that. confronted with. was one of the richest companies certainly and now it's one of the poorest countries of the was what did he say company not country did a slip of the tongue expose president trump's real thoughts on venezuela we asked it's coming up this hour. the ship hijacked by migrants rescued from the mediterranean arrives in malta today more than one hundred refugees are on board including children. they are not castaways they are pirates expensive and online campaign demands a u.s. drug maker returns billions of dollars that allegedly overcharged.

moscow for a good afternoon for me kevin owen it's the twenty eighth of march one of the afternoon first in this thirty minute update crisis stricken starving and under a brutal rule venezuela has been destroyed in many ways by the western media of late isn't it but next time he goes down off explains there's a new label being pinned on the south american country to president trump. you can take a man out of business but you can't take business out of the man apparently u.s. president donald trump is living proof of that he's been tailoring this image of corporate sharks for decades and is now taking the approach to politics the potential of venezuela. don't properly and with with democracy it would be

incredible it was one of the richest companies certainly and now it's one of the poorest countries of the world a slip of the tongue for sure but could it be a fraud and one well he seems to have appointed venezuela's new c.e.o. a long time ago i mean what else could one y. do be in this i mean as an owner trump would want a man he can trust running this venture it has been an expensive one and the u.s. plans to invest more into it. the budget also would continue democracy assistance for venezuela and includes new flexibility to provide additional funds to support a democratic transition or respond to the crisis there including up to five hundred million dollars in transfer authority to support programs managed by the state department and usaid venezuela has proven to be an important asset for trump for sure but after all it's not the only one tells and golf courses are going to manage

themselves so venezuela has to share trump attention it's only natural if the little things escape his gaze like the fact that some of the investment was literally set ablaze by those for whom it was intended they don't take the girl or take gade they've sent hundreds of millions of dollars worth of aid to the border he would take the. they'd rather have his people starve than take the americas good even from a political standpoint even from a dictator standpoint i don't think that's good it was why dose support is not more duros who said those trucks with aid on fire but perhaps just an honest mistake by an employee right as former duro he did lead aid in except not from the us but from russia and that is one of the obvious differences between trump's companies and sovereign states the latter can do business with whoever they please but in donald trump said it's all the same competitors must not take over russia to get out.

we'll say see all options are out all just so you understand all options are off another thing how a business is different you can bankrupt it and its workers can at least hope to get paid leave and find employment elsewhere a country that's a slightly different scale. trump is a businessman representing the capitalist class in the us and what they want to lay hold in see enormous resources. trump has absolutely no interest in the lives of the average person. interested in. money maximizing profit of course trump or pence or any group of nato generals has absolutely no right to speak on any matter where guarding our sovereignty and

every one of the actions they have taken are a complete violation of international law and of the un charter. this is lunch thought i was ship seized by migrants in the mediterranean is now arrived in malta it's been a developing story all morning maltese forces earlier boarded this small tank and guarded it to a port in the capital valetta more than one hundred migrants are on board including twelve children those refugees were picked up on wednesday by the turkish merchant vessel but when they learned they were going to be returned to libya they seized control of a ship on the set course for europe four people have reportedly been arrested over the hijacking as for italian interior minister matteo salvi he's called the instant piracy. in. the. it is the first case the first act of piracy of delinquency on the high seas with immigrants asking for help it was the who were rescued by this merchant ship flying

a foreign flag six miles from tripoli with a hijacked the freighter saying no do not go south go north they're not castaways they are pirates a reminder of italy's position on this the coalition government set a goal of curbing migration into the country while the european union's announced it's going to suspend maritime patrols that of rescued thousands of refugees and asylum seekers instead it plans air patrols and close coordination with libya which is the main starting point as we heard just now from refugees and margaret. on across the sea from north africa to europe of london metropolitan university senior research from the george some really thinks that the migration crisis is actually nato's fault. well i think it's the problem that europeans are going to have is that you have this very powerful forces. within europe that welcoming the migrants i'm sure that the initial response of the multi-source origins will be we are not letting anybody in. but now with all the

