A reigning in troops in syria coming just days after suspected israeli drone attacks in lebanon and iraq. I just turned 11 am this Tuesday Morning 27th of august life from the r. T. World news center is coming now and with you 1st a judge in oklahoma has ruled that the drug maker johnson and johnson is responsible for driving the states Opioid Crisis and has ordered it to pay a 572000000. 00 fine because of it he said the pharmaceutical giant run a false and dangerous Marketing Campaign which done played the risk of addiction and directly contributed to deaths johnson and johnson has said it will appeal the decision with a look at the implications of the case and some more details caleb maupin this morning. We got a landmark ruling today in oklahoma the drug manufacturer johnson and johnson a giant Big Pharmaceutical Company in the United States has been found guilty and has been ordered to pay 572000000 dollars to the state of oklahoma in order to deal with the ongoing Opioid Epidemic in the United States this is the 1st time that a big pharmaceutical manufacturers corporation has gone to trial in a case alleging responsibility regarding the Opioid Crisis this is the prosecutor in the case stating what the judge ruled today judge bachmann has affirmed or position that johnson and johnson motivated by greed and avarice is responsible for the ok would have prevented interstate. Johnson and johnson will finally be healed accountable for thousands of deaths and addiction caused by their activities now at the trial the prosecution argued that johnson and johnson and its subsidiaries had overstated the effectiveness of their opioid drugs when it comes came to treating ongoing chronic pain they overstated their effectiveness in treating ongoing chronic pain and understated the risk of addiction posed by their products previously the way Big Pharmaceutical Companies have avoided going to trial is by settling out of court and paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements to avoid such a proceeding as we saw monday taking place previously it was not only johnson and johnson that stood as defendants but furthermore pardieu pharmaceuticals was on trial as well however they were and they managed to withdraw themselves from the case by paying a 270000000. 00 settlement furthermore tell the pharmaceutical industries they withdrew from the case in may by paying an 85000000. 00 settlement so johnson and johnson was the only defendant in the case they were found guilty now they do expect to appeal the decision the defense argues that this will not hold up in a court of appeal they think that they will be exempt and that the the conviction will be overturned however this is a landmark moment because this is the 1st time that a Big Pharmaceutical Company has been found at trial to be responsible for the Opioid Epidemic and many different forces in the United States have long argued that Big Pharmaceutical Companies should be held responsible for the ongoing Opioid Epidemic that has claimed a number a large number of american lives rates of opiate addiction of increase dramatically in the u. S. Over the post 20 years comin to you most being to a nationwide epidemic in the late ninetys prescriptions for pain killers were made readily available that as pharmaceutical companies are doctors that the patients would not become addicted. But it quickly of a claim became clear that many people were becoming dependent with deaths from opioid overdoses reaching a record of 4202016 then the following year the government declared a Public Health emergency fast forward now to 2019 an estimated 130 americans have been dying every day as a result of opioid medicines the Health Crisis is also placing a huge burden on the u. S. Economy and encouraging high rates of heroin addiction addiction specialist on a limb told us that both the pharmaceutical industry and the doctors have failed in their duties to customers and patients well doctors certainly there are some responsibility for the Opioid Epidemic but i think to really understand how this happened in the United States its necessary to realize that a whole generation of physicians was educated to believe that opioids are not addictive as long as youre giving them to a patient in pain and this was a message that was eagerly adopted by produced by johnson and johnson by janssen by t. V. By many other opioid manufacturers why because it helped their bottom line to sell more opioids so certainly doctors have to be reeducated as they are now they have to withhold opioids they have to stop prescribing opioids for ankle sprains for chronic pain conditions we would not want the pendulum to swing in the opposite direction and for people who really need opioids not to be able to get them so finding some kind of middle ground is going to be essential. Elsewhere the french president of the new mccrone held monday what he called an extremely productive g. 7 summit after 3 days of us talked about up in the eretz but despite the group of attending World Leaders voicing much optimism for the future it seems this years meeting produced maybe as usual refute concrete commitments is a senior correspondent. It was nice nice stuff the weather was decent lots of people nice people good conversation and good stuff nice good and you. First of all i would like to thank President Trump and all the heads of state and government present here