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from crisis talks to military deals the russian and turkish presidents meet on the sidelines of the macs 2900 as shown in moscow with discussions ranging from syria to purchasing brand new russian stealth jets. u.s. pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson is found guilty and fined for fueling oklahoma's opioid epidemic and causing a surge in drug related deaths. johnson and johnson will finally be held accountable for thousands of deaths in addiction. by their activities. and a triple threat middle east tensions soar as israel carries out an airstrike against
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iranian troops in syria just days after suspected israeli drone attacks in lebanon and iraq. there's midnight here in moscow now wednesday the 28th of august some call them brain r.c.h. he will headline news this hour 1st off for you then president putin in his turkish counterpart have held talks at the back 2900. just outside moscow the 2 discussed cooperation on the syrian crisis and also the possible purchase of russian fighter jets by ankara even trying to report. well we saw it right here once again the presidents of russia and turkey are really enjoying talking about what their countries are doing together naming the projects one after another like the likes of the turkish stream gas pipeline project that is being completed in the black sea
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or a new nuclear power plant built in turkey by the russian atomic agency also dreams of one of the russian made 400 air defense systems i'm going to come back to that one a bit later and also all kinds of business that is turkey does in this country but the whole you want more and more a 5 fold increase and neutral trade and that is the kind of goal the leaders set for themselves on tuesday here because well we shouldn't forget that we are out an air show right so on tuesday we even heard of the possibility that turkey and russia could start building aircraft together we heard that from both presidents although no specific details followed for now but still i bet on ends a lot of our booty have also been very good at finding ways out of tricky crisis
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situation and they're rizwan still ongoing and syria and now ankara is really concerned about what's going on in syria is that is the only remaining opposition on klav there we know that moscow and ankara are behind the forces on the different sides of the front line they're tired peridot on spoke of how the advancements by the syrian government forces are causing civilian casualties and an extended flow of refugees to turkey there well vladimir putin in his turn pointed at the continuing attacks by the terrorists that still remain and the lives. zone but we've already gotten used to seeing mr putin and mr airtel on so energized to work together that somehow they managed to overcome these difficulties so once again they've shown that and they are really counting on renewed talks and geneva of
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these so-called constitutional committee that will represent most of the sides in the syrian conflict now i just want to go back to the fact that mr aired on came to russia specifically for the max air show now that's an important thing because it follows a decision by america to scrap the deliveries of american made fighter jets to turkey as a result of a decision by anchor ought to purchase the s 400 missile defense systems these are the ones that i mentioned the deployment is well underway well what's there left to want to do rollout has shopping cart here in russia and this is exactly what he did here. which is.
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what you have to see right now where the 2 the 2 is standing by russia's most advanced 5th generation fighter jet the s u 57 but it's not only the aircraft technology mr air go on and fly them or putin enjoyed here on these you called ski airfield they had some ice cream to have a look at how much you can. do it just. coming in from japan which. would be something very. nice if. it was really really going to be. you know. this is. the most senior guests of left but it's by far not all over yet here at the max 2019 air show the program continues for the rest of the week. leading drugmaker johnson and johnson's been
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found responsible for driving the opioid crisis in the us state of oklahoma a judge that has ordered it to pay a $572000000.00 fine he said the pharmaceutical giant had run a false and dangerous marketing campaign which downplayed the risk of addiction and to directly contributed to deaths johnson and johnson says it will appeal the decision but with a look at the implications next he's kind of more open 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
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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 the 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 pardieu pharmaceuticals 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
