the. spain struggles with the number of migrants arriving by sea smuggling gangs that cashing in on the refugee crisis that investigative journalist shares with us a rare interview with one of the human traffickers involved. over force one. thousand dollars in fact to a four thousand. to thirty to fifty person reporting to your boss probably at the moment. in what's being touted as a key milestone in german relations from sadie's on a dime there is so putting a new plant near moscow. another news and industrial port town in the south of

france is suffering from severe pollution with locals that registering above average rates of cancer and other illnesses. good evening and welcome this is r.t. international. a people smugglers shed light on the lucrative illegal trade revealing it costs 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 and that unless you know the international. spin after you have won 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 factory to four thousand you the totality fifty person you have to calculate fifty person you do fifty person everybody and by two thousand five hundred you know two thousand five hundred and then when the blood into your head a lot of money we spoke to lawrence of the new film that interview with the american 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 thirty thousand euros per boat i mean you can 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 and spain is one of the main gateways to europe from africa since the start of this year well the five thousand migrants have arrived in spain via sea in two thousand and nineteen almost sixty thousand made that crossing or in southern again says that those 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 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 out 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 john donne lou which owns miss a d.c. is opening a plant near moscow is an important milestone in german relations the move is expected to create up to one 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 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 points 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 more and more pressure on germany for its business deals with russia it doesn't mean that this plant is a problem at least for now but another business project is i'm talking about north stream 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 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 nordstrom. project in scale but still mercedes-benz has become an integral part of germany's identity alongside with its national football team or autobahns or well beer and today berlin has once again shown that it is ready to stand up for the rights of its companies to do business independently done of r.t. . the u.k. is now claiming it doesn't know how many civilian casualties were caused by its airstrikes in syria and iraq this comes after or thought is face the wave of criticism for claiming that their actions in the anti eisel campaign of 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 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 strikes during its invasion and in syria and iraq in twenty fourteen resulting in the deaths of more than four thousand deisel fighters human rights organization amnesty international released a damning report last year that accuse the coalition of failing to acknowledge the scale of the damage the campaign core civilians. it is completely reprehensible that the coalition refuses to acknowledge its role if most of the civilian casualties it caused let's not forget the ministry of defense actually only trained one civilian had been killed after months and months of claiming none 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 one category of people to be identified but you do for another one i'm afraid this just absolutely stinks of propaganda from our government i don't think the figures would change i don't think any figure that we've been given about our involvement in syria or afghanistan iraq libya have been accurate because we just don't know we keep rushing into these interventions with no idea about who are targeting the best thing to do would be to leave the people of syria to have their own destiny in their own hands and for british troops and british planes to come back to britain. president to manual macron insists that protecting the environmentalists one of france's priorities along picture perfect resort study to coastlines pollution is a critical problem even putting lives at risk i europe correspondent charlotte davidson has more. this is for so much 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 zones for years the oil refineries chemical factories and still that plague the health problem or. the main problem comes from the industrial port area which emits ultra fine particles that get into our lungs and bloodstream and cause diseases the cancer rate here is ten percent higher than the average in france and aspirin diabetes levels are 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 i 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 is 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 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 air 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 levels the european commission even admits that twenty three of its twenty eight.

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 matt corn has long been an advocate of ramping up the battle to combat climate change we are killing our planet's latest face it's there is no planet b. and if we do nothing our children will know a world of migrations of walls of shortage done for 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 you know you are 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 first. 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 missions 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 summer still to come the briggs continues to tick down as the prime minister begins talks with the opposition that story and more after the break.

break said count joan tonality. saying the numbers mean something they've matter us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime families each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be old rich with six percent world market those thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three first circuit first second and fifth we rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park one business showed you know for the mid one and only boom but.

