dormers is close. very good to know the truth. about his u.s. presidential candidate multi-billionaire michael bloomberg admits his team used prison labor to make campaign. and protests about a dog's empowers enjoy the demonstration against pension reforms which could see the retirement age unique from 42 to 64. and while the united states is in the throes of an epidemic many african states have been suffering from chronic shortage of perception pain killers we don't get how an ambitious project or one this time in the situation around.

it's just gone 10 pm here in the russian capital you're watching international with me suspect in a welcome to the program should be to some but you coming. on to start us off this hour with the u.s. democratic presidential candidate michael bloomberg has admitted his campaign made use of prison labor although the billionaire claims he was unaware that it was happening his team hired to help with his 2020 and the run which in ton employs female inmates to make campaign cools. we learned about this when the reporter called us but as soon as we discovered which friend a subcontractor had done this we immediately ended our relationship with the company and the people who hire them imagine being so rich you have people who have people who have prisoners to do stuff for you agence 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 how do you do it pay someone to pay someone to tell them my bloomberg is a big spender he was last to do in the presidential race and he has already outspent all the other democratic 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 it. 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 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. 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 or this is the sort of person mike is mike bloomberg started as a middle class kid who had to work his way through college and built a business from a single room to a global entity creating tens of thousands of good paying jobs along the way there he could've he probably should've but he didn't let me continue he became richer year after year he made billions selling bank is ludicrously priced products all gadgets the same bankers who through unbridled greed set off the 20085 actual crash depriving tens of millions of people of those of life's savings and jobs. michael bloomberg for president and investigative journalist david lindorff

believes that despite vast wealth he's actually not a particularly strong counter. it 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. 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. and not a headline story for you while parts of the west are wild in general and a ploy in crisis many african nations on that in a legal medication to remove the poll of polls since. i did. before getting morphine. in a pinch and she was not even able to take the medication because a. we've

both been in management. human rights aid for people as dying in open country in that community in the. human rights. 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 proces worldwide and not the recent rises jew almost entirely. the trafficking. coming to me should hoeing. the numbers are indeed 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 are predominantly in the western parts of the world at the same time african and asian countries can only satisfy a tiny fraction of their medical employee needs so political analyst out of entrepreneurs says that 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 here other words they have shareholders they have to take care of so because these western companies are focused on the expense of 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 lyme stick 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. wrong with the national strike in the country

over proposed pension reforms heading into its 4th week a dog's trip and paris is stepping out of the theater and onto the streets to make that feelings clear. people lost of his will to what the girls have shown you with swan lake is 15 years of sacrifice and it's daily work 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 and perhaps the most beautiful protest that paris seen at this step but they don't

see is what actually striking behind them they had fattest bread culture in danger and now this latest sequel to the penchant for by the french government this strike is now getting tickets we get it shipped from someone and they according to process and then the picture advice describe how it changed the system this being a sustainable this is the only way to face react is to stick. forms definitely right and it's been taught if you reduce the next. nothing it's done while the focus may be off from it's right now time of crisis is a local problem something like slow to find is the baby blue chip rate she continues to type pension systems across the world are straining on the white house as a result of the country's see the been slowly raising it to the toilet or cooling of

soaring the tension that exists the problem is that the demographics have changed in 1906 when the system was invented you had people painful no one pension and today you got one point said. when people leave when the pension the circles that is completely unsustainable so it needs to be recalled 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 to be the 1st one to to have a worse situation so it's clear that the world right now would not get the government even more money to retire on well not so fast according to process independent pension advice this is the c.e.o. of all the situation is that perhaps as he is the clinton's government this means testing it's own findings show that the overall cost of the front suspension system has in fact stabilized even reduced and that huge deficit government to this warning about could just be a blip shrinking down to 5000000000 you rates by 2030 so this is

a miserable sensitive for the public government one of its 1st measures rule was to suppress a tax on words reckless it's called by the french the president of the rich but if you tax bill you know so you must not forget to exchange controls in order to occur for tax evasion because there is a lot of the leniency with specs 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 gov it is tin ewing in the meantime artists and performers are determined to see the beat to scare away.

and staying with dances seems the art form is perhaps unexpectedly helping one teacher and gonna get his students to study harder historias hear on r.t. on friday but for now here's a little teaser. you know. what . i would love to he does because he makes me happy this is a story from going about people who just love to. my name is. i'm not on social media mr jackson. i'm joined. by leaking a little quote i'm a trainee teacher. in

russia i get to treat them fairly closely. he wants to bring guns into every classroom in the world. with britain yet to free itself from the european union on the bricks a process dragging on somehow decide to take matters into their own hands and split from brussels themselves at least in the grocery aisles.

