an anti government checkpoint outside the eastern ukrainian city of slovyansk reportedly comes under mortar fire leaving up to eight people injured. shooting resumes towards a burnt in a personnel carrier is set on fire to the south pole after at least twenty were killed during a military assault on friday. in the baltic region nato kicks off massive military drills on russia's doorstep involving a record breaking six thousand troops. and the taliban announces the launch of an annual spring offensive despite the ongoing pulled out of foreign troops from afghanistan some of those whose lives have been shattered bible.

says r.t. live here in moscow with you twenty four hours a day anti-government activists in the east of ukraine say they've come under artillery fire from the army a civilian checkpoint was reportedly bombarded outside the city of slavyansk the main stronghold of prove or ptolemy protesters local self-defense fighters told us that they have taken casualties there is in the region. it seems as if up to eight people have been injured what we're hearing from local self-defense units on the ground is that the ukrainian army used mortars there were unexploded mortar shells that were found at the scene of the fighting we understand that there were three simultaneous battles that took place at three different checkpoints on the outskirts of slavyansk but the focal point was a checkpoint in the village of and what we're hearing from eyewitnesses is that

heavy artillery was used automatic gunfire and as i say mortars we know that now that there are injuries this person explain further yes there's gunfire on the outskirts of the city apparently having weapons without casualties on our side says a checkpoint that has come under fire in the past in fact we've traveled through it many times it is a checkpoint that is heavily fortified what we're also hearing from people on the ground is that the ukrainian army put grad missiles on the ground now all of this is happening just hours ahead of a very important referendum vote that will take place on sunday in various parts of the south and east of the country and they are concerns that this will be a referendum marred by violence and possible provocations and these incidents now in just heighten the levels of concern here is refusing to hold its military assault to quell autonomy unrest in ukraine's south east now the interim

government views it as an anti terror operation against separatists well there's been renewed gotten far in the center of many ople another focal point of the protests there in the country the city of just under five hundred thousand people are already morning following an attack by government troops as local celebrate a victory day on friday graham phillips is there for. send american politics here if you want to i mean there's a military vehicle burning and the city is in a state of chaos and. the city still reeling with the repercussions from yesterday's outbreak of extreme violence here then you should pick it up immediately talks or truce with the commonwealth or it sees are out of the question after a death after mary ople after slovyansk after all the things these nationalists who

claim to be democrats while wearing nazi symbols have done truce is impossible now we also have buildings around the city now municipal buildings and more in state of ruination and the main government building in the center of the city that's been the hands of these professional activists almost a month now last night and it was so hard what happened that we had shops looted and we had that building set fire to me that mr to feel that we also have a pretty bad recently being tortured and for the jews to a shelves we could see that the reason for the anger would prevent bank is because its owner only got i got called a mostly based on that if it is called has been used by many with funding the private sector not the private sector of course the far right you know not to organization responsible for a series of terrorist attacks across the crane so we do have the scenes of destruction and ruination across mariupol which is at the moment bracing itself for what's going to come next this is great phillips here with r.t. . you can also follow grown phillips on twitter for all his latest updates pictures and videos from the same as for to showing the local administration building in

your poll in ruins after it was reportedly set on fire in the wake of friday's bloody. ukraine's interior ministry says more than twenty people were killed in that mario pull on friday as a result of what kiev calls an anti terror operation troops and tanks were sent to the city after reports that local activists had seized control of the local police headquarters videos of soldiers shooting at civilians went viral you may find some of the following pictures disturbing. well as you can see people are shouting that they are unarmed and the next moment we can see a man being shot at and hear the troops apparently farting in the direction of people on the street hitting another city. would be.

and in this footage you can see tanks speeding through the barricades that locals built to stop the army on saturday though the military said it was called back troops from the city. or the eastern provinces do not recognize the self appointed government in kiev and a holding a referendum on their regional status on sunday now that could give each region the chance to elect its own government and also people want to control over local finances the south and east make up the lion's share of ukraine's economy but the tax money goes to kiev a situation that locals object to gloss over eighty percent of those living in the country's east speak russian and they want the language to be formally recognised while up to talk more about this i'm now joined by richard becker he's a foreign affairs analyst and richard now we've seen a full scale military operation there in the east of ukraine of course now with this referendum coming up tomorrow sunday do you think we'll see

a even harsher crackdown. well i think that the situation is escalating and no to the well i don't think either the u.s. or russia out war you can see that the unfolding developments here are the. police and ladders the fire and if the ukrainian forces that are directed by that as you say self-appointed government here carry out more power. measures like we've seen in the last few days were murderous actions let's call it by its right name that it's very likely that the situation will escalate and certainly the people in the east who do not want to live under this government are not going to accept that you talk about murderous actions carried out by the authorities but the west doesn't seem to see it that way they indeed blame the pro autonomy protesters for all this latest violence on the deaths that we've been seeing now here's how the u.s. state department has commented on the latest events the outbreak of violence caused

by pro russia separatists this morning in my op pool which has resulted in multiple deaths is that a fair accusation well i mean it's breathtaking to do this in accuracy. people are celebrating their victory day victory over fascism and they do they're celebrating the victory. of these units come in and maybe paramilitary units as well we're not sure who are who are involved who really carried out unprovoked shootings and killings of more than twenty people in mariupol and this follows on the heels of the fascist attack and. were so many people were burned or beaten to death trying to escape the fire well you know that's the science or be deciding outside so certainly psaki and the us government is a suspect of this has been anything but accurate and what about this referendum to

more of president putin specifically said he wants to see it postponed but he is being ignored by those people in the east of ukraine and yet the west still blames moscow on what is happening now on having an influence on the events why is that. well they want to they're tired of the russian government. they want to bring about a change inside russia although they can't do that immediately by you know the people i think that it's so many people there and particularly where we've seen you know just in recent days that looking back on what happened in this region at the hands of the nazis the idea that the people there would accept living under a government that is riddled with neo nazis you know really defies logic and i think explains why people there want to go forward with an expression of self-determination but this could lead to civil war are we seeing civil war unfolding here or do you think they could be

a peaceful resolution after all is also going for donald. well there could be a resolution but i think and i don't think we have a way to really see where you go going to get that crystal ball out and as i said before the steps that are being taken in particular the steps that are being taken by the subsequent the kiev government i can lead to an escalation and that war sometimes comes regardless of the wishes of the leaders on either side and i think that we see the possibility of a civil war and we have to say the possibility of a wider war if the the ukrainian government backed by the u.s. and the european union continues on its course just in one word briefly why don't war what do you mean by that something spreading we all knew crane just just me to ask you what you brought up well it's you know we can't ignore the fact that two of the tires that are involved in this conflict the u.s. and russia are the number one and two nuclear weapons powers in the world and this

point at the escalation ladder can be climb seven by step so that neither side had intended to have an all out war at the beginning and we could see this in a world war why now we can see that many other words nevertheless can lead to a conflict that could really pose a threat to humanity richard becker live on r.t. international thank you for your thoughts and of course some of russia's top officials have been prevented from entering ukrainian airspace while returning from a visit from to i should say transnistria deputy prime minister dmitry rogozin said his plane was turned back by ukrainian funded jets and forced to land in moldova with air he's since managed to make it back to moscow and there was a similar situation with russia's minister of culture he says his plane was also threatened by two fighter jets and ordered to return to moldova the aircraft was told it would be forced to land in ukraine if it didn't. well you can also find all

the latest for money or pull on other europe ukrainian cities online at r.t. dot com we've got minute by minute updates for you on the crisis just log in. well coming up on all t. international in the next few minutes life off to war. more than one hundred thousand afghans have been displaced by the war in the last year alone forced to flee violence a growing taliban insurgency and economic uncertainty many have found refuge in camps like this one the war may be coming to an end for international forces but there are too many afghans still left wondering when they'll be able to return home . plus report on spring in the baltics biggest of a training exercise held right on russia's doorstep amid the turmoil in ukraine stories after the break. played.

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for the beauty of. the biblical. despite tensions between the west and russia running high over events in ukraine nato has pushed ahead with its annual military drills in the baltic region this year in a stern you're right on russia's border that the biggest since two thousand and three and maneuvers dubbed spring storm involve a record breaking six thousand personnel one a french cyber security team fighter jets m if soil defense system from poland and a belgian anti aircraft unit are all involved now if you look here this is a clearer picture of the nato military buildup in eastern europe since ukraine was plunged into violence dozens of fighter jets and several spy planes have been deployed to secure the block's dominance of the region's space and the target of

the shows force is no secret so says international affairs commentator rick ross off. it's troops are stationed in most every former warsaw pact country outside of the soviet union so next year the u.s. and nato is a joint enterprise joint endeavor are going to place twenty four intermediate range standard missile three interceptor missiles in romania right across the black sea from russia with the prospect three years later. deploying a similar amount twenty four to be exact standard missile threes of a more advanced variety and all so what we're talking about is both a very real military presence that poses a threat to non nato members in the neighborhood and those are in the first instance of course spell overs in russia but also it's a symbolic gesture to place u.s. military forces in countries bordering ukraine right now and bordering russia because what it suggests is that the u.s. is making a military commitment to defend its nato allies by making even

a nominal deployment of military contingents to those countries aligned for the moment sharing the ice with russia's hawkie. in the region shows off his skills in schools a couple of goals during a game at a festival for the night hockey league in motion section of our website has all the highlights. also that died waiting and their economic has launched an investigation into the deaths of dozens of veterans amid claims hospitals manipulated the placement this choose who was treated for more. barack obama has repeatedly valder and failed to close guantanamo bay prison and now some legislators actually want almost one hundred million dollars to construct new areas in the camp able to hand over one hundred fifty terror suspects without trial or hearing human rights lawyer david remes represents twenty eight detainees at guantanamo he believes there are better ways to use american taxpayers' money.

and the house armed services committee is actually trying to get the administration money that the administration hasn't even asked for i think this is just throwing good money after bad but there were other good uses for this money this is an attempt to replace the syllabi that wasn't meant to last for twelve peers with a new facility but whatever it is it's a senseless gesture to the object here isn't to make everybody comfortable and want to know the object should be to send them home. with the majority of us troops in afghanistan packed up and ready to go home afghans who be left with a war torn country fit for the future flame war only to find misery has been the plight of thousands of afghan families displaced from their homes in search of security. made some who now feel like strangers in their own country.

