p.b.'s a critic. of the united states. into russia little. men they know is bad wolf. as spain struggles with the sheer number of newcomers arriving by. cashing in on the refugee crisis an investigative journalist shares with us and with one of the human traffickers in of all. the dogs i'm going from before you. took thirty to fifty. reporting to your boss probably before. the u.s. supreme court turns down death row inmates a real painless death saying the constitution does not entitle him to.

cause the same in the south of france and suffering from severe pollution with locals registering a free traits of cancer and of the mc. and the british prime minister calls for national unity told with opposition leader jeremy called the last ditch effort to break the deadlock thank both of them still seeking another short deadline extension already. having a call here in moscow and you're watching altie international live from austin join with me. to the program. two thousand euro per head that's the minimum price to get smuggled into europe from africa on small boats carrying up to fifty people at

a time and human trafficking has shed light on the lucrative illegal trade speaking on conditions of anonymity to investigative journalist lawrence sutton. people have to have to spend a lot of money. they had to spend two thousand you know four thousand for four thousand euro two thousand for a few which is not gotten to you when you're in there in a spot you are lucky you don't into the moment you try again. and how do you guarantee and then you're on the board you know you go to do. this it is so international the international. after you have won but they could sell them into. the person and they're going to speak how much money can 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 to fifty person. fifty person everybody and by two thousand five hundred or two thousand five. hundred. earlier we spoke with a lauren southern who filmed that interview with american smuggler she told us more about the scheme. now the moroccan man we assume at the moment is someone that would have connections within the moroccan government or be able to ensure 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 receive 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 gateways to europe from

africa since the start of this year more than five thousand life and survived in spain by sea and twenty eighteen almost sixty thousand made the crossing lauren south and again says there's a little spain can do to control the situation. 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 of 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.

vice president joe biden who's tipped to run for the white house in twenty twenty has been fending off on occasions of sexual misconduct as well of negative press has taken attention away from another potentially damaging revelation ukraine's former top prosecutor speaking to political web site the health accuses biden of pressuring kiev into sucking him caleb digs deeper. 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. in a commitment from poroshenko they would take action against the state prosecutor they did this and i'm telling you not getting ours i said you not going to believe i'm going to be leaving the year i think it was about six hours and we're going to reduce sixteen hours if the prosecutor is not fired you're not getting the money. you know foreigners 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. sieges into members of the. party members of the border between 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.

a 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 of vice president 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 the intention to act inappropriately and biden has a surprise supporter.

if you've been sexually harassed or assaulted write me to as a reply to this tweet. hate to say sheen all you you have daughters. i believe dr christine please efore. what i did feel was an invasion of my boys only autonomy and then the patient called my space you don't expect to be touched and kissed him caressed 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's in town has never been to meet anyone uncomfortable and that he's kind empathetic leadership is what our own country

needs especially now. this through its will not age well you're losing credibility and you're the same bruce would make excuses for bill clinton i thought he said women at least in my own 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 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. protecting the environment is one of france's top priorities and to present a manual micron even along the country's picture pretty restored started coastlines pollution it's a problem putting lives at risk our europe correspondent charlotte do penske reports. but this is for so many 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 port zones for years

the oil refineries chemical factories and still companies have spewed out and noxious cocktail a few residents say that plague the health problem or. the main problem comes in the industrial port area which emits ultra fine particles will get into our lungs and bloodstream and cause disease in us the cancer rate 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 source there is a stark difference in pollution between our village and the ones further away french government reports 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. the european commission even admits that twenty three of its twenty eight member states exceed air quality norms and it knows that poor air quality accounts the 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 a 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 let us face it there is no planet b. and if we do nothing our children will know a world of migrations of walls of shortage of done for this world it is not a few queue we want for ourselves ma generation will do the best. in order for your generation to have the choice to choose but it will be the duty of 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 are now it's on the promises he hasn't done anything yet. 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 succeeding 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 the missions 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 r.t. for. now right to a painless death verdict of the u.s. supreme court regarding people on death row that story in full after this break.

you know world a big part of the new law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. with nor make manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling class is project themselves. in the final larry go around. the world. we can all middle of the room.

