it's a fight for the middle for the truth the time is now. it was one of the richest companies certainly and now it's one of the poorest countries of the world company not country did a slip of the tongue exposed president trump real thoughts on venezuela we have the evidence. ship hijacked by migrants who were pulled from the mediterranean arrives in malta more than one hundred people are on board including children. and they're not castaways they are pirates you know that's an online campaign demands of us drugmaker returned billions of dollars of allegedly overcharged for and hiv medication. there is midnight in moscow where it's now friday the twenty ninth of march i'm

calling bread out here in the russian capital with the news this hour first off with venezuela entering another phase of political crisis the country's government has barred opposition leader from holding public office for fifteen years it comes after god or announced a new plan to oust president the door open and called for a fresh wave of protests but will trump reasserted america's opposition to the current government in caracas while accidently rebranding venezuela as he pushed on of explained. you can take a man out of business but you can 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 shark for decades and is now taking the approach to politics the potential of venezuela. don't properly end with with democracy would be incredible there 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 in one well he seems to have appointed venezuela's new c.e.o. along. time ago i mean what else could one why do all 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 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 to

gain we've sent hundreds of millions of dollars worth of aid to the border who wanted to create a drug that was people starve than take the american school even from a political standpoint even from a dictator standpoint of the scale it was why dose support is not more duros who said those trucks with a don't 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. the get out. the 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 again as well trump has absolutely no interest in the lives of the average person in venezuela he's interested in business and in money and maximizing profit a course. pence for any group of nato generals has absolutely no right to speak on any matter regarding venezuela sovereignty. and every one of the actions they have taken are a complete violation of international law and if the un charter. or russia in turn has lashed out at trump following his call for its troops to leave caracas the russian military advisers will remain there for as long as the venezuelan

government needs them. a turkish ship seized by migrants in the mediterranean sea has arrived in malta the vessels now under control of the maltese armed forces more than one hundred migrants were on board including when they learned they were being returned to libya they hijacked the ship and set course for europe five people have reportedly been arrested on suspicion of being ringleaders italian interior minister. it is the first case the first act of piracy of delinquency on the high seas with immigrants asking for help was that who were rescued by this merchant ship flying a foreign flag six miles from tripoli where they hijacked the freighter and saying no do not go south go north they're not castaways they are pirates at least coalition government has set a goal of curbing migration into the country while the european union has announced it will suspend maritime patrols that have rescued thousands of refugees and asylum seekers instead it plans air patrols and close coordination with libya which is the

main starting point for refugees and migrants trying to cross the sea from north africa to europe. let's talk now to political analyst nickel america which welcome to r.t. again this seems to be a particularly desperate act on the part of the migrants risking their lives in the first place and then risking prosecution for hijacking a ship is europe going to have to rethink its response on how it deals with refugees. house i think it has to rethink its whole position on this migrant issue and it's not just about welcoming these refugees it's about its cooperation with a lot of these african countries or asian countries where these refugees are coming from and don't forget that we were talking about all these refugees coming from libya and maybe european institutes start should start doing some reporting on to european countries which participated in the bombing of the united the united kingdom in france and who created the situation of chaos now we're not only is there are there thousands hundreds of thousands of refugees coming in since you

have but also slavery which is going back to a country were hit was barren before so i think you have definite has to treat several several matters there first of all which is what is the implication of european countries in africa for example or in asia so that these top creating this disorder as it was then india and then what is actually is the policy because as long as some of your opinions countries are agreeing the refugees and others are closing the borders is creating confusion and this confusion just shows that the european union has no i would say. common policy on the issue and it's creating havoc for the refugees which are truly desperate but also for the countries in the mood is which are greeting them which they have no means don't know how to how to do this and how to deal with them and this creating a lot of problems major problems in europe today it puts to the it wants to work with libya on this that seems to be where most of the north african migrants are leaving to try and get into europe this is something that libya could well to its

advantage even though it's a country a country divided into with two separate competing governments going on but is it something that the people controlling libya could try and use to get leverage from the. oh definitely the tried to do this and they did they have been doing progress but as you said in the country don't forget has been has been bombed and separated into there's no real true government today and in the years where as there was before and saw what leverage distributer really have and don't forget that there are a lot of criminal years who are actually stronger than local politicians who really control part of the libyan ports who control ports in the military in or at least and routes were by these migrants are coming from as long as the european union is not attacking or is the prosecuting or doing everything it can do to didn't negotiate with no african countries to stop its criminal roots these peoples these people who are organizing the traffic of human beings some of this is going to say recently and though a lot of people are just paying

