it's. the 1st funerals are held for an american family brutally slaughtered in mexico by a drug cartel and it's revealed they were killed with weapons that originated in the u.s. we look at how the illegal arms trade is fueling. the way it squeezes its u.s. rival apple after the lucrative chinese market with a surge in political profits and that's despite washington's bit to discredit the tech giant and. brazil's ex-president time leftist icon the silver is released from prison as he appeals his corruption case he was greeted by cheering supporters who believe the charges against a politically motivated. life

from moscow studio where it's currently just gone past 4 o'clock in the morning you're watching international welcome to the program now hundreds have gathered in northern mexico for the 1st funerals of an american family brutally slaughtered by a drug cartel earlier this week it's since been revealed they were killed by weapons that originated in the u.s. and as caleb maupin now reports there's little to restrict the flow over the border . and i am american instead 3 women and 6 children hit by mexican drug lords a 13 year old boy who walked 23 miles to get help for the others and now us politicians are willing to run through walls to serve up justice it seems this is the time for mexico with the help of the united states to wage war on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth we merely await a call from your great new president the mexican government can't protect americans

inside of mexico but america may have to take matters into our own hands this is only 50 miles away from our southern border we can certainly defend american citizens inside of mexico if mexico mexico was not willing or able to do so is the senator suggesting that the united states send authorities or perhaps even troops into sovereign mexico now the perpetrators of this heinous crime may be subject to a high profile murder trial but are we overlooking something this was a mormon family slaughtered with 223 remington rifles made in america over 200000 firearms are smuggled from the usa to mexico every year this comes at horrific cost to society south of the border and $28000.00 alone the mexican police opened $33000.00 different homicide investigations at a higher rate of homicide than conflict at syria mexican law makes it near impossible for civilians to legally purchase guns in fact there is only one store

in mexico that actually sells firearms but yet the mexican drug cartels continue to get their hands on high tech weaponry because this isn't the weapons that are right in the united states of america because they aren't in the united states and the cost for ordering them to mexico are the lowest so that that's very lucky or it there if the united states. or or they went to order they would be in in really me. arm or late from the structure and that's no arm and arm session or harm in concert or prick no or we're going to be by it's a hypocrisy in that sense the office of government accountability in the united states has documented that 70 percent of the weapons seized by the mexican police originated in the united states mexican leaders have long urged the usa to crack

down on the flow of weapons into their country however attempts to do so so far have failed for decades here's the thing mexico is certainly dangerous or at least that's the message that donald trump rang out pretty loudly on the campaign trail in 2016 nearly 180000 illegal immigrants with criminal records ordered deported from our country are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens when mexico sends his people to not sending their best to sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems with us. they're bringing in drugs they're bringing in crime drugs like heroin and cocaine are flowing over the mexican border into the united states however the gangs that are executing people resisting law enforcement and transporting those drugs are armed with guns that originally flowed in the opposite direction the

united states has to you know with its diction problem with this problem of consumption not just like focusing on the supply side of things but also on that man and treating this as a public health issue would be a good idea to start with these also the sales of arms not just like benefiting those businesses that also benefit the economy of the united states and cooperating with next providing. information to do financially halogens in a more appropriate way and really participating in. strads. staying with latin america brazil's leftist icon and former president lula de silva has walked free from prison earlier today a crowd of supporters greeted him waving his party's flag. he was convicted of corruption and money laundering but today his supporters chanted lula is innocent his release was possible after

a new court ruling announced on thursday that allows convicted criminals to avoid prison if they have not exhausted their appeals the server was brazilian president from 2003 to 2010 then in 2017 he was convicted of corruption and seconds to 12 years in prison and in some a 2019 there was a twist in loyalist case as a leaked conversation showed the prosecutor and the judge were privately discussing the details hasn't it been a long time without an operation you cannot make that kind of mistake now the thing called with the votes good idea what do you think of these crazy statements from the workers' party national board should with fishel rebut. well r.t. spoke to lula to sell while he was still imprisoned and he told us brazil should defend its of our energy and resist political meddling from outside. no one has to accept foreign interference in the affairs of

