6 thank. you craig i'm from mark one way and. i. g. 7 summit wraps up in france for the leaders in attendance struggle to agree on solutions to any of the world's most pressing crises. in a landmark legal ruling a judge in oklahoma finds the pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson guilty of fueling the u.s. state opioid epidemic ordering it now to pay a $570000000.00 fine. and tensions soar the middle east israel carries out an airstrike against a rainy and militants in syria it comes just days after a suspect in israeli attacks in lebanon and iraq.

good morning just today here on this tuesday the 27th of august low from artie's world news center here in moscow it's kevin i am with you great to have your company hoping stay around for the next half hour or 2 as a date on this morning stories starting with this one the french president among them across monday what he called an extremely productive g. 7 summit after 3 days of talks wrapped up in be a ritz but despite the world leaders in attendance voicing optimism for the future as they were seem to do this she is meeting produced very few concrete commitments is a senior correspondent. it was nice nice stuff the weather was decent lots of people nice people good conversation and good stuff nice good new. first of all i would like to thank president trump and all the heads of state

and government present here for the extremely productive work and very productive discussions 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 as i said nice not exactly wonderful or amazing but yeah pretty nice i mean could have been better they could have agreed on something significant achievement little more argued the little less and the fee there was a lot of nervousness at the outset a lot of expectations a lot of tensions and we had a lot of conflicts just look at the bright side there's always next year to get something done is not nice to be fair there was a lot of stuff on the agenda a trade war with china the brazilian president's rudeness breck's of shenanigans whether to invite the largest country in the world iran for the millionth time.

we all know what trump thinks about iran much as a bit of a cold war between the 2 most of the rest of the world actually wants to go back to the nuclear agreement trump ripped up what a conundrum huh so macron invites the foreign minister the rod hoping to break the ice and surprisingly things became a little all could also unsurprisingly trumpet would heed his own tide before admitting it it was coming in and i respected the fact that it was coming in and he met with president mcbroom in iran is a very difficult situation. in the position not a very good position from the standpoint of economics and that's ok because we concluded a very quickly even said he's open to meeting iran's president when the time is

right perhaps after another few rounds of sanctions once they find something in iran they haven't sanctioned yet speaking of sanctions that trade war is still raging. one man's sanctions are another man's tariffs and the united states likes both so much so trump says he regretted not imposing more tariffs on chinese made goods because as trump making companies and consumers the average american pay more for ordinary stuff is great for everyone which didn't go down well with the rest of the summit squad just think she's going to be. of you treat. to be honest it wasn't trump's greatest performance and they were having

a nice dinner all in cincy as smiles and forced laughs and use and brings up the boogie man. trying joining your michel in star red shoe missed you prepared mommy tackled style while trump talks about inviting russia back apparently he wouldn't shut up about it i think if you're working. with a number of people who would like to see russia back i think it would be in that it would be advantageous to. many things in the world or das it worse some of those present agreed why on earth would you want to invite a country that's a key player in almost every major global issue. well it would make sense but not off the crimea g. 7 is for friends and friends pretend to be there for each other everyone knows

that and putin it seems has better things to do. at a g. 8 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 but there are other international organizations which play a significant role in international affairs take the g 20. all in all as i said nice or great as g 708 sco but not a total catastrophe what this year trumped even scientists single page unlike last year when he simply stormed out that really wasn't nice. or goes to west will amount to said the former british diplomat a us to battalion politician whether or not they thought there were any positives

to be drawn from this year's g. 7. this whole thing is laden is especially in the g. 7 context by a mass of contradictions so you have one president trump apparently inviting russia in and as as an observer we see never accept and at the same time trying to keep russia out of. out of the deal with germany to improve the gas pipeline little stream then you get italy despite the socrates government is in apparently in bow supporting the idea of russia coming back and then you get behind the scenes boris johnson so there's a whole mass of agreements and mainly disagreements behind the scene but g 7 is to the world of what the federal reserve is the united states it is a meddling a problematic. internationally damaging organization whose time has come and gone and we no longer should be having decent meetings at all in my view 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 there is every reason to get rid of tariffs 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. the judge in oklahoma has ruled that the drug michael johnson and johnson is responsible for driving the state's crisis in order to pay a $572000000.00 fine over it said the pharmaceutical giant run a false and dangerous marketing campaign which downplayed the risk of addiction and directly contributed to deaths johnson and johnson said it will appeal the decision

with a look at the implications of the case and a bit more detail caleb maupin now. 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 that a judge bachmann has affirmed or position that johnson and johnson motivated by greed and avarice is responsible for the ok would ready have prevented. 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 furthermore tell the pharmaceutical industries they withdrew from the case in may by paying an $85000000.00 settlement so johnson and