the sound of of ghana stand for hundreds of years. outlawed during the taliban's cruel regime. drowned out by war in recent decades. it's a folk song from the southern helmand province but you won't hear it in the village where these musicians are from they were forced to flee last month about one of the taliban control of elites now they use our houses as military bases and the government has no power in our area so what choice did we have by the dog leave on the outskirts of kabul these narrow lanes and a crumbling mud structures are home to hundreds of thousands ganz displaced by war most are from the sangin district in helmand which remains one of the most dangerous places in all of afghanistan ahmed arrived five years ago he doesn't expect to return the war isn't over if we go back we will be killed it's an internal war now and i don't see it ending in the near future his youngest ones

were. born here two daughters died in an attack back home this tattered photocopy of their bodies is all that remains she was four years old she was to. be lived through afghanistan's many horrors the soviet invasion civil war and the taliban three years ago an airstrike that killed most of her family three generations under one roof now gone. on the ground there were taliban and in the skies where planes with bombs we lost everything to me there's no difference anymore between the americans the government or the taliban they all fight and we suffer they suffer here to the camp has no electricity stew wage or running water most arrive with few belongings but jobs are scarce and so they remain destitute each winter freezing temperatures bring deaths there's no money for firewood so

this mother burns plastic bags. no money for a meal either it will be tea for dinner whatever aid that's handed out the use or sell it's never enough sleep offers little respite from the struggles of life they're safe from bombs here but not from painful memories like the loss of two sons it's impossible to forget such horus or relive them every night in my dream i'm running away from the bones of my babies a still inside the house when it comes buck to find the bodies i can't sleep because of it none of us can sleep well at night. a growing number of areas outside of kabul are becoming dangerous and aid groups say they're preparing for things to get worse international military forces out of in the course of the country so they're always doing so they need a reason and then the also rush on to explain to their position that while you know we can leave the truth is that there is no such success story or what precedes that

the war will continue for the book edition in the following month and you know it's more than one hundred thousand afghans were displaced in the last year alone forced to flee violence a growing taliban insurgency and economic uncertainty some of them have found refuge in the camps like this one the war may become a joint and for most international forces but there are too many afghans left wondering whether they'll be able to return home. for now this is where most will remain. this melody may be an elegy to better times but it's also a testament to an unbroken spirit they've lost everything but not their hopes displaced but still determined to survive. you see. kabul. and you can catch more of these first hand reports from afghanistan in the coming days right here on international. pressure. violence.

drug addiction. and she cures. corruption. what are the values here to stick around for the reports on the afghan realities this is an incredibly dangerous. back to the ukraine crisis now and there are concerns the looming threat a wide ranging western sanctions against russia may seriously push up the global cost of oil fuel experts warn that the united kingdom which takes a lot of russian supplies could be among those hit hard on his part of barca has the details. there will have to be other consequences and other costs and if you've got a car in the u.k. he's talking to you the country's main motoring organizations are warning that the situation in ukraine is going to push up the price of petrol fuel traders have

already begun to buy up stocks to guard against being called out in the event of the situation worsening which automatically causes prices to increase due to a tightening in supply proportion of. every old product for conversion and is coming from russia. the reason why there is a certain amount of concern in the market place. priced in a certain amount of geopolitical tension in ukraine and between the russian and the predicted price hike is around five people that's an extra four pounds for a full tank and motorists in britain already pay sixty percent tax on fuel making driving him more expensive than in any other major economy so in a way old forces are going up and i'm not where you think this is affecting the

future i think it's going to be a more controlled. what can you do that it's nothing to me i should tell her something i should think that i tend to use any excuse i can to react very quickly to put prices up so i just filled up half the time on the cost as you can see here is thirty three point five three now with probably the increase that's being protected the cost will go up to thirty eight dollars and that's just the timing of that still. the thing is their campaign is for lower petrol prices say in the case of ukraine there's little risk of an actual oil shortage so who. oh watts is moving the pump price says so if any disturbance happens there watch the speculators panic doom and gloom it's always happening on it but we must find it and that's one of the problems because they're actually addressing the government

should be listening to this by should be learning tax and they should also be putting some sort of control over actually all speculation and if the cost of a barrel of oil goes up any increase would come through to the pumps pretty much straight away any increase in the wholesale price they will have to pass on virtually immediately to the consumers and the effects go beyond the petrol station for course it would increase inflation because everything would be reflected in prices because of the high cost of fuel to the products we buy in the shops jobs will be lost small business especially especially medium sized to small holders companies their their costs will go up astronomically and that would actually impact on people being sacked that their real consequences and costs polyploid chaos he. would use my calling sean thomas in the team in just over half an hour from now in the meantime it is abby martin a lot of international health huge education loans way on the shoulders of students

that's off of the brain. you know we human beings sort of live our lives in the moment even recent history is still history and well we are all busy so it is easy for the magicians of media to wave their hands around and make us forget about things in fact was there just a few months ago that protesters on the streets of kiev are crying out for democracy they claim that the crimes of the end of covert government prove that it was illegitimate but now that the managers of the protest movement are. power boy are they singing a different tune a few months ago they were crying about european values and freedom of speech now that they have the power they banned russian t.v. channels from airing they claimed then that because they could get hundreds of people to storm government buildings that they were the legitimate power but now

when anti kiev protesters do it well that's just mob violence when they drove a bulldozer into and through cocktails at police who only beat them in return with clubs that was a violation of their human rights and now an heir to kiev forces protests they send in the army and right sector thugs to break them up or just kill them if you just take the time to stop and think back just a few months ago you see that the yes a new government is doing exactly the same things that they accuse the yandell coverts government of doing of people of that over that zone and of evil flagrant hypocrisy but that's just my opinion.

crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. what's poppin people having martin and this is a break in a set or we've got some breaking news at the top of the show turns out that u.s. government represents the interests of the rich and powerful not the majority of americans now i know this may come to shocking news to you but a joint study released last week by princeton and northwestern university made it

official the u.s. is indeed an oligarch and the two authors of the study went to an enormous amount of data from one thousand nine hundred federal policies enacted between one thousand nine hundred one and two thousand and two and empirically concluded that national laws and regulations overwhelmingly align with the preference of the economic elite and that was back in two thousand and two whole area sleep took another elite institution princeton to come up with this obvious conclusion but hey i guess the ivy league school finally started to listen to dr cornell west now let's bring the set. the bleep bleep. they are very hard. to. get back with that when they're looking.

at least. this month the us congressional budget office announced that prediction markets fell major profits for the part of education over the next ten years one hundred twenty seven billion dollars to be exact it's a forecast based largely upon the interest on student loans which are also expected to rise starting next year while it's not exactly clear how much the rates will increase the profit from student federal student loans called into question another important story the department of education renewing its contract with sallie mae america's largest student loan provider with about five point eight million former and current student borrowers see the student loan being

a myth has been the target of a federal investigation and a lawsuit stemming from violations of borrowers rights but the probe wasn't limited to federal student loans in fact the investigation found evidence that sallie mae cheated active duty members of the military as well i provided them loans at a legally high interest rates and if you've ever seen the p.r. machine of military recruitment you know that cheap education is a huge selling point. this is an acceptance that. you. it's a diploma. it's a compass. to train and a coach jersey is the greatest team it's more. it's an education anywhere else are strong and then there's army strong but army strong doesn't ensure that predatory loan corporations will follow the law to the service members civil relief act specifically requires that companies collecting payments on student loans keep

rates at no more than six percent or get this according apartment education's own data as of july of two thousand and twelve nearly sixty percent of all federal student loans carried interest rates above six percent furthermore according to consumer financial protection bureau forty one percent of service members are still paying off student loans and those who graduated college in two thousand and eight carry an average debt of twenty six thousand dollars this of course raises familiar concerns from the mortgage crisis or higher interest rates led to the foreclosure of hundreds of homes belonging to u.s. servicemen in that instance however wonders like j.p. morgan bank of america among others were forced to shell out millions of dollars to settle the allegations. look it's one thing for young americans to be lured into the military with the promise of a world class education for practically no money down but to then burden these young soldiers with tens of thousands of dollars and loans that could take the rest

of their lives to pay off is criminal. in two thousand and twelve internet hacker and tory a stroll andrew better known as we was charged with conspiracy of the one thousand nine hundred six computer fraud and abuse act and was sentenced to forty one months in prison it was all for exposing a flaw with an eighteen thousand public server which led to the scraping of information for thousands of i pad users but felt a motion to appeal the sentence last month the us third circuit court of appeals has overturned the verdict on weaves case because it was tried in the wrong jurisdiction the short time behind bars however has made we've even more outspoken than before regarding egregious overreach of the computer fraud abuse act persecuted online activists earlier today i caught up with reeve to discuss all things about his release. let's talk about what the prosecution argued against your

case that led to your guilty conviction assistant u.s. attorney glen mako said we've had downloaded the entire iowa system on his computer he had to decrypt it he had to do all these things i don't even understand your defense attorney maintain that there was no hack that took place you simply revealed a major security flaw in eighteen d. how is it possible that you were able to be prosecuted by people that honestly had no idea what the hell it was you've been. well that's that's a great question at trial there was one of these employees are david. and. did in this indictment the f.b.i. did and already that holds these quote was no security was bypassed i don't think the feds have a case like eighteen itself the so-called victim didn't think it was victimized and didn't understand why the f.b.i. and the department of justice were trying to push an indictment so he was put on

the stand and zach and trotter who is the u.s. attorney who. questioning he said are you a lawyer you know it's as if as if lawyers are supposed to somehow be able to define truth in this country it's positively ridiculous they don't have rule of law in this country anymore we have rule by lawyers two tiered justice man and you've been the victim of it do you think that your case is perhaps the most absurd example of overreach by the computer fraud and abuse act. i think that there's some other parallels i think aaron schwartz of course and matthew keys are particularly egregious indictments that i just i just don't understand how this is supposed to be any modicum of justice unfortunately even though you're released right now it's not for the right reasons we've in fact you're still on bail will probably be tried again in another jurisdiction and potentially go to jail all over again however you've said that you're not going to file a motion for double jeopardy why. because this law is wrong it's

utterly and completely ridiculous it was written in one thousand nine hundred six and it was drafted by reagan's team and there's in a book there's a quote from reagan where he's so senile that he thought the movie war games was a documentary and literally he said i don't understand you know but but those that kid hacked into know read. like i went to prison and two people so far of have committed suicide over a crazy indictment and keyes might go to prison and that are my go to prison because because reagan was senile and that's just that's just ridiculous talk about your time in prison you said that you spent half your time and solitary confinement why do you initially get sent to the hole and what sort of tactics were used against you psychologically to break your down once you were thrown in. i was initially sent to the hole because i mean this case was about my speech and i was