a sovereign state i do not support american brazilian colombian or any other interference their attempts to control another country by promoting their own candidates by creating a fake figurehead like one guy joe i'm totally against this there are situations that a democratic country has to deal with on its own. you brazil is a very big country it can be fully sovereign it could become one of the main actors on international policy i admire the role that president putin plays in the modern world it shows that the world cannot be held hostage to u.s. policy to trump's craziness the craziness of a u.s. president who believes that he could invade any country kill any president somebody has to stop him and brazil concluded that earlier my colleague neil harvey spoke at

the studio with brenner out when he was chief editor of brazilian news site oprah monday. now with out of jail decide to ation i have a very very important challenge because it's going to be deleted of the opposition leader is going to be walking on the streets talking to the people i mean officially he's powerless new from participation in politics but he's much bigger than that he's able to do that with this decision of the supreme court he's totally free to do what he wants to do including any kind of political action is part of the decision so in theory they look at still end up in prison but in the meantime it can be politically active to put pressure on both the novel but i mean he does not lula has not received back his electorial rights

because he has a can the nation's 2nd degree by brazilian law if someone has become the nation's 2nd degree this bill does perth man or woman is not able anymore to compete in electoral process in this month in the court is going to judge another appeal from lula. arguing that the process was a fraud and that his process shall be extend if there is a sex so in this appeal then he is going to have his electoral rights back and then he you would be able for instance to be in competition for the next presidential election brazil in 2002. the chinese tech giant huawei has seen

a surge in global profits while also continuing to squeeze its u.s. rival apple out of the lucrative chinese market and this is despite the u.s. government's efforts to ban the company is alleges has close ties with the beijing government and intelligence agencies huawei c.e.o. remains confident about the company's future even without the u.s. . a warrior people who care about the china us trade negotiations we won't be used as a bargaining chip we can survive very well without the us we don't control the equipment so we have no idea how they operate i don't even know who's monitoring my phone i don't know which country maybe america is easy dropping all my phone calls well back in may washington added huawei to a commerce department entity list meaning that the world's number 2 smartphone maker will not be able to deal with american companies and this limited ways ability to source key parts also the daughter of huawei founder remains under house arrest in canada or she fights extradition to the u.s.

as washington accuses the company of violating sanctions on iran the u.s. also urged countries around the world to boycott the 1st ever 5 g. network developments by huawei but the company's profits rose by 25 percent to a record 8800000000 dollars last year it also shipped $206000000.00 smartphones in 2018 with sales up 45 percent this year huawei has already passed the $200000000.00 phones mark 2 months earlier than in 2018 and with the expected rollout of the super fast 5 g. network in china in the coming months who always position is expected to grow further more than 30 countries have already signed 5 g. deals with the company. well just a lot of the london capital group believes as of now washington steps have been to hallways advantage. the revenues that we're seeing reported now from while way were actually pre the u.s. ban in may so even though that ban was actually delayed until november all those

products are a result of the whole ways free ability to deal with u.s. companies since then it's been more problematic for example always soon to release a phone that doesn't even have the official license the android version so that is going to limit sales moving forward so what we could be looking at here is a is a peak moment in overseas shipments of its smart phones there's been a bit of a nationalistic spirit in china to. buy you a way products and more specifically not to buy u.s. products and apple has taken the brunt of that and we know that actually according to recent reports apple's market share has actually dropped significantly in and apple is looking at some of its worst couple of quarters in a row here of sales in china that experience to date. clearly not. quite what the u.s. intended there and certainly what apple would have liked but certainly seems to have been so far a benefit for weiwei. germany has been facing widespread

demonstrations from its farmers as they disrupt transport routes using traffic tractors to block traffic and this comes as the industry feels it's being unfairly blamed for climate change while having to bend to burn and push towards carbon neutrality artie's evangelise sips us has more on this story. german farmers are furious but this is not a united front 2 camps are taking aim to the government over its environmental rules for very different reasons although one corner thousands of farmers causing gridlock in several major cities over environmental measures which they say are crippling their life the biggest one in bonn hold to the german argue cultural ministry were a 10 kilometer convoy brought the city to a halt. a

