After apologizing unilever has said its now to change its ways its released new adverts advocating inclusive ety it wants facebook to follow suit or else lets face it though unilever probably wont drop one of its biggest advertising prop forms money talks but the story probably has generated some good p. R. That beautifully ever as any company is primary responsibility is to make money for its shareholders too to turn a profit and sometimes p. R. Initiatives like this are part of it there are just an effort to elevate your brand i think it would be difficult for them as a company that makes Consumer Products to avoid advertising one of the most prominent platforms today but what about the center rock through the whole story facebook platform has shown commitment to the battle against. Fake news and abuse but the floodgates have now been truly opened under pressure left right and center to moderate to censor to sanitize and seems to have buckled under the squeeze well it has made itself very vulnerable because it has made these promises and its even done some things to try to filter misinformation out of its social network even though they have tried to do things it doesnt appear to be working were going to see a lot of pressure increasing pressure on facebook unilever thinks it could fix it by giving putting marketplace pressure on facebook im a little bit skeptical that that will actually work facebook is tackling an ever growing list of calls and ultimatums first from politicians and Security Services now it seems corporations that shipping into facebook spending to dumonds could well backfire. A top u. S. Democratic lawmaker has called for emergency meetings on alleged russian meddling thats on top of the three major investigations already underway in the United States general thinks the Current Administration is not doing enough to address the threat which he describes as being equivalent to bombs and bullets we want to protect us so this is a very Severe Threat and this is as much an attack on the United States as if there were bombs and bullets this is an attack on our essential governing structure. And amid the continuing allegations of trumped russia ties one of the investigators on the Senate Intelligence committee has found himself and brought in control to see Jacqueline Berger has the details. In case you havent noticed the Democratic Party is very worried about big bad russia the film portals into our society the kremlin clan russia has harnessed the tremendous and quite frankly to me frightening power of social media truly troubling evidence of the scope and reach of russias interference in our last election and the top democrat on the senates Russian Investigation mark warner is no exception to the rule im concerned. But the president still does not recognize the severity of the threat but apparently warner does and he will do anything necessary to battle moscows reach based on leaked Text Messages between the senator and a second party it looks like when it comes to the russian threat the ends justifies any means and clued in attempting to carry out some collusion of your own several of the messages show warner trying to arrange a secret meet up with Christopher Steele the former spy behind the now infamous term dossier we want to do this right private in london i want to send less yet because if we cant get agreement would rather not have paper trail so who is warner depending on the set up the clandestine meeting with steel that would be one mr adam walton a lobbyist best known for acting on behalf of the russian tycoon did it and according to the tax womyn is also connected to julian asuncion another person accused of being a kremlin puppet now this is all way under the table warner repeatedly refused to make the invitation to speak to seal officially in writing while at the same time telling weldon that the paris efforts would be helping america and apparently in his mind the way to do that is to be includes with the confidence of one of the richest men in russia and according to republican senator marco rubio the whole Senate Intelligence committee has known about the contacts for months so if neither the democrats nor the republicans care about warners conduct is it just that collusion is a problem reserved for only one party or is the reality here that russia is just being used in a political game of chess one or said it one point we have to be careful of paraphrasing here i dont want a paper trail now if what he was doing was fine and dandy and innocuous and no big deal then why would he care if there was a paper trail he certainly should have or his staff should have known who he was communicating with who this lobbyist represented if youre going to talk to a lobbyist about getting a one on one face to face with Christopher Steele then you should know who youre dealing with in trying to arrange that need. The fix was in the tas are between the democrats and russia more so than anything trump ever had to do with russia but it just shows what hypocrites they are and the American Media just ignores these things control this is over alleged russian meddling in frege the us media to the Homeland Security department is accusing a major t. V. Network of false reporting of the moscows perceived hacking activities during the twenty sixteen president ial election in washington. While the department of Homeland Security has discredited a n. B. C. News report claiming that russians hacked into Voter Registration rolls of prior to the election now in a statement jeanette man for the departments chief security official said that quote recent n. B. C. Reporting has misrepresented facts and confuse the public with regard to the department of Homeland Securitys efforts to combat Election Hacking but in the report n. B. C. Interviewed man for and all she said was that twenty one states were targeted but somehow the articles headline was russians penetrated the us voter systems which according to you man for a statement she found incredibly misleading while the us has been accusing the kremlin of influencing the election for over a year and a half now but there have also been rumors floating around that russia influenced the braggs of now the british