i. leading pharmaceutical companies accused the fueling america's opioid epidemic by aggressively pushing its painkillers and downplaying the risks and one of the release of e-mails as part of a multi district lawsuit. by protests for the 13th weekend running with rioters 3 bombs at the police who responded with tear gas the water canon take a look at how a figurehead of the opposition honed his skills abroad. and elsewhere pakistan's prime minister warns of a looming direct military confrontation with india over kashmir comes as india says that it's ready for talks with pakistan but only in an atmosphere free of violence

. recently unsealed court documents reveal that spurred you farmer conspired to aggressively push its opioid painkillers screenshots of email correspondence published in a multi district lawsuit led to accusations the giant corporation caused america's biggest drug epidemic the company's also accused of downplaying the risks of addiction this led to doctors prescribing its pills to patients even with only minor pain for the details his. 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 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 but some 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 bind 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 purdue pharma and other manufacturers 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 do responsible for the epidemic but without their involvement i highly doubt this epidemic would have come to pass it was there this representation of the risks and benefits 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 an overdose death. we have us to produce on the full comment will bring you any response. clashes have erupted in hong kong where people took to the streets despite a planned protest having being banned by the authorities for fear of renewed violence spiked that ban 1000 started to march peacefully earlier on saturday through the city center but a rest later broke out with police resorting to tear gas and water cannon infused with blue dye demonstrators filled petrol bombs. was. i. was.

the police of one that anyone taking part in saturday's action may face prosecution it was present on trump has commented on the current tensions between hong kong and china saying the anti beijing protests should be handled in a 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 for balance i really believe john 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 has expressed its discontent with the white house for showing empathy with what it calls radicalized protests on friday to more protest leaders were arrested on suspicion of organizing

an unauthorized rallies but were released on bail one of them roast prominence 5 years ago during the umbrella movement protests. was was. the was the. moment of how do. we saw just there is one of the leaders of the current

protests but apparently he learned to protest not just the demonstrations of 5 years ago you need to try to explain. he's only $22.00 but he's already backed himself at least a few lines in the history books joshua wong 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 and that's up in the 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 joshua wong his friend 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 probably to 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 wong 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 would you that we are strongly dissatisfied and firmly opposed to carping remarks in the g 7 leaders statement acting is the backseat driver on the hong kong affairs we have time and again emphasized that hong kong affairs are purely the internal affairs of china and no foreign government organisation 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 000 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 we spoke to china specialist under lund who says that the unrest in hong kong is being stirred up by external activists. it's been reports of some of these billed as those of the militants have been trained in the or slow freedom forum. which of course is involved in a lot of these around the world trading whole trading ready on tactics of some anti government and the establishment tactic the so-called civil disobedience act it's so i think that and also that off funds. supported by international organizations including the national endowment for democracy of the united states of course you know as they say as a democratic country and this organization is an ngo and the you support democracy strong the world but on the other hand is to link the rectally. this kind of

inputs that only had there was no doubt that the militants are highly trained to look at the way that their formation and the run in and also policy in the sort of sending messages and so on. pakistan's prime minister has warned about a looming direct military confrontation with india over kashmir during demonstrations in islamabad friday here and call on the world to address the issue in order to avoid a catastrophic war. when muslims are priced those who we call the international community those bodies who is supposed to uphold justice keep silent army is ready to respond to any move against the free kashmir but the world must know that when there are 2 states with nuclear weapons that clash will impact not only the subcontinent but the whole was. the region in question kashmir is located in the north of india and pakistan both countries like claim to the area that the un

describing it as a disputed territory the so-called line of control remains the defacto border in kashmir maintains its own administration earlier this month india revoked his special autonomy status on friday the indian foreign minister said that the country would be willing to enter talks with pakistan but only in an atmosphere free of terror and violence the un perhaps changes to any such disputed territory it's also fair to kashmir as muslim majority population could be targeted by people of other face in the region the dispute over the territory has been ongoing for more than 70 years without a solution. to

get more perspective we spoke to jaffa drama islamabad based expert on political and geo strategic issues answer and show the professor from the school of international affairs us. you know even in round. all secretary of the prime minister's office has been trying to do the country don electricity because it did not include their news so all i think this you know are many of these trips and warnings are mainly alarmist in nature and are intended to provoke international intervention when one of the objects in rounds on my wish was in the new york times so clearly he's aiming at the west you know the liberal establishment and possibly even new again reading each prisoner from the india is believed to have

negotiations and dance but not the you know the the gun or did so hurt and that's the emotional blackmail so i think the emotional argument of our son is not bringing many of. the viewpoints more divided and the need to look at it rationally in the moment the reader i think we'll know much more and a gradual anonymization of the situation should mean indian part of the region has been under threat of force market one month people are dying of starvation because of necker medicine nearly 100000 but a 1000000000 about only drops out of their back to flex their india are washing use every conceivable mcchord will suppress this uprising i think what is a likely scenario is that this will not only the good who is going to be lifted india will have to lift the christmas been close to one month now and remember back to the christmas lifter that means more tragic stories that we are you will come to know the scale of the operation the number of the people who have who have died in

