any western union branches in the world for periods in 20142015 . i was so much money coming in at this time. parents wasn't always so we'll see. she lived in the slums of manila before moving to north hills village. she then started working in a city where women's trip and talk to strangers on the internet. let's face it, it's a pretty, pretty engraving line of work to find yourself. and i imagine that's where the cynicism of our victims comes in. she's seeing men who are behaving in a very exploitative manner seem to be working with other people who eventually exploited and some say, she don't know when really a light bulb went on. she realized how she could turn this to her advantage. it's an evil scan, but it's a very flatter scout at the same time. and it plays on the fact that people ready to strike a conversation with the stranger. i liked about the on top of what i thought by let me know. and jason says he was you the 1st year of high school when he was recruited into the organization, did i want to know what i long faced? baseball get a goo

western union ceo will be joining us, just ahead.s is bloomberg. ♪ haidi: we have earnings when it comes to singapore bank. dbs coming in with first-half net income of 3.7 one billion sing dollars, a gain of 55% year on year. watching that dividend payout. $.33 per share, 33 sing cents per share after the monetary authority of singapore lifted their dividend cap so it does follow on the back of the a similar trend we have seen from other major banks. coming in at 1.45%. nonperforming loans ratio at 1.5% and net income at 1.7 billion sing dollars with 868 million sing dollars in net fees and commissions an allowance for -- we have seen broadly beat on consensus when it comes to the singaporean banks, broadly all exceeding estimates and expectations there. the world's largest payments companies are profit increased by more than one third in the company's second quarter. it planned a sale of western union business solutions for 910 million in cash. western union president and ceo joins us for an exclusive interview appeared wonderful to

western union is very well-positioned. we have our own channel.ent customer needs. we are a fast-growing, huge business. we are very pleased with our retail recovery. the growth of retail up to the pandemic in parts of the world. i believe western union is well-positioned. shery: well in-store transfers be driving it? how much of your retail network is back fully operational? >> it is seen as an essential service. the customers are extremely loyal. most of our locations are active. we just added 18,000 locations to our network. this is still growing. it is growing sequentially. the strong growth comes from digital. really paying out one of the locations. i think this strategy works pretty well at western union. having a huge local branch. shery: what is your stance on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology? many people sending money are looking to the crypto world. >> they are. if you look at the prestige of western union, we are a platform for old friends. you can use 137 different currencies. we have the platforms to do this. we have some inte

did it because people sending money home to a relative were paying fees associated with using western unioney is carried in a way that subjected to that by a heavy-handed criminal element in el salvador. these people who are on banked canned transact with no fee and in much more safety. it is good for people who are extremely poor. and it is a good diversifier. i think it has some characteristics that will make it catch on even more for people to be safe. joe: a lot of people aware that cash will go away. we will have to use a corporate network. that we are at the whim of corporation that get to send money. how much do you think that is important for u.s. laws to have that? >> i think it is really important. that is one of the concerns we have. that it will be used by the chinese communist party to spy on people. if someone in china were to make a donation to a church or some unapproved activity. they are able to crack on that. if that is the only type of currency they have, they need to make that exchange. it is very important that we respect privacy. and nongovernment involvement. and sti

but you can do wire transfers with western union right now very cheaply with only a western union in between. you don't need central banks clearing payments. so we already have some relatively cheap international payments for remittances. it is not clear to have this to make international payments cheaper. >> do you see any value in cbdc to detect financial crimes better than existing anti-money laundering methods? >> anybody trying to money launder or do it illegally, i doubt they will do it through the cbdc account. they will not use it instead of bitcoin. i can't imagine ransomware pirates would ask to be paid in cbdc from the federal reserve, which needs to be tracked to make sure where it is. >> in the borrow landscape, you see innovation, you see fin tech innovations, other central banks moving in this direction. generally speaking, is there a risk of the fed being behind the ball and not able to help structure these innovations? the fed doesn't see the value in participating in them, but that is our seating leadership to other central banks, other private sector actors, it is

