the wealthiest of us presidential candidates multi-billionaire michael bloomberg admits his 2020 campaign used prison labor. ballet dancers in paris joined the chorus of angry pension reforms that could change their retirement age and see it leave from 42 to 64. while several western countries enjoy an opioid addiction epidemic africa scrambles to get enough of the medication to meet patients basic needs. good morning from moscow is thursday december 26th one is calling for

a welcome to world news from r.t. and 1st for you then our main headline news u.s. democratic presidential candidates and multi-billionaire michael bloomberg has admitted that his campaign has used prison labor they were employed by a firm that ran coal centers from a private u.s. prison for women to drum up support for his 2020 election run. we learned about this when the reporter called us but as soon as we discovered which friend had done this we immediately ended our relationship with the company and the people who hired them imagine being so rich you have people who have people who have prisoners to do stuff for you. being so rich you don't even bother to check what you are spending millions of dollars on. rita rating we sat in did when we learn a vendor of a vendor of a vendor use prison labor we did know about it and we never would have allowed it we don't believe in this practice and we immediately stopped working with pro com and the people who hired them so so how do you do it pay someone to pay someone to

tell them mike bloomberg is a big spender he was last to do in the presidential race and he has already outspent all the other democrat candidates on campaign advertising i mean the guy has so much money he doesn't seem to have the time to check what he spent a good dog but they his credit michael bloomberg did promise america more work just to. get it. for president screen. right america more jobs even if you don't particularly want them what makes it much much worse is that many of the prisons in the states a private run for profit and there are laws that force people to work so if you are in a jail and you are told to work you have to you'll be punished sometimes they pay you

as much as $20.00 a month that's right $20.00 a month now here's the irony mike bloomberg billionaire one of the richest people in america was essentially paying for what is a slave labor to cool people apparently tell them that he's a good guy wait the bloomberg is he was paying someone to pay someone to tell everyone what a good guy he is trump says he wants to run the nation like he's running is business god help us. everybody says stuff that comes back to bite them but when billionaires do it it's generally an order of magnitude more cream it. gets worse the further you dig when he launched his campaign his media bloomberg news sent. thousands of its journalists pledging to uphold its principle of not investigating its own this is the sort of person mike. mike started as

a middle class kid to work his way through college. creating. a way to stop there. he probably shouldn't but he didn't let me continue he became rich yeah he made selling bank is new to christie priced gadgets the same bankers who threw on bridal greed set off the 20085 actual crash depriving tens of millions of people a vote of life savings and. michael bloomberg the president. really shouldn't be acceptable for anybody liberal or conservative to use prison labor explore state labor bloomberg is a multibillionaire he's worth like $54000000000.00 he's made his money by you know

not paying attention to things like that. he's not concerned about the little guy. which i guess becomes you know if you're if you're supposedly a democrat you're concerned about the little guy and it's enormous a packer see it a big problem because i think it's going to hurt him a lot i don't know where people get the idea that bloomberg is the great savior for democrats in the race in the race to get struck he has almost no poll support all he has is money. billionaires have not traditionally done that well running for office it's. you know you got to have money to run for president but when you have that much money i think that most people are pretty suspicious of your motives. in running for office. next while the western world struggles to cope with an opioid addiction crisis in many african nations and struggling to get enough medication to relieve the pain of patients.

i do with. people in the main road it was difficult to talk and meet enough and i couldn't you could nice people. in the end she was not even able to take the medication because of.

we've both been in my not judgmental. human right if people are dying in pain in the country and that is not the human rights. crisis that has featured far fewer headlines. international attention is the non-medical use of the painkiller tramadol particular number. indeed social control is a substance of growing concern particularly in north central and west africa closer regions of africa now account for 87 percent of pharmacies procured seas worldwide and that the recent rise is jew almost entirely to trafficking.

according to the international narcotics control board the majority of all morphine used to consume by just a 17 percent of the world's population who live in the western part of the world the same time african and asian countries can only satisfy a fraction of their medical opioid needs political and littler sandra bruno says at the end of the day it all comes down to money. karma suitable companies our business is big businesses with many salaries to pay they need and a lot of them are listed in the stock market in other words they have shareholders they have to take care of because these western companies focused on the expense of medicines they reduce the bill of build the and demand for the natural one

that's why the subject of morphine again is such a not just controversial it's unusual it's something that people don't talk about very much it's sad to say it cynical but lives tick a 2nd seat to profits and earnings and the the entire capitalist system contributes to that it's always a matter especially since in the last 25 years. stock market performance has taken precedence over everything else. the holiday season hasn't stopped the protest movement in hong kong after weeks of relative calm there have been violent clashes with police once again and it seems that the demonstrators have also found another way to that their frustration against beijing by taking to the virtual streets of a popular video game.