johnson was the only defendant. in that case they were found guilty 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 rates of opiate addiction of increase dramatically in the u.s. have opposed 20 years culminating in a nationwide epidemic in the late 1990 s. prescriptions for pain killers were readily available to pharmaceutical companies to shield doctors that their patients would not become addicted but it quickly became clear that if many people were becoming addicted with deaths from opioid

overdoses reaching a record high of 4202016 the following year the government then declared a public health emergency over it 1st food 2019 an estimated $130.00 americans have been dying every day as a result of opioid medicines the health crisis is also plays a huge burden on the u.s. economy too encouraging high rates of heroin use addiction specialist on a limb for told us that both pharmaceutical industry and doctors have failed in the duties to customers and patients. 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. the u.n. is calling for maximum restraint between israel and its a verse or ease as the threat of a new conflict in the middle east escalates it comes after television confirmed it carried out an air strike against iranian forces in syria on saturday and what it said was an effort to thwart a planned drone attack it's also suspected of drone attacks in lebanon and iraq with more than one quarter this morning. continued instability in the middle east and the alleged culprit is not the west's usual fall boy the israeli strikes were similar to a declaration of war and our country has a right to defend itself

a series of attacks syria lebanon and iraq and people are pointing the finger at israel. at least they own. up to that last attack usually accusations that israel's attacked another sovereign nation are met with silence from tel aviv but this time benjamin netanyahu justified the attack claiming iran was targeting his country with explosive drones according to him the situation was kill or be killed. if someone rises to kill you rise up and kill him 1st in a complicated operation by our security forces we determine that iran's quds force

dispatched a special unit of militants into syria to kill israel's on the golan heights with explosives drones with great determination and in perfect israeli army operational and intelligence fashion we preempted them and thwarted this attack. netanyahu often harps on about the supposed dangers of iran but when it comes to the facts the islamic republic is often on the receiving end of military violence about a year ago israel struck nearly all of iran's military structures inside syria it was the country's biggest assault since the beginning of the civil war back then netanyahu played the very same preemptive strike card. we will head back 7 fuld who have proposed to strike at us we will have to strike at them beforehand this is what we have done and this is what we will continue to do the never ending demonize ation of iran might have made israel its share of enemies in the middle

east but in the west it's reeled in some powerful allies this is 40 years 40 years of malign behavior so whether it was seizing a british tanker that was in international waters or shooting down an american you waving that was also in international airspace or assassination campaigns in europe are trying to kill an ambassador here in the united states has this long history of blind behavior iran had its tankers detained its airspace violated by drones its military installations outright bombed all by the u.s. and israel what other aggressive provocations does iran have up its sleeve. and see the morning this is the head of the good morning to you thanks for choosing international with me kevin owen this morning in some of the stories coming up for you after the break a fresh trade silva who go from says he's willing to get but i want to go. a few minutes.

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that name of community yeah i am kind of sick whom you could feel that he had a ticking bad going i am a female them if i want a photo of the man that young enough i don't come before out of it. again good morning it's 19 past the hour now if you're watching the clock talks on the trade wall between china and the u.s. could be set to resume soon donald trump said all monday the big. 2 very positive conversations as he put it with chinese officials and that the 2 sides would return to the negotiating table chillicothe. tribute. and its interests get back to the table so we're getting very big we want to do something. very very badly but that is the that is the right thing to do and make great respect for their district where this is

a very positive development for the world to move to open toes came after both nations hit each other with fresh tariffs last week on friday mr trump also lashed out at beijing on twitter saying that the years we're better off without china trump then went on to demand that u.s. companies immediately start looking for a trade alternative route of creation so that immediately trump calls the dow jones to plummet before the net bounce back on monday after he struck a more conciliatory tone in barrett's one point during the g 7 to trump even seem to express doubts about his own trade policies. and i'm. sure. the world might as well you have to talk about it i am sick of thoughts about everything great respect for the fact the presidency and his representatives one call resolution he is a great leader and representing a great country talks are continuing speaking out a tech conference on monday chinese vice premier knew he reportedly said to the

beijing was willing to resolve the issue through consultation further he added that the recent escalation of the trade war would benefit no one our sister channel r.t. america has been discussing the tensions with former u.s. congressman ron paul. can you try to make sense of this situation that's going on right now dr paul. i do by looking at it and it's an unworkable situation you finally get to the point where it doesn't work they hang on to every word the federal reserve board chairman says and sometimes one of the words can make a difference of billions and billions of dollars and we have an economic system is chaotic and then with then we end up with a president that does change his mind once in a while. and it's his head they hang too much on words that don't mean anything because they're talking about problems they don't fully understand from my viewpoint and they don't have any solutions because they always talk about more government solutions and are not willing to look our viewpoint from the libertarian

