donald trump signs an executive order allowing the u.s. to impose sanctions on any individual or government that meddles and its elections that also covers anyone spreading what washington deems to be this information. but are put in reveals that russia has identified the man that britain suspects carried out the nerve agent attack on this cripples is nothing special a criminal and even if those are these should be leaders yes they are definitely civilians. russian defense ministry claims militants in syria's adlib province have

filmed a staged chemical attack and selected videos to be sent to the un and circulated online. live from the russian capital this is r t international welcome to the program. the u.s. president has signed an executive order also rising saying sions against any foreign governments or individuals found to have muddled and us elections donald trump says the move will allow for quick forceful and proportionate responses to any external interference he added is that i had of the midterm elections americans can rest assured that the administration is working to counter foreign threats with more on the developments here. in washington but order will authorize sanctions

against the entities charged with election meddling this applies to a companies organizations and individuals now if they impose these sanctions will block assets limit access to the u.s. financial system and ban people from entering the country now in the order trump admitted that no foreign power has ever successfully influence a us election but he signed the order anyway. there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcome of. any united states election foreign powers have historically sort to exploit america's free and open political system now it's also important to note that the order did not specify any country in particular because the director of national intelligence thinks russia china iran and the d.p. r. k. are all trying to influence the midterms but it's also important to point out that the sanctions will also be imposed on anyone accused of spreading propaganda and

this information and the authority to determine who's been meddling has been granted to the director of national intelligence the state department the treasury department homeland security and the justice department with forty five days to do so the government to also has the power to block the property of anyone that's been complicit in foreign interference assisted those complicit in foreign interference or acted on behalf of anyone complicit in foreign interference so with all of these factors considered it's impossible to predict what exactly will happen. to political analysts with spoke to raise concerns about the potential implications of done all trumps executive order. the problem with this is that so brought the propaganda into disapprobation stipulations mean and how you determine that it's really really question. that it really has an impact on the first amendment it really has an impact on freedom of speech and freedom of press and i think it

really really should be determined in a wide open determination interpretation of of who to target and so it really sets a dangerous precedent i think and if anything it undermines the whole wonderful under the whole foundation of our democracy that it still are the behaviors are the prohibited actions are those intended activities spelled out accurately enough and with specificity enough if somebody who is honest a good to a reporter from a country or a whoever wants to read this is that i want to comply with these wolves how do i comport my behavior so that i don't inadvertently stray from this there's got to be tougher tougher with what i say should be tougher with more definitional. letterman putting a revealed on wednesday that moscow has identified the two men suspects as by the

u.k. of poisoning this cripples with a nerve agent back in march the russian leaders speaking out said that the alleged hitmen are civilians and not criminals are. reports this is an absolutely groundbreaking follow up for a lot of my post to you last week statement by british authorities on the suspects in the script al case the russian leader says that moscow now knows for sure who the two men are here is what exactly mr putin said we finished we've seen the pictures we know who they are we found them. hopefully they will turn themselves in and tell everyone about themselves there's nothing special or criminal. are these civilians yes they are definitely civilians last week exactly six months after the attempted murder in salisbury british prosecutors named two

suspects as russian nationals alexander pad and. they also pointed out that these days could have been fake another claim was that the two men were active members of russian intelligence now here's the evidence that london put forward it was basically a summary of the men's movements around the u.k. .

so these comments by the russian president are groundbreaking compared to what we heard from london last week and now i guess once again it is their turn to say something moscow has said that no action has been taken against the suspects because britain has not made a formal request we spoke to alexander russia's representative to the organization for the prosecution of chemical weapons about the case and he told us that this crippled poisoning was a provocation aimed at disrupting the russian presidential election in march. because briefings for the member states of the chemical convention in the quarter so they will place your w. and georgian by very through three actually coming from some to be gay sions it least. they do geisha is capable of. feeling can not so blinded by russian propaganda the statement was

