in what's being touted as a key milestone in russo german relations mercedes owner diane one is opening a new plant near moscow. as spain struggles with the number of migrants arriving by sea smuggling gangs are cashing in on the refugee crisis investigative journalist shares with us a rare interview with one of the human traffickers involved. over of course only two dollars i'm going for a little four thousand. because it took thirty to fifty push for a book from good books probably. also this hour the u.s. supreme court turns down a death row inmates appeal for

a painless death saying the constitution does not entitle him to that. and then dust foretell and the south of france is suffering from severe pollution of locals registering above average rates of cancer and other illnesses. you're watching are to international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned four pm welcome to the program first german car giant dime lart which owns mercedes is opening a plant near moscow seen as a important milestone in russo german relations the move is expected to create up to a thousand jobs brings us up to speed. the production of mercedes benz some of the most prestigious cars in the world is coming to russia dime of the owner of the broncos and. that some two hundred fifty

million euros to launch its first factory in russia. its production capability is some twenty five thousand cars per year as for russia though it's gain more than just money or prestige points its economy could add up to a thousand jobs thanks to this factory alone now the guest list is packed and the most high profile name on it is that of the russian president vladimir putin who came here to take part in the ceremony tomorrow and he was joined on the podium by germany's economy minister who flew in into moscow well from germany 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 were 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 mix together the flag of the no one wants to be unilaterally dependent on russia but we received russian gas not only 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 worse that we can no longer see russia remains a partner so really the opening of this factory and the high profile visit really shows that germany is willing to make money with russia together. a people smuggler has shed light on the look of illegal trade really it cost each

migrant at least two thousand euros to be taken to europe from africa the traffickers spoke to investigative journalist or in southern. people have to get to spin the morning where. they had to spend two thousand you know. four thousand for four thousand you know or two thousand for a few votes is not got until. you are looking. at the moment you try again. and how do you guarantee in the door when you're on the board you might not go to the auto zone. so and that unless you know in the. in this bit of. one but. some of them into. the bush one and. this piece how much money can you make. from the door to spain where you know. you can have two thousand two thousand five hundred or

four thousand. the totality fifty. fifty plus one. fifth of course on everybody and by two thousand five hundred people two thousand five. hundred probably at the moment we had a chance to speak to lauren sutherland who filmed that interview with the moroccan smuggler. 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 received to stop patrolling certain areas so about boats can leave from spain so this is a quite. intelligent business this isn't just a few people fleeing their country desperately getting on dinghies trying to get to

spain this is a very structured business and at times he's saying it's around five hundred to a thousand people and that. and 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 via the sea in two thousand and eighteen almost sixty thousand made the crossing lauren sutherland 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 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 who's 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. former top prosecutor speaking to political website the hill accuses biden of pressuring into sacking him. 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 is 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 portion and they would take action against the state prosecutor they did this i'm telling 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. put in place who was solid and 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 bristol 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 two thousand and 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 pop. joe and that prosecutor was out we had plans. and crime investigation procedures into members of the. party to members of the board obtain funds as well as another us based legal entity rosemont so 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 the vice president's 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 some even stranger skeletons in his closet that he would like to keep very. artsy new york responding to the accusations of 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 shame on you you have daughters. i believe dr christine blasi forward. what i did feel was an invasion of my potently autonomy and then the patient called my space you don't expect to be touched and kissed and progress 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. these two it's well not

well you know losing credibility if you're the see bruce would make excuses for bill clinton i thought you said the evil women are listening or is that only when it's politically convenient. 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 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 to movement against the conservatives for their own political gain. still to come no right to a painless death at the verdict of the u.s. supreme court regarding people on death row that story in full after this short break. no one else chose seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't all. let me. get to shape out just to come after. and in detroit because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. watch a white person this is what the three of the people. interested in the why. should. welcome back president emanuel mccrone insists that protecting the environment is one of france's priorities but along picture perfect resort started coastlines

