A triple threat middle east tensions soar as israel carries out an airstrike against a radian troops in syria just days after suspected israeli drone attacks in both lebanon and iraq. A low its 1 am on wednesday here in moscow my name is called in bright welcome to news from r. T. International 1st president putin and his turkish counterpart of held talks at the max 2900 or this week just outside moscow the 2 discussed cooperation on the Syrian Crisis and also the possible purchase of russian fighter jets by ankara our correspondent. Well we saw it right here once again the president s of russia and turkey are really enjoying talking about what their countries are doing together naming the projects one after another the likes of the turkish stream gas pipeline project that is being completed in the black sea or a Nuclear Power plant built in turkey by the Russian Atomic Agency also the deployment of the russian made s. 400. 00 air Defense Systems im going to come back to that one a bit later and also all kinds of business that turkey does in this country but they only want more and more a 5 fold increase and mutual trade and that is the kind of goal the leaders set for themselves on tuesday here because scheme well we shouldnt forget that we are at an air show right so on tuesday we even heard of the possibility that turkey and russia could Start Building aircraft together we heard that from both president s although no specific details followed for now but still i bet on and lot of our putin have also been very good at finding ways out of tricky crisis situation and theyre rizwan still ongoing and syria and now ankara is really concerned about whats going on in syria is it le bron that is the only remaining opposition on klav there we know that moscow and ankara are behind the forces on the different sides of the frontline there tibe aired on spoke of how the advancements by the Syrian Government forces are causing civilian casualties and an extended flow of refugees to turkey there well Vladimir Putin in his turn pointed at the continuing attacks by the terrorists that still remain and the lives. Zone but weve already got used to seeing mr putin and mr aired on so energized to Work Together that somehow they managed to overcome these difficulties so once again theyve shown that and they are really counting on renewed talks and geneva of these socalled Constitutional Committee that will represent most of the sides in the syrian conflict now i just want to go back to the fact that mr aired on came to russia specifically for the max air show now thats an important thing because it follows a decision by america to scrap the deliveries of American Made fighter jets to turkey as a result of a decision by ankara raad to purchase the s 400 missile Defense Systems these are the ones that i mentioned the deployment is well underway well whats there left to want to do roll out his shopping cart here in russia and this is exactly what he did here. Which is. What you have to see right now where the 2 the those standing by russias most advanced 5th generation fighter jet the s u 57 but its not only the Aircraft Technology mr air go on and fly them or putin enjoyed here on these you called ski airfield they had some ice cream to have a look at how much you can. Do just. Coming in from japan which. Would be something very. Easy. If. You really want to do. You know. This is. The most senior guests of left but its by far not all over yet here at the max 2019 air show the Program Continues for the rest of the week. Leading drug maker johnson and johnson has been found responsible for driving the Opioid Crisis in the u. S. State of oklahoma a judge there has ordered it to pay a 572000000. 00 fine he said the pharmaceutical giant had run a false and dangerous Marketing Campaign which downplayed the risk of addiction and directly contributed to deaths johnson and johnson says it will appeal the decision with a look at the implications his kind of open. 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. 00 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 oak you would ready have to make in our state johnson and johnson will finally be hill 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 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 pardieu pharmaceuticals managed to withdraw themselves from the case by paying a 270000000 dollars 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 rates of opioid addiction have increased dramatically in the United States over the past 20 years culminating in a nationwide epidemic in the late 1990 s. Prescriptions for painkillers were made readily available to Us Pharmaceutical Companies to show doctors that their patients would not become addicted but it quickly became clear that many people were becoming dependent with deaths from opioid overdoses reaching a record high of some 42000 in 2060 following year the government declared it a Public Health emergency and its also a problem with that is still claiming schools of lives nationwide currently an estimated 130. 00 americans die every day as a result of opioid medicine abuse the Health Crisis is also placing a huge strain on the u. S. Economy and its also reportedly encouraging high rates of heroin use as well addiction specialist and im told us that both the pharmaceutical industry and doctors have failed their customers and patients. Well doctor certainly there are some responsibility for the opiate 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 chance and 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. The un is calling for maximum restraint between israel and its advice or and says fears of a new conflict in the middle east grow following a series of cross border incident among the latest leads to 2 palestinians are reported dead and several injured in an explosion in gaza or on tuesday evening which the Israeli Military denies any involvement with but its already been a fractious 72 hours with Israeli Operations into neighboring countries and beyond his double quarter. 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 drones i would like to emphasize that this was a mission if we 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 u. S. And israel what other aggressive provocations does iran have up its sleeve like a reaction from the iranian and israeli analysts to get their assessments of what is developing. Iran is trying to envelope israel from all of this through his ball 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 out of the world. And because no one no one calls it to account its allowed to get away with essentially minute. Its talking to and hit 3 separate sovereign countries in the past few days israel has no issue with iran if iran would focus in word on its own people and stop trying to destroy israel as it explicitly says it will do and death amending terror around the world we would have no issue with iran however iran has decided to attack israel to build forces and to strangle israel but 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 this 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 you dont do this dont be silly behave yourself iran has been a real interest in stopping the war and iran will not stop simple i told him and i said it categorically. What iran will do anything to is attacked or its allies within the resistance axis are directly attacked they will retaliate and rightly so because in this case the aggressive 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. Well have more on our top story in just a moment the cole ruling that seemed johnson and johnson fine for its part in the United StatesOpioid Epidemic well hear from a campaigner with a very personal story. