r.t. correspondent alex mahela bench thank you as always alex. thank you the other day. the other day we spoke about the environmental advocacy group the environmental working group which found a dangerous club aside glycine of fate used by the made by the monsanto company they found in cereal and months into a recently was bought by the german drug maker bear well we thought the topic merited a little bit more deeper discussion are pleased to be joined by our correspondents here i'm on to discuss so you've been looking into this and we're so pleased i saw you on other programs that are to america you were so great on it but it made me even question more we reported that bear stock went down but what have markets been doing since the end of last week so a bear stock went down last monday it really plunged and it continued to fall through thursday it seems like it's starting to pick a little bit back up but it lost eighteen percent of its value since the verdict and hundred percent and it's still lower than it has been in the last five years they must of you know when the

r.t. correspondent ceremony. joins us what's it's been nearly nine months since the u.s. congress passed and president signed into law tax legislation to reduce taxes on companies and people today we take a look at the impact so far with the executive director of the oh god to act and at american university professor donald williamson all that straight away and other jam packed broadcast but first we get to a few headlines as the summer of twenty eight thousand continues to roast the earth's northern hemisphere there is some big and not so great news on climate coming out of the united states the head of the troubled ministrations u.s. environmental protection agency or e.p.a. andrew wheeler signed a plan to allow increased greenhouse gas emissions from coal fired power plants the plan cynically titled the affordable clean energy rule rolled back president obama's clean power plan and delegate power to reget to various states to regulate coal states of course are expected to go easy. coal under the trump plan allowing a net increase of the emissions that are quickly chang

r.t. correspondent alex mahela bench thank you as always alex. thank you the other day. the other day we spoke about the environmental advocacy group the environmental working group which found a dangerous club aside glycine of fate used by the made by the monsanto company they found in cereal and months into a recently was bought by the german drug maker bear well we thought the topic merited a little bit more deeper discussion are pleased to be joined by our correspondents here i'm on to discuss so you've been looking into this and we're so pleased i saw you on other programs that are to america you were so great on it but it made me even question more we reported that bears stock went down but what of markets been doing since the end of last week so bear stock went down last monday it really plunged and it continued to fall through thursday it seems like it's starting to pick a little bit back up but it lost eighteen percent of its value since the verdict and hundred percent and it's still lower than it has been in the last five years they must of you know when they b

r.t. correspondent actually banks reports. you may soon see an uptick in prices when it comes to your favorite seafood thanks to a new round of tariffs the u.s. may impose on china last month the trump administration proposed a ten percent tariff on two hundred billion dollars worth of end points from the asian country including dozens of varieties of fish from top to tuna the administration has proposed a new set of tear of so that could increase to twenty five percent spiking the cost of your average seafood item according to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration more than eighty percent of the seafood americans eat is imported about nine hundred million dollars and fish and seafood on the list of end imports as first caught in the u.s. mostly alaska and then sent to china for processing and to things like fish sticks and filleted these items are then and courted by the u.s. and sold to american consumers this practice has made china one of the top source of seafood for the u.s. all domestic seafood processing

r.t. correspondent ashley banks has more. i do your investigation into the catholic church in pennsylvania reveals three hundred priests sexually abused more than a thousand children in four years what's worse is that a series of bishops cover it up the investigation covers six of pennsylvania's eight catholic diocese and found more than one thousand victims making this the largest examination by a government agency and the u.s. of child sexual abuse within the catholic church what's more alarming is that the grand jury is saying of that the number of sexually abused children is a much higher than what's being reported because a lot of files have been missing and a lot of kid didn't come forward because they were scared shortly after this report was released spins of being as attorney general held a press conference all of the victims were brushed aside in every part of the state by church leaders who preferred to protect the abusers and their institutions above all priests were raped raping little boys and girls and the men

