Frontier Frontier Foundation who criticize those provisions of the new copyright directive as vague an overly broad Member States of the e. U. Will now consider the measure separately. And here to break it all down and delve into the details on both copyright in europe and breadth it is hillary ford which the silvestro market hillary that has been youre with us now hillary first of all with this what happens next with the copyright directive we just discussed it goes to the e. U. Member states now and how soon we actually see this implemented if the Member States find it to their liking we made a very good point first it has to go to all the Member States the twenty seven Member States and we know that that consensus wont necessarily be gone out if it is gone and it will go into effect in twenty twenty one but here is the issue the swedish. Any piece of just come out and said that they actually made a mistake in their vote there was a lot of confusion over the vote and thats what they have Just Announced so many. Those who voted yes meant to vote no so that is rob a confusing as you mentioned article eleven article eleven is sort of called the link tax it actually has unintended consequences some significant celebrities such as Paul Mccartney and blondie Deborah Harry have come out in support of it but what they really said is that this they are intensely consequences its meant to protect the artists by making sure the artists are of course reimbursed but the on intended consequences could be that it actually stifles any sort of creativity. And that sort of is the two sides of the debate on one side we have sharing sites on some activists and groups a and that lining up against content creators and activists and the opponents say the copyright directive will some some call that the law that will kill means that sort of stream interpretation on the other hand many creators are seeing their music shared and their income is about reading but it sounds like on the merits of it yours you think that they probably have perhaps on the side of being too stringent on copyright on the phone absolutely yes they have and actually i would always say to everybody in europe if you dont like what the member state is actually vote voted for or you have to do is to overwhelmingly send an email to the e. U. And everybody does that they certainly would would would sort of back off on but i do think its been a mistake in the actual vote not just a mistake in how its being voted for him but in the actual process right lots of promises problems in europe right now speaking of which jumping to briggs that we have to get your take on this breaking news today about Prime Minister theresa may basically suggesting she would resign if and when it to the deal was passed almost an explicit pro quo with the euro skeptics in her party to get their votes what do our viewers need to know about this latest Development Well two things actually jacob recent just came out and said response said that he would reluctantly vote for it he knows that hell be viewed as a traitor he said that hes most unfortunately going to change his mind. But he feels that some sort of deal is better than no deal even though he acknowledges a bad deal for our audience so you ask me to give a perspective i actually mention this on the screen news show to explain it to everybody what the current deal is its very confusing but to make it simple that everybody understands this is like the children and all the relatives of a fan of a two parents decide and vote that theyll be a divorce so the majority have ruled the British Public the u. K. Public and entirety mostly from england and wales have voted for bracks it right thats like your children and relatives voting for divorce now the divorce agreement which was negotiated by your lawyer your lawyer is theresa may. Divorce as we negotiated very important its the same analogy is that one should divorced you will pay alimony and Child Support to your spouse you will still live in the same house under the same agreements in that household which is the same as the trade the whole Customs Union right and then youre not allowed to date or to get remarried and thats the same as no dating no remarriage the same theres no no external trade deals now would you or any member of our audience male or female take that deal no so heres my analogy to recently offering to resign once the vote goes through is like your lawyer offering to resign once it was over so what was the result youre stuck with a result i must say everybody probably has i have great admiration for theresa may in terms of how to statesman like tom foremans but what jacob riis more has said is that actual statesmanship in guiding through what you British Public overwhelmingly voted for has not been statesman right and certainly looking himself thinking about moving into indonesia himself and joe he is. Very interested with d. S. Theres jockeying for the leadership obviously now after she resigned and i would say this my last point is that in jockeying for that leadership the point has been made that if no deal had been forcefully stood for in the against the European Union they would have had to come back with more compromises and they would have offered a better deal that is a mistake that was made. For good shields for all markets are joining us and welcome. And street issues have been consistently near the top of the Global Economic agenda during the Trump Presidency here in the United States now here to talk trading give us his take on all things economic is friend of the show and Professor Emeritus of economics at the university of massachusetts amherst Richard Wolffe professor wall thanks for joining us glad to be here were always glad when you can join us and i listen. In on the got dates so im thrilled to