sent to the hole because i continued to speak in prison i had. i had a p.b.x. system which is like a computer that answers phone calls and i would i would call into it and it would record my voice and post whatever i said to a web service called sound cloud and the federal government didn't like this and they probably called the prison and told them to put me in the overt. starvation i have celiacs disease i require gluten free diet which which the prison for quite a while refused to refused to provide. you in the hole you endure sleep deprivation they shine a light in your face every fifteen minutes they bang on your door they turn the light off when you when you want it on and vice versa. and just just generally you know they wouldn't let me have books towards the end or magazines or newspapers or any mail at all i was i was literally in a six by eight cell with nothing to read and it's definitely trying

but it's not deterring me from continuing to fight this terrible set of prosecutions by the u.s. government would you say that you were tortured in there i mean it's all terry confinement is torture. towards the end i went on strike i was released after i started my anger strike and i just saw no way to protest the injustice and yes potentially tortured definitely by by what the u.n. calls torture that i received in federal prison what's the most amusing thing that happened in prison. for so many things i'd say the funniest thing was it was i taught all the the white nationalists to sing springtime for hitler from mel brooks the producers and then they banned that song in the prison because there's m.p. three players they banned that song because because it was it became subversive you've

announced that you're starting a hedge fund called robo l.l.c. you love the name. talk about the project and why you're doing it. well. the reason the that i did the data disclosure big was because i started i started security from go to security because there's a certain set and kinds of exploits that didn't have a market and this actually is an underlying ethical problem and that right now the only incentives when you develop software exploits are to sell them in secret to the united states the government and the security companies that are affiliated and funded by the united states government chiefly and we know what they do with these software exploits they use them to spy on people legally both both the citizens of my country foreign leaders so what we're trying to do is build a way to create financial incentives for people to do the right thing which is come forward and disclose to the public. the security issues and large corporations

and the way the profit model on this is every time that i've interacted with with a major corporation a publicly traded corporation the share price falls it hits the market cap and that's the same with whether it's you know outside of software if a if a car company has a defect in their cars. drops a medical company as pharmaceuticals that that hurt people the stock value drops and. it's absolutely perfectly executable on software companies to when they have a flaw that we can drop the stock value by disclosing the flaw and telling people about it and and we want to create this structure where people can come forward talk about the flaws in a very aggressive criticizing manner instead of this dominion of do what the government says and it's actually the profit is a far greater doing this potentially then the typical you know sell your exploit to the n.s.a. i don't think i don't think hackers are being paid enough and i don't think i don't

think that consumers are being so. service and there's a huge there's a huge market here. and your work and people find out more about your case to help you out and to support you if and when it's a reopened and potentially tried again. they can follow me on twitter. on twitter ari and they can go to the c.f.a. defense and see if a defense fund my my attorney is not only defending me on this particular case but a host of others see if they indict ments including derek lowe center and matthew keyes and people can can submit money to him and read about the case and you know he's he's he's a trench warrior and he's fought this on a shoestring budget and he's continuing to protect our rights as americans thank you so much andrew arnheim are we really appreciate you fighting in the trenches we need to get this law overturned really push it. thank you abbie i appreciate you.

coming up i'll speak with the seattle city council member about the fight for fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. raise it is that it's a battle started here the village down. with it was at the exact moment eleven in the morning when the first seven tanks appeared to. move fast battle ahead of. us of a soldier a small. but they gave their lives for this land and they protected us. yes they took it over but sevastopol never surrendered there were no defenders left . so as the president said i stop all came back home.

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council members from the so want to center her platform run a campaign on the site for fifteen call to raise the minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour and just this week someone filed a charter amendment which is the first step to bringing the issue to vote earlier i spoke to someone and first asked her why she has decided to make the fight for fifteen her number one policy concern. i think so overarching. reality of the lives of working people a lot just in seattle but every reading the nation is the overwhelming liberation the bottom that people are facing the question of economic inequality and the question of blatant injustice you know the whole idea of the occupy movement was you know the banks that precipitated the financial collapse got bailed out and the s. and p. five hundred corporations are making started to get profits because the rest of us are facing low wage jobs student debt and epidemic of foreclosures and all of this

you know this sort of crucible of anger and frustration that issue fifteen dollars an hour has come to the forefront and generally encapsulated all those feelings of . frustration against the political dysfunction against the economic system and everywhere working people if specially low wage workers are talking about the need for a decent wage and seattle is in motion as well as one of the main forefront of this fight back and you can see what impact this is having this is this is not just in seattle are fifteen now camping which will last in of just long. in seattle has no quiet national origin they've had chapters growing in many different cities may cities like davis like san francisco are talking about the old fifteen dollar minimum wage initiative and it is definitely a national issue even compared the fight for minimum wage to same sex marriage and

marijuana legislation in the sense that it's very controversial why do you think it's so contentious. it's convention is only because of the fact that in order to achieve something close to a living wage we cannot do that by simply having nice conversations with big business and this is where wealthy it's not a question of asking them you know hey can we have a conversation over coffee and talk about the need for a living wage for workers no question of illegals living wage and other question of you know can we make sure that the people who make our cities run the people who work hard every single day providing child care providing health care reviving other human services you know driving our school buses serving our food the question of all of these people getting something close to a living wage is not separate but is completely intertwined with this question of business profit out of these they just going to come from and why have these wages

remain so those earlier this week there was a planned stunning news out of oklahoma that the governor of the state mary fallin had signed a bill that prevents oklahoma cities from establishing mandatory minimum wage laws how do the measures like these will affect the national picture here. i think that the measure taken by the of the month governor is the other example that i'm really glad you mentioned that it's just the arctic sound both of how much of a threat the political and business establishment see this movement as and they vote take action they will take actions like this the national restaurant association is in full deal or in washington state. seattle's vino that tens of millions of dollars are being forward in seattle against the fifteen dollars of flowers and we know that those big businesses and the super bowl you will be moving into action on this and what i think the highlight should be off all of this is

that we have to ramp up the movement if you see governors and other political establishment people talking about clamping down on municipalities fight to do this the signature send us to start developing our movement we have to really build the fight back because that is the only thing that is going to follow the challenge to the business as usual exactly let's talk about a grassroots campaign will work earlier this week the group filed a charter amendment to the raids a settlement on wage for big business employees to fifteen dollars an hour by january of next year can you detail exactly how the plan would work and how likely it is to become a reality the reason the charter amendment exists and why it was filed has everything to do with battle for flight of this battle are moving you know this has lost the public debate all fifteen they can normally come out and say what they really want to say which is they want their workers to continue at poverty wages so

the battle has moved from bed to saying ok they're ok with fifteen but let's carve this out of this car died out let's you know that work at a lower minimum wage that's going to help get as wages all of these are as low as two week and a fifteen dollars as well and come up with a swiss cheese fifteen which is what we have to reject and the only thing that will keep the city council and those cities political establishment on notice is to know that activists out there are a little bit workers out that are watching and i robot lighting let's talk about small businesses you've gotten some backlash from seattle small businesses sitting at your door and. concerns me ability to pay fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage how have you responded. all to lardo campaign last year for city council and since the day i took office we've been emphatic does this system this capitalist economy does not do more in the interests of small businesses it favors the biggest the

longer it's the multinational corporations it favors the starbucks the bowings the microsoft the amazon dot com of this world and this state in washington state big business like boeing and microsoft a negative tax rate if you count all the subsidies they get what all the bush didn't of running the state falls on the shoulders of working people and small businesses so from from day one i love appealed to small businesses to join us in this fight against big business and demand that big business is taxed to create a subsidy for small businesses and non-profits i mean boeing god like billion dollars in subsidies i don't think the idea of a subsidy for small businesses should be that outlandish but the reality is that no is going to go for show or small business has joined me in in this called it that it's big business and so on march fifteenth i put forward a proposal that we should give a three year phase in for small businesses and nonprofit human services but big

business should go to fifteen right away because they have the flu and complete ability to beijing fifteen dollars an hour and not even make a slice and indeed our profits so we need small businesses to join us in our efforts and i know that a few small businesses have joined fifteen zero in calling for a strong fifteen dollars measure and i think that it's also incumbent upon us to ask conversations with small business owners and explain that a lot of this field mongering that is engaged in by big business by law be used to organizations like the national restaurant association has no basis in reality it. then the minimum wage was increased it has been beneficial to the local economy because when low wage workers get a little bit of spending money in their pockets they going to spend it at local businesses thank you so much for coming on trauma some want seattle city council member. my

. corporate news you may already think hillary clinton has a wrapped up the two thousand and sixteen democratic presidential nomination and the presumptive front runner status well established comes a whole new level of scrutiny for example a washington post examine the former secretary of state's relationship with boeing second largest defense contractor in the u.s. to discuss the details of the report as well as boeing's larger influence in washington r.t. political commentator sam sax sam what's up what's going on so let's take a look at more of the relationship between hillary clinton and boeing and how did they help each other while she was at the state department well looking at her tenure there you see a lot of friendly deals between the two of them in what looked to be some quid pro quos so boeing wanted to sell over three billion dollars in aircraft to a russian airliner back in two thousand and nine so hillary clinton as the secretary of state went to russia and what she said she made

a shameless pitch for this russian airliner to buy these planes and shortly after after that pitch we saw boeing make a generous donation to the state department of two million dollars so the state department could move through with the. pavilion for the united states at the world's coming up world's fair in china that two million dollar donation we know according the washington post reporting raised a lot of ethical red flags at the state department whether or not they should accept this donation from a corporation whether it looks like the state department might be giving preferential treatment to boeing but someone within the state department allowed it to go through anyways we also know based on the post reporter got in two thousand and ten after that deal with it was eight in boeing got those planes you know made the deal to sell those planes to this russian airliner that the boeing made another generous donation of about nine hundred thousand dollars to the clinton foundation . of course bill clinton's foundation which is also. run partly by hillary clinton's and she's left the state department so you see

