but the people they trust the most. they come. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. you're back with international aid death row prisoners request to be executed by the electric chair rather than lethal injection has been denied by the u.s. state of tennessee and windsor gorski is no appealing to the supreme court faced with the choice of two unconstitutional methods suffix accused misters of course he has indicated that if his exit is to move forward he believes that the electric chair is the lesser of two evils ten to eighteen minutes drawing suffocation and chemical burning is unspeakable. well we know that's of course he was convicted in one thousand and three of murdering two men who had been expecting to buy around fifty kilos of cannabis from him he shot them cut their throats before stealing their money truck in tennessee lethal injection is the primary method of execution for death row inmates but if their crime was committed before nine hundred ninety nine touch

universities by what amounts to spies and foreign agents alex mahela that joins us to discuss all of that directly ahead but first we had some headlines go. u.s. consumer confidence is that its highest level since the year two thousand the consumer confidence index or c.c.i. measures consumers' assessment of the present economic conditions in the united states and has increased from one hundred thirty five point three percent in september to one hundred thirty seven point nine percent in october even though it was one day left while some stock market traders and others are questioning the u.s. economic future based upon the c.c.i. consumers expect the economic growth to continue through at least the end of this year consumer spirits may be based upon that low unemployment rate we've spoken about before which currently stands at three point seven percent again that's the lowest u.s. one employment rate since one thousand nine hundred sixty nine. and others maybe question the u.s. economic future as large credit card issuers capital one and discover are each tightening their lending criteri

i'm here with morris r.t. correspondent alex the hell of it you joins us from toronto alex we've seen a lot of people pull out of these so-called davos in the desert this financial conference taking place in riyadh saudi arabia due to the circumstances surrounding the turkish shogi there are some really big names here both people and businesses that have or were looking to have business and economic relations with saudi arabia even with billions of dollars at stake it looks like many people are picking principles above profits what do you make of it alex. well guards at the see that an alleged dismemberment of a journalist is what it takes for people to start focusing on what saudi arabia is doing in this world the famine and the genocide in yemen doesn't seem to be enough or we can even go back to nine eleven but it seems that maybe the governments aren't looking at this hard enough but some companies are and they are pulling out of this conference which is very important to the future of saudi arabia and i'm going to give you a pretty long list here of companies that are pullin

up and i'll be back at the top of the hour with more updates but right now it's the alex simon show. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. crossing the most hostile to the world a simple they want to become lost and i won the last post on this but many of them look for refuge in the so called sentries sides of the draft used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities the best person asked bank of mom. mostly to point out how they are the best on the government on class and they want that. they can't water their options to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house all over political rivals. also be hard to see who can be bribed to do the job of the old affairs it struggles of many couples won't pull sorry the political political sp

brains to work in an air. to protect themselves and the environment alex mohyeldin joins us from toronto and tyson slocum and steve malzberg help us take a look at once a deeply divisive issue and increasingly dire circumstances as we go to break here the numbers at the closing bell back into play. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. seemed wrong. but all roles just don't call. me cold but he's yet to shape out these days comes to an answer. and in detroit equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground . on the what are. your total. or not he didn't. owe you ought to go to. move for you. don't have faith in this government official a president i don't have faith in the system i say i've got it so i'm just a broken system so that's a sign for people like. me as well it's very. difficult for different reasons but also john we also hope. those people in philadelphia are only a ballot two paychecks away from hom

alex salmond show and to our latest programme on how bracks that is overshadowing the party conference season last week labor seem to shift towards of people's vote while this week the tories split between talese amazed checkers minus and bought us johnson's kind of the plus consider then the s.n.p. who have not one but two referenda to grapple with whether to support another one in europe while promoting another one of scottish independence all of this while support for the independence of maine's a very high level and crucially the activist base as measured by the time note rallies seems much more mobilized even than twenty fourteen today we asked some of the key players how the s.n.p. should approach breaks it either as an opportunity to promote independence or as an economic disaster to be avoided at all costs fausto but that this mena if you tweet should emails and your messages. now we've had a great if not in some cases surprised response to alex's interview with it being a copy last week although granny says i've just caught up with this episode and have to say that i've amazed

putting their money and brains to work in an air. to protect themselves and the environment alex while this joins us from toronto and tyson slocum and steve malzberg help us take a look at once a deeply divisive issue and increasingly dire circumstances as we go to break here the numbers at the closing bell back into play. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. you know world is a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the flame and merry go round be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. to my room. i don't have faith in this government offici

