it's addressing this issue and if we can even talk about it and we can even have a conversation about it then. ready badlands is our leading pharmaceutical companies accused of fueling america so you can avoid the epidemic by aggressively pushing its painkillers and downplaying their risks the accusations of newly released court documents also to come hundreds of people are currently marching through hong kong in defiance of a protest ban we look at how a figurehead the opposition is protesting skills improved and leaked e-mails reveal chemical giant monsanto conspired to discredit the action group moms across america which has been campaigning against its products.

for a good morning welcome just gone 10 here in moscow you're watching r.t. international court documents reveal that a big pharma company conspired to aggressively push its opioid painkillers this is led to allegations that the farmer caused america's biggest drug epidemic well the company is also accused of damn playing the risks of addiction and this led to doctors prescribing its pills to patients even with only minor pains as more. the usa is in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic. with the. in response to the opioid epidemic 48 different us states have taken action against produce pharma

a drug manufacturer owned by the sackler family now even the company itself admits that those affected should get help as soon as possible while purdy far more is prepared to defend itself vigorously in the opioids a geisha the company has made clear that it sees little good coming from here so it's a geisha and the pills that people and communities affected by the opiate crisis need help now now it's certainly commendable the focus on helping victims rather than simply avoiding blame but the 1000000 e-mails that have just been released show the sackler family and produce pharmaceuticals in a rather negative light richard sackler then the president oversaw the creation of some public health advocacy groups it's implied that the american pain society and the now defunct american pain foundation operated almost as front groups then president richard sackler explained his motives our goal is to buying these organizations more closely to us than here to for but also to align them with our expanded mission and to see that the fate of our products are next to it we found

up with the trajectory of the pain movement and these organizations works to convince the u.s. public that pain related issues were not being properly addressed however that's not all the e-mails have shown dr kathleen foley a neurologist who was also a paid speaker for produce pharma urged richard sackler to expand and to collaborate with other drug companies who stood to make a profit from an expansion of pain awareness. i'm thinking of an alternative strategy of bringing together all the members of the pharmaceutical industry who have drugs out there and trying to come together as a sort of he's if recognizing that your particular drug has been recently identified in the newspapers as a drug issue the pain awareness campaign may have resulted in giving some people a temporary buzz but the pain felt by us society in the aftermath of the resulting opioid epidemic is far greater interior is clear that purview pharma and other

manufacturers from very early on were interested in one thing that was their bottom line they were really indifferent to the well being of patients who would actually be taking the opioids that they were peddling and their wanted gender was to make money so pilate manufacturers played a major role in the current american hope you would have to demick they were not the sole and to do responsible for the epidemic but without their involvement i highly doubt this epidemic would have come to pass it was their misrepresentation of the risks and benefits to pain killers that led 1st and foremost to an epidemic of overprescribing painkillers for minor chronic pain conditions which ultimately gave way to the curb appeal the current to epidemic of opioid addiction an overdose death we have asked but a pharmacy comments on this story

a lawyer so far we haven't received a response well it's not just. being accused of prioritizing profits over people's health later on in our bullets and look at chemical giant monsanto has been trying to discredit its critics. a group of military experts is calling on congress to force the disclosure of the number of u.s. bases overseas in their letter they describe the information currently provided by the pentagon as limited and frequently incomplete. the pentagon's annual a base structure report provides some information about the number and size of base sites overseas however it fails to report on dozens of well known installations in countries worldwide and frequently provides incomplete or inaccurate data many suspect the pentagon does not know the true number of installations abroad but only my colleague jacki spoke with a retired u.s. army colonel and signatory to the letter and write he says that u.s.