a lot of these deals kind of being worked out while she was at the state department and it makes you wonder whether or not boeing was receiving any more preferential treatment in other corporations that weren't as generous to clinton sure as i'm but now that she has been out of the state department for a little bit do you think that we can expect the thais to continue that i think it's fairly obvious that they'll maintain close contact look the clinton political dynasty is among the most powerful in the country and boeing is the second most powerful defense contractor in the world and it looks like hillary is the front runner for president so why wouldn't boeing use the money it has in the in the influence that the supreme court has given corporations to go ahead and buy their candidate why want to doesn't boeing love hillary so much why are they so attracted to her as as a candidate who clinton represents this the new democratic wing of the party that are better husbanded as well and that's the sort of corporatist democrats she's the senator from new york friendly with wall street friendly with corporate america we know boeing is engaging and you had

a most wanted on who's been taking on boeing in washington state which is trying to destroy unions and outsource labor so they might have an ally for economic reasons in hillary but foreign policy wise i mean i don't want to call boeing this war profiteer but they basically are like i said the second largest defense contractor in the world and they make money off of war or at least the threat of war to where people have to build up their military and hillary has supported all of president obama's most hawkish actions whether it was libya she supported strikes in syria and she supports the ever growing drone campaign against al qaeda and associated forces which are bad or good for business i mean i guess you know we saw the banks and wall street backing obama why not get boeing on the back hillary develop when they all got to pick their corporation their favorite industry to back them up talk about boeing's grip on washington beyond hillary get well one way to look at them taking interest in hillary is now to do a new power in washington but to maintain the power they already have spent fifteen . dollars lobbying congress last year most of that money went to senator dick

durbin the chair of the powerful defense appropriations subcommittee which handles the purse strings for the pentagon meaning they handle the purse strings for a lot of defense contracts the second leading recipient was lindsey graham the tories warhawk and we know that president obama has relied heavily on boeing to boost exports he said he's the company's top which many deserves a gold watch result terms so you know they're trying to get the next person the white house at this point thank you so much sam sachs and that's our show you guys i'm back tomorrow all over again. listen seriously police are trying to clear. the pulling out of the good news for you like. it's

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are. breaking news here on r t heavy shelling reportedly resumes in the eastern ukrainian city of slovyansk as anti-government activists say their checkpoint is being bombarded by the army. also during the day shooting resume's tires are burnt and a personnel carrier is set on fire to the south in mario poll after at least twenty were killed during a military assault on friday. in the baltic region that nato kicks off a massive military drills on russia's doorstep involving a record breaking six thousand troops. and the

taliban announces that the launch of an annual spring offensive in afghanistan despite the ongoing pullout of foreign troops archie meets some of those whose lives have been shattered by war. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas and we start with the breaking news this hour anti government activists in east ukraine say heavy shelling has returned in the city of slovyansk the stronghold of pro autonomy protests artie's paullus leader joins us live now paula thank you very much for being with us very stressful situation down there what do we know about the renewed fighting it near slovyansk at this time. well we're talking with proton and the activists who have confirmed that fighting has resumed in the city of

slavyansk in the last few moments now at this stage it's unclear whether the fighting is limited to checkpoints on the outskirts of the city or if indeed we are witnessing the start of a full scale military advantage meant by the ukrainian army we are hearing from people on the ground that there is heavy artillery there is gunfire in fact i just got off the phone with a local resident and i could hear explosions through the phone line earlier we did manage to speak with the spokesperson of the people's mayor who told us this. but there's no letup in the fighting continues battles in attacks on checkpoints are going on around you there are casualties but self-defense units won't give the exact number yet but for security reasons. now earlier there was gunfire at one of the checkpoints in the village of and this is a checkpoint that has been attacked in the past in fact we've driven through it several times it is heavily bombarded there are tires there are bags of sand there

are reinforcements who have been brought into that checkpoint consistently through the last few days because of precisely what we witnessing tonight we are receiving reports that at least eight people have been injured and there have been an exploded artillery shells that have been found near that checkpoint now all of this comes just hours ahead of a critical referendum that will be held here in the city of donetsk as well as in the region of lugansk and that is a referendum which will ask people whether or not they support the question of self-determination so there has been concern that in the run up to that referendum and indeed as it progresses on sunday we could see violence so many people here wondering whether or not this operation in slavyansk is an attempt to try and de rail this referendum or ride to a policy or we know that is a constantly developing situation you'll be seeing across a. for us stay safe while you do that thanks for being with us now let's take

a look at what people are voting for at sunday's referendum first they want each region to be able to elect its own government also they want control over local finances in the south and east to make up the lion's share of ukraine's economy but the tax money goes to kiev situation that locals object to plus the majority of the population there speak russian and they want the language to be formally recognized r.t. will be following the voting on sunday so stay with us. now meanwhile kiev is refusing to halt its military assaults to quell pro autonomy unrest in ukraine's south east now. the situation there obviously continuing and developing the interim government views this as an anti terror operation against separatists now earlier on saturday there has been renewed gunfire in the center of mario paul another focal point of the interests the city of just under five hundred thousand

people is already in mourning following an attack by government troops as locals celebrated victory day on friday night he's been graham phillips is there for us. three opposing the army is a bit trickier but in the season of state. the city can still really we were from yesterday's outbreak excrete violence here and then use it to keep up the media. treats with the come out of the question. of the mario pull off to slovyansk the things these nationalists who claim to be democrats while wearing nazi symbols have done truce is impossible now we also have buildings around the city now municipal buildings and more and states ruination and . the main government building in the center of the city that's been the hands of these protests and activists almost

a month now last night and it was so hot what happened that we had a choice looted and we had that building set fire to me that mr zapruder we also provide bank recently the torch and in fact it used to a shell as we can see now the reason for the anger would prevent bank is because its own not only got on go for the most. many with funding the private sector not the private sector of course the following year not to organization responsible for a series of terrorist attacks across the crane so we do have the scenes of destruction and ruination across mariupol which is at the moment bracing itself for what's going to come next this is great phillips here with r.t. . you can follow graham phillips on his twitter feed for all of the latest updates pictures and videos from the scene here you can see his comments on the ongoing mayhem in a mario pool in southeastern ukraine. ukraine's interior ministry says more than twenty people were killed in mario pull on friday troops and tanks were sent to the city after reports that local activists had seized control of the

local police headquarters videos of soldiers shooting at civilians went viral you may find some of the following pictures a bit disturbing so just be warned. i don't. now as you can see here people are shouting at that they are on armed the next moment we can see a man being shot at and here are the troops apparently firing in the direction of people on the street hitting another civilians. and in this footage you can see tanks speeding through the barricades that locals built to stop in the army on saturday though the military said it had called back troops from the city. and some of russia's top officials have been prevented from

entering ukrainian airspace while returning from a visit to trans needs tra deputy prime minister dmitri gosan said his a plane was turned back by ukrainian fighter jets and then forced to land in moldova although he was has since managed to make it back to moscow and there was a similar situation with russia's minister of culture he says his plane was also threatened by two fighter jets and ordered to return to moldova the aircraft was told it would be forced to land in ukraine if it didn't turn back now a reminder of our breaking news the eastern ukrainian city of slovyansk is under heavy artillery fire from the army this is according to local activists these are the latest pictures from the area we'll actually be giving you those shortly and of course we'll be following the developments right here on r.t. . now coming up on arch international life after war in afghanistan.

more than a hundred thousand afghans have been displaced by the war in the last year alone forced to flee violence a growing taliban insurgency and economic uncertainty many have found refuge in camps like this one the war may be coming to an end for international forces but there are too many afghans still left wondering when they'll be able to return home . also still to come this hour guantanamo bay is set for a make over as the obama administration is urged to accept a bill on rebuilding of the notorious prison and out more after a short break you're watching our two international.

ways it is that it's a battle started here the village down. it was at the exact moment eleven in the morning when the first seven tanks appeared to. move. battle. of us soldiers. but if they give their lives for this land and they protect us. yes they too could over but sevastopol never surrender there were no defenders left . so what's the president said i stop all came back calm down quite a bit has russian roots and nobody can deny that it's eight. and

welcome back you're watching r t international now despite tensions between the west and russia are running high over events in ukraine nato has pushed ahead with its annual military drills in the baltic region now this year in a stony a right on russia's border they are the biggest since two thousand and three the maneuvers dubbed spring storm involve a record breaking six thousand personnel a french cyber security team fighter jets a missile descent offense system from poland and a belgian anti-aircraft unit are all in involved now if you look here this is a clearer picture of the nato military buildup in eastern europe and since ukraine has plunged into violence dozens of fighter jets and several spy planes have been deployed in the region to secure the block's dominance of the region's airspace and the target of this show of force is no secret says international fairs commentator rick ross off. u.s.

troops are stationed in most every former warsaw pact country outside of the soviet union and so next year the u.s. and nato as a joint enterprise joint endeavor are going to place twenty four intermediate range standard missile three interceptor missiles in romania right across the black sea from russia with the prospect of three years later. deploying a similar amount of twenty four to be exact standard missile threes of a more advanced variety and ball so what we're talking about is both a very real military presence that poses a threat to non nato members in the neighborhood and those are in the first instance of course bellerose and russia but also it's a symbolic gesture to place u.s. military forces in countries bordering ukraine right now in bordering russia because what it suggests is that the u.s. is making a military commitment to defend its nato allies by making even a nominal deployment of the military contingents to those countries. aside from

stonier there's another large scale military exercise taking place in eastern europe romanian forces and u.s. marines are conducting joint drills on the country's black sea coast and romanian activists told r.t. that allowing american boots on the ground brings severe risks. i have no interest i thinking no such thing because no such open ethan or any expose this our country any dog wants us in conflicts we you know we shouldn't be alone we shouldn't get in economically speaking or meager speaking is not in our interest the being one of worst of the worst of the united states we owe our soldier daughter died in afghanistan and iraq oh trying a little combat and i'm a country creation out of i don't know we break out all our soldiers and pay for

that. on our web site we've got some alarming new revelations on the fukushima nuclear disaster experts estimate that fifty percent more radioactive waste could have escaped into the atmosphere and the seawater and it previously thought you can get that story about t. dot com. also there for us media reveals that the country has been supplying syrian rebels with missiles via a so-called pilot program despite fears that they could end up in the hands of terrorists we've got the full story for you online. the obama administration has so far failed in its a pledge to close guantanamo bay prison and now legislature legislator or his excuse me are proposing a bill with almost one hundred million dollars to reconstruct the facility human rights lawyer david remes thinks there are better ways to spend taxpayers' money. in the house armed services committee is actually trying to get the administration

money that the administration hasn't even asked for i think this is just throwing good money after bad but there were other good uses for this money this is an attempt to replace syllabi that wasn't meant to last for twelve years with a new facility but whatever it is it's a senseless gesture to the object here isn't to make everybody comfortable and want to move the object should be to send them home. now with the majority of us troops in afghanistan packed up and ready to go home afghans who will be left with a war torn country fear for their future fleeing that war only to find misery has been the plight of thousands of afghan families displaced from their homes in search of security. some who now feel like strangers in their own country. the sound of a gonna stand for hundreds of years. now it was during the taliban's cruel regime.