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many of our customers are interested in knowing where the food comes from lincolnshire sprouts lincolnshire sprouts because they're from lincolnshire. ground because they're from yorkshire many of our customers like to know them. as part of a straight up continue to be ravaged by wildfires the prime minister is coming under increasing pressure to adopt green up policies we'll have that story and much more after this short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be

an arms race. spearing dramatic development only really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical if. you 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. genocide and other cases of genocide that's that we're talking about issues 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 means to dilute you know the experience of. it in this particular case of the.

welcome back with a less than a week left of $29000.00 let's start taking a look at the year just gone by with 20 boyko in all teens online series in case you missed it. as i see why am i 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 why don't have 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 up every weekend demanding that the french president emmanuel build them an economically rosy future instead march toward a brutal acts of terror take place in new zealand when a psycho right wing not break into a mosque and find. life streamed the manager of tens of innocent civilians on face moving into april wiki leaks said it so julian assange toft out of london's ecuadorian embassy and the west by british police in was going to be. fiction the world was shocked when paris is not 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 sports and washington officially blacklisted one way the chinese target giant major threats to apple the gulf was getting tense 2 for a chain. inmates iran announced that it would start complying with parts of the 2015 iranian nuclear deal i'm going to start enriching you radium again while in indiana and then run for mayor d one a 2nd time as prime minister by a landslide in india's general election in june the orange one touchdown in london for the phone 7 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 she now sees the process the poisoned chalice of brags that someone else.

citizens of hong kong started hitting the streets in arrested and had numbers angered by a chinese extradition law and the law then this summer news law was interrupted by news of the death of a famous banana and establishment jeffrey at the guy with secrets about everyone had been awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges but he was mysteriously found dead in his jail cell in new york triggering conspiracy theories. to the party will take us through the rest of 2900 very soon and i few want to watch the inevitableness boy go on least on the headline stories look up in case you missed it on you tube and all to. some american politics with the 2020 us presidential election race in full swing american intelligence officials are reportedly considering how to shield the

country's democratic processes from outside interference according to a new washington post article that could even involve north sorry about warfare campaign against russian political figures. brings us up to speed. indeed washington post newspaper published an article citing faeries american officials former and current who spoke with the paper on the condition of anonymity because of the issues sensitivity and the piece claims that u.s. cyber command is considering attacks to target senior russian leadership and the country's elite though not president wide were putting in order to counter russian interference a new ss 2020 presidential election the idea would be the paper goes on that the personal sense to date or all of the targeted russian all the garson officials would be heat eve that interference did not stop we asked russia's

foreign ministry spokesperson what is the heart of our to comment on that at the daughter's door the procedure in your leg it's the same thing that has been actually used for many years about western partners interference in our internal affairs and regime change the us is now trying justify its actions we can only sang them for this acknowledgment of their illegal practices of which they know many accuse everyone of themselves which. russia's foreign ministry spokesperson what is the hottest trends that there is no single proof of any russian interference in any u.s. election so far given that countermeasures are ready we can see it or moscow is denying any meddling or to request a comment from the u.s. defense department and cyber command we are waiting for their response refreshing honesty from moscow. that the forest fires in southeast strain have been raging for almost 2 months now with firefighters facing extreme conditions again

a record heat wave with temperatures predicted to stay in the high thirty's to 40 celsius over the weekend and even early into next week 5000000 hectares of land have been burned nationwide in a strange over the past few months 9 people so far have lost their lives more than 950 homes have been destroyed smoke from the fires has blanketed the country's largest city sydney pollution house crossed the critical market such in points 11 times higher than the life threatening threshold. on saturday environmental activists rallied in sydney to condemn the prime minister's decision to go on vacation while parts of the country were in the gulf to buy bushfires many of those gathered while also calling for stronger action to fight climate change responding to the crisis on the criticism of course scott morrison had this to say in defense of his government's climate policies a stroke is taking action on climate change what we were is engaged in recluse and

job destroying and economy crunching targets which is being seeking to be postured to us at the moment graeme sawyer from the a straight in association for environmental education believes the government is putting industry above all else. we've always had farmers but we've never had. part of the issue is really bad environmental policy over a long period of time which is allowed the country to get out of that a shipe i think the big reason why they're defending the coal industry is because the coal industry in many many years is boarded 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 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 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. the flyers and the really big issue is going to be how bad it is by the end of march. and. the united states presidential candidates the future of the u.s. and the world. dig into the burning questions of this election cycle. every week. student debt trade was money. running this sunday exclusively on. same hammer i can use to smash someone's head is the same hammer i 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. brothers seal i believe in the room light of. the room. my limited role more than i was for it is to die in prison by the exposure love my life. case to grab some media attention and it's a shooting in a 16 year olds to 16 birthday party foul so i think the police just held a lot of pressure to. close the case. for me is. just wrong it's like i couldn't believe those hired. me out so far they are all for the sure don't want peace be with us that's all of this universe

and i will stay right next to. me for is the son you got to keep in mind for the dealings 1617 is old so. this could lose one to their lives as plundering his fear of them both of tonight to food really. good is close to. the truth. all. come on welcome to worlds apart their minions like to say that the sonne the won't

always stay behind the cloud implying that the suffering of their ancestors and the crumbling autumn on the empire will sooner or later be recognised as china side but a century later it can be squashed for historic truth and earthly justice after be divorced from contemporary politics well to discuss that i'm now joined by maura down lecturer in middle eastern south asian and african studies at columbia university professor more again it's good to talk to you welcome to the show thank you for having me now i'm sure you would agree with me that the american armenians will remember this december as a major landmark as both u.s. house and the u.s. senate have now recognized the massacres of their manias in the early 20th century ass genocide is there anything more to though than just a symbolic victory.