i. mean what's being counted as and important milestone in roseau german relations german car giant which owns miss avies is opening a new plant near moscow. as spain's 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. called a program for. your personal report them to your boss probably before. the u.s.

supreme court turns down a death row inmates appealed for a painless death saying the constitution does not entitle to. and the industrial port townsend who met in the south of france is suffering from severe pollution with locals registering a french rates of cancer and other illnesses. it's one o'clock here in moscow and you're watching out international line from last year with mean a day or two to welcome to the program german colony which owns miss avies is opening a plant near moscow and important milestone in germany russia relations the move is expected to create up to a thousand jobs russian president vladimir putin is expected to attend the opening

ceremony. 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 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 now for russia again is not just being investment or you know pretty huge point no good add up to a 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 brushless gas into europe and over that washington weren't really angry and has repeatedly told germany not to do business with russia in that sense and world germany's response was that world politics and business should not mix together the flag of the i think no one wants to be unilaterally dependent on drugs but we received russian gas not only the d.d.r.

where i lived but also in west jet. during the cold war and i don't see why the times today should be so much worse that we can no longer see russia remains a part of the idea so really the opening of this factory and the high profile visit really shows that germany is willing to make money with russia together. two thousand euro per had the minimum price to get smuggled into europe from africa on small boats carrying up to fifty people at a time and human traffic a shed light on the lucrative illegal trade speaking on conditions of anonymity to investigative journalist lawrence other people have to have to spend a lot of money. they have to spend two thousand you know. four thousand new for four thousand euro two thousand for a few which is not got until. you are looking into the more you try

again to have a lot of money. and how do you guarantee and then line the board you know you go to do. this it is international the international. after you have won but they are meant to. be the person and they are 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. the totality fifty person you have to go. fifty person. fifty person everybody by two thousand five hundred or two thousand five. hundred. million we spoke with lauren a certain who filmed that interview with a moroccan 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 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 lauren south and again south as 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 in blocks 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. by 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 swirl of negative press has taken attention away from another potentially damaging revelation. ukraine's a former top prosecutor speaking to political website the hill accuses byington of pressuring him to sucking. 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 his 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. commitment from poor shouldn't go they would take action against the state prosecutor they did this to them tell you not get it. i said you're 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 and 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 its. it was a phone call from papa joe and that prosecutor was out we had plans. and crime investigation procedures into members of the executive board how to

party members of the board obtain funds as well as another u.s. based legal entity rosemont and 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 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. the 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 vice presidents joining the board of directors of this ukrainian. gas company know he's a private citizen so as rails on rails

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 often artsy new york now ride to a painless death the verdict of the u.s. supreme court regarding people on death row thought story in full after this break .

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express interest. some want to. get it right to be close that's what it looks like three of them or ten people. interested in the lawyers are out. there sitting. on. the program protecting the environment is one of france's top priorities under

president manual micron even along the country's picture pretty resort studded coastlines pollution is a problem putting lives at risk our europe correspondent charlotte do penske reports. 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 of 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 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 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 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 of done for 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 as a duty of your generation to do the job environmental campaign is 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. show unifi 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 exuding 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 r.t. for. the u.s. supreme court has turned down an appeal from a death row inmate who asked for a painless execution a judge explained 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 advocate 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 to carry out the executions is the one that's up to the pain to condemn only suffer for a moment for short period of time until the chemicals kick in electricity kick in whatever what have you but the people that have to live with this the rest of their

lives put this pain inside them. as a people to turn these things out and we don't consider that. the prisoner russell buckley who is a convicted murderer who was sentenced to death back in one thousand nine hundred seven his lawyers say he has a rare condition that would cause tuman 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 is 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's no guarantee of a quick death and in some cases the process can last several hours according to official statistics nearly seventy 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 it you could either not watch or you could. look at this execution that was clearly not going as planned. so. to insert one central into your drawing. which is what they did.

i can understand. not even minding to read about these the current system. and then you have to be on the resume or watson this was my kid thinks you should see it was . believe the term i used. by far was the most why. jerry givens again says one of the reasons botched painful executions is a lack of qualified personnel you're dealing with inexperienced people to corrode a professional task when you're dealing with medications and syringes things of that nature you tell them by 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 got any experienced people doing. these things that will

cause them to make mistakes and you came blame them for that we can't control death but we can control killing really and a modern day society where people that's education enough to not do without the performance things that is executions. that's the news this i want jacqueline bisset will take over around thirty minutes time with more up days but do stay with us now for a documentary called isaac the story of a little giant which is up next here on international. manhunt there was a crack seems to do crack when i was a locate my dad he was like a bust at the so you know i got like what i needed when i was a baby boy i had

a bad childhood. there's always been single mothers in african american community service and slavery. i think it's more of these teenagers having kids and you can expect a fourteen or fifteen year old first daughter now order for him maybe a far there and he's a check out. lost their place and. my car and breaking down and i was unable to get to work on time so they let me go in with my paycheck that i bring home i have barely enough to pay my car insurance . the gas in my car. you know world of big. law and conspiracy it's time to wake

to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream 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. watching closely watching the hawks. i mean more doogan is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful agency in this county for you me to state if you look at it from the analogy. marc was the day that when he was flying to the lions mugged or going to has been the sheriff's most contentious critic for a year is the first time i noticed something wasn't right in fleece work pretty much when he first started the corruption in palm beach county is not something that you can smell or thing like it's a nod and

a wink it wasn't what i wanted to do. we've had more shootings in this county then some states have had collective thing to do and went to his website began featuring the comments about gold his family the sheriff might. wash you like a bug you know we should stop clinicians there and i'm left with stuff i believe what i'm doing ok you know it's your funeral f.b.i. raided p.b.s. and critics in this house. i snuck out of the united states. into russia political. men they know bad wolf.

this is a story of one of africa's giants. know his teeth aren't that sharp. and his neck isn't that long. list giant is rather modest and keeps a low profile that's not him either. people are often scared of this particular

giant but he is nowhere near as dangerous as that one. it's a friendly giant every day with the possible exception of weekends he saves human lives day is. his name is isaac the giant power grat. and i like his brothers and sisters he was born with a passion for travel. isaac's birthplace was a special training center in tanzania. it's

called which stands for development of landmine detection equipment that's what isaac is these are mine sniffing rat. rats are everywhere they are sociable circumstances. with humanity. they are actually traditionally. garbage and they've been doing that. for always. mind sniffing rats are put to work in former hotspots where learned mines are among the most deadly remnants of conflict they're often found years after war has ended and serious injury isn't the only problem. imagine how it must feel to live with the knowledge that there's a landmine lurking somewhere near your home. when i was a close up field and to help make the problem of landmines a thing of the past. but it will be

a full nine months before he becomes a real pro for now he simply spends his time with his family. it's no coincidence the giant rats were chosen to sniff mines in the wild they're extraordinary sense of smell that was them to search for food buried deep underground it worked with land mines to the key is to train the a rats to associate the discovery of t.n.t. with food and that's not difficult because everyone knows how intelligent rats. the really hard part is making sure that the rat doesn't make any mistakes that could be fatal not just for the rat. these regular rats there it's clear from the way they eat these giant special pouches in the food just like hamsters says this particular animal is on the cusp between being a rat.