it was. spraying struggles with the sheer number of newcomers arriving by sea smuggling gangs cashing in on the refugee crisis an investigative journalist shares with us a rare interview with one of the human traffickers involved. golden girls and for him to fulfill. her due to a thirty to fifty plus we're. working to your. own this is a very structured business why is no one talking about this massive criminal syndicate. but his prime minister tries to make calls for national unity. and a last ditch effort to break the braggs and also yet another deadline extension

from the e.u. . the us supreme court turned down a death row inmates appealed for a painless death saying he calls to does not entitle him to. and the industrial pull of town all falls to a man in the south of france is suffering from severe pollution with locals registering above average rates of cancer and other illnesses. and you're watching all to international line from our studio with me. into the program. last year spain witnessed a record number of migrant rivals by sea with many of them helped across by people smugglers and human traffickers from morocco spoke to investigative journalist

lauren sudden he described how the lucrative trying to works people have to have to spend a lot of money are they how to spend two thousand you. four thousand for four thousand euro two thousand for a few quarters not gotten to you when you enter in a spot you are lucky. the moment you try again. and how do you guarantee and when you're on the board you know you go to do. this it is so international the international will. after. one but they are meant to. be the person and they go and they speak how much money you make. from the door to spain where you know. every person you can have two thousand two thousand five hundred or four

thousand you know the totality fifty person you have to go. fifty person to fifty person everybody by two thousand five hundred or two thousand five . hundred of mon. and we spoke with loren southern who filmed that interview with iraq and smuggler she told us more about the scheme. now the moroccan man we assume at the moment when sure that the coast guard would leave because we were told multiple times by people on the ground that there is a cut that people on the coast moroccan coast guard received to stop patrolling certain areas so about the boats can leave from spain so this is a quite. intelligent business this isn't just a few people fleeing their country desperately getting on dinghies trying to get to spain this is a very structured business and at times he's saying it's around five hundred to

a thousand people imagine how much money you're making it's one hundred thirty thousand euros per boat i mean you could ten boats in a day you're making one point three million dollars why is no one talking about this massive criminal syndicate it's crazy to me to to think that anyone has been portraying this as well certainly on the moroccan or turkish side of libyan side as a humanitarian aid crisis this is almost entirely a business and anyone you speak to on the ground migrant trafficker or otherwise will tell you this is a business they are not looking to help people they don't care if you're persecuted they don't care about your race religion your gender in fact women are turned away often in some of these camps spain is one of the main getaways to europe from africa since the start of this year more than five thousand identified in spain by sea and twenty eighteen about sixty thousand led the crossing lawrence authentic

and believes the authorities don't know how to deal with the crisis. there's not much the authorities can do i don't doubt that some want to do something about this however most of these migrants and this causes chaos for both the spanish and for the migrants themselves on the advice of traffickers are told to throw their passports into the sea or destroy them before entering spain and we actually saw it with our own eyes passports that had been ripped up on the ground in these camps in morocco in the reason they do this is so that once they set foot in spain they have no way of being deported but what this also achieves is that there is no way of processing these migrants they can't be imagine how long it takes to process a person that has offered all of their history their passport their work their banking records it still takes five six seven years to get citizen citizenship in a country a person rocking up with not even

a passport how are they supposed to get processed how are they supposed to get a job or become a citizen or even be seen as a refugee so the police can't deal with this influx of people because they can't even identify who they are and the migrants cannot become a part of the european system because on the advice of these traffickers they threw out their passports assuming they would be entering a europe that is far more they imagine is far more wealthy and far more like paradise than it actually is the reality is these people end up on the streets in france they end up on the streets in italy in spain unable to get a job unable to join the actual society because they can't be processed as citizens so the police can do what they want but there's not much they can achieve when the vice president joe biden is only media's rain again and made allegations of improper physical contact towards at least two women he also faces a scrutiny of pressure on the ukrainian authorities to fire the country's top

prosecutor caleb reports. former vice president joe biden is caught up in a bit of a scandal his name has been floated for the last year or so as a possible democratic challenger the donald trump in the twenty twenty elections but now everyone is talking about his habit of getting frisky with both women and girls in public he leans down smells my hair and then plants this big long kiss on the top of my head joe biden's presidential campaign hasn't even officially begun and people in china not go out of the running joe biden is facing new accusations of inappropriate behavior joe has a habit of doing things right out in the open and while everyone is focusing on this rather touchy subject some of his earlier deeds are not getting as much attention last year in an interview joe bragged about getting ukraine's general prosecutor fired he says he was standing up to corruption got

