it's tuesday morning on r.t. international questions are raised over the billions in tax dollars being pumped by the u.s. into the. ranks seeing big pharma firms. huge profits and some people left out. italy faces a fresh crisis as a spike in migrant arrivals over crowds quarantined on the island of lampedusa where authorities say the situation's become a public health nightmare. the city of seattle plans are underway to downsize the local police department replacing some of its functions by community led initiatives to a backlash among those who support the force and get reaction from a former officer your kids have a socialist candy shop. they see the opportunity and they're seizing it to get

their ideology across they're not really thinking ahead as to what the ramifications are going to be for having civilians here boulder police. good morning thanks for joining us this is international. now with the number of infections topping 18000000 worldwide the race for a vaccine is intensifying the world health organization as a people to manage their expectations we all hope to have a number of effective vaccine to start could help prevent people from infection however the reason or silver bullet at the moment there might never be. the hardest hit country in the world is the united states which is registered almost $5000000.00 cases it's pumping huge sums into funding a vaccine but if one has found it may prove out of reach for those who can't afford

it on the scale of morgan explains the cost of the pandemic in terms of american lives has been high so now the american taxpayer is footing the bill for a vaccine that promises to end the crisis it's been dubbed operation warp speed by donald trump $10000000000.00 of taxpayer money has been pumped into big pharma corporations they are said to be hard at work trying to find a cure for coded $19.00 we hope that as the time we get into the late for an early winter we will have in fact a vaccine that we can say would be safe and effective it seems like a great new on the face of it. however big pharma doesn't seem to be willing to abandon its shareholders in this time of great public need one leading u.s. corporation modernity incorporated reportedly pitched the vaccine at $50.00 to $60.00

per shot with 2 shots required some say they are not surprised and we have seen in the past that the pharmaceutical companies have overcharged has higher price so why in the world would we imagine that they would make it affordable but they are not all singing the same tune drug giant johnson and johnson which has received over $600000000.00 in taxpayer money says it's committed to providing the vaccine at no profit during the emergency pandemic period but this thinking is far from universal the c.e.o. of pfizer says that he thinks it's pretty unrealistic to think that big pharma want to profit from the pandemic. i think it's very wrong you need to be very fanatic and radical to say something like that right now who's finding a solution the private sector found the solution to diagnostics and the private sector found the solution to therapeutics and is along the way to find most nations therapeutics and vaccines so how can you say something like that doesn't make sense

people are working in the science laboratory working and they should be paid for their labor nothing is free someone paid for it you know the government by taxes or the pharmaceutical industry by you know putting their money and their time and talent to develop this tax scene they have to recoup it but clearly there's got to be that balance between sri which is not reasonable and very very expensive it was really prioritized things so we should take care of who's at risk the elderly the sick if you had chemotherapy or your heart disease or morbid obesity those people should get the care 1st someone like me or perhaps early younger they don't need it because the likelihood if you dani is incredibly low i mean if you want to get it fine but the 1st people should be the ones at risk and this is like 3 hours you can't fix everybody take care of those who are sickest 1st and that's reasonable. as

a vaccine is pretty essential for some to return to normality c.e.o.'s are looking at their stock margins and their bank accounts. but there's another side to this is well who foots the bill for any side effects or any damage that's done who is liable across the atlantic astra zeneca the 2nd largest drugmaker in the united kingdom also sponsored by the united states says that it has been granted exemptions from product liability claims in most countries

in the contracts we have in place we are asking for indemnification for most countries it is acceptable to take that risk on their shoulders because it is in their national interests the race for a covert vaccine is a life saving endeavor but when you're in business profits erkki and even at a time like this big companies are not forgetting that it was martin r.t. new york. an italian island is running out of space to house migrants after a surge in sea crossings from tunisia at least $250.00 arrived on the producer in small boats over the weekend bypassing at least coronavirus travel restrictions arrivals are being quarantined for 14 days and the discourse severe overcrowding at detention centers making social distancing impossible to enforce allen's main holding centers now running at about 10 times capacity local officials have asked the government to send a ferry to use a lockdown facility and the lampedusa mayor says the situation has become critical

