. >> do you assume a $34,000 pair tickets in bitcoin is a polite underworld transaction?t is not something cerberus called up to make that transaction, did they? >> i don't think that is fair. there are many have criminals that buy tickets in dollars. a $20 bitcoin is now worth close to a thousand. they made their money that way. the people i have talked to, i have e-mailed a lot of bitcoin customers. they are heroically well- intentioned. they are passionate about trying to get big banking and big government out of the currency market. >> even the big banks are paying attention. jpmorgan applied for a patent on a bitcoin like payment system. it includes an online wallet which would let users transfer funds from a bank account or credit card. there goes the anonymity of bitcoin. we are going to be going around the world. the first, ukraine. howard buffett is investing in rwanda's future. that is next. >> selling big western brands in the east. selling cosmetics and coffee. we will ask ceos of two household names. i am betty liu. this is "singapore sessions." ♪ >> "singapo

but upon parole he found himself drifting back into detroit's underworld and his familiar role as muscle for hire. >> basically, when i was at the halfway house, i would visit a lot of strip clubs, and i ran into a lot of people, you know, from the past and stuff like that. and you know, one thing led to another, and i started with this girl candy. she wanted me as a bodyguard because she was having a problem with these bikers. and one thing led to another. >> today mico says he works with half a dozen young women, offering protection in exchange for a percentage of the money they earn from dates and dancing in clubs. but based on his own definition, he insists he is not a pimp. >> i don't ever encourage girls to get into the business. only if they come to me and they've already been in the business and they're totally made up their mind, hey, this is what i'm going to do, this is it, right now this is what i'm doing in my life, then i will take a person like that on. but i will never turn somebody out. >> there you go. >> what's going on? >> but mico's self-portrait doesn't square with

we decided to expose the underworld gangs praying on refugees in camps across the city charging up 2,000 pounds to cross to the u.k. we sent a bbc journalist undercover as a syrian refugees. within hours he had been introduced to the traffickers. >> they asked if they could traffic him across. >> that's the promise and last year the french say it worked for an estimated 15,000 people. by night back among the refugees it's time to cue for a nightly meal provided by locate charity. syrians are regulars here. a few days after filming we heard from the chef. he successfully crossed to britain. but the older man, the professor and the pie poet is still there and lonely. >> i never thought i would end up here living this life. i feel like the dead amongst the living. one man among millions cast from his homeland. bbc news cal lay. >> you're watching bbc world news america. still to come on tonight's program, months after christians came under attack, the wounds are far from healed. >> the world's most popular firearm and the designer died at the age of 94. he was born in siberia in 1919. it wa

. >> vampires, parasites of the underworld. their sharp fangs piercing necks in a blood lust ritual. it's what most people think of when you say vampire. but in 2013 there's a new meaning. in hollywood blood is beauty and some of the biggest stars are hungry for it. the vampire facelift. >> this area around here. >> reporter: you are looking at the first moments of this new cosmetic procedure in the medical office of dr. charles tellacouture and while it may be cutting edge not a single knife is used, no cutting, no stitches, no pulling. the doctor begins by drawing the patient's blood and then using a centrifuge spins the blood to separate it. >> it helps stimulate collagen for skin renewal. >> reporter: after the blood is separated, the patient's face is numbed and the plasma rich portion of the blood is injected into the face. >> a little bit there, too. you really want to raise that area. see how we got really good angulation? we're trying to get the same thing. >> reporter: tabitha wanted to reduce the hollows under her ey

well in the underworld. ali i think you're right you know. the pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure a. lot about you conversations and great minds i'm speaking with on a porker on the as the president and c.e.o. of prosperity works an organization to create statewide initiatives in new mexico to develop and test high impact strategies to build the opportunities and knowledge and relationships required for all new mexicans to reach to achieve economic security and prosperity let's get back to it first of all president obama just the other day was speaking about poverty or something he had to say it's. so the basic bargain at the heart of our economy as freight in fact this trend towards growing inequality is not unique to america's market economy across the developed world that inequality has increased so so you may have seen just last week the pope himself spoke. about this at eloquent length. how can it be you wrote that it's not a news item when an elderly almost person does. but it is news when the stock market loses tw

