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days after suspected is really. the president's. 29. aside from all things military. discussions. between. 11 pm and 6 in the evening right here in the august 27th welcome to r.t. international. let's begin in the u.s. a judge in oklahoma the drug maker. is responsible for driving the state's opioid crisis and ordered it $572000000.00 fine

he said the pharmaceutical giant a full dangerous marketing campaign which the risk of addiction and directly contributed to debts johnson and johnson said it will appeal the decision. got a landmark ruling today in oklahoma the drug manufacturer jay. 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 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 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 or do pharmaceuticals manage to withdraw themselves from the case by paying a $270000000.00 settlement for them or tell the pharmaceutical industries they withdrew from the case in may by paying an 85000000 dollars settlement so johnson and johnson was the only defendant in the 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 or let's go through the often rates of opioid addiction have increased dramatically in the u.s. over the past 20 years culminating in a nationwide epidemic. in the late 1990 s. prescriptions for painkillers were made readily available as pharmaceutical companies assured doctors that their patients would not become addicted but it quickly became clear that many people were becoming dependent with deaths from opioid overdoses reaching a record high of 42000 dollars and 2016 the following year the government declared a public health emergency who are currently an estimated $130.00

americans die every day as a result of opioid medicine abuse the health crisis is also placing a huge strain on the u.s. economy and reportedly encouraging higher rates of heroin usage addiction specialist told us that both the pharmaceutical industry and doctors have failed in their duties to talk to customers and also to 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 janssen 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. to moving on the united nations is calling from some restraint between israel and its adversaries as fears of a new conflict in the middle east world the plea comes after israeli forces carried out an earth strike against iranian troops in syria on saturday and what it said was an effort to thwart a planned drone attack lebanon iraq as well accused israel of conducting aerial attacks against shiite militia groups on their territory over the weekend. 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 owned up to that last attack and 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. as good will go if someone tries 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 israelis on the golan heights with explosive drones i would like to emphasize that this was a mission if the wrong under the command of iran at the behest of the runs. 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 whenever we will hit back sevenfold whoever prepares to strike at us we will act 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 well on the point where as i listen both iran and israel for their assessments of the situation iran is trying to envelope israel from all of this through his ball which is the fact of lee iran through syria through iraq and even

through gaza it's like a big octopus sending its arms in order to strangle israel the problem you have the israelis like this oil out of the world. and because no one no one calls it to account it's allowed to get away with essentially murtha is talking to and hit 3 separate severin countries in the past few days 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'll do and if i meant to 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 i see no one questioning why israel is doing something 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 stop the 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 aggressive 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 israelis are 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 to get iran which has a nuclear program energy program it constantly gets accused of making nuclear weapons and all this stuff which is slightly from the supreme leader's own discourse is forbidden. ok let's move on now because president his

turkish counterpart reject or want to have wrapped up their talks south a mux 29. rasho happening just where we are here in moscow have been addressing reporters as well on the results of the outside lying meeting the event or course we have a trunk of. a press conference set for us if you could the see you what were the takeaways from the wasn't anticipating one and more on this. union hello there well the conference that just wrapped up after both leaders enjoyed the max air show clearly shows that the locomotive of a russia turkey friendship and all kinds of cooperation is speeding ahead you can name quite a few projects that are being complete without any delayed or they're being

prepared that is namely the turkish strain project or the construction of a nuclear power plant in turkey by the washington tom agency the deliveries of the ass 400 air defense systems that one is russian made and that's really something that annoys nato but we'll come back to that a bit later this is an air show and we saw the 2 the leaders examining some of the most advanced aircraft technology that russia has to offer and turkey's not only a buying some of the russian aircraft here but also some kind of joint production but let me just focus on something that really meant some tough negotiations between mr putin and mr aired on here in the moscow region that is the situation in syria is the province we understand that the syrian government forces are making