. but the migrant center is completely closed now there is no longer any space for people in facilities so therefore we need to transfer after we will wait for the next boat arriving at lampedusa and then completely clear out the facilities so we can have a chance for thorough cleanup because honestly it's under severe pressure right now . meanwhile france and the u.k. are trading accusations after a record number of illegal channel crossings over the past week london and paris to adopt a tougher stance and stop the migrant boats before they set sail for the united kingdom and the charlotte even ski has more. this small boat is powering its way towards the english coast aboard off 5 migrants hoping to make the u.k. that final destination seems like this becomes common with illegal migrant crossings opening this channel already said to be a wreck or. now there are warnings that they could reach crisis

levels exacerbating tensions between london and paris the number of illegal small boat crossings we are seeing from france is unacceptably high and migrants continue to arrive in cali to make the crossing the french have to take tougher action those tough words came off to the interior ministers of both countries signed an agreement to create a new joint police intelligence unit the idea is to combat migrant traffickers and reduce the number of illegal channel forcings but so far it doesn't seem to be working just last week unwanted records were broken in a single day more than 200 migrants managed to make the crossing making it safely to the beaches at kent before being intercepted by british border force patrols the good weather and calm conditions are said to be aiding arrivals.

going in the english channel this afternoon over 3700 so far this year i expect august to be even bigger as the government is doing nothing one woman head of the u.k. border force says all illegal migrants need to be returned to france. if they want to come to the u.k. they need to make their case on the french side and if they are found in the waterways we've make it is far as dover will say i'm sorry but you go back there and that's where you will be interviewed and processed on the french side others warn the increasing crossings is due to french. police run thing up a vixens at micro camps around the port coulée us more anguish through refugees in cali as if they were just once again clear settlements force people on to boston and drive them to distant nations are known the british home office says any illegal migrants will be interviewed and deported where appropriate the french are

also intercepting some illegal crossings but plenty are still slipping through what is clear is that despite joint cooperation to deal with illegal crossings the problem not only persists but it could actually be getting worse so let's even ski ot see paris this government should get a cut from the sale and set a date of around september 15th at which point it's going to be out of business in the united states but if somebody whether it's microsoft or somebody else buys it that will be interesting i did say. if you buy it whatever the price is that goes to whoever owns it because i guess it's china essentially but more than anything else i said a very substantial portion of the price is going to have to come into the treasury of the united states. microsoft or so that is looking to acquire to operations in

the canada australia new zealand the social media platform has been valued at $50000000000.00 by some investors and as we just heard the could be banned from the u.s. if a deal with microsoft isn't concluded by mid september the terms of ministration is longer queues the company sharing its user data with the chinese government an allegation denied by tick-tock on the americas rick sanchez and guest discussed the issue. of years we've heard that chinese tech companies were stealing our secrets and now we're hearing that kind of goes both ways in reality is these things go both ways. trade wars and sunshines and. our swords. just. feels the edge now all the chinese side all the war by the way just join. the boot drive. always goes to the top of. 1 the white house

microsoft collaborate to buy a company the themselves have done well not to. go to. the same curious doesn't it but the that it states or the white house in cooperation with microsoft would seemingly ban a company and then have microsoft come in and buy it is it protectionist it is an area of protection s. and i think that this was the only way that the that they were able they were able to issue this ban on tech because when china decided to ban facebook they did that also under the guise of national security and it was also a very protectionist move but they banned facebook early on before facebook was able to gain any traction with n. china so by banning facebook there wasn't a huge uproar from the community banning take doc in the u.s. at this current day and age when everybody is joining at calvary just joined in it already when so many people are already on the platform and their revenue streams to all of these individuals who are take that is huge you're taking away and income

source to all of these creators we keep seeing these stories that seem to allude to the fact that we're violating the same free market principles that we accuse them of. jurors on the gargantuan level the biggest manufacturer or in the world isn't going to change much more sinister by the way would be if the u.s. and not just the drug price the microsoft could buy more would be piracy break in great not capitalism how do chinese citizens see are we the cheaters in their eyes as we're told in our media that there are cheaters in our lives in this case absolutely because this is actually the 1st. and you have a chinese social media platform grow and outpace us technology social media such as twitter instagram and facebook and that's a scary thing for the u.s. because that means that they have fallen behind in payments they have fallen behind in the quarter currency wars they fall behind in 5 g. as we've spoken so much before and the u.s.

