oil prices plummet to saudi arabia values to step up production after russia's refusal to join an opec production cut it all comes in the wake of the coronavirus slashing the global demand for crude oil side to come the saudi criminal trial of the netherlands and the downing of the mh 17 passenger jet russia's foreign ministry though says the verdict is already decided and we speak to one of the women forcibly sterilized in south africa who only found out when she tried to get pregnant. for some reason for i mean only reason they just decided to move major is no woman deserves to go through what i am going to do and what you are all going to do it is when they will be able to relax.

that welcome just gone 3 o'clock in the afternoon here in moscow you will see international now world oil stocks are taking a heavy hit following the true producing countries to agree to production cuts as demand for oil falls saudi arabia has now said it will increase output so that's done a lot to the price of oil today it's damaged it significantly don't courses here to talk more just tell us about the latest state of the markets well andy the markets are going way down since monday's opening asia's markets have seriously plunged to european and american futures are in freefall and oil prices have seen their sharpest drop since the 1st gulf war in 1901 so it's not exactly a good situation sure and it's all been sort of painted on an argument between saudi arabia and russia just expand on that yeah exactly basically it started with i mean a price wars. the raging right now between saudi arabia and russia started over the

weekend when riyadh which runs the world's largest oil company cut the price of a barrel of oil between between $6.00 and $8.00 that's something that would have serious economic consequences for russia of course which is the world's 2nd largest crude oil producer of course the saudis know that but decided to pursue this policy anyway and france is already calling on the kingdom to coordinate with the with the international community on making these oil prices and some experts are even saying that this move by saudi arabia constitutes an economic policy of scorched earth. we believe the opec and russia oil price war on equivocally started this weekend when saudi arabia aggressively cut the relative price which is sells its crude by the most at least 20 years this has turned into a scorched earth approach by saudi arabia in particular to deal with the problem of chronic over production the saudis are the lowest cost producer by far. now how did

we get to this point well last week opec had a meeting with russia to discuss an agreement that would lower the global oil production by 1500000 barrels a day and amidst this this is amidst of course a big worldwide drop in demand which is linked to the coronavirus hysteria and everything but moscow rejected this deal they said that these higher prices would give expensive american shale oil production an advantage over its competitors and the western media has already jumped in to say that russia's defense of its own interest here is actually the reason for this in suing economic crisis so all this put all this basically put an end to 3 long years of cooperation between opec and russia. on supplying oil to the world it's unfortunate but by standing its ground moscow believes that it will be better it will be better equipped to challenge the interests of international us oil ok question of who blinks 1st i suppose at this

stage than just on the. quarter thank you. analysts come out was made to tell us that riyadh has made this area full. this agreement between the between the increasing oil production of the shelagh shale all all together was some miscalculation on the sood use part probably have been learned from the mistake very made way back. maybe 56 years we're all. increasing production harmed their economy today would probably be making the same mistake i think even the us will be harmed by this drawback but in the. thing or. to all probably really negotiate their position of the need to bring stability to the market. criminal trial into the downing of the mh 17 passenger plane opens on monday almost 6 years after the malaysian airlines flight

was shot down over ukraine killing all 298 people on board a subsequent probe allege that a missile which hit the plane was transported from russia the probe has been heavily criticized as biased by some charlatans could report from the netherlands. it's a trial it's set to last more than a year 3 russians and the ukrainian are accused of helping to bring a book missile launch from russia into eastern ukraine where it fired the fatal shot that brought down the boeing 777 the 4 suspects are not charged with personally firing the missile the men all deny the charges international arrest warrants have been issued for them but they won't be here and will be tried in absentia some of those that we expect to be here are 13 secret witnesses who say dentists are being protected and that's because dutch prosecutors say they face

significant risks to safety but even before the court has heard a single argument some treating. trial as a story that already has no stone left unturned brushes probably involved and if involved they're probably going to cover it up with 51 percent say russians and directly involved are right now it looks like it's russia's fault because. it's russia's fault. it's clear some don't need to wait for any court verdict to draw up their own conclusions russia claims this kind of coverage has a clear intention media complying in the bit of media campaign has taken an unprecedented scale it shows how russia and its citizens are presumed guilty that is an acceptable it has been launched in the last few days prior to the hearings in order to compensate for existing gaps in the evidence and to conceal the attempts to manipulate the facts so that it fits with a chosen theory that prosecutors say they have evidence that the book

