presidential election. doesn't have strong policy positions maybe it was his greatest appeal though he made it clear how eruption is ukraine's biggest challenge ukraine's very serious problems as you know. as spain struggles with the sheer number of newcomers arriving by sea smuggling gangs are cashing in on the refugee crisis and investigative journalist shares with us a rare interview with one of the human traffickers involved. over porcelain. gold and gold and from four dollars when you heard the totality fifty plus were working to cause trouble before. the u.s. supreme court turned death row inmates appealed for a painless death saying the constitution does not entitle him to.

the industrial town of falls in the south of france is suffering from severe pollution with locals registering above average rates of cancer and other illnesses . and british prime minister to raise a. national unity talks with opposition leader jeremy corbett in a last ditch effort to break the deadlock saying also that she'll seek yet another short deadline extension from the e.u. . it's made day here in moscow and you're watching international live from our studio with me welcome to the program german car giant daimler which owns miss avies is opening up plans a near an important milestone in germany russia relations. they have his expected

to create up to a thousand jobs russian president vladimir putin is expected to attend the opening ceremony and we have more details from our correspondent easily. in the sea at the scene tell us more about this. a big big event here right outside of moscow in fact lots of guests lots of commotion going on and really yes this is what's happening the owner of mercedes benz to the manufacturer of some of the most prestigious cars in the world is opening its first manufacturing plant in russia it has invested some two hundred and fifty million dollars into this facility where we are are at right now and we're expecting more to come really and this facility is expected to be able to produce up to twenty five thousand cars per year for russia again is not just being investment or you know pretty sure points you know you could go also as you've rightly

mentioned it could add up to eight thousand jobs to russia's economy now speaking of the guest list as well the most high profile is russia's president vladimir putin who is expected here and he will be joined by germany's economy minister who flew into more school from germany to attend the ceremony and world to meet with these russian colleagues with ministers and with the russian president of course now such a high profile visit to more school comes amid the heightened and really under while berlin is being put under more significant pressure from washington for basically doing business with russia it's not this particular business project in question but for instance germany and russia have been building together a gas pipeline a major gas pipeline nord stream designed to expand the floor brush into europe and over that washington where. well really angry and has repeatedly told

germany not to do business with russia in that sense and while germany's response was that while politics and business should not mix together so really the opening of this factory and the high profile visit really shows that germany is willing to make money with russia together ok. so they have story. now two thousand you have a 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 and investigative journalist lauren sutton. people have to have to spend a lot of money. they had to spend two thousand you know. four thousand new four thousand euro two thousand for a few which is not got until. you are looking into the more you try

again. and how do you guarantee and. you know. to do. this it is so international the international. after you have won but they are meant to. be the person and. 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 by two thousand five hundred or two thousand five. hundred. and we

spoke with lauren sutton who filmed that interview with the moroccan smuggler she told us 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 getaways to europe from africa since the start of this year more than five thousand migrants have arrived in spain by sea and twenty eighteen almost sixty thousand made the crossing lower south and south and again says there is 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 the migrants themselves on the advice of traffickers are told to throw their passports into the. see or destroyed 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 citizenship citizenship in a country a person rocking up with not even a passport how one is 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 it lots 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 allegations of sexual misconduct that's one of the negative press has taken attention away from another potentially damaging revelation ukraine's former top prosecutor speaking to political website the health accuses biden of pressuring him to sucking him kaleb 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 got a commitment from portion and they would take action against the state prosecutor

and they did this 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. they 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. into members of the. party members of the board obtain 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 you watched any american media he could in the midst. 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. or anything. vice president joining the board of directors of this you. 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. protecting the environment is one of france's top priorities and the president emanuel micron even along the country's picture pretty stunted coastlines pollution is a problem putting lives at risk are you a correspondent. 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 ports so for years the oil refineries chemical factories and still companies have spewed

out a noxious 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 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 i 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 reports have a good knowledge that residents here are more likely to suffer from chronic

diseases like cancer 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 ease 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 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 face 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 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. now it's only 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 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 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. no right to a painless death is the verdict of the u.s. supreme court regarding people on death row that story in full after this break.

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welcome back to the program the u.s. supreme court has turned down a pail 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's 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 the courage of the executions the war and it's up through the pain that can be a morally suffer for a moment for short period of time into the chemicals 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 with this pain inside them is the people to turn these 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 tumors 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 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's done in three stages first a sedative is injected then a paralytic drug is administered which can cause suffocation and 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 nearly 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 when 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 your groin area which is what they did.

i can understand. not even mining serene about these the current plan and then have to be in the resume or watson this was my to the execution to see it was by far believe the term i use with a colleague last night was by far just a post why did i get sick. jerry givens again says one of the reasons painful executions is a lack of qualified personnel you're dealing with inexperienced people to corral the professional task when you're dealing with medications and syringes and 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 code of ethics so you can't have that person so you've got any experience people doing. these things

that will cause them to make mistakes. you can blame them for that we can't control bill but we can control kill and ruin in a minute society we have people that's education in the us to not to have to perform things that is executions. in the u.k. prime minister has asked the leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn to sit down for talks in what could be teresa mayes last attempt to break the brags that in past she also announced she would seek a further extension to britain's departure from the e.u. which as things stand is supposed to happen in nine days is early 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 forests regs 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 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 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 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 and 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 and downing street to an official residence larry the. captain shared his own feeling inside suggesting that perhaps the pm is trying to shift the blame on to labor for her own mishandling backseat. former scottish first minister alex salmond who hosts a show here on r.t. gave us his views on the political infighting over pranks it but haps us the latest prime ministerial emotional for finally get over the lying and failing to go shape is something of an orderly withdrawal as opposed 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 withdrawal deal gets through so jenna carbon the leader of the opposition is quite 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 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 there's a new initiative will end in tears well everything about the track record tells you that it's probably not going to vote she intended. the need to be back around thirty minutes time with updates but do stay with us now for cross talk which is up next here on r.t. international. for a single purpose. of

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle a comedian has won the first round of ukraine's presidential election although it 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 very serious problems is no laughing matter. talking ukraine i'm joined by my guest. in london he is a political consultant and foreign affairs analyst also in london we have alexander make your us he has to director and writer for the duran dot com and in sonoma california we crossed to john jordan he is a political strategist right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want.