r.t. correspondent nicholas o'donovan gives us the details on the incoming president's proposed energy plans. mexican president elect and that is manuel lopez obrador announced in late july a plan to invest billions of dollars in pemex the country's state owned energy company this plan aims to reverse years of decline in production appendix the country's existing refineries have been operating at less than seventy percent capacity since twenty twelve according to mexico's energy department require in the country to import more gasoline diesel and other refined products part of lopez obrador strategy involves invest in some two point six billion dollars to upgrade refineries as well as building at least a new one for approximately eight point six billion dollars obrador also. reaffirmed his intent to review more than one hundred exploration and production contracts awarded to private oil and gas company and gas companies since the controversial twenty thirteen reforms which let's remind our viewers open the country's energy sector for foreign investment for the first time in decades so it's a

r.t. correspondent trinity charges joins us from new york but this time we've popstars the program with markets the standard and poor's five hundred revenue as an earnings were huge in the second quarter of the year topping ten percent year over year we reported on many of those earnings right here right here so it might not come a surprise that stock markets are doing well but as we reported here yesterday last time they are doing exceedingly well and yesterday the s. and p. five hundred reached a new historical high plus yesterday the equaled the longest bull run ever in history today stocks were mixed but there's no mistaking the monumental milestone that has been reached and here to put it into perspective is our friend henry ford which the c.e.o. of straw mark hillary thank you as always for being here what do you make of this welcome well it is very long there had to be not a long run this well though let's not forget the one nine hundred twenty s. one nine hundred sixty s. as well and all.

r.t. correspondent trinity charges reports from new york on samsung and the new no nine phone it's not sold novel plus she's back lauren fix the car coach joins us to talk as the u.s. securities and exchange commission has subpoenaed the company following c.e.o. must market moving tweet plus there's a new news on vehicles with those of mission cheating devices and one european country now says owners can't even have their vehicles registered while lauren will help us sort it all out and there's new cold war news between coca-cola and pepsi co the battleground is the eight billion dollars sports beverage market over joins us to discuss there's a lot to get to but first let's get to a few stories topping today's financial and business headlines. lots of earnings news out as wal-mart's latest figures are catching the eyes of market watchers the arkansas based u.s. retailer beat expectations on revenues same store sales increases and earnings per share revenue was up three point eight percent to one hundred twenty eight billion dollars and same store sales were up four point five percent and ea

r.t. correspondent. candace owens she's from turning points usa conservative organization in the usa what she did was she took tweets from new york times journalist sarah job and simply replaced the words white with the words black or the word jewish the response of twitter was to shut down her account candace owens says that twitter was right to take down her posts and ban her for making hateful comments regarding black and jewish people she says however the outrage is that sarah johnson was not banned for making these comments about white people on the surface i actually agree with tweeter twitter is assessment i believe that what i said what i tweeted was wrong you should not be able to tweet about any race or any group that you want them canceled that they should live underground i don't know why suddenly people think that white people are excluded from that scenario that people can't be racist towards white people when in fact they often are the problem with the new york times essentially saying shi

r.t. correspondent trinity charges reports from new york on samsung and the new note nine phone it's not sold novel plus she's back lauren fix the car coach joins us to talk to tesla as the u.s. securities exchange commission has subpoenaed the company following c.e.o. must market moving tweet plus there's a new news ones vehicles with those a mission cheating devices and one european country now says owners can't even have their vehicles registered while lauren will help us sort it all out and there's new cold war news between coca-cola and the battleground is the eight billion dollars or two very bridge market over joins us to discuss there's a lot to get to but first let's get to a few stories topping today's financial and business headlines. lots of earnings news out as wal-mart's latest figures are catching the eyes of market watchers the arkansas based u.s. retailer beat expectations on revenues same store sales increases and earnings per share revenue was up three point eight percent to one hundred twenty eight billion dollars and same store sales were up four point five percent and ea

r.t. correspondent daniel hawkins the countryside somewhere you'd go for greenery or fresh air perhaps to escape social media the slow internet here will help with that but we're not in the countryside. we're actually in rather i thought a london suburb just a few miles from the city as you can see behind me is one of a number of areas both here and in other urban centers where internet speeds are among the slowest in the country while internet speeds normally see a consistent urban rural divide it's britain's major cities that often see internet black sports frustrating both residents and businesses recent studies have shown the u.k. dropped to twenty first place of twenty eight in europe an internet speed rankings one improvements have been made broadband speeds rose by twelve and a half percent over the previous year average global speeds jumped by over twenty percent meaning the u.k. was overtaken by countries like france luxembourg poland and madagascar with much of the u.k.'s network based on old copper wire phone system a government report estimated f t t p the fastest type of cove