put in the office me quite a bit as long food one need to tell you the boucher that he handed western union because that quote should join me every thursday on the alex salmon show and i'll be speaking to guess on the world, the politics sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then in the the me in the punishment wing known as india block, mohammedan was isolated from all other detainees. who call it the freed. because it's very cool. i was the was level so i mean what level? no food, nothing. total isolation like a logical and physical torture. and i was in a 27 american hash because of my activism that i was placid in germany, somewhere to do harm to the ultimate either because that little crime or we're going to put you in the torture program. and i said go for it very much. i was really stupid here. the bag that i american said. the logic says that without to they wouldn't be $91170.00 mohammedan, was the most prisoner in the role of psychologist in the torture program. astounds me. i saw that we're heading down a road that i knew was going to be a disaster in 2002 mark put his

there's long lines outside the banks for people trying to access money. western union has now halted all service to the country, so you can't send money into the country from outside and you can't get money out of the country and send it out. and then of course, you have people trying to convert to other currencies like the circus mirror. so all these different things are converging at the same time that makes for a huge mess as the, you know, afghan afghanistan's currency itself is also dropping. and so you have a lot of younger people, country who have turned up the currency like big coin. why? well, number one, it doesn't lose its value, even if your national currency is being the value you hold onto your value across the borders. obviously, as we talked about so many times, and so there is a huge advantage to being involved in the crypto space right now for people in this country. is it a real world experiment? maybe not an experiment so much as a real world use case for the, for all the reasons that those who have advocated crypto currency, like chris christie and myself for man

because they just want to live in, in a different country, most probably somewhere in the and western union. so this is not the ground for, for asylum, but they're out of course procedures that we need to undergo one will be undergoing . yes, the reset logistical issue that we need to host people somewhere until their, their requests are being processed. think they're being treated in a proper unitarian way. we know that there are all sorts of problems because nobody was prepared to have a big number of people with kids, of different health conditions, not speaking a language that we can speak. and there are all sorts of problems that come from it . but we, we are trying to move as soon as we can s s as move as we can in trying to make those conditions better. there are so many people who live in, in the border crossing points. we are trying to read as many houses modal houses as we can to sort of put people in a better situation. we have a special center in, in our country. and y'all, nevada, that deals with people who are already on the integration programs and they know how to teach the

. >> the last week has laid bare the worst case scenario on people running out of cash western union suspended all services and that's part of why some afghans i spoke to are turning to bitcoin some people are leaving the country and using their crypto wallets to bring their money with them. others see it as a way to stay put. i spoke with a person who lives in a village called zabul and up until the last week one way he would make money is by day trading dogecoin another person says he can make more money in crypto in a month than in construction in a year and beyond the fact it's easier to make money in crypto some consider bitcoin safer >> let me ask you this -- i love your name because it's my son's name, it's great is bitcoin, for those people who are there, are they safe holding bitcoin? what if the taliban showed up at their door after this story and knock, knock, knock and said i hear you've got a lot of bitcoin. give me your password or i'll shoot you? >> so unlike the rest of the crypto sphere, a lot of people aren't talking about it and that has to do with the uncertainty

at this point, western union is no longer sending money to afghanistan, moneygram does not seem to be there is a broad concern that these people are sitting here helpless, watching families and friends speaking to them on the phone and unable to send them money at this hour, has caused extraordinary anxiety. >> jacob ward in fremont putting the spotlight on that community. thank you very much. >>> it is of course a difficult incredibly difficult week as well for those who served in afghanistan and their family members. joining me now is kyle ann hunter, veteran and adjunct senior fellow at the center for new american security. as someone who served multiple combat missions in afghanistan, your reaction to what is happening right now? >> first of all, thank you so much for having me and elevating and lifting up the voices of afghan and those who have served. like many veterans, i've been in touch with a lot of my friends i served there, at different times and different services as well as in many capacities that were there, i think there's a lot of intellectual understanding of what's

i cannot support them at the moment because western union and these other money wiring institutions aret down. they are not working at the moment and people are becoming more angry and much more helpless. so the international community and ngos and international organizations, the red cross, etc., they need to focus on the afghan population and not letting them along with the taliban. at the same time, i think the financial aid can be a very useful tool to use it also to put some pressure, political pressure on the taliban. if you wanted or not, a future will see more more governments working with them. amy: i want to thank you for joining us, afghan journalist and author. most recent book published today in germany titled "the longest war: 20 years of the war on terror." next up, we look at how a group of far-right anti-vaccine, anti-mask protesters, including at least one who was at the january 6 insurrection in washington, recently attacked journalists and others in los angeles. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'

