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

they're broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm trying thomas certainly glad to have you with us. all right with venezuela entering another phase of a political crisis the country's government has barred opposition leader from holding public office for fifteen years why don't himself has called the decision unlawful this comes after quite a announced a new plan to oust president doro and called for a fresh wave of protests the us president meanwhile has reasserted america's opposition to the current government in caracas accidently 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. done properly and with with democracy would be incredible

it was one of the richest companies certainly and now it's one of the poorest gulf 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 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 we've sent hundreds of millions of dollars worth of aid to the border who will take the aid. his people starve than take the ira gets going even from a political standpoint even from a dictator standpoint of the scale it was why dose of 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 that you. we'll

see we'll see we'll see all options are open 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 business and money and maximizing profit a course trunk or pence or any group of nato generals has absolutely no right to speak on any matter regarding venezuelan sovereignty and every one of the actions they have taken are a complete violation of international law and of the un charter.

russia in turn has lashed out adds trump of 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. it turkish ship is 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 that were on board including at least a dozen children 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 interior minister 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 and saying no do

not go south go north they're not castaways they are pirates. well 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 coordination with libya which isn't the main starting point for refugees and migrants trying to cross the sea from north africa to europe political analyst nicola medical bitch 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 props to believe that go arriving 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 the lives of 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 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 agreeing these migrants because they have no means to treat them so 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 a u.s. drug maker accused of inflating prices of anti hiv drugs by thousands of dollars and it turns out the company doesn't even own the patent for the treatment and he's been comments. 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 us to protest that . 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 it was actually u.s. taxpayer money that paid for developing the new drug the scientific research and

the testing necessary it was all paid for by the u.s. government however it's gilliard stockholders that get the profits no royalties of any kind are being paid into the u.s. treasury but i'm sleepy right and i have bears a huge problem with access to expose or profile access in the united states to prevent a champion. 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. but. now there's another famous case of the chief executive of turning. pharmaceuticals martin scrawly 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 reds 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 out

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. the canadian province of british columbia gave support to an organization allegedly urging people to shun vaccines this according to official government documents hans of 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 unearth the documents showing the payments of canadian housing minister selena robinson whose ministry oversees the grant program said that she would request a review of the organization's funding hons 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 are in alignment with anti-vaccination propaganda the health action network society refutes the reporting associated with such allegations. the world health organization has listed falling of vaccination rates as one of the biggest global threats this year according to the organization vaccines prevent up to three million deaths annually and it says it for one point five million deaths could be avoided if global vaccination coverage were improved katie klein a pro vaccine activist 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 that vaccines 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 but there are many 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 bragg's a deal and specifically addresses key issues such as 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 different options to try to get the bags of process to the finish line the alternatives include a second referendum the 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 something. so i think the public will look out on these proceedings in. amazement that's. why we would be completely bemused by box has gone over this is a very serious moment for all of us and we have to reflect that this house of commons must try to find the ways through the cracks that crisis over the last few months and we have. returns 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 one offer which really

is a big city in the european union as we've just heard with a deal or with no deed at all that is now what's on offer and we pressurize a lot of the m.p.'s course if treason makes can bring her deal back to the house which will be seated now as shouldn't. then leave in european union with the hopper but this came as true some 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 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 complete our historic duty to deliver on the decision of the british people and leave the european union with a smooth and orderly. of u.k.'s opposition leader jeremy corbyn was quick to react

to the news saying that may's proposal was about party management and not in the best interest of bridge citizens but also added that a change in government should be left to the public to decide because we asked people in london what they think about the prospect of theresa may step into. i don't think it matters which monkeys to judge and i don't think. i said yourself whatever is actually sitting in the p.m.'s chair is going to be dealing with hopefully she. will remain. i. want i. got to resign if she can get a meaningful fight through i don't think i mean it will but it'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 or group pangea why are things the british public at large is unsure where to go from here. what happens off the moral is what really

counts are we going to have a second opinion secondly 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 she has turned into and what we do see i think is sort of 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 brakes or a referendum so i think the people themselves if they come if they do if we do not want britain to happen they need to come with one aligned message instead of two separate things we truly want the same thing you see. a performance out of university in france has been cancelled after it was labelled afro phobic colonialist and a racist play was scheduled for monday as part of an annual ancient theatre festival but students blocked the actors staging the greek tragedy from entering the theater protesters claimed that during last year's performance black face