a missile system was transported from russia into the donetsk region of ukraine in the days before it was fired now russia says that's not true it's presented evidence that the fatal missile serial number can be traced all the way back to the 980 s. when it says it was transported to ukraine then a member of the soviet union and it's there it stayed after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. but the joint investigation team into the mh 17 tragedy has russia says ignored what it believes is a crucial piece of the jigsaw russia was also refused full participation in the probe and as such says it will not recognize the verdict reached here by the court despite the fact russia was denied being a full participant of the joint investigation team since the very 1st day of the tragedy the russian federation has actively assisted the investigation and during the past year is conveyed to a dutch colleagues

a large amount of data connected with the mh 17 crash unfortunately most of these materials were ignored by the joint investigation team this includes a test by the book of money for. sure to try and pinpoint the location it was shot from. russia claims that test shows the missile i likely came from an area controlled by ukrainian forces but the findings were jacketed by the j.i.t. with its report stating that russia and ukrainian rebels were responsible. for that r.c. we have established that the russian federation was complicit in the downing of m h 17 because they made available the weapon that was used to shoot down the plane we have all the material to substantiate that the official investigation also received criticism from malaysia 43 malaysians died in the catastrophe which

involved the country's national carrier but your thought is there were not given full access to essential information that was contained in the black box of the flight recorders while the countries now former prime minister has raised doubts from the very beginning. the idea was to find old. seem to be content. to be on russia many relatives of those who were killed in the mh 17 disaster are expected to be present at the trial this is a court case about finding the truth and perhaps finding closure for a devastating chapter of their lives some have already crane for not closing it skies over a conflict zone in the east of the country but whatever the outcome here regardless

of whether the 4 men are found guilty or innocent nothing will ever bring back their loved ones. ski. schools a south african women were sterilized without their consent to public hospitals that is the finding of a disturbing new report we spoke to one of the victims who discovered her uterus had been removed 11 years later when she tried to get pregnant 1st tour of the baby was too big and they had to perform am a c. section i remember when i walked up i asked them why they have reached by mitch or my family then they explained that the b. was too big and then 26 to make good engaged after trying for about 4 to 5 months our. without me being able to conceive with any thought or see a doctor i really just thought it was just my land and fertility issues dr will

prescribe medication opera fine and when it goes there that's when i learned that i didn't have the terrorists at all i don't think there was anything wrong with me i didn't have any complications before birth and i didn't have any complications after birth for some reason for i'm known reason they just decided to move my uterus i'm seeing it and non-greasy in because as i'm sitting here at this moment i don't know why i was leading this to alive when i met with dr ed ridge who confirmed that he was there when the procedure happened he also could not give me the answer all you could say to me was that they did the operation to save my life i don't know to save my life from white. well the study by the commission for gender equality investigated complaints from 48 victims south africa source sterilization as the way to fight h.i.v. and hospital staff did for some of the women to sign consent forms but according to

the world health organization south africa is suffering from the world's biggest h.i.v. epidemic more than 4000000 women are positive and according to the study illegal sterilization was carried out in 15 public hospitals between 20022005 the study was complicated by the fact that the hospital staff did try to hide documentation however the victim we spoke to says that she was not even a child the positive. i'm not any positive our high. offices they're quite aware of this and i'll say this in camera they are quite aware of the practice and you know doing anything new i mean is being held accountable it seems like our doctors of the law i didn't sign any paper and i couldn't have signed it because at that time i was a minor and my mom who was there with me all the time also didn't sign any consent form no woman deserves to go through what i am going through what and why to are

all going through as literally glister lives i do not want my daughter to be singing the same song that i'm singing today because the time bearable or the pain that comes with this it's a it's unbearable and most of all rights violated my rights as a human being we're violated my rights as a woman and were violated ted my reproduction right were taken away from me and no woman ever in south africa should go through what we are going through we have contacted south africa's health authorities for response on the story and we'll let you know when we get a reply in the meantime the health minister there has stated he does want an urgent investigation into the issue. still ahead for you this hour it is 75 years since the u.s. bombed tokyo when the deadliest there right in history after the break we asked people in america and japan whether whether they even know about what happened.

