spain struggles with the sheer number of newcomers arriving by sea smuggling gangs are cashing in on the refugee crisis and investigative journalist shows with us a rare interview with one of the human trafficking involves. a. problem for. the. u.s. supreme court turns down a death row inmates appeal for a painless death saying the constitution does not entitle him to. the industrial portanova. in the south of france is suffering from severe pollution with local above average rates of. talks with

opposition leader jeremy in a last ditch effort to break the braggs that deadlock say also that she'll see yet another assured deadline extension from the e.u. . it's nine o'clock here in moscow and you're watching international live from our studio with me. welcome to the program. last year spain witnessed a record number of migrant arrivals by sea with many of them helped across by people smugglers or human traffickers spoke to investigative journalist lauren southern he described how the lucrative trade works. people have to have to spend a lot of money where they they had to spend two thousand you know four thousand for four thousand you know or two thousand for a few which is not gotten to you when you're in there in

a spot you are lucky they don't into the money you try again to have a lot of money. and how do you guarantee and when you're on the board you know you go to the auto zone they said it so and that was you know in the. in the spin after you have won but they couldn't sell them into. the person and they go you speak how much money can you make. from the door to spain where you know. every person you can have two thousand two thousand factories or four thousand you know the totality fifty person you have to cut fifty person to fifty person everybody and by two thousand five hundred you know two thousand five. hundred have a lot of money and we spoke with the lawrence south and his family interview with

the moroccan smuggler she told us more about the scheme. now the moroccan man we assume at the moment is someone that would have connections with him 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 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 says the start of this year more than five thousand liberians have arrived in spain by say in twenty eighteen about sixty thousand lives across a 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 and morocco and 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 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 these people cannot be identified. only u.s. finds president joe biden is only made his radar again that allegations of improper physical contact towards at least two women he also faces scrutiny of a political web site the hell's latest investigation accusing him of putting pressure on the ukrainian authorities to fire the country's top prosecutor caleb maupin has more details. 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 to them tell you not get the hours i said you're not going to believe i'm going to be leaving here i think it was about six hours and we're going to reduce six hours because the prosecutor is not fired you're not getting the money.

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. heard and the crime investigation. see jews into members of the sick to be clue to how to party members of the buddha pertaining 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's the vice president perhaps he was too busy running the country to pay attention to his son's finances however if he watched any american media he could in the midst of. 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 vice president's joining the board of directors of this ukrainian. gas company know he's a private citizen so as real isn't real as a video show that joe biden has some pretty strange proclivities and more 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. responding to accusations of sexual harassment joe biden said he never had to had the intention to act inappropriately and biden has a surprise support. if you've been sexually harassed or assaulted you write me too as a reply to this tweet. hate to call say shame on you you have a daughter. i believe dr christine please efore. what i did feel was an invasion of my boy's only autonomy and then the patient called my space you don't expect to be touched and kissed and pressed by the vice

president of the united states in no circumstance is that appropriate. i'm proud to how joe biden no friend i believe that joe biden is in town has never been to meet anyone uncomfortable and that he's kind empathetic leadership is what our country especially now. is to it's well not age well you're losing credibility you're the same person would make excuses for bill clinton i thought you said evolution i recently oh he said only what it's politically 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 in appropriately 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 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 weaponize 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 for. protecting the environment is one of france's top priorities and the president and i knew all my crowd even along the country's picture pretty resilient started coastlines pollution is a problem putting lives at risk our europe correspondent charlotte do penske

reports. this is for some only one hearns 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 a 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 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 shouldn't complain about having

diabetes when some people here have several different types of cancer is 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 saw shop there is a stark difference in pollution between our village and the ones further away french government really. poor to have a good knowledge that residents here are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases like alzheimer's while women who participated in a study were almost three times more likely to have or have had cancer compared to the national average the e.u. claims its 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 egg quality standards many people here believe that the easy 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 permit your 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 michael has long been an advocate of ramping up the battle to combat climate change we are killing our planet's lead to three 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 through this world it is not a few queue we want for ourselves more generation will do. in order for your generation to have the choice to choose. but it will be the duty off your generation to do the

job environmental campaigners have accused him of all talk and little action people in 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. show you anything if nothing is done and 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 exciting 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 say that without immediate action. for. the right to a painless death in full after this break. join

me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to suppressing. what.

i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you can think i was going to do. by the way what is the fly here. welcome back to the program the u.s. supreme court has turned down an appeal from a death row inmate who asked for a painless execution a judge explain the ruling citing the constitution the eighth amendment does not guarantee a prisoner a painless death something that of course isn't guaranteed to many people including most victims of capital crimes the prisoner russell clue is a convicted murderer who was sentenced to death back in one thousand nine hundred seventy his lawyers say he has a rare condition that would cause chin in his throat to burst after being given the lethal injection they say the process would result in an extremely painful death in

violation of his constitutional rights but os 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's done in three stages first a sedative is injected then a 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 saw four hours according to official statistics ninety seven percent of lethal injections are botched and caused unnecessary suffering.