citizens are often surprised to learn of the location of american military bases. so we're seeing this letter requiring asking the pentagon to be more transparent about its u.s. overseas bases why did you choose to sign that leathered well i'm a u.s. army colonel i spent 29 years in the us military and i think it's very important that american citizens know how many bases we have where they are and how much it costs to run them most americans don't realize we have over 800 bases now and that we have new bases that are being established particularly in africa do you think that this is a problem that's specific to the u.s. do you think other countries are more transparent about the amount of bases they have well there are very few countries have bases outside their own countries i mean the u.k. has the french have some russia has a few mini china has a few not many but it's primarily the united states overwhelmingly has the overseas

bases or bases in other people's countries in that letter it says that there are some $800.00 insulation throughout the world and those roughly cost u.s. taxpayers about $20000000000.00 per year but do you're implying in this letter that that's not an accurate number how much bigger do you think is the actual amount of money that is used from u.s. taxpayers well we think it may be double that up to $15000000000.00 that are being spent by the u.s. government to. equip train have military operations for. men and women in our military and also department of defense affiliates that are assigned to these bases you know we have large numbers of bases still in germany and japan and south korea but most people don't realize that we now have some in eastern europe right on the border of russia and in fact the military exercises

that the united states has been having both in eastern europe and in scandinavia is one of the concerns that we who signed that letter. have do you think that disclosing such information as the number of military entities abroad will enhance u.s. national security or could it be a risk is that why it's not necessarily about transparent well that's probably what the pentagon will be saying but we would say as citizens we need to know where our military we are surprised sometimes when young men and women are killed in places no one even knew that we had a military installation there when officials say some 800 u.s. installations are located in up to 80 countries around the world but the signatories of the letters say the number could be hugely understated is because they insist the special report should be included in the $22020.00 national defense authorization act it's meant to increase transparency and avoid excessive military spending. ok with you some live

pictures now from hong kong where people there hundreds of people are marching through the city in defiance of the authorities which banned an anti-government rally that was planned for today despite the weather as you can see it's pretty bad there quite a few people are turning out the official reason for the ban is the violence that's been seen in previous demonstrations in the past weeks and months or police warning that those taking part in the march that they may face prosecution this is. there is no information about any arrests at this stage well on friday 2 more protest leaders were arrested on suspicion of organizing unauthorized rallies but were released on bail one of them rose to prominence 5 years ago during the umbrella movement protests. was.

was. on you all right no matter how they felt that there was. a war who we just saw there is one of the leaders of the current protests but apparently he cut his teeth protesting not just at the demonstrations 5 years ago i was trying to explain. he's only $22.00 but he's already backed himself at least a few lines in the history books joshua wall has already served several prison sentences he's a leader of a political party he's followed 530-0000 users on twitter is invited to

speak on the most prominent international news channel clearly your message to anyone who has demonstrated previously is disregards to come out and demonstrate again. yeah that's what our police bring us now on the phone is pro-democracy activist from hong kong joshua wa he was an independent inquiry into police abuse you've been very critical of the police tactics he has just got out of prison at 3 and a half hours ago just so how does it feel to be free to issue a warning is frank he'd love a bit of western support i hope u.s. politician days should take a more active to support hong kong democrat high station to ensure the interests of you asked citizens in hong kong that and the prolific go and economic freedom in hong kong can still be guaranteed in the future and apparently he's highly admired

by many in america joshua wall went to washington in 2015 to get an award from freedom house and n.g.o.s which power gets most of its funding from u.s. government grants and a couple of years american lawmakers nominated the young man and his associates for the noble peace prize this month it was revealed his in touch with american diplomats in hong kong after he was photographed meeting the political unit chief of the local u.s. consul general the activist said he thought there's no big deal about it even went to washington several times so what's so special about mit in the u.s. consul chinese authorities though have been making it clear they are firmly against other countries getting involved in the hong kong situation. we are strongly dissatisfied and firmly opposed to carping remarks in the g 7 leaders statement acting as the backseat driver on hong kong affairs we have time and again

