democratic congressman in the u.s. office his own version of president phone call with the leader of ukraine which proved to be far removed from the summer. series of blasts afghanistan as the country goes to the polls in the presidential election after threats by the taliban to disrupt the vote. and this investigation reveals canada has been illegally transporting its plastic waste to malaysia we get reaction from a mass climate change. dishes.

of oppression in complaint against a major french bank saying it was complicit in human rights abuses. international program this saturday afternoon it's now 2 pm here in the russian capital the latest in the donald trump impeachment inquiry for you 1st then now a prominent critic of the us president democrat adam schiff has offered an explosive interpretation of trump's now infamous in ukraine phone call as the ongoing impeachment investigation picks up steam president struck back making up his version of the conversation. when you to make up dirt on my political opponent understand lots of it on this and on that there's a lot of talk about the biden son and

a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do would be great. i'm going to put you in touch with attorney general united states my attorney general bill barr he's got the whole weight of the american law enforcement. behind him i am also going to have attorney general and we will get to the bottom of it. and by the way don't call me again i'll call you when you've done what i asked whenever you would like to come to the white house feel free to call give us a date and we'll work that out and i look forward to seeing you. on tuesday the house of representatives launched a formal impeachment inquiry into trump over alleged attempts by the u.s. president to force his ukrainian counterpart to investigate him to biden the son of

joe biden his potential 2020 democratic rival legal a media analyst lionel believes out of a shift as played fast and loose with the facts when presenting concocted details of the phone call. it is extremely duplicitous it is extremely misleading and very troublesome for the way adam schiff came about and basically provided a parody a unique way of looking at it he was reading what people thought was actual transcript provisions actual statements made sentences a conversation and then later on when pressed he says well i was being. a bit loose with this i was giving you one kind of a perhaps a parody a kind of a satirical look well that satirical look is absolutely 1st of all so necessary but it was most problematic and the cause of many many people being very

very angry with what he did it was on call for duplicitous misleading and wrong in another development america's special envoy to ukraine kurt volker has quit and the phone call scandal and there's still the corruption allegations circulating about joe biden and his son some of which are being dismissed as a conspiracy theory by the mainstream media elite to trying to looks at whether they're being a bit too quick to write off the story. so the reason why the president is after the man who's most likely to challenge him next year is nothing but a conspiracy so many voices are saying just that president trump is a good insisting today that reporters should dig into a conspiracy theory involving biden ukraine and a ukrainian prosecutor promoting without evidence the dubious narrative that biden used the office of the vice president to advance and protect his son's interests as dig into these unproven claims that trump is making about the former vice president we cannot have a debate about a conspiracy theory but just how much does the public in america know about the

case of a ukrainian energy company a few years ago but the root of all this stir the public deserves to be aware and make up their own mind conspiracy or proper investigation material so joe biden. was on the board of directors at mr biden senior as vice president was washington's point man with kiev at the time meanwhile this man victor schalke in the prosecutor general there was in charge of investigating barista ma and its founder for economic crimes he eventually lost his job well just have a look at how frank joe biden was about his involvement i said you're not getting a 1000000000 i'm going to leave in a year i think it was about 6 hours i looked as a reader to 6 hours of the prosecutors not fired you're not getting the money oh son of a. fighter jets guess what happened later after the new prosecutor came in his

office eventually gave the company a free pass obviously though we cannot connect any dots here but just so you know the fired ukraine official no matter how corrupt he ended up being was confident about why he got kicked out here's a quote from his affidavit the truth is that i was forced out because i was leading a wide ranging corruption probe into the recent holdings of natural gas firm active in. rain and joe biden son hunter biden anyway let me move on with a few more relevant findings by journalists from the hill who studied a bunch of e-mails then ukrainian government memo. it turns out the folks from a u.s. p.r. firm that represented breasts were really eager to get a meeting with the most senior prosecutors in kiev one a male claimed to have been sent by craning embassy diplomat to one of the people from the firm said this with regards to the missing some key it's just that you wait until the next week when the reason expected the government. has been

