the headlines in r.t. documents emerge with even big u.s. drugmaker purging pharma ran a campaign to suppress negative stories about its widely prescribed opioid painkiller also to come the u.s. stresses its commitment to nato mission is the french president slams the alliance is brain dead we ask parisians what they think. that nato is obsolete because europe no longer truly has an organized enemy on its territory i think europe needs to start having its own weapons both political and economic to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 under british university cancels a talk by a feminist 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

transcribe it i'm going to hear universities are learning places there are places you discuss it so he disagrees with me then i want to find out why and we can learn from each other but. for good morning it's 9 am here in moscow you're watching r.t. international documents reveal that u.s. drugmaker. ran a campaign to suppress negative stories about its widely prescribed opioid painkiller they were published by investigative media outlet to pro publica purging who has made billions of dollars selling oxycontin and is now settling thousands of legal cases it is accused of fueling the deadliest opioid epidemic in u.s. history the lawsuits claim the company aggressively push to the drug while failing to be upfront about the risks of addiction and overdose the overprescription of paying. this is blamed for the current us epidemic on average $130.00 americans die

each day from overdosing on a needy 80 percent of heroin uses of misused painkillers prior to heroin and the public health emergency was ready to come back in 2017 more details now from kind of. over 400000 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 and 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 herring 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 pitched 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 dues is done 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 produce 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 had to use for the relief of pain is low furthermore experience has shown the known addicts can benefit from the carefully supervised judicious use of opioids for the treatment of pain or do it lips these donations were made but it defends its position purdue 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 aimed at providing a science based perspective that the company felt was often overlooked in the larger policy conversation let'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. afferent to influence them seems very dangerous indeed. nato foreign ministers have convened in brussels ahead of a meeting of alliance leaders in london early next month the u.s. secretary of state mark pompei was there and used the occasion to stress america's commitment to nato his 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 it to where we set the conditions so we can have a successful leader summit continue to ride this incredibly important nato mission . but his words there are in stark contrast to those of one of the alliances leaders because french president when you macron recently said that nato was becoming brain dead because you don of his more than story. nato heavyweights are converging upon brussels and it's all smiles and pats on the back and 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 stoltenberg has felt the urge on tuesday to comment on those words and essentially he said that europe is defenseless without nato e.u. cannot defend europe well my friends 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 don 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 trailed 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 we're spending 90 percent of their job with the piggy bank that they like to take get assessed paying the bills united states. it helps them there in europe helps them a lot more that it helps us that doesn't work folks 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 bring the europe a bloc efficient between the u.s. 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 nato 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 donna reporting from paris. the director of the crisis research 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 nato 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 is. more so than other that in 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 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 them 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. foot gate is on everyone's lips

democratic representative eric was weighing in on the ongoing impeachment hearings when he dropped. dropped an explosive bomb on m s n b c do you 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 wit cutely when i 1st.

if human. crews 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 wise 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 viewers 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 and 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 this is ridiculous i mean are you know you can talk about this seriously on. us here taylor the national head feud israel may have to go to the polls for

a 3rd time in a year after coalition government talks fail we'll have a look at a story persisting just. tough to predict. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to be close it's like i'm up for 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested in the why does it matter how. this should be. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going foundation let it be an arms race in this scary dramatic development only

personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. with brooks university as counsel to talk by a feminist artist after she was accused of having trans phobic views rachel is a trans exclusionary radical feminist who frequently shows trans phobic discourse on her social media we firmly believe that inviting such speakers infringes upon academic freedom oakford brooks i don't believe i'm trying to fight back i don't believe i said anything trying to transfer the basic. i mean we're having

