we reached. to die germany's constitutional court repealed a 5 year old ban on assisted suicide services sparking fears of an exploitative trade and. also this hour the u.k. government withholds the findings of an investigation into grooming gangs claiming it's not in the public interest we get reaction from a victim of sexual abuse. i think it's a disgusting decision and it definitely seems you have thousands of children that have being abused exploited. and bernie sanders rivals in the race for the democratic u.s. presidential nomination resort to the 2016 playbook insinuating russian backing for

the front runner has the phrase russian t.v. trends on twitter after an old r.t. interview with senator's wife resurfaces. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour germany has lifted a ban on the commercial sale of euthanasia the critics warn that the right to die will not be exploited for profit are just bitter all over takes a closer 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 the deaf 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 'd 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 immediately

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 offerings are excluded it is perfectly normal for people who have a terminal diagnosis to fail suicide in fact some of the studies show that i've 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. living their lives rather than promoting assisted suicide nouther nicias services so we would be extremely worried about any commercialization all round the process or indeed promotion that would lead to many fine reports people feeling that their lives were not worth living and actually ending them prematurely highest people here in berlin what their thoughts 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. yes 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 to me there was very bad incentives there if for example that advertising was actually targets people who were 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 this kind of fings 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 set to joy in the

concerns are about what is one of the most sensitive of subjects could be set to become a business opportunity peter all of a see. we debated the issue we'll talk to rob john care the communications director of the world federation of right to die societies and be john thomas ollie from the german left party. in reality you're posing euthanasia as a business issue or a business model that euthanasia is only on the request of the person i was going to die and 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 suicide is sort of the objects tool to talking about mcdonalds giving suicide to

exists and some people do not want to wait with their dying till they're finally suffering too much and they want to keep to addicted t. by deceit ruling from the confucian o.-port 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. is a democratic 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. u.k. government is withholding research on grooming gangs as well as commission after a spate of child sexual exploitation scandals here's how the home office explained its decision to sit on the findings. we recognize that this topic in general and any insight and learning matters of strong public interest although it does not necessarily follow that it is in the public interest to disclose any specific information relating to it. victims of grooming gangs accuse the authorities of inaction and empty promises we spoke to one survivor i that my me have changed when i was 1st he was 24 years old 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 of expletives that many sell and

have been subjected to i went to the police when i was 16 and having to unfortunately 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 lot sedition you know pieces of evidence to prove what happened and he pushed my story you know it was 2013 and it was actually because of that where the criminal investigation into that were. around 19000 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 an investigation into the problem of grooming gangs was announced by the former home secretary in 2018 at the time he pledged that he would not let cultural or political sensitivities get in the way

but victims say that the decision not to publish the probe's findings leaves them with many unanswered questions. 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 what happened why it's 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 tell about because if they didn't want us there was no we should they just release it so the fact that they're making excuses and i think is weak excuses well to say it's not a dowry chest so the fact that now and then it's a well actually we're not even good at least the standings. you know i think is a real blow to his victims we requested 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 in politicians. this report was promised to 15. and again they found them and just making excuses and the only 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 it's a cultural sensitivities i think it's fear of what they believe grace is and people in this country don't trust politicians and who without being able to see what's going on we don't know if we've been lied to again and that has to stop it and the political correctness of having these days 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 polls showing bernie sanders leaving and none of the states his race rivals are crying foul they lead to success is all part of a clever kremlin strategy art is all a quarter 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 today yesterday before. we're going to come in from learn to reprove.

through. sure how to do i want to do want 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 leak from the intelligence committee our house version and i think that they liked it i think probably ship rated 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 hatred 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 the order was to deny sanders deny but he broke under pressure blowing the cover of our moscow back to bernie bros i design these people they are not part of our movement

all of us remember 2016 and what we meant what we remember is efforts by russians and others to try to interfere in our election and divide us up i'm not saying that's happening but it would not shock me 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 to openly you know when fidel castro came into office you know what he did he had a massive literacy program is not a bad think it's only a matter of time before they discover the interview agent sanders gave to prague 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 1908 bernie spent his

honeymoon in there 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. bernie 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 running rule in politics pick your opponent and putin and trump are picking their opponent the happiest person right now it's about one in 15 moscow time this thing is going very well for i 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 and all of that might sound far fetched the phrase russian t.v. has been trending on twitter in the u.s.

that's after 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 than hillary clinton i have no doubt at all i 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 jeanne this is just wrong. and that 4 year old clip jane sanders is speaking to r.t. america anchor ed schultz prior to his work with our team hosted a show on one of the most pro-democratic news networks imus n.b.c. but long before his death in 2018 he revealed how his coverage of bernie sanders 2016 stab at the democratic nomination and ranged his bosses there.

