a leading pharmaceutical company is accused of fueling america's opioid epidemic by aggressively pushing its painkillers and downplaying the risks this follows the release of e-mails as part of a multi district lawsuit. with the board we have very good copy ship. there should be written 5 people are dead and 21 injured in a shooting in the us state of texas the suspect has been killed in an exchange of fire with offices. and hong kong is gripped by protests for the 13th weekend running with rioters throwing petrol bombs of police who responded with tear gas and water cannon look

at how a figurehead of the opposition honed his skills abroad. also pakistan's prime minister warns of a looming direct military confrontation with india over kashmir it comes as india says it's ready for talks with pakistan but only in an atmosphere for you violence . hello you're watching r.t. international i'm rosana locoed welcome to the program. recently unsealed court documents reveal that a us pharmaceutical company conspired to aggressively push its opioid painkillers screenshots of e-mail correspondence published in a multi district opioid lawsuit have led to accusations that purge you pharma calls america's biggest drug epidemic the company is also accused of downplaying the

risks of addiction this led to doctors prescribing its pills to patients even with only minor pains with further details his kelly. 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 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 drugs out there and try 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 in spirit 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 their misrepresentation of the risks and benefits pain killers that led 1st and foremost to an epidemic of over prescribing painkillers for minor and chronic pain conditions which ultimately gave way to the current epidemic of opiate addiction and overdose death we have asked pharma for comment and one of course bring you any response they give us. in texas shootings in the cities of midland odessa have left 5 people dead and 21 injured police have confirmed that the gunman has been shot and killed at the synergy cinema and odessa authorities say there are no other active shooter has got

the shooting right there or we have to bury the carcass repaired. the victims include at least 3 members of law enforcement a possible 2nd shooter was reported earlier but it now appears there was only one gunman president trump has been briefed on the situation and the death as police chief has spoken to reporters to jewish started about 317 this afternoon when i do pierce trooper attempted to stop a gold honda. when the d.p.s. troopers got the car start he was shot by the occupant of the car the remarkable continued westbound into the city of odessa we have at least 21 victims 21 shooting victims and at least 5 deceased at this point on this subject was contacted by law enforcement and. an exchange of gunfire happened to have that

subject is deceased at that location. now the news this hour clashes have erupted in hong kong where people took to the streets despite a planned protest having been banned by the authorities for fear of renewed violence despite the ban 1000 started marching peacefully earlier on saturday throughout the city center have gross rest later broke out with police resorting to tear gas and water cannon infused with blue tie all demonstrators held petrol bombs . the word. was. was. was. was was.

police have warned that anyone taking part in saturday's action may face prosecution u.s. president all of trump has commented on the current tensions between hong kong and china saying the anti beijing process should be handled in a humane fashion. i think of a word for the trade. on junk would be a much bigger job i think it would have been much more ballot i really believe john to want to make a deal and they know it puts us in a very bad position if there's not a huge me way of handling the problems and i'd let them know that. the it is a humane fashion the chinese ministry of foreign affairs has expressed its discontent with the white house for showing empathy with was it calls radicalized protest is 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 the was the was. was. no matter how democrat. or joshi a wal-mart who we just saw there is one of the leaders of the current protests and apparently he had his skills several years ago as any of the trying to explain its . 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. going 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 that 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 but 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 old slow freedom forum shared their protest expertise with joe show wong and cope today he's confident 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's specialist and he says the unrest in hong kong is being stirred up by

external activists. in the course of some of these photos this is the middle of the train in the all slow freedom forum. which of course this is all that a lot of these there's a world trading whole trading is this ready on the tactics of some of. the establishment tactics the so-called civil disobedience act it's so i think that there's also the funds. supported by the international organizations including the national endowment for democracy of the united states of course are not as they say as a democratic country and this organization so they support the policies around the world but on the other hand is to link the rectally. this kind of inputs but only had it was those. militants highly trained look at the way that formation at the violin and also policy in those of the ministers and so on up.

pakistan's prime minister has warned about a new ming direct military confrontation with india over kashmir during demonstrations in islamabad 0 friday imran khan urged the will to address the issue in order to avoid a catastrophic war. when muslims are oppressed those who we call the international community those bodies who are supposed to hold justice siloed 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 they clash will impact not only the subcontinent but the whole world. while the region in question kashmir is located in the north of india and pakistan both countries lay claim to the area with the un describing it as a disputed territory a so-called line of control remains the defacto border in kashmir maintains its own

administration however earlier this month india revoked its special autonomy status and on friday the indian foreign minister said the country would be willing to enter talks with pakistan but only in an atmosphere free of terror and violence the un prohibits changes to any disputed territory it's also feared that kashmir is muslim majority population could be targeted by people of other faiths in the region the dispute over the territory has been ongoing for more than 70 years without a solution. well

from our perspective we had from javid ronna and islamabad based experts on political and jest t.j. issues and surround cholly a professor from the school of international affects. you know even in run cons of old secretary of the prime minister's office has been threatened to be a confidant electricity because if they have not cleared their news so i think this you know of not many of these threats and warnings are mainly alarmist in nature and are intended to provoke international intervention when one of the problems in rounds on coverage was in the new york times so clearly he's aiming at the western you know liberal establishment and possibly even to again reengage our president on from the east village to have negotiations and dogs but not the you know the the gun advocates ahead you know and that's the emotional blackmail and so i think the emotional adamant of our son is not meaning many of you know the viewpoints more