emphasized that hong kong affairs are purely the internal affairs of china and no foreign government organization or individual has the right to intervene however some of the protests skills george szell wong and his fellow activists have. there's leaves were picked up from abroad in the build up to the $24.00 to hong kong uprising the folks from the so-called owes low freedom forum share their protest expertise with joe show wall and co today he's calm for the democratic political reforms are the only way forward for hong kong and he says he won't shy away from challenging the most senior officials at home and in beijing in a prank that will present donald trump as common to all new current tensions between hong kong and china saying that the anti beijing protests should be handled in a humane fashion. i think it will work for the great. god would be a much bigger trouble i think it would if it weren't for violence i really believe

john wants to make a deal and they know it puts us in a very bad position if there's not a humane way of handling the problems and i'd let him know that the. handle at a humane fashion meanwhile the chinese ministry of foreign affairs has expressed its discontent with the white house for showing empathy with what it calls radicalized protesters we spoke to china specialist andrew learn he says the unrest in hong kong is being stirred up by external activists still reports of some of these voters those little tools of the trade in the or slow freedom forum. which of course is involved in a lot of these there's a world trade in whole trading bill does this ready on tactics of some of. the establishment the so-called civil disobedience that it's so i think that and also there are funds. supported by where is the international organizations

including the national endowment for democracy of the united states of course you know as this is a democratic country and this organization is an ngo the you support the boss sees around the world but on the other hand is to link the rectally. of inputs but only had it was the old doubt that the militants are highly trained to look at the way that their formation and the bone in it also policy in those of the ministers and so on. now the us democratic presidential hopeful joe biden has been making his case as to why he should get his party's nomination but some of the stories he's been telling while campaigning a back when he was in afghanistan have turned out to be not entirely true and not for the 1st time.

the. young navy captain up on the mountain the color are brown in afghanistan one of his buddies got shot fell down a ravine of the sky climb down or a green card this guy up on his back under fire general want to me to pin the silver star on to. i love this place i want to look what's not to like about from on terms of the beauty of it and what it leads down to. watch with populace can support can come up to seem the last vice president they once knew that in some some you covered. international leaders spoke among you had people like margaret that you had people like the i know everyone of these leaders except i don't know the new prime minister of a of of england he looks like down trump i don't know. 4 kids who just as brady

just as challenge white kids and saying time finish she's a friend she's been my friend. now from high school she attacked in alabama to the latest on the war in yemen with goats that plenty stories still to come you know so. you know world's big partners through things a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than that. we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical

thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. global insurrection against banker occupation which started that really before occupy wall street before the revolution in cairo before obviously the all in france or the protests and they're all connected all these protests are connected they're all connected to a rebellion against the out money and banks they're all global and structure is bankrupt. and. when it comes down to it it is not actually that i think one can say oh well the russians are all bad this certainly is not the case that the west is all good they're all absolutely things that the west needs to be doing and what i would like to see is much much less totally counterproductive rhetorical struggles we see against russia that it's you know it's it's become an easy way of all getting

certain the audiences to approach you is to come up with cheap russian bashing that helps move. again nearly released e-mails from the chemical giant monsanto attempted to discredit an action group campaign against its weed killer moms across america had raised the alarm over the use of one of the company's leading products cold ground up. that's your enemy beat the out of them and put them on the defensive and you won't have this problem i have been arguing for a week to beat the shit out of them and i have clearly lost we don't want to be

seen as beating up on mothers nobody will listen to it anyway it has to be done by 3rd parties well in 2030 in the action group sent an open letter to monsanto's top management calling on them to stop selling g.m.a. seats and spraying crops with life phosphate and of the pesticides on the cross america's director told us why the organization promotes organic farming. all we need to do is to take matters into our own hands and to make sure that the food supply is safe and that our families are not exposed to toxic chemicals and what we've done is created a moms across america gold standard and so this is a new seal of approval that brands can get to show that they're not only organic and not but they've gone the extra mile and gotten some pesticide testing done their packaging might even be bio degradable so your trade is used to name the raised animal products is used and they support the transition from g.m.o. chemical farming to regenerative organic farming and so as

