leading pharmaceutical companies accused of fueling america's opioid epidemic by aggressively pushing its painkillers and downplaying their wrists in front of the release e-mails as part of a multi district lawsuit. elsewhere hong kong's gripped by protests for the 13th weekend running with rioters throwing petrol bombs at police who responded with tear gas and water cannon we look at how a figurehead of the opposition this feels a. leaked e-mails reveal how chemical giant monsanto conspired to discredit a group of mothers to criticize the company's use of pesticides.

good evening and welcome you watching our international well 1st this hour we have news from the french city of leone where one man has been killed and 9 other people wounded in a stabbing attack on a train one suspect has been arrested while police say they are still looking for another according to reports the assailants attacked at random they said not yet said whether they believe the incident was a terrorist attack we'll keep you updated on this story. recently unsealed court documents reveal that spur do pharma conspired to aggressively push its opioid painkillers screenshots of email correspondence published in a multi district opioid lawsuit led to accusations the giant corporation called america's biggest drug epidemic the company is also accused of downplaying the risks of addiction this led to doctors prescribing its pills the patients even if

they only had minor pain for the details is killing more. the usa is in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic. in 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 purdie farmer 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 what's a 1000000 emails 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 could we pound up with the trajectory of the pain movement that these organizations works to convince the us 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 allergies or drugs out there and try to come together as a sort of the 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 it's very clear that purview pharma and other manufactures from very early on were interested in one thing and 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 be 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 of pain killers that led 1st and foremost to an epidemic of overprescribing pain killers for minor and chronic pain conditions which ultimately gave way to the current epidemic of opiate addiction and overdose death . we have asked purdue pharma for comment offering any response when it comes in. clashes have erupted in hong kong where people took to the streets despite a planned protest having being banned by the authorities. found the started marching peacefully early on saturday through the city center however and resprayed coutts with police resorting to tear gas and water cannon

infused with blue dye of fires was started in the streets official reason for the protest ban is the violence that's been seen at previous demonstrations in the past weeks and months. police want anyone taking part in saturday's action may face prosecution u.s. president donald trump has commented on the current tensions between hong kong and china saying the anti beijing protests should be handled any quote humane fashion. i think of a word for the trade. hong kong would be a much bigger job i think it would have been much more violent i really believe china wants to make a deal and they know it puts us in a very bad position if there is not a humane way of handling the problems and i'd let them know that. it is a humane fashion the chinese ministry of foreign affairs expressed this discontent with the white house for showing empathy with what it calls radicalized protest this friday 2 more protest leaders were arrested on suspicion of organizing an

authorized release but were released on bail one of them roast to prominence 5 years ago during the movement protests. was. the. i. know matter how democrats. joshua wall who we just saw that is one of the leaders

of the current protests but apparently he learned the art of protest not just the demonstrations of 5 years ago so he's in a patrol car explains. 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's demonstrated previously is disregards to come out and demonstrate again. yeah that's. joining us now on the phone is pro-democracy activist from hong kong joshua was he with 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 they should take a more active row to support hong kong democrat high station to ensure the interests of you asked citizens in hong kong. 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 us consulate 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 protest skills george szell wong and his fellow activists have up their sleeves were picked up from abroad in the build up to the 2014 hong kong uprising the folks from the so-called 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 he spoke to china specialist andre lung who says that the unrest in hong kong is being stirred up by external activists. distin report of the sun is the business of the military is a big trade in the or slow freedom for. which of course is involved in a lot of these though there's a world of trading whole trading is this on the tactics of some of. the establishment the so-called civil disobedience act it's so i think that and also the ones. supported by international organizations including the national endowment for democracy of the united states of course you know as they say the country and this organization is an ngo the you support the bosses around the world but on the other hand is to link the rectally. this kind of

inputs but only had those though doubt that the militants are highly trained to look at the way that the formation of the violin and also policy in those of the ministers and so on. due to release females reveal how chemical giant monsanto attempted to discredit an action group campaigning against its weed killer moms across america had raised the alarm about the use of one of the company's leading products called roundup that's your enemy 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 2013 the action group sent an open letter to monsanto's top management calling on them to stop selling g.m.o. seeds and spraying crops with life or satan of the pesticides moms across 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 non g.m.o. but they've gone the extra mile and gotten some pesticide testing done their packaging might even be bio degradable fair trade is used to mainly 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. it's not just moms across america being targeted by monsanto documents revealed the company also operated a so-called intelligence fusion center so it was to monitor and discredit critics who claim that the main ingredient of monsanto's weed killer is extremely dangerous to human health glad to say it's a herbicide and crop drying agent and it's sprayed on crops and then ends up in food in the air and tap water as well in several lawsuits monsanto has got a profit was ruled to have actually caused cancer but the company states its product is safe to use and it's appealed against those verdicts moms across america's director going told us that this shows the company's disregard for public health. this 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 into the hands of regulation into the hands of

these companies they are proposing to allow g.m.o. companies to dish so determine whether or not their products are safe or not and so as a mother just as it make any sense to me at all that immense how are these tastes were people will have control over whether or not our supply is safe that's extremely disturbing to me and must not happen in our government must regulate g.m.o. those 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 happen. for us democratic presidential hopeful joe biden's 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 about when he was in afghanistan of turned out to be not entirely true and not for the 1st stone.