be interviewing you and barts absence lets start first with the apparent volatility here in the u. S. Trade deficit it hit very high sixty billion dollars for december of twenty thousand but the figures for january released today by the Commerce Department show a sharp once a month decline of almost ten billion dollars laning just above fifty billion now in the trade deficit what do you make of the result for january that sharp drop and this does swing to from december what is going on with this stress is it as drastic as it seems. Well it isnt very drastic to tell you the truth because this number bounces around quite a bit not as much as it did this last month but not that much less either i think what youre seeing is an enormous level of uncertainty nobody understands where this trade war that mr trump and the republicans have started around the world with europe particularly with china and so on no one knows how thats going to end up no one knows what effects its already happening there are signs that there are serious effects so nobody knows what plans to make companies cant decide what to buy what to sell scuse me so there is this uncertainty that makes the numbers bounce around the basic situation which people really have to understand is that over the last thirty years american corporations left the United States to make more profits to go abroad to pay lower wages around the world and ship all that stuff here the result is that we buy from the rest of the world way more than we sell hence the deficits mr trump would like everyone to believe that its cheating and the people on playing fair thats silly what has happened is a political Seismic Shift in which corporations and theyre the ones who made the key decisions close their businesses here move them abroad and suddenly were not producing here and selling to the world were producing over there and importing it in and thats the story of our deficit. Now moving to canada our neighbor to the north they today reported similarly their worst back to back Monthly Trade deficit numbers ever in their deficit was down slightly in january but still high nearly three point two dollars to two point two billion dollars american exports their grew for the First Time Since july of last year whats going on in canada and is there a factor here of their their wall in the trilateral trade fight with china whats going on here with canada. Yes it with canada tends to follow the United States in many ways but yes youre quite right to bring the attention to china china is flexing its muscles the canadians were asked by the United States to do an extraordinary thing to arrest up high level executive of the weiwei corporation at the vancouver airport several weeks ago and they didnt take the steps they could have taken to question all of that to ask that that person be brought into the United States in some other way instead mr trudeau simply threw in the towel perhaps hoping to mollify this to trump with whom the canadians have a lot of problems and simply said yes well extradite her and send it to the United States the chinese protested they did it diplomatically that seemed to make no difference and now theyre showing that they are a major player in the world and if you do something they really dont want they at a ball and willing to push back theyre doing it to the United States by not buying our soybeans and cetera et cetera and theyre doing it to the canadians letting everybody see you have to work things out with us the days of you telling the rest of the world what to do are over. And as you mentioned the canada has sort of been the side cards of the United States to the rest of the world and sort of in a changing world situation its not clear if thats the best if thats the best future for them but staying with canada the wall street journal reported today that china has rescinded insect a shipping permit for a second Canadian Green handler apparently by Terror Incorporated a subsidiary of rain corp e l c yeah and the trade Officials Say this was over a pest tainted shipments of green but the Canola Council in canada says they think theyre being locked out and as you said they think its retaliation for this war way arrest do you think thats exactly is that why. China is doing the are the is it is street quid pro quo retaliation and how vulnerable you sort of alluded to already but how exactly how vulnerable is canada if china actually does choose to retaliate. Well i think the burden of evidence suggests that the canadians are quite right this really isnt about pests that are in things if you do an International Trade in Agricultural Products its always relatively easy to show that there are some impurities there are some things that in there they shouldnt be etc etc this probably is an excuse very thin one and thats probably to let everybody know what the real story is china is saying look we buy canola oil thats actually the issue in this case we buy canola oil for cooking and so forth here in china we buy it from canada where its an enormously important grain product and were not going to play by the usual rules of the game if you dont if you arrest our executives if you side with mr trump in a trade war that you yourself dont support ok thats your decision but then were not going to simply roll over and play dead were going to push back we can buy oil from other parts of the world that will lead to you know you have to deal with us differently its a basic realignment of the world that were watching absolutely its a changing world in regard to glad to have you as our guide Richard Wolffe professor of economics emeritus at the university of massachusetts amherst thanks as always very time thank you. Catching up with brazil the current and former president s are making news former president michel to mare