a leading u.s. democrat provokes the ire of donald trump by offering a highly subjective interpretation of the president's now controversial phone call with the leader of ukraine. militants in afghanistan launch a slew of attacks against polling stations across the country as war weary voters turn out to elect their next president. as an investigation reveals canada's been illegally transporting plastic waste to malaysia we get reaction from a mass climate change rally in montreal. but you'll see through a few issues if you wish take your. dishes i'm sorry to hear i believe that's not. kept up with what you know. victims of oppression and filed a complaint against

a major french bank alleging it was complicit in human rights abuses. that is out say for moscow welcome to news there's something missing in ukraine phone call and that the ongoing and peach mint investigation president trump struck back accusing shift of making up his version of the conversation. want you to make up my political potent 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 board and we will get to the bottom of it. and by the way don't call me 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 down 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. presidents have forced the ukrainian counterpart to investigate hunter biden the son of joe biden his potential 2020 democratic rival legal media and this line or 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 and 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 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 and another development american special envoy to ukraine could volcker has quit the phone call scandal and there's still the corruption allegations circulating about joe biden and his son some of which have been dismissed as conspiracy theory by the mainstream media here for trying to look 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 again 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's son hunter 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 sulkin 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 not get the 1000000000 i'm going to leave in a year i think it was about 6 hours 6 hours if the prosecutor is 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 peru's mode ngs and natural gas in ukraine and joe biden. biden was a member of the board of directors anyway let me move on with

a few more relevant findings by a journalist from the hill who studied a bunch of e-mails then ukrainian government memo. it turns out the folks from a us 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 i suggest that you wait until the next week when the reason the expected vote on the government's. it's 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 help bristol raise the changes at the prosecutor's office the visiting side was surprised by the info and sent the us state department has completely different

information describing the failure of the reforms at the prosecutor's office but then they changed their mind and realized u.s. officials 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 u.s. they informed me that they would seek to facilitate my visit to the u.s. to pass on the correct information to state department officials. after this man you were sankoh 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. voting slows down afghanistan's presidential election on a day that's been marred by sporadic outbursts of insurgent violence and widespread voter intimidation explosions and missile attacks rocked polling stations up and down the country with one person confirmed dead and dozens of others injured the taliban said it was responsible it's the volvo election since the us forcibly removed the taliban from power in 2001 and the 1st since donald trump broke off peace talks with the group earlier this month more than $9000000.00 people were registered to vote in the election although turnout is said to have been low figures show that around 7020 percent of afghans believe that the vote would be free and fair. the afghan government currently controls slightly more than half the country the rest is either under the taliban or contested there are about $5000.00

polling stations opened today down from the above and $7000.00 which had initially been planned hundreds of them are situated in dangerous areas afghan based journalist 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 south or in kandahar province as well as in a longer province and could this province the taliban are really you know warrant to disrupt the process but you know despite all these threats by it all these insecurity the process hasn't is a very big damage or a very big obstacle to prevent you know the whole process but we could say that you know i saw far we have heard that 3 big attacks have been thwarted by the

government forces because the afghan government announced more than 100000 afghan security forces are deployed to secure the process still turn out overall turnout shows that people are scared off the going to the polling stations doing good c.q. . using. trying to see voters in these laws no one should be afraid of anyone should vote for president because it is their right to vote the security. it 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 a research analyst at the center of a conflict in peace studies outlined to us the complexities and challenges posed by

today's election. i hope i'm wrong but we will enter through election crisis where the top contenders particularly the president in his chief executive of the loved both refuse to accept the results so i think that point the likely scenario would be that selection cannot be sorted out there let's have. an interim government where are the taliban are also. happy about it in that it could give a chance to. peace peace as well i think you know one of the key reasons for the taliban to not negotiate with one government is president only because in 24000 before the elections he made promises to them but once he took power. 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. mass rallies demanding action over climate change has been held across canada with more than 300000 marching in montreal alone team climate activist gratin burke and the canadian prime minister just introduced also during the rally during a private meeting between the pair and to do more to save the environment. meanwhile another cover investigation has found that canadian companies have been sending plastic waste overseas stead of recycling it at home canada exported more than $10000.00 tonnes of it to malaysia and 2018 and it's plain that that's led to a drastic increase in the number of illegal processing plants there. the inside this factory we see workers exposed to potentially toxic fumes without proper protection. whoever this and there are