human rights the amnesty international the george soros crowd will say my god this is inhumane european civilization is coming to an end these are people fleeing from most horrific tortures and murder and rape you have to let them in and i think in those circumstances it's going to be very hard for. these and the talents to say no . on online campaigns belongs to conceal us drug maker accused inflating prices of. drug by thousands of dollars it turns out the company doesn't even own the paid him for the treatment caleb maupin reports. all across the american political spectrum almost everyone seems to agree that prescription drug costs are too high we will never stop fighting for our children our seniors and those in need of prescription drugs and working families who cannot afford the escalation of cost

the drug lobby is making an absolute fortune at the expense of american consumers but the big companies couldn't care less about the government's opinion gilead sciences takes the prize among hated pharma giants its new medication for people who've been infected with hiv is selling for roughly sixteen hundred to two thousand dollars a month needless to say there has been outrage we're here today u.s.c.a. to protest the guilty ads pricing of their new combination therapies strike there's no valid reason for it to be priced it's purely greed and profit driven by their new h.i.v. drug provide abroad in a whopping three billion dollars last year but they deserve to be compensated for their creativity and innovation making a new product right well here's the thing it turns out that it was actually us taxpayer money that paid for developing the new drug the scientific research and the testing necessary it was all paid for by the us government however it's

gilliard stockholders that get the profits no royalties of any kind are being paid into the us treasury but i'm sleepy right and i bears a huge problem with access to expose her profile access in the united states to prevent a champion action basically there's a lot of low income communities people of color trans women who are not being able to access this drug and a huge part of that is because the company that makes it good science is charge is sixteen hundred dollars for a drug that only costs six dollars now there is similar outrage when gilead started charging over one thousand dollars a pill for its hepatitis c. drug cartel for her. for her own money. now there's another famous case of the chief executive turning pharmaceuticals martin squarely jacking up the price of darrent pram an anti parasite medication five thousand percent from its initial cost of thirteen fifteen and when pressed in congress to justify his reasoning mr lee seemed to laugh in

their faces i want to plead with you to use any remaining influence you have over your former company to press them to lower the price of these drugs you can look away if you like but i wish you could see the faces of people no matter what misreads the left says. who can i get the drugs now justice was served but in another fashion the c.e.o. mr scrawly was convicted on two counts of securities fraud and sent to seven years in prison the price of daraa primm however has never lowered all of the seems to point to the fact that big pharma has got the u.s. public in a position of weakness for someone infected with hiv travolta could be life or death needless to say people in such circumstances are pretty ripe for being gassed but this raises a bigger question how much freedom should influential corporations have especially

when they are receiving so much government assistance in order to do their work caleb oppen r.t. new york. update next day if you're on britain's bric sic conundrum the u.k. parliament still failing to find a clear path to leave the e.u. and eight options to choose from on the table wednesday to vote on but none of those ideas going to clear majority they include holding a seven second referendum maybe revoking article fifty altogether or staying in the e.u. for two more years. try to remind ourselves what we've decided to do. oh i think the public will look at on these proceedings in. amazement this. guy will be completely bemused by box has gone all over this is a very serious moment for all of us and we have to reflect that this house of commons has tried to find a way through the bricks that crisis over the last few months and we have. it is of

course a very great disappointment that the house has not chosen to find a majority for any proposition it does simplify what's now on offer which really is a big city in the european union as we've just heard with a deal or we've no due to tool that is now what's on offer and it. pressurizes. all of the m.p.'s if point theresa may can bring her deal back to the house which will be seen now as huge really important to do because actually that's going to be the only option isn't that earth and leave in european union with a harbor but or meantime other news on their stories may says she's prepared to resign if it means a deal getting through according to darling st the concession came to close doors meeting with conservative m.p.'s i'm prepared to leave this job earlier than i intended in order to do what is right for our country and our party i ask everyone

in this room to back the deal so we can complete our historic duty to deliver on the decision of the british people and leave the european union with a smooth and orderly brac set the u.k.'s opposition leader chipped in of course chair recall been reacting to that saying may's proposal was about party management not the interests of british citizens doing this which a government should be the people's decision. but economist karen jones and nelson mccausland a former social development minister in northern ireland had a different idea they think the reason his proposal will not solve the problems with brakes it. many tears will be encouraged by her and she is going but the position i think for the do you pay for the fast majority of you know most northerners simply this the. house currently on the table. for you is only acceptable whether she stays or whether she goes the problem for

