Fight charges of treason. Continues over the fires engulfing tracks of the amazon rain forest the brazilian governments Business Practices to washington come during scrutiny. One minutes after 3 pm here in moscow this wednesday august the 21 welcome to the program my names unit on. The u. K. Looks to be lurching towards a major constitutional crisis britains new Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has asked the queen to shut down parliament all until mid october which means lawmakers will reconvene just 2 weeks before that breaks it deadline. Were joined now live in london authorities paula slayer paul m. P. s are on their summer break the hard been expected to return next week that now looks unlikely what does todays Development Mean for the u. K. Braggs it. Well as you correctly state to be british Prime Minister bias johnson has say that hes put in a formal request with the queen to suspend parliament until october the 14th this means that parliament will reconvene just a little more than 2 weeks ahead of the final deadline given for the u. K. To leave the European Union on the 31st of october this means that there will be fewer sitting days of the parliament and they will have less time to debate and actually be able to block a no deal brix it however johnson denies all of this he says that his reason for asking the queen to suspend parliament is because it will allow him to move ahead with the legislative agenda of the new government or its not going to wait until october the 1st before getting on with our plans to take this country forward. Queens speech were going to do it on the 40. 8 not with a new program. Now theres a lot of criticism from opposition members of parliament theyve accused johnson of being a coward they say he is behaving undemocratically water critically the words that are being bandied about her words like appalled and reckless in fact they say that johnson is doing this to try and prevent the debate from happening in parliament because he knows that he will not be able to get a no deal passed and he wants to either prevent or delay a vote of no confidence in his leadership now johnston says that he does want to reach a deal with the European Union but that if no deal is reached he is still committed to leaving the european you. By the 31st of october another person whos also opposed to this latest announcement by johnson is the speaker of the house john the and he says that he believes that this latest announcement from biased johnson is really an effort to try and prevent the discussion happening among members of parliament. This move represents a constitutional i would reach it is blindingly obvious the purpose of birdcage so now would be to stop parliament debating braggs that now weve seen constant opposition in the u. K. Parliament over the issue of brick said there were 3 votes that were held during the leadership of the former Prime Minister news in may the original date was set for the 29th of march 2019 and then that was extended to the 12th of april and then again it was extended to the 22nd of mate by the European Union if 2 reason may could find a deal when ashley was unable to do that and so of course the issue continues to remain one that is hugely divisive and continues to see a lot of discern and a lot of anger here in london i committed to never a dull moment policy or live in london thank you. A court in kiev has released the head of the Ukrainian Branch of russias rian news agency from pretrial detention. A jaw russian Ukrainian National was arrested last year and george with reasons for the case against him still stands and he could be facing up to 15 years in prison he has welcomed the judges decision. But its not im not planning to leave the building with some fresh air i think about Everything Else all of the other problems tomorrow it feels really bad being in prison believe me im not the only one who thinks that i dont know a Single Person who feel comfortable here i was certainly following the news while in prison but for now im not ready to make any political assessments they view the cause of some. Ukrainian politicians for a prisoner swap as an attempt to raise the previous president s profile that proved to be unsuccessful for mr poroshenko as he has lost his position and i have spent a year in prison. He was arrested last may and stands accused of publishing to ukrainian articles i claim hes always denied his detention had been condemned by a number of International Organizations including Reporters Without Borders ukraine previously attempted to use him in a prisoner swap but he refused saying he wanted to clear his name during this martin summers gave us his thoughts on the development. But wider implications may be that the new broom in kiev with the zelinsky government bedding down maybe that theyre trying to find ways back from the kind of confrontational attitudes of the recent past of course is always very difficult for journalists reporting on conflicts like this because its easily easy to be seen by one side or the other. Taking sides in whats a very complex situation in the 1st place so i mean a guarded welcome for this and hopefully you know justice will be done but its its pretty clearly a political case and weve got a case here in the u. K. Of catherine binion mccaffery in Northern Ireland who made a film about killings collusion between the royals to consistently release