likely in this case they can't proceed with their mission. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to the world of politics sport i'm sure i'll see you then. it's easier to find an enemy where there are far to. much more difficulties explaining all things are once you start telling people look you my hate the banks where do you put your money. you put them in the bank and what happens if the bank goes under your money anymore these kind of reasonings will be much more careful to make people understand every year old dynamics that is why people locked on consequences of prices the last post nobody wants to. come back to the program has reacted to calls for washington to punish saudi arabia over its suspected murder of a journalist by saying he won't take any actions that hurt the u.s. economy in an interview with fox news the president stressed that he will not and to riyadh as many lawmakers have been demanding. we have a country that is doing probably better economically that it's never done before a part of that is what we're doing with our defense systems an

thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. welcome back in an unprecedented move eighteen central banks have warned about the financial risks from climate change the banks ranging from england to germany and france to japan and china say the risk our system of system wide and could be irreversible if not addressed the united states federal reserve is not one of the central banks and related to that news the bank of england today is requiring banks to not only improve planning related to climate change but to assign a senior executive as the point person on climate change issues according to the bank of england only about ten percent of banks are taking the needed precautions and have scant a scant four year time horizon on the future the information was gathered from a bank of england survey of banks according to be o. officials need more to be done to assess lending practices to high carbon related projects such as those dealing with coal and to assess risk associated with lending and

in the global trade system artie's alex a hell of it isn't around to where he's been following the meeting alex is just remarkable to me i mean the meeting is taking place there and the u.s. and canada are not part of it may want to keep the kids out of the same playground or what's going on give us the latest ok there is a part of it i know that was just a little bit of a slip china in the u.s. are not at all right thanks. canada has to be here since it's in kid it is just a week we couldn't avoid the thing but listen these are the countries are going to give you a rundown of the countries that are attending we have thirteen here is australia brazil canada show. they european union japan kenya south korea mexico new zealand norway singapore and switzerland as you can see that's a pretty diverse group of countries coming from different parts of the world with very different economic backgrounds so even something like kenya is playing the same game as singapore and japan so there's good reason for this they wanted a diverse group of countries together but that are like thinking coun

martin had an welcome to the alex savin show so tell me a bit about the march of the been happening up and then the country under the banner all under one banner way to beat and how many people have been attending them it's been going for a couple of years no sense yet that this phenomenon that's taken off what started in me and go article when round about somewhere between thirty five and sixty thousand people marched through the city and they took everybody by surprise including you organizers nor gave you always so many people with some note for that march and rally and it was an incredible success and it's carried on from there. the original idea was to go around the country so for them to have been said don't be so but of a ten thousand people in that tiny town which actually is. able to snore in that effort and that's been quite surprised to have such a large number and that part of the country absolutely but a lot of people traveled there and. there was also local people involved and then it carried on to. two. other than yourself in spelling and by mass. sunday sixteen thousand

alex joins us from toronto with more alex thank you for being here oh how is the railroad business of doing here and you know generally in north america. has turned to warren buffett you know that guy likes putting money into railways obviously the guy knows what he's doing if you look at something out just like canadian pacific railway ltd here in canada they have record profits for the first time one hundred thirty seven years or seem like the highest profits ever and if you really break it down these are q three earnings that we're talking about they're up with the september's number show earning around six hundred twenty two. million that's up from five hundred ten million the year before and if you're looking at adjusted earnings it's up forty two percent that's a huge jump beating what all analysts thought was going to happen now there's reasons for this and one of the big reasons is pipelines so as you know canada has rejected some pipeline projects that means that crude has to move by rail so when it moves by rail we were looking about twenty three thousand containers or ca

flash. joining me everything on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. ran. the float the best out of the jewels. to have to hide says it's a pain to perform i actually prepare myself to. heed what to say trust me. as most of. the snow in the home will stop her. scanty was. she had the goods. so. what. was it you could with us to. yes get more here to depreciate. education. toilet b.s. good. job. with this manufacture come sentenced to public will. when the ruling classes some protect themselves. the claim is larry go read this and be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. to move the real news. come. welcome back to players in the field of crypto currency is an online payment say they are partnering to push a new so-called stable coin option coin best said they will partner with online payment platform circle to list a u.s. dollar coin or u.s. d.c. on their online exchange based calls us d.c. a stable coin said by boosters to be different in key respects from other crypto is bec

environment alex mohyeldin joins us from toronto and tyson slocum and steve moberg help us take a look at once a deeply divisive issue and increasingly dire circumstances as we go to break here the numbers at the closing bell back in a play. seem wrong. to me. yet to stamp out these days because that's ok and in detroit because the trail. went something to find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground . in a world with big partners. and conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for washing clothes for watching the hawks. obama codified the worst honesty's of wall street institutionalized the kleptocracy the blind eye to the excesses of the really those. the raps on on on financed in america are still fraying with impunity and this is draining the swamp unfortunately i must say that it does mean that interest r

