it. documents emerged revealing that u.s. drugmaker purdue pharma ran a campaign to suppress negative stories about is widely prescribed opioid painkillers also to come this hour the u.s. stresses its commitment to nato mission as the french president slams the alliance is brain dead we ask brazilians what they think. we're going to need is obsolete because europe no longer truly has an organized enemy on its territory i think europe needs to start having its own way it's both political and economic to protect itself and the british university can sort of talk by many speaker after students accuse her of transphobia we hear her side of the story. i don't believe i'm transcribing i don't believe i said anything trying to transfer

a big deal to you know universities are learning places there are places you discuss if someone disagrees with me then i want to find out why and we can learn from each other but. good morning she's going to 8 o'clock here in moscow you watching our international documents have revealed that u.s. drugmaker farmer ran a campaign to suppress negative stories about his widely prescribed opioid painkiller they were published by the investigative media outlets pro publica who has made billions of dollars selling oxycontin and is now setting fires and setting thousands of legal cases it is a keys to fueling the deadliest opioid epidemic in u.s. history the lawsuit claims the company aggressively pushed oxycontin while failing to be upfront about it diction and overdose risks of prescription painkillers.

blamed for the current us epidemic on average $130.00 americans die each day from. 80 percent of heroin uses. painkillers pry it had ruined a public health emergency was already declared in 2017 has more on the story. 440-0000 americans have lost their lives to opioids since the year 2000 and many more lives have been ruined by addiction purdue pharma the corporation that created oxy cotton is generally blamed for the crisis due to their efforts to reorient the medical community and change the narrative regarding the dangers of addiction let's go over a specific example of how they want about doing this in 2004 the new york times ran an article containing this wildly misleading statement regarding the danger of addiction contrary to media portrayals the typical oxycontin addict does not start out as a pain patient who fell on wittingly into a drug habit. the author of that article is sally said tell

a fellow at the american enterprise institute specializing in medical issues coincidentally the american enterprise institute received $50000.00 a year from purdue pharma since 2003 plus an additional 800000 dollars for special events according to documents received by pro publica but it gets better what study did said tell site in order to defend the funder of her institute the national household survey on drug abuse found that among non-medical oxycontin users 98 percent has also used other addictive pain relievers for non medical purposes and more than one 4th had used heroin well what they don't mention is that that study was actually carried out by employees and consultants of purdue pharma now sally's to tell says she has no idea that her institute was funded by purdue the new york times and the american enterprise institute have denied any wrongdoing but sally's

to tell didn't just defend the profits of purdue in the new york times she also did it elsewhere she was quite a media star when it came to propane killer opining oxycontin does not cause addiction it's abusers are already addicts the real public health damage here comes from the peach campaign conducted by zealous prosecutors and public interest advocates to demonize the drug itself this is tragic because oxycontin has been a godsend for millions of patients only a minority of people who are prescribe opiates for pain become addicted to them and those who do become addicted and who die from painkiller over doozies 10 to obtain these medications from sources other than their own physicians i think the media and think tanks do actually try to do some degree of due diligence to question the authenticity and legitimacy of the articles that they put out but it's also true that purdue pharma. has managed to be incredibly influential

way way in the background so that it's very hard to know where they have influence and even you know esteemed publications in this country are even aware of the extent to which produce pharma is in the background influencing the narrative but media spin was just one step for do also funded other organizations to push its agenda of more prescriptions for pain killers the american academy of pain medicine and the american pain society promoted this for example studies indicate that they know of a development of addiction we know people use for the relief of pain is low furthermore experience has shown the known addicts can benefit from the carefully supervised judicious use of a pilates for the treatment of pain or do it lips these donations were made but it defends its position bridou has been contacted over the years by policy experts at a variety of think tanks who are seeking additional context on industry issues for