a lot of money to criminals to try to get over to europe where there is no better life for them there is no future prosperity this is not worse there's no european country where this is working and we do not see the bright side for the for the migrants no for the european people so your opinion union has to have a real policy and that means attacking those who are organizing these are the refugee i would say it is migrant waves to europe within the european union doesn't do that it's useless initially said that it was going to allow the ship to dock that was something echoed by italy which had done some of the move itself in recent months now that the ship is in malta. is it likely that the alleged hijackers are going to get refugee status. i don't think so this is becoming a bit this is desired it's under the spotlight now so i don't i don't think so but however there is going to be pressure and we have to do something with these people can't just let them out of vogue i don't know what the humanitarian conditions are on board so i won't ruin or another people have to get closer to them to try to at

least make sure that they're living it and sitting humane conditions now however i think mata wants to show that he doesn't want this to continue and it may have to have destroyed the want the same policy as as early as italy doesn't want to be harboring these and these moves because they're saying we have to get the moments in what is the rest of the european union doing for us and it's not doing anything so i definitely that is going to be a tricky situation but that malta in the end will not let these migrants get off the boats in malta ok for now political analyst clinical it in paris thanks for your thoughts thank you. an online campaign has been launched against a u.s. drug maker accused of inflating prices of an anti drug by thousands of dollars and it turns out that the company doesn't even own the patent for the treatment and as the story. 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. 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 us to protest the gillie ads pricing 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. oh my. gosh. now there's another famous case of the chief executive of 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 ms ritz left says who can 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 primero ever has never lowered all of this 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 trivago it could be life or death needless to say people in such circumstances are pretty ripe for being 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. british m.p.'s will be back in the chamber on friday to vote on the so-called withdrawal agreement to resume may's beleaguered breaks it to you is specifically address these key issues always comes after indecision clouded another vote on wednesday on eight options to try and get the brakes a process on the straight and narrow range from a second referendum to revoking article fifty saying in the e.u. for two more. president try to remind ourselves what we've decided to do nothing. at all i think the public will look at on these proceedings in. amazement this. guy will be completely bemused by what's has gone on this is a very serious moment for all of us and we have to reflect the first house of

commons has tried to find a way through the cracks that crisis over the last few months and we have failed. the test 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 exit in the european union as we've just heard with a deal all with no deal at all that is now what's on offer and we pressurize a lot of the m.p.'s if point theresa may can bring her deal back to the house which will be seen now as hugely important to do because actually that's going to be the only option and. then leave in european union with a hopper but the price for to raise a baby is her premiership she's announced her intention to step down as prime minister but only after she's delivered according to downing street the p.m.'s

concession came during a closed door meeting with fellow conservative party 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 compete our historic duty to deliver on the decision of the british people and leave the european union with a smooth and orderly brax that the u.k.'s opposition leader jeremy corbyn was quick to react to the news saying major proposal was about party management and not in the best interests of british citizens he also added that a switch of government should be left to the public to decide we have people in love the what they think about the prospect of to resume a stepping down. going to get me to switch my p.c. choice and six frankly i don't think. parliament is a sense of itself whether it's actually sitting in the pm it becomes that we really . do want to. see if it's.

going to resign if she can get a meaningful vote shrews i don't mean the meaningful that's going to go through so what she did is she going to resign or was she not no one knows it's. a life to artie's westminster studio now includes my morality who's director of the risk analysis group pangea why welcome to r.t. aside from the fact that we're going to have the second british prime minister in as in as many years lighting a touch paper and then scuttling on instead of dealing with the ramifications do you think the reason is pledged to move out of that number ten is going to be enough to get this twice defeated deal over the line. i think she's worked hard for where she stands for although you can debate. as to what briggs it is and her support sort of swinging from saying that she was in a support to now saying that she is when she became leader i think her pledge to leave after she's delivered her very good deal. to let someone else come through doesn't really change the facts of the matter it's not as if that's

a prize for anyone i think this is again probably trying to piece some of the tory colleagues who want a more hard hitting bricks that here to take the reins of power to move this forward but it seems as if the pony hasn't even gotten off the ground a long gallop several m.p.'s of praise tories are made dignity and sense of duty as they put it do you see that that way that she's putting national interests ahead of party interest which is the often levelled out of the moment. well as i mentioned before she's trying very hard to not consider not for its in trying to i she says no fill the mandate of fill the void that the british people made for brags that now whether or not this is honorable whether or not this will do anything is a separate question i think you need to think in very practical the practical terms we speak about briggs that and her pledge to leave doesn't really saw the long term issue what will happen with brakes that i think the issue of the brakes it started

when david cameron was there as his it was his fault that he didn't define very clearly what briggs actually may have meant before this vote was to go ahead because now we get into all sorts of confusions and this is why we have the mess we have so far because of the very beginning it was unclear whatsoever as to what would mean if and when we left the european union the vote on friday coincides with the day the u.k. was originally planned to leave you there a plan demonstrations throughout london on parenting nationwide as well the metropolitan police have apparently gone on standby for damage control. scotland yard prepared to share resources across the country if there's discontent or rioting people feel betrayed by recent events on both sides of this divide. well i think you're right in saying that people have a lot of different mixed emotions about what our conscious turned into and you know that's not surprising given the confusion given the animosity given such such a heated debate on both sides but i think the rioting and protesting you know