and we're delighted to be joined by alex neil member of the scottish parliament for air jean shorts he voted for bricks in the twenty six thousand referendum on the u.k.'s membership of the i mean you still think the spade voted for bracks the european issue in this broadest sense is a big opportunity to push forward the independents because absolutely we saw in the last referendum in independence how the european union in particular the present but also actually used the power in the influence of the european union and to do during the who exactly the who gives for a scottish independence if you have brakes you do it how flood of seen in catalonia as well just what the real attitude is of the e.u. leadership towards any country within a steed wanting independence i mean the we in which they backed up the spanish government for its illegally devotee i think is not to do doormen for the e.u. been particularly prue independence or even staying neutral so your policy would be pro after the european three trade association will go to see the final deal to see what the options are but ce

nomics we bring in the c.e.o. of marco report which would argue correspondent alex by hail a bitch welcome to you both alex let's start with you in the western hemisphere and how are the big donald's restaurants looking in this part of the world are going to have more of a logical approach than when we. we're talking about business here like in north america mcdonald's has been in trouble for years or talk about the millennial basically here just turning their backs towards mcdonald's so you see those companies changing constantly changing up its menu moving towards a more mcafee type of idea here in canada you know there's a are there tim hortons chain and and mcdonald's have been going head to head selling coffee and mcdonald's has come out on top on a number of occasions being the biggest provider of coffee and then tim horton's back and forth tim hortons is a sort of a canadian institution hard to really knock out of the ballpark when you've got coffee and you're going against them but you know what's interesting though is if you look at this whole hemisphere is what does big d

you should listen to the membership on this basis the biggest cohort if you will now alex in any election over nonvoters and for me i think our route back to power is to immobilize those votes is give them a reason to vote hopefully inspire them to support the labor party and my worry is that if we start talking about second referendum many of those people in that cohort would be deterred a thing and i think it would be perceived as a betrayal of the of the decision that was taken into. the sixteen in that referendum will be as close as it was. the whole conference and they did the labor party as a whole and probably every member of parliament for the labor party is trying to get a general election but you and i both know that the procedures in the house of commons know make securing a general election extremely difficult it's not just a question of the conference anymore you have to get two thousand was your idea of all the. above possibly the general election under these circumstances some speculation even from within the conservative party that if the tories can't reach an agr

russia we also have alex christopher oh he's the director and writer for the duran dot com and we have dimitri bob and he is a political analyst with sputnik international all right german crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated. the purge his com long expected what do you think of the extent of it is this the beginning because we had alex jones was the was the tipping point now the role model doing this was a trial balloon alex jones himself said it's that they're going to come after everybody once they're done with me and they wipe them off the internet map and now they've come after at the media they went after the freethought project it's important to point out these are not just conservative sites these are also progressive sites and it's up to three weeks before the midterms so there's no way i would say because you brought that up because one could make the argument that facebook is injecting itself into the political process here because they're saying they're required to protect the political process from these quote unquo

its bloody cycle. i. welcome into the alex savage you to these are majors not tougher problems to seek building support for bricks and strategy in the house of commons last week we explained why the unsolved irish border problem has left her with eye to majority elect a chamber for anything resembling her checkers plan today we examine whether dining street's position is about it's become picketed further by a legal challenge from scotland and from that traditional any of bricks it in the house of lords but first your tweets your messages and your e-mails we hear from yearly he says alex salmond interviews and analysis are the more serious political objective insights in the brics it process thank you ali michael says the tories threatened to scotland voted yes on independence that would be a hard border between scotland and england yet they're fighting desperately to have no border between northern islands and republic of ireland makes says a peg such as are so confident that the u.k. population is behind them why are they so afraid of a second referendum on e.u. membership inter

tease alex mahela bichon toronto alex is so good to see you back i know you're on assignment and we're glad to have you with us you know climate change isn't just an issue for a scientist an environmentalist and more it's really starting to impact the financial sector and and these folks care about bottom line so it seems to me that's like a natural place to do cost benefit analysis that's what they're doing right. well bart great to be back and yes that's exactly what they're doing but we have to start with the scientists when we're talking about climate change and of course one of the most trustworthy sources that i could possibly imagine would be something like nasa now check out this chart it gives us a bit of a coverage of the basically what is happening here at nasa says it is extremely likely that current warming trends that means extremely likely meaning to the ninety fifth and above percentile that is a result of human activity and you look at this chart of basically shows that the dramatic c o two rise just in the past decade or so and they're saying that it's unprecede