a very put positively and. evaluated. back to march this year russia was hidden for the presidential elections. we have been preparing and we had been preparing for the world cup. and do the russian you do something like these absolutely not the commission is who. didn't need these kind of toronto events then they aren't caesar the. point of the russian federation those who are trying by all means are to do you agree its leadership and actually slap new sanctions on the russian for the origin it was an attempt to influence. the course of the russian presidential elections

told him also war against the background all the claims sold the russian meddling in the american election. there are some military claims that militants and syria's adlib province have staged an film into a chemical attack which they intend to blame on president assad's forces moscow says the fighters will send some of the footage to the united nations and circulate the rest on social media you know neil discussed the allegations with danielle hawkins. so dan the russian defense ministry on shoes they were confident they say that preparations were being made by terrorists and now there appears to be an update on that as well yeah that's right i mean information's been coming in in dribs and drabs over the last twenty four hours the russian reconciliation center for syria part of the russian id have claimed this is a false flag operation by former ells for front recognizes terrorists by washington and moscow according to undeniable information from the russian reconciliation

center for syria on the eleventh of september filming groups of various middle eastern t.v. channels and a regional branch of an american news channel filmed nine stage scenes of alleged chemical weapon used by the syrian army against civilians on all videos the alleged victims are helped by activists of the civil defense the white helmets following the filming on the evening of the same day at a joint meeting between representatives of the white helmets and terrorists from higher sham out of the nine videos on the two were proved to be sent to the us and the o.p.c. w. the rest of the material was suggested for social media because of low quality. the incident according to them will take place quite close to college so cool remember the incident there led the first strike on syria by donald trump. is the village the residential area where the storage point allegedly is for these chemicals and this is where the filming took place just slightly to the south east of the dallas

moscow's claims are finally give us a sense of the type of consequences we could be looking at here well the consequences will be serious all of the way of course moscow has a very potent position to that of the united states moscow has said damascus does not possess chemical weapons they say that even if that was the case they would be no logic in assad using chemical weapons and drawing the wrath of the u.s. and its allies in a military strike ability intervention this is of course led to clashes between envoys at the u.n. security council yacob but it also is claimed the president bashar al assad gave the order to use chlorine to syria north or it is not going to do that they do not have chemical weapons i ask you again to listen to us it would not make sense for damascus to use chemical weapons because it does not have any political or military reasons to do that let's not waste time with the december mation distractions and

outright lie what is clear though is the u.s. position they've been two minds about this if there is an allegation of chemical weapons use suspicion of chemical weapons use number one it will be attributed to the damascus government and number two the repercussions will be clear and strong just so there's no confusion here if the syrian regime uses chemical weapons we will respond very strongly we have all seen what the syrian regime backed by the russian government has done in the past that should not be a surprise to anyone that that would be a concern of ours once again done if a chemical attack does happen is the west unified. in terms of an immediate response against the assad government give us a sense of what we're looking at here or i think the wall is unified in condemning any chemical use on either side here what we're talking about is how to respond as you just mentioned to allegations of a chemical weapon attack position is clearly that it should be thoroughly

investigated independently verified and blame attributed before there's any sort of military strikes or military intervention blame attributed before there's any sort of military strikes or military intervention the u.s. with some of its allies views that actions should be taken much quicker although that opinion isn't necessarily something unified. western powers that they can listen to and that the minister of state will give us to assure answers today first that if there are any reports of chemical weapons attack particularly in the areas of italy controlled by h.t.s. that the government will not take part in any military action in response until the you have visited sites under the protection of the turkish government independently verifying those reports and distributed responsibility for any chemical weapons used relying on so-called open source intelligence provided by prescribed terrorist groups is not an acceptable whatever happens with this story with these allegations it's very clear one thing here that any allegations any threats or any suspicion of

chemical weapons use could be the spark that causes these military tensions and it's clear the situation that it is very tense right now the does cause why the action here that is the concern here certainly by the russian minister of defense the pentagon has responded to moscow saying there is no add ins to support russia's claims about the white house and that's doubled down on its support for the group saying washington sees the first responders as heroes journalist my granny told us that the west will attribute blame for any chemical attack an adlib to the syrian government regardless of the circumstances. but only to wait for evidence they don't need it we need to wait for an investigation is surely don't need to wait for o.p.c. w. or any other agency to apportion blame they're already blaming the syrian government they're already saying that president assad has authorized the chemical weapons strike so that you know the strike at the lead strike hasn't even happened but blame has already been apportioned so you know what more can we say apart from

