reform and many russians are taking to the streets to protest against a change also on the program the petro was meant to say venezuela's ailing economy half a year after the cryptocurrency was announced we ask why is it nowhere to be found and the mountains of plastic waste are polluting the environment and now a danish brewer has come up with a fresh idea to repack their six pack. this is the dog a business on crystal kober welcome the russian ruble has been hovering near a two year low against the dollar due to sanctions and overall concerns about emerging economies now the slump of the currency is adding to russians woes as the government recently announced an extensive pension reform starting next year the retirement age will gradually increase ultimately forcing people to work much longer the reform was announced during the football world cup when demonstrations were prohibited now russians are taking to the streets. ha ha ha putin is a thief they call out because they're afraid for their pensions women are supposed to work eight years longer men five years for life expectancy isn't th

a check in on the petro venezuela's new cryptocurrency a reveals it's nowhere to be found the reuters news agency says that after four months of research it has yet to identify a business or institution accepting it president nicolas maduro introduced the petrol with great gusto in february and cripple currencies like bitcoin were still riding high in venezuela's bolivar was mired in hyperinflation the current value of the petro also. now for more let's cross over to our correspondent oscar schrenker he joins me from caracas osgar the petro was announced half a year ago now it's nowhere to be found it's not used for payment or traded what happened. well what happened to it i threw is what happens with most of the announcements made by the government they just don't follow through or change a long way since there was announced a change from being a token on furia to a talking working on next launching so it's not a cryptocurrency to talking in june to superintendent of the cryptocurrency was fired and replaced with one that does not talk to the press and to this day there are only twen

with, during the communist -- >> anthony: yes. >> petros: period.emperor haile selassie was deposed and the very unpleasant general mengistu and a hard-lying communist regime called the derg took over the country. as in mao's china, all agricultural property was taken over by the state and broken up into small parcels. >> petros: everything what my father had, the land, the property, is confiscated. and those who had the authority, they had the chance to work together, to cooperate, or they were enemies. >> anthony: right. anyone deemed an enemy of the state, and this could be a very dangerously loose definition, but usually and typically included the educated, the well-off and anyone associated with the former government were hunted down, shunned, jailed, harassed and often straight out killed. maya's dad was all those things, an educated landowner and part of the rural tribal administration from the selassie time. most people who had the means left the country. >> petros: i know this guy who is appointed, you know, as a governor of the region, kil

dollar out of which is the petro you one which come bypass completely the petro dollar and allow iranto be paid for its exports in the pet for you or as tentatively a gold the bet through on now accounts for thirty two per cent of the global oil trade so it is a valid as a third of the delegates and it has all sole not only fide basically the you are a sanctions on iran well let me put some of those points to christopher bolton is the chinese petro are you on a viable alternative to buying oil from iran you know can it bypassed u.s. sanctions altogether or can the european union can european countries in fact do business buy oil from iran using the euro. willie could it be they could buy any currency they want but but it's completely inaccurate to say that the r. and b. is now a global substitute for the dollar when it comes to the oil trade. what what is being discussed here is that in shanghai the chinese government has set up an oil futures trading platform in china and this has garnered significant trading volume what is very important to note on this is the important part well su

through petro chemical and railroads to what we find now which is a wonderful mixed economy, that includes a fair amount of gaming and recreation as well as blue collar. >> should we see? adley: let's see it. this corner of louisiana was the no man's land. it wasn't part of the louisiana purchase so for 50 or 60 years this no man's land served as a buffer between the united states and the umpire of spain. and that meant this was an area that had quite a bit of use as a refuge for scandals and pirates. he knew most of the early settlers in lake charles. >> what year are we talking about? adley: we're talking about the late 1700s, early 1800s, 1803 to 1820. that's the period in which -- he was responsible for about 25% of all the trade in the lower mississippi valley. it was his black market. he would relocate people for money. he dealt with all sorts of commodities. it wasn't just the gold and silver. we're not talking about johnny depp here. we're on lakeshore drive converting into shelby drive. >> so we're seeing actual lake charles? adley: you're actually seeing the lake. the city's name