for the extremely Productive Work and very productive discussions weve had since saturday evening together i want to thank you very much mr president for the credible job you did this is a truly successful g 7 there was tremendous unity it was great unity as i said nice not exactly wonderful or amazing but yeah pretty nice i mean could have been better they could have agreed on something significant the cheveley little more argued the little less and if the there was a lot of nervousness at the outset a lot of expectations a lot of tension and we had a lot of conflicts just look at the bright side theres always next year to get something done is not nice to be fair there was a lot of stuff on the agenda in the trade war with china the brazilian president s rudeness brecks and shenanigans whether to invite the largest country in the world iran for the millionth time. We all know what trump thinks about iran much as a bit of a cold war between the 2 most of the rest of the world actually wants to go back to the Nuclear Agreement trump ripped up what a conundrum huh so macron invites the foreign minister of iran hoping to break the ice and surprisingly things became a little awkward also unsurprisingly trumpet would heed his own tide before admitting it it was coming in and i respected the fact that it was coming in and he met with president mcbroom in iran is a very difficult situation. There. In the positions are a very good position from the standpoint of economics and thats ok because we concluded a very quickly even said hes open to meeting irans president when the time is right perhaps after another few rounds of sanctions once they find something in iran they havent sanctioned yet speaking of sanctions that trade war is still raging. One mans sanctions are another mans tariffs and the United States likes both so much so trump says he regretted not imposing more tariffs on chinese made goods because as trump making companies and consumers the average american pay more for ordinary stuff is great for everyone which didnt go down well with the rest of the summit squad just think shes going to be of of you for even. To be honest it wasnt trumps greatest performance there they were having a nice dinner all in cincy is smiles and forced laughs and use and brings up the boogie man. Trying joining your michel in star red chuen a stew prepared mommy tackled style while trump talks about inviting russia back apparently he wouldnt shut up about it i think if youre working. With a number of people who would like to see russia back i think it would be and it would be advantageous to. Many things in the world or das it worse some of those present agreed why on earth would you want to invite a country thats a key player in almost every major global issue. Well it would make sense but not off the crimea g. 7 is for friends and friends pretend to be there for each other everyone knows that and putin it seems has Better Things to do. To get a little g 8 doesnt exist anymore how can i return to an organization which doesnt exist today its the g 7 regarding a potential format with 8 Member States we never reject any proposals some time ago it was russias turn to hold a g. 8 meeting but our partners didnt come up but there are other International Organizations which play a significant role in International Affairs take the g 20. All in all as i said nice great as g 708 scoop a lot of total catastrophe but this year trump even signed this single page unlike last year when he simply stormed out. That really wasnt nice. Stuff involving a u. S. Libertarian politician whether or not he thought there were any positives to be drawn from this years summit. The g. 7 is to the world at what the Federal Reserve is the United States is a meddling problematic internationally damaging organization whose time has come and gone and we no longer should be having decent meetings at all in my view to me it was political theater i think that the United States and iran should talk i think that not talking to an unstable regime bad is on the verge of becoming a Nuclear Power is a diplomatic mistake what should be doing in terms of of tariffs is getting rid of all of them there is every reason to get rid of tariffs that does not require a g 7 or g 8 or a g 20 its simply requires individuals to say i dont want to pay more for the same thing i mean country that unilaterally lowers tariffs is going to benefit its own citizens immediately. You know to despite appearing isolated the g 7 there is donald trump did strike will consider the 3 toed on trade flow to a prospect maybe now all the new down the tubes again theyre on their off or on the off season or on again well take a look at that lead to the program. The u. N. Is calling for some restraint between israel and its inverse reserves fears of a new conflict the middle east grow the plea comes off to tell of the have carried out an air strike against Iranian Forces in syria on saturday in what it said was an effort to support a planned drone attack lebanon and iraq also accused israel of conducting aerial attacks against shia militia groups on the over the weekend to the latest on a quarter this morning. Continued instability in the middle east and the alleged culprit is not the wests usual fall boy the israeli strikes were similar to a declaration of war and our country has a right to defend itself a series of attacks syria lebanon and