drowned out by war in recent decades. it's a folk song from the southern helmand province but you won't hear it in the village where these musicians are from they were forced to flee last month but about another taliban control of village now they use our houses as military bases and the government has an eye power in our area so what choice did we have the dog leave on the outskirts of kabul these narrow lanes and a crumbling mud structures are home to hundreds of afghans displaced by war most are from the sangin district in helmand which remains one of the most dangerous places in all of a ghana stand off meadow arrived five years ago he doesn't expect to return the war isn't over if we go back we will be killed it's an internal war now and i don't see it ending up in the near future his youngest ones were born here two daughters died

in an attack back home this tattered photocopy of their bodies is all that remains she was four years old she was to. be lived through afghanistan's many horrors the soviet invasion civil war and the taliban three years ago and the airstrike that killed most of her family three generations under one roof now gone. on the ground there were taliban and in the skies where planes with bombs we lost everything to me there's no difference anymore between the americans the government or the taliban they all fight and we suffer they suffer here to the camp has no electricity sewage or running water most arrive with few belongings but jobs are scarce and so they remain destitute each winter. freezing temperatures bring deaths . there's no money for firewood so this mother burns plastic bags. no

money for a meal either it will be tea for dinner whatever aid that's handed out the use or sell it's never enough sleep offers little respite from the struggles of life they're safe from bombs here but not from painful memories like the loss of two sons it's impossible to forget such tourists i relive them every night now in my dream i'm running away from the bones of my babies still inside the house when it comes back to find the bodies i can't sleep because of it none of us can sleep well at night a growing number of areas outside of kabul are becoming dangerous and aid groups say they're preparing for things to get worse international military forces during the course of the country so they're always doing so they need a reason and then the also russian on to explain to their population that while you know we believe the truth is that there is no such success story toward what we see is that the war will continue for the book or their son in the following month and

you know more than one hundred thousand afghans were displaced in the last year alone forced to flee violence a growing taliban insurgency and economic uncertainty some of them have found refuge in camps like this one the war may be coming to an end for most international forces but there are too many afghans left wondering whether they'll be able to return home. for now this is where most will remain. this melody maybe an elegy to better times but it's also a testament to an unbroken spirit they've lost everything but not their hopes displaced but still determined to survive. you see café no far to kabul. and catch more of lucy's firsthand reports from afghanistan in the coming days right here on r.t. . drug.

reports. now switching back to view craney in a crisis now there are concerns that the looming threat of a wide range western sanctions against russia may seriously push global cost of oil fuel experts warn of that the united kingdom which takes a lot of russian supplies could be among those hardest hit point boyko as details. there will have to be other consequences and other costs and if you've got a car in the u.k. he's talking to you the country's main motoring organizations are warning that the situation in ukraine is going to push up the price of petrol fuel traders have

already begun to buy up stocks to guard against being called out in the event of the situation worsening which automatically causes prices to increase due to a tightening in supply proportion of diesel and heavy old products for conversion and is coming from russia. the reason why there is a certain amount of concern in the market place. priced in a certain amount of geopolitical tension in ukraine and between the russian and the predicted price hike is around five people that's an extra four pounds for a full tank and motorists in britain already pay sixty percent tax on fuel making driving him more expensive than in any other major economy sorry norway forces are going up i don't know what you think this is affecting the life that i believe is

going to be in my control. i needed it mother nature to take time so i thought i should but i tend to use any excuse they can to react very quickly to put prices up now i just filled up half the time on the cost as you can see here is thirty three point five three now with probably the increase that's been predicted cost will go up to thirty five dollars and that's just the timing of that so. the thing is though campaign is for lower petrol prices say in the case of ukraine there's little risk of an actual oil shortage so who. oh watts is moving the pump price says so if any disturbance happens there watch the speculators panic it's always happening right but we must find it and that's one of the problems we've got to actually address and the government should be listening to this by should be

learning tax and they should also be putting some sort of control over actually all speculation and if the cost of a barrel of oil goes up any increase would come through to the pumps pretty much straight away any increase in the wholesale price they will have to pass virtually immediately to the consumers and the effects go beyond the petrol station. it would increase inflation because everything would be reflected in prices because of the high cost of fuel to the products we buy in the shops jobs will be lost small business especially especially medium sized companies they have their costs will go up astronomically and that would actually impact on people being sacked that there are real consequences and costs. a lot. more news making headlines around the world this hour tens of thousands of people have been rallying in berlin for normal energy. protesting against

a new government scheme which they say will hold up in the transition from coal nuclear and wind power to march passed through the german capital ending up in front of the ruling c.d.u. party's headquarters. the north korean government has threatened to conduct a nuclear weapons test saying the country needs to protect its sovereignty and the dignity statement comes just days after officials in south korea confirmed that the north could conduct its fourth atomic test blast since two thousand and six rhetoric against seoul and the united states has become increasingly aggressive since the kim jong un came to power in two thousand and eleven. street clashes have broken out in copenhagen after a. far right rally descended into chaos a crowd gathered for a protest in front of a mosque and was confronted by a group of anti-fascists police moved in to break up the fighting this happened as the danish capital welcomed in thousands of visitors for the euro vision song

contest. now a reminder of our breaking news story the eastern ukrainian city of slovyansk it's reportedly under attack from the military local pro autonomy activists say their checkpoint just outside the city is being shelled these are the latest pictures from the area there are reports of heavy artillery fire and explosions but there have been no reports of injuries so far ukrainian army is currently holding what it calls an anti terror operation in the south east of the country course we'll be bringing you updated information on all of the latest developments as it comes in. next on our team international the story of the crimean city of sevastopol heroic stand against the nazi german onslaught but if you're in the u.k. it's a sport named with george galloway stay with us this is our two international. a

pennsylvania widow had her house auctioned by her county's government for one hundred sixteen thousand dollars to cover the cost of an outstanding debt that she had that debt was six dollars and thirty cents yeah the price of lunch took an old ladies' home away and there are two things that need to be said about this firstly private property is one of the pillars of western and especially american civilization private property means you can feel secure in your home under feudalism served didn't own anything they were allowed to basically rent their land for their entire life to pay some leeching lord tells about the death of private property like. this one makes you feel like you're going back into the dark ages should this woman's and all our homes be our castle even if we owe a stinking six dollars in debt secondly what is going on in the minds of the people who put this woman's home up for auction i could see if there were some kind of con

men who get profit from the sale but these are bureaucrats selling this woman's home does nothing for them they get nothing out of it except the pleasure of doing it so i beg you if you work at some sort of government bureaucracy the next time an old lady is about to lose her house over six dollars just misplaced the file for a month or two is really worth ruining the life of a u.s. citizen to give the government another one hundred thousand dollars to waste not at all but that's just my opinion. when your children have nothing to eat when your children or your family is being killed i think most people in the world would agree that this is. valuable you know there is a new set of political rights that's really what we saw with the arab spring as people saying that there has to be an alternative to all the extremes that have been presented to me that's what a generation after generation raises you're either in dictatorship or you're going to fall and it's your either out war or you're in

a peace without justice you're either poor you're rich in the region is rejecting the extremes and saying we want new options and i think that is worth supporting. god was.

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post only reason that years. to your facebook. breaking news heavy shelling reportedly resumes in the eastern ukrainian city of slovyansk as anti-government activists say their checkpoint is being bombarded by the army. shooting resumes her tires are burned and a personnel carrier is set on fire to the south and mario poll after at least twenty were killed during a military assault on friday. in the baltic region nato kicks off massive military drills on russia's doorstep involving six thousand troops. and the taliban announces that the launch of an annual spring offensive in afghanistan despite the ongoing pullout of foreign troops are some of those whose lives have

been shattered by war. and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t on sean thomas we start with breaking news at this hour anti-government activists in eastern ukraine say heavy shelling has resumed outside the city of slovyansk the stronghold of pro autonomy protests for details let's cross live it to our t's'pol of slayer paula bring us the latest bring us up to speed. well in the last half hour it does seem as if there's been some kind of happen in the fighting but certainly earlier we were talking to pro autonomy at the source if there had been a flare up of violence they were telling us that there was heavy artillery there was automatic gunfire that they could hear and mortar shelling we also know that

unexploded mortar shells have been found in the vicinity of this fighting it's still not clear whether it's limited to one or several checkpoints or if indeed this renewal of fighting is indicative of some kind of advancement by the ukrainian army but certainly it is a very worrying development we have been talking with people on the ground alyssa's what they're telling us. go to a fire with the green earth and how it's true i have been trying to cover people with a check or use but we don't because there is no person in the area and it's too dangerous to speak on the phone. or there is no letup in the fighting the battles and attacks on checkpoints are continuing around slumpy and rock casualties but self-defense units won't give the exact number for security reasons. now at least eight people are known to have been injured this is when clashes broke out at the checkpoint and. this is in the outskirts of slavyansk it is

a checkpoint that has come under fire in the past in fact it's a checkpoint we've traveled through several times it is heavily fortified none of this when the fighting is really a surprise there have been rumors and talk for days now that the cranium military might potentially try some kind of advancement into the city of slavyansk the timing is also significant it comes just hours ahead of a historic referendum that is being held in two regions in the south east of the country and this is a referendum in which people will be giving their nod to the whole notion of self-determination and talking to people on the ground there has been concern that violence and possible. publications like what we're witnessing now in the city of slavyansk could happen in an attempt to derail this with the end all right artie's a policy constantly fluid situation constantly developing we know that you're going to stay across it for us there now let's take a look at what people are voting for in sunday's referendum first they want each

region to be able to elect their own government also control over local finances the south and east make up the lion's share of ukraine's economy but the tax money goes to kiev a situation that locals objected to plus the majority of the population there speak russian and want the language to be formally recognized r.t. will of course be following the voting on sunday. now meanwhile here is refusing to halt its military assault to quell a pro autonomy on the rest in ukraine's south east the inter government views it as an anti terror operation against separatists now earlier on sunday there's been a renewed gunfire in the center of my opel another focal point of the protests the city of just under five hundred thousand people is already in mourning following an attack by government troops as local celebrated victory day on friday graham phillips is there for r.t. . american pows explained he looked on me as

a military vehicle but i think the caesar state just chaos in. the city can still really the question is from yesterday's outbreak excrete violence here then you should pick it up immediately if not putting it a tool to a truce with the coming out of the question. of the mariel pull off to slovyansk all the things these nationalists who claim to be democrats while wearing nazi symbols of done truce is impossible now we also have buildings around the city now going to school. buildings and more in states of ruination and we could name government building this into the city now let's get the hands of these protests and activists almost a month not last night and it was so hot what happened that we had a choice looting and we had that building set fire to that is just a few we also provide bank recently the torch and in fact the juice to a shell as we can see now the reason for the anger would prevent bank is because

its own not only go on go for the mostly base and it is called has been on many with funding the private sector not the private sector of course the following year not two organization responsible for a series of terrorist attacks across the ukraine so we do have the scenes of destruction and ruination of course mariupol which is at the moment bracing itself for what's going to come next he says great phillips here with altie. you can follow graham phillips on his or twitter feed for all the latest updates and pictures and videos from the scene here you can see his comments on the ongoing and mayhem and mario pull in southeastern ukraine. ukraine's interior ministry says more than twenty people were killed in mario pull on friday troops and tanks were sent to the city after reports that local activists had seized control of the local police headquarters videos of soldiers shooting at civilians went viral in just a bit of a warning you may find some of the following pictures disturbing.

