i mean. you have to say proud to stay active. and engaged because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. she says to look for common ground. france's president speaks out over quote tension and conflict within the ranks of the g 7 as the host wraps up the summit in the luxury resorts of p.r. it's. the court finds pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson guilty of contributing to the opioid a crisis in the us ordering it to pay over $500000000.00 in fines. and radical new rules in force at google with the tech titan telling employees and not to engage in political debate at work.

or broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our day international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. all right the french president has opened up about his air of tension and conflicts heading into the g. 7 summit which has it now wrapped up our emmanuel macron earlier held a joint news conference with donald trump in southwest france where the leaders played down any apparent rifts. be the model of the 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. president micron has stated that the leaders are only managed to agree on

a one page declaration from the summit or to tried to be insecure takes a closer look at how the meeting played out. present trump and 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 mike or himself highlighting that this summit in berates had been full of tension and they feel there was a lot of nervousness at the outset a lot of expectations a lot of tensions and we had a lot of conflicts. well one of the biggest tensions going into this meeting was what would happen wrong of course the us and the door will trump 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 has tried to sort of be the go between

between iran and the united states 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 pulled a rather diplomatic move and flew in the iranian 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 other thing that they talked about was the trade war between the usa and china president 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 then they was the fill in 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 are all in disagreement again at the press conference today don't

trip spoke about this saying it was better to have russia in the tent than 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 come up 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 gaff attacks this is been a source of tension between france and the united states the last few months ever since france 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 and principles of tax france it said it was absolutely necessary because the big companies like google like amazon like facebook and 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 if not to proceed with that so-called gaffe attacks that's probably a good thing because president trump had threatened that he would put huge tariffs on french wine he's also previously said that he doesn't think french wine is very good but perhaps it's the 1st lady that loves french wine you know i can confirm that the 1st lady loved your french wine ok. you love your french wine 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. u.s. libertarian politician or vote the importance of the g. 7 in global politics is now a thing of the past. is to the world at what the federal reserve is the united states is a meddling problematic internationally damaging organization whose time has come and gone and we no longer should be having to get all of this is 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 tariffs is getting rid of all of them that's means a lower cost for america. business is 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 $7.00 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 prescribing opioids neglecting the downsides such as a risk of addiction or teased him up and has more on the importance of the. 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 ready 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 crisis goes back to the 1990 s.

when opioid base to drugs flooded the u.s. market the problem grew as patients who turned into 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 the limpy believes big pharma as aggressive marketing is partly responsible for the spread of opioids. well doctors certainly there are some responsibility for the opiate 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. once celebrated as a firm and that promoted free thought and lively discussion google has issued a new set of community guidelines banning political debate and work the decision marks the culmination of several years of intense scrutiny over its policies both internal and external and influence on public discourse. i certainly find the selection deeply offensive and that i think not just in united states but around

the world is what's fueling concerns zina phobia hatred and a desire for answers that may or may not be there what we all need right now is google's management has had enough after contending with so much bad p.r. over the last year the bosses have decided to say no more politics on the shop floor while sharing information and ideas with colleagues helps build community districts in the work day to have a raging debate over policy so the latest news story does not our primary responsibility is to do the work we've each been hired to do not to spend working time on debates about a number of topics the company's new guidelines demand that employees stop insulting demeaning or humiliating their coworkers and others plans or even already in place to hire a team to moderate coworkers internal message boards and while political debates are generally frowned upon at work google's earned quite the reputation. and.