revealed that on the same day prosecutor shocking was shown the door the top guys of the p.r. team once again got in touch with kiev and only took them several days to get a meeting with the new acting prosecutor general his memo suggests the folks that helped wrist mall raised the changes at the prosecutor's office the visiting side was surprised by the info and sent the us state department has a completely different information describing the failure of the reforms at the prosecutor's office but then they changed their mind and realized you have sufficient were misinformed they also promised to hook up ukraine's incoming law enforcement officials with ties to the state department and help organize a trip to the us they informed me that they would seek to facilitate my visit to the us to pass on the correct information to state department officials. after this man you were saying co officially took over from the acting prosecutor

general step by step all proceedings against the firm where hunter biden had one of the top jobs began to vanish now back to mr biden seeing here and someone who used to meet him quite often as the head of ukraine according to the fired prosecutors testimony the president was pushing too on several occasions president poroshenko asked me to consider the possibility of winding down the investigative actions in respect of this company but i refused to close this investigation now where that would lead experts in conspiracy tagging or the us public as a whole i have no clue. of the presidential election underway in afghanistan have been at least 5 blasts in different parts of the country injuring at least 20 people killing one unconfirmed reports say the could be as many as 20 explosions there's no word so far on who's behind them but taliban militants earlier did promise to disrupt the vote it's the 4th election after the u.s.

for simply remove the taliban from power in 2001 the 1st since donald trump halted peace talks with the group earlier this month more than $1000000.00 people are registered to vote in this election however the latest survey suggests only 20 percent of afghan people believe that it will be free and fair. afghan government control slightly more than half the country the rest is either under taliban control or contested there are about 5000 polling stations open today down from the more than 7000 which were initially planned hundreds of them is situated in dangerous areas afghan base journalists phasey brought us the latest on the election. today mourning the elections kicked off however the turnout is very low in many parts of the country we have heard more than 20 blasts took place in the capital kabul in salford and condom. our province as well as in a lot of our province and could this province the taliban are really no warrant to

disrupt the process but you know despite all these threats spite all these insecurity the process hasn't which is a very big damage or a very big let's say obstacle to prevent you know the whole process but we could say that you know so far we have heard that 3 big attacks have been thwarted by the government forces because the afghan government announced that more than 100000 afghan security forces are deployed to secure the process still at the turnout overall turnout shows that people are scared off the going to the polling stations doing good security here you busy with. the. busy to. do that trying to see voters and for of these laws

no one should be afraid of anyone should vote for president because it is their right to vote you know those. who would be sufficient for the security is good right now we are voting to have a democratic country on land should be peaceful and our people should be happy it's more of a psychological wall of warfare because we have heard from there from pakistan that our fatwa was issued. saying the afghan people who want to try to you know vote so we have to wait and see tell the day is over because the afghan officials are waiting. devoting a process to end and declare they are chief of men's or let's say their you know the criticism that there has been address in the political process. in kabul there well as research analyst at the center for conflict and peace studies told us about

the complexity of this particular election. the security is high or low it in we could see a lot of security measures in checkpoints along the way particularly inside kabul so i think it made it difficult for the taliban or any other groups to carry out attacks in inside kabul and the number of attacks that we have we have seen so far i think people were expecting more but it appears that the is a lot more security than expected which is making it difficult for for the taliban and other groups to carry to target the polling stations in the waters but nonetheless. having said that despite all the security. the turnout appears to be extremely no that's because people who are already afraid that they will be more more of more attacks in the 1st place a lot of people did not expect the elections to happen because of the peace talks that were going on in but eventually they were suspended by president trump but one

of the key reasons for the taliban to not negotiate with one government is president only because in 2014 before the elections he made promises to them but once he took power. that he could not fulfill those promises so i think that's a likely scenario where interim government will be created. after the election crisis come in so i think that would be the only solution in if you look at the reports that are coming that a peace process is going to start in a week it makes more sense. last rallies demanding action over climate change have been held across canada with more than 300000 marching in montreal alone team climate activists granted to her canadian prime minister just introduced also join the rally in a private meeting between. though she urged him to do more to save the environment . meanwhile an undercover investigations found the canadian companies

have been sending plastic waste overseas instead of recycling it at home canada exported more than $10000.00 tonnes of it to malaysia and 2018 and its claim that this has led to a drastic increase in the number of illegal processing plants there. inside this factory we see workers exposed to potentially toxic fumes without proper protection . whoever they're saying they are ways to. ways where those plastic ways or whatever ways we will send it back and we will fight back. even though we are a small country we cannot be bullied by developed countries we also people of the climate march of montreal whether they were aware of what's happening with canada's waste. you know what happened months ago you can speculate no. i know pointing to a recent c.d.c. report a lot of this plastic containers been shipped to malaysia we're going to get it i