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a little bit politics sports business i'm sure. i'll see you then. welcome back monday does mark the 75th anniversary of the us firebombing of tokyo the deadliest air raid in history it resulted in around 100000 civilian deaths a number comparable to the atomic bombing of hiroshima the same year however the reports it's an atrocity that many have forgotten. america's use of atomic bombs at hiroshima and nagasaki is common knowledge however there are other atrocities from that historical period that have slipped out of the memory monday marks the 75th

anniversary of the united states launching bombing raids against tokyo. u.s. officials knew full well that many civilians would die and that did not deter them flying fortresses will be dispatched immediately to send the people cities of japan on fire that won't be any hesitation about bombing civilians it will be all out the idea was to demoralize the japanese population by inflicting death and misery on an unimaginable scale the bombs that were used or incendiary and a city made mostly of wooden structures caught fire rather quickly you're going to deliver the biggest fine crack of the japanese have ever seen major general curtis

lemay the mastermind behind the operation said that the victims were scorched boiled and burned to death the usa went on to use this tactic of massive bombing of civilian areas in both korea and vietnam 75 years later do americans have any knowledge of this atrocious act of war let's find out on the biggest bombing raids i know her russia and nagasaki were nuclear bombs there were 2 hiroshima noon actually it was the tokyo bombing raid in 145 that had the highest death toll is not the tokyo but you know the thing about we often don't think of the crimes committed by our own side during the war why is that because americans don't do anything wrong when wonderful we never torture anybody we don't waterboard which is the wonderful loving people who believes everything. no government tells us the people who decided at the end of politicians they just take it and say ok. we might lose

a lot of civilians or whatever and they still do it because for damn power is more important than what than the people former us president barack obama visited her roshumba and nagasaki tacitly acknowledged differend this impact of using nuclear weapons there was some survivors however those who did not perish in the tokyo bombing raids have been widely ignored so i know about the bombing of tokyo on the night of the 10th of march but only from history books honestly i don't know anything about the bombing of tokyo i know the bombing of tokyo but i'm surprised that it's already been 75 years i was parents and grandparents never told us about it so we only know what we learned from t.v. and newspapers i don't think there's enough attention being paid to this in our education in japan. i know about the bombing of tokyo but i have forgotten the exact date but i think the media should tell us more about this tragedy not just about hiroshima and nagasaki. from

a theoretical point of view i see why the americans thought this was a price worth paying to end the war but personally speaking i'll never be able to accept this as 820-0000 people were killed including women and children on the only sad the very few people in the west seem to remember the suffering and innocent victims of that war it's exploited the people there remember only these tummy bombs dropped on japan now there is no consensus among historians about whether this massive bombing was actually necessary in order to defeat japan however it is widely acknowledged that massive death and civilian casualties on such a scale should not be forgotten caleb martin artsy new york. the latest survey by the group called the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america has revealed. an appalling level of suicidal sentiment among service members the study shows almost half of had suicidal thoughts since joining the military and

around 2 thirds do you know veterans who've killed themselves iraq war veteran and to war activists for instance emanuel says he's not surprised most of the veterans that i know i think have indeed had those thoughts and i think. your mindset changes quite dramatically. throughout your service said i think after being deployed and especially if you. had seen or experienced combat and i think. after those deployments and deploy multiple occasions i think all of this plays a factor in whether or not. the turns are more prone to commit suicide to become violent to become addicted to drugs or alcohol the people come home and lives in relationships and families are put under incredible stress because people are coming home and after having experienced all of those horrific things often turn to very destructive behavior to cope with those things. where almost 40 percent of

that friends also report a lack of job opportunities after they leave military service military veterans say they face a loss of purpose they struggle with reintegration into the community endorse a normal social interaction health problems and getting treatment issues vincent emanuel again says they getting active was globally would help. the u.s. government unfortunately is not doing enough the us government has done more over the years the veterans administration is in much better shape today than it was 15 years ago when i 1st started using it but that's not because the government took it upon themselves to do it it's because thousands of veterans and family members of veterans stood up and fought for those things and of course the wars continue to go on so we need to deescalate all of the current wars we need to withdraw from