ways to malaysia by the ways where those plastic weighs a lot of ways we will send it back and we will fight back even though we are small country we cannot be bullied by a developed countries are we also people of the climate march in montreal whether they were aware of what's happening with canada's waste and you know what happened months ago you said no. i know pointing to a recent c.d.c. report a lot of this plastic containers being shipped to malaysia worked in india rated i just wanted to get your response to that how you dealt with that but your story if you ashamed of it we should take your. dishes in a sense i'm sorry to hear that i'm going up and i. kept up with what you know but. it's terrible 1st of all it's if it's shocking to say. we should do something about it long phrase. should be due diligence as well

looking to say look. we could do a lot of things with research or closeness to do with how she's going to do a lot of. these issues things here start service like really exist here that have said it over their words has said it was one of those companies mention the philippines has experienced similar problems to malaysia in recent years but president to put an end to the violations and send tons of rubbish back to canada and other countries as well physicist an environmental scientist in iran course says canadian politicians only pay lip 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 your talks that garbage most canadians do diligently recycle and they participate in the in that recycling programs on the. that 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. this is a weekend. national from moscow still ahead a weight loss pill which is reportedly behind as many as 2000 deaths since the drug make a face on them frogs will get into that for you after the break. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic. i don't see how that strategy will be very critical. to sit down and talk. like richard marles worst nightmare is. dead planet everything on planet earth is dead because securitized we consumed it all well there's a teenager in the us. heartbroken crying her eyes out because she's going to grow up on a dead planet. securitized and sold and resold it. with nothing except a dream. the

stories were across the saturday scandal that rocked france a drug maker that was on trial over a white last pill which some think may have killed as many as 2000 people the drug in question is cold it was introduced in 1906 for diabetics who were trying to lose weight france banned it 10 years ago but that was long enough the other european countries and health officials claim it could be a contributing factor in the deaths of patients those who survived 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 they can't leave my house now i can see anyone i get tired all the time savvy i knew that it was so you poison the lucky ones like me are condemned to

a slow death my life is ruined the truth was hidden from the patients a liar 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 survey did it's also about prevention because we cannot say today that these practices do not exist our infraction was the 1st doctor who linked to the deaths with mediator she told us why this trial is so important. one that don't 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 now with us and have won that they died without making it to the end of this trial it makes me feel so sorry and attacked today the trial got in the way we see a very carefully crafted sequence of bringing the case to court a tough indictment and a spreadsheet totally revealing the level of the tragedy more than 3700 people have

a right to compensation. so what's the current thinking while it's alleged that the pill called high pressure in vessels that supply blood to the lungs and that that in turn was delivered to the left atrium of the heart causing then a variety of heart problems it's reported that some of the deaths being talked about in court were the result of heart failure and cardiac arrest but the lawyer for the drug maker says that the firm didn't know about the side effects resulting in those heart problems are in fresh again i believe 3rd french people today have little trust in medical companies and that is dangerous. the student. many scientific publications proved it toxicity which was just enough to be discovered that alone would be enough not to buy this lie from severe criminal investigation in the victim's interests is now under way but it is also in our interests it benefits society to show that the pharmaceutical companies crimes if they are