i don't blame you for not having the guts. but if. you don't have the guts to kill those. returning. to the fire burn brighter and again are we ready. thanks for the national strike in france over proposed reforms heading towards its 4th week in paris has found

a creative way to show the state. funding. and improve public performance by. the steps they may not like. these. perhaps the most peaceful protest paris seen this summer but don't see. that this cult. and the fact that this country. that's. to check in again now. and that's something that they will lose and it's nice to look at us and scheme which will see what time it graced $63.00 to the fullest of us all to let

the girls have shown you with swan lake is 15 years of sacrifice and it's daily work every day every morning with you and there is a limit to how long it's possible to remain at that level of life if you want to continue to see pretty dancers on stage they can't go on of until they're 64 so it's not possible this strike is now even tickets if the show support you sign and think according to prophecies in the kitchen advice it's just by borrowing pension systems because the sustainable this is the only way to live was that easy we have the stomach for that system now forms that it will right and until it breaks in the next. and nothing was done while the focus may be on fronts right now time of crisis is a local problem some like it slowed to a divine as the baby boom but chip reaching for continues to tie pension systems across the world just raining on the white house as

a result of the country's see the been slowing raising that a time back to or warning of soaring up tensions since the problem is that the demographics have changed in 1906 when the system was invented and you had full people paying for one pension and today you've got 1.7 people going from one attention to circles that is completely unsustainable so it needs to be rethought and i basically i think you've got all these demonstrations of people saying yes but not yet you know not now i don't want you to bust pledge to to have a worse situation so it's clear that the world bank would want as you know more money to retire on well not so fast according to process independent pensions advice. it is a sea of what the situation is perhaps as is the clinton's government is suggesting i don't find big show that the overall cost of the front page system has in fact

stabilized even reduced and that huge deficit government is warning it could just be a blip shrinking down to $5000000000.00 by 2030 so this is a miserable censorship for the public government one of its 1st measures will was to suppress a tax on words and mccoist is called earlier by the french the president of the rich but if you tax bill you know so you must not forget to add an exchange controls in order to curb tax evasion because there is a lot of the leniency with stex evasion in this country but very very few people trudge people want this new feudal american style dystopia that is the very program of president franklin but don't want that absolutely new days of strike action have already been announced that france has this standoff between unions and the government it is in using in the meantime parties. are determined to see

it beat to scare away that way. i'll dance is helping one teacher in ghana get his students to study harder historias here on r t on friday. or who will be very. well and well you know how we live it out now because. the lord. i love to die is because it makes me happy this is a story from garner about people who just love to die and my name is percy. i'm not on social media this is jackson. sister i'm joined by she is screwed by leaking a little quote i'm a trainee teacher. in

russia not. true friend of course. he wants to bring into every close room in the world. deadly forest fires in the australian state of new south wales have been raging for almost 2 months now with firefighters facing extreme conditions against them is a record heat wave with temperatures predicted to be in the high thirty's to 40

celsius over the weekend and into the next week more than 7000000 acres of land has been burned nationwide in australia over the past few months 9 people have lost their lives and more than 950 homes have been destroyed smoke from the fire as has blanketed the country's largest city sydney pollution that has crossed the critical mark sometimes 11 times higher than the life threatening indicator. on friday environmental activists gathered outside the residence of australia's prime minister calling for stronger action to fight climate change protesters block central streets demanding the soul straightly declare a climate emergency here's how the prime minister explained the situation to journalist. astride it is taking action on climate change what we want to is a. in reckless and job destroying an economy crunching targets which is being seeking to be postured to us at the moment to grab soya from the australian association for environmental education believe the government's putting profit 1st

. we've always had fires but we've never had fires like that and part of the issue is really bad environmental policy over a long period of time which has allowed the country to get out of the shape i think the bigger reason why they're defending the call industry is because the coal industry over many many years is bored so very close to government spent a lot of money supporting governments got a little lobbyist and stuff working with governments on these issues. the real issue i think is that they get a significant amount of revenue from the coal industry the jobs in the coal industry not that significant when you look at the industries across the whole economy it seems to be an excuse to me i mean we're not showing any great signs of caring about the environment so i think there's a lot of people in this country who are being given a big wake up call by the fires and the really big issue is going to be how bad it is by the end of march. u.s.

sanctions the doping scandal surrounding russian athletes and britain's exit from the year they're just a few of the topics that we've been discussing with the russian economic development minister and you can watch the year end round after this bulletin a bit later this hour. what we believe in that the problems within you that are thoughts and sharing that are very long term in the church so we see more conflicts not only in treated here but we have been in many other areas what i would like to attract your attention to is the problem of the. extra territorial sanctions coming from the united states and it's you know it big problem for the ward as a whole it's being named as a problem not only a promo saved but already from the european say it may use the clean air for this should be able to be present on the global audience because it will be fair for them. just or for you to see it in the cheery alexina which is a very good story you know already you. know serial which lasts forever.