makeup was used the university's administration says there was a misunderstanding in this year's actors are supposed to put on black masks following the traditions of ancient greek theater to french minister has published a joint statement opposing the cancellation. the ministers strongly condemned this unprecedented attack on freedom of speech and creativity at the university it runs contrary to academic values and republican principles we discussed the issue earlier with louis george tin president of the council of french black associations and john eve the founder of the institute. about the electricity imparted like face originally came from europe and was condemned by human rights defenders the un and the european parliament yesterday the point of black faces for a white person is a change their appearance and act like a dark skinned person because it is first appeared during the times of slavery was done to mock and demonize black people france's communities forcibly reconciled

with crimes against humanity turning this into a joke thinking at least this is funny or we can dress like black people we can be black people this is so funny and so devilishly secure in the mush. this is an absolutely to let iran measure to ban a type of performance an act of violence took place and so on the biggest french university where they blog this play from going ahead. and performance we choose two thousand five hundred years old and as you mentioned in greek there to use of masks with different colors it's traditional like they portray different characters and black masks i'm on there that's why all we hear about blackface is not serious at all this is a new ideological framework which is less than a year old who the law of the button was well as an example but if they don't want to see black people on stage of course one would just use african costumes instead of with i can't dictate how these performances should be done of course so there are thousands of different ways to get round this there are plenty of ways to

produce an ask list tragedy i am a professor of philology and i professed ask myself and i've never come across this unpleasant thing of performers having to dress up in a racist manner two weeks ago there was a carnival in belgium with some racist episodes to it and people dressed up as jewish or black and the european commission went some way to condemn it. if we are republicans we should respect for your opinion but there are limits in fixed laws you tell me that john my real upin was kind of big tits and that's true on twenty one counts like eric exam are and robert may not well. well for the past two years american mainstream russia in the two thousand and sixteen election president trump in a speech to supporters on thursday night celebrated the end of the probe. is over. now a number of media outlets are seeing

a significant drop in ratings after a special council mahler's probe did not find any collusion after all for example the network says c.n.n. an m s n b c is critical coverage of trump has been labeled as fake news by the u.s. president has seen a noticeable decline in viewers in prime time the ratings of largely trump friendly fox news have meanwhile increased by more than a million viewers. chief correspondent trying to explain the trend though saying that there just hasn't been much news since the bombshell moeller findings were announced with the russian 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 the end of anything investigative journalist and vendor still believes us mainstream media has destroyed their own credibility. this report the 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 journal 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 this shift is going to where people can actually get accurate news. facebook has moved to de ben expression it describes as supporting race supports and representation of white nationalism and white separatism on facebook and instagram he's clear these concepts deeply linked to organize hate groups and have no place in our services. the new rules will be implemented next week and are aimed at as facebook says taking a stand against aids earlier this month at the social media giant came under intense cost massacres in new zealand was shared widely the gunman who live streamed his own deadly rampage also published a white nationalist manifesto but critics argue that facebook is 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 our responsibilities this is not erosion of free speech this is a private company platform media platform where you have to side 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 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 they get up and it always seems with facebook they are the last to act the bigger principle is here is that you've got to tackle hate and you've got to be able to have responsible conversations it's when it crosses over to demonizing and 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 can give to the authorities to

police these social media giants because they are huge multibillionaire companies we've really tried to stop them spreading islamist propaganda and facebook took so much should 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 it's also. the other thing we've got to say todd one topic i had is why the heck are we dragging these social media platforms kicking and screaming into doing that i mean a massacre in christchurch streamed live on social media is that one level we've got so it's your platform on you're responsible for what is being hosted on but i think the idea that self-regulation all of these platforms is something which the british government for example have been pushing for a number of years just doesn't would be missed as well it's got to be talk of there's got to be confronted and he's got to be eradicated and that does it for me

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staging a hate crime against themself by paying two personal trainers a scenario to attack him while he walked back to his chicago apartment on january twenty ninth however in light of the dismissal of all charges against small it this week it has finally become apparent that the c.p.d. isn't telling the whole story chicago police superintendent eddie johnson claimed on the day small it was the rest of the quote as well paid thirty five hundred dollars to stage this attack and drag chicago's reputation through the mud in the process and why this stunt was orchestrated by small because he was dissatisfied with his salary after charges were dropped chicago mayor rahm emanuel took the good morning america to chat with fellow democratic party and white house alumni george stephanopoulos to claim again that small is guilty and that it was done to promote himself. the problem is that twelve minutes before the case was sealed by prosecutors the c.p.t.

chose to approve a freedom of information act request and released some of their records records that clearly state that the crime is of undetermined motives that the brothers only told police they were pretty sure they received the hundred dollar bill from small the twenty five january two thousand and nineteen but he not sure when the bill but he was unsure when the bill was used and that they were pretty sure they received the check on january twenty seventh two thousand and nineteen which is just one of the ways in which the chicago police.