i don't know if it was humane or not that's all you could do it you 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 groin area which is what they did. answer read about the current says let alone have to be in the room or watson this is my tenth excuse to see it was by far believe the term i used with a colleague last night by far is the most wise that i get sick. jerry given for my chief state prisoner execution and now an advocate for the

abolition of the death penalty believes the supremes court made the wrong decision . so that supreme court don't have the courage of the executions the people that have to carry out their executions is the war and it's up to the pain that can be a moment to suffer for a moment for short period of time until the chemical. kick in the electricity kick in a whatever what have you but the people that have to live with this the rest of their lives but this pain inside of them. is the people to turn these things out and we don't consider that you're dealing with inexperienced people the courage of professional tests we know where you dealing with medications and syringes things of that nature you tell them about medical personnel training personnel but they can't be involved in stuff like this because it's against their code of ethics so you can't have that person so you get inexperienced people doing these things that

will cause them to make mistakes and you can blame them for that we can't control deal but we can control kill and ruin more in the society we're people that education in the us to not do without the performance things that is executions. the u.k. prime minister is also the leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn to sit down for talks in what could be to raise that means last attempt to break ranks it in parts also announce should seek a further extension to britain's departure from the e.u. which as things stand is supposed to happen in nine days ali reports from london. the british prime minister to resign may held marathon seven hour talks with her cabinet colleagues in order to try to find a way through the current deadlocked and at the end of it she came out and gave a speech to the nation in which she said that she was offering to sit down and hold

talks with the leader of the opposition called the process of the house of commons has tried to lead has not come up with an answer. so today i'm 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 who didn't vote for labor that he would be willing to sit and i recognize 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 deal on the table as far as mr corbett is concerned he's opposed that deal and whipped his m.p.'s against it all three times mr corbin supports a customs union where the prime minister opposes one so it remains to be seen exactly where the common ground is that the prime minister hopes to have some progress with those talks 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 and impressed by to

raise a maze announcement among them downing street an official resident laurie the cac to shared his own feline inside suggesting that perhaps the pm is trying to shift the blame on to labor for her own mishandling of bragg's it. foremost scottish first minister alex salmond who hosts a show here on r.t. gave us his views on the political infighting over brags that. but the latest prime ministerial emotional four finally get over the line to a chaotic retreat there is one fly annoyed with of course the to the samee has already said that she is standing down as private as soon as the drawl deal gets through so jenna caught up in the leader of the opposition. entitle to say to the prime minister why should i believe you and this consensus agreement you're you're offering me we're going to hear of today and gone tomorrow prime minister you'll be the place that the year 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 well it ended. well everything about a track record tells you that it's probably not going to jake tapper has been attempting to defend the network's coverage of alleged russia collusion it comes after special counsel robert rudolph found no evidence of russian gate however toppers claim the news channel got nothing wrong that was challenge by for. clear evidence on the issue of collusion or collusion between the translators pain and the russians including something president trump has repeatedly denied something that looks and smells a whole lot like collusion. or report was great it could not have been better you know what struck you know it could not have been.

i'm not sure what you're saying the media got it wrong. the polls are wrong facts were not significant one put the facts that we put out. don't know anybody who got anything wrong we didn't say that there was conspiracy we said the mother was investigating conspiracy. that's the news this hour back around thirty minutes time with more updates but do stay with us now for watching the whole which is next on international.

greetings and salutations. the great sucker of birds one mark zuckerberg the grand facebook was back in the headlines this week once again after coming down from mt silicon valley and declaring to everyone that it's time for the regulation social media and the internet yes in an op ed for the sunday edition of the washington post the facebook c.e.o. laid out his plan for what the future regulation of social media could and should look like writing according to him writing that he believes we need a more active role for governments and regulators by updating the rules for the internet we can preserve what's best about it the freedom for people to express themselves and for i'm privileged to build new things while also protecting society from broader harm us. dr bergman laid out four areas most in need of government regulation writing from what i've learned i believe we need new regulation in these

four years harmful content election integrity privacy and date of lean in towards government regulation which has left many folks just a tag folks at facebook this suspicion of motives prompted the bloomberg editorial board to write each of zucker bergs for proposals would create its own particular problems if adopted as government policy but on one point they have much in common they'd be good for facebook's business because as many are now pointing out this looks an awful lot like facebook essentially dropping its publicity nightmare over free speech censorship right into the hands of the government.