the wealthiest u.s. presidential candidate billionaire michael bloomberg admits his 2020 campaign use prison labor. also this hour ballet dancers and pairs joined the chorus of anger at pension reforms that could save their retirement age from $42.00 to $64.00. and the west opioid addiction the rich countries scooping up almost all the world's supply of painkillers leaving africa struggling to get enough basic legal meds to treat patients. you're watching r t international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. u.s.

democratic presidential candidate and multi-billionaire michael bloomberg admits his campaign has use prison labor they were employed by a firm that ran call centers for a private u.s. prison for women to drum up support for his 2020 election. we learned about this when the reports of which as soon as we discovered which friend done this we immediately ended our relationship with the company and the people who hire them imagine being so reach you have people who have people who have prism is to do stuff for you. being so rich you don't even bother to check what you are spending really ends of dollars on. rita reading we sad indeed 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 stop 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 there's credit michael bloomberg did promise america more work just to. get ahead. for president jobs creator. 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 roomba billionaire one of the richest people in america was essentially paying for what is a slave labor to cool people to 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. it gets. worse the further you dig when he launched his campaign his media bloomberg news sent out a letter to thousands of its journalists pledging to uphold its principle of not investigating its own this is the sort of person mike is mike bloomberg started as

a middle class kid to work its way through college and built a business from a single room to a global entity creating tens of thousands of could paying jobs along the way there he could've you probably should've but he didn't let me continue he became richer year after year he made really a selling bank is ludicrous lee price tried gadgets the same bankers who through unbridled greed set off the 2005 actual crash the provident tens of millions of people of both ends of life savings and jobs. michael bloomberg for president. and best gate of journalist dave lindorff believes that despite bloomberg the vast wealth he doesn't particularly measure up as a strong presidential candidate. i really shouldn't be acceptable for anybody liberal or conservative to use prison labor it's forced 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. that he's not concerned about the little guy and 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 against trump he has almost no poll support all he has is money. billionaires have not traditionally done that well running for office it's 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. all parts of the western world and are an opioid addiction crisis many african nations are left struggling to get enough legal medication to

relieve the pain of patients. i did. and she was not even able to take. the puzzle.

we've both been in management. human rights even people dying in pain in the country and that is not the human rights commission. the crisis that has featured in far fewer headlines. international attention is the non-medical use of the painkiller tramadol particularly now for. 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 cry poor seas worldwide

and not the recent rises jew almost entirely to trafficking in china don't. listen. to me shit hole you. the numbers are pretty stark the international narcotics control board says the majority of all morphine used is consumed by just 17 percent of the world's population who live in western parts of the world at the same time african and asian countries can only satisfy a tiny fraction of their medical needs political analysts also says at the end of the day it's all about money. perma suitable companies are businesses 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 so because these western companies focused on the expensive medicines they've reduced the ability and demand for the natural cheap

ones 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 large stick a 2nd seat to profits and earnings and the 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. but the national strike in france or proposed pension reforms heading into its 4th week dance troupe in paris is stepping out of the theatre and onto the streets to make their feelings clear.

to the point as to what the girls have shown you with swan lake he's 15 years of sacrifice and it's daily work it's every day every morning and there is a limit to how long it's possible to remain at that level if you want to continue to see pretty dancers on stage they can't go on until they're 64 it's not possible to perhaps the most peaceful protest that paris seen at this time but they don't actually striking behind them they had a great cult shape. they say to you and now that they to say can work for the pension report by the french government destroyed is now into its 4th week in that shop steward who signed on and think according to process independent pension advice commits to survive our pension system is being unsustainable this is the only way to plug the i mentioned deficit react to the medical system. forms

a definite will run to more than 70 it's a risk in the next. and nothing that makes. while the focus may be off from its right now over time of crisis is a global problem some of them like it slowed ticking time bomb it's the baby boom but chip bracing for continues to retype pension systems across the world straining on the kweisi costs as a result other countries to have been slowly raising that a tyrant or warning of soaring up pension checks since the problem is that the demographics have changed in 1906 when the system was invented you had people paying for one pension and today you've got 1.7 people going from one pension to circles that is completely unsustainable so it needs to be resoldered 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 to be the 1st one to to have the situation so

it's clear that we're all going to have to put all that as this whole government evil money is retire on well not so fast according to process independent pensions advice committee this is the see all of the situation is that perhaps is to me is the country's government to speak suggesting it's own findings show that the over whole culture front suspension system has in fact stabilized even reduced and the huge deficit that the government to this be warning if i could just be a blip shrinking down to 5000000000 you raise by 2030 so this isn't as a reprieve. and to cheer for the public government one of its 1st measures will was to suppress the tax on work. microsoft was called 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 toxic evasion because there is a lot of leniency with suspects evasion in this country but very very few people

trust people want this new feudal american style dystopia that is the very program of president franklin but don't want their absolutely new days of strike action have already been announced that france has this standoff with the unions have the guts that it's seen ewing in the meantime artists and performers hard to time and to sing in the beat to scare away that way. and helping one teacher and gonna get his students to study harder his story airs here on r.t. on friday. you know. i