paramilitaries some years ago and theyre waiting awaiting trial their absolute prison that theyre still awaiting trial. Supposedly accessing official secrets and thats thats a concern here i mean the fact that they released him from prison means that and hes welcomed it shows that theres some movement and of course as you say was potentially involved in a prisoner swap which he rejected because hes not a political prisoner in the sense or a military prisoner hes a journalist trying to do his job and he wants to be good to be recognized as having done is. With unprecedented number of fires tearing through a vast expanses of pristine amazonian rain forest and the global i cry growing brazils president has lost i doubt his french counterpart Jairam Bolton are o. Ses hes unwilling to accept any aid money to help tackle the crisis on till and money will mccrone apologizes for insulting him the french Leaders Office said at the beginning of the week that bolton are a hard line by being committed to preventing Climate Change the dispute comes as the brazilian Government Faces increased scrutiny over its aggressive attempts to exploit the rain Forest Resources and also brazilians ties to foreign lobbyists with more not your skill. The amazon rain forest is on fire on an unprecedented scale and its everybodys business weve seen this fire markets group about 200 yards in the past 5 minutes alone for the thousands of miles of scorched forests hundreds of burnt trees and they broke all records this year they were twice as many as they were in 2080 the war to save the amazon rain forest this is one of the last battlefields celebrities are speaking up saying that the lungs of the earth are at stake the lungs of the earth in flames the am is the needs more than a prove yours so what can you do the amazon rain forest produces more than 20 percent of the worlds oxygen and its been burning for the past 3 weeks its our responsibility to help to save our planet so whos to blame some say that it is those who eat meat others say that it is all of humanity or is it president balsa naro after all hes not known as captain chainsaw for nothing is drive to promote deforestation and roll back environmental laws has angered environmentalists and hes opened the door for American Businesses to swoop in a member of both in our Us Government has made sure that washington lobbyists are in on amazon Business Opportunities governor wilson lima is very closely tied to all kinds of American Business interests for example documents released under the foreign agents registration act reveal that wilson lima is tied to the inner America Group a very powerful washington d. C. Lobbying theyve created a packet for u. S. Companies showing the amazons potential for mining agribusiness and the gas industry back in 28 teen the head of the lobby group even praised trump for electing balsa naro donald trump paved the way for a bowl so narrow victory under President Trump brazils position as a world leader in industries such as agribusiness mining banking and aviation will be respected prior to the governorship of wilson the louima the previous administration. Amazonas signed a contract with giuliani safety and security thats giuliani as in Rudy Giuliani former new york city mayor and a lawyer for donald trump as recently as april the Brazilian American Chamber of commerce has hosted events touting the vast american Business Opportunities presented by the forest and soil of the south american nation you know. There are all. Homos money used. For get business theres a pretty clear opportunity here thats for the democrats to promote saving the amazon rain forest and to rub it in the face of the g o p however the democrats recently canceled a proposed debate around Climate Change from their list of debates for 2020 president ial candidates so apparently saving the amazon is everybodys business until its nobodys business and that who has more connections. State companies and hes now just fuck was own u. S. Markets and i think that these relations that the new government of brazil with the u. S. Government and companies are not very good for European Companies that are interested also on this next Natural Resource so i think that the National Corporations are disputing Natural Resources and authorise their interests and dissident government is taking part in dispute. Well joe youre in the role of being arguing that the attention being paid to the devastation in the amazon is only warranted as despite the fun of this year an estimated 950000. 00 hectares of rain forest have been destroyed much of it for cattle ranching and soybean cultivation with the explicit support of his administration and its not just brazil suffering either fires are now raging in a number of neighboring countries r. T. Spanish has been filming the consequences. Would. Be put on this there could be a number of causes usually wind scatters sparks from the fires point of origin prompting the growth of the area on fire even a cigarette thrown out of a window could cause a fire which can spread for kilometers. Rather than little bit but we are going to suspend the Election Campaign for at least one week leaving the president moralities and his running mate will suspend all electrolyte to teach us that we will dictate ourselves to taking care of the entire region affected by the wildfire that is the entire believe in them and. German police are investigating the murder of a chechen exile in berlin on friday to tell you all about what we know to be. Wheat. