Very good morning to you this is our thing international. Criminal trial into the downing of the mh 17 passenger plane opens on monday almost 6 years after the Malaysian Airlines flight was shot down over ukraine killing all 298 on board a subsequent probe allege that a Missile Launcher which hit the plane was transported from russia the probe has been heavily criticized as biased. Reports from the netherlands. Its a trial its set to last more than a year 3 russians and the ukrainian are accused of helping to bring a book Missile Launch from russia into Eastern Ukraine where it fired the fatal shot that brought down the boeing 777 the 4 suspects are not charged with personally firing the missile the men all deny the charges International Arrest warrants have been issued for them but they wont be here and will be tried in absentia some of those that we expect to be here are 13 secret witnesses whose identities are being protected and thats because dutch prosecutors say they face signifi
Either thanks for joining us this is r. T. International. World oil stocks are taking a heavy hits following the failure of crude producing countries to agree production cuts demand for oil. Says that it will increase its output dont call it is following the story joins me here in the studio a shock for a lot of people i think this how exactly does this come about yeah absolutely neal while the markets are just going way down since mondays opening asias markets have been taking a plunge european and american futures have been in freefall and oil prices have seen their biggest fall since the 1st gulf war in 1901 that was a long time ago. Ok how have we got to this position does it mean were talking about big changes in Global Markets in a lot of areas but but its pretty big in particular new oil yeah absolutely it started with saudi arabia actually its attempts to drastically push down the price of oil to between 6. 00 to 8. 00 a barrel and thats the coronavirus hysteria which like you
My. Other thanks for joining us this is r. T. International. The dutch led criminal trial into the downing of the may 17th passenger plane opens on monday 6 years after the Malaysian Airlines flight was shot down over ukraine killing all 298 on board subsequent probe alleged that a missile which hit the plane was transported from russia the probe has been heavily criticized as biased solitude minsky has more from the netherlands. Its a trial its set to last more than a year 3 russians and the ukrainian are accused of helping to bring a book Missile Launch from russia into Eastern Ukraine where it fired the fatal shot that brought down the boeing 777 the 4 suspects are not charged with personally firing the missile the men all deny the charges International Arrest warrants have been issued for them but they wont be here and will be tried in absentia some of those that we expect to be here are 13 secret witnesses whose identities are being protected and thats because dutch prosecutors sa
For that welcome youre watching international now as World Oil Stocks are taking a heavy hit following the failure of crude producing countries to agree production cuts but as demand for oil fulls saudi arabia says it will increase output on quarter joins me studio next tell us more about what is happening dont know exactly what is happening there why would saudi arabia decide to increase production well in the World Markets are just going way down since mondays opening in the asian markets have taken a serious plunge european and american futures have gone into freefall and oil prices have seen their biggest fall since the 1st gulf war in 1901. And so just explain then we know you know disastrous situation as far as always is concerned today but why is this happening what has led up to this well basically a price war is raging right now between saudi arabia and russia it started over the weekend when riyadh which runs the Worlds Largest oil company cut its export prices to between 6.
We were both at the wall street journal my partner and i for many years, Peter Fritsch, and the News Business went into a downturn in the late 2000s thanks to the internet. It started to evolve into a less fulfilling job for me. I was in my mid40s and i decided what i really, really loved to do in journalism was investigate complex cases and that there was less market for that in the journalism world. The emphasis was on breaking news, and so i decided to try to see if i could do that sort of work in a private capacity, as a consultant. Host what kind of stories did you work on at the wall street journal . Guest i started at coming american politics in washington in the late 1980s, early 1990s, and investigating politicians for possible corruption, writing stories about campaignfinance abuses, ethics in washington and government. Over the years that evolved into different types of Investigative Journalism involving financial crime, fraud, corporate cases like enron, scandals like the s