i don't watch any i. as you can see here people are shouting that they are unarmed the next moment we can see a man being shot at and here are the troops apparently firing in the direction of people on the street hitting another civilian. and in this video footage you can see an armored vehicle speeding through the barricades with the ukrainian flag that locals built to stop the army from advancing on saturday though the military said it had called back the troops from the city. and some of russia's top officials have been prevented from entering ukrainian airspace while returning from a visit to trans nice tr deputy prime minister dmitri goes into said his a plane was turned back by ukrainian fighter jets and then forced to land in

moldova although he has since managed to make it back to moscow and there was also a similar situation with russia's minister of culture he says his plane was also threatened by two fighter jets and then ordered to return to moldova the aircraft was told it would be forced to land in ukraine if it didn't now reminder of our breaking news story the eastern ukrainian city of slovyansk has come under artillery fire from the army this is according to local pro autonomy activists there on the ground and these are the latest pictures from the area now local protesters say that the army has shelled a checkpoint outside slovyansk for the second time in the space of a few hours so it's pretty quiet now and dark but we'll be keeping close track of the developments right here on r.t. . coming up on r g international life after war in afghanistan. one hundred thousand afghans have been displaced by the war in the last year alone forced to flee violence a growing taliban insurgency and economic uncertainty many have found refuge in

camps like this one the war may be coming to an end for international forces but there are too many afghans still left wondering when they'll be able to return home . still to come this hour guantanamo bay is set for a make over as the obama administration is urged to accept a bill on rebuilding the notorious prison find out more after a short break much more to the international. game of speculation is the most informally fascinating game in the world but it is not a game for the stupid the mentally lazy the person of inferior of mosul ballasts or the get rich quick adventurer they will die before. i know what you're thinking you're thinking that stupid and mentally lazy describes almost every single person you encounter at the office at home at school in the checkout line at the supermarket in the halls of congress every person you listen to on the radio watch

on t.v. or read the newspaper or magazine yes we stupid mentally humans have chosen to live in a financial lies spread to the casino economy and for that we will do it poor. language . kill if we could with no intervention from the. choose the news consents to. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that impact who might. choose to be. off to. and welcome back you're watching on t.v. international now despite tensions between the west and russia are running high

over events in ukraine nato has pushed ahead with its annual military drills in the baltic region this year in a stone yeah right on russia's border they are the biggest since two thousand and three the maneuvers dubbed spring storm involved six thousand personnel which is certainly a large number now a french cyber security team fighter jets a missile defense system and poland. excuse me from poland and a belgian anti-aircraft unit are all involved as well if you look here this is a clearer picture of the nato military buildup in eastern europe since ukraine has plunged into violence dozens of fighter jets and spy planes have been deployed to secure the block's dominance of the region and the target of this show of force is no secret says international affairs commentator rick ross off. u.s. troops are stationed in most every former warsaw pact country outside of the soviet union and so next year the u.s.

and nato as a joint enterprise joint endeavor are going to place twenty four intermediate range standard missile three interceptor missiles in romania right across the black sea from russia with the prospect three years later. deploying a similar amount of twenty four to be exact standard missile threes of a more advanced variety and ball so what we're talking about is both a very real military presence that poses a threat to non nato members in the neighborhood and those are in the first instance of course bellerose and russia but also it's a symbolic gesture to place u.s. military forces in countries bordering ukraine right now in bordering russia because what it suggests is that the u.s. is making a military commitment to defend its medo allies by making even a nominal deployment of a military contingents to those countries. now aside from a stone you know there's another large scale military action taking place in eastern europe romania and forces and u.s. marines are can ducting joint drills on the countries of black sea coast and

romanian activists told us that allowing american boots on the ground brings severe risks. if you have no interest i think you know such things because such open anything on it exposes our country. in once as we know we shouldn't be and we shouldn't get in economically speaking overall neither speaking is not in our interest being you know worst of the worst of the united states our soldiers are thought to died in afghanistan and iraq all trying to come don't come back and how many concrete ph and i don't write off we break out all our soldiers and pay for that. on our website we've got some alarming new revelations on the fukushima

nuclear disaster. experts estimate that fifty percent more radioactive waste could have escaped into the atmosphere and seawater than previously thought to get that story out to dot com. also there for you u.s. media reveals the country has been supplying syrian rebels with missiles that via a so-called pilot program despite fears that they could end up in the hands of terrorists we've got the full story for you online. you know bamma administration has so far failed in its pledge to close that want on a mobile a prison and now legislators are proposing a bill with almost one hundred million dollars to reconstruct the facility human rights lawyer david remes thinks there are better ways to spend taxpayers' money. in the house armed services committee is actually trying to get the administration money that the administration hasn't even asked for i think this is just throwing

good money after bad but there were other good uses for this money this is an attempt to replace syllabi that wasn't meant to last for twelve years with a new facility but whatever it is it's a senseless gesture the object here isn't to make everybody comfortable in guantanamo the object should be to send them home. with the majority of us troops in afghanistan packed up and ready to go home afghans who will be left with a war torn country in fear for their future fleeing a war only to find misery has been the plight of thousands of afghan families displaced from their homes in search of security. and off meets some who now feel like strangers in their own country. the sound of a gonna stand for hundreds of years. outlawed during the taliban's cruel regime.

drowned out by war in recent decades. it's a folk song from the southern helmand province but you won't hear it in the village where these musicians are from they were forced to flee last month but about one of the taliban control of villages now they use our houses as military bases and the government has no power in our area so what choice did we have the dog leave on the outskirts of kabul these narrow lanes and a crumbling mud structures are home to hundreds of afghans displaced by war most are from the sangin district in helmand which remains one of the most dangerous places in all of a ghana stand off matter arrived five years ago he doesn't expect to return the war isn't over if we go back we will be killed it's an internal war now and i don't see it ending up in the near future his youngest ones were born here two daughters died in an attack back home this tattered photocopy of their bodies is all that remains

she was four years old she was to asia bibi lived through afghanistan's many horrors the soviet invasion civil war and the taliban three years ago and the airstrike that killed most of her family three generations under one roof now gone . on the ground there were taliban and in the skies where plays with bombs we lost everything to me there's no difference anymore between the americans the government or the taliban they all fight and we suffer they suffer here to the camp has no electricity sewage or running water most arrive with few belongings but jobs are scarce and so they remain destitute each winter. freezing temperatures bring deaths. there's no money for firewood so this mother burns plastic bags. no money for a meal either it will be tea for dinner whatever aid that's handed out the use or

sell it's never enough sleep offers little respite from the struggles of life they're safe from bombs here but not from painful memories like the loss of two sons it's impossible to forget such horace i relieve them every night in my dream i'm running away from the bones of my babies a still inside the house when it comes back to find the bodies i can't sleep because of it none of us can sleep well at night a growing number of areas outside of kabul are becoming dangerous and aid groups say they're preparing for things to get worse international military forces in the country so they're always doing so they need a reason and then the also rush on to explain to their population why they didn't leave the truth is that there is no such success story or what we see is that the war will continue for the book edition in the following month and you know more than one hundred thousand afghans were displaced in the last year alone forced to

flee violence a growing taliban insurgency and economic uncertainty some of them have found refuge in camps like this one the war may become a joint and for most international forces but there are too many afghans left wondering whether they'll be able to return home. for now this is where most will remain. this melody maybe an elegy to better times but it's also a testament to an unbroken spirit they've lost everything but not their hopes displaced but still determined to survive. you see. kabul. and you can catch more of lucy's firsthand reports from afghanistan in the coming days right here not are today. malnutrition. drug.

