i don't know both. the french leader speaks out over quote tension and conflict in the ranks of the g 7 as the host wraps up at the summit. the court finds pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson guilty of contributing to the opioid crisis in the us ordering it to pay over $500000000.00 in fines. and radical new rules in force google with a good tech. telling employees not to engage in political debate and.

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm sean thomas to have you with us. the french president has opened up about an era of tension and conflict heading into the g. 7 summit which has now wrapped up earlier held a joint news conference with donald trump in southwest france where the leaders played down any apparent rifts. be demoed 1st of all i would like to thank president trump and all the heads of states and government present here for the extremely productive work and very productive discussions that we've had since saturday evening together i want to thank you very much mr president for the credible job you did this is a truly successful g 7 there was tremendous unity it was great unity. the president has stated of the leaders only managed to agr. on

a one page declaration from the sun it. takes a look at what might have been in the dark. present trump on president back home very chummy in front of the cameras on monday afternoon but there are a long list of disagreements not just between those 2 leaders but also between other leaders of the g 7 president langhorne himself highlighting that on this summit in berates it had been full of tension and they feel there was a lot of nervousness at the outset a lot of expectations a lot of tension and we had a lot of conflicts. well one of the biggest tensions going into this meeting was what would happen with a roll on of course the u.s. on the door trying to famously pulled out of the iranian nuclear deal just over a year ago because donald trump said it just wasn't a good enough deal since then president tried to sort of be the go between between

iran and the united states and meanwhile the united states has placed sanctions on iran there's been these growing tensions in the persian gulf and the president might call an ace up his sleeve at this summit he pilled a rather diplomatic move and flew in the a rainy and foreign minister to be a rates for discussions about iran now there was no meeting between the u.s. delegation and iran but today at the press conference president machen said he very much hoped that in the next few weeks there would be a meeting between president rouhani of iran and the president trump now and he also then went on to say that it no way would it be possible or did he want for iran to secure a nuclear weapon nor for the country to fall go with its commitments to that nuclear accord now president trump on the other hand would he be in agreement to meet president rouhani he didn't seem to be that certain that this would be going

ahead and the thing that they talked about was the trade war between the usa and china president mark paul saying that the uncertainty that that was causing was actually bad for the global economy and he wanted to see a trade deal done very very quickly now we know that president trump says he's due to meet with the chinese delegation later this week to discuss that trade war he says that they're looking for a deal but he also had said during this summit that is only regretted not tradeable so far is that he hasn't put high enough tariffs on china and. and then there was the other one the issue of russia and whether russia could be reintegrated into the g 7 making it once again the g 8 present trumpet muted this idea during a dinner he'd been supported apparently by the italian prime minister but not the other leaders who were all in disagreement again at the press conference today you

don't trump spoke about this saying it was better to have russia in the tent and outside and it was necessary because russia was a big power to talk about global issues with them but would russia want to rejoin at the g 7 we know that president putin has said previously that once she leaves something no longer exists. it doesn't exist anymore how can i return to an organization which doesn't exist today it's the g 7 regarding a potential format with 8 member states we never reject any proposals some time ago it was russia's turn to hold a g. 8 meeting but our partners didn't know what she was there are other international organizations which play a significant role in international affairs take the g 20. but they did seem to be some disagreement over the gaffer taxes has been a source of tension between france and the united states the last few months ever since front said it was going to introduce this tax on digital giants the u.s.

had previously accuse france of double taxation which sort of goes against the rules in principle of tax france it said it was absolutely necessary because the big companies like google like amazon like facebook apple were not paying tax it seems that there has been agreement between the 2 countries and france looks like it's now going to grow back and proceed with that so-called gap attacks and that's probably a good thing because president trump had threatened that he would put a huge tax on french wine he's also previously said that he doesn't think french wine is very good but perhaps it's the 1st leg that. french wine no i can confirm that the 1st lady loved your french wine ok all right she loved your french one so thank you very much that's right we do know is chummy in front of the camera today but still so many disagreements not just between presidents trump but also the other leaders of the g 7 nations. you are so libertarian

a politician are involved says the importance of the g 7 in global politics is now past. the g 7 is to the world it was the federal reserve is the united states it is a meddling problematic and internationally damaging organization whose time has come and gone and we no longer should be having meetings at all if you say to me it was political theater i think that the united states and iran should talk i think that not talking to an unstable regime that is on the verge of becoming a nuclear power is a diplomatic mistake what should be doing in terms of of tariffs is getting rid of all of them that's means a lower cost for american businesses a be more innovative create better jobs rather than having to pay inflated prices for the bare necessities of functioning that does not require a g 7 or g 8 or a g 20 it simply requires individuals to say i don't want to pay more for the same

thing i mean country that unilaterally lowers tariffs is going to benefit its own citizens immediately. u.s. pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson has been found responsible for causing an opioid crisis in the us big pharma has been accused of pushing american doctors into prescribing opioids neglecting of the downsides such as risk of addiction are she's killed mop and has more on the importance of the ruling. got a landmark ruling today in oklahoma the drug manufacturer johnson and johnson a giant big pharmaceutical company in the united states has been found guilty and has been ordered to pay $572000000.00 to the state of oklahoma in order to deal with the ongoing opioid epidemic in the united states this is the 1st time that a big pharmaceutical manufacturers corporation has gone to trial in a case alleging responsibility regarding the opioid crisis this is the prosecutor