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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 this is the 1st time that a big pharmaceutical company has been found at trial to be responsible for the opioid epidemic of rates of opiate addiction of increase dramatically in the united states 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 that doctors that patients would not become addicted but it quickly became clear that many people would become independent with deaths from opioid overdoses reaching a record high of 4202016 the following year the government declared a public health emergency currently an estimated 130 americans die every day as
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a result of opioid medicines the health crisis is also placing a huge burden on the u.s. economy and encouraging high rates of heroin use. i live to the us now let's bring in pain management experts and addiction medicine specialist dr john dombrowski from the washington pain center in the u.s. capitol welcome to the program lots of headlines talking about this ruling being a 1st but will it change anything. i really don't think it will change anything obviously i do appreciate that a pharmaceutical industry has said that they're going to pay this however there they are going to bring this up to a for appeal this is multifactorial or ill and got here with the o.b. crisis just not the medicine the government said it was safe for us to use these medications you know we were actually told to treat pain and because if we actually with health care we'd actually be liable for hurting patients so we really got to go on both sides of this and we need to find out where this all ends up i want to
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ask you about the doctors role in this there really because it kind of stopped for them if they're giving the prescriptions do they pay any part in this well of course they would i mean you know the pharmaceuticals so you can only educate physicians they make the medications that we require and they do it but help a patient and styles of patients that are on a pain are helped by these medications all the time it's what physicians or patients use medications in appropriately tweek start getting into trouble and seduction. where they're not wanting the federal agencies that oversee they get to send the prescription drugs though surely there's there's a government role here too yeah exactly exactly and the government does actually you know almost promote us for using these medications significantly they actually made us write these medications to treat pain aggressively and now they're really evaluating that that stand they took 10 years ago what about the fine itself more than half a 1000000000 dollars 500 $72000000.00 which is what the court said johnson and
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johnson is going to pay but that's way short of the $17.00 plus 1000000000 sold by the state of oklahoma why do you think the find wasn't as large as well sort. well make maybe the evidence wasn't as clear number one and number 2 i mean even the stock of johnson and johnson was up about 1.5 today because there's actually a good day for johnson and johnson even though they did lose it could have been a lot worse and they are going to you know brings up for appeal. american doctors have also prescribed opioid painkillers to children's teens in large quantities of thousands of related deaths over the past 15 years it isn't there an alternative. of course as an alternative that why anesthesiologist where the chemist the operating room most of these patients you know who are kind of complex certainly children should always be seen by a specialist to make sure they're getting the right care possible and really no one who's a child or young adult really require these medications the all elderly certainly are people who are disabled certainly but these younger folks that's that's
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a little unusual. what do you think it's got to 2019 before something like this has come about that it's got to a trial because this has been known about for years if not decades that this could have been a problem in the making people have been warning about it for a lot longer than the past couple of years when the lawsuits started rolling in well agreed i mean we started seeing this problem at least 10 to 15 years ago and a lot of the pharmaceutical industry you know was using appropriate measures to make medications less available to crush or to snort or to you know to adulterate and a lot of our patients were doing this and obviously if i write a prescription i did not tell you to crush the medication to snorted or to inject it so they were missive using it and that's why you know we then educated physicians on how to look out for the signs of addiction to then you know stop you know giving patients these medications but more probably get them help for addiction that they truly need not pain medicine ok let's hope so dr john dombrowski from the washington pain center in the u.s. capitol of really appreciate the phone saving thanks for joining us on r.t.
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thank you sir. next to palestinian reported dead in one injured in an alleged to drone strike on gaza on tuesday evening that's according to the local health ministry the israeli army's denied carrying out the attack claiming it might have been a work accident meanwhile the u.n. is calling for maximum restraint between israel and its inverse or is as fears of a new conflict in the middle east grow more quarter has the details. 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.