just wanted to get your response to that how you felt was that if you're serious if you ashamed if you wish to cure. dishes in a sense i'm sorry to hear that my building has not. kept up with what you know but still. it's terrible for civil servants shockey to say. we should do something about it long rates. should be due to what is well built in to say look. we could do a lot of things with research mostly to do with how foods like to do a lot of things which i think these things should be things here start service like really sit here sort of send it over their words this sense of the philippines has experienced similar problems to malaysia in recent years but president to ted i put an end to the violations and send tons of rubbish back to canada and other countries physicist and environmental scientists any rank or says that canadian

politicians any pain that service to environmental concerns. true or not such a hypocrite he would not be marching in montreal he would be making an announcement that they're going to ban this kind of moral and improper behavior in the world which is to export you are toxic garbage most canadians do diligently recycle and they participate in the in that recycling programs on the. net their cities and governments are. following how companies collect and store and recycle this material they can't imagine or they most canadians wouldn't think that these companies are actually selling the materials off to distant lands to to the developing world countries it's mass hypocrisy is what we're seeing now among our canadian politicians they don't do the real things that they have the power to do

instead they would prefer to do token gestures like walk in this march. you're watching all see from moscow still ahead a weight loss pill which is reportedly behind as many as 2000 deaths since the drug . trial in france it's our next story when we come back. when the. project the. merry go round. the room.

like richard marles worst nightmare is like red hi i'm richard burr welcome to planet everything on planet earth is dead because been securitized and we can send it well there's a teenager in the us more and more they're heartbroken crying her eyes out because she's going to grow up on a dead planet because all the securitized and sold and resold and repack is real. we're left with nothing except the dream world was what it was and it is no more. all over again throughout scandal that rocked from the drug maker verizon trial over a weight loss pill which something may have killed as many as 2000 people the drug in question is called mediate and it was introduced in 1906 for diabetics who were

trying to lose weight france banned it 10 years ago but long after other european countries had done so health officials claim it could be a contributing factor in the deaths of patients those who survive to say their lives have been ruined they stole my life i had just retired and thought i was going to begin a new life but a compliment house now i can see anyone i get tired all the time so if you knew that it was so you poison the lucky ones like me condemned to a slow death my life is ruined the truth was hidden from the patients a la i was created that's why there are doctors pharmacologists and officials that are being accused of conflicts of interest we expect exemplary sanctions because what's at stake is not only what did it's also about prevention because we cannot say today that these practices do not exist i read the 1st doctor who linked to the deaths with mediators she told us why this trial is so important. well not all do

you suppose civic we have been waiting for this trial for many years because it has been announced and then it was always being delayed now i'm thinking about the victims some of them are not with us and who want that they died without making it to the end of this trial it makes me feel so sorry and i was hacked today the trial got in the way we see a very carefully crafted sequence of bringing the case to a tough indictment and the spreadsheet totally revealing the level of the tragedy more than 3700 people have a right to compensation. so what's the current thinking well it's alleged that the pill caused high pressure vessels that supply blood to the lungs which delivers it's to the left atrium of the hots causing a variety of problems now it's reported that some of the deaths were the result of heart failure and cardiac arrest a lawyer for the drug makers said that the 1st did not know about the side effects that resulted in heart problems but i really believe the french people today have

a little trust in medical companies and that's dangerous. many scientific publication disapproved of toxicity which was just enough to be discovered that alone would be enough not to buy this lie from severe the criminal investigation in the victim's interests is not on the way but it is also in our interests it benefit society to show that the pharmaceutical companies crimes if they are recognized this crimes by the 4th won't go unpunished it today we french people want to trust any medication it's necessary to understand what happened with the mistake by the health care regulators it was and how the lab was cheating and we have to learn from that and everybody must remember. victims of oppression and sudan are accusing a major french bank of complicity in human rights abuses in the country b.m.p. work to sudan's defacto central bank during a period when widespread rights violations by the regime were carried out in the

