paying to die germany's constitutional court repeals a 5 year old ban on assisted suicide services sparking fears of an exploitive death trait. also this hour the u.k. government withholds the findings of an investigation into grooming gangs claiming it's not in the public interest to get reaction from a victim of sexual abuse. i think it's a disgusting decision 8 definitely seems trashed you have thousands of children that hate being abused exploited. and ahead of super tuesday u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls link the popularity of bernie sanders to his being

a protege of the russian government. good morning and welcome to the program this is our 2 international coming to you live from the russian capital bring your life news update. germany has lifted a ban on the commercial sale of euthanasia critics warn that the right to die will not be exploited for profit margins put all over takes a look. almost 5 years after it was banned the highest court in germany has ruled that blocking assisted suicide is unconstitutional and making its ruling on wednesday the constitutional court in culture is said everyone has a right to live and a right to die article 217 of the german criminal code outlawed euthanasia as well as the advertising of the services what this ruling from the constitutional court means is that that's being overturned and not only could companies offer euthanasia

but that advertising for death could also stop being seeing the thinking behind wednesday's court ruling is that this will allow those in extreme paying and suffering from terminal illnesses to end their lives on their terms however senior voices within palliative care are warning that this could perhaps only to the normalization and indeed the commodification of suicide in society now the facilitation of suicide for the sick and tired of life is turning into a normal service anyone who allows you to nature will sooner or later make it compulsory to die especially in this society is economize designers knowledge of experience across all other countries shows that supply creates demand immediate the following the ruling politicians are asking what situations this will be allowed in also what the commercial implications will be for companies wanting to

get involved in the euthanasia business i want clear rules about when medical assistance in particular is allowed and when commercial aphoristic are excluded it is perfectly normal for people who have a terminal diagnosis to feel suicide in fact some of the studies show that i have 80 percent go through a period of depression with some sort of sidle thoughts and so what we should be doing is trying to find ways to assist those people in getting through that period and actually. being there lives rather than promoting assisted suicide needs an ac of services so we would be extremely worried about any commercialization all round the process or indeed promotion that would lead to many from rip off people feeling that their lives are not worth living and actually ending them prematurely highest people here in berlin what their thoughts 'd are on the ruling of whether this is right for germany it's not a commercial thing dying it it's something that needs care security he needs.

yet professionalism i think there are certain things that you cannot put to sale to people like it's not a business you before yes i know want to commit suicide but i'm suffering i want to end my life you cannot do that to pay for it seems like there was very bad incentives there if for example as advertising as i do targets people who are already having a hard time it could lead to people considering suicide more strongly i don't disagree with their physician assisted suicide just because like there are certain aspects that are beneficial for it but in terms of the advertising i could go either way like a really it depends on who is in control of that promoting these kind of things for me is that a progress currently within a year of belgium the netherlands looks a book and switzerland all allow assisted dying but with germany said to joy in the concerns are about what is one of the most sensitive of subjects could be said to

become a business opportunity peter all of a see. we debated the issue with dr rob don't care who's the communications director of the world federation a right to die societies and goes on to us only from the german left party. in reality you're posing euthanasia as a business issue or a business model that euthanasia is only only request of the person i was going to die they've dispersed and is not asking for it there will be any euthanasia but we're talking about a very different thing here court decision was about commercial assisted suicide this isn't a louse commercial provide us to provide suicide assistance like make dolls of suicides is sort of the objects tool to talking about mcdonalds giving suicide to assistance from people to help one to wait with the dying till they're finally suffering too much and they want to keep to addicted t.

by deceit ruling from the constitutional court it is possible for persons to ask a professional to give a proper medically assisted suicide and i think death is a great game this. tragic decision makers in parliament have continued to decide against it and the court overruling that is a dangerous precedent of non-democratic decision by this court if you talk about suicide in the media then many people that would not otherwise commit suicide do in fact commit suicide and this is why every report in the media of suicide always shows people where they can go where they can find help and the media try to minimize reports of suicide and so if we see commercial advertising we will see many people seeing that as an easy way out. the u.k. government is refusing to release official research on the characteristics of

grooming gangs claiming it's not in the public interest but victims accuse the thirty's of inaction and making empty promises we spoke to one survivor now an adult who was sexually abused at the age of 16. i bet miami church when i was 1st he was 28 and he was known to. be a very dangerous person as abused mentally physically and sexually and also into committing crimes as well and that's another part exploitation that many victims are myself and been subjected to i went to the police when i was 16 and you have been doing for us you know but again i went to the police when i think about 27 easel and i didn't feel to see it parted again so i contacted a journalist from a newspaper and i told him everything that happened and i gave him a last edition you know pieces of evidence to prove what happened i mean publish my story in august 2013 and it was actually because of that where the criminal