don't know if i can give you the people's vote but i certainly can present it with the alex salmond quick for appearing on the show really also thank you very much very much thank you piers you know the drill incidentally pushkin the. if all of the sceptic of course i know it was really an irish whiskey in the sky. has joined us in a few minutes for a closer look at the lineup for vital votes in both houses of parliament this autumn can the prime minister pull off an unlikely breaks a triumph over the front that there's no enthusiasm for czechs proposal finally proof hard on doing. the ability to keep inflation jamie in the bottle is about bringing so we see prices going up across the board while it's just one of them we see interest rates rising at some slicing we see the dollar eventually cracking and have a catastrophic collapse that's usually inflationary so prices across the board go up that makes that russia saudi arabia venezuela. their oil based economies they all benefit wildly from this emerging market takes a benefit of this then oil and gold gold started to perk up again

alex spoke to him from edinburgh kenny welcome back to the alexander i'm sure oh thank you pleasure my bike but this case that's been to the court a session and there's no been saying to the luxembourg court of justice this could be a really big deal could you explain it to us. well it's almost unprecedented were fired dickey says it had been sent by the scottish court to luxembourg for clarification minimum unit pricing on alcohol was one and there's been other things but i write my brains i can't think of anything that wasn't restricted to the scottish to distraction and it's something we are scotland's going to be pivotal for the whole of the u.k. so it's a fast track procedure that will clarify the law in scotland but the law in scotland will have application across the whole of the u.k. now as i understand that the six parliamentarians from the european parliament the scottish parliament and crucially the westminster parliament to form or join a charity the the s.n.p. spokesperson who have taking this case on a cross party basis and that's about the eleven billeted of article fift

disappearance a potential murder of washington post journalist him off the show the party's alex my halal bitch is standing by i will give you the latest plus we speak about markets all the time and give you our weekly market wrap up well today we take a little different look at how to diversify and cushion your investments as some say a bear market is either here or around the corner brian livingston the author of muscular portfolios joins us for that discussion and even you leaders have just finished meeting with british prime minister theresa may regarding rex that look at the latest developments with the c.e.o. of throw mark hilary forward to our breakfast expert plus later the biggest selling drug in the world will become less expensive all over europe as a patent expires but will others outside of the e.u. see similar benefits molly farrow is a contributor on american morning will tell. us the details all that directly ahead but first we had some headlines go. major news in the energy sector leads our global report today as general electric has taken a big bite out of a fifteen bill

the extent of it is this the beginning because we had alex jones was the was the tip the tipping point now the rolls around and alex jones was a trial balloon alex jones have self said it's that they're going to come after everybody once they're done with me and they wipe them off the internet map and now they've come after at the media they went after the freethought park project it's important to point out these are not just conservative sites these are also progressive sites and it's up to three weeks before the midterms so there's no coincidence that you brought that up because one could make the argument that facebook is injecting itself into the political process here because they're saying they're required to protect the political process from these three quote unquote fringes but they are the ones that are meddling it's also important to point out that it's not just facebook twitter also suspended the account so there is obvious collusion between the two companies so i mean what you have here is facebook in my opinion has put the final nail in their coffin we could look a

in a commons fought with the liberals already in the bag alex asked might goes where they have any chance against rex it how much heart be taken from the party's conference this towards a people's vote goes forward welcome to the excitement sure if the rector of l.h.'s against bricks but also of scientists for the other place where the shoes of the scientific community and the health community which mobilised your agaves bricks absolutely ninety percent of u.k. scientists were for remain in the reason is very clear where internationalists and the e.u. has been our team and the money that we co-investors with the other e.u. countries as well as the policies and regulations of all allowed us extra value for money then we get just a domestic investment so the e.u. is out competing the us at the moment for science because we operate as a team and that has been vital for the u.k. and the health service and the health service we are already seeing strain on our n.h.s. from bragg's it so because of the staffing issues caused by. the government not guaranteeing e.u. citizens rights we're a

and the resurgence of russia we also have alex christopher oh he's the director and writer for the duran dot com and we have dimitri bob and he is a political analyst with sputnik international. rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated. the purge his com long expected what do you think of the extent of it is this the beginning because we had alex jones was the was the tip of the tipping point now there. was a trial balloon alex jones have self said it's that they're going to come after everybody once they're done with me and they wipe them off the internet map and now they've come after at the media they went after the free. project it's important to point out these are not just conservative sites these are also progressive sites and it's up to three weeks before the midterms so there's no coincidence that you brought that up because one could make the argument that facebook is injecting itself into the political process here because they're saying they're required to protect the political process from these quote unquote fringes but they