afghanistan completely we need to withdraw from iraq we need to withdraw from syria we need to withdraw from libya we need to withdraw forces from somalia and all over africa. and that would be the best 1st step if we don't the the best thing you can do for veterans is to not create more veterans. from 3 election campaign has filed a 3rd or 3rd lawsuit against us media in just 2 weeks the president's team is now a king c.n.n. a false and defamatory statements about alleged russian support for the upcoming vote his campaign has already sued the washington post and the new york times or legal actions are calling for millions of dollars in damages. takes a look now at this 2nd wave of russian meddling hysteria around the 2020 lections. this is it we've got to make up our minds on what the hell is going on i that putin

is a demigod of chaos so necessary a so evil level and he puts the joke at the shame or left wing media is clinically insane you decide the president is a russian operative that sounds like the description of a bad hollywood screenplay but it is real and trump are picking their opponent this is not what we what the tea. it person suddenly has got all of our political class every single one of us including the media exactly where he wants one publication decided that this level of crazy isn't koku nuff they ventured to google where new one has gone before and blame russia for everything not sure what to believe being go the fever of mistrust is the desired symptom of a powerful virus a confidence sucking worm of mutual suspicion that russia has planted in the operating system of american democracy whenever an american disagrees with another

american a russian but is behind it the washington post has reimagined history they suggest that democrats and republicans haven't actually disliked each other for decades haven't tried to impeach each other and barassi each other smear each other for decades that putin made them hate each other apparently washington post has never seen american news they don't need putin to confuse voters the new york times says let's call the disease the trump virus to which i say let's rename dimentia the new york times do you see any thing except trump on these other cable networks flow networks though you and i think you know i don't and i think it's a real disservice to american people c.n.n. and the times can't be trusted on any topic because they're derived filter spits out the same answer on everything orange man bad see journalists working for old

publications like to think they're better than you smarter more righteous that you are really it's who need to be 3rd what to believe in they don't see you as equal they are elite you know what i think donald trump has cast himself in this remarkable he's running against the elite. the elites include the leaders the republican party the new york times a new york times these elites have fed you russia gate for years when you came out and said he found no evidence of trump colluding with russia did they apologize of course not elites don't apologize in the words of the washington post it's not very fault they told you lies it's russia's it's simple logic putin wants the divide america the washington post others actually divided america but it isn't their

fault it's putin's because he wanted it the us has divisions because it's one of the least equitable societies on earth in terms of economic disparities to blame such things on russia it does at least 2 things one it prevents us from looking at ourselves and our own problems but also creates tensions with russia another nuclear power unnecessarily and i think of this russia's scapegoating is ridiculous talk about this information the steel dossier you know the one about trumped the p and the prostitutes which the media discussed for years despite it being obviously fake the washington post now blames russia for it russia they say was behind the 90 russian dossier the reason that makes no sense to you is because you are not arrogant enough and could admit to making a mistake at leats they caught the dossiers author chris steel has also resurfaced

and he's upset not because he root a fake dossier but because no one took it seriously this is the kind of ara gance these people are infected with i was surprised that very little of what i had discussed appeared in the final miller report the reality check is that russia is the host style. state as it is run of the moment it is out to destabilise the west ultimately elite ism is incurable it's critic and the severity of symptoms is variable my only hope is the next time a washington post journalist catches something with his zipper he doesn't blame putin for it but it's a small hope the papers generally represent the elite and they don't generally represent elite opinion just repeat the claims of our political leaders

without question or comment in serving they have helped manufacture this russia gate hysteria. brings you up to date that's how things are looking so far today here in r.t. we're back again at the top of. a fairly super cool porsche with all the little tractor and news new york at the sun in china to start with and shirtless with a cheat a quick look you feel and i missed these for a while for your program now don't i do it is maybe i'm focused but i will push the thoughts of could or should i mean to tell us no. good answer since. yes.

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