i think. one of the richest companies certainly and now it's one of the poorest countries of the was company not country did a slip of the tongue exposed president real thoughts on venezuela where you weigh up the evidence. a ship hijacked by migrants who were pulled from the mediterranean arrives in malta more than one hundred people are on board including children. sure they are not castaways they are pirates. and an online campaign demands a u.s. drugmaker return billions of dollars.

are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. with venezuela entering another phase of political crisis the country's government has barred opposition leader holding public office for fifteen years quite himself has called the decision unlawful and this comes after why don't you plan to oust president the drone called. opposition to the current government in caracas while accidentally rebranding venezuela hugo comments. you 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 if done properly and with with democracy would be incredible there was one of the richest companies certainly and now it's one of the poorest countries that there was a slow. 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 why 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 in 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 they've sent hundreds of millions of dollars worth of aid to the border who will take the. ground there was people starve than take the ira gets going even from a political standpoint even from a dictator standpoint of the school it was why dose support is not more duros who set 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 level the same competitors must not take over years to 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 buy. 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 business representing the capitalist class in the us and what they want to lay hold. trump has absolutely no interest in the lives of the average person. interested in. money. trump or pence or any group of nato generals has absolutely no right to speak on any matter regarding sovereignty and every one of the actions they have taken are a complete violation of international law and of the un charter. and russia in turn has lashed out at his trump following his calls for its troops to leave caracas saying the russian military advisors will remain there for as long as the

venezuelan government needs them. switching gears now a turkish ship seized by migrants in the mediterranean has arrived in malta vessel is now under the control of the maltese armed forces more than one hundred migrants were on board including at least a dozen children and refugees were picked up on wednesday by the merchant vessel at sea but when they learned that 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 matteo salvini has declared the incident an act of piracy. it is the first case the first act of piracy of delinquency on the high seas with immigrants asking for help but who were rescued by this merchant ship flying a foreign flag six miles from tripoli they hijacked the freighter saying no do not go south go north. they are not castaways they are pirates. italy's 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 ordination with libya which is the main a starting point for refugees and migrants trying to cross the sea from north africa to europe political analyst nicholas mccoll which thinks the european union's migrant policy is still not effective enough. of course they're looking for better conditions they think that and they have been brought to believe that go by rowing in europe they will have free social security they will have nice houses they will have a better conditions than those they are having today so that is why some of them are ready to risk their lives and lives with their loved ones or their families and some of them are paying a lot of money to get over here so they are desperate i think this shows that the

european union has no policies the european union policy towards these massive migration flows is not working it's not working it's because that is the catastrophe for the migrants it's a catastrophe for the villages and towns which are agreeing these migrants because they have no means to treat them just the european union doesn't know what to stand this how to how to calm it down the european union union has shown that it does not know how to tackle this fundamental issue which is one of the main concerns of many european peoples today. an online campaign has been launched against the u.s. drug maker accused of inflating prices of an anti-aging i.v. drug by thousands of dollars and it turns out the company doesn't even own the patent for the treatment party's killam up and has more. 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 really adds price and their new combination therapies strike there's no valid reason for it to be priced it's purely greed and profit driven 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 guilty of stockholders that get the profits no royalties of any kind are being paid into the u.s. treasury essentially right in the five bears a huge problem with access to expose your profile access in the united states to prevent a t.v. infection 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 sciences 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 theft. but. now there's another famous case of the chief executive turning. arm a certain 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 cannot 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 darrent for him 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 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. of the canadian province of british columbia gave support to an organization allegedly urging people to shun vaccines according to newly published documents hons the health action network society is a nonprofit organization that sees its mission as promoting natural and alternative medicines and therapies last year it received a forty thousand dollars from the provincial government which made up about a third of its revenue and since two thousand and seven it has been granted more than four hundred thousand dollars. after a canadian media unearthed documents showing the payments canadian housing minister of salina robinson whose ministry oversees the grant program said she would request a review of the organization's funding hons has released a statement denying these allegations on march twenty eighth twenty nineteen the c.b.c. published an article calling into question the government funding received by han's in relation to allegations that the organization's advocacy for informed consent

and vaccination safety or an alignment with anti-vaccination propaganda the action network society refutes any association with an anti vaccination position and dissuades the irresponsible reporting associated with such allegations. we can now cross live to katie klein who is a pro vaccination activist thanks for being with us here on r t international. this seems like a bizarre story to me because i've grown up with vaccines and i know that there's controversy a big conversation out there about it but hons claims it is not an anti vaccine society but more about vaccination safety what's wrong with ensuring vaccines don't cause harm. that scenes are already extremely safe there may be side effects that are small but nothing compared to what the actual disease could cause we've spent i don't know how many times how many millions billions on studies