there's only so much protest you can do for anything to really change and writing this resort anything what we do see i think is confusion in what people want to see for example the petition that was online that called for article fifty to be revoked but at the same time we had as it was reported almost a million man march for a second the purpose of a friend and so i think the people themselves if they come if they do if they do not want it to happen they need to come with one aligned message instead of two separate things we truly want the same thing but it's not just that either it or because we got paid changing their mind throughout this process in recent months the hard line breaks it's a conservative jacob reached the british public the voters don't get that chance. see what you mean by a bit again i think three zimmy needs the five m.p.'s to switch and i actually support the deal the d.p. have said already that they are completely against voting for this deal on friday so it's very very unlikely that you will see it pass and the next step from that

are crucial to what will happen through the may says she wants to to deliver breaks to but in such with such chaos and with such uncertainty as to what this breaks it actually is i think it's not doing the country a favor by trying to force something down its throat that it's already rejected twice is the extension and attempt to keep all options on the table including pulling out of all this revoking article fifty. i think it was done that was done i think in my personal opinion out of necessity for the situation is no point putting more pressure on to that one date of march twenty ninth for everything to happen when the preparation wasn't there to begin with we've had almost over two years or so to deal with this issue so to put all this one day one week beforehand to sort things out is very irresponsible for all the players involved so the fact that they've all agreed to extend it i think gives the u.k. and the e.u. some breathing space to come up with some sort of viable solution for this but what happens after to morrow is what really counts are we going to have a second appear

a second chance to vote on this is article fifty going to be revoked at least temporarily until people can sort themselves out i think that's the key question and that's what hopefully will be answered in the next weeks to come and sharing your expertise on this with us because morality director of risk analysis group angio next new poll suggests the findings of special counsel robert muller on the supposed from russia collusion has had little effect on americans on sunday the two year long investigation concluded that there was no sign of a conspiracy between the american president and the kremlin according to the poll almost half of those surveyed to some extent believe the trumbull his team colluded with russia during the twenty sixteen president those alleged ties with russia or ended finally an overwhelming majority say the findings of the mother report hasn't changed their minds at all we spoke direct some people on the streets of new york. do you still think that trump colluded with russia. you're you know he's a traitor i don't trust the report but i don't trust any of them because ultimately

. isn't this very city. to make america races again they're all around trout but somehow trump is involved in it just seems strange to me people don't like him because he's a beach guy well what is the media been saying about it for the past few years it's always been looted he's definitely clued into these anything looted therefore it comes out he has included everyone still believing that it still happened you know obviously there's if you watch innocent b.c. they're not going on air and saying god we got a wrong we're really sorry we're going to go back and fix that you know who you trust us or we're going to go under the hood and get this right they're actually just basically doubling down on this and moving on to a new. idea which is that the thing that's important is obstruction and not collusion the real beginning of the problem was the beginning of the trump campaign when every single pundit in the universe dismissed as laughable the idea that could

win the nomination what was what's interesting about that is that we were journalists total left audiences totally unprepared for the possibility that trump could win they constantly told us that it would never happen and so when it did happen we scrambled for an alternative explanation and the conspiratorial one fit better than what they've been told. donald trump's decision to recognize his ready suffer and say over the golan heights to get a wave of condemnation at the un security council on wednesday the territory which sits between israel syria jordan and lebanon was seized by israel in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and then formally annexed in one thousand nine hundred one even washington's close allies voiced staunch opposition to the us president's move saying it sets a dangerous precedent. 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 these really substantive over the golan heights is in contravention of

security council resolution four nine seven. sidesteps 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 of finding a comprehensive settlement in the middle east but leads to instability in the region and trumpeted in this tradition apparently wants to show some generosity towards israel we would suggest the americans not to lay their hands on what is not theirs the u.s. itself is in doubt with the vast expanses of land so the american 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 the golan heights either it will always be either sovereign territory we thank the united states for it just a new story proclamation this fair play to many others it has taken before shoulder

there's a couple of dangers one that does a really dangerous precedent that anyone any country can take another land by force but it's also i can trump look very isolationist he's on his own really this is israel and one or two other countries in the u.s. of course but all the nonaligned movement countries have rejected this this move as has the e.u. for instance as well as to member the the alleged and exciting even though there was a referendum in crimea the alleged landing sites and the accusations against russia a few years ago after the coup in kiev but this being the referendum the people of . thousands of people but only through i think syrian troops have. no say on this matter at all so they're now still living on alcopops territory which has now been recognized by the most imperialist power on the planet. that is your news for now thanks very much for watching you can get news alerts on the go if you go to the

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