investigation into that starts. around 10001000 suspected victims of child sexual exploitation were reportedly identified by local authorities in 2018 to 19 and that's a huge increase on 5 years earlier the u.k. government has vowed to take action and the so-called grooming gangs investigation was announced by the former home secretary in 2018 he pledged that he would not let cultural or political sensitivities get in the way of fixing the problem victims say the decision not to publish the probes findings weave them with many unanswered questions though. i think it's a disgusting decision and it is definitely in the public's interest you have thousands of children that have being abused exploited i'm going to cry these are sexual acts and we want to know why this is have happened why it still happening and why these people are being allowed to get away with it there's

clearly something in that report that the government doesn't want us to know about because if they weren't you know there was no we should they just release so the fact that they're making excuses and things like weak excuses well to say it's not a dowry chest so the fact that now a good many say well actually we're not even good at least the sand dunes. you know i think is a real blow to his victims. requests a comment from the u.k. home office they have yet to reply but we did get reaction from child protection activist tony bugel she says the decision will undermine trust and politicians. this report was promised to fit. and again they found them and just they're making excuses and all they've done is they have gone back on the word that they gave to victims of these crimes it's a combination of political correctness i think is a cultural sensitivities i think it's fear of what they believe will stir graces

and people whose country don't trust politicians anymore without being able to see what's going on we don't know if we'll be annoyed to again and now and then that has to stop it and the political correctness of having this this what we fear a backlash would you know what we fear goes being right. next week is super tuesday when u.s. democrats and 14 states will choose their preferred candidate for president but with the latest poll showing bernie sanders leading and 9 of those states his race rivals are crying foul they allege his success is all part of a clever kremlin strategy or does all court looks at whether the russians have been rumbled. good news comrades our agent bernie sanders is doing better than we expected in the primaries are planned to have 2 agents fight over the presidency operation hammer and sickle is a go but we have one problem some in the democratic party establishment are

becoming savvy to our strategy vladimir putin thinks donald trump should be president of the united states and that's why russia is helping bernie sanders get elected so he'll lose to trump it doesn't help that just last week western media published information about our top secret operation exposing the connection between agents trump and sanders with our center in moscow as you learned tonight and today yesterday the day before is going to have we're going to we're coming from learn to be prudent to move through. the ladder to new one somebody who didn't think could be from at least age and trump was able to follow orders i admit nothing deny everything and make counter accusations it was highly exaggerated. and frankly i think it's disgraceful and i think it was a week from the intelligence committee hours i was greeted and i think that they

liked it i think probably shipley good agent sanders on the other hand really dropped the ball he panicked and that is the ugliest thing they're doing is they are trying to cause chaos the trying to cause a truth in america it's an ugly business and all of us have got to say sorry you're not going to do this in the selection and again is present in the united states. you will not interfere in our elections and the order was to deny sanders deny but he broke under pressure blowing the cover of our moscow back to bernie bros i've just told those people they are not taught all of our moves that all of us remember 2016 what we were what we were that's why russians and others to try to interfere in our election and was lied to us all i'm not saying that. but it would not show if you are the center has good reason to believe agent sanders has been compromised we're losing control over his actions and he's praising our strategic allies too openly you know when fidel castro came into office you know what he did he had

a massive literacy program it's not a bad think it's only a matter of time before they discovered the interview agent sanders gave to profit i mean r t what effect do you think you can have on your voters it was so close here in iowa well i just hope that people take a hard look at the real issues impacting their lives to make matters worse we may have a mole in our midst how else could the footage have been leaked remember when the comrades recruited sanders at the new year's party of 1980 bernie spent his honeymoon and then in soviet russia i mean i think you're going to go back and forth about who's more in the tank with russia it's a really hard one between barney and rob we have made too many tactical blunders as it is and western pundits are already undergoing a campaign to discredit our agent obviously we know the russians are continuing to try to choose our next president like they chose our last president the russians don't want me to be the nominee who spent a lot of money on bots on facebook and they've been taken down say biden is

a bad guy the no one biden rule in politics pick your opponent and putin and trump are picking their opponent the happiest person right now it's about one in moscow time this thing is going very well for blatter we have to promise you. probably stay up watching us right now are you doing our rivals already know too much comrade commissar i think it's time to extract our agents now while all of that might sound far fetched the phrase russian t.v. has been trending on twitter and the u.s. on top of the chairman of the democratic coalition posted a video of bernie sanders wife appearing on our t.v. bernie sanders would fare better against donald trump and hillary clinton. i have no doubt and all you have to do is look at every primary and caucus that was an open primary where independents could vote or republicans could go over and vote he won bernie sanders his wife went on russian t.v. to explain why open primaries like the south carolina democratic primary on