to make sure they're safe it's possible. now the world health organization says that declining vaccination rates are one of the world's biggest threat in fact we're seeing the measles make a comeback in many places how do you think. this is how do you think it's possible to solve this problem basically all the time. well i think we need to get more education out there and. right now the anti-vaccination is very loud and a lot of the probe actors don't realize that it's not just about their family they are putting other people at risk and i know a lot of people are like oh well their kid doesn't vaccinated mine is i don't care but that's not the case these people are putting others at risk that maybe not their children who are vaccinated but there are children that aren't vaccinated because they can't be and you're putting them at risk now you have

a petition calling for mandatory vaccines in british columbia which has almost about fifty thousand signatures do you think the government will take notice or as they've started to catch up program for the next three months they've ordered i think something like three million m.m.r. vaccine to send out to the kids to try and catch them up if they haven't had their vaccines in september there's mandatory reporting so each child that registers in public school will have to say whether or not they are vaccinated i have heard and have it confirmed so that if they do want to exempt themselves they have to take a twenty minute course on back scenes and get a letter notarized saying that they take responsibility for any harm that may come from this or if there's an outbreak that they'll have to be sent home and for their safety and those around them so i think they have to i have think they are

listening but i don't quite think it's a stronger stance i think they're taking baby steps not to rock the boat too much but i'm hoping they'll get a better a stronger stance soon and the last we heard here is that they had not changed the rules but you're telling us that they are doing mandatory vaccination records for enrollment coming in the fall. yes that is so you'll have to tell they're not your vaccinated. but it will they won't stop you if you're not so i think it will help a lot of the people who are too busy to vaccinate and may have forgotten. oh you know i had ballet incur id and all these other things i forgot to take my kids to get there and them are in kindergarten so i think that will catch them but i don't think it's going to bring up the herd immunity is much is we need it to be all right it is very interesting to follow the story we hope that as it develops we can

call on you to help us keep updated on the situation kitty klein who is a pro serve vaccination activist thanks for being with us here on our two international thank you so much all right more stories after a short break you are watching our three international. ukrainian presidential elections just days away but the cause of eligible voters still don't know who to support with thirty nine candidates in the race is the choice to brawl. to come straight to. you know world of big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up

to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back you are watching our international so for the past two years american mainstream media has given it near nonstop coverage to the investigation into alleged collusion between donald trump and russia in the two thousand and sixteen campaign now a number of media outlets are seeing

a significant drop in ratings after a special counsel mahler's probe did not find any collusion after all for example the networks c.n.n. an m s n b c whose critical coverage of trump has been labeled as fake news by the u.s. president fox news have meanwhile increased by more than a million viewers. c.n.n. chief correspondent trying to explain the trend though saying there just hasn't been much news since the bombshell moeller report findings were announced with the russia collusion scandal seemingly nearing its end some in the media are still not prepared to let it go. i think we've done the media the press has done one of the great reporting jobs in the history specially of covering a presidency by the most news organizations have trust in his prosecutorial judgment but that doesn't mean of course that there isn't compelling and incriminating evidence that should be shared with the american people this president has a way of trying to get into people's heads and indoctrinate them he's been saying

no collusion no collusion no collusion he does this all the time this is not the in of anything. cross live now to and vendor still who's an investigative journalist to help us kind of sort this whole thing out. thanks for being with us here on our two international first of all. can this trend of declining viewership for some networks be explained by the way that they have covered the whole russia gate scandal in the first place. absolutely they have not been reporting the truth from the word go this russian collusion hoax has been negation propaganda arm of the d.n.c. and has been proven as such with the latest report revealing that there was no russian collusion with the trump campaign in fact attorney general took it one step farther to say there was no obstruction this report that went on for two years to in the making has proven out that this president you know won fair and square and

the mainstream media c.n.n. m.s.n. b.c. and others took it to such an extreme and have absolutely burned their reputations and they have also commented jeff zucker over at c.n.n. said we don't do investigative journalism or than what kind of journalism is there if you're not actually looking for the information sourcing your information as opposed to just taking bad circular reporting off phony information. to be fair about one thing that you just said the bar letter does say that the report does not exonerate the president c.n.n.'s chief correspondent has blamed the lack of news in the interim for the drop. be part of the reason. absolutely not there is clearly not a lack of news if you set aside the malo report if you want to take that off the table look at what's going on at the border the customs and border patrol yesterday did a press conference we have record numbers of people trying to come in through our ports and claim asylum we don't even have a place to put these people we have trade deals that are going on ongoing with

china very exciting news there the president is you know still delivering incredible economic news for this country you have stuff going on overseas and brags that and they're talking about there's no news out there that is not the reason for their lack of ratings that if you look at the amount of ratings were fox has picked up the news and if you look at the exit is from mainstream media into online media and citizen journalism you will see that this shift is going to where people can actually get accurate news so do you think it's possible people just tired of hearing claims about russia. i think they're tired of hearing fake claims about russia i don't think that this russian collusion story is over at all i think there's going to be an investigation open into the exact source of this whole hoax that has been perpetrated on the american taxpayer it's cost over thirty million dollars robert muller has you know had over five hundred investigations open in terms of people they've spoken with and this is an absolute outrage that we