country from correspondent shouted to bensky takes a look at the accusations. charges of crimes and genocide linked to the conflict in sudan's darfur region have been made against the country's former president bashir could now an alliance of human rights organizations waltzed to broaden the responsibility to include french bank b.m.p. . we call on the french authorities to promptly open an investigation to determine whether b.n.p. is criminally responsible for its dealings with sudan 2 out of knowing plaintiffs have waived their right to remain anonymous they are my son an activist who spoke out against the government he was injured during an attack on his village in darfur later arrested and beaten and he says he saw close relatives shot and killed the 2nd is how a silly who was kidnapped by jun 2 read forces unoiled to the former sudanese

government she was shot tortured and so 100 family members executed so why did they hold the bank responsible for what has happened to them behind the greatest crimes and human rights violations there is always money by granting the sudanese regime access to international money markets b.n.p. power allow the government to function pay its staff military and security forces make purchases abroad all while sudan was a pariah on the international scene for planning and committing crimes in darfur and the crimes were her riffing white spirit human rights violations between 20022008 led to the deaths of more than $300000.00 sudanese civilians b.m.p. power to sudan's defacto central bank giving the former government access to international money markets that's according to the u.s.

department of justice the complainants say that despite sips. tensional evidence of such crimes they have largely gone on punished we want to make the voices of sudanese victims heard through this complaint to this day they have been denied the possibility of justice whether in sudan before the international criminal court or in the u.s. that reference to the us relates to a previous case against b.m.p. party about the violation of u.s. sanctions partly for its dealings with sudan back in 2014 the banks settled that case for a record $8900000000.00 following so why did the money end was it used to compensate the victims who had been identified and submitted their testimonies quite simply. before these testimonies could be taken into account the us congress passed a law the diverted the b.n.p. progress fine to american victims of terrorism leaving the sudanese and other

victims without any form of redress for the harm they suffered and which the bank is believed to have played a role so with the money in the pockets of the americans and the sudanese victims now making another attempt to receive restitution this time here in france that's because it snows allow for corporations to be prosecuted if they've played a role in crimes committed a brought r.t.s. to b.m.p. power for a statement it is yet to respond to that request the parish tribunal must now decide if this new complaint warrants a criminal investigation into b m p power does involvement any case though is likely to prove complex and lengthy meaning the victims still have a long way to go before they may feel that they perceived any justice. ati paris a french lawyer familiar with the case thinks the bank's going to get off lightly and not get away with nothing more than just

a fine. it's hard to say they feel they are going to get any sort of justice because. the judge is going to is going to have a look it's going to review the case and he's going to he's going to tell the people to come is going to hear them the lawyer is going to submit all the evidence as they have but let's say we're in france and he's one of the biggest bank in the world and the biggest bank here in france so in a criminal case. the court is not going to. induct. the bank and tell the bank to close what's going to happen at the end it's going to be a fine. some kind of big fine for there for the for the 9 so then is going to be it's going to be a long long process. never find the real truth so it's going to be in agreement between these people and. that's the way looks from moscow so father started i thanks for choosing our team to take this out i'll be back with more from the

moscow news team here in just over half an hour to see them. going to. come to. the market the market. not at me about it not. that easy through our media to play just one game so sudden this somebody comes out and prays another day and they don't know what to do with it you know their best

hope is to temporize to continue on to their next american election if trump is always to this side over at least because the democrats are disposed towards the islamic republic so you know maybe we can go back to the old james. quietly give you consistent as i quietly you believe being pressured i'm not. in 2040 you know bloody revolution to to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be increasingly violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it your style or here i mean your list put video at 3 in the. school and you go to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of 2040. to those who took part in this to do over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine

in these another goal it will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. governor redacted is not the comedy show we're americans in america covering american news called foreign agents. and yes we'll get to the impeachment stuff in a manic good goddamn pants on our right i mean you can take them off if you want but i don't promise anything. but 1st this past monday climate activists here in washington d.c. blocked intersections jamming traffic and pissing off a lot of people. seems clear that when it comes to our impending extinction no one care is in less it means you have to sit in traffic for 10 extra minutes. there is

nothing that upsets us more than being stuck in traffic on able to get. to the jobs we hate. it drives us nuts. but these are the type of protests that matter the ones that interrupt the flow of business not to the colorful large is where we all show up for 2 hours while the politicians go golfing ok i'm not saying don't do this i'm just saying our rulers don't care or that you did this it's like when you address a baby you dress of your baby in a costume i'm not saying you have to stop but you're only doing it for yourself. baby ok. thank you ok. but since i aim to please here's a point for those of you who don't give a about the climate crisis the quo.