because we can do all these things and behave quite badly. obviously. that's. when the young. you know what is. the fighting this revolt of.

is exploring a diplomatic channels or trying to revive diplomatic channels getting the warring parties to sit at the same table i don't want to take any way from diplomacy efforts but at this stage are they just naive or have they just run out of options there's no leg off diplomatic channels i mean with the official. told the official negotiations between the syrian opposition and the government in geneva and the also business of the united nations we have been so cold. turkey are around and. the key question is how will it be e.u. and the united states can manage to get a foothold at the table in the talks. personally i have my doubts what could be the leverage to bring the e.u. and the united states into this game i mean the idea of an international content group or group of friends or something like that is a familiar one the group goes back to you with no warst of the nine hundred ninety s. and it has proven to be effective but my concern it's simply too late it's simply too little too late that your finds itself in a bind especially because there's this growing sense of confronta

channel.n of targets but the risk of escalation with russia was one of the key factors. it's very interesting how this has been carried out. i miss characterised general mattis's statement, he said that it was us vital interests to destroy these syrian assets. how confident are you that this doesn't get... that this doesn't escalate further, especially with the way the russians might react. it's interesting, nothing can be taken for granted and this is a sticky and tricky situation but so far even if one takes the reports from the syrian state media, which always have to be taken with a grain of salt, because there is undoubtedly a large element of propaganda there, but even if we assume 13 us incoming missiles were taken down and, as general dunford said in the briefing, approximately 120 missiles we re briefing, approximately 120 missiles were fired, that's a pretty low proportion. that means the us was able to get through both the syrian and russian air defence systems, the sophisticated su

s interior design channel on you tube. you're watching the news live from berlin the us britain and france strike syria the joint strike targeted allegedly chemical weapons facilities overnight syrian state television has released of these images purportedly showing the destruction washington says it's a response to the suspected points in gas attack by president assad's forces last week. these are not the actions of a man. they are crimes of a monster instead you have a president trump denouncing assad and now praising the u.s. military what he calls a perfectly executed attack tweeting mission accomplished. and residents take to the streets of damascus in a show of defiance as syria's president says the strikes will only increase his resolve to quote crush terrorism in every inch of the country. at a cost and welcome to the program a u.n. security council meeting called by russia is now underway moscow is seeking a vote to condemn the united states and its allies for carrying out military strikes on syria russia is deman