looming ban on the controversial weed killer and tighter controls on slurry and fertilizer are just some of the measures that farmers say will force them out of business germany's last 16 percent of its farms between the years of 2007 and 2017 a trend that the germans farmers association says is reflected across western europe farmers see the had enough of being labelled as the bad guys in the growing climate change movement we are not satisfied with the agricultural policy which is being shaped it's a policy that is not based on facts new requirements are being issued all the time at a rate we simply cannot keep up with we have no chance to adjust our farms in time the wish list from different n.g.o.s is getting longer and we are getting fed up with the fact that with being made responsible for every dead insects and so on

them we are fed up with this pharma bashing campaign. we simply want to show that we're fed up with being the scapegoat for everything is negative we are to blame for climate change for air water pollution you can't go on like this. but on the other corner are the german farmers accusing the government all failing the environment and putting them out of business if you want the federal government to rethink its climate goals rather take further action to reduce c o 2 emissions and stead of roadblocks they try taking the legal route the 1st time the government had been taken to court for failing to protect the environment. it has become clear that climate protection is prosecutable we can end up in coolant that is how i see that i believe that we should move forward with a positive attitude and i think more action must be taken now. germany's plan was to cut 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and compared with those and

$990.00 but it has fallen short it only reduced 31 percent but a court in berlin found that the targets were not legally binding undeterred the farmers are digging in on both sides we want to be perceived as people who produce healthy products in harmony with nature and not as the biggest destroyer of nature in germany that more needs to be done so the government recognizes that it must act now they may be opposites over the impact and solutions of climate change but there's one thing that they do agree on that burleson is failing them both a federal law suits us for our team the u.n. general assembly has called overwhelmingly for the u.s. to lift its economic embargo on cuba we'll have that story and more after this short break.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond short and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you. in my i phone or have a 1000 times the capability of the of the computers we have on board the space for the time i mean that's ridiculous and in my back pocket i have much much more capability than we had to do the entire apollo program. nobody wants to look at the wildfires and say the obvious number one taxes are being misused they're not being adequately distributed to where they are needed on the infrastructure side because there's a government failure number 2 climate change regardless of whether you believe it's

happening or not the damage that is going to be applied to your pocketbook that you will pay for climate change whether you believe it or not you know it's still the price is still there. despite a history of animosity between north and south korea people in the south would side with north korea in the event of a conflict with japan that's the result of a survey by think tank in seoul almost half of those all said they would back pyongyang even though there was an option to stay neutral only 15 percent said they would side with tokyo mess despite continuous warnings by western allies of the threat posed by north korea. north korea's to 6 test of a nuclear device and its missile launches are a threat not only to the people of south korea but to the people all across our

globe it has never been more important to be working closely together given the shared threat of north korea and north korea has conducted 10 missile tests this year 2 of them involved solid fuel missiles which the north can launch with less warning we saw soldiers preparing patriot missiles to shoot down incoming ballistic missiles from north korea the most immediate threat tonight from north korea is far more conventional they could fire on south korea or the survey also comes as relations between south korea and japan are seeing another low with disputes resurfacing over longstanding controversies back in 1910 japan turned korea into its colony and fought hard against the independence movement and back then japan controlled almost every aspect of life on the peninsula during the 2nd world war 200 heavily on korea hundreds of thousands of koreans were forced to work in japan where conditions were so bad it's estimated that more than 60000 died as

a result women from korea were also used to sex slaves by japanese soldiers and many koreans believe the treaty signed between the 2 countries in 1965 did not amend the wrongs that were done meanwhile human rights attorney erickson rock'n believes both japan and the u.s. often paint a dark picture of north south relations to fit their own political agenda. these outside influences japan in the united states for their own political purposes i think they exaggerate the desire of the north koreans to somehow attack south korea and i think that this will begin to bear out when these types of surveys and discussions take place and when the mood in ministration finally i hope has the ability and the the guts frankly to do what they say they want to do and that is engaged and build peace and settle the korean war with

the north koreans and so i think that japan will continue to fan these flames until the south koreans really put into it by formalizing relations and taking further serious steps toward peace. a new poll in the u.s. suggests many people are feeling stressed over the upcoming presidential elections in fact a war as people almost as much as terrorism or climate change the main concern is the media apparently blowing things out of proportion because of that nearly 40 percent of people say they have now cut the news consumption. at the same time we're seeing democracy under threat we're seeing state actors try to meddle in us elections this is bad for democracy they want to disrupt our democracy they want to disrupt our our system they want to cause doubt in their arse its traditions in our