pollution is a critical problem in france even putting lives at risk our europe correspondent charlotte devinsky 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 poor so use for years the oil refineries chemical factories and still companies have spewed out a not just cocktail a few residents say that it's plague the health problem. the main problem comes from the industrial port area which emits ultra fine particles will get into our lungs and bloodstream and cause disease in us the cancer rates here is ten percent higher than the average in france and aspirin diabetes levels also elevated this could all be avoided if the waste from the factories was processed properly daniel's not i mean himself he's been diagnosed with diabetes and heart problems linked to the pollution. probably i shouldn't complain about

having died. 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 even claims that 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 quality standards many people here believe that the easy actions just don't go far enough. they're too weak they say that they need to protect industries and of course we

need industry but they need to stop cutting corners and do more to reduce pollution levels the european commission even admits that twenty three of its twenty eight member states exceed air quality norms and knows that poor air quality accounts permit your deaths of four hundred thousand people every year with less than two months before e.u. citizens head to the polls environmental issues and concerns like those in force so now 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's let us face it's there is no planet b. and if we do nothing our children will know the world of migrations of was 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 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'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 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 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. it's a supreme court don't have to carry out the executions the people that have to carry out the executions and war and it'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 and the rest of their lives put this pain inside of them. as a people to carry these things out and we don't consider that. the prisoner at

russell buckley who is a convicted murderer who was sentenced to death 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 and violation of his constitutional rights now asked to be executed with gas instead but the request was turned down we feel induction is the most common form of capital punishment in the us and it's done in three stages first i said it is injected into paralytic drug is administered which can cost 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 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 we know 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 experienced 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 killing we were in a modern day society where people that's education enough to not to have to perform things that is executions that's a wrap up of the day's top news for now but don't forget you can always find us on many of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports. they're bred for a single purpose. they have

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afshin rattansi we're going underground three years to the day alleged spy and u.k. protected diplomat dozens of iraq cliff was arrested attack run airports coming out of the show as they turn seventy is it time for it to be retired we ask a former top nato official and the pinochet of ukraine after losing the first round of elections will the cia backed go use military action against russia to stay in power plus wild breaks that threatens to topple dres i'm 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 the first to more of the north atlantic treaty organization turn seventy one people for nine hundred forty nine the north atlantic treaty was signed between france. luxembourg another one the united kingdom norway denmark italy

portugal iceland canada and the united states. to keep within the letter and spirit of 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 military action didn't start until after the fall of the berlin wall and they violated that un charter here's non-drug ski 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. to explain to major public that nato was more important than the us in a sense the un is sidelined in all of this major 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 emerged after action in afghanistan many afghans are angry about the latest killing of civilians by u.s. troops and after gaddafi threatened nato near liberalism 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 more beijing and moscow angrily denounced nato which are neither latest africa's richest but 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 places all around

its borders and with that man odds on favorite to be the next british prime minister and they chose days numbered of the alliances seventieth anniversary joining me now is michael stopford who used to be a nato deputy assistant secretary general he was also washington director of the u.n. and today he is now managing director of international consulting firm oxford analytical michael welcome to going underground so you don't have to be trump yesterday would stoltenberg to ask what exactly tomorrow we celebrating when they turn seventy anniversary lots all about i was in charge of communications at nato when the we had the sixtieth anniversary and it was of course a different time and i must say that relations between for example russia and the alliance were a lot better and more hopeful at that time because some would be surprised the real . it may have started maybe there was no military bombardment of another country until kind of off of the berlin wall fell the idea is that the starting words of nato are about bringing together countries for democracy individual rights and the

rule of law so it's as much values based as a as a military alliance i'd say you mentioned law. you know that most of the world as criticize nato for doing things against the law there was no u.n. security council council resolution for the yugoslav bombing which is their first aerial bombardment campaign back in one thousand ninety one i know before you having to do communications with the organization i was with the un actually i don't know whether that's that's right i mean the relationship between the un and nato at that time were very close and it was kind of an integrated integrated campaign if you will it was it legal. i don't know about that i mean i think one would have to go back and discuss exactly how that worked together and i must say that when i think of my u.n. .