their work our engagement has always been appropriate and at providing a science based perspective that the company felt was often overlooked in the larger pool a 2nd the sation well that's typical for produce pharma to try to influence the way that doctors prescribe opioids by going into organizations that they know can influence the way that doctors think about how to treat pain so in this instance influencing important think tank. which produces articles about whether or not oxy cotton is safe and effective is a very clever and very standard way that produce pharma tries to influence opioid prescribing in the united states giving money to these think tanks in a clear effort to influence them a seems very dangerous. indeed. nato foreign ministers have convened in brussels

ahead of a meeting of alliance leaders in london early next month u.s. secretary of state mark pompei was there and used the occasion to to stress america's commitment to nato mission during a meeting with his secretary general before the meetings in december as well and i know we'll have a successful time to get to where we set the conditions so we can have a successful leader summit continue to drive this incredibly important nato mission for his words there are in stark contrast to those of one of the alliances leaders because the french president among macron recently said that nato was becoming brain dead you could see don of picks up the story. nato heavyweights are converging upon brussels and it's all smiles and pats on the back end a very very v.a.p. guest all the way from the united states the secretary of state might bump aoe himself but behind this facade of handshakes and mutual joy hides

a nasty in the block's fabric and that is between the believers in the alliance and heretics who dare question the relevance of the block and this whole aggravation it stems from right here from france when president emmanuel mccrone dared to assume dare to say that the bloke is experiencing and i quote brain death while we are currently experiencing is the brain death of nato nato only works if the guarantor of last resort functions as and now since early november when that happened this jab is still hurting with the nato for instance secretary-general young stoltenberg has felt the urge on tuesday to comment on those words and essentially he said that europe is defenseless without nato either cannot defend europe well mccraw those words didn't sit well with other members of the block to for instance the us

ambassador to nato she said that she strongly disagreed with them and she called the alliance essential i don't think europe would be se without a transatlantic bond that we have the german foreign minister also talked about this and he said that nato had been europe's military insurance for the past 70 years and one polish member of the european parliament well he managed to find the only present russian trail behind micron's words in fact he stopped very short of calling the french president a russian puppet i think is very sensitive to russian pressure in any case in france this is a long tradition and this is only the latest in a holes. loyalty troubles faced by nato lately for instance even the locomotive pulling it forward the united states has had its problems with the block donald trump for instance has criticized europe for being unwilling to pay a fair and due amounts for all the benefits europe is well apparently enjoying from

its partnership with nato the most are also ensure that nato members meet their financial obligations which spending 90 percent of their job with the piggy bank that they like to take from well i asked parisians where they stand when it comes to the relationship between europe and nato does europe need nato yeah i think so yeah before build up of defense. we have to speak up with the russian and to try to being the only europe a bloc efficient between the us and china and russia going to put it nato is obsolete because europe no longer truly has an organized enemy on its territory. i think europe needs to start having its own weapons both political and economic to protect itself europe cannot defend itself without me being alone we don't advance well with help we can move faster and stronger evidently the chasm between opinions

on whether or not nato needs europe and vice versa is as wide here in paris as it is within the bloc itself a mortgage down of reporting from paris see. the literature of the crisis institute mark almond told us there are a number of disagreements threatening integrity. there are certain tensions between paris and berlin between paris and washington french say that they need to assert themselves and your needs for such as a separate pillar of nato and not be too dependent on the americans but other countries like for instance germany that's often seen as a copartner axis with france running the e.u. is rather worried about this all of this brings out that there are deep divergence of interest was a deep chasm division within your about how you judge the major part to its east and so all of these things come together to make a very messy birthday party for a major coming up in 2 weeks' time. an interview with

a us democrat lawmaker has gone viral but for all the wrong reasons to tell us more his saskia. more so than other that washington is thick with intrigue and contriver see the public hearings in the latest trump impeachment saga into their 2nd week and everyone wants to know has he done it will this be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back the president used taxpayer dollars to ask the ukrainians to help him choose an election that can't be right guys i think we've got the wrong sound bite in the. what really ok no apparently that is right tag for gate is on everyone's lips democratic representative eric swalwell was weighing in on the ongoing impeachment hearings when he dropped. dropped an explosive bomb on m s n