who does not love to talk about dy underworld and transferring funds.ords one $100 bills in currency. bitcoin is about something very different. that is something i have taken from the last 12 days. >> a libertarian, slightly anarchist movement. >> a community. to back not need a fed a marketplace. what i am willing to trade with you is the real value of something. >> there is definitely a lot of that. the bottom line, fiat currencies are based on trust. you have to trust the central bank that supplies you with your it andy not to defacdbase steal money from you. at the end of the day, all central banks are doing that. >> not from us, from our children. >> from our grandparents. >> that is a conversation for 2014. thank you, i love mystery. water it. >> i am sending this homeless stephanie ruhle, it is her birthday today. this little bush. hungry like a wolf. martin scorsese's film starring leonardo dicaprio hits theaters. will a corner the market? also, a christmas classic worth celebrating. dan aykroyd explains "trading places here on "street smart je

they want to separate what they see as the health issue, the addiction problems from the illegal underworldhank you. happy new year. >> you too. >> and it is already 2014 in sydney, australia as well as hong kong. tonight a million people will ring ring in the new year in of course, new york's times square. that, of course, where richard quest goss a close-up tour of the crystal ball that's going to drop, up next. >>> 1 million people expected to freeze tonight. this is in times square. you'd better bundle up to watch the crystal ball drop tonight. some highlights of the evening, supreme court justice season na sotomayor will do the honors of pushing the button. richard quest went behind the scenes to check it out and see the ball up close. watch. >> times square, they call it the crossroads of the world. for good reason. where are you from? >> asia. >> we're from france. >> argentina. >> we're from texas. >> i come from ecuador. >> toronto. >> reporter: all these people come midnight eastern standard time will have their eyes trained up looking to the top. for new year's eve. it is a centu

these are the gods of the underworld. keach: bacabs and powatuns were the maya gods who held up the earth and the sky. they were also the patrons of scribes. bacabs wearing a star were found carved on a throne in a large house near the workshop. the house belonged to an important noble thought to have been a scribe. was the star being made for him ? the artisan's workshop is right next door to the house of the noble. was there some kind of relationship between the two ? there were not yet enough clues until preparations began for the reconstruction of the workshop, directed by project architect rudy larios. when larios began digging into the foundation, he made a startling discovery. interpreter: on dismantling the wall, we quickly found some stones that appeared very strange, and a small slope in the west part of the room. when we investigated further, we found this. keach: larios had discovered a hidden tomb beneath the artisan's workshop. the tomb had been reused at various times, and several bodies were discovered, on

. >> today all it takes is the click of a mouse to send our most vulnerable kids into an underworld of degradation, drugs, and despair. >> you're missing me off. get the -- do you want me to break your camera? >> it's a career that's like the pits of hell. >> all right. this dude is actually exposed right now. >> tonight msnbc goes undercover with oakland's human trafficking task force as they battle to rescue the young and the lost. and turn the tables on the johns and the pimps that take advantage of america's children. >> what's going on? i'm on tv. ♪ >>> just across the bay from the glitter of san francisco lies the rough-and-tumble port city of oakland. with ships and cargo constantly coming and going, blue-collar oaktown has become a hot spot for a different sort of trade. human trafficking. >> arrest teams. two girls westbound. >> oakland, california has unfortunately been identified by the fbi as a hub for human trafficking and specifically the sexual exploitation of children. >> sergeant holly joshi is part of the oakland police department's human trafficking task force. >> th

. >> there's a dark underworld of inventory.he world is closing in, walk into the back of the store all of this stuff is on pallets, unopen. and u.s. wal-mart sales help underperform their inventory for over six quarters. this is a company at headquarters buying goods thinking it's moving out the door, but the economy is-- consumers are telling something different. stuart: you're famous for going into the stores with your video camera and pointing out messy stores, stains on the floor, in this case lots of product lying around unsold, but you know, wal-mart's always like that. a lot of discount stores, big box retailers, they are kind of messy, target's not, i got that, but a lot of the rest are, and are you reading too much into this. >> they came out on black friday and set unrealistic expectations, 29 cent towels and a remarkable quarter. i say no way jose, and they're going to have to mark it down. they have he an issued two warnings and-- >> they won't issue the warnings report until next february. >> correct. stuart: if th