is finding themselves in a very uncomfortable situation which is why they kind of have to kind of steel take talkback to america and that is the way that a lot of chinese people are viewing this one that they're viewing it as the u.s. is stealing technology that is homegrown and idea that was made in china but also on the flip side of it a lot of chinese locals are also very angry at the c.e.o. for now bowing to the u.s. them by under pressure. it's been 2 years since 3 sisters were arrested in moscow and challenge with the premeditated killing of the father the case of christina. widespread media attention with the public divided over their actions charges against the 2 elder sisters will now be examined by a jury with the case of the youngest really being reviewed by the court separately . there is across the story. a story so it couldn't be true and yet also so it was hard to believe it could have been made up the story of the hot

story on sisters has whipped people across russia. but now you. will see the eldest sisters try to fight they face charges of premeditated murder and if found guilty could spend. hears behind bars as for the youngest who was 17 at the time when she was deemed mentally incapable of committing murder so will stand trial separately facing a 10 year sentence busy. they had a plan we think they had an ax to grind they wanted money everything that belonged

to make iowa would go to them and we would do it girls feel the same as in previous days they are ready for the trial they're ready to see justice they suffered mental trauma due to their father's actions but recently they've been interacting with therapists they've received tell you so now there is nothing to prevent them from taking part in the trial or during the long entangled pretrial investigation stories and footage of the father's systematic abuse and marched psychologist say all the young women suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. he started sheraton and certitude kill us all she took a gun beat mom 1st then hit me with a bunch of the gun she's been arrested in june and she wants to hope she can say anything to him she only agrees to everything she is afraid of me though because he knows i will not be silent i will beat you up. your prostitutes new guys

prostitutes this case has become a sensation here in russia and sparked a heated debate about domestic violence legislation to protect its victims and the line between self defense and for a recent survey prove just how to fight this story is with 41 percent supporting the sisters and 29 percent condemning them almost 400000 people have also signed a petition demanding their release as well as calling for the father to be posthumously charged for his crimes people are also taking to the streets determined to. tell them they're. not on. the public outcry was so strong in fact that last year the prosecutor general

pushed for the charges to be downgraded to self-defense so that was laid to revive premeditated murder was put on the table something that has been welcomed by the late father's relatives who argue that the goals are not innocent which was not we welcome the course decision and have no fear the jury won't believe very far it fakes were leaked to the press you know we don't think there was any cruelty it was very he was a man of discipline and he wanted to raise goes with the kids themselves according to the examination of the history and sisters are a danger to society and i am scared of the young girls and you know with the trial before a jury now set to move forward all eyes will be following the fate of 3 young women who one night 2 years ago desperately committed continues to shop to rise people. for the u.s. seals the deal with poland to boost its troop presence in european country after relations with germany so we'll be speaking to our correspondent in berlin about

after the break. seemed wrong. just told. me. to shape out. and in again it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

you can't be both with the yeah you're right. welcome back in the u.s. seattle mike is an express their intention to abolish part of the city's police department and replace it with a brand new civilian led public safety system it's a response to the ongoing black lives months of protests around the proposed police divestment plan contains a number of key points it aims we juicing the budgets of the local police department i'm removing certain functions from law enforcement on top of that it in visions the creation of a department of community safety and violence prevention some locals are unhappy

about the idea that on saturday there was a peaceful rally against it outside seattle city hall protesters voiced their support to the police and denounce the campaign to defund law enforcement agencies across the country the demonstrators carried us flags and placards with messages such as protect our police and by the blink thief pumper a member of the national police association and i retired officer himself says the local authorities have no idea what consequences that plans could have. this point these gentle city council is like your kids are a socialist candy shop. they see their opportunity and they're seizing it to get their ideology across and they're not really thinking ahead as to what the ramifications are going to be for having civilians handle what are all these calls we've been. training police officers at police academies based on information and science that's been studied you know over decades and we're refining it as we go along and police work obviously isn't perfect it's never going to be perfect or we

