if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war and surely we can risk some discomfort and easiness for. a spring struggles with the number of migrants arriving by feet smuggling gangs or crime cashing in on the refugee crisis an investigative journalist shares with us a rare interview with one of the human traffickers involved. thirty to fifty push. into your book problem of the phone. and what's being touted as a key milestone and russo german relations were savy owner diane miller is opening a plant near moscow. and an industrial port town in the south of france that suffering from severe pollution with locals registering above average rates of cancer and other illnesses.

very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. a people smuggler has shed light on the lucrative illegal trade revealing it cost each migrant at least two thousand euros to be taken to europe from africa the revelations came in a documentary by a canadian investigative journalist and filmmaker. 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 to have a lot of money. and how do you guarantee and then you're on the board you know you

go to the auto zone they said it so and that was you know in the. in the spin after you have one but they couldn't sell them into it they come. they pick the person 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 or four thousand you know the totality fifty person. it fifty person to fifty person everybody and by two thousand and five on their deal two thousand five. hundred into your head a lot of money we spoke to lorne southern who filmed that interview with a 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 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 via the 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 ready 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. german car giant dimer which owns mercedes is opening a plant near moscow seen as an important milestone in russo german relations the move is expected to create up to a thousand jobs it has done of brings us up to speed. the production of mercedes benz some of the most prestigious cars in the world is coming to russia the owner of the brand has invested some two hundred fifty million euros to launch its factory in russia. its production capability is some twenty five thousand cars per year as for russia

though it's again more than just money or prestige point its economy could add up to a thousand jobs thanks to this factory alone while the opening of this factory in fact is seen as such an important thing the russian president vladimir putin himself came here to take part in the opening ceremony he was joined on the podium by germany's economy minister who flew into moscow from berlin and his visit to moscow was seen as a symbolic thing i should say because it comes at a time when washington has been applying a more and more pressure on germany for its business deals with russia it doesn't mean that this plant would scream gas pipeline from russia into europe and german companies who are building it together with russia they have been almost threatened with sanctions for their participation in the project and they were told to drop out by washington and what this had led to was

a diplomatic scandal the flag of the i think 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 verse that we can no longer see russia remains a partner now this factory of course can't match the north stream project in scale but still mercedes-benz has become an integral part. of germany's identity alongside whether its national football team or autobahns or one belt for the rights of its companies to do business independently i'm done of r.t. . the u.k. is now claiming it doesn't know how many civilian casualties were caused by its air strikes in syria in iraq it comes after authorities faced a wave of criticism for claiming their actions in the anti i saw campaign resulted in just one civilian death. it was not our position that there has only been

a single civilian casualty as a result of our military action what we are saying is that we only have evidence of what we believe to have been a single civilian casualty. according to the u.k. defense ministry the royal air force conducted nearly two thousand airstrikes during its engagement in syria and iraq in two thousand and fourteen resulting in the dust of more than four thousand eisel fighters human rights organization amnesty international released a damning report last year accusing the coalition a failing to acknowledge the scale of damage the campaign cost civilian to acknowledge its role in most of the civilian casualties caused. we go live now to peace campaigner russell wedding welcome to the program so the elderly says it wasn't claiming there was only one civilian casualty but that it's only found evidence of one casualty considering there were so many airstrikes do you buy that. no not for one second and i don't think any of your viewers relieved or further let's not forget the

ministry of defense actually only changed one civilian had been killed after months and months of claiming known that they were bombing people day after day after day and have been for years in an area of the world where there's very little infrastructure but it's very little support on the ground we haven't even got any boots on the ground so we just have no idea of how many innocent civilians we've killed through the bombing raids now the same time the ministry of defense has verified that over four thousand i still fighters have been killed in the airstrikes at a claims there are not enough boots on the ground to verify civilian casualties why the discrepancy exactly completely mad isn't it's just bonkers the idea that you can know whether someone is an arsenal fighter or a civilian after a bomb has been dropped on them the idea that you don't have enough boots on the ground for it is just absolutely stinks of propaganda from our government so we will continue to support these ongoing wars which the british public are just fed

up with we don't want to keep bombing the middle east endlessly we want our troops and our planes to come home. so why do you think the u.k. is finding it so difficult to release accurate figures and do you think that the figures will not change at this point i do think the figures will change and i don't think any figure that we've been given about our involvement in syria afghanistan iraq libya have been accurate because we just don't know we keep rushing into these interventions with no idea about who retire getting don't forget in two thousand and thirteen we wanted to go into syria to help just so confused this is what happens when you made foreign policy on the hoof rather than actually have a strategic objectives and strategic goals the best thing to do would be to leave the people of syria to have their own destiny in their own hands and to british troops and british planes to come back to britain we saw amnesty international

repeatedly condemning the u.s. led coalition for not acknowledging the scale of civilian casualties and that eventually forced their hand while the u.k. eventually fall a suit i think well out would certainly hope that they would put more effort into finding out the damage that they're causing on the ground without having british people british intelligence british troops on the ground in syria which i don't think anyone wants and wouldn't be safe for them i don't know how we can find out how much damage we call them don't forget syria has been bombed repeatedly thought what the last seven years there's not actually that much infrastructure left in this country the people have suffered enough they don't really care whether it's bombs from bashar al assad or bombs from britain or america that are killing them they just want to go about their daily lives without being constantly bombed and we should have the decency to leave them to do that his campaign or russell wedding thank you so much for your time and your thoughts coming up the bricks the clock continues to tick down as the prime minister begins talks with the opposition that

more after a short break. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home field where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective i'm used to suppressing. one on t.v. . i'm going to talk about football not feet or else you can think i was going to do.

