top u.s. democrat provokes the author of donald trump. misleading summary of the president's controversial phone call with the leader of ukraine. as an investigation reveals. the transporting and plastic wastes in malaysia we get reaction from climate change . but. if you wish to. dishes i'm sorry i. can't come up with one. victims of oppression and. provided a lifeline to the brutal regime of the country's previous leader.

thanks for joining us in our international welcome to this hour. a prominent critic of donald trump. of the u.s. president's now infamous ukraine phone call going impeachment investigation appears to pick up steam with the trump struck back at democrat adam schiff accusing him of simply making up his version of the conversation. i want 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'm also going to have attorney general 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 whatever 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 of the formal impeachment inquiry into donald trump overage attempts to force his ukrainian counterparts to investigate. the son of former u.s. vice president joe biden and trump's potential 2020 lection opponent legal and media analyst lawn l believes adam schiff has played fast and loose with the facts when it comes to 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 in another development america's special envoy to ukraine kurt volker has quit amid the phone calls scandal of course the still the corruption allegations surrounding

joe biden and his son some of which have been dismissed as a conspiracy theory by the mainstream media and it 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 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 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 not get the 1000000000 i'm going to leave in a year i think it was about 6 hours i looked as there really was 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 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 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 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 that 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. mass rallies the morning action over climate change have been held across canada with around half a 1000000 marching in one trail alone to implement activist. kadian prime minister justin trudeau joined the rally through a private meeting between the passion of him to do more to save the environment. last takes place just as an undercover investigation found that canadian companies have been sending plastic waste over seas instead of recycling it at home it kind

of exported more than $10000.00 tonnes of it to malaysia last year claimed that's led to a drastic increase in the number of illegal processing factories in the country inside this factory we see workers exposed to potentially toxic fumes without proper protection. whenever this and there are ways to malaysia ways where those plastic ways or whatever ways we will send it back and we will fight that even though we are a small country we cannot be bullied by a developed countries we asked people in montreal whether they were aware of what's happening with kind of those waste. you know what happens a lot you know you can speculate no. i know pointing to a recent c.d.c. report a lot of this plastic containers being shipped to malaysia where to negotiate it i just wanted to get your response about how you. feel ashamed with it we should take

your. dishes in the sense i'm sorry to hear that my building has not. kept up with what's happened so fast. it's terrible for civil it's if it's shocking . we should do something about the long range. should be you are looking as well will be. you could do a lot of things with respect to. outfits like the grillo i think should things here start someplace like that here sort of send it over there where it's just said the philippines has experienced similar problems the malaysian in recent years with president the tatts a put an end to the violations and sent tons of rubbish back to canada and other territories physicist and environmental scientists that has run court 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 you are toxic garbage most canadians do diligently recycle and they participate in the in that recycling programs and the as soon that their cities and governments are you know 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 not. parker see what we're seeing now among our politicians they don't do the real things that they have the power to do instead they would prefer to do token gestures like walking this march. victims of oppression in sudan or accusing

a major french bank of complicity in human rights abuses in the country in the pair of us worked as sudan's the facto central bank during a period when widespread rights violations by the regime were carried out correspondent shouted they've been skewed takes a closer look at the accusations. 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 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 horrific widespread human rights violations between 20022008 led to the deaths of more than 3 $100000.00 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. 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 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.

before these testimonies could be taken into account the us congress passed a law the diverted the b.n.p. paragraphs 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 its nose 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 as 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. or sing with death across the vote south of presidential elections in afghanistan was marred by violent terror attacks reportedly leaving dozens of people dead and many more injured more details after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports i'm sure. i'll see you then.