and britain hasn't left the european union yet and with things dragging on for so long summer decided to take matters into their own hands and split from brussels themselves at least in the grocery department. to morrisons to see if these taste any better tried brussels sprouts they all fall

. in. this province have the right to their own identity they are from young man. himself identifying as a yorkshire sprouts in solidarity even the one from one to ship their one with you in a sprout. you're sure sprouts taste really nice and they're cute in the salty tears remain yours. many of our customers are interesting knowing where the food comes from lincolnshire sprouts lincolnshire sprouts because they're from lincolnshire i yorkshire sprouts are called yorkshire sprout because they're from your shit many of our customers like to know them.

with less than a week left out of 2019 let's wrap up this hour with a wry look at the gate just gone with polly boy. is online serious in case you missed it. as i see why mine is guide to the year that was january got brazil off on the right wing tracked when this guy nationalist. naro was sworn in as president of south america's largest nation a hostile takeover was launched at the start of 2019 in venezuela when this guy one guy go challenge the far right see all of the elected mr. surprise surprise quite a who had the backing of the u.s. and its allies planned benevolent regime change didn't work out in cities across france the yellow vest movement continue to bash things out every weekend demanding that the french president emmanuel build them an economically rosy future instead march saw a brutal acts of terror and take place in new zealand when

a psycho right wing not broke into a mosque in and lifestream the manager of tens of innocent civilians on facebook moving into april wiki leaks julian assange toft out of london's ecuadorian embassy and arrested by british police in was going to be. all evictions the world was shocked when paris is not true don cathedral the home of the hunchback from that disney film fell victim to a fire that store its roof and spire collapse and this moment was probably peak 2019 a comedian with no political experience and literally had played the role of an ordinary man who accidentally becomes president was elected president of ukraine 2019 brought us an escalating us china trade war donald trump employees. of chinese that exports and washington especially blacklisted one way the chinese

target giant slash major threats to apple the gulf was getting tense too for a chain. ange inmate's iran announced that it would stop complying with parts of the 2015 iranian nuclear deal i'm going to start enriching you radium again while in indiana and the rendering ready one a 2nd time as prime minister by a landslide in india's general election in june the orange one touched down in london on the phone royal treatment just 3 days later after 3 years of failing to deliver bragg's its u.k. prime minister to resign may officially threw in the towel and all traces of civility she now sees the process the poisoned chalice of gregg's it over to someone else in august citizens of hong kong started hitting the streets in arms arrested and said numbers angered by a chinese extradition laws and they're still law then this summer news law was

interrupted by news of the death of famous bananas and establishment sleazeball jeffrey at the guy with secrets about everyone had been awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges but he was mysteriously found dad in his jail cell in new york triggering conspiracy theories girl all been busy or do you know that's close to the end of some of the more from polly next hour we're looking at the rest of $29.00 t. seen by the in case you missed it surely here though this summing up the year of global holidays and lows with russia's economic development minister. what politicians do sometimes you can. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to.

have to go to beatrice this is like the full story in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of the holidays. they're sitting. 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. 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 for watching closely watching the hawks.

for their cereal i believe in the light of. the room. my name is droll more than i was for this to die in prison by the expression of love my life. take a stick grab some media attention i mean it's a shooting in a 16 year old's 16 birthday party so something the police are telling a lot of pressure channel close to kids. for years i think just don't mean it's like i couldn't believe those. coming out so far that are wrong for the shooter. one basically i would guess that all of those shoes because i was standing right next. to me 4 eyes because you got to keep in mind the 4th of june was 1617 years old so.

this could lose one boozer and i use plunder to spear the production and i hope you really. formal it is close to. the other goofball now the truth. same camera can use to smash someone's head as the same camera can use to build them a home but that's a human choosing what to do with that that's me expressing my values for the tool and that's what we need to do with artificial intelligence as well. and. my name is sucking. on the old social media office jacksie orthodoxy it's a. good order you know if you. want to know where

you got a good. book on is proof enough movement you know the nazis pizza box and i use that down sixty's to make it any day easier and also to meet school on drugs used to focus on. people. who need clubs people to clubs because clubs do you really hear child he said if the life in music that. i see it does because makes me copy i love he dies because he meets me in how to play and beautiful. and when he moved to. be on dancing with. you know.

i know. i guess it's become a great tradition just before new year's eve to talk to someone who is in charge of where the russian economy is go and we're here in the russian ministry of economic development once again the christmas trees right here to talk with minister but he might have been good morning at any rate to do that one more time let's begin with the news from the last few days and focus on the nord stream to pipe.