one of the richest companies certainly and now it's one of the poorest countries of the world. company and not a country did a slip of the tongue exposed. a ship hijacked by migrants who were pulled from the mediterranean arrives in malta more than one hundred people are on board including children. castaways pirates. a u.s. drug maker returned billions of dollars allegedly overcharged. medication.

for broadcasting live direct from our studio. with us. all right with venezuela entering another phase of a political crisis in years quite a himself has called the decision are not lawful it comes after protests u.s. president trump meanwhile has reasserted america's opposition to the current government in caracas while accidentally rebranding venezuela artie's it was done of comets. 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 shark 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 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 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 said of blair or take. to send hundreds of millions of dollars worth of

aid to the border who. the. they read that as people starve than take the oh yes good even from a political standpoint even from a dictator steadily 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 certain rights all the same competitors must not take over rushes to get out . you also 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 business representing the capitalist class in the us and what they want to lay hold in see a normal. well trump has absolutely no interest in the lives of the average person as well or interested in. money mike nato generals has absolutely no right to speak on any matter regarding rent as well as sovereignty and every one of the actions they have taken are a complete violation of international law and of the un charter. russia and turner has lashed out at trump following his calls for its troops to leave caracas saying the russian military advisers 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 the

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 the refugees were picked up on wednesday by the merchant vessel at sea but 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 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 it was but who were rescued by this merchant ship flying a foreign flag six miles from tripoli they hijacked the freighter and saying no do not go south go north they're 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 of 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 political analyst nicola mccall which thinks the european union's migrant policy is still not effective enough. of course they're looking for better conditions they think that they have been brought to believe that the right thing by reading in europe we will have pre-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 with 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 policy 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 grieving these migrants because they have no means to treat them because 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 a u.s. drug maker accused of inflating prices of an hiv drug by thousands of dollars and it turns out the company doesn't even own the patent for the treatment or to scale up and as 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 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 gillie ads pricing their new combination therapy 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 gilliard stockholders that get the profits no royalties of any kind are being paid into the u.s. treasury essentially right and i bet is

a huge problem with access to expose your profile access in the united states to prevent a champion action basically there's a lot of huge part of that is because the company that makes it go ahead 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 for its hepatitis c. drug cartel for our part. but. 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 lure 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 reps left. who can not 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're receiving so much government assistance in order to do their work caleb oppen r.t. new york. 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 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 canadian media unearthed documents showing the payments canadian housing minister selena robinson whose ministry oversees the grant program said that she would request a review of the organization's funding on's has released a statement denying the 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 health

action network society refutes any association with an anti vaccination position and dissuades the irresponsible reporting associated with such allegations when the world health organization has a list of falling vaccination rates as one of the biggest global threats of this year according to the organization vaccines prevent up to three million deaths annually and it says a further one point five million deaths could be avoided if global vaccination coverage were improved. kate klein it pro-vaccine activists from canada created an online petition urging mandatory vaccines in the province of british columbia we got reaction from her earlier. i think that the man who runs that company is very good at using fancy words and making it seem very professional and pulling the wool over people's eyes he pretends that he's not anti vaccine that he's pro

science well pro-science says all science says the back scenes are safe so 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 as possible we need to get more education out there and right now the anti-tax movement is very loud and a lot of the crew that serious don't realize that it's not just about their family they are putting other people at risk. british m.p.'s will return to westminster on friday to vote on the so-called withdrawal agreement part of teresa mayes brags that a deal it's specifically addresses key issues such as of the irish border and if approved u.k. will extend bragg's it until the twenty second of may this comes after indecision clouded another vote on wednesday on eight options to try and get to the braggs

a process to the finish line the alternatives included a second referendum revoking article fifty and staying in the e.u. for two more years. as you 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. by the c.d.'s 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 it does simplify what's now on offer which really is an exit in the european union as we've just heard with a deal or with no good 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 seated now as huge really important to do because actually that's going to be the only option and. then leave in european union with harper but this all came as tracy may announced her intention to step down as prime minister but only after she has delivered brags that according to downing street the p.m.'s concession came out during a closed door meeting with 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 breck's it ukase opposition leader jeremy corbyn was quick to react to the news saying may's proposal was about party management and not in the best interest of citizens he also added that a change in government should be left to the public to decide we ask people in

london what they think about the prospect of theresa may step into. going to give matters which my kids enjoyed and so striking i don't think it's. part of my search itself whether it's actually sitting in the p.m.'s chair is going to be dealing with hopefully she will. i think because. i don't want to i. wish i was going to resign if she can get a meaningful fight through i don't mean a meaningful that's going to go through so what she did is she going to resign or was she not no one knows. the director of the risk analysis group of pangea wire thinks the british public at large is unsure of where to go from here. what happens after tomorrow 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 of i think that's the key question that's what

hopefully will be answered in the next weeks to come people have a lot of different mixed emotions about what our country has turned into and what we do see i think is for confusion in what people want to see for example the petition that was online that calls 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 brakes or a referendum so i think the people themselves if they come if they do if we do not want britain to happen. come with one aligned message instead of two separate things we truly want the same thing you see a. number of mainstream news networks in the us are seeing a drop in ratings following the release of the report or details have to break through.

the great tragic comedy known as russia gate is slowly becoming part of history the resistance continues to resist clearly the president has the wind at its back now is a time for a great awakening what are the lessons to be learned and can the liberal media cover from this fiasco. joining me every week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to the world of politics sport i'm sure i'll see you then.