was released from jail this week after forty is under arrest on charges of organized crime the case reportedly involves as much as five hundred Million Dollars worth of illegal payoffs related to construction in Nuclear Power plants mr tener left office with single digit Approval Ratings and was elevated. From Vice President to the presidency in two thousand and sixteen after the impeachment of his predecessor Dilma Rousseff and what many of the foreign observers termed a legislative coup meanwhile current president narrow has sparked outrage by ordering the Nations Armed forces to celebrate the one nine hundred sixty four us supported military coup in which overthrew president joe outdoor laertes on the upcoming fifty fifth anniversary on march thirty first of all sonora spokesperson said the president does not consider what happened on march thirty First One Hundred sixty four a military coup and brazilian mining valley has lost control of seven hundred sixty five Million Dollars after assets after prosecutors asked for a freeze on the assets as collateral for expected damage payments and the terminations of operations at valley south upper dam agung go so go and borrow dickel car use. And. And moving further into the Southern Cone the mer valley next the key annex and one of us iris has been on shaky ground for the past week argentina word president maurice your macro has implemented austria already measures at the head of the i. M. F. Is quickly approaching an election october that has caused some shaking shaking is in the markets and will give a slide over the past week is stood just shy of thirty five thousand points around this time last week but had since fallen to just under thirty two thousand and trading today one key point for the markets movement as the competition that we could face in october which includes former president Cristina Fernandez de kirchner who embrace some popular positions as president this uncertainty and austerity comes at a time when according to a recent university from a recent study from the Catholic University of argentina nearly one third of argentine citizens live in poverty a number that jumps to forty one percent in one of cyrus with three quarters of a Million People added to that list just last year. Time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return were back on watch chain is our producer Brant Borland interviews lisa oconnor of swift on what could be the right watching and as we go to break here are the numbers at the. You know world of big partisan. And conspiracies its time to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now. Were watching closely watching the hawks. As an officer. Told them to get up off the ground and the officer began to pet him down. And then place on the sounds of kind of fighting into the grown man like wrestling essentially the officer who. Drew his are trying. To push the away from the officer pulling the toys out of his crib. They obviously did they kind of lunge for the weapon once missed and then when it happened on tree swung at the officers hands didnt hit him i never saw any contact me to do any kind of went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and thats when the officer pulled out his gun and he did it on three. He is private companies that have got a lot of v. C. Venture Capital Funding are ready to go public this year i saw the last theyre all going out of the forty fifty sixty seventy billion dollars valuation so the prediction here is that it will be the end of this cycle youre going to have a like two thousand and one style crash announced back due to the fact that theres nothing to support the valuations of these companies and no doubt are very quickly well it will crash. Join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and ill be speaking to guess what the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Theres a tense situation in venezuela is still all over the news the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implemented from the inside venezuela things move different were going to announce sanctions against the troll is to venezuela associate. In the school that have a son of the moment whos been moved out of that political battle to stay on the moon the people who come up with a moment of focus the who story isnt new nixon called in Henry Kissinger to tell him that it would not be tolerated that in latin america. Terms of economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make the chilean economy scream so wants to make you economy of venezuela screed. 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Watching technology can be used in a variety of ways whether it is verifying crypto currency transactions monitoring the supply chain or even protecting patient information in the medical field but what about the traditional Banking Industry our spoke with swifts ahead of Capital Markets and standards for the Asian Pacific region lisa oconnor during her hong kong watching week. To the cooperative of the banks it was set up over for. Years ago it is considered to be the oldest private cloud for the Financial Services industry we have eleven thousand members in our in our cooperative and those members all leveraged with services in different ways many people know swift as a Human Company but in fact we do many things to our members can be corporates they can be Asset Managers they can be brokers they can be banks and they leverage the network for many Different Things including payments treasury transactions securities transactions etc and on top of that we offer Value Added Services things like compliance tools on top of the network also things that help with screening of payments to reduce fraudulent transactions and we also offer consulting and services to our members orders will differ from the