recognized this crimes by the 4th one 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. we are back that was the message of hundreds of thousands of hong kong those who gathered on saturday to mark 5 years since the start of the city's umbrella revolution the 2014 civil disobedience campaigns will be semi autonomous chinese city occupied for 79 days as protesters called for free elections of saturday's rally also represents a continuation of this summer's pro-democracy demonstrations. security forces quickly tried to disperse the crowd with water cannon and tear gas with some demonstrators threw bricks molotov cocktails and other objects at officers today's event was fully authorized by the authorities and was organized by

the civil human rights fraud which has brought millions on to the streets in recent months. victims of oppression in sudan are accusing a major french bank of complicity in human rights abuses in the country b.n.p. part of the sudan's defacto central bank during a period when widespread rights violations by the regime were being carried out in the country of france correspondent shouted to bensky takes a look at the accusations. the charges of crimes and genocide linked to the conflict in sudan's darfur region have long been made against the country's former president bashir big now an alliance of human rights organizations waltz to broaden the burden of 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 jaweed forces a loyal 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 referring 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 subsea. 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 the have been denied the possibility of justice whether in sudan before the international criminal court or in the u.s. that reference to the u.s. 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 bank 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 no before these testimonies could be taken into account the us congress passed a law that diverted the b.n.p. power of us find 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 not the sudanese victims now making another attempt to receive restitution this time here in france that's because it's allow for corporations to be prosecuted if they've played a role in crimes committed a broad r.t. asked to be in 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. just a couple of other headline stories this saturday 1st to egypt where thousands of supporters of the president meet in the capital cairo on friday as calls grow for abdel fattah el-sisi to resign. is accused of cracking down on dissenting voices in the country as anger grows over corruption claims against him rights groups say that at least 2000 people have been arrested in the last week. the man known as the french spiderman has again been arrested this time full scaling a skyscraper in the heart of germany's financial capital and his latest dizzying feat 57 year old alarm or bear climbed to the 38 story building in frankfurt without any safety equipment but there's no for climbing many famous skyscrapers around the world usually without permission including the world's tallest

skyscraper the burj khalifa. feet firmly on the ground we'll be back here with your next world news in just over half an hour see them. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. through our media to play just one game so sudden this somebody comes on the phrase i'm a bigot and they don't know what to do with it you know their best hope is to temporize to continue on to the next american election and just drop is all wood to this side of relief because the democrats are bitter disposed towards these loving

republicans so you know maybe we can go back to the old james over quietly given your concession as i quietly you believe the impression i'm nuts. is the tense situation in venezuela is still all over the news the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implement from the inside venezuela things were different we're going to announce sanctions against petroleum to venezuela associate. in the school have a supplement. down to something political battle song yet the people who come up to the moment the focus of the whole story isn't new nixon called in henry kissinger to tell him that it would not be tolerated in latin america an

alternative economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make. the chilean economy scream so wants to make the economy of venezuela scream. max does or this is the kaiser report and we are in palm springs california krypto springs 29 teen lots going on last to talk about. yes well

we've had a wonderful time here it is about 100 degrees fahrenheit it is about 100 degrees fahrenheit or i guess that's about 38 celsius for those in europe we've had the big crash well we've been here 16 percent move in bit by in prices some of the points were down up to 40 percent of course the impeachment proceedings against the president have also started while we've been here so it's been a very fascinating busy time while we've been here but i want to turn to our 1st headline because this is a topic that you and i have been covering report and i know our guest coming up in the 2nd half this is his specialty negative interest rates or social political poison and this is from talk dot com and he's looking at a story out of germany from veldt financial news and they say that the their articles called interest rate business model is dead the e.c.b. will restart its bond purchase program in november this time without

a time limit thus the monetary authorities have permanently changed the long term interest rate at a low level and cut the profit opportunities of the financial sector to a level that is not sustainable for a long time institutions have made good money from the difference between long term and short term interest rates that time is now over bankers eat their young you know just like daddy bear will eat their little baby bear and the bear market and everybody gets eaten you know they've destroyed the economy in so many ways there was only one place to go and that was to destroy themselves and now these banks are imploding the interest rate model is dead.