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 fox m s n b c and c n n that was there a live coverage 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 of the room here you're not covering this now let me give you the opinion i think the clintons were connected to the lack connected at the hip i think that they didn't want anybody in their prime time or any anywhere in their line up supporting

bernie sanders i think that they were in the tank for hillary clinton and i think it was managed in 45 days later i was out of the miss and d.c. . still had 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 the break. people who have money in pension account people have money in 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 to more billionaires this is louis the $65.00 only living off the labor of the peasant.

the sole survivor. who can influence. the nature. of structures to break decided to show. some function so i hope for this to. welcome back one of bernie sanders opponents in the race for the democratic nomination joe biden is poised to win in the next primary in south carolina it

would be his 1st victory attracting votes though might not be biden's biggest problem. my job why don't the governor tragic and the united states senate look we over you like usually help out is not bowled really by give me a look though ok. proudest of. is getting past getting moved to getting control of the paris climate accord i'm a guy that came back after me we're done child pretty. my son one of. my deceased son was attorney general you know he states in the war that he was a federal prosecutor one of the largest offices in the country. in philadelphia.

it is important that on the ground and spoken. there flogging a dead horse or or 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 them up but he can't raise money he's putting all his hopes. on 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 oh 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 u.s. domestic phone calls between 200720198 was 1st exposed to the public by whistleblower edward snowden and it was aimed at preventing terror attacks in just the past 4 years the program has cost taxpayers $100000000.00 however major doubts have now been raised over the effectiveness of that program the new report reveals that in a 4 year period the program yielded only one significant investigation and moreover only twice in the last 4 years did it manage 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 it was 1st signed by president george w.

bush in the wake of the 911 attacks was that revised as a as the us 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 best of it of 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 see clearly that this was a fraud from the very beginning this was about power and money the power of the government control the american people and the money that the contractors that ran this program have made this based on faulty fear and that's the last line of defense of the united states all the 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 fear 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 hopefully this report will get the wide attention of

reserves so that's beginning people begin to question these false narratives of fear and why they need these kinds of $1000000000.00 programs that make them rich and keep them powerful but does nothing for the american people and in fact it invades their privacy in a complete violation of the constitution this report should hammer that home that this is a bogus program there is no national security at stake there is no reason for the government of 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 cracks a transition period it's facing a unique challenge to its economic future chlorinated tekken he 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 keep 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 the need british companies 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 but also in the wings is the u.s. which for years has tried and failed to get the e.u. should 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 net 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 restrict it has been dipped in chlorine no of course not you know you know what they're fried out here but the. if you're going to. give you more. we don't have no i definitely wouldn't eat it i just bought my chicken

there so they get there and welcome said he but you don't have to buy it so yeah i would advise yes but i think the problem is that people wouldn't necessarily know so a 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 all melba a potential deal with the u.s. the world's biggest economy and cheap chlorine chicken a foul conundrum for the u.k. government partridge. lastly let's turn to some news in brief from around the world there were fresh clashes between police and activists on the greek island of chios wednesday evening protesters opposing the creation of new refugee camps attempted to access the construction site and police responded with tear gas there's been an arrest across greek island since tuesday over the government's latest plans to handle migrants. towns and cities across britain are continuing to struggle with flooding resulting

from torrential storms and rain rivers have overflown and rule areas causing damage to homes infrastructure and farmland and as of thursday morning there are 92 flood warnings in place across england. meanwhile in the middle east the syrian army has liberated the key town of catherine bell and live province along with 15 other builders in the region that's according to syrian state media and this comes after turkey's president announced wednesday the country's forces will not retaliate. he also gave an ultimatum to damascus to retreat beyond turkish observation posts in syria. that's a news break down for this hour and that's all for me as well today but we're not neil harvey will be taking over and just about 30 minutes time thanks for tuning in wherever you may be.

same wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any new world that is yet to shape out does they become educated and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. nuclear become a battleground in the us in vermont people love demanding the shutdown of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no care power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limit this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it

moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy as are powerline with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways our struggle. max kaiser this is the kaiser report boy we've got a shocking story involving a french guy bernard arno when you get all of this well bernard know you know he owns f.e.m.a. choices luxury goods they do louis v. tahn and all these other luxury brands out of france i remember a few years ago a noted on burn down he was so generous and gave billions of dollars i want to look at this notion of these billionaires increasingly showering us deplorable zz with

their benevolent large ass right because bezos also recently he's now worth 130000000000 he recently gave 10000000000 he says towards climate change a few years ago about a decade ago it was mike it was microsoft's bill gates and warren buffett who were then worth about $40.00 to $60000000000.00 and they said we're going to give all of our wealth away to charity now they're each worth over 100000000000 and this is the process that we're always talking about about the cantillon effect all the money printing is going to these billionaires directly so we're going to show you how the cantle in effect it's not only help the billionaires but now the central banks are directly intervening and gifting these billionaires this money the e.c.b. bots l v m h bonds to finance tiffany acquisition are no is one of the richest men in the world e.c. bees q.e. is nots sold some bonds and apparently the e.c.b. is in the corporate.