on top of that recent leaks by google employees sparked accusations of widespread political bias in the company from manipulating search algorithms to fit a liberal agenda i see google executives go to congress and say that it's not going to be late it is not political and i'm just so sure that's not true to punishing those who oppose the company's political line one former worker of google even said he was fired for being conservative when i joined google i saw a lot of employees being mistreated interviews. and harassed for sharing conservative views or just for questioning company policies and maybe one of the

most powerful companies in the world but it seems when it comes to controlling its own staff management just needs to google it there are always guidelines governing employee behavior of course but this these are unusual guidelines because they are specifically at targeting political speech now that i have not really seen and that's just tremendous concern because what they're really doing here is when they're trying to suppress political speech by employees they're really trying to suppress political speech by conservative employees leakers the whistleblowers so far have come forward have been conservative employés that's what's google is most concerned about parents even starting last year google began to restrict access to documents by its own employees so i think if you look internally in the company you'll find that they're probably doing much

more extreme sayings to try to get their employees under control then we're aware of i don't think it'll work i think it will backfire. lebanon has asked the u.n. to put pressure on israel over recent series of strikes that hit targets in lebanon on sunday and monday lebanese leaders did not mince their words describing the rates will top and as a declaration the wall that allows us to defend so sober ansen dependence and the rule into a group. where it according to reports tel aviv launched 3 are strikes by palestinian paramilitary groups a base in the east of lebanon on sunday 2 drones believed to be israeli crashed down in beirut and buildings being used by the iran backed hezbollah party it is believed there were no fatalities. of the death of an iran backed militia member in iraq has however been pinned on israel that raid also took place on sunday while in

neighboring syria israel confirmed an operation of it targeted a shiite militia group and possible iranian military advisors prime minister binyamin netanyahu said action was then taken to thwart an imminent attack earlier we heard from a regional experts on what's behind tel aviv and tehran's respective strategies. iran is trying to envelope israel from all of the sides through 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 inward 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 attack israel to build forces and to

strangle israel but 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 is very loose like this oil brach of 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 no real interest in starting a war and iran will not start a war it's a long time 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 ropes that it's a country that is 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 discrete discourse is forbidden. the family of a british sudanese man who has been held for over 3 months in a sudanese prison have strongly condemned what they call the u.k. government's disappointing lack of action kemal ahmed 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 sofitel or have the chance to speak to one of mr ahmed's daughters about his 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've tried 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 worked for the n.h.s. as a doctor for 20 years all 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 . well 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 is 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 i'm 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 apart and being detained abroad without

trial as as 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 a bit of an update on this story since saskia file the british foreign office has stated that it isn't going to act with the sudanese authorities concerning. detention we of course are following the story and we will let you know of any developments as we get them. violence broke out between police and protesters in hong kong sunday as the city state saw its worst unrest a sense of 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 the photos of police threatening protesters were prominently displayed in

a number of leading publications 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 i was the right political analyst and journalist andre vitek thinks the police in hong kong are acting with relative restraint. it's a very tense situation now in hong kong. the. so-called protests those are using are throwing stones at the police they are using call the return of sharp objects elise finds themselves very often isolated lose water counts and fired 2 shots and to be a police is starting to get

a very early stage and that if you compare it to france if you compare it to your arrests in the. us in belarus there are water cannons the de rigueur are still. very old boys and this nature being used for many weeks now learn here that the home alone for this is actually a good year it's a shooting few rounds going to be using water cannons one of course not and so this is the really this is not the only thing to do the math. the lawyer of an executed man in texas says key evidence has been overlooked in the case larry swain engine pleaded his innocence for decades over the rape and murder of a college student.

prosecutors are adamant sware engine was responsible for the murder of a earlier argued there were quote mountains of evidence demonstrating his guilt including for instance bits of the victim's clothing found in his trailer where engine had also asked the fellow inmate to write a letter to his lawyer purporting to be the real killer additionally he had a track record of violence against women but the defense claims 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 electricians 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 into 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 the scientific evidence is presented and evaluated by the courts or either does it for me i will be back with headlines in about 32 minutes stay with us. thanks guys or signage of what they say maybe the girl on. the floor take it easy this is a central plank support diabolo means don't call them right now say stop. seemed

wrong. just don't hold. me. to shape out just being educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. thanks thanks. thanks thanks greetings and salutations reasonable and beneficial use starts with the florida department of environmental protection requires the purpose be before a permit to extract ground water can be approved the florida d.e.p.t.

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