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 but jerry givens a former executioner who now advocates for the abolition of the death penalty says it is not those on death row that suffer the most pain. 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's up to the pain to condemn only suffer

for a moment for the short period of time until the chemicals kick in electricity kick into 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 that carries things out and we don't consider that. the prisoner russell buckley is a convicted murderer who was sentenced to death back in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven his lawyers say he has a rare condition that would cause chimneys in his throat to burst after being given the lethal injection they say the process would result in the extremely painful death in violation of his constitutional rights but lou asked to be executed with gas but the request was turned down these injection is the most common form of capital punishment in the u.s. on is done in three stages first a sedative is injected then a paralytic drug is administered which can cause suffocation

a furred 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 nearly seven percent of lethal injections a botched and causing unnecessary suffering. i don't know if that was humane or not that's all you could do it you could either not watch or you could. look at this execution that was clearly not going as planned. so this is his way to insert one central wall into the drawing.

which is what they did. i can understand. not even wanting to read about the current says let alone have to be in the room are watching this is my. see it was. believed true values were. by far the most why. every given second says one of the reasons for a botched painful executions is a lack of qualified personnel dealing with inexperienced people the courage of professional task when are you dealing with medications and syringes things of that nature you call them by medical personnel trained 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 got any experienced 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 the society we're a people that's education enough to not do without the performance things that is executions. u.k. prime minister has asked for leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn to sit down for talks in what could be traced a maze last attempt to break the brags that impasse she also announced should seek a further extension to britain's departure from the 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 john corbett the process that the house of commons has tried to lead 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 break 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 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 we're the meter and 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 and as far as mr corbett is concerned he's opposed the 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. but 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 teresa mayes announcement among them downing street an official resident of the cat and his own feline in science suggesting that perhaps the pm is trying to shift the blame on to labor for her own mishandling of breaks it. that's the news this hour i'll be back around thirty minutes time with. a comedian who has won the first round of ukraine's presidential election. doesn't

have strong policy positions maybe that was his greatest appeal though he made it clear corruption is ukraine's biggest challenge fixing ukraine's are very serious problems is no laughing matter. for a single purpose. they have a supermoon. training very young. eight months of intensive schooling. rats. and they save lives.

of action or how they were going underground three years to the day alleged spy and u.k. protected diplomat dozens of iraq cliff was arrested attacked run their boats coming out of the show as they judge on seventy is it time for it to be retired we ask a former top nato official the pinochet of ukraine after losing the first round of elections will the cia backed or should go use military action against russia to stay in power plus while break the. threatens to topple tourism a absolute poverty it's fourteen million to four point one million children in the fifth wealthiest nation on earth dollars more coming up in today's going underground or first to more of the north atlantic treaty organization turn seventy one people. between now luxembourg. the united kingdom norway denmark italy portugal iceland canada and the united states. to keep within the letter the united nations charter yes nato and the

un charter but if one discounts this information propaganda and the sabotage of workers movements nato is first a military action didn't start until after the fall of the berlin wall and they violated that un charter his no jobs using work praised by u.s. authorities to deconstruct the nato with ology of the european war in yugoslavia he says the bombing of serbia was not undertaken out of concern for the plight of the customer of maintenance jobs he goes on to allege may join yugoslavia was a neo liberal design even the much criticized mainstream media at the time tried to explain to nato publics that nato was more important than the un in a sense the un is sidelined in all of this so nato bombed without u.n. authorization it even went on to bomb china's embassy in yugoslavia leading to accusations that nato has near liberal designs we're now attacking a developing world on the rise splits in nato emerge after action in afghanistan

many afghans are angry about the latest killing of civilians by u.s. troops and after the afi threatened nato neoliberalism with the creation of an african petro currency threaten the dollar libya it has been ten days since mr obama ordered u.s. forces into combat in libya. nearly two hundred tomahawk cruise missiles launched beijing and moscow angrily denounced nato. which are nial ated africa's richest by capita country catalyzing the worst refugee crisis since world war two in europe by the time america first donald trump was president nato was under attack from washington let alone london the wider issue is that the e.u. has got very close to nato nato has been pushing very hard to expand eastwards inevitably russia is going to get very nervous if nato sets up the bases all around its borders and with that man odds on favorite to be the next british prime minister and nato has days number.