there it looks like very likely there's going to be a big strike and this could lead to obviously this could lead to a conflict with russia and what were three or the final world wars we should be calling they're not addressing the syrian arab army they're not even addressing the syrian government of president assad they're addressing the al-qaeda proxy armies al qaeda affiliates in italy and effectively what they're saying is the hotline is open you can call it your own airstrike all you need do is provide a pretext however lame the pretext maybe give us something we can sell to our publics back home and we'll have the cruise missiles in the air so that's the message the message is directly to al qaeda and its affiliates in italy. the e.u. is hitting one of the stone member a sweat disciplinary action and the european parliament has voted ten favor of triggering article seven which could see hungary sanctioned if you were a pin needers all agree to the measures and follows the hank aaron prime minister

viktor orban being criticized within the block for breaching european values over the migrant crisis this is certainly one of the strongest weapons in the arsenal for the e.u. to deal with an errant member of its own group what it's more like it's really like opening one big box and finding a series of other boxes inside essentially where we are right now with article seven point one for this to move any further well it would require either one third of e.u. member states all the e.u. commission to say they want to push ahead with the measures against hungry. hungry would be given a chance to defend themselves to put forward their own case and then this. go back to another vote in the european parliament that would require a two so majority vote then that would go to the european council where it would have a unanimous vote you still with me right this is still seven point two for it to actually go through and we to see sanctions in the. suspension of voting rights put

in place a pawn hungry it would have to go to seven point three that requires another vote by the european council and that has to go through by a vote of over fifty five percent essentially what's happened on wednesday in strasburg is this is the the official written warning to hungry from it's a you colleague saying that in their eyes they need to book up its ideas they've tried talking to hungary in the past and they haven't as far as they're concerned received adequate and says to serious questions that were posed in parliament on tuesday sadly the commission shares the concerns expressed in the report in particular as regards fundamental rights corruption the treatment of roma and the independence of the judiciary individuals into government and rich themselves their family members staff rents from public funding from utopian taxpayers' money that's alexian is this then you would not close our eyes to the problems in handling the

elections this year and were held in an atmosphere of aggression and intimidation and that the reason i went through the complicated methods of where we were heading next is because a lot of where we had next depends on hungary and specifically on a victor or now he was in parliament in strasburg on tuesday heard all of the allegations against him and against his government he was bullish in his response in fact he said he didn't recognise the charges and he thought that the fact that they were being in bring brought against hungary in the first place was an insult to hungary in history and the hungarian people from what you know you have already made up your mind. you think you know better then durrance themselves i stand here to defend my country and this is a matter of honor this insults the owner of hungary this uses double standards and violates the treaty it says a halt with thing differently by the essence and purpose of the family and we do

indoors ready clee different views and migration these differences cannot be a reason to brand any other countries and freed to be excluded for joint decisions we would never go with for a silencing those who do not agree with us you want to make a moral decision based on numbers the nation be damned. well reaction to the photos being coming in from the l d a group in the european parliament they said they were glad to see that this had been passed the greens also saying that they were glad that it gone through those on the side with mr obama well you could always rely on nigel fairish the leader of the european freedom and direct democracy greenpeace long been a supporter of mr obama he said that this vote showed the. area and grip of the european union was getting tighter but ultimately what this means is hungry officially joins poland on the naughty list of nations expect to be talking about them for

a little while yet. behind daring government has already reacted to the vote denouncing it as a fraud and their revenge of prop migrant politicians and about and you're an a-list lucre vent told us certain political forces believe this is their last chance to stop the advance of populism in europe. the left is furious israeli aggressive to an incredible point as well as the liberals the globalists because they know it is their last chance to obtain that populist sop punished somehow while the list grows longer you have the austrians you have the italians it didn't work it won't work and all day do is fit to mind old bon bon will be reelected certainly one time comes with a big majority because he's a victim of europe the worst that europe can produce we heard yesterday and today today it was less important vote happened and that was it but the report produced