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except i don't know the new prime minister of a of of england he looks like donald trump i don't know. 4 kids who just as brady just as talons white kids and saying time fantasies of things he's been my friend. you know watching i think that i still stay with this morning's coming your way in just a couple of minutes. global insurrection against banker occupation which started that really before occupy wall street before the revolution in cairo before obviously this year in france or the protests and they're often active all these protests are connected they're all connected to a rebellion against we have money and banks are all global and treasury is bankrupt

. 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 good there are absolutely things that the west needs to be doing and what i would like to see is much much less. rhetorical struggles we see against russia. it's become an easy way of getting certain the audiences to applaud you is to come up.

with a presidential race in full swing in argentina some appear to be resorting to bribery to get the desired outcome 2 leading business been reportedly announced that they would pay their workers $5000.00 each if current presidents succeeded in reaching the 2nd round of the elections one of the pair is also a lawmaker for my ruling party. is a landslide victory for opposition leader alberto in the 1st round of voting because i was a time leader who's seeking reelection lost by a fog greater margin than had been expected but he still will add the candidates. where the winds argentina's presidential election will have a tough job on the says the country edges increasingly closer to defaulting on its debt.

if we are talking about at democratic region after mark receipt that's not legitimate to do it you're buying a person stuff and that you're buying a person's decision that's why and i'm a critic regions too it's not only democratic but also. it's a legitimate. it involves a lot of. the anti democratic values doing this the way that they're doing it is this just shows the separation and preoccupation of their own political stance and economic stance today makris. approach to the economy the results of his near liberal policies have damaged the country itself the levels of

unemployed man the levels of inflation and i mean being play ssion and the quality of life you know ingenuity now have gone down. thousands of to get through the streets of london and other british cities to vent their anger of prime minister boris johnson's decision to suspend parliament people surrounded government buildings waving e.u. flags and t. briggs it placards johnson's decision is outraged and peace and those opposed to the u.k. is leaving the e.u. without deal it means the less time for peace to debate brags it. a number of legal challenges have been launched to try and overturn the move. indonesia will be moving its capital away from jakarta to a new location on their own and of borneo which is the largest in asia internation government plans to begin relocating the capital from 2024 in a move prompted by jakarta's growing environmental challenges.

councils are facing another pressing problem the illegal draining of aquifers by both locals and industries is causing massive land subsidence that's what many buildings on the brink of collapse we asked indonesians for their thoughts on the plan to move the capital to borneo. what i because i believe the government has a strong reason to move the capital city so i have to agree with the decision. well i agree with the relocation but attention should be also given to the people our economy struggling there is unemployment and many companies are collapsing. but if

the juices i don't agree with this jakarta has already become the center of life whereas the new area is not ready it's still jungle but nothing of the reasons for moving the capital with the traffic the sinking and flooding i don't agree with that because the president promised to fix our yeah but if the other cation i will how development across only reassurance that i am in favor. pilots planes alike have been flexing their wings at the 14th show taking place just outside of the russian capital with their about it displays there's been a chance to see some of the next generation aircraft taking to the skies cases the latest scenario space and defense technology $800.00 companies have been taking part in countries that include belgium germany u.k. brazil israel and iran. ok time does fly as well thanks stay with r.t. updates said after. just

. in the fish shop. shit. that is going to sold a few good city council and. oh why a paradise with some all year round turned into a round the experimentation field for agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise

why would that 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 those because the people have less political power.

this is bill bush broadcasting around the globe and covering the world of business and finance and. doing a burrito and i'm christiane washington here's a look at what's on that today. getting a tax break in china while toyota and both wagon make big investments abroad lauren fix the car coach is here to break down the latest shift in the global art of market was scriptural currency is exploding in popularity and with its growth more and more exchanges are popping up all human harm to the owners fun plugs in the figure of the future into her weekly global stock well the today show is and i'm losing you know informational value for just 27 minutes of your time let's go. and economic down shit for india leads our global report today as indian g.d.p. 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 the celebration 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 collapse into 4 after the mergers there would be a total of 12 public sector banks there were as many as 27 public sector banks and 2017 and the sector has been dramatically undermined in recent years by a rising tide of bad loans on lossing. 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 a 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 bonds but that did not take place before the new seem to knock the argentine peso down by about 2 percent against the dollar falling to $59.00 against the dollar. in the trade war continues to rage on as we've reported in the scuffle and spread to the auto sector now there is

a new moves in the auto sector to report and pulling up to catch us up on all busy busy this and all things automotive is the cars coach lauren fix so lauren 1st let's get right into the tesla news this week china ministry of industry and information technology said on friday that the cars all 16 models sold in china will now be exempted from a 10 percent sales tax in the ministry did not give a reason for this favorite treat men although the founder either musk has been noticeably praised in china and seems to be very committed to selling and investing in that market so is this enough to offset all of those other troubles or at least keep them afloat for a while. well i think it's going to help china you have to remember that he didn't 1st announce that he's going to raise prices on all the models it's somewhere around $12000.00 on each vehicle and he was increasing those amounts at the price point in order to compensate for that 10 percent tariff now that he's got the tariff break and he's exempt from it he has not lowered the prices so that's going

to be more profit which is what they need i know he's producing as many vehicles as he can as possible shipping them into china as quickly as possible however electric vehicle sales are just not there at the demand for them wasn't what it was and the incentive from the chinese government is no longer in place so let's hope that he can sell some of those vehicles and they don't just sit there and lauren following up on we talk about some other sort of failures to execute with specific plans but looking at the core marketing strategy for the brand they have sold their cars as kind of luxury purchase and it seems as if even within the would require niche there's also selling perhaps this is cars a statement purchase baby going to a coolness factor on top of the basic you know display of wealth but on that point how do you trust those cars compared to comparable models in the same price range from other luxury car makers and have they made a fundamental mistake by taking their eyes off of the fundamentals here so their cars have a.