from that point of view, i don't think it will be a big story in the underworld, even though it mightuntries. >> if that final $15 billion market cap is a value you can reach, what does that imply for the value of each bitcoin here today? >> it's about $1,300. >> okay. >> per bitcoin. i want to say, this is the upper limit, right at some sort of a lower limit for sure. okay. >> david wu, first assessment of bitcoin. i'm sure there will be more to follow. thank you so much this morning. >> thank you. >>> in the meantime, tech giant apple and china mobile have reportedly signed a deal to launch the iphone 5s on the world's largest network. the announcement is expected december 18th, alongside an unveiling of a 4g network. let's talk to jon fortt about the news that people have been waiting for, if it's true. >> yeah, we're still waiting. china mobile denying to cnbc that the deal is signed, apple not commenting. maybe china mobile waiting until you said until the 18th. but it's interesting. gene munster is out with a note early this morning saying he expects the china mobile deal to add

to be clear the point is not an -- anonymity, or it is for maybe a small subset of the internet underworld the importance of bitcoin? if it is not anonymity? >> to me it democratizes many different aspects of finance. think about cross-border payments, that is a good example. western union has an entire business model premised on owning this large black box, whereas in bitcoin you have these exchanges popping up all over the world where what is involved -- >> you know what? you know what? the fee can be steep if you lose dirty percent of the value of your bitcoin in one day. until it actually smooths out some of these volatility issues, western union, even with steep fees, will be the alternative of choice. as for right now, if someone is trying to buy this -- like matt -- walk us through the rest of the story. and -- ended up going and getting a wallet and buying a bitcoin from someone i knew. i gave him cash and he gave me a bitcoin. i wanted to stay private. now that i have learned more i realize that it is a trustworthy organization -- fred over there, fred wilson, from union square ca

. $34,000ust assume a pair of tickets, to be polite, and underworld transaction?berus did not call up to make the transaction, did they? think that is fair. there are plenty of criminals to buy tickets in dollars. there are a lot of people who got into the bitcoin craze early on, and so a $20 bitcoin is now 2000, so they made their money that would. i spoke to a lot of bitcoin customers, and these people are well-l ugly -- heroically intentioned. trying to get big banking and big government out of the currency market. and they believe they are making the economy more democratic, with a small tree. >> i would point out that mr. u.s.is transferring into dollars immediately to avoid the volatility. bob nardelli, a question. >> let's stay with the $34,000 ticket. the margin on that ticket, is it better or worse than the inflation scarlet was talking about on bitcoin? a better margin as a result of trading goes out then you are on the actual product? >> no, we don't make or lose anything on trading it out. out.- trading it i don't know what you know about the airline b

do you feel like you are touching on the underworld or illicit criminal activity? >> not at all.ke to said they do not use it for that sort of thing. they are not looking to hide as much as you thought. it isteresting thing is such a useful tool for microtrends actions, buying things for a dollar or three dollars. it is also used for people that to --.king tulips would not be good for people looking to transfer across orders. this would be a good way to do that almost instantly. >> i like that there are 12 days here. what do you help to a, sure next 10 days? >> i am going to live on only bitcoin for the next 10 days. i'm going to get a gift card that will allow me to go to retailers and pay with bitcoins. or ordering gas cards because it is hard to buy gas, but you can order the cards through the post and you can pay for gas with the cards. i am doing that kind of stuff and i am looking forward to dinner with jennifer lawrence lawrence. i am planning that over the next 12 days. thank you for your many e- mails, your tweets to us on this huge controversy over the coin. -- over bit

i'm not sure the underworld is fun or effervescent did we say it is a currency here it is it a currencyt clear yet, it is both. is what you call a virtual currency. this we want common commodity currency, the gold standard, fiat currency. with us. clarida can bitcoin be the one currency? >> absolutely not. no, no, no. simple answer: no. you're the economics professor. the legit people in the business, today even know or care about this? >> i don't know anything about their coin. it got on my radar screen when bernanke was quoted to saying something positive about it. i thought maybe i should do some research. bitcoin, butowing i would say it fails one test of a durable currency is that it's fell you has fluctuated enormously in this calendar year. most currencies don't survive with tml of a hundred percent in a year. if richard says he knows nothing about bitcoin what is it say about the validity of it? >> i call it a medium of idiocy instead of a medium of exchange. which department division of the government should we look to to be the adult here on bitcoin? >> treasury has to figure

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