by mrs sargent t.t.u. was a green party activists from all and is is really a piece of work and it's really incredibly aggressive in its content and she didn't even go to hungary to make this report this bullying will go nowhere you know article seven will never be applied italy austria poland will refuse of course that this be applied at council level if not at the parliament level so they are afraid of the next parliament after the may elections that's the thing. meanwhile graham has delivered his final state of the union speech has previously announced he won't seek another term as european commission president a successor is slated to be appointed and may next year and his address summarized the results of his tenure well we'll put something together to. the mutuals this is the last chance commission either we will succeed in bringing

our citizens closer to europe or we will file. member european commission's papers migration is the medicine for certain problems for us it's poison me that. i will expose myself in front slowly but surely english issues in. doing so now we will also impose import tariffs this is basically a stupid process. i

have a little black book called le petit maurice with for the past thirty years i have noted when someone has betrayed me. is this the beginning of the advice of the european union. the financial times has revealed that the owners of the pharmaceutical giant that makes the r.p.i. oxycontin also own a second company that produces an identical genetic version of the addictive pain relief truck the finding means that produce pharma which belongs to the billionaire sack her family accounts for roughly six percent of the u.s. market far more than previously thought are the country is currently experiencing

and crisis which is estimated to claim over one hundred fifteen lives each day and at the moment purdue pharma is fighting lawsuits alleging and fueled the problem by marketing oxycontin in a misleading way downplaying the risk of addiction and exaggerating its benefits one of the suits is being brought by colorado's attorney general who says that the firm has played a significant role in causing the epidemic the next video contains testimony from a patient who used oxycontin and. this new pain medication i have not missed one day of work in my boss really appreciate more in the every day. it stopped working and all that increased i think it was forty in the morning and forty in the evening i mean will to be very productive productive. person again which is really very. last minute surance it was the beginning of the year. because i could no longer

afford it but the time that i went without it was probably the most. unbelievable excruciating horrible time of my life the withdrawals would just. be legal. in response to the accusations purview pharma says that the state of colorado's judgment can be substituted for that of scientific and medical experts the food and drug administration has also voiced concern over the crisis now the control of a c c rounding the firm doesn't end there though. its owners were recently granted to paint tents for a new drug that could help treat addiction to oxycontin and that's led to a may need to question why a produce farm is being allowed to profit from a crisis that's claimed to have contributed to well we spoke to on the lam cam professor of psychiatry at stanford university about the epidemic and how it's grown so. there's no doubt in my mind that big pharma some of the

responsibility for our current opioid crisis they were very active in the one nine hundred eighty s. and one nine hundred ninety s. in the early oughts to advertise opioids those both directly to consumers and to prescribe. in their marketing they minimized the risks of opioids in particular the addictive potential and they maximize the benefits in truth there's no evidence that opioids work for chronic pain long term and i don't believe manufacturers heavily marketed their used to prescribe and patients in the treatment of chronic pain which i think has directly contributed to the opioid crisis we're facing today so this six shows that deaths from pain killers have been steadily increasing in the u.s. in recent years killing tens of thousands to see all of the washington pain center john dombrowski sass off need to be prescribed with great care. each patient

there were saying no that's the reason why the longevity of people united states has gone down for the sucker third year in a row it's because the opiate crisis it really is devastating young men in their night in their twenty's if a patient is does have an addiction they can get treated the patients going to the hospital for acute pain we know is anesthesiologists what to do differently now and more importantly if you do have chronic pain we now know that these medications are relatively controversial doesn't mean you can't use them but we need to use them with greater caution we're learning how to educate physicians on how to treat pain outside of narcotic based therapy which is really important so we don't create new addicts you're watching our hunter national we'll be back with the latest right at the top of the alaric.

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