a mother and mothers by 85 percent of the food we believe that they are listening to us and that it does make a difference and we ask all the consumers out there to continue speaking up and to go to moms across america dot org and find out more about our gold standard that will be launching next month and it isn't just moms across america that's been targeted by monsanto documents to reveal to the company also operated this so-called intelligence fusion center its aim was to monitor and also to discredit critics who claim the glaive to say the main ingredient in monsanto's weed killer is extremely dangerous to human health life or say it is a herbicide and crop drying agent after it is sprayed on crops and can end up in food there and also. in several lawsuits monsanto supply for state based products ruth of course the cancer however the company does state that his product is safe to use and does not cause cancer and it's appealed against those burdick's moms

across america's director again told us this shows the company's disregard for public health. is an example of the type of mentality that g.m.o. companies have and that shows a complete disregard for public health and this is very disturbing considering that our government would like to now go into the hands. of regulation into the hands of these companies there they are proposing to allow g.m.o. companies to disk sellers determine whether or not their products are safe or not and so as a mother distills it make any sense to me at all that the mentality of these types were the type of people will have control over whether or not our food supply is safe that's extremely disturbing to me and must not happen at all our government must regulate g.m.o. is and they must be able to determine whether or not they're safe or not and these

e-mails are a very good example exactly why that must have. a time after some other news from around the world. in the u.s. state of alabama a gun fights at a high school football game is left 10 teenagers injured 5 of them critically police say the victims were a tween 15 and 182 people are in custody. in yemen 160 the streets there to protest against the presence of u.s. forces in the country the rally comes as yemen civil war ever moved from straying the country's government accusing. troops dobby denies the crime saying it was acting in self-defense and in catalonia people enjoy really. wanted a traditional festival the aim of the competition is to. say

it's falling apart along the way the festival dates back to centric and nest day record. so that's how things are looking so far today here in aussie we're back again. when it comes down to it but it is not actually that i think one can say the russians are all bad this certainly is not the case that the west is all good there are absolutely things that the west needs to be doing and what i would like to see

is much much less. the production of rhetorical struggles we see against russia. because. easy way all getting set in the one. that helps not only. paradise with around. a around the experimentation field but agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have many of these people one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and

its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power.

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falls to a 6 year low and the finance minister announces a drastic consolidation of the troubled public banking sector india's central statistics office released 5 percent g.d.p. growth in the 2nd quarter of 2019 that measure was the weakest since the 1st quarter of 2013 it also came in well below the 5.8 percent growth in the 1st quarter and expectations of 5.7 percent and the reuters survey by comparison in the 2nd quarter of 2018 india recorded an 8 percent growth that continued deceleration now of india's g.d.p. was announced the day after the reserve bank of india's annual report said in reinforcing consumption and investment as a top priority that alignment of events is fuelling increasing uncertainty about another interest rate cut by the indian central bank and speculation that it could be 50 bits rather than $25.00 and just before the g.d.p. figure was released finance minister some of them are on announce that 10 public sector banks would be cool. in 2 for after the mergers there would be

a total of 12 public sector banks now as many as $27.00 public sector banks and 2017 and the sector has been dramatically undermined in recent years by a rising tide of bad loans on lost confidence in the wake of scandalous collapse of punjab national bank after revelations of fraud in 2018. turning to another fly economy argentina's move to renegotiate $101000000000.00 in debt was briefly labeled as a selective default by the moody's rating agency in a statement moody's cited the macro administration's failure to sell bonds to finance approaching debt repayment payment deadlines and said quote following the continued inability to play short term paper with private sector market participants argentine government unilaterally extended the maturity of all short term paper on august 28th this constitutes default under our criteria moody's took down the alert within hours explaining the change but pointed to what they said were new terms on short term by.