top stories in our documents a merger between the u.s. drug maker purging pharma ran a campaign to suppress negative stories about its widely prescribed opioid painkiller also to come in the u.s. stresses its commitment to nato is the french president slams the lines brain dead we ask parisians what they. are going to pursue it is obsolete because europe no longer truly has an organized enemy on its territory i think europe needs to start having its own weapons pointed political and economic to protect itself and a british university cancels a talk by a feminist speaker after students accuse her of transferring via we get her side of the story. i don't believe i'm transcribing i don't believe i said anything trying

to transfer a brick i mean to hear universities are learning places there are places you discuss it so disagrees with me then i want to find out why and we can learn from each other but. good afternoon you watching r.t. international now newly obtained documents reveal that the u.s. drugmaker perjury far make use leading media outlets to downplay the risks of its widely prescribed opioid painkiller the drug has been blamed for america's deadliest opioid epidemic the revelations were made by the investigative media outlets pro publica misleading articles in question were written by analysts from purdy funded think tanks and they cited perjury funded studies with more on the story his color. 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 went 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 a 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 a 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 sallies 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 dues is done to obtain these medications from sources other than their own physicians 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 it didn't over development of addiction were no pure it's used 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 for do it rich these donations were made but it defends its position per view 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 over 400000 americans have lost their lives to opioids since the year 2000 and many more lives have been ruined by diction. r.t. new york who has made billions of dollars that ling oxycontin in is now settling thousands of legal cases that aussies claim the company aggressively pushed the drug while also failing to be upfront about the risks of addiction and also overdose on average 30 americans die each day from overdosing on a pos and nearly 80 percent of heroin users started out on painkillers to that action doctor and the lead kid thinks that the influence of companies on think tanks is dangerous. that's typical for producer farmer 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 any 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 seems very dangerous indeed. in other news the u.s. secretary of state might compare has stressed america's commitment to nato at a meeting with the alliances secretary general in brussels before the meetings in december as well that will have a successful a very get to where we set the conditions so we can have a successful leader summit continue to drive this incredibly important nato mission . but his words there are in stark contrast to those of the french president

emanuel macron he recently criticized the alliance more on the story his hugo should dump of. 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 himself but behind this facade over and shakes and mutual joy hides a nasty in the blocks fabric and that is between the believers in the alliance and heretics who question the relevance of the book and this whole aggravation it stems from right here from france when president emmanuel mccrone did to assume dead to say that the bloke is experience. and i quote brain death what we're currently experiencing is that 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 mccraw his words didn't sit well with other members of the blog to for instance the u.s. ambassador to nato she said that she strongly disagreed with them and she called the alliance essential i don't think europe would be a sea 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 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 whole spree of 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 wish pending 90 percent of data with the piggy bank that they like to take from get assessed paying bills united states. it helps them there in europe. it helps them a lot more than 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 being the only europe a block 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 down of reporting from paris. we talked about this with the director of the crisis research institute mark almond he told us there are a number of disagreements threatening nato's integrity. brought certain tensions between paris and berlin between paris and washington french say that they need to

assert themselves and your views for such services are 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. now an embarrassing incident during a t.v. interview with the us democrat lawmaker has gone viral and in its own bizarre way it's also highlighted the divisions in u.s. politics saskia taylor expects. more so than other 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 and should 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 swore while 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 seem to show off the shop where it. cutely. first. cruise made a rookie error and forgot that he too had been involved in a 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 but terry 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 that 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 and. saskia taylor there are still comfy wrote creeping freud's front man has spoken to r.t. about his dismay it was. new to the whistleblower. this story free press others to just off. in a world of big partisan lot 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 truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is on offense period dramatic they followed the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk.

welcome back the issue of free speech on campus is making headlines again. brooks university counsel to talk by a feminist ati's down after she was accused of discriminating against transgender pink. 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 brooks i don't believe i'm transfer because 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 mean you'd be interested to see what their definition of trans phobic is and why they're calling me trans firebreak. 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 i mean the thing is with the l.g.b. plus. it's a very very divided organization you know there's a lot of tension between sort of women in trans people and gay people i mean it's very very divided and i think that's why one organization at 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 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 actually 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 again says the university should encourage critical thought and constructive dialogue.