by the way what is the flooding here. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back former u.s. vice president joe biden who's tipped to run for the white house and 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 former top prosecutor speaking to political website the hill accuses biden of pressuring kiev and to sacking him kill him off and steeper. 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 poroshenko they would take action against the state prosecutor they did this and i'm telling you not get the hours i said you not get the billion

i'm will be leaving here i think it was about six hours and we're going to reduce sixteen hours and if the prosecutor is not fired you're not getting the money well son of a. foreigner 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 it took was a phone call from papa joe and that prosecutor was out we had. heard and the crime investigation. sieges into members 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's 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 of those presidents joining the board of directors of this ukrainian. gas company know he's a private citizen so as real isn't real as

a video show that joe biden has some pretty strange proclivities and more women come forward saying they do not appreciate his affection at this point it's pretty clear that joe has an even stranger skeletons in his closet that he would like to keep buried kaleb mop and artsy new york. president emanuel mccrone insists that protecting the environment is one of france's priority is but along picture perfect resort started coastlines pollution is a critical problem in france even putting lives at risk or your correspondent 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 and still companies have spewed out a noxious cocktail a few residents say that plague the health problem or. the

main problem comes in 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. 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 levels 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. zebras no planet b. and if we do nothing our children will know a world of migrations of walls of shortage done through this world. it is not a few q we want for ourselves ma generation will do its best. in order for your generation to have the choice to choose. but it will be the duty of your generation to do the job environmental campaigners have accused him of all talk and little action people in for so many seem to feel the same way. now it's on the promises he hasn't done anything yet. if nothing is done and in future years the situation will become very serious. and i think he wants to tackle lots of problems but when it comes to implementing them i'm not sure he's 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 the recognitions is improving the environment people here say that without immediate action the future remains their children a bleak prospect so it didn't ski r.t. for. britain's prime minister theresa may has wrapped up talks with the leader of the opposition germany corban and they bid to break the brags that deadlock on wednesday may announce she'll be reaching across the aisle to find support for her battle plan with corbin saying he welcomes the move however m.p.'s were less welcoming to the p.m.'s latest role of the dice. two proposals put forward for cross party corporation to leave the bricks and mortar on the other was to work with the two hundred eighty employees across the farmers who will suppose should deal with subject of a confirmatory referendum why does she trusted leader of the opposition more than

the people british government is in question is completely dysfunctional the important function here prime minister that you don't have a formal talks with the leader of the opposition scotland will not accept a tortie already leiber breaks it does it remain the position of the prime minister that the leader of the opposition is not fit to go if you do not think that the labor party should be in government it is the conservatives are delivering to people but to do that we need to find a way of this house agreeing the withdrawal agreement and agreeing the degree in the way for it to reach the may and jeremy corbin fail to reach a consensus theresa may could try seeking further extensions from the e.u. but that could prove unpopular at home even forcing the pm to call an election or a second referendum if however may and corben agree on a deal that would put the u.k. on track to leave the e.u. by may twenty second brussels though could refuse further talks which could lead to

an exit without any deal r.t. host and former scottish first minister alex salmond is skeptical the p.m.'s latest move will break the impasse. but haps us the latest prime ministerial initiative for finally get over the line and finally negotiate as something of an orderly withdrawal as opposed to a chaotic retreat there is one fly in no it meant of course that to the samee has already said that she is standing down as prime minister as soon as the withdrawal deal gets through so gemma carbon the leader of the opposition is quite entitled to say to the prime minister why should i believe you and this consensus agreement you're you're offering me we're going to hear of today and gone tomorrow prime minister you'll be the place by a hard black city or why don't we have an election instead and did two years well everything about a track record tells you that it's probably not going to end out as she intended. that's a news break down for this hour and that's all for me as well today but we're not

neil harvey will be taking over and about thirty minutes. young elephants have come to. us basically brutal cutting incidents because sadly the baby elephants often do see their mothers be killed but also be caught up unfortunate. i do believe they laugh and smile i see it in these little ones they all say so they express untamed says. the. u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of

their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from a certain branches officer says we're going to attack and destroy the government and in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy miss for. their bread for a single purpose. they have a soup when. they start training very young. they months of intensive schooling. their wraps. and they save lives.

was it. was. obvious that. greetings and salutations. the great sucker of berg's one mark zuckerberg the grand facebook was back in the headlines this week once again after coming down from mt silicon valley and declaring to everyone that it's time for the regulation social

media and the internet yes in an op ed for the sunday edition of the washington post the facebook c.e.o. laid out his plan for what the future regulation of social media could and should look like writing according to him writing that he believes we need a more active role for governments and regulators by updating the rules for the internet we can preserve what's best about it the freedom for people to express themselves and for i'm privileged to build new things while also protecting society from broader harm us. soccer bourbon lays out for areas most in need of government regulation writing from what i've learned i believe we need new regulation in these four years harmful content election integrity privacy and data portability. you know as op ed was part of a major new p.r. lenient towards government regulation which has left many folks just a tad. bit suspicious of the motivations behind this sudden change of heart from

the folks at facebook this suspicion of motives prompted the bloomberg editorial board to write that each of four proposals would create its own particular problems if adopted as government policy but on one point they have much in common they'd be good for facebook's business because as many are now pointing out this looks an awful lot like facebook essentially dropping its publicity nightmare over free speech censorship right into the hands of the government which may be brilliant for the business of facebook but not for the business of the first amendment and free speech which is why we must always be watching the hawks. if that's. what they like that i got. that week.