is here. to be reached. play paid to die a german courts repeals a 5 year old assisted suicide service is sparking fears of an exploitative trade in the. u.k. government withholds the findings of an investigation into grooming gangs claiming it's not in the public interest to get a reaction from a survivor of sexual abuse. i think it's disgusting it's yeah it's definitely in the public scene chest but you have thousands of children that. rivals through bernie sanders in the race for the democratic u.s. presidential nomination resort to the 2016 playbook suggesting that he's backed by russia and that's the phrase russian t.v. trends on twitter told r.t.

interview with his wife resurfaces. good afternoon to you thanks for joining us here on r.t. . germany's top courses lifted a ban on commercial euthanasia services critics are warning the right to die will now be exploited for profit peter all of it takes a closer look at the ruling and the reaction it triggered it. 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 college shura 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 day could also stop being saying 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 the society's economized design as 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 would 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 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 it 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 this i don't 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 finger 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 set to become a business opportunity peter all of a see. we put the issue applied to banks with alice to thompson from the can not killing alliance talk to rob junk from the will federation of right to die societies have a soul leaves wrong germany's left party. we would be extremely worried about any commercialization or run of the process or into a promotion that would lead to many fine reports of people feeling that their lives were not worth living and actually ending them prematurely your posing. as

a business or a business model but you don't as he is only only question of the person i was going to die they've dispersed and he's not asking for it there will be any euthanasia but we're talking about a very different thing here decision was a commercial assisted suicide this isn't a louse commercial provide us to provide suicide assistance like make gods of suicides is sort of the objects tool to talking about mcdonalds giving suicide to assistance some people do not want to wait with their dying till they're finally suffering too much and they want to keep the addicted t. by deceit ruling from the court it is possible for present persons to ask a professional to give a proper medically assisted suicide and i think death is a great game this. is and it is perfectly normal for people who have

a terminal diagnosis to feel suicidal 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 and. 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 withholding research on gangs that groom victims for sex it was commissioned after a spate of child exploitation scandals his own home office explained its decision to sit on the findings. we recognise that this topic in general and any insight and

learning a 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 survivors of abuse at the hands of british grooming gangs have accused officials of inaction and empty promises we spoke to one of them. i met my me church when i was 14 he was 24 years old and he was known to. be a very dangerous person i was abused mentally physically and sexually and also into committing crimes so it's well and that's another part that's one teacher that many victims i'm so i have been subjected to i went to the police when i was 16 and nothing happened unfortunately but again i went to the police when i think about 27 years old and i didn't feel to impart it again so i contacted a journalist from a newspaper and i told him i was in that happened and i gave him a lot sedition you know pieces of evidence to prove what happened i mean publish my

story you know there's 2013 and it was actually because of that where the criminal investigation into that we started it. so 900000 suspected victims of child sexual exploitation were reportedly identified by local authorities in 28000 to 19 that's a huge increase some 5 years earlier the u.k. government's found to take action to investigate and prevent such crimes from happening and of us to go into the problem of grooming gangs was announced job it when he was british home secretary in 22 he plays that he would not let cultural political sensitivities get in the way the victim so the decision not to publish the probe's findings that leaves them with many unanswered questions. i think is a disgusting decision it is definitely in the public's interest you have thousands of children that have being abused really exploited. and into crime so sexual

acts and we want to know why this is what happened why it still happening a why these people would be allowed to get away with it there is clearly something in that report that the government doesn't want is to know about because if they didn't want us there is no issue they just release it so the fact that they're making excuses and he's proud weak excuses well it's not a dowry chest so the fact that now are going to say well actually we're not even good at least. you know i think it's a real blow to us as victims. we request a comment from the u.k. home office we await their reply was to get reaction from child protection activists tony bugel he says the decision will undermine trust in politicians. this report was promised to fit. and again they found them and just think that 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 stop grace ism people in this country don't trust politicians and he will without being able to see what's going on we don't know if we're being lied to again and now and then that has to stop it and the political correctness of having this this we fear a backlash world you know what we fear girls being right. next week is super tuesday when u.s. democrats in 14 states choose their preferred candidate for president but with the latest polls showing bernie sanders leading in 9 of those states this race rivals a crying foul they allege his success is all part of a clever kremlin strategy for one 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 tonight and today and yesterday the day before is going to have we're going to war help coming from learn to be prudent. through. your health provider to do want somebody who didn't think can 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 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 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 and 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 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 15 moscow time this thing is going very well for blatter we have to promise you. probably stay up watching us right now how you doing our rivals already know too much comrade commissar i think it's time to extract our agents and while this might sound a little farfetched 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 the. 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. in the 4 year old clip jane sundress is speaking to r.t. america chills his work with hosted a show on one of the most pro-democrat news networks m s n b c a long before his death in 2018 he revealed how his coverage of bernie sanders 2016 bid for the democratic nomination has enraged his bosses that they're pretty annoyed 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 there a live coverage there were

a lot of cameras there but we had coordinated with the cinders campaign that at 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 any were 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 mess and b.c. . another democratic candidate is poised to school his 1st win in the primaries in south carolina and some fear he's losing something that story after the break.