governments been busy trying to link russia to the braggs of folk but even youtube has gone on record saying that theres been no proof of that sort and across the pond the us has been searching relentlessly for anything to pin hillarys loss on russia so this is just yet another russian interference and it successfully debunked but the us establishment refuses to let go of this idea that russia supposedly hacked the election so i have to ask how many more times will this have to happen until they finally admit that there was no you know magical russian meddling. This is up to you as the recovery operation continues the victims of sundays deadly plane crash near moscow have been remembered at a vigil in the city hall mouth when we come back. And. Heres what people have been saying about rejected in the navy seals exactly just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it is that really packs a punch at least yampa is the john oliver of r t america is good to see we are apparently better than two thousand and six and see people you never heard of love redacted tonight was the president of the world bank take. Me seriously send us an email. Seems wrong why dont we all just dont call. Me. Yet to stamp out this thing comes out to. Engage me because betrayal. When something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Welcome back the victims of sundays air crash near moscow have been mortared a vigil outside the capitals main cathedral seventy one candles were lit for each of the people who lost their lives in the tragedy their plane crashed minutes after taking off from the citys domodedovo airport killing everyone on board it was heading to or a city near brushes border with kazakstan. Beast. But they truly a. Beach there with. It. Was big. Huge it. There. Are troops here. For. Listening. This is. Not english english people dont work. For the citizens of the earth first serious and its. Hard to. Believe. Its nearly one. This is the system mr mr zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero so this was the living room. It was the Grocery Store so. Its now almost forty eight hours on since that crash and right now around a thousand people are involved in the recovery operation thats already covering some thirty hectares of Land Specialist vehicles are removing some of these smaller pieces of the wreckage work continues to recover and identify the remains of the victims both the planes flight recorders are in the hands of investigators right now but they get to give any indications as to the cause of the crash. Britains Opposition Labor Party is facing claims of discrimination after it sent out a very specific invitation to an equality conference the invite was from young labor and it says that you have to be under twenty seven b. From at least one of these groups minority ethnic l. G. Bt disabled people or women we talk to the director of Human Rights Group that supports the event. Its quite ironic that a conference this focusing on discriminated groups. Has now the focus has now become about people who are in who are in a dominant position theres obviously a feeling amongst those with the lived experience that they need a space where they can discuss things that pertain to them and their demographic and then share with the world about how to make the world a better place the reason that discriminated groups are recognised as needing a space is because there is an imbalance theres an imbalance in politics if you look its not representative well there already calls from m. P. s in the Ruling Conservative Party to investigate the event one says the labor party are not about equality anymore the deputy chairman of the conservative party is calling on labor to ensure that the discrimination comes to an end. Well ed smith hes from activate britain thats a center right Youth Organization thinks that an equality conference should be open to all thing is that a lot of what has your mails not only. You know what he says from hours of got the lowest the most underperforming in compulsory education under the least represented in Higher Education but not only that its more that they need for hear what these people are facing and hear what the solutions to the problems are going to be so that they can help contribute themselves the representative for your group should be voted for by your group white males should not be included in the. Representative voting present its about the discussions and the other things are going to go on around the conference i think its really important everybody to be included in and for everybody to be able to talk. To rare case that a leader openly shows mistrust for his own countrys legal system but that appears to be exactly what canadas Prime Ministers done just introduced spoke out after a jury acquitted a white farmer who claimed hed killed an indigenous man in selfdefense. You know i speak about the millions of canadians. That are hurt to go to. This moment he has friends in the entire community and i know indigenous and nonindigenous canadians alike know that we have to do that trudeaus comments have created something of a backlash one m. P. Said politicians should not decide this type of thing other stress that there should be no political involvement in the judicial process and there is no excuse for undermining confidence in the judicial system according to one lawyer. About it said the canadian Prime Ministers reaction has been echoed with furious rallies nationwide. Yeah. She was shot dead when he and some friends went to get help with a flat tire they drove to the farm of Gerald Stanley but he thought the group wanted to rob him he reportedly tried to remove the keys from the cars and accidentally shot a twenty two year old. The farmer was arrested and charged with Second Degree murder now its not just the countrys Prime Minister whos been outraged by the verdict. We are frustrated. And shocked people are hurt we feel betrayed this isnt new to us however the not guilty verdict just highlighted but exposed the ugliness in the Justice System here in canada theres going to be so much. Were pushing for an appeal everybody has reason to be upset with this verdict a young man is dead. Over. You know attempted break