A triple threat middle east attention soar as israel carries out an airstrike against iranian troops in syria just days after a suspected israeli drone attacks in lebanon. This is our International Im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with. Our president putin and his turkish counterpart have held talks at the max 21000. 00 airshow happening just outside moscow to discuss cooperation on the Syrian Crisis and the possible purchase of russian fighter jets are to go reports. Well we saw it right here once again the president s of russia and turkey are really enjoying talking about what their countries are somehow 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 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 can 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 britain 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 front line theyre tired peridot on spoke of how the advancements by the Syrian Government forces are causing civilian casualties and an extended flow of refugees to turkey theyre 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 theyre really counting on renewed talks in 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 anchor ought 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 rollout has shopping cart here in russia and this is exactly what he did here. Was. What you have to see right now where the 2 the 2 is 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 enjoyed here on these you called ski airfield they had some ice cream to have a look at how much you can. Do with. Coming in from japan which. Would be something very. Nice if. It was really really good out of the. You know. Its. Just. 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. Leaving drugmaker johnson and johnson has been found responsible for driving the Opioid Crisis in the us 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 we have to look at the implications here. 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 ok whatever damage 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. 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 rates of opioid addiction have increased dramatically in the u. S. Over the past 20 years culminating in a nationwide epidemic in the late 1900 prescriptions for pain killers were made readily available as pharmaceutical companies assured 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 42000 in 2016 the following year the government declared a Public Health emergency and it is a problem that is certainly still claiming many lives nationwide lets take a look at lee an estimated 130 americans die every day as a result of opioid metal. And the Health Crisis is also placing a huge strain on the u. S. Economy and reportedly encouraging higher rates of heroin use an addiction specialist on the lemke told us that both of the pharmaceutical industry and doctors have failed their 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. The u. N. Is calling for maximum restraint between israel and its adversaries as fears of a new conflict in the middle east grow following a series of cross border incidents among the latest at least 2 palestinians are reported dead and several injured in an explosion in gaza on tuesday evening Israeli Military denies any involvement it has already been a fractious 72 hours with Israeli Operations into neighboring countries and beyond here is our trees down a 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 rises 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 an initiative of the wrong 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 you waving that was also in International Airspace or assassination campaigns in europe are 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 you got reaction from both iranian and israeli analysts on the latest developments. Iran is trying to envelope israel from all of the sides through hezbollah which is effectively 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 is israel is like this oil breath of the world and because no one no one calls it to account its allowed to get away with essentially minute. Talking to it and hit 3 separate sobering 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 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 israelis 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 to me certainly behave yourself iran has been a real interest in stopping the war and iran will not stop simple i told him and i have said it categorically and with what iran will do its if it is attacked or its allies within the resistance axis are directly attacked big 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 knew most israelis are ropes that its a country that is close to 400 Nuclear Weapons talking to multiple countries and yet no n. P. T. And no questioning 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 discrete to schools is forbidden. It world tour goes vintage one russian traveler is crossing time zones in his classic automobile about his special journey after a break. In a world of big. And conspiracies its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. Thats my life that i started on wall street 40 years ago and ive been living in the luxury areas life never cheap or money ever since literally not having to work a day in my life because they assets bought it 40 years ago and gone straight up. International the french president has hailed it in his words an extremely productive g. 7 summit after 3 days of talks wrapped up in b. R. Its on monday but despite the group of attending World Leaders voicing optimism for the future this years meeting produced very few concrete community commitments. 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 their incredible 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 the fee it 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 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 all could also unsurprisingly trumpet 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. 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 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. Of of you treating. The b. Artists that wasnt trumps greatest performance and 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 mitchell in star red shoe miss jew 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 its 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. But there are other International Organizations which play a significant role in International Affairs take the g 20. All in as i said nice great as g 708 sco but the total catastrophe but this year trump even scientists single page unlike last year when he simply stormed out. That removed wasnt nice. We asked a Us Libertarian Party politician whether he thought there were any positives to be drawn from this years summit. The g. 7 is to the world that 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 these 7 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 that is on the verge of becoming a Nuclear Power is a diplomatic mistake what did what trump should be doing in terms of tariffs is getting rid of all of them there is every reason to get rid of terrorists 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 any country that unilaterally lowers tariffs is going to benefit its own citizens immediately. Going on a world tour can sometimes be a lonely business or so one russian adventure decided to take a bit of his beloved homeland with him his very own russian made classic van known as a blue hunka which in russian means a loaf of bread and it has seen quite a slice of the globe so far. Ive decided to do something extraordinary driving a typical russian car a little hunka is that typically a russian car. One african man who saw our car cried and explained to us that he took part in a war in his car as a driver he said in the end that thanks to cars like this one weve won the war. Our trip is not finished yet we want to cross every time so thats why we have a route from flight of our stock to moscow for the moment weve gone 80000 kilometers i think we will have 95 when were finished. For the desert for mailbags more news in lets say 34 minutes they were. Public wealth. When the ruling classes protect themselves. Little rooms to. The memory of the. Officer. Told them to get up off the ground. Down. And then freeze on the sounds of an mit grown man the christening essentially. Drew his. Twisted away from the officer. The obvious or did they kind of lunge for the web in ones midst and then when it happened on tree swung at didnt hit him i never saw any contact with. Any kind of went back to where they were so the officers back here there again 15 feet apart at this point and thats when the officer is gonna need to turn tree. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle the bear and the dragon over the last few years the russia china relationship has grown in depth and in magnitude it is not hard to understand why with russia constantly demonized and sanction and china targeted its a serious western Security Threat theres no wonder moscow and beijing gravitate towards each other this is much more than a marriage of convenience. Cross talking russia and china im joined by my guest joel and paris he is the president of the bridge tank in washington we have earl he is the executive Vice President of the Eurasia Center and in singapore we cross to jim rogers hes an International Investor and author of street smarts adventures on the road and in the markets all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate jim let me go to you in singapore as i said in my introduction this is no longer a marriage of convenience if it ever was the reason why were doing this program as a member is reflecting upon a bed in the New York Times when they were basically reacting is like wow the everybody notice this happening which all of us have and remarkably said that trump was right to improve relations with russia as i actually to do and reverse nixon when it came to china what are these people talking about where have they been it seems like theyve just crawled out under from a rock go ahead jim and singapore. But i would tell you peter if you go to moscow airport now its full of chinese 5 years ago there were nobody there if you go to red square theyre all speaking chinese mr trump and then americans are pushing the chinese and the russians closer and closer together breaks my heart im an american but this isnt saying its insane if you could get out a map or study demography or geography you would know you dont want to be against those 2 countries combined ok well very good point joe let me go to you in paris i mean this is being going on slowly but surely in for a variety of reasons here of course russia is against nato expansion it sees it as a existential threat to its security which it is and any military alliance moving towards your borders is by definition and the chinese well we see that the United States again raising the issue of tariffs and possible sanctions chinese interaction with a country like iran i mean china and russia are natural allies