them remains that the backstop is deeply deeply problematic the british approach to british it has been entirely governed by party politics this is they keep the conservative party together by proposing a kind of compromise arrangement that to some extent at least satisfy the hard line and also the remain as some sort of bricks and says. so this for the latest in a another understatement a few weeks in westminster if you're a bit washed you want to interview on the brits it's. his latest episode in case you missed it. yeah yeah loud and clear yeah well what you we've been camped out here for. three news in the imminent arrival of baby brags that now little baby brags it's due date with meant to be that's when the ninth of march but doctors didn't start. to do just that

they said there's been a bit of excitement because we saw somebody very gay related to a little baby brags that go inside this building which is also vaguely related to a little baby brags that now we know the mother has been experiencing substantial difficulties high blood pressure severe morning sickness she hasn't been able to keep anything down for months whatever she tries to get through it just keeps getting regurgitated now as you can imagine this is an extremely difficult situation for the mother she never wanted this to begin. with then according to all reports the father is trying to disown baby brags that according to one source he was last seen in me with this truck turns out. that we don't know if it's going to be a hard or a soft delivery who does the chances of a normal elective emergency c.

election which is a dangerous procedure and it carries a lot of risk for the worst outcome the baby could just pull out now some have called for the baby to stay where it is rather than risk that such as a look at the crowds out here hugh so much anticipation people want to know when the baby brags it is going to be delivered and of course many are concerned about the risk of a still. with the lights a look at things cover up much more serious matters in the next hour of the program the dark side of america's presence in japan and how the wife of a u.s. marine is giving rape victims their voice.

with plenty of fun tricom sentenced to public will. when the ruling closest to protect them so. when the going to clear your room to listen we know. we can all middle of the room see you. going to the real news room. seize private companies that have got a lot of p.c. venture capital funding are ready to go public this year i saw the last they're all going out at forty fifty sixty seventy billion dollars valuations so the prediction here is that it will be the end of this cycle you're going to have a like two thousand and one style crash and stag do the fact that there's nothing

to support the valuations of these companies and no doubt are very quickly will all crash. i sought international law of disturbing pictures he is certainly no one to tell you about it firefighters battling a large blaze of a high rise office in the bangladesh capital dhaka reports of people jumping from that building and others trapped terrible terrible military helicopter has now been deployed to help the rescue operation the fires in a busy business district there started the midday local time a number of casualties are yet to be confirmed all the numbers yet to be confirmed as looked at the have been some deaths so you can see it's a big old fire across it so we'll keep you up to date with it as we find more unfortunately or auty dot com of course. elsewhere will afford his japan face a public backlash on the results for a referendum on u.s. military bases in a okinawa two american women are helping victims of sexual assault by u.s.

servicemen the adrian perry told us why she started up this group. the reason that i wanted to create survivors united it's because it's been my i know our feeling is going through we went through i was so lost i didn't know where to turn for help i didn't know who to trust i didn't know anyone know what answer what questions to ask i didn't know what to search for i feel like the military justice system is here into play that system in it has not caught up with the times today to be able to accommodate the cases that we're seeing into you adjudicate successfully adjudicate cases that we're seeing but this is this is not a negative light it's been shown on our military and that's the positive and that we we don't want this behavior happening. for term of military bases located in a densely populated area and hosts nearly half of all american troops stationed in japan locals have been outraged by the behavior of u.s. troops in the past to be devolved in numerous crimes over the years the u.s.