r.t. correspondent sara montecito also joins us to dig deeper about the feeling month santal herbicides found in breakfast cereal and the executive director of a coast guard tech center in american university professor donald williamson is back to examine the impact of the large u.s. tax cuts are they benefiting companies with those stock buyback or individuals are they getting a big benefit so give us his perspective as we go to break the benchmark standard and poor's five hundred reached a record high today and they equaled the longest bull run in history all green arrows on the big board today here are the numbers at the closing bell will be right back. what politicians do you shuttle. to put themselves on the lawn. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be rich. have to go right to be close to see what before three of them or can't be good get back i'm interested always in the waters of the caller's. question. the most. childs seem wrong when old girls just don't call. me old yet to say proud disdain comes to educate and engage with equ

r.t. correspondent nicholas o'donovan gives us the details on the incoming president's proposed energy plans. mexican president elect and that is manuel lopez obrador announced in late july a plan to invest billions of dollars in pemex the country's state owned energy company this plan aims to reverse years of decline in production appendix the country's existing refineries have been operating at less than seventy percent capacity since twenty twelve according to mexico's energy department require in the country to import more gasoline diesel and other refined products part of lopez obrador strategy involves invest in some two point six billion dollars to upgrade refineries as well as building at least a new one for approximately eight point six billion dollars obrador also riff reaffirmed his intent to review more than one hundred exploration and production contracts awarded to private oil and gas come and gas companies since the controversial twenty thirteen reform. which let's remind our viewers open the country's energy sector for the foreign investment for the first time in decades so i

r.t. correspondent ashley banks gives us the disquieting details a busy broadcast as usual let's get some headlines to start us off. legislators in the state of california home of the world's fifth largest economy have sent a bill to require that the state go one hundred percent carbon free by twenty forty five to the desk of governor jerry brown senate bill one hundred approved by legislators on a forty four to thirty three vote in the assembly also strengthen their medium term energy reform goals for twenty thirty increasing the mandate from fifty to sixty percent energy from sources that do not add to greenhouse gas content in the atmosphere governor brown who will host a and serve as a co-chair for a climate summit a global climate summit next month is expected to sign the legislation historic wildfire conditions in extreme drought in the state are major reasons the legislation was seen to be approved so rapidly according to the measures sponsor assemblyman kevin daly on why is the only other state to have set a date for going carbon free experts say thirty five percent of california'

r.t. correspondent actually bank tells us about an interesting and innovative way that some people are getting their gasoline all that ahead but first we had a few headlines in another sign of the times china has passed a remarkable milestone reaching over eight hundred million internet users according to the china internet network information center or c c and i see the group as monitor internet usage and related figures since one nine hundred ninety seven and then their fortieth annual report they find that fifty seven point seven percent of the chinese population is online with thirty million additional chinese individuals logging on in the first half of this year alone interestingly c c n i see found that only one point seven percent of chinese internet surfers use non mobile devices to go online and they're all using phones the south china morning post found in their china internet report that there are three times as many mobile based internet users in china as in the united states over five hundred sixty million chinese now use their mobile devices to make payments according to c.c. and

r.t. correspondent nicholas o'donovan gives us the details on the incoming president.

r.t. correspondent nicholas o'donovan gives us the details on the incoming president's proposed energy plans. mexican president elect and that is manuel lopez obrador announced in late july a plan to invest billions of dollars in pemex the country's state owned energy company this plan aims to reverse years of decline in production appendix the country's existing refineries have been operating at less than seventy percent capacity since twenty twelve according to mexico's energy department require in the country to import more gasoline diesel and other refined products part of lopez obrador strategy involves invest in some two point six billion dollars to upgrade refineries as well as build an at least a new one for approximately eight point six billion dollars obrador also. reaffirmed his intent to review more than one hundred exploration and production contracts awarded to private oil and gas company and gas companies since the controversial twenty thirteen reforms which let's remind our viewers open the country's energy sector for the foreign investment for the first time in decades so it