iraq and people are pointing the finger at israel. At least they owned up to that last attack and usually accusations that israels attacked another sovereign nation are met with silence from tel aviv but this time Benjamin Netanyahu justified the attack claiming iran was targeting his country with explosive drones according to him the situation was kill or be killed. If someone tries to kill you rise up and kill him 1st in a complicated operation by our Security Forces we determine that irans quds force dispatched a special unit of militants into syria to kill israelis on the Golan Heights with explosive drums i would like to emphasize that this was a mission that only run under the command of iran at the behest of iran. Netanyahu often harps on about the supposed dangers of iran but when it comes to the facts the Islamic Republic is often on the receiving end of military violence about a year ago israel struck nearly all of irans military structures inside syria it was the countrys biggest assault since the beginning of the civil war back then netanyahu played the very same preemptive strike card whenever he wants we will hit back sevenfold whoever prepares to strike at us we will act to strike at them beforehand this is what we have done and this is what we will continue to do the never ending demonize ation of iran might have made israel its share of enemies in the middle east but in the west its reeled in some powerful allies this is 40 years 40 years of malign behavior so whether it was seizing a british tanker that was in International Waters or shooting down an american u. A. B. That was also in International Airspace for assassination campaigns in europe were trying to kill an ambassador here in the United States has this long history of blind behavior iran had its tankers detained its airspace violated by drones its military installations outright bombed all by the us and israel what other aggressive provocations does iran have up its sleeve to analysts in both israel and around them for their assessments of the situation as they saw it. Iran is trying to envelope israel from all of this through which is affectively iran through syria through iraq and even through gaza its like a big octopus sending its arms in order to strangle israel the problem you have the israelis like this oil branch of the world. And because no one no one calls it to account its allowed to get away with essentially murtha. Talking to it and hit 3 separate sovereign countries in the past few days israel has no issue with iran if iran would focus inward on on its own people and stop trying to destroy israel as it explicitly says itll do and death are meant to tear around the world we would have no issue with iran however iran has decided to attack israel to build forces and to strangle israel were not going to wait with Defense Systems you dont win by playing defense you have to preempt and thats what we will do i see no one questioning why israel is doing something why israel is provoking the situation at the end of the day israel needs to understand that iran has said this time and time again that look youre playing with fire dont do this dont be silly behave yourself iran has been a real interest in starting a war and iran will not stop the war its a long time and i have said it categorically. What iran will do if it is attacked or its allies within the resistance axis are directly attacked they will retaliate and rightly so because in this case the aggressor the one whos instigating problems whos lying and making up fairy stories because its control and influence within the Mainstream Media is israel and everyone knows israelis are ropes that its a country that is close to 400. 00 Nuclear Weapons targeted at multiple countries and yet no n. P. T. And no questioning no no discussion about to get iran which has a Nuclear ProgramEnergy Program it constantly gets accused of making Nuclear Weapons and all this stuff which is slightly from the supreme leaders own discreet discourse is forbidden lets lighten things a bit off the break. While the intrepid russian explorers caught up 60 countries no less and counting as he makes his way around the world initial. Rusty old classics. Go. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport im showbusiness ill see you then. Again you want to know its international this exactly 20 minutes past the hour now President Donald Trump has said that trade negotiations between the u. S. And china will resume very soon following 2 positive conversations with beijing over the weekend. Jerricho. Cotchery. And citrus get back to the table so it will be getting very big you want to do something. Very very badly but this is the right thing to do and i care a Great Respect for your district which is a very positive development for the world. That announcement then came after both sides impose additional import tariffs on each others goods last friday well china hasnt confirmed the talks will take place for its side its vice premier they stressed on monday that beijing is committed to resolving disputes further said that the trade war is of no benefit to anyone. To americas rick sanchez has been discussing the tensions with a former u. S. Congressman ron paul this is what he thought about it. This is gotten so bizarre i think anybody who watched over the weekend what happened 1st the chinese retaliated truck came back and retaliated