dr hiatt agent cohen turkey expert from tel aviv university thank you so much for your time. that's our global news update for this hour and that's all for me as well but my colleague you know neal will be here at the top of the hour with the latest as always thanks for tuning out. this is my love hate relationship with the united kingdom i'm all i'm handy a lot of it because it's shambolic and fraudulent. and but he got paid it because thousands tens of thousands of people had their lives destroyed by r.b.s. . this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm barred chilton and thank you for being on board today bartlett nailer of public citizen is back and we look at the case surrounding congressman chris collins who as we reported yesterday was charged by federal prosecutors with insider trading wind to the federal bureau of investigation plus there's a new opponent to president trump's nominee to head the consumer financial protection bureau and it might surprise you west bartlett about that and in a bizarre twist to a story we've been covering for

people to convert any us dollars to local currency we spoke to dr hay cohen a turkey expert at tel aviv university he thinks that most turkish people will be keen to hold on to those dollars despite all this plea to do the opposite only in two weeks the turkish lira last experience the devaluation that came to the level of forty percent or more so i don't know if many people even if they really like the president can survive this new friend many people are selling their turkish euros in order to buy u.s. dollars in order to maximize the interests and to have profits of course in the social media we have also seen some propaganda videos as the president had once said and many people even burned their dollar banknotes so we can not talk about a uniform. form from turkey if if i'm not mistaken the bank sector and the construction sector will be affected from this immediately many people may lose their jobs. former first minister of scotland programme host an r t alex summoned sat down with the new leader of catalonia kim tauren to discuss the region's future the interview is in full an r.t. dot com h

jerusalem ariel kahana diplomatic correspondent for israel heigho in tel aviv and on what a political science researcher at haifa university and also in west jerusalem mitchell barrak a former adviser to former president shimon peres and speechwriter for ariel sharon welcome to you all mitchell i want to start with you based on what we heard today from prime minister netanyahu is there any reason to believe that he will back off from the stance he's taken all along here back off from from what sense as far as considering any changes to the law trying to cede to any of the demands of have been made by the druze community. i think this is just the start of the discussion i think that the government didn't realize that they were disenfranchising or almost insulting the gers community i think they didn't take it into account and i think they were a little bit surprised at the heated passion of the jews community to be included i mean they feel part and parcel of the state of israel as you showed in your segment they are fighting in the idea if they are dying in the i.d.f. just like anyone else and the israelis israel relies on

jerusalem ariel kahana diplomatic correspondent for israel heigho in tel aviv and on what a political science researcher at haifa university and also in west jerusalem mitchell barrak a former adviser to former president shimon peres and speechwriter for ariel sharon welcome to you all mitchell i want to start with you based on what we heard today from prime minister netanyahu is there any reason to believe that he will back off from the stance he's taken all along here back off from from what sense as far as considering any changes to the law trying to cede to any of the demands of have been made by the druze community. i think this is just the start of the discussion i think that the government didn't realize that they were disenfranchising or almost insulting the gers community i think they didn't take it into account and i think they were a little bit surprised at the heated passion of the jews community to be included i mean they feel part and parcel of the state of israel as you showed in your segment they are fighting in the i.d.f. they are dying in the i.d.f. just like anyone else and the israelis israel relies on