in the case stating what the judge ruled today judge bachmann has affirmed or position that johnson and johnson motivated by greed and avarice is responsible for the oak you would have to make. johnson and johnson will finally be hill accountable for thousands of deaths and addiction caused by their activities now at the trial the prosecution argued that johnson and johnson and its subsidiaries had overstated the effectiveness of their opioid drugs when it comes came to treating ongoing chronic pain they overstated their effectiveness in treating ongoing chronic pain and understated the risk of addiction posed by their products previously the way big pharmaceutical companies have avoided going to trial is by settling out of court and paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in

settlements to avoid such a proceeding as we saw monday taking place previously it was not only johnson and johnson that stood as defendants but furthermore pardieu pharmaceuticals was on trial as well however they were and they managed to withdraw themselves from the case by paying a $270000000.00 settlement now they do expect to appeal the decision the defense argues that this will not hold up in a court of appeal they think that they will be exempt and that the the conviction will be overturned however this is a landmark moment because this is the 1st time that a big pharmaceutical company has been found at trial to be responsible for the opioid epidemic and many different forces in the united states have long argued that big pharmaceutical companies should be held responsible for the ongoing opioid epidemic that has claimed a number a large number of american lives. the crisis goes back to the 1990 s. when opioid abase to drugs flooded the u.s. market the problem grew as patients turned to heroin dealers after their

prescriptions started to run out in 2018 almost 70000 people died from drug overdoses across the country on average 130 americans die every day from an opioid overdose the legal battle against the drug manufacturers is ongoing in dozens of u.s. states. addiction specialist and olympian believes big pharma aggressive marketing is partly responsible for the spread of opioids well dr certainly there are some responsibility for the opioid epidemic but i think to really understand how this happened in the united states it's necessary to realize that a whole generation of physicians was educated to believe that opioids are not addictive as long as you're giving them to a patient in pain and this was a message that was eagerly adopted by produced by johnson and johnson by chance and by t.v. by many other opioid manufacturers why because it helped their bottom line to sell

more opioids so certainly doctors have to be reeducated as they are now they have to withhold opioids they have to stop prescribing opioids for ankle sprains for chronic pain conditions we would not want the pendulum to swing in the opposite direction and for people who really need opioids not to be able to get them so finding some kind of middle ground is going to be essential. the series of allegedly israeli military strikes over 3 days in 3 middle eastern countries we've got to the reaction to those so far after the break. that's my life that i started on wall street 40 years ago and i've been living in

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our walk back this is archie international now lebanon has asked of the u.n. to put pressure on israel over recent series of strikes and hit targets in lebanon on sunday and monday lebanese leaders did not to mince their words for describing the brits. well toppan does a declaration a war that allows us to defend so sobering to independence and territorial integrity or recording to reports tel aviv launched 3 air strikes on palestinian apparent paramilitary groups baith in the east of lebanon on sunday to drones believed to be israeli crashed down in beirut and hit buildings being used by iran backed hezbollah party it is believed there were no fatalities there now the death of an iran backed militia member in iraq has however been pinned on israel that raid took place on sunday while in neighboring syria israel confirmed an operation

that targeted a shiite militia group and possible iranian military advisors prime minister benjamin netanyahu said action was taken to thwart an imminent attack earlier we heard from regional experts on what's behind tell of eve and tehran's perspective strategies. iran is trying to envelope israel from all of the sides through hezbollah which is affectively iran through syria through iraq and even through gaza it's like a big octopus sending its arms in order to strangle israel israel has no issue with iran if iran would focus. on its own people and stop trying to destroy israel as it explicitly says it will do and tear around the world we would have no issue with iran however iran has decided. to build forces and to strangle israel we're not going to wait with defense systems you don't win by playing

defense you have to preempt and that's what we will do the problem you have israel is like this oil brought over the world. and because no one no one calls it to account it's allowed to get away with essentially murtha. talk it out and hit 3 separate sovereign countries in the past few days i see no one questioning why israel is doing something or why israel is provoking the situation at the end of the day israel needs to understand that iran has said this time and time again that look you're playing with fire don't do this don't be silly behave yourself iran has been a real interest in starting a war and iran will not start a war it's a long and i have said it categorically. what iran will do if it is attacked or its allies within the resistance axis are directly attacked they will retaliate and rightly so because in this case the aggressor the one who's instigating problems

who's lying and making up fairy stories because it's control and influence within the mainstream media is israel and everyone knows israel is a rogue state it's a country that has close to $400.00 nuclear weapons targeted at multiple countries and yet no n.p.t. and no questioning no no discussion about it yet iran which has a nuclear program of energy program constantly gets accused of making nuclear weapons and all this stuff which is slightly from the supreme leader's own disk discourse is forbidden. it's certainly a very british sudanese man who has been held up for over 3 months in a sudanese prison has strongly condemned what they call the u.k. government's disappointing the lack of action it was imprisoned in may after criticizing on social media the african nations transitional military council but was later cleared by prosecutors of any wrongdoing or to saskia taylor had the chance to speak to one of mr med's daughters about is continuing to tension. on the