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at least they owned 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 israelis on the golan heights with explosive drones i would like to emphasize that this was an initiative overrun under the command of iran at the behest of iran 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
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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 for 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 waving that was also in international airspace or assassination campaigns in europe or trying to kill an ambassador here in the united states iraq has this long history of blind behavior iran had its tankers detained its airspace violated by
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drones its military installations outright bombed all by the u.s. and israel what other aggressive provocations does iran have up its sleeve go reaction from iranian and israeli analysts to get their assessments of what's developing. iran is trying to envelope israel from all of the sides through hezbollah which is effectively 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 is israel is like this oil breath of the world and because no one no one calls it to account it's allowed to get away with essentially minute. talking to it and hit 3 separate sobering countries in the past few days israel has no issue with iran if iran would focus inward on on its own people and stop trying to destroy
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israel as it explicitly says it will do and if i meant in terror 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 white israelis doing something white israelis 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 you don't do this to me certainly behave yourself iran has been a real interesting stance for you will and iran will not stop simple i told him and i said it categorically. what the iran will do if it is attacked or its allies within the resistance axis are directly attacked big will retaliate and rightly so because in this case the aggressive the one who's instigating problems who's lying
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and making up fairy stories because it's control and influence within the mainstream media is israel and everyone knew most israelis are ropes that 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 knew no discussion about to get in. which has a nuclear program of energy program it constantly gets accused of making nuclear weapons and all this stuff which is slightly from the supreme leader's own discreet discourse is forbidden. for french president has hailed in his words an extremely productive g. 7 summit after 3 days of talks wrapped up in beer at all monday but despite the group of attending world leaders voicing optimism for the future this year's meeting produced very few concrete commitments is our senior correspondent what i guess if it was nice nice stuff the weather was decent lots of people nice people good conversation and good stuff nice good in you.
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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 yet pretty nice i mean could have been better they could have agreed on something significant the cheveley 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 tension 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 the trade war with china the brazilian president's
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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 macron invites the foreign minister of iran hoping to break the ice and surprisingly things became a little all could also unsurprisingly trump 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
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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 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 one. of of you lot of people will be.
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to be honest it wasn't trump's greatest performance there 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 mitchell in star red chuen a stew 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 and 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
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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 because it's going to get 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 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 great as g 708 school but a lot of total catastrophe but this year trump even signed this single page unlike last year when he simply stool doubt. that really wasn't nice.
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i also leading us libertarian party politician whether he thought there were any positives to be drawn from this year's summit the g 7 is to the world it was the federal reserve is the united states it is a meddling 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 bed 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. well talk and sometimes be
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a lonely business so one russian adventurer decided to take a bit of his beloved homeland with its very own russian made classic van now an as behind which in russian means a loaf of bread and it's saying quite a slice of the globe sofa. i've decided to do something extraordinary to make the journey in a typical russian van the russian behind of and to be precise. one african man who saw are you a zeke right and explain to us that he took part in a war in this van as
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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 we have a route from light of all stock to moscow for the moment we've done 80000 kilometers i think we will have done 95 by the time we're finished. ok that's the way talks from moscow for now your next r.t. world update follows the cause of a. officer
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. told them to get up off the ground or begin to. hurt them freaks on the sounds of. the grown man recently. which threw away from the officer. the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the weapon once missed and then when it happened on tree swung. 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.
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walk on a park imax keyser do know about the length of the stories or at kaiser report dot com we listen to you. i like that all right. yes we cover many headlines on kaiser report and port dot com you can find links to the headlines i get asked that all of the time and for example here's our 1st chart why we are likely to see a 4 decade bull market in bonds like this ever again and that's 40 years of ever declining yields ever rising bond prices well that's my life you know i started on wall street 40 years ago and been living in the luxury of life of ever
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cheaper money ever since literally not having to work a day in my life because the assets bought it 40 years ago have gone straight up. and it's gone up every year since then just about and a bit of all the dotcom boom and the crypto boom of the big boom in the stock market boom so this is been a remarkable period for the wasn't called generation jones the last of the baby boomers born in 1960 s. i was thanks to paul volcker who in 1980 you know started to you know stuff about inflation with a huge surge in interest rates and it's been basically easy street ever since easy money has resulted in many things and we're going to go over that in a moment you and i witnessed some of it in detroit where we were last week where you could see former greatness former beautiful buildings abandoned industry abandoned creation of wealth abandoned
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because you know you and i can remember our childhood and any you know any person entering the market since then my god it must been horrible back then right but our parents had amazing jobs they got paid well we they were able to own a home and buy a home with one income that they were you know more community. university didn't cost your life you know so here we've had this rolling over of debt over and over all the way down as we talked in the last episode there's been an ever declining utility of debt part of this has been that we need more and more debt in order to grow this fake economy of this economy because remember if you look around there's not much industry left here so what if we've been building more piles of debt and i'm going to turn.

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