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its Crazy Foundation let it be an arms race. Clearly dramatic to follow only. I dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. Quarter of an hour into the program youre very welcome buck German Police are investigating the murder of an ethnic chechen man in central berlin on friday they have arrested a russian citizen in connection with the killing in a case that german media are already comparing to the suspected assassination attempt against circuit scripts fall in the u. K. Where as the of joins us now in this you do for more on what were learning about this case well there is officially. A lot of information coming. From german investigators and German Intelligence Services have now do indeed and there are suspicions that this could be much bigger than just you know a local hit because the suspected perpetrator the killer. Allegedly a russian citizen he came to berlin just for a few days a search of his apartment. Yielded a lot of money and a ticket back to back to moscow he was going to leave berlin and come back to moscow. Police themselves and investigators havent accused russian russian government to the russian state but you know the media is the medias drumming it to beat a lot of 2nd script tantrums russia russia russia but the suspected killer himself whos in Police Custody of course witnesses saw him killing this this man this. In a park shooting him in the back and then in the head control shot tried to get away but witnesses described in and police. Quickly apparently isnt cooperating with investigators is completely silent. Well well see where it goes from here obviously police arent telling us everything but the medias really digging trying to find out who this guy really was what we know about the actual victim of the crime of seen a lot of headlines saying Asylum Seeker killed do we know much more about the person. Name is han. Should be easy an ethnic chechen holder of a georgian passport citizenship any god through the islam is he street quite a party 1st came to prominence during the church and was fighting against the russian government on behalf of together with islam is high. Hardline jihad this i mean one of the guys he fought together was with was science when most notorious infamous names individuals and recent russian history and you know object to be this guy was a monster told the acts of terror his name once he attacked and seized the hospital taking hundreds of sickly people ill people some chronic heel hostage in the ensuing firefight more than 100 people civilians died as i say untold untold crimes to his name. He was also a supporter of the caucasus emirate another terrorist organization i mean these guys did they didnt shy away from anything that bombed their ports passenger trains metro subway stations in fact they were designated as a terrorist organization by the u. N. The United States the u. K. Russia many other countries. Basically they were an isis light they wanted to establish a caliphate an emirate in the in the caucasus. Many of their fighters went to went to syria eventually cookies the caucasus emirate. Cleared the legions to Alqaeda Nusra front in. In syria so just to give you an idea of the background of this victim of this guy he was in georgia he left judy had problems with Law Enforcement there because of his jarvis past the way that she got asylum in germany and German Security services they put him on a watch list he was potential individual who represented a Public Safety threat he was taken off that list in 2018 allegedly as a result of lobbying efforts by a group of energy you a german Georgian Group which said it is easy a good guy but we dont know the details exact details not all of the. Commission publicly available but but the point here is that the media be it on radio t. V. Press print online. All the talk is about the kill and theres very little discussion conversation about. Dont get me wrong i dont want to be misunderstood nothing his past nothing justifies an execution in a public park and in the perpetrators must be brought to account to justice but its worth mentioning that this guy wasnt you know wasnt an angel himself the russian governments issued a comment the president s spokesperson saying that categorically denying any links between the russian government the very specific the russian government russian authorities and this murder new relation new ties are 2 very categorical but as i say its early days yet the investigation is ongoing and doubtless well be hearing much more were comes up as the a frank you. Ok lets stay in germany now where in a push for Greater Transparency polisi in the west of the country have said they will begin disclosing the nationalities of criminal suspects taking a look at the implications of the vallet and what that all means for europe correspondent peter over. Police in the west of germany will reveal the nationality of everyone suspected of a crime even if its not relevant to the case the interior minister of the state of north rhinewestphalia which includes the major cities of cologne and docile tof has said theyve taken the decision to improve transparency we will name the nationalities of all suspects that we know for sure im convinced that this transparency is the best