of us avoiding the dollar or what you call the petro dollar another thing is that the european union has lowers which protects companies deciding to continue business with iran and that will protect them against us sanctions but above or there is an al turn negative to the us banking system and the pet for a dollar which is the pet for you one which come bypass completely the petro dollar and allow iran to be paid for its exports in the event for you or tentatively a gold the bet through on now accounts for thirty two per cent of the global oil trade so it is a valid as a third of the delegates and it has all sole not only fide basically the u. a sanctions on iran well let me put some of those points to christopher bolton is the chinese petro are you on a viable alternative to buying oil from iran you know can it bypassed u.s. sanctions altogether or can the european union can european countries in fact do business buy oil from iran using the euro. willie could it be they could buy any currency they want but but it's completely inaccurate to say that the r. and b. is now a global sub

for months now there is a shortage of food medicine and other everyday necessities is the missing petro a topic amongst them. well not really there but it was light and intangible thread but with the rapidly print question many people are clear that this new minimum wage will have the work of the end of them not. worried about finding cheap food or a way out in this way that at this point because money has lost its work in the streets just to give you an example the prosecute go hand today is the same as the buzz about them last year so it went as well as are worried about tangible problems in the bedroom which can't be bought through to or accepted anyone. but as their last crypto currency the petro nowhere to be found oscar franco reporting from caracas oscar thank you and it's back to brian now and tough for military training in north korea with a lot of health risks kristoff as north korea prepares to mark in seventies anniversaries this weekend defectors are speaking out about the health risks involved in old terry training especially in goose stepping north koreans who escape the

lessons from petro poroshenko, the president of ukraine. his nation is literally on the front lines of russian aggression, and how to handle immigration from across the globe. i'll talk with mexico's president, switzerland's president and new zealand's prime minister on their views about one of the most divisive issues today. >>> but first, here is my take. president trump's speech on tuesday at the u.n. was an intelligent, at times eloquent presentation of his america first world view. he laid out an approach of pursuing narrow self-interest over broader global ones and action over multilateral cooperation. he might not realize as he withdraws america from these global arenas, the rest of the world is moving on without washington. wittingly or not, donald trump seems to be hastening the arrival of a post american world. take one of his first major actions, pulling out of the transpacific partnership. this sweeping trade deal was an attempt to open long-closed markets like japan, but to create a grouping that could stand up to china's growi

and moving north into the east the brazilian state oil country petro abbas has agreed to pay a fine over eight hundred fifty three million dollars to settle the so-called car wash corruption case that we've talked about before in the united states u.s. justice department to go shit of the settlement announced it this morning in a statement the department said the deal resolves alleged bribes that led officials to threaten petro boss officials with charges under the foreign corrupt practices act the assistant director at the us federal bureau of investigation the f.b.i. said quote the hefty eight hundred fifty three point two million criminal penalty should act as a deterrent to anyone seeking to perpetuate this kind of fraud in the future but your boss stock rose four percent on the news. and moving to north america the trump ministration reportedly plans to pressure canada on renegotiation of. nafta the north american free trade agreement this week by publishing new text that only includes mexico for their part canadian officials seem to be in no rush to meet us the mezz they say the th

to the european automobile manufacturers association already a see a west fifty seven percent would petro over thirty six percent more days ago and just one out of every sixty call sold was an electric car for a long time talking about electric cars meant talking about a test that but that's changed you know musk babies not only any recall in the race competition is revving up china is racing ahead and gemini called make us want to get in on the action. misleads hopes this s.u.v. will be its breakthrough into the electric car market a direct challenge to u.s. competitor tesla assaidi says its lightest model will cover over four hundred kilometers on one charge it's the german car makers first purely electrically driven car nine further let's say the ski models are expected to follow by twenty twenty two the companies investing over ten billion euros in them knowing it has a lot of catching up to do in the race. america's tesla holds first place among international makers with almost fifty two thousand cars sold across the world in the first half of this year germany's b.m.w. is close behi