saturday are more democratic because they allow republicans to vote for who the democratic nominee should be sorry jane this is just wrong. it was only in a later tweet that the chairman and mid that the interview was not new in the 4 year old clip chain sanders is speaking to r.t. america anchor ed schultz prior to his work with r.t. officials hosted a show on one of the most pro-democratic news networks i missed n.b.c. not long before his death in 2018 he revealed why he left that channel and that story also had direct connection to his coverage of bernie sanders long before anyone had even thought of blaming the russians for anything. when bernie sanders was announcing that he was going to be a candidate for the nomination of the democratic party in burlington vermont i was the only cable host between 5 m s n b c and c n n that was their live coverage now there were a lot of cameras there but we had coordinated with the say ender's campaign that it

5 o'clock he was going to make his announcement and we were going to cover this on the edge show it's 5 minutes to air and i get a phone call from phil griffin you're not covering this i said phil. bernie sanders is announcing he's running for president he's going to be president here you're not covering this now let me give you the opinion i think the clintons were connected and the lack connected at the hip i think that they didn't want anybody in their prime time or any anywhere in their lineup supporting bernie sanders i think that they were in the tank for hillary clinton and i think it was managed in $45.00 days later i was out at m.s.n. b.c. . still to come another democratic candidate is poised to score his 1st win in the primaries and south carolina some fear he's losing something else details after this short break.

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world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome back one of bernie sanders opponents in the race for the democratic nomination joe biden is poised to win in the next primary and south carolina it would be his 1st victory but attracting votes might not be biden's biggest problem . my name's joe biden i'm a democratic candidate for the united states senate look over here like regime help out is not going to buy give me a look though ok. one the

exact proudest of. is getting past getting moved to getting control of the paris climate accord on a guy that came back after a meeting with dung chow pretty. my son one of. my deceased son was attorney general of united states and for that he was a federal prosecutor one of the largest offices in the country and in philadelphia . it is important that iowa nevada is broken. there flooding

a dead horse or are trying to push that dead horse back into the race across the finish line might be another way to look at it yes it does seem futile that they're trying to prop him up but he can't raise money he's putting all his hopes. being convincing south carolina black voters that he's the next rock obama and it's just a matter of time before he fans those voters with making some horrible misstatement it's time for him to step aside. a multimillion dollar national security agency surveillance program in the us. has only managed to provide unique data for just a couple of cases that's according to a newly declassified study by a us government watchdog the n.s.a. surveillance program called prism tapped us domestic phone calls between 200720198 was 1st exposed to the public by whistleblower edward snowden and it was

aimed at preventing terror attacks in the past 4 years the program cost taxpayers $100000000.00 however major doubts have now been raised over the effectiveness of the program that new report reveals that in a 4 year period the program guilded only one significant investigation moreover only twice in the last 4 years that it managed to generate information that was not already known to the f.b.i. the prism program was authorized through several pieces of legislation including the u.s. patriot act is 1st signed by president george w. bush in the wake of the 911 attacks and it was a rise as the u.s. freedom act following the snowden revelations in 2013 but it's set to expire next month and the trump administration is struggling to keep it alive and that's a good journalist and author joe lauria believes the report proves there's no need for mass surveillance it proves what was for known to anyone who could she clearly knew this was a fraud from the very beginning this was about power and money the power of the

government to control american people and the money contractors that run this program have made this based on full cheer and that's the last line of defense of the united states full time to try to confuse the interests of a small number of powerful people with the interests of the nation you know the united states has had a long history of this false year of keeping the american people afraid and trying to say that they have to be protected it's basically a protection racket they scare the people and then they say we will protect you that's what the mafia does kelley this report will get the wide attention of deserves so that's to get people begin to question these false narratives of fear and why they need these kinds of 1000000000 dollar programs that make them rich and keep the. powerful book does nothing for the american people and in fact the invasion of privacy in a complete violation of the constitution this report should have hammered out home that this is a bogus program there is no national security at stake there is no reason for the government to have spied on american people when only one case came out of all of

