in what's being touted as an important milestone in russo german relations with the german car giant which owns where savings is opening a new plant near moscow. has been 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. over of course what you can do with all of them though the fact he will fulfill them you probably took thirty to fifty. room to put into your books probably the phone. the u.s.

supreme court turns down a death row inmate appeal great deal of saying the constitution does not entitle him to that. and the industrial port town a foster man in the south of france is suffering from severe pollution with locals registering above average rates of cancer and other illnesses. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r.t. h.q. in moscow thanks for joining us this hour first german car giant which owns mercedes is opening a plant near moscow seen as an important milestone and recent german relations the move is expected to create up to a thousand jobs because all of brings us up to speed. 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 in the manufacture 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 the investment or you know pretty huge points no good add up to eight thousand jobs to russia's economy 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 washington went really angry and has repeatedly told germany not to do business with russia in that sense and while germany's response was that world politics and business should not make together the flag of the i think no one wants to be unilaterally dependent on russia but we received russian gas not only in the d.d.r. where i lived but also in west germany during the cold war and they don't see why the times today should be so much verse that we can no longer see russia remains a part of that 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 euros 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 more insulting. people have to have to spin out of money or. how to spend two thousand you. four thousand for four thousand euro two thousand for a few bucks is not gotten to you. you are lucky you don't into the money you try again. and how do you guarantee and when you're on the board you know you go to do. this it is so and the national the international. one but they couldn't sell them into. the person and they go to these people how much money can you make. from the door to spain where you know. every person you can have two thousand two thousand five to

four thousand you know the totality fifty person. fifty person. fifty person everybody by two thousand five hundred you know two thousand five. hundred. earlier we spoke with more in southern 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 that 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 migrants have arrived in spain by sea in two thousand and eighteen almost sixty thousand made the

crossing or in southern again says there's 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 all 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. former u.s. vice president joe biden has tipped to run for the white house in two thousand and

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 former top prosecutor speaking to political website the hill accuses biden pressuring into sacking him killed. 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 and they did this and i'm telling you not getting the hours i said you not going to believe i'm going to be leaving here i think is what six hours and we're going to reduce six hours if 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. sieges into a member of the. party members of the blue detained funds as well as another u.s. based legal entity rosemont said they could see for consulting services one might argue that perhaps joe biden had no idea about his son's financial interests they say he is the vice 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 and wondering if the state department has any concerns or any thoughts with vice president 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. artsy new york responding to accusations of sexual harassment joe biden said he had never had the intention to act inappropriately and biden has a surprise supporter. if you've been sexually harassed or assaulted you write as

a reply to this tweet. hate to say shame on you you have daughters. i believe dr. seen please e for. what i did feel was an invasion of my politically autonomy and then they should hold my space you don't expect to be touched and kissed and pressed by the vice president of the united states in no circumstances it's not appropriate. i'm proud to call joe biden a friend i believe that joe biden city town has never been to meet anyone uncomfortable and that he's kind empathetic leadership is what our own country especially now. these troops were not well you know losing

credibility you're the seed person would make excuses for bill clinton i thought he said we were in the tsunami or he said only what it's politically could be. these are democrats who have championed the me too movement standing up for believing every woman but when it comes to one of their own that clearly is going against a woman's will touching them inappropriately with sexual advances coming up behind them kissing them on the back of the head or on the back of the neck and groping them and either in private or in full public display the democrats seem to have a two tiered or a double standard i should say when it comes to one of their own and when you have a me too movement that becomes bastardized and 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. so the germans are famous for their efficiency as stereotype they no doubt don't mind indulging but that image is being chipped away at at the highest level with the government's main plane repeatedly breaking down at the most inopportune moments. thanks. thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks. thanks. thanks.

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welcome back protecting the environment is one of france's top priorities under president emmanuel mccrone but even along the country's picture perfect resort started coastlines pollution is a problem putting lives at risk our europe correspondent charles dubin ski reports . this is for so many only one hand it looks like an idyllic seaside town in the south of france but you don't have to look very far to see the whole area is overshadowed by one of europe's largest industrial and poor so for years the oil refineries chemical factories and still companies have spewed out and 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 diseases of 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 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 are climbing the agenda meanwhile president my corn has long been an advocate of ramping up the battle to combat climate change we are killing our planet's lead to. 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 know 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 sticks sitting at the moment he has other things on his plate and this issue is not one of his priorities. i think there's still plenty of work to be done you know about the yellow vest movement and one of their conditions is improving the environment

people here say that without immediate action the future remains for their children a bleak prospect so what do you want ski altie for. 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 the abolition of the death penalty says it's not those on death row that suffer the most pain. it's the 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 is the people that carry 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 nine hundred ninety seven his lawyers say he has a rare condition that would cause tumors and his throat to burst after being given the lethal injection they say the process would result in an extremely painful death and violation of his constitutional rights 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 saw that it 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 several hours according to official statistics nearly seven percent of lethal injections are botched and cause

unnecessary suffering jerry givens again says one of the reasons for 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 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 experience people doing. these things that will cause them to make mistakes. and you came blame them for that we can't control bill but we can control kill a really good and i'm armed to society we're a people that's education enough to not do without the reforms things such as executions that's the news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour

with the latest thanks for tuning it. seems to do crack when i was a little kid my dad he was like oh. so you know like what i needed when i was a baby boy i had a big show. there's always been single mothers in african-american communities ever since slavery. i think it's more of a teenagers having kids in you can expect a fourteen or fifteen year old first daughter now order for him to be a father and he's a check out. we actually lost our place and.

my car end up breaking down and i was unable to get to work on time so they let me go with my paycheck that i bring home i have nearly enough to pay my car insurance . a comedian who has won the first round if you. presidential election. doesn't have strong policy positions maybe his greatest appeal though he made it clear corruption is ukraine's biggest challenge ukraine's are very serious problems is no laughing matter. he put themselves on the line they did accept it or reject it. so when you want to be president and. want to. have to go to the press.

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this county then some states have had collective good went to this website began featuring. the sheriff's wife that. 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. critic. of the united states. into russia political. men they know as bad wolf. blitzer. and this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of

business and finance and the impact on us all i'm been one feeling the full bore children of washington glad you're with us so coming up a swine flu outbreak has devastated china's market but what does that mean for the markets more importantly what does it mean for you fred thompson the author of bet the farm and talk of war with the above a trading day join us to break down what this all means report plus we made through what the outbreak means for poor stocks across the globe and then we break down some other big news in the past and health with danielle shea she's the director operators over at simpler trading and once again facebook is under fire this time on the other side of the globe as a social media giant role in the indian election is now coming under scrutiny conservative t.v. and radio commentator steve molesworth and r.c. producer brigid bork dive into the details and tell us what this means for the world's largest democracy all that straight ahead but first let's do some headlines . let's start here a demean outlook for

a fracturing world market in twenty one thousand so the world trade organization significantly downgrades their regular forecast on growth in global trade the latest trade in statistics out look at lowers their expectations for global trade growth this year predicting two point six percent growth for twenty nineteen that's down from the previous forecast of three point seven. in a statement w t o director general referred to us that they had o. he cited familiar international trade tensions for the revision by the same token the w t o set of problems resolution of those fights could remove that downgrade pressure on trade growth the deputy also had some retrospective bad news cutting their estimate for a global trade growth for last year to an even three percent that's down from three point nine. more fallout from tuesday's decision to buy an s. four hundred missile defense system from russia which we reported earlier well now the u.s. department of defense the d o d has canceled the delivery of a quick.