and japan have been locked in a long debate so where it's best we locate this base has begun of more than twenty years many in fact want it off the island altogether. it's human nature in any institution in any culture and there's going to be bad apples and unfortunately there are bad apples in the united states military just like there are in any other military in the world and. if these crimes are

committed against lauren nationals in whatever country they are our military station and i want them to know that they have a voice that these these survivors of abuse sexual abuse by our service members it occurs to have a voice and if they have somewhere to go and they can pursue justice just because they were sexually abused by the united states military member doesn't mean that they have to stay silent if they don't want to you and i do understand that not everyone wants to pursue justice but at least they can know what their options are what their rights are and. if they decide to they can pursue justice and. not be scared to do so next for your revocations i'm a big news of the weekend new poll out just for fun things have special come still robert muller on alleged trump russia collusion has had little effect on americans you were caught on sunday the two year long investigation concluded indeed there was no sign of

a conspiracy between the american president and the kremlin according to the poll though almost half of those surveyed to some extent believe that trump or his team did collude with russia during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign as more opinion was split to have democrats in congress who continue digging into trouble including those with alleged ties with russia or simply end of this probe and finally an overwhelming majority said the findings of the miller report hasn't changed their minds at all we spoke directors and people on the streets of new york city you still think that trump colluded with russia. year you know he's a traitor i don't trust the report and i don't trust any of them because ultimately . it's a conspiracy. to make america races again they're all around trial but somehow trump is that involved it just seems strange to me that people are drawn i can because he's a rich guy well what does the media have been saying about it for the past few years it's always been a clue to the seventy flew to get these everything loaded and therefore comes out

he has acquitted everyone still believing that it still happened the main stream press has completely given up on its standards in reporting this story i mean the new york from the new york times to the washington post to c.n.n. and especially m.s.n. b.c. one of the other news networks and they have just been all over at each other trying to beat each other with the latest rumor and scandal mine to ring on. including this specially the russian collusion thing so it's on the news every night russian collusion russian collusion and people are watching at four to six hours a day it's mind numbing it's the end of your work day you come home and you watch that with a beer and you know it just sinks into your skull it's propaganda. for the stories making an impact this launched on the decision to recognize israeli sovereignty over the golan heights and seen the united states roundly condemned during an emergency un security council meeting its a coast disputed there it straddles israel syria jordan and lebanon it was annexed

from syria by israel in one to sixty seven well even washington's close allies now oppose this latest move. this decision is of critical critical strategic and security importance to the state of israel and the u.s. believes it can contribute to stability the decision by the united states to recognize israeli seventy over the golan heights is in contravention of security council resolution four nine seven thank you should you put in the side steps not only one of the norms of international law but also the security council resolutions we are concerned that this unilateral decision not only complicates the prospect i find in at camp or hands of settlement in the middle east by pleats to instability in the region and the trumpet administration apparently wants to show some generosity towards israel we would suggest the americans not to lay their hands on what is not theirs the us itself is in doubt with

a vast expanse of land so the americans could get the israelis north and south carolina for example why not south carolina is a great piece of land why not give israel a state or two if this administration really wants to have israel support their golan heights either it will always be either heard of sovereign territory we thank the united states for just then you started problem ation this there plague many others it has taken before shoulder their willingness of the united states to honor reality on the ground instead of recruiting regional really it's undermining that really seems to be. pretty much universally being criticized. undermining our. international our you know and even that you won't surrender the statements of traditional allies like the u.k.

it being very critical of the us position on here is that significant. is that true and the increasing isolation up. the united states which it's getting cozy with israel but it. seems to be little by little do or say that still is traditional european allies that's the way so the big world news story is looking so far this thursday lunchtime keep artsy dot com by side for the headlines as they happen throughout the day holkins here throughout the coming six hours keep you posted kevin all in wishing you a great day thanks for watching. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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dollars apartment in new york city thank you thank you for cutting rates this year well you know i've given a storable precedent for this after world war one the carnage was so bad and there was such a horrific murders and trenches of gas warfare and that we had a rise in america and around the world of spiritual ism so people were trying to make contact with their dead grella to they couldn't justify their means they couldn't see you know what the point of all this horrific murder and war was about and you have this incredible rise of spiritual ism and it's very well documented and houdini went after the spiritualists a very ancient story so this is kind of echoing that you have a two thousand and eight crisis which is like a complete devastation of the world economy wiping out millions of people and the devastation is horrific and no it's providing an adequate explanation they don't understand why.