so for the past two years american mainstream media has given near nonstop coverage to the investigation into alleged collusion between donald trump and russia in the two thousand and sixteen election president trump in a speech to supporters on thursday night celebrated the end of the probe. for the asian delusion over the world now a number of media outlets are seeing a significant drop in ratings after a special counsel miller's probe did not find any collusion after all for example the network c.n.n. and this n.b.c. whose critical coverage of trump has been labeled as fake news by the us president have seen a noticeable decline in viewers in prime time the ratings of largely trump friendly fox news however meanwhile have increased by more than a million viewers c.n.n.

chief correspondent trying to explain the trend of those saying there just hasn't been much news since the bombshell moller findings were announced with the russia collusion scandal seemingly nearing its end some of 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 especially 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 believe us mainstream media has destroyed their own credibility. 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 we have trade deals that are going on ongoing with china very exciting news there that you have stuff going on overseas and brags that and they're talking about there is no news out there that is not the reason for their lack of a rating if you look at the exit is from mainstream media into online media and citizen journalism you will see that the shift is going to where people can actually get accurate news. facebook has moved to ban an expression it describes as supporting white separatism and white nationalism we're now seeing a ban on praise supports and representation of white nationalism and white separatism on facebook and instagram is clearly these concepts deeply linked to organized hate groups and have no place in our services well the new rules will be

implemented next week and are aimed as facebook says taking a stand against hate earlier this month of the social media giant came under intense criticism for its role in the spread of content online as video of the christ church mosque massacres in new zealand were shared widely the gunman who live streamed his own deadly rampage also published a white nationalist manifesto but critics argue that facebook is just skirting around the issues of radicalism and discrimination. it's absolutely right the white supremacist a racist ideology is also confronted and i welcome it but it's far too late for for those of us campaigning against racism who've been calling for this action for many years it's taken a massacre in new zealand of muslims to actually get facebook to face up to responsibilities this is not erosion of free speech this is

a private company platform media platform where you have to sign of terms of conditions and if you breach them then you will be held responsible for that are removed from the platform i get that facebook is a private club but a i get that you have an agreement between yourself and facebook and you don't necessarily have a right to be on facebook but obviously these social media giants are so huge and so dog and it always seems with facebook they are the last to act the big pull to have responsible conversations it's when it crosses over to demonizing i hate all community that is the issue on facebook i've always supported for many years but internationally of look at what more support we multibillionaire companies we've really tried to stop the spreading islamist propaganda and facebook took some action but only after a huge amount of pressure and i think one of the other concerns i've got about these social media platforms is to what extent all the people get dragged along

with it and so the concern is you know firstly are they getting the balance right fault also the other thing we've got to say tired tired again is why the heck are we dragging these social media platforms kicking and screaming into doing their duty i mean a massacre in christchurch streamed live on social media is that one level we've got it's your platform and you're responsible for is being hosted on that and i think the idea the self-regulation of these platforms is something which the british government for example have been pushing for a number of years just doesn't work premisses well it's got to be tackled it's going to be confronted and it's got to be eradicated. dozen for me more news in about thirty four minutes and ten seconds stay with us this hour to international.

after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the hope of all different groups on one hand it is logical to sort of go from fields where back to the time used to surprising people and less old or not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you can think i was going to do it. by the way what is it that sliding here. sees private companies that have got a lot of v.c. venture capital funding are ready to go public this year i saw the last they're all going out of 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 now stag do the fact that there's

nothing to support the valuations of these companies and no doubt are very quickly well crashed. their brains for a single purpose. of a supermoon. plaistow training very young. the months of intensive school. rats. and they save lives. do you cranium presidential elections a jew. just days away but the quality of eligible voters still don't know who to support with thirty nine candidates in the race is the choice to broach. the subject to.

this is a boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance an impact on us all and daniel brito filling in for bart chilton in washington i'm to top the f.a.a. for the world's gold standard miles edwards global regulatory attorney joins us to pile of us through all the headlines and strikes continue to sweep the low the border in mexico but how will the new almost government handle labor's new moves alex mahela which joins us to analyze the picket lines for us global import rankings are out and the u.s. didn't manage to crack the top twenty five only barrels contributor to america's lawyer joins us to break down the state of u.s.

airport infrastructure and we are back on board seamus steven williamson the author of walk chain the next everything joins us to find out what could be the fate of the fast growing thin all that directly ahead but first we had some that was let's go. federal charges against a tech giant lead our global reports today is the united states is department of housing and urban development charges face book with housing discrimination the charges filed on thursday follow a complaint filed in august of twenty eighteen that claimed reasonable cause to believe the social media companies ad targeting system opened the door to violations of the fair housing act hud secretary ben carson released a statement saying facebook is discriminating against people based based upon who they are and. where they live using a computer to limit a person's housing choices facebook faced similar accusations in twenty sixteen following a pro publica report when the publication found that the ethnic affinities tool could be used to exclude people of color from seeing certain ads placed on facebook

face facebook stock has held steady at around one hundred sixty five dollars per share following the news. in happier tech news from the americas cuba's national telecom company and google have announced a major partnership to upgrade the island nations internet infrastructure google's head of strategy and operations in cuba and the vice president of texas.