cure against political deception it may seem like a small thing and the policy of naming the nationality of a suspect varies from state to state but this has become sensitive subject following the migrant influx into germany the idea behind travailing the nationality of someone when it isnt pertinent to the crime is to avoid discrimination against minorities by linking nationality to. This new initiative to set some alarm bells ringing for though you see feel it may have an impact upon suspects rights the defaults disclosure of nationalities in police press work is not consistent stating where someone is from even if it is irrelevant to the circumstances of the crime doesnt lead to Greater Transparency this measure is unconstitutional and it is certain that its immoral i think that it can lead to wrong suspicions that your neighbor might be a trim and all or just based on his nationality and that could lead to further racism and in need to excuse people that we want to include in the society we dont think that a sas specs nationality adds anything to the case theyre all those that have accused the german media around authorities in the past of a meeting the nationality of those involved in the case so as to not draw attention to crimes that have involved the migrants. I so far we still dont have any suspects so we dont know who the culprits are. Making this in the issue by oversimplifications and connecting it to the refugee issue is nothing but a misuse of the discussion now it is about clearing the facts and drawing the necessary conclusions i would like to add that it is completely improper for us and for the people who judged objective lead to link a group that appeared to come from north africa with the refugees this is improper and i want to prevent this massively there is no sign that it concerns people who came to cologne as refugee. Its so its. A measure oriented toward the population so that they can have better information and better image that we alex he on the ground in the city sees in the hot spots of the country and to allow them to Better Church the situation they are looking at and also to better judge the overall immigration it might racial policies the german media guidelines for publishing the nationality of a suspect say to do so it must be grounded in Public Interest involving serious crimes like murder or terrorism but that ultimately the decisions. Publish the nationality of a suspect lies with the Editorial Staff of an outlet so ultimately whatever decision is made someones going to end up about how big these are all about. Ok joining me out of the top below are for more on your midweek news but before the arts we cross the some more great programs here on r. T. International right ahead. 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This is boom bust broadcasting around the globe and covering the world of business and finance and the impact on us all im doing over here in washington christiane is on assignment heres a look at whats on deck today a major breakthrough in the crisis has been reached in johnson and johnson the u. S. Pharmaceutical giant has been found guilty in an oklahoma courtroom but what effect if any will this album the epidemic of opioid plague in the United States barrows contributor to americas lawyer was on hand to break down the ruling and what this means for the future of profits in the drug manufacturing star. Clusters of the state of global trade was a confusing enough there is yet another wild card at play in the push civic shipping spot to rob hooped of i. C. s and standing by to help us clarify the state of the trade war yet another great show is right at the start whats the secret to our Business Model ball you lets go. We lead our global report today with a groundbreaking decision against pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson an oklahoma judge ruled monday that johnson and johnson must pay a 572000000. 00 fine for its role in the states Opioid CrisisCleveland County district judge tad baldwin had this to say about the ruling. If you are trying to this is an imminent danger and ninnis to its loans my judgment includes findings of fact and conclusions of law the state met its burden to defend its johnson and johnson and johnsons misleading marketing and promotion of a few is created a distance as defined by studio as section one including the fact. That those actions compromised the health and safety of thousands of homes. Following the ruling the pharmaceutical promised to appeal adding that the company did not cause a Public Health epidemic in the state for more details on this president setting ruling and what it means for johnson and johnson and overall opioid up a demick we are fortunate to be joined by molly barrows contributor at americas lawyer now molly what does this mean for the fight against the Opioid Epidemic moving forward is this is a big approach them as it seems. Absolutely its a huge deal for so many other cases that are pending against big pharma over this very issue so this is the 1st major legal decision daniel against the drug maker for its role in the Opioid Crisis the oklahoma trial is being watched closely by nearly every other state in the country along with thousands of other municipalities who have filed against big pharma over this crisis and this ruling is a positive sign for other plaintiffs attorneys who are making similar arguments to those