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy from day shouldnt let it be an arms race is on all sides very dramatic developments only going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical. To sit down and talk. And i welcome back to us he just returned to one of the headlines stories that leading drugmaker johnson and johnsons been found responsible for driving the crisis in the u. S. State of oklahoma a judge that has ordered it to pay a 572000000. 00 fine he said the pharmaceutical giant had run a false and dangerous Marketing Campaign which downplayed the risk of addiction and directly contributed to deaths johnson and johnson says its going to appeal that decision now with a very personal story relating to this group joined by emily walden whos the chair of the group called fed up a coalition of the u. S. Working to bring an end to the Opioid Epidemic and also like many members of emily lost her son t. J. To this epidemic in 2012 emily welcome to 1st of all your thoughts on the ruling and co yesterday is it going to achieve anything. Well the fact then it will hold in our praver is here this is the 1st ruling now. And the fact that they were in the state of oklahoma is. The amount of money. Could have been more but they found them guilty of marketing these jurors and improperly. How does that make you feel its not going to bring your son back of course but you now hopeful that this will just be the start of many such cases whats the money going to achieve well the fines go. Yes i definitely think that holding these Companies Accountable financially and hopefully later criminally char. That we can start to turn this around. All across the country i spent billions of dollars on this that adenike already so theyve been struggling financially in every state in the country i hope that a lot of the money will go to treatment and make sure that people who get treated which is hard to find sometimes there arent enough facilities that are not cheap and available for people currently. The numbers involved just staggering the numbers of deaths the numbers of people currently addicted across the United States is this even going to be enough money to even start to tackle that kind of problem on a nationwide basis. Hopefully but our federal government needs to do more they need to start with her and she and stop new addictions from occurring and so far through lasts at least 1015 years the federal government has done very little for this problem. With that in mind the claims that lawsuits are going off the pharmaceutical firms but theyre just one part of the chain arent they what about the medical practitioners continuing to prescribe them what about the government license saying im giving the advice on using these drugs theres a lot in the chain here. Yes whole i know it starts at the top and it still f. D. A. Changes policy and they correct the mistakes that have been made in the past and congress stops can be turned to these pharmaceutical companies i dont see an end to this what about the size of the fine that was handed down to johnson and johnson a 1000000000. 00 does sound like a lot of money oklahoma was off to more than 17000000000. 00 does the size of the fine concern you. Yeah it does concern me a little bit. That it wasnt more but i am happy with the ruling so im trying to stay positive i think that around the country that you know that were in cruise. This state of kentucky we were hit were one of the hardest yet states in the entire country West Virginia ohio you know theres been a top 5 top 10 states that have really marketed the drugs here and i believe those states should get even more billions of dollars. Its only feels like this is just the the opening salvo doesnt it because the Big Pharma Companies are building up war chests of billions of dollars hundreds of lawsuits lined up so well keep watch on the for now emily walton chair of thanks for joining us on the international thank you. Next the french president has hailed in his words an extremely productive g. 7 summit after 3 days of talks wrapped up in beer its on monday but despite the group of attending World Leaders voicing optimism for the future this years meeting produced a very few concrete commitments is our Senior Correspondent but i guess the if. It was nice nice stuff the weather was decent lots of people nice people good conversation and good stuff guys couldnt you. First of all i would like to thank President Trump and all the heads of state and government president heres 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 achievement 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 a trade war with china the brazilian president s rudeness brecks of 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 all could also unsurprisingly trump would eat 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 position not 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 it will be. To be honest it wasnt trumps greatest performance there they were having a nice dinner all in cincy as smiles and forced laughs and use and brings up the boogie man. Trying joining your michel in star red shoe missed you 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 in 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 because its going 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 with there are other International Organizations which play a significant role in International Affairs take the g 20 all in all as i said nice on great as g 708 scuba a lot of total catastrophe but this year trump even signed this single page unlike last year when he simply stool doubt. That removed wasnt nice. On house to leading Us Libertarian Party politician whether he thought there were any positives to be drawn from this years summit but 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 bed is on the verge of becoming a Nuclear Power is a diplomatic mistake what should be doing in terms of of terrorists 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 it 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. Ok thats it for me. 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