reports. switching back to the ukrainian crisis now there are concerns the looming threat of wide ranging western sanctions against russia may seriously push up the global cost of oil fuel experts warned that the united kingdom which takes a lot of russian supplies could be among those hardest hit. has details. there will have to be other consequences and other costs and if you've got a car in the u.k. he's talking to you the country's main motoring organizations are warning that the situation in ukraine is going to push up the price of petrol fuel traders have already begun to buy up stocks to guard against being called out in the event of

the situation worsening which automatically causes prices to increase due to a tightening in supply proportion of diesel and heavy old product for conversion and diesel is coming from russia so the reason why there is a certain amount of concern in the market place. priced in a certain amount of geopolitical tension in ukraine and between the russian and the predicted price hike is around five p. police said that's an extra four pounds for a full tank and motorists in britain already pay sixty percent tax on fuel making driving him more expensive than in any other major economy sorry no one forces are there or not i know what you think this is affecting the life which i believe is going to be a more controlled. what can you do that if mother nature i should tell her i

said i should but i feel it's time to use any excuse they can to react very quickly to put prices up now i just filled up half the time on the cost as you can see here is thirty three point five three i would probably be increased this will dictate what costs will go up to thirty five dollars and that's just the timing of that style. the thing is there campaign is for lower petrol prices say in the case of ukraine there's little risk of an actual oil shortage so who. what is moving the pump price says so is any disturbance happens there watch the speculators panic it's always happening right now we must find it and that's one of the problems we've got to actually address and the government should be listening to this by should be learning tax and they should also be putting some sort of control over actually all speculation and if the cost of

a barrel of oil goes up any increase would come through to the pumps pretty much straight away any increase in the wholesale price they will have to pass virtually immediately to consumers and the effects go beyond the petrol station. it would increase inflation because everything would be reflected in prices because of the high cost of fuel to the products we buy in the shops jobs will be lost small business especially especially medium sized companies that their costs will go up astronomically and that would actually impact on people being sacked that there are real consequences and costs. now to some other stories making headlines around the world our tens of thousands of people have been rallying in berlin for the noble energy activists are protesting against a new government scheme which they say will hold up the transition from coal to nuclear and wind power in march passed through the german capital ending up in

front of the ruling c.d.u. party headquarters in. the north korean government has threatened to conduct a nuclear weapons test saying the country needs to protect its sovereignty and dignity statement comes just days after officials in south korea confirmed that the north could conduct its fourth tomic atomic test since two thousand and six rhetoric against seoul and the united states has become increasingly aggressive since came to power in two thousand and eleven. three clashes have broken out. in copenhagen after a far right rally descended into chaos a crowd gathered for a protest in front of a mosque was confronted by a group of anti-fascists police moved in to break up the fighting has happened as the danish capital welcomed in thousands of visitors for the euro vision song contest. now reminder of our breaking news story the eastern ukrainian

city of slovyansk has reported that under attack from the military local pro autonomy activists say their checkpoint just outside the city has been shelled these are the latest pictures from the area the same post was attacked a few hours earlier and eight civilians activists were reportedly injured ukrainian army is currently wait ging at that is what it calls an anti terror operation in the southeast of the country course we'll be keeping you up to date on the developments as information comes in. of next hour to international max and stacey delve behind the global financial headlines that some guys report today with us. you know we human beings sort of live our lives in the moment even recent history

is still history and well we are all busy so it is easy for the magicians of media to wave their hands around and make us forget about things in fact was there just a few months ago that protesters on the streets of kiev are crying out for democracy they claim that the crimes of the end of covert government prove that it was illegitimate but now that the managers of the protest movement are in power boy are they singing a different tune a few months ago they were crying about european values and freedom of speech now that they have the power they banned russian t.v. channels from airing they claimed then that because they could get hundreds of people to storm government buildings that they were the legitimate power but now. anti kiev protesters do it well that's just mob violence when they drove a bulldozer into and threw molotov cocktails at police who only beat them in return with clubs that was a violation of their human rights but now an heir to kiev forces protests they send in the army and right sector thoughts to break them up or just kill them if you just take the time to stop and think back just a few months ago you see that the u.s. a new government is doing exactly the same things that they accuse the u.n.

which government of doing a load over that zone and of evil flagrant hypocrisy but that's just my opinion. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want.

welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser and the words of the famous stock speculator just a little more game a speculation is the most in a far away fascinating game in the world but it is not a game for the stupid the mentally lazy the person of inferior a muscle balance or they get rich quick adventure or they will die before. i know what you're thinking you're thinking that stupid and mentally lazy describes almost every single person you encounter at the office at home at school in the checkout line at the supermarket in the halls of congress every person you listen to on the radio watch on t.v. or read the newspaper or magazine yes we stupid mentally humans have chosen to live in a financial i suspect of casino economy and for that we will dollar poorer states.

but that's the problem with everybody turning to speculation for a living the bank must burst housing bubble of course this is the latest in the housing bubble here which is pushed by on the one hand by the treasury department here the o.e.c.d. is telling the bank of england that they must burst this housing bubble that one hand of government is is blowing up the other hand of government must push it down so they're trying to control what the how big and how movable they bubble is the bank of england should invoke new legal powers allowing it to reign in britain's booming housing market for the first time an influential international think tank i said would be house by should have to put down larger deposits and george osborne's help to buy scheme should be cut back the organization for economic cooperation and development said yes yes i like this idea about just

a little more you know bring him into the conversation because he wrote this famous book the reminiscence of a stock operator back in the one nine hundred thirty s. which is read the bible for speculators who invented the idea of the modern speculator and the idea of the speculator the mindset of the speculator is to really go diametrically opposed to everything that would encompass the attributes of humanity so in other words to be successful speculator you must have as little empathy as possible and the point i think you're making here is that. the global economy has become more financial eyes moved away from stuff to speculating on speculative contracts whether to riveted futures options the need for people with no. no empathy increases and this is why we've got a generation of artistically minded speculator kings who ruled the world

economy at the expense of humanity before the one nine hundred eighty s. we humans in the west used to go out walk to a job now we're speculators and as the infamous jesse livermore who ended up killing himself by the way in a hotel in new york city thinking he was impoverished but he had five million dollars to his name learned to use how much that is in today's money but where it turned into speculators but where mentally it lazy and stupid not only is our education getting worse by the way and not only are we mentally lazy watching things like britain's got talent and x. factor and all these things we really we are too lazy most people because we're so busy you know paying off our debts and just keeping those interest payments going all mentally lazy in the eyes of the speculator i'm sure third row who wrote on walden pond would posit that this was in fact not being mentally

lazy but being in touch with one's humanity so what one man's mental laziness is another man's spiritual revelation this is what's lacking in today's financial as world is any contact at all with a spiritual self a spiritual being a spiritual life and we owe a lot those who are the speculator kings who by definition like apathy that's why. american for america's foreign policy of course is to just invade and shoot first and then ask questions later yeah well ok i one hand we do have those who lack empathy we've talked about that thousands of times those on wall street those making a billion dollars a year there were ten guys in america that made more than a billion dollars last year as hedge fund managers those are the professional speculators however the three hundred thirty million other americans the sixty

million brits that is also what they're trying to do speculating on housing market they do not have the same lack of empathy that those who are professionals do have and yet they're being told this is your future this is what you should do be a stock market speculator be a housing market speculator and yet they don't have the the basically the insider trading available to them they don't have high frequency trading available they also are too emotional you can see that on twitter people are freaking out about everything they're shrieking they love so many people around the world the syrians the libyans the they want to go rescue everybody well you can't have that sort of mentality and be a successful stock market operator a successful housing market speculator the housing market speculator here in the u.k. that's driven this enormous historic bubble i can sum up their current position in one word unhedged the things that that's the difference for saying a professional speculator and an amateur speculator the amateur speculator being in

this housing market driving up these prices to these bubble licious levels they are on hedged so when the bubble pops they will lose it all the professional speculator like a blackstone group who was there buying properties all cash and fully hedged if they all these properties were to collapse in value their exposure on their portfolio would be maybe one or two percent not one hundred twenty percent one hundred thirty percent well blackstone is buying all other people's cash not their own. most mom and pops are using their own money and their future their pension funds this is what i'm going to show you why jessie livermore said they will all die poor pension cash won't solve looming interest only mortgage crisis there's an interest only mortgage crisis ahead with hundreds of thousands of people having no way to repay their loans when they fall due in the next few years from two thousand and seventeen an estimated forty thousand interest only mortgages held by barr was age sixty five and over will mature every year this is in the u.k.

now the average person with this mortgage interest only mortgage reckons that they only will owe twenty two thousand pounds what the bank of england the financial conduct authority says is actually they're more likely to over fifty thousand pounds from their own data so they're underestimating how much still owe by fifty percent and yet their pensions which they plan on plundering member the bank of george osborne is allowing them to plunder their own pension fund soon well those how old on average thirty six thousand eight hundred pounds well that brings up another fallacy of the amateur speculator that we see in the u.k. housing bubble and that it plays into behavioral economics in this case it's confirmation bias is that is the issue they underestimate their debt because to take an honest look at their true debt would be too frightening so they simply concoct a delusionary view of their debt so when it finally comes due they are in shock and

then they have nowhere to go because their own heads in the policy of the banking kleptocratic class that runs the country is simply cut these people off like a bad cancerous tumor and just say you speculated you went bust we're going to just pull you off the grid and good luck well they're stupid or mentally lazy and that's why the average pension fund is currently worth thirty six thousand eight hundred pounds. third lesson the average interest only debt figure that means that those thinking of using their retirement savings to pay off their mortgage will have to think again but of course they won't think again because they're mentally lazy and the and the chancellor will have to come up with new schemes to encourage a bigger bubble so that their mentally lazy thoughts before hand who will be paid off again they're mentally lazy and the view of the professional speculating class let's tell you have the average worker at the n.h.s.

or maybe the royal mail maybe they like being doctors maybe they like working at the royal mail but these are institutions that are cash flow positive that perform a vital function in this society but according to the speculators and run the government and run the club doctor see n.h.s. in the romell must be financial eyes privatized securitized and anyone who goes against this ethos of kleptocracy is lazy is a bone no no historically one could say that they are expressing a need for some spiritual life or some contact with with humanity that's what they would prefer they would prefer to be more human like and less drug addled you know speculator autism suffering lunatics like you see with vince cable george osborne dave cameron and miliband cetera yes but that's why those guys win because they do not have empathy most normal human beings do and yet they think they can be

successful speculators jesse livermore warned all of us before hand that we would die poor and we will die poor because we're all voting we're all mentally lazy and we're stupid and we demand our governments we demand george osborne give us bubbles rather than it is of the speculator fascists that run the u.k. economy and government like a cameron miliband osborne accent or a is to cut off all choices if you don't want to be a speculator autistic psychopath or sociopath there are. little choice because if you go to school for something else let's say you don't want to be a banker in the city of london and possibly jump off the bank and kill yourself in an act of desperation a so many are no maybe that's not the career path you want well to study anything else you're going to incur so much debt because a financial eyes of my educational institutions once you get out the only job you have that can pay back your debt is to be a psychotic banker barclays and risk jumping off a building and creating

a sidewalk splat which of course will be financial was by some splat collateralized debt obligations sold by barclays who by the way all these big banks we now know have life insurance policies on their own bankers so when they kill themselves or kill other people or commit crime the bank cashes in not the family and then finally here is in america the headline reads early tap before a one k. replaces homes as american piggy bank the internal revenue service collected five point seven billion dollars in two thousand and eleven from penalties meaning that americans took out about fifty seven billion dollars from retirement funds before they were supposed to so the median size of the four a one k. in america is twenty four thousand four hundred as of march thirty first this year with people older then fifty five having about sixty five thousand three hundred so there depleting the mall for a one k. pension funds because they can no longer tap their homes because the american mortgage market is a bit different but here you have this speculator class dying poor they're there

cashing in there for one case they talked to one woman who kept center pension an order to hire you hall to move to a smaller property look at these people if they read all them today but the row the thought that would cross their mind is how do we frac this pond so i can pay off my mortgage and my gambling debts i say thanks so much thank you and i. say to him for the second half a lot more. phrase it is that it's a battle started here the village down. with it was at the exact moment eleven in the morning when the first seven tanks appeared to.