. >> uno de ellos es petro milos raimundo, que llamÓ a la poblaciÓn a reunirse. >> que se acerquen ancia de la policÍa a sacar a los imputados o las posibles personas que habÍan sido aseguradas y lograr el resultado.como lÍder es francisco la tienes, que mediante las redes sociales acusÓ a las vÍctimas de ser roba chicos. hoy estÁ prÓfugo y es buscado por las autoridades. >> es una persona que estÁ siendo investigada, que estÁ dentro de la carpeta y tendrÁ que responder algunos cargos que se le estÁn haciendo. reportero: la fiscalÍa arrestÓ a otro de sus participantes pero muriÓ por una cirrosis que ya padecÍa. el lugar de los hechos permanece como si no hubiera pasado nada, pero aÚn persiste la incertidumbre. >> temerosa, enojada, mucha gente estÁ enojada por lo que pasÓ. esto fue muy terrible. y rep otros habitantes de este poblado, muy cerca de la frontera entre oaxaca y puebla, culpan a la inacciÓn de las autoridades y la impunidad que prevalece en todo el paÍs. >> viene un delincuente como un ratero, y luego con dinero lo sacan. por eso la gente estÁ harta. >> quien tuvomucha cu

and i was under petro at the russians there are those your real names national yes they are real names now does he just called them even now when you are talking about it to tell you the truth you look very nervous on them. what would you look like when your life is turned upside down in a moment and just one day and changed our lives. what do you work for the jews are you at work and you meet a normal and you and i don't either but no one accuses me of working for the g.r.u. was what you are being accused of that your colleagues accuse us of that by your colleagues you mean journalists you are being accused by u.k. authorities and yes that's the scariest thing where do you work when you are adults you need to make a living if we tell you about our business people we work with will be affected tell me anything so that we believe you when everyone has questions what do you do to cut a long story short if you were in the fitness industry. as a tear in chief said she chose not to give her personal opinion leaving it up to the viewers to decide whether to believe the man or not this is wha

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how lake charles grew from a lawless home to pirates to one of the country's top manufacturers of petro chemicals with an author, through the book lost lake charles. >> oil and gas has always been a big part of southwest louisiana in terms of the exploration and discovery, but it actually really came more to fruition with the actual refining of oil because we had the ideal situation. we were ideally suited in terms of where rail lines cross, where barge lines were connected, where the water was -- oil was able to be moved in and moved out very easily in lake charles. >> on sunday, at 2:00 p.m. eastern, on american history tv, a visit to the small and predominantly african-american community of mossville. >> at one time, this was a beautiful wonderful wonderful community. we had everything that there was. and there was family, church, school, grocery stores, and people begin to get better jobs so it showed them that it could be better in the future for the next generation. >> watch c-span's cities tour of lake charles, louisiana, saturday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv and sunday

we are those who are shown to you in the pictures with the slum bush era and i would say under petro of the russians there are those your real names national yes they are real names i would suggest to them even now when you are talking about it to tell you the truth you look very nervous on the net. what would you look like when your life is turned upside down in a moment in just one day and changed our lives. and they is gone this is a t.v. footage from london you walk in those now famous coats and sneakers and soles brick . walls are these people you yes no us. what were you doing there. or can i been looking at the international reaction from both sides of the atlantic. to resume a spokesperson has rubbish the accounts provided by alexander patrol from the share of and they've used pretty strong language to do it take a listen and blades in for brooke asians in this interview given to a russian state sponsored t.v. station are an insult to the public's intelligence well that same government statement goes on to say that an illegal chemical weapon was used on the streets of the cou