the prime minister to resign my has met with the leader of the opposition jeremy kohl been in a bid to break the brags that deadlock on wednesday may announce that she'd be reaching across the aisle to find support fair and battle plan with goldman saying that he welcomes the move bus and peace where less welcoming to the p.m.'s latest roll of the dice. true proposals put forward for across party cooperation to solve the brics a crisis one of them was to work with the leader of the opposition to deliver a major breakthrough one on the other was to work with the two hundred eighty employees across the powers who will support or do you subject of a confirmatory referendum why does she trust the leader of the opposition more than

the people british government is in westminster is completely dysfunctional the important point here prime minister it is you're having formal talks with the leader of the opposition scotland will not accept the tory ordeal bieber breaks it does it remain the position of the prime minister that the leader of the opposition is not fit to govern and they do not think that the labor party should be in government it is a conservative for different people but to do that we need to find a way of this house agreeing that withdrawal agreement and agreeing the degree in the way forward and that is on that basis that i have been sitting down with members across the house if there is a manger and corbin failed to reach a consensus to resume a could try seeking further extensions from the e.u. but that could prove unpopular at home in forcing the pm to call an election or second referendum if however may call been agree on a deal that would put the u.k. on trying 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 that the p.m.'s latest move will break the impasse. but the latest prime ministerial emotional for finally get over the line and fail and negotiate something of an orderly withdrawal as opposed to a chaotic retreat there is one fly in the ointment 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 germany 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 here today and gone tomorrow prime minister you'll be replaced by a hard black city or why don't we have an election instead and let the people decide so for two reasons me at least it's a new initiative will end in tears well everything about

a track record tells you that it's probably not going to end though as she intended . former us vice president joe biden who's tipped to run for the white house in twenty twenty has been fending off allegations of sexual misconduct swirl of negative press has taken attention away from another potentially damaging revelation ukraine's former top prosecutor speaking to a political website the hill accuses biden of pressuring kiev into sacking him kelly morgan digs deeper. former vice president joe biden is caught up in a bit of a scandal his name has been floated for the last year or so as a possible democratic challenger the donald trump in the twenty twenty elections but now everyone is talking about his habit of getting frisky with both women and girls in public he leans down smells my hair and then plants this big long kiss on the top of my head joe biden'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 portion and they would take action against the state prosecutor they did this to them tell you not get the hours i said you not get to believe i'm going to be leaving here i think it was about 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 the. hundreds of. 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 however if he watched any american media he could in the midst of.

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 anything the president 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 very. artsy new york responding to the accusations of sexual harassment joe biden said that he never had the intention to act inappropriately 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 she mauling 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 is in town has never been to meet anyone uncomfortable and that he's kind empathetic leadership is what our own country

needs especially now. this too it's well not age well you're losing credibility and you're the same person who would make excuses for bill clinton i thought you said the evil women on the tsunami or is that only what it's basically can 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 in appropriately 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 weaponized 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 and staying with auntie internationally coming your way in hell for them. comedian has won the first round of ukraine's presidential election. strong positions maybe greatest appeal though he made it clear corruption is ukraine's

biggest challenge fixing ukraine's very serious problems of note. is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful agency in this county for you'll be to stay if you look at. mark was the day that when he was the first time i noticed something was. pretty much when i first started the corruption in palm beach county is not something that you can smell. the wind. in this county. you know i wish then you should. i believe what i'm doing ok you know it's

your funeral. critic. of the united states. political. men they know. and this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering the world of business and finance and the impact on us all one fill in the field our children in 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 poor 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 shay 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 of bridgeboro 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 outlook 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 director general roberto azevedo 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 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 equipment needed to operate f. thirty five fighter jets made by lockheed martin through a spokesperson the department said this quote pending an unequivocal turkish decision to forgo delivery of the s four hundred deliveries and activities associated with the stand up of turkey's f. thirty five operational capability had been suspended reuters reports that the d o

d is trying to sell turkish defense officials on a patriot anti-missile system made by raytheon as a substitute for the s four hundred well meanwhile the turkish foreign minister is expected to attend a nato summit in washington this week perhaps making for some interesting discussions there especially in the wake of notable election setbacks for the turkish pressure the president and his.