r.t. correspondent ashley banks gives us the disquieting details as we go to break here are the numbers at the closing bell will be right back. and trump you know it's all about detente and getting along with the greatest ally friend russia there is no place to get to the kids and you know if you open it up there's other things in there so while we proceed here in the first half i'll just see what let's go. there right now but i'm not going to act on their manager i'm not out of the budget that i'm out of the money out of the money they let it to me. this was a good time to. try to move. the. sun that was definitely not why not. why x. generated their own people we believe is the job again. a lot of i can say they're not the muppets i don't have a lot of them on the totem other how to do it on a case there isn't a lot of money on the white community will be left alone to the people i don't want to put out in the most part when i don't know them of the brotherhood. welcome back there's major retirement pension news for workers and russia's president vladimir putin has pulled back a step to

r.t. correspondent alex what hyla bench thanks for the impressive in attributing analysis guys we'll see later thanks but are you. and in the on again off again test what twists and turns now c.e.o. elon musk says the company will not go private it remains unclear if the company could have raised enough resources to do so anyway the news comes on the heels of the u.s. korean exchange commission investigating the circumstances surrounding the we will go public tweet and it may as it may have violated u.s. securities laws time now for a quick break but stick around because when we get back we'll look at the world's largest companies saudi aramco and the apparently ill fated or at least stalled initial public offering and we look at oil prices and more with david greenberger of greenberg capital plus national trial lawyers magazine's molly barrows our legal journalist friend looks at which companies are benefiting from what's on all slave labor in u.s. prisons as we go to break another good day in the markets in the wake of the record setting the nasdaq and s. and p. five hundred highs on friday

r.t. correspondent peter oliver thank you very much both of you for being here and peter let's start with you the good not long ago some experts we reported here peter that said that germany could go into a recession as early as this june well as they saying not dead yet the second quarter growth for the country is surprised and pleased many peter what's the latest. well certainly not dead in fact alive and kicking is the german economy it's performed better than it had been expected for the second quarter of twenty eighteen posting gross though of zero point five percent to g.d.p. that's up all what the full cost is had predicted for the second quarter which was zero point four percent what that means is we're now looking at around two point three percent growth for the whole of twenty eighteen and in fact they're predicting that growth will continue through into twenty nineteen where we could see a further two point one percent growth of g.d.p. now they say well those numbers in fact are well above the average growth levels full of the german economy over the last ten years so everythin

r.t. correspondent trinity charges joins us from new york but this time we've popstars the program with the markets the standard and poor's five hundred revenue as an earnings were huge in the second quarter of the year topping ten percent year over year we reported on many of those earnings right here so it might not come a surprise that stock markets are doing well but as we reported here yesterday last time they are doing exceedingly well and yesterday the s. and p. five hundred reached a new historical high plus yesterday the equaled the longest bull run ever in history today stocks were mixed but there's no mistaking the monumental milestone that has been reached and here to put it into perspective is our friend henry ford which the c.e.o. of straw mark hillary thank you as always for being here what do you make of this welcome about well it is very long and there have been other long runs as well though let's not forget the one nine hundred twenty s. one nine hundred sixty s. as well and also of course there was the clinton bump in the one nine hundred ninety s. i think one thing that

r.t. new york. a us presidential candidate an award winning war correspondent one of trump's former advisers the u.k. opposition leader and even a rock star they may appear not to have much in common but according to one blog they are all supporters of so-called assad ism. explains. labeling people as in fashion has been for the past couple of years in fact populist mainstream deplorable or when it comes to syria and a scientist like a sadist to but who also supports the syrian president at least that seems to be the logic behind an index of names recently claude together i chose primarily this term rather than the narrower term pro our side because some of the public figures in this list explicitly denied being pro assad but still persistently repeat coraline's of regime propaganda narratives steve bannon and glenn greenwald boris johnson norm chomsky let's say the chances of coming across any other list banding these people together are slim you published an article full of lies because you're too lazy and or malicious to care that you're doing it i never defended the assad regime in my life this