in or whatever was happening there from this incident and we have absolutely no justice for the family it shows the lack of faith and trust and representation in that in that Justice System for Indigenous People and just for the pure fact that this gentleman was fully quit of these charges without any sort of responsibility for the fact that he had a loaded handgun near the end of a young gentleman who was not threatening him at the time left a lot of people wanting more and so theres a lot of pain in the community right now and a lot of sorow and thats also fomenting itself into anger and rage. And thats it from a thanks for watching kevin owens here and often now with your next world news from monte international and moscow by. Join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business im showbusiness ill see you then. Tens of billions hundreds of billions probably a trillion dollars of u. S. Government subsidies a seat on the Energy Industry yes government can subsidize mining of big oil rather cryptic currencies and put those into while its called american citizens going to each have an automatic wallet tied to this also security account and they can get a daily and weekly or monthly air drop points that they can then he is to boost the economy which the government can easily do that. People think of. In the community or something but any clothes you have to. Do he needs a little do get missteps and. This is boom bust broadcasting around the world from right here in washington d. C. Im partial to on tap for today in the broadcast President Trump has given us more details on his infrastructure plans well take a closer look and as the markets melt down gold goes up well talk with peter schiff about what to expect now lets get to some of the headlines. The trumpets administration has unveiled its long awaited infrastructure plan this morning the white house proposal includes two hundred billion dollars in direct federal spending but officials claim that the two hundred billion dollars will stimulate at least one point five. Billion dollars in new investment the difference would be covered by state and local Government Spending the outline does not include a financing plan leaving that decision to congress the outline notably emphasizes Rural Infrastructure and claims about permitting process delays the Congressional Research service has questioned whether weakening permuting processes would significantly accelerate building well have more on infrastructure from arties ashley banks in just a little bit. And with the Trump Administration again they have also unveiled their official Budget Proposal today investors and analysts are looking past specific spending her quest to the assumptions about growth inflation and borrowing costs contained in the report the budget assumes a three percent annual growth for ten years with well above estimates by investors and outside analysts in december the Federal Reserve predicted an overall rate of one point eight percent growth over the same period j. P. Morgan on friday predicted two point five percent for twenty eight thousand and one point nine percent for the next year closely tracking the feds projections from december the administration also is up to more optimistic about the impact of the recent tax cuts and what they will do then outside analysts the pace of growth in this scenario also would likely push Interest Rates above the levels predicted by the white house. Google and facebook may lose a significant. Significant form of advertising dollars if they continue to great create division or fail to protect children according to keith weed the chief marketing officer for unilever the second largest marketing and advertising spender in the world we gave a speech today at the annual interacted Advertising Bureau comforts and he came it came as part of a plethora of calls for google and facebook to do a better job of policing their products wed set. Quote we cannot have an environment where our consumers dont trust what they see online unilever spent nine point four billion dollars on advertising just last year. While many larger Financial Institutions are staying away from Digital Currencies some smaller european banks are actually taking the opposite approach and allowing their access to customers swiss bank von tobel and falcon bank and german banks feed or bank and Liechtenstein Bank are now offering their customers access to general currency products some of the banks are even advising clients on unusual coin offerings the i suppose with larger institutions taking a pass on Digital Currency the door has been open and Smaller Banks seem to be taking advantage of that opening. Today the white house unveiled its long awaited infrastructure plan the proposal includes billions of dollars in federal Infrastructure Spending to be used to repair and rebuild the nation however some including democrats in republican soiled with say the proposal fall short heres our chief correspondent ashley banks with more. Barnow and today the white house rolled out its plan to rebuild the nation over the next ten years and the proposal it says with its one point five trillion dollar investment over the next decade it plans to shorten the process for approving projects to two years or less address unmet Rural Infrastructure needs and power state and local authorities and train the American Workforce of the future one of the newest elements to the proposal is excessive banding the use of tax exempt debt letting states at tolls on interstates and making it easier to lease airports and other public assets of the one point five trillion dollars two hundred billion of that would be considered federal spending the rest would either be paid for through cuts in other parts of the budget or it would fall on the shoulders of local governments by leveraging state and local tax dollars and private investment kevin has slipped associate professor of civil and Environmental Engineering at virginia tac University Said quote trends and from structure planning flips the traditional capital expense funding model from eighty to ninety percent federal funding to ten percent federal funding the majority of the funding mandates get pushed to the