b c you'd think though that while one world human stuff happens move on and 2 the president of the united states of america could possibly be impeached potentially just the thought in the country's history but no the scandal over that quick moment is refusing really. to blow over and mainstream media is leading the charge trying to get to the bottom of it i'm really sorry about the but i have to ask if this was you or someone in the studio it was not me and i didn't hear it when i was speaking you look like you heard it and are stifling a lot i guess i did not hear it even politicians have jumped on to the bandwagon even to show off the shop where it. could be reminded of the 1st. human. cruz

made a rookie error and forgot that he too had been involved in the story that also rippled far and wide to show you senator and thank you for keeping it clean you know without tracing out more so let's see what all the conspiracy theories on the table are the program on which i happened hardball tried to cover up its tracks and said it was just the presenter scraping his mug across the table to which swalwell took a leaf out of trump's book and breathed a sigh of relief but let's test that one out neal over to you. not sure so maybe another one the cameraman was to blame they were ways think they're safe just because they're in the shot but guys is that even possible you know. neither of the theories held up to scrutiny though view was

smelt a rat pluto was demoted as a planet which eric swallow is now secure among the gas giants. is not a candidate that you can stand behind the cover of is own worries worse than a crime so while iran faces protests bolivia it faces a coup trump faces possible impeachment in the u.k. faces and not the string of practice it delays the media follows it's very funny excellent nose for stories let's see when this one runs out of gas ok but this is ridiculous i mean are you know you can talk about this seriously and. saskia taylor that now the u.k. talks and brooks university is counsel to talk by a feminist artist after she was accused of having transphobia big few. rachel is a trans exclusionary radical feminist who frequently shares transphobia discourse on

her social media we firmly believe that inviting such speakers infringes upon academic freedom oakford brooks i don't believe i'm transphobia i don't believe i said anything trans trans fatty bit i mean we're having a discussion based on no facts and you know that's quite worrying and we should be dating with facts i am a newbie inverses to see what the definition of trans phobic is and why they're calling me trans firebrick. and then we can start the discussion from that they're always going to talk about my work is feminist i talk about the problems women have building big installations i'm especially because i do a lot with technology so i talk about women in stem and stuff like that i mean it was just purely talking about women in art yeah i mean so nothing radical a tool i mean the thing is with the l g b t q plus it's a very very divided organization you know there's a lot of tension between sort of wimmin trans people and gay people i mean it's very very divided and i think that's why one organization like the l.g.b.

alliance has been set up to actually you know just so people on the who have the same issues around same sex attraction can meet together where. you know the trans people seem to have an issue with. concerns over academic freedom have been growing in recent years both in the u.k. and abroad with critics arguing that non-conformists voices are being stifled research by the policy exchange think tank suggests for instance that over half of britain students do not consistently support free speech on campus her again believes that universities should encourage critical thought and constructive dialogue. only honestly that is ridiculous i mean i'm talking about art and i'm talking about the way i make art there's no infringement on academic freedom at all i do the honestly i really interesting to see who the complainants are you know and i would suspect there's probably a few disenfranchised men who have a problem with women talking about women making art or feminist issues having to

you know universities are learning places there are places you discuss if someone disagrees with me then i want to find out more and we can learn from each other i mean what would be really interesting is the people who who put this tweet out why are they hiding behind a sort of fake name why don't they come forward we can have an open discussion you know because they could teach resulting in maybe i could teach is about open discussion. israel's political deadlock looks set to continue after the leader of the blue and white party benny gantz failed to form a new government the winner of the september election informed the country's president of his failure and returned his mandate just hours before the midnight deadline for 2 months ago his party beat its rival who could which is headed by the incumbent prime minister benjamin netanyahu and as you can see from the results of the 2 favorites gained enough seats for a parliamentary majority it meant the gants was tasked with forming a coalition government however a number of sticking points did get in the way of all of this because gans refuses