just to take their chances with the taliban government because there's no way to get money out of western unionm hearing from a lot of former afghan translators, even afghan officials who are either having to try to blend in or trying to figure some way, if they're really high profile and really recognizable, some other way to get smuggled out. >> that's going to be extraordinarily difficult. i mean -- you know, i think a lot of afghan officials probably tried to leave very early on when there were still commercial flights out. do you have the sense of how many afghans who have, you know, sivs or other reasons to leave are actually still there? do we know? >> it has to be in the thousands. i mean i personally know of four sivs who can't get out. they've got all of their paperwork. they tried the gate several times around the airport, and now they're afraid, especially -- that was before the suicide attacks. there have been various different -- a lot of disinformation floating around where people will be told, hey, siv applicants, go to this hotel, we're gathering you together to bus you into th

your points about western union vis-a-vis the events in afghanistan, what the lightning network is tryingd you tell people in the traditional money transfer firms how quickly do you think their market share could be eroded or replaced by what bitcoin network is trying to do? >> yeah. i mean, it's simple. get out and get away i don't know what the time frame is but when you look at something like bitcoin, it allows through the lightning network for anyone to send pennies, literally pennies anywhere in the world with instantaneous settlement with strike they can stream payments and when you start to look at something like what happened in afghanistan with western union at the time of need of literally millions of people, they pulled out of the country. they stopped supporting it they blamed it on agent capacity whether or not that's true, i don't know bitcoin brings a censorship resistant program to the world what we're watching is young people specifically recognize the technical superiority. they are used to these digitally native platforms so they're starting to shift. over a long period

union vessels pushed through the states as they stormed into newbern. branch retreated to kingston and bernside added another victory to the western theater. he captured the second largest city in north carolina solidifying the union presence in the croatin styles. bernside and his men reached a region where enslaved men waged their own battle for liberty and citizenship by making a case for enlistment. here i examine the deliberations of union military officials, the actions of local refugees and the opinions that appear in the black press to show the tensions and debates leading up to the official recruitment of black soldiers. before the creation of the united states color troops, refugees and free black men met union soldiers in the southern locales of the western theater to offer their services. some were literate. others were starving. others were barely even clothed. what many of them possessed a keen awareness of the region, its land and customs. it would take the cooperation of officers and public and legal arguments for black enlistment to make their actions official policy. before burnside's men landed at newbern, prominent black

fighters will not take a city by force, they have two redefined the force, covers western countries including the european unionaid that they will not accept any government in a kabul which is taken by force. so the taliban wants recognition, they want a ban like they have been put on several lists, to be removed, so they have been holding a very clever negotiation for the last nearly two years with the american envoys, many afghans now despise because many believe that he was its rental is that whole process but the americans would say that they need a political settlement. the taliban have now been asking for a transfer of power and imagine it will be like 20 years ago, internationalforces led by and imagine it will be like 20 years ago, international forces led by the us turned up in afghanistan, to take —— drag away the telephone. we might see a scene where the taliban taking over the city in a few days where they will oversee the departure of americans from afghanistan. find they will oversee the departure of americans from afghanistan. and “ust da s ahead americans from afghanistan. and “ust days ahead of

union -- push you. for inside added another victory to the western theater. he captured the second largest city in north carolina. what awaited him reveals a dilemma that nearly every union officer confronted throughout the course of the war. we're inside, reached a region where enslaved people which their own battle for liberty and citizenship by making their own case for enlistment. here i examine the deliberations of officials, and the actions of local refugees. and the opinions that appear in the black press to show the tensions and debates leading up to the official recruitment of black soldiers. but for the creation of the united states colored troops, refugees and free black men like union soldiers, in the southern locale they offered their services. some are literate, others were starving, others were barely even clothes. what many of them possessed a keen awareness of the region, its land and its customs. it would take the cooperation of officers, and legal arguments for black enlistment to make that action official policy. before the insides men land

what beliefs are they going to have in western hours now -- western powers now? as the european union, we realize there needs to be an autonomous defense force without counting on the united dates. we need to look at the question of women and girls enough dennis dan who have been stripped of their rights as the taliban take control, and they have been brutally oppressed. european countries need to be generous and welcoming afghanistan to lee and we need to do what we can to protect -- welcoming afghanis who flee , and we need to do what we can to protect them. david: i give the floor. is she connected? >> yes. thank you, chairman. mr. borrell, i have three questions. first, are you preparing agreements between the eu and heard countries for deception of afghan refugees? -- eu and other countries for the reception of afghan refugees? what kind of commitment is the eu going to make if there is pressure on the bulgarian border? will the european union commit themselves to enhancing refugees in other countries? are you looking at a possible scenario? we need burden-sharing in the european