and our leadership donald trump circus has ruined our country and our country is all through like nothing we have ever confronted before as a nation now we can binge watch the end of america with the increased attention i think that news media particularly in the united states has given. the political body i guess you'd say i don't think that that is that notable a certain level of stress around election time can prompt action everyone knows for sure there is going to be an election and elections absolutely have consequences no matter where you live and so if it prompts people to take action founding fathers of the united states would say that might be a good thing and that some stress that leads to action in terms of voting would be a good thing and so sometimes a little bit of stress around election time that leads to action might be a productive thing well according to the poll many americans feel the country is

about its lowest point they report mixed feelings about the nation's future with less than 4 in 10 believing it is only an upward paul well dr jean nagin says americans are now beginning to understand that the media skewed in the way they present information. there's definitely a disproportionate negative coverage of politics in the united states media there's no question of that i think the figure is the high and ninety's percentage of coverage in us media is negative and so that isn't surprising that that would lead to some of some level of cynicism or negativity with the electorate and some level of stress absolutely and so you know the media does bear some responsibility on the way that they present the news a good news on that is that americans are very aware of this in ways they didn't used to be americans understand that the media is very skewed and that more than 90

percent of the media in the united states presents the negative side of it so americans kind of know to look for the positive and that's the good side that's the good news if you will. they're going to nations general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to end america's economic embargo on cuba now lost in for nearly 30 years but the u.s. together with brazil and israel have voted no. president donald trump's government has begun escalating its aggression against cuba by apply an unconventional measures in order to prevent disappoint fuel to our country its goal beyond disrupting the economy is to damage a cuban family standards of living. but it is time for the vast majority to be heard it unilaterally demands the immediate and definitive and to the end the chronic and inhuman good case against cuba it is time to put an end to double

standards in international relations. like all nations we get to choose which countries we trade with this is our sovereign right so it is worrying that the international community in the name of protecting sovereignty continues to challenge this right well the resolution is not legally binding but it follows a trend of u.s. isolation from the international community here's a look at just this month alone on november 1st the general assembly again overwhelmingly approved a draft resolution calling for a middle east free of nuclear weapons the us and israel voted against a couple of days later the organization voted on a draft resolution aimed at preventing an arms race in outer space the us and israel also said no on that as well as on a draft resolution calling for prevention of militarization in space political analyst and former u.n. officer francisco kohler and told us what makes washington act this way. they're

desperate the us mean that we know what they call it faith prime of i mean they have failed grossly haven't been to a new world order i mean they have all of the spatial power party on their own. rearm on their own and decision making but what they have done was conflict disorder i mean not only use of trauma i mean total human but it will come up there was no new world order so you know after the for your nuclear labs they said no one quarter i mean does i believe a book a main responsibility lives on the use. by u.s. policy of reaffirm a constant. primacy. well that's your update for now i am or is on a low could not be bank a with more news from around the world in about 30 minutes time see it end.

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this is true but broadcasting around the world and covering all aspects of our global economy in the 21st century unbridgeable or not there i'm on to say ok in washington filling in and here's a look i will we have on deck for you today you see how the recent tight to use digital technologies for all kinds of different things as technology continues to advance regulators may now be warming more to the idea of welcoming ai international regulatory attorney miles out of words is standing by to plug into the recent comments out of the e.u. regarding the street inspired technology plus that used to be one of the main concerns among citizens in both the u.s. and abroad but how does each nation stack up later today rick sanchez host of the news with rick sanchez and dr john dombrowski are both on here to measure health

care cost around the world we have a jam packed show today so let's get right to it. singapore and the european union announced a free trade agreement between the 2 countries that will take effect later this month a trade deal has been in the works for almost a decade and it's kegel to take effect on november 21st singapore will remove all tariffs on products that are entering the country while the e.u. will remove tariffs on 84 percent of all singapore products that are entering the e.u. within the 1st year and how the the additional 16 percent will be removed over a 3 to 5 year period singapore is the e.u.'s largest trading partner in asia southeast region with a total of bilateral trade of over $58000000.00 in goods and just over $56000000.00 worth of trade in services and the agreement includes sections on renewable energy investments e-commerce and even intellectual property theft president of the european commission.