petro poroshenko is suing britain's national broadcaster for libel over allegations he paid a hefty sum to me donald trump in june of last year your study hawkins' with more on what we know. getting that one on one meeting with the leader of the free world himself is a priority for many world leaders as it was for ukraine's president poroshenko last summer russia and ukraine remain firmly in global headlines so get in that chats handshake and photo opportunity with trump early some say before vladimir putin was crucial. as new sanctions against russia were announced and the president spoke of how productive discussions had been some officials behind the scenes may have breathed a sigh of relief mission accomplished but reports of most at the meeting that may have been arranged unconventionally according to the b.b.c. diplomatic routes would have given poroshenko little more than a photo opportunity so ukrainian officials opened a back channel through a chain of contacts including trump's lawyer michael cohen now facing numerous federal charges to secure that tete a tete and the latter w

and i would say under petro that the question is are those your real names yes they are our real names for the last .

european partners wanted now the minsk accords which was signed by angela merkel to me a putin and petro poroshenko amongst others is aimed at resolving the four years old war there it was not in particularly good shape before this killing and it seems to be even worse shape now. u.s. president donald trump has warned congress against interfering with negotiations on a north american free trade agreement or nafta trump says that there's no need to keep kind of in the pact to both countries missed a deadline to revamp the deal danny alack reports from toronto. president trump has long said nafta was unfair to his country and he was visibly pleased when he announced last monday that u.s. and mexican negotiators had reached a deal to replace it canada was left out and trump said the canadians had until friday to give in to us demands so it could join the new pact that deadline is passed with no deal and trump is keeping up the pressure because i love canada but they've taken advantage of our country for many years they have tremendous tremendous trade barriers and they have tremendous tarif

statements made as regards russia as for mr petro but mr bashir of. they also were identified by the british back in april so i think we should ask the u.k. why this is being done this search an awkward manner and why no evidence has been presented apart from. the video footage c.c.t.v. footage we have proposed to use the mechanisms of for legal assistance on the criminal cases according to court and with our arrangements in agreements with britain and that that offer is still standing if it will not be used there is no reason that there are no grounds to attribute whatever these gentlemen did to russia and from comedian and if i can also mr love off you had a question. in a western country is there as an answer and that will be a lot of civilian casualties is what issues like to think before they actually come into the entire operation and hadley can russian site and maj ending of that there will be some security cell unself for refugees maybe under the protection of turkish foreign vine. and you know mr maass if assets will be elected at free electi

and i would say under petro of the russians there are those your real names national yes they are real names and would have if you just got them but even now when you are talking about it to tell you the truth you look very nervous. and can move and what would you look like your because that's when your life was turned upside down in a moment in just one day and changed our lives this story has been in the headlines since march but it's only about a week ten days ago that these two faces these things appeared in media in public discourse released by euchre authorities these men certainly resemble those in c.c.t.v. images released by u.k. police they have confirmed they. follow exotic petroff that they were in the u.k. on those days they were on those c.c.t.v. images a lot of digging a lot of journalists trying to do some some news hound work trying to track them down in the end they came forward voluntarily they made a phone call to margarita simonyan our editor in chief and voluntarily decided to answer some of the key questions i'm sure many people would have had about what exactly h

and i would say under petro the russians there are those your real names national yes they are real names i would suggest to them but even now when you are talking about it to tell you the truth you look very nervous on them it. ok what would you look like when your life is turned upside down in a moment in just one day and changed our lives. they exam this is the t.v. footage from london you walk in those now famous coats and sneakers and soles brick . soles are these people you yes. what were you doing there and our friends have been suggesting for a long time that we visit this wonderful town souls' brewery a wonderful town yes a tourist town. there is the famous solsbury cathedral famous not only in europe but in the whole world. it's famous for its one hundred twenty three metre spire. it is famous for its clock one of the first ever created in the world that still working. i mean the thought of going to a big meeting comes out of it. this is so you came to souls agree to take a look at the clock and then you're in the summer when the child no we plan to visit london at first to have