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 did 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 problem 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 more and we can learn from each other i mean what would be really interesting is the people who who put this treat 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. several news outlets opted to scrap the story of mistreated children when it did that trumps administration wasn't actually in the wrong un expert had claimed that $100000.00 migrant kids were being held at u.s. border facilities often in violation of international law big media outlets like

the associated press the new york times and reuters all ran with the claim but then the u.n. issued a correction apparently the figure related to all of 2015 when barack obama was in charge according to the latest u.s. government data the true number of migrant children held so far this year is $70000.00 well outlets were quick to react to this but rather than correct the story in light of new information they dropped it altogether. 8th piece withdrawal when the story the author of the report has clarified that the figures do not represent the number of children currently in migration related he has detention but they told toll number of children in migration related he has detention in 2015 well dili the story writer at the u.s. spectator usa chadwick more thinks that such decisions are driven by media bias. it was determined that that report was actually 2015. and restring

a retraction of their fine they simply took the story down so it seems that the press is exposing it felt more and more particularly on this issue with the border as being really propaganda as. well earlier r.t. america host rick sanchez asked larry king to comment on the current state of u.s. media in things that outlets have long been entrenched along democrat and republican lines. what we have today in media. and that's a good quote. is that we have one network devoted to school civil to the right one exclusively to the left one network 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 are we were certainly when you get

the new was a few if you click around you're going to get the news if you only tune to emma's. or fox you don't get the news you get a viewpoint on the news and fugs that's a good point fox my ticket. it almost 6 aspiration to make the internet available across the globe has caused the backlash in scientific circles infuriated researches now say that the latest project by the space x. e could pose a threat to astronomy. space x. sent 60 satellites into orbit early this month it was the 2nd launch within the starling project with tens of thousands more planned just after the batch blasted off though astronomers sounded the alarm complaining that masked satellites heavily affected the work of a highly sensitive instruments. while i am in shock the huge amount of starling satellites crossed our skies tonight at sir to lower our d. cam exposure was heavily affected by 19 of them the train of starling satellites

lasted for over 5 minutes rather depressing this is not cool last night to astronomers were hoping to observe stars in a pair of nearby galaxies with a telescope in chile instead they were greeted to the size of 19 passing satellites in space x.'s starlink mega constellation whoa this is really no go for grandbabies astronomy i guess we'll have to get used to lots of additional data processing dream of said oh it drills. you know must those dismissed the concerns as exaggerated he also suggested too that more telescopes need to be put into orbit cosmologist lawrence christ says the starling satellites will create had. these these satellites from what i understand are thomas autonomy sleep control that could change their orbit so it's not as if you can always predict where they're going to be and i suspect we're going to see if we have that many new objects in space i would be surprised if we didn't see collusions and other other concerns the number of new satellites that projected up there is

a significant greater factor than all the satellites in history of this point these objects as are now designed appear to reflect for a very long periods and i think therefore this is a truck qualitatively different system the other thing is that with small groups of satellites like you're really arrayed in systems you could design your own astronomical observations to avoid the times when those might be traveling overhead but with 42000 of them it's a very different thing to it may be impossible to find a time when you're not being when your observations are not being impacted and that's the reason i think they are hearing the outcry right now. the front man of the rock band pink floyd roger waters has spoken out angrily about what's happening to judah songe it comes amid fears that the whistle blows extradition to the u.s. is now more likely to sweden drop to 2010 right case against him america accuses him of conspiring to have given complete isn't if convicted he could face up to 175 years in jail he's currently in belmarsh prison in the u.k.

is the extradition hearing is set to take place in february which waters told us the sandstone is a political prisoner. there is no process of law being followed at the moment somebody somebody banged 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 only 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 it shrink really difficult in any sane universe he would be. loaded as a hero of the people for getting at the truth and then publishing it and he's not killing him roger waters there speaking to us a bit earlier you watch not a just coming up to half past 1 here in moscow it was good to have a company with back again at the top of. 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 the press this is what before 3 in the morning can people get. interested in the waters of. course it. 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 fully implement inside venezuela things look different we're going to announce sanctions against petroleum's to venezuela so soon. famously have a supplement to flee the tempest and football battle to stay on the moon yet the keep the madness of the moment the focus of the who story isn't new nixon told in henry kissinger to tell him that it would not be tolerated in latin america an

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depths. of the shallowness. i am i skies are this is the guys are important markets to make a new all time highs interesting the money that is being forced into the. markets like a grain into the liver of a duck farm it has to come from somewhere a lot less let's dig into this little bit more stacey yes as we always say the fed is feeding the ducks on their 4 of our farm over and over again but of course we're

in new york and one of the good things about being in new york as we always tell the audience we get to watch the cable news we get to watch our so-called competitors and there is no worry here you know i've i've actually rather have our competitors be better because it encourages us to be better but nevertheless also when we're in hotels we get to see the financial times and you see all that the cable news except for kaiser report is covering and it's really important head of the financial times private equity firm k.k. our lines up 70000000000 dollar buyout of walgreens boots walgreens boots obviously are a consolidation 1 of a pharmaceutical company this little sad emotional there is probably a good. explanation of this whole story so they're taking it private biggest deal in history all your obamacare money well now belong to who is it stephen schwarzman

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