traditional. So we are owned by the banks so we are owned by the banks we have a very strong governance structure thats around us but the banks own us and they direct our activities we have a board of directors that is made up of primarily the banks how do is play into what swiss does so from a certain perspective we certainly have done a lot of proof of concepts around want change we started back in twenty sixteen even working on a few of them weve done some research around where as a block chain from a Technology Perspective we set on the technical committees at the Standards Organization level to look at the development as a block chain as a technology but in general weve done proof of concept somewhere evolving those as we go but the idea is from a suite perspective not that law change is always the answer just that it may be a technical solution that is part of the answer and what i mean by that is we always look at what is the business problem youre trying to solve so for example proxy voting is not very efficient business problem and then after that why do we want to solve it and what advantages but certain technologies bring to that and thats how we did everything together how does. To grow a bit forward i think that its really interesting because swift from its its essence is really a Platform Company right its a its a platform of eleven thousand members and from a blocked chain specific perspective we are looking at applications in our own right that we might develop and were also looking at how we might look to work with third party so again back to that proxy voting example what we did was we worked with a Third Party Application provider who looks at everything in the proxy voting chain and does that on a d. L. C. And stems and we looked at how we could bridge our messaging in our a. P. I. And the use of International Standards in that platform to make it most efficient for all of the people involved including the banks and the exchange that were working with in that case how. Can you mitigate the issues where you know i mean what i know of swiss is the controversy so how do you mitigate that with all the. Broad work that you guys are doing i mean obviously theres the iran sanctions issue and i know i dont know whether you can get into better now. But i mean just because what youre saying is this Great Movement within you know a group of banks using the block trade and everything but the problem is is you know the only Media Attention you see in the United States about swift isnt about the actual use of the product but its about the controversy which is very interesting because actually weve been very deeply involved with the Federal Reserve and the u. S. Working with them on their use of International Standards and their next generation payment platform. And weve been very closely linked with a lot of i would think very good developments around Payment Systems in the u. S. But of course thats not the interesting stuff that probably gets in the news but but i would say in general you know we are owned by the banks were directed by the banks and what they want to achieve. I know that as it relates to technology theres been a lot of buzz around swift as well. In the press but i would say as it relates to cross border payments which is really the core of our business there have been comments about swift maybe not being very fast and taking days to make payments that lock chain is the answer certainly in our opinion and in the opinion of our members thats not necessarily the answer because weve been working on payment innovations something called the Global Payments innovation g. P. I. And so i asked which is actually already today doing three hundred billion in payments today across one hundred forty three currencies so a lot of the challenges that have come from a technical perspective toward swift i think the numbers speak for themselves and why do you think that swift. Doesnt think watching is there im not saying we dont think its the answer i think what were saying is we need to look at what is the question so for example if the question is. You know we want to work on trade finance and making this more efficient in markets and it is not efficient today right and how do we make that more efficient. Shame may be and could rightly be the answer for that and what we want to make sure is that whoever is the best of breed block chain provider that comes out of that battle we help to enable them to knit together the trade finance flows with the actual payments that underlie all of that linking that back to our Global Payments innovation so thats what were trying to do is look at what is the question and then lock chain may or may not be the answer from a technical perspective but you have to work through the problem to get there and you have to work you have to be able to fail and ultimately we want to reduce friction take out inefficiencies in the market we want to make sure that whatever is put in place isnt. Inventing the wheel and is also backward compatible into what the banks have today because theres no point putting in place a very wonderful solution if it costs too many millions of dollars to connect. And it creates that friction in the organization so how can we leverage what exists today and make sure that its improving smile. Thats it for this time you can catch on direct t. V. Channel three twenty one dish Network Channel or streaming twenty four seven on pluto t. V. The free t. V. Up channel one thirty two or as always have us up at youtube dot com slash will most r. T. So you next time. After the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective im used to surprising. Or not if you think. Im going to talk about football nazi or else you can think i was going to go. 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