strive to make it better. you know they they think they can look at a call afterwards and say oh well look at this the police didn't need a gun they didn't use use force when we go to a call we don't know we're not going to need to use force or need a gun until after the calls already done sometimes uses of force and even lethal force happen on calls where you least expect it. if you don't states and poland finalized the new defense deal on monday and now an additional $1000.00 u.s. military personnel will be deployed to poland to get more now from our correspondent based in berlin peter all of us across the surface peter take us through the details of this deal place. yes washington and warsaw of put pen to paper on on and how the defense cooperation agreement is the way that they're calling it what it means is that 1000 u.s. troops will be deployed to poland in announcing the signature of this daily at the

agreement of the stale defense secretary mark aspers said that it wasn't part to target russia poland of course has a border with the russian exclave of kaliningrad. e.c.a. will enable an increased enduring u.s. or presence of about $1000.00 personnel and will in hans deterrence against russia strengthen needs to reassure allies and i would presence in poland nato is eastern flank will improve our strategic and operational flexibility. as far as u.s. president donald trump is concerned he's seemingly just happy that warsaw have agreed to foot the bill for hosting these troops. we would send some additional troops they're going to pay for that they'll be paying for the sending of additional troops and we'll probably be moving them from germany to poland well it

comes a week after the news that 12000 u.s. troops would be leaving germany and redeployed elsewhere ostensibly over argument between washington and berlin over germany's defense spending and contributions to nato but the real rift between burley in washington may go a little deeper and may involve well something that won't go away showed us president donald trump be voted out of office in november i'm talking about the nord stream to gas pipeline now a group of u.s. senators from oil and gas states there have put forward a sanctions bill that well could well target german companies they want to sell germany liquefied natural gas from the united states the thing is that's more expensive than piping gas directly from russia under the baltic sea straight into germany now poland of also lent a helping hand when it comes to this issue as well just this week we've seen the

polish anti monopoly watchdog slap a $57000000.00 fine on gazprom the main russian gas while the gas giant that's behind this nord stream to gas pipeline so it does seem that there is continuing rift between germany and the united states it is seeing those some of those troops that were leaving germany heading to poland but of course at the root of this seems to be an argument over energy reporting the story for us from berlin that's peter all of us thank you. staying with this story we spoke to investigative journalist dave lindorff he says that the deal with poland is partly due to long terms declining relations with germany. you have trump seeing griot germany. for a number of reasons and they haven't been really supportive of his policies he's really angry that they're buying. liquefied natural gas from the north stream

pipeline from russia he wants them to have to buy u.s. gas that shipped over by ship and it's much more expensive and because the germans are doing that and other things that he finds irritating about the german government's behavior he is taking some troops out of germany and i think that he's dealing with the fact that a lot of people in the u.s. you know in conservative circles in both parties don't want to see those troops brought out of europe so he has to find another place for them so he's putting them in poland. this is an international appreciate a company. we

go to work so you stay home all. summer so the. deficit. line. makes a very exciting i'm excited i know you're excited i know stacey is accepted. 54 jack. more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s.

military presence in this area rush up. what is it suddenly about the south china sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on this story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again.

this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss i'm proud to borean washington coming up president trump has extended the deadline for the tick tock fan in order to allow microsoft to acquire the aftermaths chinese parent company will the u.s. tech giant be able to seal the deal and how will this affect tensions between the world's 2 largest economies plus the nasdaq has popped once again on news that apple has now claimed the title of the world's most valuable publicly traded company will break down what lies in store for the tech giant impact show today so let's dive right in. and we lead the program with one of the big a. tech stories of the year it appears to be playing out minute by minute microsoft confirmed monday that it is in talks to buy tick tock from chinese parent company bite day it's now this of course after u.s. president donald trump announced a plan to ban the app in the united states president trump spoke about the

controversial situation monday afternoon. and said he can't be controlled for security reasons but in china too big too. invasive and it can't be and here's the deal i don't mind if there's microsoft or somebody has a big company secure company very very american company buy it they set a date of around september 15th at which point it's going to be out of business in the united states but of somebody whether it's microsoft or somebody else buys it that will be interesting i did say that if you buy it whatever the price is dead.