11th of may 6th year old. british sudanese citizen was arrested and detained in khartoum despite a prosecutor finding him not guilty of any alleged crimes the sudanese authorities refuse to release him i've come to liverpool where one of kamala's daughters lives she tells me her father's story and how at the british government for its failure to take action in protecting one of its own citizens were extremely worried obviously it's been 3 months now we're going into the 4th month of his detention despite the fact that he has not been charged with anything and his release has been ordered. it still hasn't been carried out gaining access to kemal in prison is difficult and unreliable even his own lawyer has not been allowed to visit him but as a has been once and describes the conditions there very isolated from the outside world

they don't have access to telephone calls we try to send in newspapers he's not allowed access to newspapers. he's not been allowed access to his lawyer which is a basic human right for all detainees kemal moved to the u.k. in 1986 and what the n.h.s. as a doctor for 20 years or 4 of his children are british citizens too but the foreign office has been unresponsive to pleas from calls family to step in and secure his freedom the embassy in khartoum haven't actually had direct contact with my father . we as a family have been in contact with them updating them on my father's condition unfortunately they've had very little input so our only contact with the foreign office has been through our m.p. . and they've been very slow to respond their responses have been very disappointing i think it's very shameful it reflects very badly on the british government. whether you're a dual national or british national if there's injustice happening then you need to

take action early on in his detention kemal went on an 8 day hunger strike hoping to draw attention to his plight but though it sparked protests in his hometown the international community failed to take notice it was a cry for attention and he went on a hunger strike for 8 days but unfortunately fell on deaf ears it's obvious this is a human rights violation and i would call upon human international human rights organizations to get involved in my father's case i think there does need to be more attention on this to pressurize the british government into taking action against his unjust attention from all the case is not unique a recent petition to force the foreign office to make its protection of citizens an obligation not a choice reveals that as many as 1000 brits apparently being detained abroad without trial as as un others like her take matters into their own hands one can

also the question is do you take government doing all it can to secure the wealth that human rights of all its citizens to tailor all to liverpool. in an update on the story since posted this. file this report of the british foreign office has stated that it is in contact with the sudanese authorities concerning kemal meds detention we will be following the story closely and let you know about developments on the case. violence broke out between police and protesters in hong kong on sunday as the city state saw its worst on rest since the start of its pro democracy campaign in june in scenes that were widely circulated in the media one of the rallies saw masked activists attacking riot officers who responded by aiming pistols at demonstrators and the photos of police of threatening protesters were prominently displayed in a number of leading publications and we can show you one video of the incident

though the footage perhaps presenting a less clear picture of which side might have been in the wrong. was. ordered political analyst and. thinks of the police in hong kong are acting with relative restraint. it's a very tense situation now in hong kong and. brought this to so-called protests those are using are throwing stones at the police they are using call kind of sharp objects elise finds themselves very often isolated least a water cannon so the day of fire 2 shots and to be a police is acting get overly restrained that if you compare it to france if you

compare it to europe. protests in belarus their water cannons the gas the. poisonous nature and being used for many weeks now here the home gone along with. this actually get here it's a shooting. into the air and using water cannons with a force started so this is not really this is not the only thing to the magic. the lawyer of an executed man in texas says kiev events has been overlooked in the case larry where engine pleaded his innocence for decades over the rape and murder of a college student. prosecutors

are adamant so engine was responsible for the murder they were earlier argued there were quote him mountains of evidence demonstrating his guilt including for instance bits of the victim's clothing found in his trailer had also asked a fellow inmate to to write a letter to his lawyer purporting to be the real killer additionally he had a track record of violence against women. but his defense claims that there were significant discrepancies in the prosecution's chronology and on that basis he could not have been responsible they also alleged that the clothing in the former electrician's trailer may have belonged to someone else and that the blood found

under the victim's fingernails didn't belong to either her or sworn engine they executed the executed man's lawyer told us more about the conflicting evidence. we presented the opinions of no less than 5 medical examiners who reviewed the path ology who reviewed the histology and all converged on a single conclusion which was that the body was left in the woods after mr sware engine was incarcerated they all work pro bono on mr square engines case they did not ask for a dime the examiner that 1st compared those 2 pieces of pantyhose said they were not a physical match it took 2 and a half days and eventually she made them match mr swear engine was poor he was an educated and he did very ignorant things that made him look guilty

we believe that. the state needs to take some action about how scientific evidence is presented and evaluated by the courts. well just a few minutes are i will be back in let's say 34 minutes with another question is 2 of this is or. is your officer. told them to get up off the ground in the office or begin to pet him down to. them focus on the sounds of kind of fighting into a grown man like wrestling essentially. through his or her own. wish to go away from the office or leave the toy out of his crib. the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the weapon once missed and then when it happened on tree

swung as observations didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the 2 any kind went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again 15 feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled out his gun and he did it on 3. you know world's big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the fast and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. will make this manufactured consent to instant to the public wealth. when the

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