a commitment from porsche and they would take action against the state prosecutor they did this and i'm telling you not get the billion dollars i said you're not going to believe i'm going to leave in the year i think it was about six hours and we're going to reduce. the fire put in place someone who was solid at the time well just so happens that the general prosecutor was investigating an energy firm in which joe biden's son hunter biden was heavily invested bris milah holdings is an energy corporation in ukraine and hunter biden the son of the former vice president has made a rather handsome profit from it especially in the aftermath of the twenty fourteen events in ukraine in which pro e.u. forces took power that prosecutor was looking into three different instances of foul play from under his cash cow however all it took was a phone call from papa joe and that prosecutor was out we had plans that included interrogations and other crime investigation procedures into members of the

executive board including hunted by members of the buddha team funds as well as. another u.s. based legal entity rosemont said they could see for consulting services one might argue that perhaps joe biden had no idea about his son's financial interests they say he is the vice watched any american media he could in the midst of hum to bud and. gas company is a problem for us soft power joe biden his son and the case against ukraine only garc back during the ukraine events of two thousand and fourteen the white house dismissed any notion that hunter biden's financial dealings had any impact on their decisions i'm wondering if the state department has any concerns or any thoughts about the president joining the board of directors of this ukrainian. gas company know he's a private citizen so as ror women come forward saying they do not appreciate his affection at this point it's pretty clear that joe has an even stranger skeletons

in his closet that he would like to keep very. artsy new york. it was mentioned. also facing sexual harassment however some have questioned those claims. if you've been sexually harassed or assaulted the right needs you as a reply to this tweet. paid to her she told you you have a daughter. i believe dr christine please e. for. what i did feel welcome invasion of my quarterly autonomy and then patients told my space you don't expect to be touched and kissed him by the vice president of the

united states in no circumstance is that appropriate. i'm proud to call joe biden a friend i believe that joe biden city time has never been to meet anyone uncomfortable and that is kind empathetic leadership is what our own country especially now. these troops will not age well you are losing credibility you're the same person would make excuses bill clinton i thought you said you believe in the same oh he said only what it's for these he can be. these are democrats who have championed the me too movement standing up for believing every woman but when it comes to one of their own that clearly is going against a woman's will touching them inappropriately with sexual advances coming up behind

them kissing them on the back of the head or on the back of the neck and groping them and either in private or in full public display the democrats seem to have a two tiered or a double standard i should say when it comes to one of their own and when you have a me too movement that becomes. bastardized and weaponized for people that have nothing but political objectives in mind and we're not real victims you then take the real victims and you discredit them and you and they lose their voice and that is the real tragedy here is that the me too movement has been weaponized by people in politics who are trying to use it against their political opponents and that's what we see time and time again particularly from the democrat party weaponize in this me too movement against the conservatives for their own political gain. being a prime minister has asked the leader of the opposition jeremy corbin to sit down for talks in want could be to raise a maze last attempt to break the ranks it and pass she also announced should seek a further extension to britain's departure from the e.u.

which as things stand is supposed to happen in nine days he said i'll leave the ports from london the british prime minister to resign may held mirth and seven hour talks with her cabinet colleagues in order to try to find a way through the current it's very existence deadlocked the end of it she came out and gave a speech to the nation when she said that she was offering to sit down home with the leader of the opposition joan corbett the process that the house of commons has tried to leave each has not come up with an answer. so today i am taking action to break the logjam i'm offering to sit down with the leader of the opposition and to try to agree a plan that we would both stick to to ensure that we leave the european union and that we do so with a deal now there are some who are questioning why the prime minister is offering to sit down with the labor leader at this point some speculating that she wants to put the onus on him so that if the u.k. is headed towards a no deal breakers that she can say i tried to reach out but mr corbyn wasn't

interested however we've been hearing from the leader of the labor party and he stated that actually if only to represent the interests of labor voters and in fact others didn't vote for labor but he would be willing to sit and talk to the prime minister we recognise that she has made the move i recognise my responsibility to represent the people that supported labor in the last election and the people who didn't support labor but nevertheless want certainty and security for their own future and that's the basis on which with a meter we'll have those discussions but during the course of the prime minister's speech she outlined her view that her withdrawal agreement that's already been voted against three times in parliament we're still the only duo on the table as far as mr corbett is concerned he's opposed that deal where the prime minister opposes one so it remains to be seen exactly where works with mr corbyn it seems

that with the prime minister's insistence that the withdrawal agreement is the only one on the table we could be headed for fourth vote on her deal and if that gets rejected it really is unclear exactly how the prime minister hopes to continue many were left unimpressed by teresa mayes announcement among them downing stranger an official resident larry the cat who shared his own feline science says suggesting that perhaps the pm is trying to shift the blame onto labor for her own mishandling of frank's it. former scottish first minister alex salmond who has to show us his genes on the political infighting over banks it. but the latest prime ministerial emotional for finally get over the line and finally negotiate is something of an orderly withdrawal as opposed to a chaotic retreat there is one fly in no it meant of course that to the samee has already said that she is standing down as prime minister as soon as the withdrawal

deal gets through so jenny carbon the leader of the opposition is quite entitled to say to the prime minister why should i believe you and this consensus agreement you're offering me you are here today and gone tomorrow prime minister you'll be replaced by a hard black city or why don't we have an election instead and let the people decide so for two reasons me at least it's a new initiative will end in tears well everything about a track record tells you that it's probably not going to go as she intended pollution along the french mediterranean coast is putting lines in danger europe correspondent reports from the seaside town of after the break.