advances on the only remaining rebel on klav in syria and the opposition there is being supported by turkey. and on shoes day air dawn once again voiced his concerns about that he said that the butt bartman by the syrian army there are also causing casualties among the civilian population so you could really feel that this is the kind of. this is the kind of field where the 2 countries don't really see eye to eye but judging from what they said during the press conference they're ready to keep working on it keep working together russia and turkey and also with the involvement of iran to try and make sure that the cease fire there holds i just want to come back to the actual air show and how the 2 the eaters were looking at some of russia's new ways to fighter jets that is

the s u 57 and also the am 35 now this one's very important. program these are the american made fighter jets it was canceled as a result of an close decision to buy russia's heir to the to the s 400 so this visit by thai paired on to the mosque is very important and it seemed that mr aired on quite like to the newest aircraft that drove the russian men military industrial complex house to offer does have a log scene that happened between the 2 leaders right when they approached one of them one of the su 50 seventh's. please just eat. the food. if you will need to lose.

he keep. out the press 5 conference both presidents. specifically asked whether some contracts were on the table or possibly even side. or possibly even signed i'm sorry. they said but definitely there are plans for this kind of cooperation in if it hinted that there could be joint production of the most advanced aircraft even if there are military by both countries but for now they didn't say that much about it no specific figures were named but i can tell you that. they always at least for the last couple of years seem to treat each other as friends mr aired on always calls vladimir putin a dear friend. and that's why you know try to enjoy themselves in the

sunshine as well and they stopped by a kiosk to buy some ice cream and that was quite fascinating to watch as well. because you. just have to. produce something you can't tell which. is weird because it was very. easy. to do it was really really good out of the. you know. it's. just. so clearly this kind of friendship this client of warmth helps even if there are difficulties between the 2 countries especially when we're talking about syria but definitely when it comes to bilateral relations between ankara and moscow they are on the rise and it's been like this for the last couple of years i can tell you that right now the 2 presidents said

the goal for an increase trade between the 2 countries full. yeah good to see the president leaving a tip as well on a hot day ice cream there's always time for thanks for summing up all about all those talks today at the max 2019 or show just outside of. the program with the 7 summit has been praised by world leaders as a number of productive get together but what was achieved we look into that after the break. that's my life that you know i started on wall street 40 years ago and i've been living in the log cheeriest life of ever cheaper money ever since and literally not

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hello again the french president has hailed in his words an extremely productive g. 7 summit after 3 days of talks wrapped up on monday in b.-o. it's the spike the group of attending world leaders voicing optimism for the future of this year's meeting produced very few concrete commitments here's our senior correspondent. it was nice nice stuff the weather was decent and lots of people nice people good conversation and good stuff guys couldn't you. first of all i would like to thank president trump and all the heads of states and government present 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 the cheveley little more argued the little less. and if it was a lot of nervousness at the outset a lot of expectations a lot of tension and we had a lot of conflicts just look at the bright side there's always next year to get something done it's not nice to be fair there was a lot of stuff on the agenda in the trade war with china the brazilian president's rudeness breck's and 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 invites the foreign minister of iran hoping to break the ice and surprisingly things became a little or 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 he met with president mcbroom and iran is a very difficult situation. in the position it's 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 of you lot of people will be. to be honest it wasn't trump's greatest performance there they were having a nice dinner all in cincy is smiles and forced laughs and use and brings up the boogie man. trying joining your michel in star red shoe miss stu 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 with. a little 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. 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 great as g 708 sco but the total catastrophe but this year trumped even scientists single page unlike last year when he simply stormed out. that wasn't nice. going on a world tour a can sometimes be a lonely business so one russian traveler decided to take a bit of his beloved homeland with them is very old russia classic. hunka which in russian means a loaf of bread and it's in quite a slice of the globe so far. i've

decided to do something extraordinary to make the journey in a typical russian bend the russian behind of and to be precise. one african man whose sole are you a zeke right and explain to us that he took part in a war in this event as a driver he said in the end that thanks to bands like this one we won the war. our trip is not finished yet we want to cross every time zone that's why would have a route from light of all stock to moscow for the moment with 80000 kilometers i think we will have done 95 by the time we're finished.

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has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental racism going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go on to be press this is what will before 3 of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. west sydney. said she stressed to not long but mostly to say that the british presence in the

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