against the retaliation threatening china with more terror he actually did do that while these 2 guys the president of china and the president of states were going back and forth at each other with terror threats the dow was down 800 points and most people were scratching their head trying to make sense of this can you can you try to make sense of this situation its going on right now dr paul. Well i do i do by looking at it and its an unworkable situation you finally get to the point where it doesnt work they hang on every word the Federal ReserveBoard Chairman says and sometimes why the word can make a difference of billions and billions of dollars and we have an Economic System that chaotic and then ended with then we end up with a president that does change his mind once in a while you know and its his head they hang too much on words that dont mean anything because theyre talking about problems they dont fully understand from my viewpoint and they dont have any solutions because they always talk about more Government Solutions and theyre not willing to look at our viewpoint from the libertarian viewpoint that maybe theyve made a lot of mistakes and maybe they should talk about eliminating the mistakes rather than just adding on to it so im not surprised about it but it is still pretty annoying but its going to continue for a while because no one is going to nobodys going to come up with an answer there is going to agree with. Some top stories to brief you on 62 have died in sit down as a result 2 months interventional right there according to state media the u. N. Says that at least 37000 homes have been destroyed is that as many as 200000 people seeking temporary shelter these flash floods expected to continue to in the country when the rainy season ends. Trouble of another kind. Is continuing to ravitch huge. Aids of the amazon rain forest the brazilian government now has rejected 22000000. 00 in aid offered by g 7 leaders top official told from his amount of mcgraw he should quote take care of his home and his colonies brazils experienced a Record Number of fires this summer many deliberately started by farmers who with the Administration Support clearing the land for cattle ranching an estimated 950000 hectares of forest have gone up in sperm smoke. To space was something of a head well the soyuz spacecraft successfully docked at the International Space station after making a failed attempt on saturday which scientists believe was caused by a control system failure is still scratching their heads a bit the craft is carrying a russian made humanoid robot this time called field as well as more than 650 kilograms of cargo including medical supplies and food so all is going well this time good job. Where are we going were going also will travels going to wall to a can sometimes be a low ive not done it but im sure it can be a lonely business the further you get from home so one russian travelers decided to take a bit of his beloved homeland with him but a metal is a very own russia manufactured classic van known as a blanket that in case youre wondering means a loaf of bread in russian which as you can see if you look at it cut it looks like a loaf of bread and it is a snippet of the man machine on the world travels for you. Ive decided to do something extraordinary to make the journey in a typical russian vend the russian behind a van to be precise. One african man who saw ru a. Z. Cried and explained to us that he took part in a war in this van as a driver he said in the end that thanks to bands like this one we won the war. Our trip is not finished yet we want to cross every time zone thats why we have a route from light of all stuck to moscow for the moment weve done 80000 kilometers i think we will have done 95 by the time we were finished. On a machine in perfect harmony a well thats the way it is 25 minutes past the hour thank you for watching us the. News as it might happen if you go to rob itll go straight to mobile devices by the view of the world to your programs for us coming up straight after this break. I. Need to call me. Im one of them but i think its ended up by going to one when theres were buddies. Deed both thought on some products one of them one idea should have been a stop. 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Protecting our kids from chemicals is a common sense thing that everybody can get behind leave points to examples in recent years of students getting sick from pesticides used by farmers near schools this is really great and several incidents in 2008 in why man koichi where dozens of students got sick after a pesticide was applied on a nearby seed corn plot weve seen example after example where weve had to rush children from a Public School to an e. R. Like the ones i work in across the state for severe area long problems we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants theres no question otherwise why would that a Chemical Company workers themselves be geared up and suited up what happened with why im a middle school was particularly egregious the state of Hawaii Department of agriculture does not do its job with respect to investigating complaints about pesticide drift and for years this is been the case it doesnt monitor the air it doesnt monitor the water it doesnt monitor the soil to make sure that pesticides are not leaving the fields and going into where people live and play and work