divided and the need to look at it rationally in the home and the other i think we have a much more calm and gradual anonymization of the situation indeed part of the region has been under. one month people are dying of starvation not because of necker medicine nearly $100000.00 maybe about only drops out of their doctor flex that any. every conceivable who muttered to suppress this uprising i did what is a likely scenario is that the sooner or later the good thing is going to be lifted india will have to lift the christmas been closed one month know and remember back to the growth was lifted that means morse drudging that we are you will come to normal the scale of the operation the number of the people who have died in these were pressed 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 out 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 have done to turned out to be not entirely true and it's not the 1st time either. young navy captain up in the mountains the color of ground 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. i love this place i look what's not to like about from on terms of the beauty of it and want to leave town to. watch what happened those kids should park and came up to see

moonalice was present when they won the and so the summer you covered the. international leaders spoke about you had people like margaret thatcher 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 don't show up i don't know. 4 kids who just as bright and just as challenge white kids clemency and time certain issues of saying she's been my friend. newly released e-mails reveal how chemical john months sound so attempted to discredit an action great 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 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 in 2030 in the action group sent an open letter to month top management calling on them to stop selling g.m.o. seeds and spraying crops with life to sit on the pesticides moms across america has the right to 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 pesticide testing done their packaging might even be bio degradable so your trade is used to 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. and it's not just moms across america that's been targeted by monsanto documents reveal the company also operated a so-called intelligence fusion center and its aim was to monitor and discredit critics who claim that life a state the main ingredient in monsanto's weaken is extremely dangerous to human health life as it is a herbicide of the crop drying agent after to spray it on crops it ends up in food air and tap water and several lawsuits monsanto's glyphosate based product was proved to have caused cancer however the company stay for this product is safety

use and it's appealed against the verdicts moms across america's direct again told us 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 sellers 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 howie of these tests were the type of people will have control over whether or not our supply is safe that's extremely disturbing to me and must not happen at all our government must regulate g m o's and they must be able to determine whether or not they're safe or not and

these emails are a very good example exactly why that must happen. indonesia will be moving its capital away from jakarta to a new location on the island of borneo which is the largest in asia the indonesian government plans to begin relocating the capital from 2024 in a move prompted by jakarta's growing environmental challenges. she costa is also facing another pressing problem the illegal draining of aquaphor and spot by locals and industries is causing massive land subsidence and that's put

many buildings on the brink of collapse we all stood in asians for their thoughts on the plan to move the capital to borneo. only donnybrook what type because 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 people our economy struggling there is unemployment and many companies are collapsing. 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 l.g.m. but if there are other cases not all how development across only actions that i am in favor of. i'm or is on a low quid and i will be back here in 30 minutes time of the round up of headlines from around the world see that.

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alone welcome to worlds apart a week from now russia votes in more than 5000 regional minister but the chances are that all western audiences will hear the obvious. elections in the beach and to cram in candidates i'm not allowed to run the decision to thousands of protesters to the streets of moscow who are mad with fear and more than the usual police force what does this a lot troll disturbance in the capital mean for the future of russia's political system to discuss that i'm now joined by margot

a professor at the university college london and the prominent expert on russia markets always a pleasure talking to you thank you very much for coming over that you've been heralding the putin is for quite some time do you did protestan moscow and at. have a hand that response to down qualify as the signs of the system's imminent collapse no not imminent collapse i mean i'm talking about the sort of the slow systemic death really of a particular way of running the country and although it's tempting to look at what's happening in moscow and see it as some kind of sign of dramatic change it's not it's a symptom it's a symptom of a process is a symptom of a combination of how the opposition is beginning to act but also i would suggest that the state running out of ideas as to how to deal with them the russian political system is in many ways an artificial construct it was put together on the go to respond to challenges and frankly i don't think it was ever intended to last

if it was indeed to change from a system centered around one man to something more broad based one can be deferred to welcome it especially given how much you person to talk about him being tired and bored with his duties well yes i think if he could be sure that his legacy his personal security in any way his his sense of russia's direction could be preserved i absolutely agree because i think that. the personalization of this regime has been in many ways accidental that there are some who believe that some grand plan for power and so forth i don't believe so i think actually this is been much more responses as you say to the moments and changes and individual circumstances but absolutely we now have a system which is basically built around the shape of one man and it's very hard to see all my friends build around the shape of one man i think there's some truth in

that there's a lot of mythology all systems have a lot of mythology about them i mean at the moment both sides in the u.k. trying to mobilize their sort of particular image of how they think the british system ought to work well likewise in russia yes there is absolutely this personalization but i think it is actually true that this is a system which is. come to depend on the central a c. of one man not least as the sort of final arbiter of kinds of different disputes within the elite the country wide voting that i mentioned in the beginning of the program it is coming on september 8th and it's going to involve all 84 regions of russia not just moscow and those regions have huge disparities in terms of social economic political development i know that you've been planning a lot about the moscow developments and we will talk about them in a moment but i'm just curious as an expert on russia have you looked at all into what's happening election wise beyond moscow i call pundits and i like to say we're

talking grand terms but no i mean i think seriously if you look at local elections are very much about local issues woman thing else and it's quite interesting that we have a situation in which you the way the old the old identifiers of quite what united russia stood for beginning to break down 2. and therefore i think that most of these elections really going to be in some ways referenda on just how well the local administration is is seen as dealing with what is sometimes serious crises sometimes not and it doesn't necessarily mean that where we're trying to hold people will be voting against the regime but i think this is this is why it's important and this is why in some ways the the whole issue of the protests in moscow absolutely very important but they're also a distraction from what local elections are meant to be about which is precisely it's about local issues the reason i'm asking this is because in several of your interviews are heard you say that russian elections i'm not real elections.