a discussion based on no facts and you know that's quite worrying and we should be dealing with facts i am a newbie inverses to see what the definition of trans phobic is and why they're calling me transphobia. and then we can start the discussion from there they're always going to talk about my work is fabulous 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 who have the same issues around same sex attraction can meet together which. 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. in a brutal country critics arguing that non-conformists voices are being stifled research by the policy exchange think tank suggest for instance that over half of britain students do not consistently support free speech on campus great you are again happy to leave the university should encourage critical thought and constructive dialogue. only honestly that was 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'd honestly i would be really interesting to see who the complainants are you know and i would suspect there's probably a few disenfranchised men who have fun with women talking about women making art or feminist issues i mean 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 i mean what would be really interesting is the people who are here 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 inform the country's president of his failure and returned his mandate you before the midnight deadline were 2 months ago his party beat its rival likud which is headed by the incumbent prime minister benjamin netanyahu as you can see though from the results there none of the 2 favorites gained enough seats to form a parliamentary majority and it meant that dance bazaar was tasked with forming a coalition government however a number of sticking points to get in the way of that will have a look at the some of them here dance refuses to cooperate with netanyahu at the moment claiming he's been in office for too long and is formed in corruption or the prime minister himself has also said is no intention of siding with his rival in

addition to that the kingmaker door rejects both of them and insists on a radical overhaul of the entire 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 a calamitous mitchell barak how he sees the situation unfolding. 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 now the likud could actually form together with blue and white if they

would dump it and you know if they would replace nuts and you know if they would find someone else that could happen in the next $21.00 days it's going to be interesting because there's 2 significant things is going to take place 1st is whether it's a new i was indicted the attorney general may decide to indict him in 12 or 3 cases right away these are crimes of bribery and it's now is reported to have committed while he's been prime minister and 2nd the clock is ticking on those 21 days and those members of knesset are going to do everything possible to avoid another election. a number of media outlets among them the associated press annoyances have attracted to story claiming that 100000 migrant children were being detained at u.s. border facilities 8th piece withdrawal when the story the author of the report has clarified that the figures do not represent the number of children carnally in migration related he has detention but the total number of children in migration

related to you has detention into seldon and 15 will delete the story. 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 migrant children were held in custody over the past year and it's not the 1st time the media have wrongly blamed trump over immigration either last year photos showing migrant children locked in a cage went viral causing outrage among politicians and also journalists but just like the now retracted detention stats they actually date back to the obama administration call missed the spectator usa chant a bit more says the media is clearly biased. it was determined that that report was actually 2015 and and they had sort of a string of 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 back 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 . american house rick sanchez and i we can discuss the current state of the us media. what we have today in media. and that's a good quote. is that we have one network devoted exclusively to the right

one exclusively to the left one network just says it's in the center was c.n.n. has drifted left so the way we get our news is our duty but we get our news from c.b.s. a.b.c. n.b.c. at the appropriate half hour in the evening so always was certainly you get the new was if you if you click around you're going to get the news if you only tune to em as n.b.c. or fox you don't get the news you get a viewpoint on the news and fog that's a good point fox might have kept next and then. the front man if the rock band pink floyd roger waters the spike in that angrily about what is happening to songe in an interview with i say it does come amid phase that we. close extradition to the u.s. is now more likely after sweden dropped a 2010 rape case against him america accuses him of conspiring to hack government computers if convicted he may face up to 175 years in jail he's currently in

belmarsh prison in the u.k. is extradition hearing is set to take place in february which waters told us the sanj is a political prisoner. there's no process of well being followed at the moment somebody somebody's bank go 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 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 and it's

disgusting to find the truth these days is 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. roger waters talking to sara lee you're watching us see that's how things are looking so far this morning more from us in half an hour. i had concern about new technologies and i think society should and i and i try to help them get engaged in those concerns. but we also should have concerns about doing nothing doing nothing is extraordinarily risky in a world with some point 5000000000 people and a whole series of both ancient technologies that are not necessarily suitable

for tomorrow. this is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters in florida no mother daughter is buried in a cemetery it is meaningless is it with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pin this on than him and what happens in court be. shocked shocked as far as we feel. we don't know she'll just screw up on. the end of this trial unfortunately you.

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and sal you take as we start today hawk watchers with more grim news out of bolivia massive protests have gripped the country in the wake of the military coup that ousted president evo morales back on november 10th and the interim bolivian government led by the new u.s. backed self declared president janine on yaz has caught serious scrutiny for not only not acting like an interim government but also in its brutal response to the protesters this includes new reports that at least 5 people were killed outside a major fuel depot in bolivia that had been blockaded by supporters of morales the new york times reports that witnesses said the men died when a military unit guarding the sun caught the gasoline plant opened fire on protesters would surrounded it for over a week.