viewpoint maybe they've made a lot of mistakes and maybe they should talk about eliminating the mistakes rather than just adding on to so i'm not surprised about it but it is still pretty annoying but it's going to continue for a while because nobody's going to nobody's going to come up with an answer or is going to agree with with trump's dissertation on this you know he was to stir up the animosity to the american people but the american people asked for this too because as up the dollars that we spent over there that they didn't spend back here but you always have to have a balance of payments and we send all that money over that we have printed a lot of consumers have been very happy his service well and then the chinese government serves us well because they finance our deficit so this game has been going on but to lay that list everything that we ever bought from china is practically strine a stall that money from us and we're going to get it back and this tariff thing is

is so so constant not controversial but it's ill advised is that you put on tariffs to punish china and a few people now are starting to recognize oh a tariff is paid by the people who put it on so the american taxpayers pay for those terror. so we've had all this advantages of printing money but they don't talk about the problem because if you don't follow trauma's argument you have to say oh we're living beyond our means oh we have a deficit oh we have the federal reserve the reserve bank of the world prints a lot of money and we're we're the cause of all this imbalance but i think the discrepancy in wealth in this country is the same thing it's it's caused by the monetary system and that i think is a serious problem and given giving a lot of ammunition to the socialists i see capitalism doesn't work so therefore we have to be socialist of course as far as i'm concerned going in the wrong direction . funny nice little story going to kind of supposing for the best of us become lonely the further you go from home so one russian travel is going rather well

decided to take a bit of his homeland with him no less russian money if. i've decided to do something extraordinary driving a typical russian car pool hunka is that typically russian car. one african man who saw our car cried and explained to us that he took part in a war in this car as a driver he said in the end that thanks to cars like this one we've won the war.

our trip is not finished yet we want to cross every time so that's why we have a route from flight of us stuck to moscow for the moment we've gone 80000 kilometers i think we will have 95 when we're finished. i don't buy a car call that obama still made to this day in a still going strong what's it for that more i'll say though more of a program is continuing to in your part of the world after the break in fact stay tuned for a boom bust here soon as we're back. to

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round if. we can all middle of the room sit. around the real news room. this is boom bust broadcasting around the globe uncovering the world of business and finance an impact upon us all i'm daniel bruno in washington and christie eyes on assignment here's a look at what's on deck for today if you feel like you may have lost track of all the drama coming out of the g. 7 summit in france don't worry because our team producer bridgeboro is here to

track storylines and subplots of the surprisingly controversial conclave plus dramatic developments just keep coming in in the transfers of a trade fight but could there be cause for hope on the horizon peter schiff of euro pacific capital is standing by to delve into the details of what they feel might look like and later is that the tried climate couldn't get any more tricky a new threat is descending upon one of the world's favorite fruits kaufman author of bet the farm peels the headlines and takes a look at why banana farmers are going crazy with anxiety tried to sell them feel the g.'s because another awesome show is about to take off let's go. u.s. president donald trump claimed monday that chinese trade officials called twice over the weekend during the g. 7 summit to resume trade negotiations. trump made the statement during the event and berets france germany. treaty. to get back to the table so getting back to you want to do something. very very dandy but this is the

right thing to do and i think great respect and respect for this is a very positive development for the world. the u.s. president made plenty of headlines regarding trade during the c g 7 whether intentional or not including 1st prospective bilateral deals with japan and the european union as well as of the ongoing trade war with china our producer brant warr has a story. very very very. i mean business they want to be able to be. very important. even though it was really a lot of these it happened during meetings that the group of 7 summit in france u.s. president donald trump continued his positive tone about the state of u.s. china trade talks with the exception of a moment on sunday when he appeared to admit he was having 2nd thoughts about the

ongoing trade war with beijing. i just might as well have. second thoughts about everything the comment by mr trump was quickly clarified by the administration with white house press secretary stephanie grisham releasing a statement saying his answer had been greatly misinterpreted adding president trump responded in the affirmative because he regrets not raising the tariffs higher meanwhile. a spokesperson for the chinese ministry of foreign affairs had strong words about the united states action during the trade dispute specifically responding to a series of tweets by mr trump calling on american companies to look for alternatives to manufacturing in china which you know will be maywood. the so-called pulling of american companies out of china is more like a political slogan than a pragmatic measure even if it happens there will surely be others to fill the gap and it is the us who will be harmed.