what politicians do something. to put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. somehow i want to. get it right to be close that's what the four weeks three in the morning can keep the. interest of all those in the logs in our. back to.

come back to the program the u.s. supreme court has turned down and a pail from a death row inmate who also for a painless execution and judge explain the ruling citing the constitution the eighth amendment does not guarantee a prisoner a painless death something that's of course isn't guaranteed to many people including most victims of capital crimes. the prisoner russell barclay who is a convicted murderer who was sentenced to death back in one thousand nine hundred seven his lawyer lawyers say he has a rare condition that would cause tumors in his throat to burst after being given that lethal injection they say the process would result in an extremely painful death in violation of his constitutional rights but lou asked to be executed with

gas but the request was turned down lethal injection is the most common form of capital punishment in the us and it is done in three stages first a sedative is injected any paralytic drug is administered which can cause suffocation a third injection stops the heart however there is no guarantee of a quick death and in some cases the process can last several hours according to official statistics only seven percent of lethal injections are botched and cause unnecessary suffering. i don't know if it was humane or not that's all you could do we could either not watch or you could. look at the execution that was clearly not going as planned.

so at that point a decision was made to insert one central line into the growing area which is what they did. i can understand. not even minding to read about it do you think france is plenty tough to be in the real marwat saying this is my trip excuse to see it was by far believe the term i use with a colleague last night by far is the most five that i could see. jerry given this film a chief state prison executioner and now an advocate for the abolition of the death

penalty beneath the supreme court made the wrong decision it's a supreme court don't have to carry out the executions the people that have to carry out their executions is the one that sucked through the pain that can be a moment to suffer for a moment for the short period of time until they can macaws kick in the electricity kick gana whatever what have you but the people that have to live with this the rest of them live with this pain and sad and them. as a people to turn these things out and we don't consider that you're dealing with inexperienced people to curry out of professional tasks when are you dealing with medications and syringes or things of that nature you tell them by medical personnel trained personnel but they can't be involved in stuff like this because it's against their quota vertex. so you can't have that person so you've got inexperienced people doing. these things that. can cause them to make mistakes.

we were in the society we have people that. are protecting the environment is one of france's top priorities and the president of manual micron even along the country's picture pretty resorts started coastlines pollution is a problem putting lives at risk on the one hand it looks like an idyllic seaside town in the south of france but you don't have to look very far to see the whole area is overshadowed by one of europe's largest industrial and poor so for years the oil refineries chemical factories and still companies have spewed out not just cocktail a few residents say that plague the health problem or. the main problem comes from the industrial port area which emits ultra fine particles will get into our lungs and bloodstream and cause disease in us the cancer rates

here is ten percent higher than the average in france and aspirin diabetes levels are also elevated this could all be avoided if the waste from the factories was processed properly daniels' not mean himself he's been diagnosed with diabetes and heart problems linked to the pollution. probably i shouldn't complain about having diabetes when some people here have several different types of cancer it's an enormous problem just fifty kilometers from here none of this is happening so we can clearly see that it's a local problem. with a local source there is a stark difference in pollution between our village and the ones further away french government reports have a good knowledge that men who participated in a study were almost three times more likely to have or have had cancer compared to the national average even claims that citizens benefit from some of the highest environmental standards in the world and has pledged to continue cleaning up the continent but despite taking countries like france to court over air quality

standards many people here believe that the actions just don't go far enough. they're too weak they say that they need to protect industries and of course we need industry but they need to stop cutting corners and do more to reduce pollution levels the european commission even admits that twenty three of its twenty eight member states exceed air quality norms and knows that poor air quality accounts for the premature deaths of four hundred thousand people every year with less than two months before e.u. citizens head to the polls environmental issues and concerns like those in force so now are climbing the agenda meanwhile president my corn has long been an advocate of ramping up the battle to combat climate change we are killing our planet's let the streets it's there is no planet b. and if we do nothing our children will know a world of migrations of walls of shortage done to this world it is

not a few q we want for ourselves more generation will do the best. but it will be the duty off your generation to do the job environmental for so many seem to feel the same way you know you are now it's on the promises he hasn't done anything yet. if nothing is done then in future years the situation will become very serious. and i think he wants to tackle lots of problems but when it comes to implementing them i'm not sure he's sick sitting at the moment he has other things on his plate and this issue is not one of his priorities. i think there's still plenty of work to be done you know about the yellow vest movement and one of their conditions is improving the environment people here say that without immediate action the future remains for their children a bleak prospect so what do you want ski auti for summer. news this

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