have been put through this type of shenanigans and really been a distraction for all the good stuff that this president has been doing over the past two years this should never have gone on this long but it has and again there was no obstruction by this president to prevent this information from coming forth or the investigation to even a story gets turned back around on the perpetrators of this as we're starting to see with the information coming out from the transcripts that i think the american public is going to continue to tune in but for the real truth of the russian collusion so donald trump it's no secret that he is not a fan of c.n.n. and them and b. c. . because they tend to report news that he does not like to hear he think the news. his approval ratings are remaining steady. but it can't be that all of those news channels and everything that they report is fake right. not everything the mainstream media reports is

fake i mean they're having a mea culpa moment right now aren't they rachel maddow has lost seven hundred thousand viewers than last monday heard her numbers are tanking but there is still some real information that's coming forth but they're having to swallow the fact that they have not done right by the american people and the president is absolutely correct in calling the mainstream media overall fake news particularly when it comes around to what he has been accomplishing in this office they don't want to give him credit for the job numbers they don't want to give him credit for record unemployment they don't want to give him credit for the fact that we have a national emergency at our border as evidenced by the customs and border patrol the press conference yesterday they just simply don't want to give them any kind of wins and the reason they don't want to do that is the mainstream media is a propaganda arm for the d.n.c. right thoughts and vendor still investigative journalist thanks for being with us here on arch international. you are watching our to be back in about thirty five minutes and twenty seconds with more news stay with us.

after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the baltic from clubs on one hand it is logical to go home fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to suppressing. what if. i'm going to talk about football not the or else in the sink i was going to do. by the way what is it that's lying here. as an officer of the code to get up off

the ground in the office or begin to paint him down. and then freeze on the sounds of kind of fighting into the grown man like misleading essentially. through his return to the. wish to do away from the officer. of his crew. the officer did a kind of lunge for the weapon in one's midst and then when it happened on tree swung as constitutions didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the two any kind went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled out his gun and even john terry. in terms of mr klein home he's played a useful role but i think that the mistake he's made thus far he's not announcing that he would not stand for president so to say to the venezuelan people and maybe

the national community i've done my role which i believe is a constitutional one is the interim president but don't look for me to run think if he were to do that the situation in venice will be perceived as less money in the states. welcome to the like simon show from a blustery bell fussed up in particular to the storm of the state governments of non-i and the stake in place for the last ninety years an impressive parliamentary buildings behind me

a lot of them the prime minister on law and islands once declared a protestant parliament for a protestant state but all the changes in the social and economic growth of this province which are going to bring about a very different outcome. and welcome to terra gardens outside the palace of westminster where the high socom is dramatically voted this week to seize control of the brics a process while its season is nigh twice defeated backstop deal one of the two tolls to the top of the brics to european a farm group have raised the white flag but there is still no surrender from the hard men and women of all stars this is how the democratic unionist and twenty but but the prime minister's deal to the sword in the chamber statement will represent the most shameful surrender by a british leader since singapore nine hundred forty two. where are you going to stop using northern ireland excuse until you realize that the importance of this

agreement to delivering brecht's that. the unit is now the kingdom is such that we will not be used and any skirt thinks to push this through here what i have genuinely been trying to achieve through everything that i have been doing is ensuring that we respect the wishes of the people of northern ireland and we respect northern ireland's position within the united kingdom the situation in relation to the european union's proposal is being very clear about european union rules and the necessity of those e.u. goals being planned however if the prime minister's deal looks like a dead duck while the m.p.'s do any better i'm joined by senior s.n.p. m.p. and spending mcneil welcome to the show i thank you now will this problem and she process bring any order at old to the current chaos well i think we're made chaos of perhaps with at the beginning of the chaos something this is something that should happen about two two and a half years ago the prime minister made a deal and no idea who would be reacted what the actual be in parliament parliament

said no this is some way i suppose and what is your own preferred forward to the future or the best way is to revoke this people didn't vote to be themselves to it and we can see that by what was written inside of a bus the thought of getting. and then fifty million times extra week people were misled badly by the whole breaks it argument in the beginning i think revoke it forget it and go back to what we were doing and give me a piece of effectively taken over in the come the government this enjoying your new rule well absolutely and i think that should have happened a long time ago clearly we're doing a little bit better than the prime minister over let's one and we had a prime minister koizumi. but the reality is m.p.'s had to do this because the government went up to get in the sponsibility to consult properly so know what should happen to not years ago will be happening someone said that the s.n.p. is campaigning rather move vigorously for a second fact supporter people's will.