union and israel have offered assistance. anchor: there where similar scenes in the western united states, a forest fire in northern californiaploded in size, becoming the third largest in state history. the dixie fire broke out july 21 and has consumed an area larger than los angeles, prompting more evacuation orders in the state after the town of greeneville was burnt to the ground this week. scientists say climate change has turned the area hotter and drier in the past three decades, making fires more frequent and more destructive. moving on now, a german family has found a trove of nazi artifacts after the floods ruined their home. some of the objects, including a portrait of hitler's, gas masks, and revolver hidden in the wall. we have more. reporter: gas masks, revolver, brass knuckles, and a portrait of hitler, some of the nazi secrets german family found behind the wall of their home devastated in the july floods. >> [speaking in foreign language] reporter: historians believe the objects may have been in the gap between two buildings before u.s. troops took the city in april 1945. >> [speaking in foreign language] rep

western capitals, at any rate. we have, for example, the head of the european union who condemned the attack.erman chancellor angela merkel described it as a heinous attack on the european people. prime minister boris johnson said he is up to hold an emergency meeting on the suicide bombings in afghanistan, and the united nations secretary general has already announced a special meeting of the u.s. -- a special meeting of the united nations security council to discuss the situation in afghanistan. i think there is a willingness and maybe increased pressure on all of those nations, trying to come up with some kind of plan to see how they can move forward in the situation that seems to be rapidly deteriorating. rapidly deteriorating because what we have now is the taliban putting a lid on the situation in afghanistan, and you had these breakaway splinter groups like isis-k, which took responsibility for the attack today, reporting a direct threat to the taliban and their leadership of the country. it is simply because this is a soft target. thousands of people are around the airport. isis-k, wh

so if you go to the hungarian countryside, you can see western european families that moved to hungary. in the european union, we have free movement. so many are spending more and more time here. we can't exclude the future of the european history from mygation. >> tucker: within europe. >> the christians and the conservatives decide to find a better home. we can't exclude that. >> tucker: so up until very recently, hungary is a small nation. had two big nuclear armed allies. the united states and israel. probably netanyahu's closest europe. probably closest to donald trump. we are does that leave you? >> we're not fortunate in the recent years. trump was supportive to us. not just personally but politically also. that was a good friendship. and, you know, first america, america first is a very positive message here in central europe. it means if for donald trump, america first, for us, hungary could be first as well. let's cooperate on that basis. that was a very good foreign policy. very effective and we cooperated very well. the same with b.b. netanyahu. a good friend of the hungarians. when he was here,

union. he was already quite friendly and knew most of the leaders of western europe. england and france were we're and very strong allies. um near the end of his presidency. he started meeting with more leaders outside of the northern hemisphere. and he met with lots of leaders throughout his administration. on september 28th 1953 president ramon cantera of panama became the first world head of head of state to visit the white house during the eisenhower presidency. this was the first of 37 official head of state visits to the white house in the eight years that eisenhower's was president. in october of 1953 eisenhower's first international goodwill visit visiting with mexican president cortinas at the opening of the falcon dam on the rio grande river. um all in all eisenhower held 210 meetings with heads of state both at home and abroad. he summed up his beliefs regarding personal diplomacy as follows. for special purposes i strongly believe that in the conduct of foreign relations personal discussions between heads of government can be helpful. and even imperative f

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the international union for l international union for conservation nature, they announced two years ago that the westerntern chimpanzee, that is the subspecies we have in sierra leone, is extremely threatened and endangered and that means these chimps can disappear in a lifetime. you are talking about the next 20-30 are talking about the next 20—30 years. and sierra leone has a significant population stop between sarah leone, guinea and liberia, probably we have about 70— 75% of this western chimpanzee. so if we don't address this issue as the three nations, and i think we have all the chance of, i mean, just watching them disappear right before our eyes.- right before our eyes. there has been — right before our eyes. there has been no _ right before our eyes. there has been no national- right before our eyes. there has been no national forest| has been no nationalforest inventory in sierra leone for more than 40 years but some say about a quarter of the rainforest here is gone. campaigners are concerned that it is dwindling alarmingly fast. one of the areas is here at this chimp century. —— sanctuary.