to cooperate with netanyahu claiming he's been in office for too long and this one corruption meanwhile the prime minister himself has also said that he has no intention of siding with his. political rival in addition the 9 political kingmaker liben rejects both of them and insists on a radical overhaul of the entire political system israel has been trapped in the current political deadlock since the 1st general election in april now the country is likely to face and i'm president of the election in the year we are split tical analyst mitchell barak how he sees the situation unfolding we definitely are in unchartered waters so it's not clear what's going to be but there is now a period of waiting which is about $21.00 days where the president basically throws it to the knesset what's happening is it sounds easy ok if we don't have a government we're going for new elections no one in the country wants new elections the people are really fed up i mean all of our polling numbers are

showing that people are really fed up with politicians of what the government so those in knesset have to know so there's a big risk to them that they may be voted out of the government because if they have to face new elections again it's possible that other parties will run and the people will punish those same members of knesset and leaders of the parties that for 2 elections couldn't form a government. a number of media outlets among them associated press and reuters have retracted the story claiming that 100000 migrant children were detained at u.s. border facilities. if b. is withdrawing the story the author of the report has clarified that his figures do not represent the number of children currently in migration related u.s. detention but the total number of children in migration related u.s. detention in 2015 will delete the story the story was based on comments by a u.n. expert but he later clarified that his figure related to 2015 when barack obama was

in charge meanwhile according to u.s. government data almost $70000.00 migrant children were held in custody over the past year and it's not the 1st time either the media have wrongly blamed trump over immigration last year a photo showing migrant children locked in a cage went viral causing outrage among politicians and journalists but just like the narrow track to detention stats it actually dates back to the administration columnist at the spectator usa chadwick moore says the media is clearly buys. it was determined that that report was actually 2015 and and they sort of issuing a retraction or clarifying that they simply took the story down so it seems that the press is exposing itself more and more particularly on this issue with with the border as being fervently propagandists i see very little differences between the 2

administrations immigration policies i mean the only difference is is that president trump has made this a central issue it was an issue that he ran on and that really got the left and the media particularly up in arms that gave them so much forder to call him a racist or a big or pretend that ice or border patrol were some sort of. just stop over some sort of nazi group targeting children but of course that's not true . swedish prosecutors have dropped a 2010 right investigation against a songe saying evidence in the case was not strong enough so he this decision may help american authorities in their attempt to seek a songes extradition from the u.k. to the west that he faces 18 criminal charges including conspiring to hack government computer is violating espionage if convicted he could face up to 175 years in prison we can leak supporter and pink floyd co-founder of roger waters

says a songe is a political prisoner. there's no process of little big followed at the moment somebody somebody bang go up in belmarsh for 23 hours out of every 24 being slowly murdered by the state because he told uncomfortable truths about war crimes committed by the united states of america. it surely purely political this is a political prisoner he's been hung out to dry as a warning to others others who might decide that they might be journalists that they might fulfill that function as journalists by informing the public and the electorate of what goes on secretly in their name so this business objects tradition has nothing to do with the legal process he's being railroaded in it's disgusting to find the truth these days is it surely difficult in any sane universe

he would be lauded as a hero of the people for getting at the truth and then publishing it and he's not killing him. international that's how things are looking so far today we're back again as usual at the top of.

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industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sell us than was necessarily good for the pet turns out that food may not be a soap the best people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in arthritis they have auto immune disorders allergies we are actually creating these problems it's a huge epidemic of problems all of them i believe can be linked to very simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets less treats the larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because they're already making a $1000000000.00 on it and there's no reason to do that research. is a 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 templeman from the inside venezuela things look different we're going to announce sanctions against petroleum to venezuela associated famously have a supplement in the tempest and that protocol data to soften. moment. the whose story isn't new nixon called in henry kissinger to tell him. not be tolerated in latin america an alternative economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make the economy scream so wants to make the economy of venezuela screed. you know world of big part of a lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the

stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. and on you know nor. with the.

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