few weeks and whole countries are now creating their own digital currencies take venezuela and the petro it was designed by the country's president nicolas maduro to get around the latest u.s. sanctions put in place by this guy at the moment a crypto currencies success depends a lot on how easily it can be converted into standard currencies whatever the case traditional lenders and central bankers are increasingly worried about their relevance in the digital future. the bank for international settlements in basel is the bank for central banks it promotes international monetary co-operation and carries out research and policy analysis its general manager i've listed in kirsten's is dead set against crypto currency. because for me to also have a future. they will replace it quite separately because they're more efficient faster more transparent and safer. or has made millions with bitcoins and distributed ledger technology which he says has revolutionary potential we have them both a number of questions starting with will cryptocurrency soon rule the world. you think you have your money in

capitals for their heinous crime asana in interviews with some western iraq cast and that are financed by petro dollars that got it all. mog in iran we have condemn all acts of terrorism with equivocation out of the law has the mac whom count of them and will continue to do so ma do you welcome your strong statement from the security council on this issue or oh yeah. that is. if. valley that i can the leaders of these terrorist operations including the organization that has set up the responsibility for saturday's crime got official live in operate freely western countries and even openly solicit funds . are these activities allowed in violation of international law at all could be found for terrorism norms show you why have the officials in court on the official state financier's of anti iranian terrorist organizations with the record of the financing but all you. have isis and all nostra not only been spared any punishment of other sort of more to armed here but it. has. but only if you want they are all are you more bought up a little to take your claim off fighting terrorism seriously of mo

and i would say under petro of us are those your real names national yes they are our real names and what does it even now when you're talking about it to tell the truth you look very nervous. and what would you look like. when your life is turned upside down in a moment and just one gene changed our lives when my league. yeah ok a lot of people abroad who are looking really want to hear what these guys had to say it's interesting to hear their side of it isn't it they spoke down at length with simonian our editor in chief. contacted them. they spoke for twenty five minutes now we're going to show the whole thing to our view is this is exclusive in half an hour's time you've seen it you saw the first thing in russian sometimes it's slightly different when it's translated from russian doing so you've seen it from both perspectives your initial thoughts about all this well obviously these are two mames two faces which become all too familiar to view was both in russia in the u.k. and all the other countries as well it's been the top story now for a couple of weeks a lot of digging a lo

and i would say under petro are those your real names yes they are our real names you care physicians have responded to the interview saying that what the manhunt to say is faulty.

crazy that with the wind ing this direction and the current going this direction that you put the petro-chemical indtry 400 meters from hotel region, resort area, from the most beaupreserved beach that you have in the country. >> sreenivasan: finally tonight, the national hurricane center says it expects tropical storm florence to be a major hurrick.e by next w the storm is strengthening and speeding up as it heads towards the soheast coast. both north and south carolina have already declared states of emergency. and this afternoon, forecasters also said two more storms forming behind florence are intensifying. that's all for this edition of" pbs newshourm eekend." ri sreenivasan. thanks for watching. have a good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by ro media access at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by:rn d and irene schwartz. the cheryl and philip manstein suedgar wachenheim iii. the cheryl and philip milstein family. dr. p. roy vagelos and diana t. vagelos. the j.p.b. foundation. walter.nd p. barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mu

according to the european automobile manufacturers association or ac a west fifty seven percent were petro over thirty six percent of the diesel and only one in sixty eight cars sold were actually an electric car for a long time talking about electric cars meant talking about a test that's changed baby is no longer the only vehicle in the race competitions revving up china's racing ahead and german car make it also want to get in on the action. mercedes hopes this s.u.v. will be its breakthrough into the electric car market a direct challenge to u.s. competitor tesla say he says it's like just model will cover over four hundred kilometers on one charge it's the german car makers first purely electrically driven car nine further most a.d.c. models are expected to follow by twenty twenty two the companies investing over ten billion euros in them knowing it has a lot of catching up to do in the race. america's tesla holds first place among international each car makers with almost fifty two thousand cars sold across the world in the first half of this year germany's b.m.w. is close behind wit