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i've. written has a life the european union yet but with things dragging on for so long some have decided to take matters into their own hands and split from brussels themselves at least in the grocery aisles. most emotions to see if these taste any better tried brussels sprouts whole foods. this problems have the right to their own identity they are from young man. himself

identifying as a yorkshire sprouts in solidarity even the interim lancashire bit one with you in a sprout. you're sure of sprouts tastes really nice and they're cute in the salty tears remain or. many of our customers are interesting knowing where the food comes from lincolnshire sprouts lincolnshire sprouts because they're from lincolnshire. brown because they're from yorkshire many of our customers like to know that. australia continues to burn with record breaking temperatures and wildfires but the prime minister has been out defending the coal industry seen by environmentalists

as a root cause of the climate emergency that story and about 90 seconds. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in. the early dramatic development only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. i'm not one who will ever argue that there are worthy and unworthy victims it's also important to also distinguish the fact that whenever we have a crime. of genocide and other cases of genocide that's that we're talking

about issues of confronting it and injustice and reparations for it are important it is important to confront the crimes wherever they happen but it shouldn't be a means to dilute you know the experience of. in this particular case of the. welcome back deadly forest fires in foul theist australia have been raging for almost 2 months now with firefighters facing extreme conditions against them a record heat wave with temperatures predicted to stay in the high thirty's to 40 celsius over the weekend and into early next week 5000000 hectic years of land has been burned nationwide over the past few months 9 people have lost their lives and more than 150 homes have been destroyed smoke from the fires have blanketed the

country's largest city sydney air pollution their house crossed the critical mark so. in times 11 times higher than the life threatening threshold. on friday environmental activists gathered outside the residence of australia's prime minister calling for stronger action to fight climate change purchasers block central streets in sydney demanding that australia declare a climate emergency here's how the prime minister explained the situation. a struggle is taking action on climate change what we want to is engaged in reckless and job destroying an economy crunching targets which is being seeking to be postured to us at the moment graeme sawyer from the australian association for environmental education believes the government is putting industry 1st we've always had paused but we've never had fires like that and part of the issue is really bad environmental policy over a long period of time on which is allowed the country to get out of out of shape i

think the big reason why they're defending the coal industry is because the coal industry over many many years is bored so very close to government and 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 jobs in the call industry not that significant when you look at the industries across the whole economy it seems to be an excuse to me i mean they'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 to be quite couple by the fires and the really big issue is going to be how bad it is while the end of march. with less than a week left of 2019 let's start taking a look at the year just gone with playboy to an artist 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 authority of the elected mr. surprise surprise why don't have the backing of the u.s. and its allies the 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 to. build them an economically rosy future instead march toward a brutal acts of terror and take place in new zealand when a psycho right wing not broke into a mosque in. lifestream the manager of tens of innocent civilians on face

moving into april wiki leaks editor julian assange toft out of london's ecuadorian embassy and arrested by british police in was going to be. fiction 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 by a 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 may 2019 brought us an escalating us china trade war donald trump employees. of chinese that exports and washington officially blacklisted while away the chinese target giant slash major threats to aapl the gulf was getting tense for a chain. ange inmate's iran announced that it would stop complying with thoughts of

the 2015 iranian deal i would start enriching you radium again while in india and render modi won a 2nd time as prime minister by a landslide in india's general election in june the orange one touched down in london but the phone royal treatment just 3 days later after 3 years of failing to deliver brags its u.k. prime minister to resign may officially threw in the towel and all traces of civility to mount fuji parsing the poison promise of gregg's and. citizens of hong kong started hitting the streets in precedented numbers angered by a chinese extradition war and. then this summer news law was interrupted by news of the death of a famous banana and establishment full 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. about scotus to the end of the summer will take us through the rest of 2019 as soon and if you want to watch polly unleashed on the headline stories of the year look up in case you missed it or on youtube dot com. tired of the real world harm caused by almost 7 months of violent protests and hong kong actions moved online and sort of caution on the real streets of the so the rubble sides have now find another place to settle scores for only digital destruction can play out.

i don't blame you for not having the guts to throw the police in reality but in the game there are guns. and you don't have the guts to kill those. returning. to the fire only burn brighter and again are we ready. that's our global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our web site r.t. dot com for the details on all the stories and many more. you

know world. a lot and conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell. me to be smart 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. 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's me expressing my values for the tool and that's what we need to do with artificial intelligence as well. today as there are good terrorists and bad attitudes the bad news in yemen the

united states deems to be a threat to the good of those who work in syria the cia and the us military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military juntas funding an army of death squads there in all anymore because there's always a small town called for a really good. profit. in front of the cameras coca-cola c.e.o. promises a world without waste our objective. god behind the scenes the american company is doing everything in its power to rescue any alternatives to plastic like the return bottle i did obviously still. after months of negotiations with the american

multinational we have a meeting at the headquarters of coca-cola france for an interview. it's a message to the not so well known when i did it to see you. come polite and welcome. in the public and we didn't know who could walk into the body it seems we have not yet won that trust. bush knew it was a little close to me every thought knowing enough echo could see i should push i was wrong. the vice president of the company michael gold. has traveled from the united states to questions will he has worked at coca-cola for 21 he's in charge of global policy and environmental sustainability and he's a french speaker. see after the long lines at the new dot com thanks hop on a week. i have. really. done in

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