these were passed and the number of the people who have been illegally detained by the indian security forces. u.s. democratic presidential hopeful joe biden has been making his case sr 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 if turned out to be well not entirely true and not for the 1st time. young navy captain up in the mountain the cone are brown in afghanistan one of his buddies got shot fell down a ravine of the sky climbed down a ravine carried this guy up on his back under fire general wanted me to pin the silver star on. i love this place i would look

what's not to like about for months the beauty of it and what a neat town to. watch with populace can support can come up to see moonalice vice president they won the let them suffer some you covered. international leaders spoke about you had people like margaret thatcher you had people like the i know every one of these leaders except i don't know the new prime minister of a of of england he looks like down chump i don't know. 4 kids are just as ready just as tallis white kids and saying time fairness she's a friend she's been my friend. thanks thing with all t. more news coming your way in just a couple of minutes. global

insurrection goes back or occupation we started that really before occupy wall street before the revolution in cairo before obviously this year 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 are all global and structure is bankrupt. when it comes down to it it is no 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 there are absolutely things that the west needs to be doing and what i would like to see is much much less. counterproductive rhetorical struggles we see against russia that it's you know it's it's become an easy way of getting certain the audiences to

approach you is to come up with cheap russian bashing that helps. welcome back newly released e-mails reveal how chemical john's one son so attempted to discredit an action group campaigning against its wheat 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 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. turned 13 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 aside and other pesticides on the course 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 she namely 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 it's been targeted by monsanto documents revealed the company also operated a so-called intelligence fusion center its own to monitor and discredit critics who climb the life of the main ingredient of monsanto's weed kill is extremely dangerous to human health well it's a herbicides and a crop drying agent after it sprayed on to crops and ends up in food in the air and tap water and several lawsuits monsanto's glaive product was even rumored to have caused cancer but the company states it's part of this safety's and it has appealed against those verdicts once across america director again here 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 doesn't make any sense to me at all events 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. into these it will be moving its capital away from jakarta to

a new location on the island of borneo which is the largest in asia internees in government plans to begin relocating the capital from 2024 in a move from to budget carter's growing environmental challenges. but scott is also facing another pressing problem namely the illegal draining of the spine both locals and industries which is causing massive lung subsidence and it's put many buildings on the brink of collapse we have seen did asians for their thoughts on the plan to move the capital to borneo. only donnybrook what type of cotton i believe the government has a strong reason to move the capital city so i have to agree with the decision that

it will well i agree with the relocation but attention should be also given to the people by our economy struggling there is unemployment and many companies are collapsing now but is that yes the juices i don't agree with this jakarta has already become the sense of life where is the new areas not ready to 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 the rather cation i will how development across only a chance that i am in favor of ok but it was a base for you in just half an hour's time see it. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be.

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know why a paradise with some all around turned into a ground experimentation field but 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 where 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.

you're watching going underground while we're away we're going to be showing some of your favorite episodes of this season coming up in this show but if i need a liberalism 24 hours after the 2nd anniversary of the tower fire we speak to award winning author and physician dr. about the minds and bodies that lie in the wake of capitalist culture and donald trump never did it but icelanders former interior minister did we talk to the politician who threw out a planeload of robert bull as investigators when he suspected the f.b.i. of a conspiracy all the small growing up in today's going underground the 1st time revolutionary would have turned $91.00 yesterday of u.s. authorities had not conspired to kill him the iconic portrayed of him taken amidst the cuban revolution continues to fly and flags around the world where there are those who fight imperialism the leader of britain's labor party jeremy corbyn was

inspired by bush and his comrade in arms fidel castro castro has been such a huge figure in our lives i remember the news that 959 the day that he marched into. marshall the earth and sierra maestra in the war there to bring about the cuban revolution i remember the cuban missile crisis and all the fear that was going on there but is donald trump forging a new crisis because while britain and the e.u. have relations with cuba the u.s. appears to continue to be afraid of 60 years of cuban independence jump administration is imposing new restrictions on u.s. travel to cuba in a statement the treasury department says that the u.s. would no longer allow group educational and cultural trips known as people to people travel the u.s. government will also deny permission for private and corporate travelers to enter the country but unlike cuba washington's de-facto proxy latin and central american nations are known all around the world for drugs notably cocaine now featuring

probably amidst the u.k.'s conservative contest to be britain's next prime minister joining me now is physicians an award winning author of in the realm of hungry ghosts close encounters with addiction doctor government thanks so much carol for. coming all the show so i don't go in london for the 2 year anniversary of this catastrophe grand failure speaking here and there's a mosque today downing street how how could a catastrophe like granville affect generations of people you know that have been ground and all the has been discovered about the government neglect the ignoring of warning signs just assuring sheer disregard for the lives of ordinary people and that's compared to say the government reaction to a terrorist attack which is a bigger threat to the population when you look at what happens in britain an example legrand fall or say the number of people have died because of austerity over 130000 people a last number of years according to recent report and then you look at the mobilization of outrage and resource and energy against the threat like there is

them which is not even an infant this emote percentage of the actual said to people's lives and conditions right here that are causing deaths like happen example then you can see how traumatic that is for people who are affected by it because they perceive themselves as not being cared about and as being not seen as valid human beings and that's the most painful experience is not to be seen and not to be validated and not to be supported and so it wasn't just a disaster in its own terms which is bad enough it was a disaster in terms of the. enormity of warning signs and the absolutely heartless response of the government after it happened. it's interesting you immediately mentioned so.