thing. in what's being touted as a key milestone and we're so german relations owner dialer 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 and investigative journalist shares with us a rare interview with one of the human traffickers involved. over porcelain. dolls were sold in for the fourth dollars when you get to a thirty to fifty plus one room to put into your books travel to buffalo. also this hour the u.s. supreme court turns down a death row inmate appeal for

a painless death saying the constitution does not entitle him to that. and industrial port town in the south of cancer and other illnesses. you're watching international bringing you your life news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program first german car giant dime learnt which owns mercedes is opening a plant near moscow seen as an important milestone in 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 brand has invested 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 germany's response was that well politics and business should not mix together the flag of the uk that 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 sea 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 revealing it cost each migrant at least two thousand euros to be taken from europe to africa to europe from africa excuse me the trafficker spoke to investigative journalist lawrence

other. people have to have to spend a lot of money where they had to spend two thousand you know four thousand for four thousand you know or two thousand for a few bucks is not gotten to you when you're in there in a spot you are lucky you may have been into the mine you try again. and how do you guarantee and then you and the board you know you go to the auto zone they said it so and that was you know. in a spin off. of one but they couldn't sell them into it they come. and they go you 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 four thousand. the totality fifty. fifty

person you do fifty person everybody and by two thousand five hundred you know two thousand five hundred and then when the boat into your head a lot of money we spoke to lorne southern film 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 receive to stop patrolling certain areas so about the boats can leave from spain so this is a quite. intelligent business this isn't just a few people fleeing their country desperately getting on dinghies trying to get to spain this is a very structured business and at times he's saying it's around five hundred to

a thousand people imagine how much money you're making it's one hundred thirty thousand euros per boat i mean you could ten boats in a day you're making one point three million dollars why is no one talking about this massive criminal syndicate it's crazy to me to to think that anyone has been portraying this as well certainly on the moroccan or turkish side of libyan side as a humanitarian aid crisis this is almost entirely a business and anyone you speak to on the ground migrant trafficker or otherwise will tell you this is a business they are not looking to help people they don't care if you're persecuted they don't care about your race religion your gender in fact women are turned away often in some of these camps spain is one of the main gateways to europe from africa since the start of this year more than five thousand migrants have arrived in spain via the sea in two thousand and eighteen almost sixty thousand made the crossing lauren 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 and 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's former. prosecutors speaking to political website the hill accuses biden of pressuring kiev into sacking him kill him off and 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 porsche

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 because 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 crime investigation procedures into even members of the sick to be clear how to 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 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 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 some even stranger skeletons in his closet that he would like to keep buried up and artsy new york responding to the accusations of harassment joe biden said he had never had the intention to act appropriately and biden has a surprise supporter. raster assaulted write me to you 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 boy's only 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 women on the tsunami 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 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 no right to a painless death that's the verdict of the u.s. supreme court we're getting people on death row that story in full and more after

this short break. i do think the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars of debt more than ten white collar crime families. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich. six percent of the world market rose thirty percent some with one hundred to five hundred three per second per second and this one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers over

the world. the only number you need to remember one thing but. protecting the environment is one of france's priorities but along picture perfect resort started coastlines in france pollution is a critical problem even putting lives at risk our europe correspondent charles devinsky 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 port zones for years the oil refineries chemical factories and still companies have spewed out and noxious cocktail

a few residents say that plague the health problem or. the main problem comes 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 source there is a stark difference in pollution between our village and the ones further away french government reports have a good knowledge that residents here are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases like 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 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 micron has long been an advocate of

ramping up the battle to combat climate change we are killing our planet's lead to streets it's zahra's no planet b. and if we do nothing our children will know a world of migrations of was of shortage of done to this world. it is not a few q we want for ourselves ma generation will do its best. in order for your generation to us the choice to choose. but it will be the 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 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 exciting at the moment he has other things on his plate and this issue is not want to 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 children a bleak prospect so it didn't 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 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. 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 our lives put this pain inside them. as a people to carry these things out and we don't consider that. the prisoner russell buckley who is a convicted murderer who was sentenced to death in one nine hundred ninety seven his lawyer say he has a recognition 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 asked to be executed using 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 that a 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 when you 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've got any experienced people doing these things that will cause them to make mistakes. you can blame them for that we can't control death but we can control killing we were in a mind a society where people that's education enough to not do without them before things that is executions. britain's prime minister theresa may has started talks

with the leader of the opposition jeremy corbin in a bid to break the brakes at deadlock on wednesday may announce she'd be reaching across the aisle to find support for her battle plan with corbin saying he walkmans the move earlier the pm once again sought backing for her bricks a divorce plan from m.p.'s across this house i believe we all have a responsibility to ensure we did it breaks it across this house we all have a responsibility to ensure that we do that as soon as possible and not be delivered breaks it in an orderly way and i think it's entirely right i think members of the public members of the public expect us to reach out across this house to find a way through this they want a solution the country needs a solution the country deserves a solution and that's what i'm working to for the u.k. faces crashing out of the e.u. without a deal on april the twelfth if me and carbon fail to reach a consensus may could also ask for another extension which he has signalled she

will do at next week's european council meeting r.t. host and former scottish first minister alex salmond gave us his views on the political infighting over back then. but the latest prime ministerial emotional for finally get over the lie you and failing negotiate is something go for an orderly withdrawal as opposed to a chaotic retreat there is one fly you know it will of course the use of me has already said that she is standing down as private as soon as the drawl deal gets through so jonah 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 offering me when you are here today and gone tomorrow. oh prime minister you'll be the place by a hard black city or why don't we have an election instead and let the people decide so for trees of me at least that's a new initiative will end in tears well everything about a track record tells you that it's probably not going to end out as she intended

that's a news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest thanks for tuning in. they're bred for a single purpose. they have a super. training very young. eight months of intensive schooling. rats. and they save lives. i do think the numbers mean something they've matter to us with over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of the world markets are percentage some with four hundred to five hundred

three first or second first second and fifth when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one one business show you know bored to miss one and only boom box. i mean more to gain is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful agency in his county for you'll be to stay if you look at some of the books on knowledge and. mark was the day that when he was five. doing this being the sheriff's most contentious critics say he is the first time i noticed something wasn't right in fleece work pretty much when i first started the corruption in palm beach county is not something that you can smell it seems 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 collectively to go and went to his website began featuring comments about gold his family the sheriff might. wash you like a bug you know we should stop then you should say and i'm left with stuff i believe what i'm doing ok you know it's your funeral the f.b.i. raided p.b.s. a critic dude in this house. i snuck out of the united states. into russia where i live. men they know bad wolf.

was. one. of them. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lobo a comedian has won the first round of ukraine's presidential election. doesn't have

strong policy positions maybe that was his greatest appeal though he made it clear corruption is ukraine's biggest challenge fixing you. greens are very serious problems is no laughing matter. crosstalk in ukraine i'm joined by my guest idol can sound in london he is a political consultant and foreign affairs analyst also in london we have alexander make yours he is the 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 and i always appreciate it well one of my rules of my program is a week i go to the person that got up early is for this program and that goes to john good morning i hope you had your coffee my first question is what kind of game changer is this election in ukraine it's far from over but we have a comedian that won the law go ahead john in sonoma. there are two primary

factors in this campaign as you pointed out is the anti corruption message which is clearly resonated.