to. put themselves on the line big. except the reject. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to be close it's like that before 3 in the morning can people get. interested always in the waters about how. things should. see environments that's also very important. to us who can influence. the nature and. structures to break decided to some extent. some function so i hope for the

best of. goodman faces on being its wings clipped upon the e.u. over its hopes of securing a new trade deal with the blog and because of america's love for clearing one thing it's chicken partners expects. 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 nic 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. 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 into main treatment while farmers leaders think it should 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 got to be visiting every night and consume chicken anymore thus not read any of their. no i definitely wouldn't eat it i just had that chastened by my cheek in there so they get taken up 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 london. meanwhile the e.u. is reportedly considering its own deal with the u.s. to reduce the rise ation time needed for imports of genetically modified products from america. there is probably scope for store through isolations to address management level scientifically shortening the time of the risk assessment is not an option under the current legislation the lengthy e.u. approval process and resulting asynchronous approvals has resulted in annual loss of approximately $2000000000.00 per year to u.s. agriculture we currently authorization of g.m.o. imports to the union takes more than 4 years but this could apparently be reduced to just 2 and this with apply to some $30000000.00 tons of animal feed each year including so it beings which mostly come from the americas. i

live on the line now by robert the characters executive and scientific director of the n.-g. o. a lion sfard natural health international welcome robert how likely would you say it is of the e.u. will accelerate this authorization of u.s. genetically modified products in order to get a secured trade agreement. well i think it's probably there's going to be pressure on both sides i mean there's been a push me pull you currently there are 18 e.u. member states that. utilize the opt out provisions within the law that was brought in in 2015 meaning that even if there is a lot you authorization 'd they won't allow that crop to be grown so there is a big tussle between what the european commission wants in order to. effectively increase its power as a major world trading block and also what individual member states ones who are

obviously concerned very much about environmental impacts and also the continuing demand from european consumers not to consume and certainly in the in the human food chain g.m.o. products if the trade agreement is secured what impact in real terms would it have on farming the fig chain. well you know the big difference between europe and north america is that farm sizes are much smaller so one of the big issues that farming groups and environmental groups continue to push for very good reason is this theoretical 'd idea of coexist so it's more or less impossible to expect a farmer to be able to not worry about. cross contamination from g m o's and essentially that's one of the and the. 27

states so far is largely saying that's actually move forward with or a g.m. conservation agenda and part of the reason for that is that spain is more isolated from the other more landlocked european countries. is there a contradiction here here an element to to see what your opinion is because you got the e.u. telling the the u.k. they need to maintain a ban on us chlorinated chicken imports but at the same time they're looking to relax their own rules when it comes to genetically modified products in a contradiction there or not these different issues well it's a contradiction it's a conflict that the reality is that there's this complex interplay between multiple issue economic someone hound protectionism on another and then there's the consumer perception or what happens when you consume g m o's or korean watch chickens very real issues around food safety and of course animal well and and many people are

also looking at you know what are these animals being. u.k. has you know in the in many areas poultry. and farming for example has led the world and so has an animal welfare standards in order to suddenly start doing deals with the u.s. it could mean a dramatic decline in those those standards at the same time british people have always favored cheap food opening the doors to u.s. produce and we've seen how the battles have played out around. you know texan or moan will be you know will we decide that going for cheap food is actually preferable and will put aside our concerns on animal welfare it's a difficult interplay. sunny who has its own rules on genetically modified products

but as i believe some countries including spain. they still engage in some genetic modification practices of the route i don't know how they quite monies that within the e.u. framework but how does the e.u. view these products does it say genetically modified food such as harmful or not or you see that you've got. derived what's happening from a scientific risk assessment process obviously the european food safety authority in italy has been responsible for scientific opinions and once they give a green light it then goes to the risk management process with the member states and the european commission to determine whether that particular genetically modified crops should go onto the e.u. register and of course there has been a steady increase although it has been slow and far too slow for the via technology industry. in crops that would be in

a lot the difficulty is once you get through that door or risk assessment and risk management you you still got 18. majority of e.u. member states that are saying we don't want to cultivate these particular crops you know on our land because they're concerned about coexistence contamination and everything else now we also have a climate crisis and is it feasible in a climate crisis to continue growing g.m.o. crops in south america north america shipping them over eating into our laws and most of the cheap animal food in europe 85 percent of the compas that animal see that's going into the animal food supply is already g.m.o. coming vast distances from from the americas robert patient your time thanks so much for coming on our t.v. of attacking sect of a scientific director of the alliance for natural health international. thank you

so much. lead in front of this hour a key opponent of any sunday's in the race for the democratic nomination is poised to win the next primary in south carolina a base for scouts but attracting votes might not be biden's biggest problem. my name's joe biden i'm a governor drive a candidate for the united states senate look over here like ridge the help out is not going to buy give me a look though ok. proudest of. is jenny past getting moved to getting control of the paris climate accord i'm a guy that came back after media were done child 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 i wonder brad unspoken. 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 mad. time before he offends those voters with making some horrible misstatement oh it's time for him to step aside. with a place for you at home for the see that. counted more kids down 3 days in a row this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss i've been swan and i'm christiane washington coming up markets are reacting as more than 80 people in new york are being quarantined over fears of the coronavirus we have a live apart one with markets what is the near future in the.