states and private funding with the administration taking credit for the investment transfer polls all has been met with praise and opposition business and Industry Groups are praising trumps focus on improving infrastructure and pledging. To work with congress to enact a plan while environmental groups and democrats are accusing the administration of trying to benefit a corporate entrance and distract from a lot of federal investment just last week democrats unveiled their own one trillion dollar infrastructure proposal and tirelessly consisting of direct federal dollars experts say the Trump Administration may run into issues selling this proposal and Congress Republicans are concerned about overspending and democrats are already saying the plan falls short but democrats are disappointed saying the president he missed an opportunity to provide a much needed federal injection of dollars into the countrys infrastructure you know actually thank you so much for that report and i tell you what here it is its fifty three pages youve been poring over it since Eleven Oclock this morning and ive been doing the best job i can but you gave a great summary no i dont want to be tough on the administration or the president if there be enough detractors out there id wish hed done this earlier that its a pretty good plan. Well see if the moneys actually there but one of the things that just stuck out to me is allowing tolling restrictions to be relaxed and that is if the states allow more pluck flexibility in the tolls that they charge or even allow others to privately operate the toll roads and you dont know this but i grew up just on Lake Michigan in indiana and that the toll road there is actually under nineteen or a seventy five year lease to a Spanish Company so indiana doesnt own the toll road the federal government does it well they own it but they dont lease it so does this language in this report here in the proposal actually will it allow Foreign Countries or foreign private entities to own more toll roads in the u. S. Oh bart obviously theres nothing in this proposal right now to stop it from occurring in fact the proposal gets more flexibility to the states with regard to how and their state. Its running throughout the states or treat it so we could essentially see more foreign control of us toll roads under the proposal and bar the proposal also calls for commercializing rest areas so they could be operated by private firms all of the firms operating the rest areas cannot charge a fee for basics like rest area water and rest from facilities while there is that what other thing that i noticed in here actually it just seems in general this goes back to. You know what reagan was trying to do with Community Development block grants and giving a lot of monies back to the states is that the thrust of this in general that is essential going to give money back to the states and let the states do whatever they want yeah thats definitely right there are a few interesting alm exceptions to this one is with regard to a section of the proposal its called and powering the Workers Senate calls for abandoning state requirements for workers and gauging them for instruction projects working across state lines so basically workers from another state could actually end up working in any other state despite individual state rules and regulations or testing and licensing criteria so of course any such changes would need to be approved by congress and experts say that approving such a change would be difficult at best im going to be positive for today im glad hes put it out there we need the infrastructure good for the Administration Good for the president well get into more of these details are to correspondent actually banks thank you so much. Turning back to the days big story this morning donald trump tweeted about infrastructure saying after after so stupidly spending seven trillion dollars in the middle east its now time to start investing in our country and thats hard to argue with but now here to talk with us about the choices President Trump has framed in that tweet his tweet is former pentagon official Michael Maloof michael it amazes me that he would do that because it seems to me that were spending that and more and hes actually calling for some of this so what are the numbers that we are spending in the middle east well it its been at least seven trillion dollars six trillion dollars in iraq when you consider the out years alone for your veterans for your for the handicapped for dealing with families and this is for out to ten years that that some hasnt even been figured in yet that doesnt include afghanistan and afghanistan the still a slippery slope so seven trillion isnt even enough in our view no no not when you consider the out years because were we probably have already spent about two trillion in afghanistan weve been at it for sixteen years now hes increasing troop levels that means more supplies more more training plus you gotta. Keep that government float in afghanistan otherwise u. S. Influence in that area wanes so you mentioned supplies and Training Need seven trillion plus as you say over and over about another ten years ok remember the Everett Dirksen quote right i mean sooner or later youre talking about real money sounds like real money what else are they spending this real money on michael other than supplies and troops i mean to their infrastructure over there yeah youre going to have infrastructure weve had to be roads you know it was schools keep order just to go in systems and in the rural areas and that is in in addition to having to deal with fighters from various clans that that. I dont want any of that western influence in that region so its really going to continue to be in. Struggle for quite some time and that that seven trillion dollars michael does that include the veterans and what were doing here at home it will yeah it has to it has to include them and their medical medical attention and and also the families and and taking care of those who have been. Severely wounded over time and taking care of them and it really all adds up over a period of time i would say that if you combine afghanistan with with iraq were talking probably upwards of