this and it has to stop. as the u.k. enters its post brags that transition period it's facing unique challenge to its economic future chlorinated chicken yo says it won't agree on a trade deal with britain unless it keeps a ban on the product and its trade negotiations with the united states are to escape partridge explains. it seems the humble chicken could sink u.k. hopes of a trade deal with the e.u. that's because europe's in a flap over britain potentially importing chlorine wash chicken from the u.s. as part of a new trade deal with washington the e.u. outlawed the practice in 1997 and the french are saying if the brits been the ban they can forget any deal with the block this also goes with any british company as i hear them i see them i mean they all tell me we want to keep european rules because we want to ensure access to 500000000 european consumers i don't need any convincing no british or european company produces goods according to just any old

standards on the contrary all companies in particular british farmers understand that to keep exporting it's best to do all they can to have the regulatory alignment that will grant them access to our markets but also in the wings is the u.s. which for years has tried and failed to get the e.u. to weaken its food and farming standards to bring them into line with america's breck's it presents a chance to break open a major european market the other issue which people got very obsessed about here is chlorinated chicken deliver on our comes that benefit the agricultural sector and most importantly consumers who are going to be the beneficiaries of these really good deals american producers claim they've turned away from chlorine in favor of other disinfectants but the e.u. still believes the use of such methods at the end of the meat production process could compensate for poor hygiene standards plus other fears of inhumane treatment while farmers leaders think it would be madness to import such goods this year the

government must show global leadership insists that u.k. farm standards are the benchmark for climate friendly farming around the world and that whoever wants to trade with us trades on our terms. and we must not allow those standards to be undermined by imports of goods which would be illegal for our farmers to produce here to the average briton chlorine is associated with keeping swimming pools clean and not for washing chickens so what do people think on the streets of london would you eat chicken as we did to glory no of course not you know you are free now and we've got to be vegetarian not going to consume to give any more thus not we don't have no i definitely wouldn't eat it i just had the cheese and buy my chicken there so they get they quite welcome so here we don't have to buy it so yeah i would invite yes but i think the problem is that people wouldn't necessarily know so on the one hand there's the chance of

a deal with the e.u. already the u.k.'s biggest trading partner and guaranteed food standards on the other a potential deal with the u.s. the world's biggest economy and cheap chlorine chicken a foul conundrum for the u.k. government a partridge otty london. well for all the stories haven't quench their thirst for nears head on over to our website artie dot com for countless articles and interviews thanks for tuning in this hour. people have money in pension account people have money and savings are actually digging into their pockets because their savings rate their pension accounts are

now yielding close to 0 or negative they're taking money out of their pockets banks to the central bankers and they're giving it to a billionaire so he can buy jeff away so he can sell trinkets the more billionaires this is louis the $65.00 only i'm living off the labor of the peasant. welcome to the alex salmon sure we examine the dramatic changes taking place in irish politics this month's elections i should say the march as the most popular party in the public environment however and the balance of parliament to distil

what's clear what's type of government will emerge today we speak to 2 key comments he says almost the short election result means for the future of ireland nourse unsaid. this is a monumental shake up of politics in the republic of ireland for nearly a century the 2 big parties fin a foil and finish the dominated no one really thought that shin fein will be on the brink of being in government in both parts of the on the violent she could be in government in the south they're already in government in the north and that fundamentally changes the outlook on irish politics both north and south of the border are there to the political system in the republic it's been a huge shock. i think it's delayed it merely political journalists just because it's so interesting and it kind of so overturns most of the expected outcomes that were predicted at the beginning but 1st to your tweets emails and messages are no well received show on the topic of the coronavirus more have says this time you

covered is sensitive topic it occupies a kind of public opinion of course we all worry about the spread of this school pandemic i hope scientists research find a suitable vaccine as soon as possible thanks for this interesting episode gary says pretty sure a lesson over the next 2 weeks in china if the figures are correct jill says my mother nearly died of flu in 1957 and a sponsor to which margaret says i was 9 years old when i was extremely ill with the asian flu my mother phoned me unconscious in bed have had the flu season times and each time still very ill susan says excellent informative presentation thank you and finally and says great show as always thank you to you all for your messages i'm glad you find the show to be so informative now that irish election results came as a bolt from the blue to the long established participant guild and for the foil they have dominated irish politics since independence a century ago but no longer

a party it was a pariah only a few years ago because of its links with i.e. violence emerged under the new leadership of made in the mcdonald to become islands most popular party this is a prospectus mill mcdonnell set it when she became party leader the war is over and there is no. purchase no sentiment at taller told that i see that wishes for a return to any form of political violence. i think it would be a very very foolish person and a truly food dish government that would gamble or that would take the necessary risks with all of that i believe the peace process is robust i believe certainly irish nationalism is growing in confidence is very much at ease and happy.