On this week’s Big Picture, RT’s Holland Cooke talks to University of Calgary Professor Rob Huebert and former Pentagon official Michael Maloof about increasing US-Russia military competition in the Arctic. For some millennials, the climate change clock ticks louder than the biological one. Cooke asks psychotherapists Mark Rutherford and Nancy Colier about the new generation’s desire to fix the planet and their decision not to bring any new human beings into this troubled world.

Huawei’s turbulent fortunes will soon take a turn as the West edges closer to a decision on the fate of the company’s CFO. Alex Mihailovich is in Canada and will bring us the latest on the trial and the moves facing the battle-tested telecom giant. Plus, a plague is facing pork markets, and it could be prevalent for years to come. Fred Kaufman, author of ‘Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food’, is on hand to give his outlook. Finally, tech giants are wading into the crypto space as the technology becomes more and more mainstream. Cryptocurrency analyst Ben Swann lends us a hand to see if companies like Facebook will boom or bust in the digital payments sector.

Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple could face new antitrust investigations. Dodgeball may be a tool of oppression, according to some shady sources. The American Psychological Association is forcing the industry to check their sexism. We’ve reached the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote.

While Huawei has come under fire from Western nations, it has found open arms in the Russian Federation. RT correspondent Ilya Petrenko is on the ground in St. Petersburg at the economic forum where Presidents Xi and Putin will convene. And while China is facing pressure from the US, there is more bad news on the economic front as a plague of major proportions is taking its toll on swine stock. RT correspondent Alex Mihailovich takes a look at what’s in store for hog populations the world over. And finally, the US has Cuba in its crosshairs yet again, and the economic pain is being felt 90 miles to the north. John Kavulich of the US-China Trade and Economic Council lends us a hand to see how cruise stocks are faring in the choppy economic waters.

Russia-China trade cooperation is booming – believed to be at its highest-ever. Have tensions with Washington pushed both Moscow and Beijing into each other’s arms and will it help to fully sideline the effects of US sanctions? We talked about all that and more with China’s ambassador to Russia Li Hui.

Natalie McGill interviews Marilynn Winn, executive director and co-founder of Women on the Rise, an Atlanta-based grassroots organization aimed at creating better lives for women who have been impacted by the criminal justice system. Naomi Karavani sits down with Jordan Chariton, the founder of the independent news group Status Coup. Chariton was one of the first and most prolific journalists reporting on the Flint Water Crisis.

Filmmaker Matthew Cooke explores Congress' antitrust investigation of Silicon Valley. And, political experts weigh in on Donald Trump's pledged tariff war against Mexico.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are making moves today before the St. Petersburg Economic Forum in the wake of US economic pressure. RT correspondent Alex Mihailovich helps us analyze what this means for the world economy going forward. The meeting comes as China faces the threat of an economic slowdown; Professor Richard Wolff is on hand to analyze the latest risks facing the world’s second-largest economy. And later, with a shaky bridge ahead for global markets, central banks are beginning to ramp up the hoarding of gold. Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific helps us dig into why nations are stockpiling the precious metal.

The Alex Salmond Show begins a two-part investigation into the politics of protest over the years….contrasting this week’s demonstrations against President’s Trump’s state visit with the Rock Against Racism campaign of the late 1970s.

Alex interviews Trump protest organizers Shabbir Lakha and Red Saunders, who inaugurated the legendary music industry protests.

Trial Lawyer magazine editor Farron Cousins and RT correspondent Michele Greenstein break down UN torture expert Nils Melzer’s assessment that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange displays the classic signs of psychological torture. Investigative journalist Ben Swann walks us through the two-sided firestorm that has enveloped today’s media landscape. Legal journalist Mollye Barrows dives into Google’s hiring of vastly more temp workers than full-time employees, and how this practice is pervasive in Silicon Valley.