international voting is closed in afghanistan's presidential election but it's been marred by tragedy local afghan media are now reporting as many as 32 people were killed and many hundreds wounded as insurgent violence rocked the country

explosions and missile attacks occurred at polling stations up and down the troubled nation the taliban has claimed responsibility is the 4th election since the u.s. for simply removed the terror group from power in 2001 and the 1st since donald trump broke off peace talks with the taliban earlier this month more than $9000000.00 people were registered to vote in the election though turnout said to have been low the 1st results aren't expected until mid october figures show that only 20 percent of afghans believe the vote is free and fair. and the afghan government currently controls slightly more than half the country the rest is either under the taliban or contested there were about $5000.00 polling stations open on south a day that's down low from you know the more than $7000.00 initially planned hundreds of them were situated in dangerous areas afghan based journalist sold on fire as he spoke to us earlier about the election. today morning the elections kicked off however the turnout is very low in many parts of the country especially

in north and parts of afghanistan we have heard more than 20 blasts took place in the capital kabul in the south or in kandahar province as well as in logar province and could this province the taliban are really you know warrant to disrupt the process but you know despite all these threats spite all these insecurity the process hasn't been is a very big damage or a very big obstacle to prevent you know the whole process but we could say that you know there's so far we have heard that 3 big attacks have been thwarted by the government forces because the afghan government announced more than $100000.00 afghan security forces are deployed to secure the process still they turn out

overall turnout shows that people are scared off the going to the polling stations doing good c.q. very busy with. the. music to. trying to see voters and for these laws no one should be afraid of anyone should vote for president because it is their right to vote the security of those. who would be sufficient. 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 for conflict and peace studies outline for us the complexities and challenges posed by saturday's election. i hope i'm wrong but we will enter to election crisis where the top contenders particularly the president. his chief executive of the lab both refused to accept the results so i think that

point what the likely scenario would be that selection cannot be sorted out then 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 2014 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 it if you look at the reports that are coming that a peace process is going to start in a week it makes more sense. some of the headlines stories from across the globe now

hundreds of thousands of people gathered in hong kong this weekend to mark 5 years since the start of the umbrella revolution. civil disobedience campaign saw the semi autonomous chinese 30 state occupied for 79 days as protesters called for free elections now saturday's rally also represents a continuation of this summer's pro-democracy demonstrations. i. security forces quickly tried to disperse the crowds with water cannon and tear gas as some demonstrators threw bricks out of cocktails and other objects at officers the event was fully authorized by the authorities and was organized by the civil rights front which has brought millions on the streets in recent months thousands of supporters of the president of the president of the president well even caught 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 his administration rights groups say at least 2000 people have been arrested over the past week. you know vast activists were out in force in cities across france on saturday continuing their protest by and against falling living standards demonstrations took place despite the government having outs the 9000000000 euro tax cut for french households next year a moving that helping struggling families asses the shuttle or to france i ask people in paris if they are satisfied with the administration's concessions. and lenny there are many who aren't paying taxes because they're destitute he simply have nothing more yeah these people you're seeing here are badly in need of help of course there are those who are here is holiday witty but many are in a precarious situation they have jobs that don't pay enough when you allow them to pay taxes. or you would if you notice on the financial level mcgraw has done ridiculous things when you see how much ordinary people erin it's shocking.

to a health scandal that's rocked france a drug maker there is on trial over a weight loss pill which some think may have killed as many as 2000 people drug in question is called mediator it was introduced in 1976 for diabetics who were trying to lose weight france by and it 10 years ago but that was long after other european countries health officials claim it could be a contributing factor in the deaths of patients those who survived save 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 live in my house now i can see anyone i get tired all the time savvy me that it was so important the lucky ones like me are condemned to a slow death my life is ruined the truth was hidden from the patients a lie 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 serve you did it's also about prevention because we cannot say today that these practices do not exist irina fresh on was the 1st doctor who linked the deaths with mediator she told us why she thinks the court case is so important. when i told you supposed civic we have been waiting for this trial for many years because he has been announced and then it was always being delayed see him now and thinking about the victims some of them are now with us and he 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 a tough indictment and a spreadsheet totally revealing the level of the tragedy more than 3700 people have a right to compensation that led you to get some more background on this that it's alleged that the pill is caused caused rather high pressure in vessels that supply

blood to the lungs which in turn the leaves it to the left atrium of the heart that cause the variety of problems there is now reported that some of deaths were the result of heart failure or cardiac arrest a lawyer for the drug maker has said though that the firm didn't know about the side effects which resulted in these heart problems it rained for a short again believes french people today have little trust in medical companies. 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 the criminal investigation into victims' interests is not on the way in that 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 be able to get today we french people want to trust any medication it's necessary to understand what happened when the mistake by the health care regulators was and how the lab was cheating and we have to learn from that and everybody must remember all. you know

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