some of it troubling alex mile of it just standing by to discuss and there are new consumer credit just announced today molly barrows will join us to talk it over plus a massive food recall spread kaufman's for a bet the farm will discuss the very latest and his take on what it means to all of us and well cryptocurrency seem to be multiplying like rabbits how do financial regulators look at it look at the new players around the world will be joined by new york walk professor ron schiller will tell us and later the car coach is back to talk chrysler earnings missions and a way to avoid voiding your warranty lots on our plate let's go. we start with markets and volatility seems to be the name of the tune in china which saw the largest one day gain in the shanghai and shuns and composite index since november of two thousand and fifteen but the progress slowed some yesterday hong kong's hang seng also rose but is now down from last week as are other asian markets including the japanese nikkei and down under down under a sex in australia and sensex in india both down since last week the same

dublin or in the european parliament. fifty earlier this year to alex so you think we don't need a limit don't know what explains their stance an abstention isn't with mr another push to ireland in europe it's a new leadership in fear and when you look at the the strong influence the decisive position of the democratic universal formula one hundred full of m.p.'s not having the house of commons you take to reverse the abstentions policy maker for the into the past westminster and upset the apple cart no we don't take our seats we continue in that tradition because for us irish political decisions are to be made rightfully in our land for irish people thirty years of troubles twenty years of peace but of course a breakthrough process which some people believe is a fundamental danger to the peace process how do you evaluate the braggs is the good friday agreement are mutually incompatible you cannot have brags that you cannot have a forcing of the north of ireland i was of the european union on the one hand and still claim to honor in word and spares and last are the good friday agre

getting signs that something was wrong because i'm not alex a chain in and astronaut nick cage had to make an emergency landing emergency services arrived at the scene within ninety minutes of their landing for something that hasn't happened in over thirty years it's really a miracle that these two came out on injured and alive donald corridor r.t. baikonur alexy option is forty seven years old and holds the rank of reserve lieutenant colonel in the russian air force his flight was supposed to have been his second journey to space his american colleague forty three year old nick haig is a colonel in the u.s. air force and his case it was to have been his maiden flight. now of course when you've got more than a half a million pounds of burning rocket fuel behind you in a booster that's going faulty you need to get away and get away fast experts and astronauts are applauding be a scape system that propelled the path to safety. thank you thank you but of course i want to thank the rescuers and those who designed these keep systems thanks to them but our guys came back to earth safely it'

alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. let's face it was government official of president i don't have faith in the system . i've got it's over i'm too liberal the system designed for people like me. as well as they. do for the people who are here for different reasons but also job we also hold. most people in philadelphia are only a ballot two paychecks away from homelessness. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president and sure. want to. have to go on to be cross this is what the four three in the morning can people that i'm interested always in the waters of the house. first city hall. who cannot operate as united nations this is not just about you n.d.p. world health organization and in fact other international organizations like the international committee of the red cross you cannot work in a place like gaza with pragmatic cooperation with the locals all refuse which are hamas in this case here on or has been f

helmets joins us from toronto with the latest alex thanks again for being with us as always productivity it's important to all of us right six businesses countries but the big picture begon goes beyond just businesses to society as a whole right. yeah it seems to do something with mentality and in a lot of different levels i mean if you look at countries and when you think of. your goal is to think of something like japan and germany they got things right and they look beyond machinery they look beyond streamlining we know japan way back when i did my m.b.a. i mean you hear about the total production system all the time a t.p.s. and you know these efficient systems the just in time system of how to push things through but they see things that a different way and that's what makes them productive beyond that and that comes down to skill sets amongst people what we're seeing is some huge disparities when it comes to skill sets and some areas in this world which should be on high alert they say by two thousand and twenty five the u.k. will be one third less productive than germ

after this short break. join me every first week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or. i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so you want to be present. to the right to be approached this is like them before. the more people. interested in the why. they should. trump takes to the telephone russia and china listen and learn that's the headline grabbing story by the new york times sizing anonymous officials the article claims chinese and russian spies apparently top donald trump's i phone which he still uses the shots old friends they hope to obtain information to use against him but all those named in the story have knocked the allegations medina question over explains . the new york times has published an article that has been raising plenty of eyebrows but the article says that the u.s. president's aides have repeated warned the president that his cell phone calls are not secure but still donald trump refuses to give up his phones while of the u.s. president donald trump decid