Is reinforcing his governments hard line against facebooks plans to launch their own Digital Currency libra which specialists are eager to point out is not actually a crypto currency joining us now just doesnt tell is cryptocurrency analyst ben swan then its good to have you here keeping the Virtual Currency be hot while christie is on assignment so 1st of all ben lets just get to the basics here what did the french finance minister Bruno Lemaire have to say about libor he seemed to make a really sweeping statement of opposition to it. Yeah hes very opposed to it whats interesting about his statement is it was really focused specifically on libra and not Digital Currencies or even the broader spectrum of crypto currencies that are out there and i think the reason for that is because it gets into a statement is really focused on facebook as an entity saying that all the asli you know france needs to have solver and monetary policies and protect their sovereign monetary supply we can tal
Negotiator in peace talks with the taliban is to testify before Congress Amid questions or Donald Trumps decision to shut down discussions with the terror group meanwhile the taliban has urged the president to return to the negotiating table and an exclusive interview with r. T. I dont know the. Reason behind we. Were talking but we are still committed to the negotiations. I would only see from this very minute the other side is the. Most efficient form of conflict. On the table so. To. Come back to what we were just. After the fact if. The taliban is frequently responsible for terrorist attacks across afghanistan and the latest incident at least 4 local troops were killed and 3 injured when a suicide car bomber targeted a military base in southern couple on thursday donald trump and it almost a year of negotiations with the taliban last sunday when they admitted killing a u. S. Servicemen to quote strengthen their bargaining position where augusta had the opportunity to speak to talib
Whats interesting about his statement is it was really focused specifically on libra and not on Digital Currencies or even the broader spectrum of crypto currencies that are out there and i think the reason for that is because as he gets into his statement hes really focused on facebook as an entity saying that all the asli you know france needs to have solver and monetary policies and protect their sovereign monetary supply we can talk about that a minute but he also specifically talked about facebook as an entity saying that the European Union in france specifically has not been able to trust facebook in the past for the things that it says it would do versus what its actually doing and so why would we trust facebook when it comes to currency i think there is you know obviously im going to disagree with him in terms of trying to outright ban crypto currencies but i think theres a valid point to be made there about the way things because conducted itself as a tech company if they were
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Footprint. The most valuable commodity in the world well for the past 100 years the answer to that question would have been oil or maybe increasingly water but with the likes of amazon googles Parent Company alphabet and facebook becoming the worlds most valuable listed Companies Big data is now king the rise has been rapidly even regulated scrambling to keep up with the changing environment and now one of those protecting us wants to write another chapter at facebook hoping to introduce a Digital Currency called leap or perhaps not surprising in the age of bitcoin but given facebook has abused the days or it has on billions of people and its failed to curtail the spread of online hate and generally has become a byword for distrust well many in policy circles are opposing the new crypto currency because its also a threat to National Economies a facebook currency used by its 2000000000 users could effectively create a new world currency a rival for the dollar maybe a yen or the euro and