you know before we go to the next hour just to his point i mean zimbabwe venezuela there are multiple examples that you can give right where government central planning has not worked with currency so why not see a lot of example in turkey as well as our turkey and as well as all the south america countries in there as well all right as we wrap up today we want to finish with a story that frankly left it shaking our heads this week east scooter company unicorn have you heard of them well they have officially shut down so you're not going to hear much they have lost all of their investors' money and they have not produced a single actual scooter even though it pre-sold $350.00 scooters at $699.00 apiece. customers received an email from the founder nick evan saying that he was very sorry and that he was trying to sell unicorn's assets to offer partial refunds isn't that kind of him adding quote we have fortunately do not have the resources to deliver your unicorns nor are we able to provide refunds as we are completely out of funding end quote so where did the $150000.00 in start of ca

now perhaps like venezuela is replacing it, zimbabwe may be hungry.g is to do is articulate the history of monetary emergencies from the particular role that emergency plays in the libertarian imaginary united states. which i think is well worth thinking about when we talk about bitcoins. even though bitcoin is a global story another u.s. story i think it's significant to remember that it emerges in the exact moment to the date halloween night of 2009 the moment when the ted spread in the united states for 2008 2009. suddenly unblinking. forgive me. this is the worst thing for a historian. you get a date wrong. [ i'm suddenly blanking on oneness financial Ãba moment of massive financial crisis the middle of the global credit freeze a real sense of open freefall. encoded into the block chain itself in the very earliest blocks of the big chain is a timestamp which is the headline in the times about the second major bailout being made for banks. it was like something being marked as a currency that was emerging at an exact moment of crisis when it could

you on this news hour from london a wife of zimbabwe's vice president is accused of trying to kill him while he was in a south african hospital. also venezuela's government tightens the screws on the opposition approving the trial of 4 position lawmakers for treason we'll tell you about the chess and grandmaster that's also a football mastermind of the details of that in sports. now at least 12 people have been killed in a rebel attack in the eastern part of the democratic republic of congo the raid happened overnight in the village of come mungo it comes a day off to at least $32.00 people died in another attack in beni which is blamed on the rebel group the allied democratic forces they are the latest in a wave of deadly attacks which triggered protests against the congolese army and u.n. peacekeepers by residents who say they're failing to protect them and violence has also disrupted efforts to contain the outbreak in the region which has killed more than 2200 people. omar is the chief of money scope bureau in beni that this is the un's mission in the democratic republic of congo and he joins me live via skype from that location can you ple