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welcome back to the kaiser report imax gadgets i'm about to go to said they australia mate to talk to professor steve cain author of deep bunking economics he's also an expert on hyman minsky steve king welcome back to the kaiser report i'm glad to be him actually i'm going to be a lot closer pretty soon for other it's right you're taking a job right at a college up the road here we'll talk about it when you get here that's going to adulations i want to ask you though steve it's been six or seven years now into the financial collapse and house prices in capital cities across the world are booming . what what do you think about this well it's it's the only thing that the people who are childhood in my policy right now know how to do is blow bubbles and they

think about it when bubbles as creative economic activity as what we had be a greenspan being a cheerleader for the rising house prices and trying to say that there was signs of froth you know as oss lighted markets when you when you look at the data american hothouse process when he said the role i have a to tom's a long time average and i fell back down there again because there are a way of getting out of the crosshairs was to refight the speculative bubble that's brought capitalism to its creative ney's through quantitative easing in techniques like that and they've succeeded they've now got people borrowing money you want yet yet again to use it to speculate on rausing house process and rawson ship process so hello lou we're back in bubble land again well this was somewhat predictable because the crass of two thousand and eight which was precipitated by housing bubble remember the subprime sub and i didn't mean i was a freudian slip there i didn't mean to say subprime i mean the subprime crisis was a housing crisis the response to that was not to reform the bank system at all or

to introduce competition into the banking system at all the solution was to let the too big to fail get even bigger and the central banks decided that the way out of the mess was to be. blow another bubble in the stock market in the housing market so this is exactly what they've done so they have succeeded in doing what they set out to do so what will what will prick the bubble or will it never get pricked and we're going to live in a in a new parallel reality of ever expanding bubble steve game we're going to continue saying expanding bubbles for a while but expanding bubbles are a really fuel box founding debt and you go to pay you dead you know you don't pay to bankrupt that doesn't mean what you bought with that debts going to actually be profitable it only makes a profit while the prostitute use rausing that itself depends upon rising debt levels yet again so the whole thing is a ponzi scheme and ponzi schemes ultimately. always involving organizations which

at the time of fundamentally bankrupt the only thing that's going to rescue them is continuing rausing crosses and the rausing process come from continuing rausing dead so it's a positive feedback loop and just like you know when you go to a concert and somebody whacks the mark on to close to the speaker outlet bang at some point it peaks it crashes and you come tumbling down the other side and this time we're going to tumble down from a much higher level of debt than the previous process if you go back to not in nadi in america in the last big recession ended back then the american providential got down to about about one hundred percent of jay pay it hit one hundred eighty percent it did leave it to about one hundred sixty percent through this process but it's now rising again from a level that almost calls the last process so i think this particular bubble in american economy has got maybe five years to go before it hits the same old bloody wall of a ponzi scheme that has to collapse. oh i like the a rock n roll reference there steve game that in other words on the way up it's like the amplification system you have from your fender bass but once you've got

the static feedback i guess is what they call it you end up with that shrinking sound which will in fact be the crash but let's talk about another economic number a very specific number and that is wages because during this period of time when house prices are bubbling up to new highs wages are down ten percent so what is the so-called wealth effect if wages are down ah does that work well it doesn't work i mean the wealth effect is the belief that because we all felt we old inverted commas feel wealthier we're going to spend more money out of our increased wealth out of our increased incomes but the reality is that applause to the point that a little bit lost the one percent they're the ones who got wealthiest through this huge bottle and then all particularly consume is that bubbles speculate as they buy the unity the lamborghinis some of which catch fire you may have noticed sinestro just recently but the real consume is simply on consuming say getting very very early in a recovery and human normal stuff when you've got

a recovery going on you do have rising wages we have still stagnant wages and rising asset processes and the income simply out there to support mass consumption by the middle class and working costs so i think this is going to be again a rather a lack last the bubble will last long you know people where in alabama we're getting wealthy selling buying junk properties off each other i don't think they're going to feel that much wealth is thomas going to be much more strict it's of the nationals' of the wealth distribution and they'll do very well for a while until the support falls away and we'll be back on another crash and saying about this is said ten years. all right now steve king you are an economist therefore you as an academic a scholar and somebody doesn't great deal writing would fall into a category of economist and the category that you do not fall into would be let's say the keynesians which believe that this money printing is

a good thing to do but. i think you would classify yourself as an orthodox economist or someone who is basically pushing the boundaries of economic thought coming up with new or extended economic theories but i'm not sure whether you cover or not the sole idea of behavioral economics and the reason i ask is because i guess i want to get your take on this as an economist a recent poll found that most americans believe that housing is the best performing long term asset of all better than gold equities and bonds when in fact it was the worst averaging just one percent per annum over the past one hundred years but the perception for these people who are trapped in the bubble is that it's great and i believe that falls under the heading of behavioral economics or confirmation bias but how does that plug into your model when the masses are self deluding how does

that work well on the conventional belief in economics that the neo classical model which they call kinds ian has got bugger all to do with kinds of really comes out of all russell and then the and jevons and people like that they have this concert what they call rational expectations by rational expectations what they mean is the capacity to accurately predict the future is still in the wood rational and hidden behind if it definition which if you look at it means because as you do to make accurate prophecy now the reality is people are rational but they're rational relation to the information they have which is patchy incomplete and boss what they currently know and if it did more of the people are. and them in doing so if you all rather than having the rational expectations which means you would look to the infinite future and be by your knowledge only infinite past and therefore know that one percent level you're talking about and never expect anything better than one percent out of housing you actually just look at the local surrounds you going in

in taunton and your locality in the last you know if five isn't five or ten square kilometers around your house and if you say rausing house crosses across that time you think you extrapolate that forward into the infinite future so you're expectations are rational given what you know and you know very little and this is the difference between the way the conventional mob think and why they are and why they have this delusional theory of economics and why the sort of stuff the people who call themselves post kinds ians do a dishonest and austrians an evolutionary columnist a much closer to the real world. well it seems in the u.k. anyway that there is a body of thought or a school of thought that is that warning against this housing bubble there is a headline in the telegraph newspaper. about the o.e.c.d. a of course european based a global think tank saying that the u.k. housing bubble needs to pop that the bank of england. mark carney at the bank of england needs to raise rates or do it every asset do to pop this bubble which they

consider to be extremely it canonically dangerous but if so you have a basic disconnect between this o.e.c.d. what they're what they're saying and the media and the what the politicians are saying in the u.k. and everyone here is still saying that you must get on the housing ladder you must participate this housing market is the only way you can truly be a british is to own a home and be highly leveraged so how come the o.e.c.d. which is a huge institution how come that message doesn't seem to get through into the local media the b.b.c. a are the or the or the mindset of the average british person and are they setting themselves up now for this colossal collapse and negative equity just like what happened again in two thousand and eight you know i think i think we also have souls of that but the you do have these weird markets and now i'm moving from one weird market to another sydney is a weird market where a large part of the process that makes a set well i know nonresidents largely chinese nonresidents falling on your properties and drawing up process that way because

a strained process look cheap to them and you've got russian oligarchs flying member into an arab exploring your properties in london so that particular set of bubbles because they're driven by something which is completely disconnected from british incomes and a strain incomes could go on for quite a while it's that is the directionality could actually succeed to some substantial time what fascinates me is the point you made about the o.e.c.d. coming out warning about bubbles because there's a lot of the conventional economists who actually would cheerleaders for the bubble who last time around denying that it existed now they're admitting it existed. i think that's sort of see that it actually generated generated frankenstein's monster by the behavior during the the two thousand bubble so there's an extent to which the economics professional parts of the one to mistake but they don't waste this monster of belief in if iran zinga said process and of course the central banks and particularly and governments like the u.s. government with the what i prefer to call help the cells to name

a few of the bubble so with it is a crazy crazy world as you say it's like living in a couple of parallel universes that actually intersect and crash each other all the time it's a weird world to be living in yeah i want to stay on the snowy see the comment a little bit because you bring up some good points there so the o.e.c.d. is this satish and all institution in europe i mean it's part of the same institutional mindset that drives the i.m.f. the world bank the e.c.b. these are huge global institutions suddenly they're breaking ranks which i don't recall in the last twenty years any of these big institutionalized group think money spending goliath's breaking ranks in this way so you believe it's because they've recognize they've created a frankenstein monster and they've just they can't pretend anymore that this is anything more than just a speck of bubble yeah i'm going to the bank of england has come out in support of the i can assign about how the money supply wasn't alternate and therefore the

lending the banks to actually cause the inflation and deflation of the economy in total contrast the belief of academic economists let me stop you for a second there we had it how did you feel the defeat of vindicated steve kane when the bank of england came out and said money isn't dodging the sli created deposits are in fact creative through lending there's no actual organic banking going on whatsoever it's exactly what you've been saying for years how did you feel when they came out that statement i feel great and i have to congratulate them for having the courage to come out and say it because often. it's cost us subservient to what they get told and the people like it taught by an academic institutions to come out and say listen you academics you're wrong this is the actual mechanics and the the post kinds the inside of the wall that i come from is right about it and we have to rewrite economics to make it reflect that it's a sign that the those institutions which used to be dominated by academic they can all much if shifted away logic because they've got to where the reality of being wrong and on dilaudid i respect the bank of england's re such stuff the coming out

with that stuff i respect we always say david doing the same thing the international monetary fund with physically the work of model q my office come out and said that money isn't all it's news forgot to include banks and how we think about capitalism this is true progress and it's not coming from the academics so much it's coming from those big institutions which used to be the ones to lead us astray that's the this is the right steve kate is right the world is wrong steve kane is right is coming to the u.k. i'll be teaching in the u.k. we look forward to seeing you in the u.k. steve game and thanks again got to go now out of time thanks for being on the kaiser report you're welcome at the debate it all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser stacy herbert i like to thank our guests fifteen if you'd like to get in touch tweet us at kaiser report that. i.

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