A major french bank alleging it was complicit in human rights abuses. This is. A weekend. Developments and reaction welcome to the program 1st off the latest in the donald trump impeachment inquiry story 1st now a prominent critic of the us president democrat adam schiff has offered an explosive interpretation of trumps now infamous ukraine phone call as the ongoing impeachment investigation picks up steam president struck back accusing schiff of making up his version of the conversation. Want you to make up dirt on my political opponent understand lots of it on this that theres a lot of talk about the biden son and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do would be great. Im going to put you in touch with attorney general United States my attorney general bill barr hes got the whole weight. Of the american Law Enforcement. Behind him and im also going to have attorney general and we will get to the bottom of it. And by the way dont call me ill call you when youve done what i asked whenever you would like to come to the white house feel free to call give us a date and well work and i look forward to seeing you. On tuesday the house of representatives to form an impeachment inquiry into trump over alleged attempts by the u. S. President to force his ukrainian counterpart to investigate home to biden the son of joe biden his potential 2020 democratic rival the. Believes adam schiff played fast and loose with the facts when presenting concocted details of the phone call. It is extremely duplicitous it is extremely misleading and very troublesome for the way adam schiff came about and basically provided a parody a unique way of looking at it and he was reading what people thought was actual transcript provisions actual statements made sentences a conversation sent and then later on when he says well i was being. A bit loose with this i was giving you one kind of a perhaps a a parody a kind of a satirical look well that satirical look is absolutely 1st of all side necessary but it was most problematic and the cause of many many people being very very angry with what he did it was on call for duplicitous misleading and wrong and in other developments American Special envoy to ukraine kurt volker has quit and the phone call scandal theres still the corruption allegations circulating about joe biden and his son some of which have been dismissed as a Conspiracy Theory by the Mainstream Media if im trying to look whether theyre being a bit too quick to write off the story. So the reason why the president is after the man whos most likely to challenge him next year is nothing but a conspiracy so many voices are saying just that the president is again insisting today that reporters should dig into a Conspiracy Theory involving Biden Ukraine and a ukrainian prosecutor promoting without evidence the dubious narrative that biden used the office of the Vice President to advance and protect his sons interests as dig into these unproven claims that trump is making about the former Vice President we cannot have a debate about a Conspiracy Theory but just how much does the public in america know about the case of a Ukrainian Energy company a few years ago but the root of all this stir the public deserves to be aware and make up their own mind conspiracy or proper investigation material so joe bidens son hunter was on the board of directors at mr biden senior as Vice President was washingtons point man with kiev at the time meanwhile this man victor schalke in the prosecutor general there was in charge of investigating barista ma and its founder for Economic Crimes he eventually lost his job well just have a look at how Frank Joe Biden was about his involvement i said you not get the 1000000000 im going to leave in a year i think it was about 6 hours 6 hours if the prosecutor is not fired youre not getting the money oh son of a. Fighter jets guess what happened later after the new prosecutor came in his office eventually gave the company a free pass obviously though we cannot connect any dots here but just so you know the fired ukraine official no matter how corrupt he ended up being was confident about why he got kicked out heres a quote from his affidavit the truth is that i was forced out because i was leading a wide ranging corruption probe into breeze mode ngs and natural gas in ukraine and joe biden. And biden was a member of the board of directors anyway let me move on with a few more relevant findings by a journalist from the hill who studied a bunch of emails then Ukrainian Government memo. It turns out the folks from a us p. R. Firm that represented breasts were really eager to get a meeting with the most senior prosecutors in kiev one a male claimed to have been sent by craning Embassy Diplomat to one of the people from the firm said this with regards to the missing some key i suggest that you wait until the next week when the reason the expected vote on the governments. Its been revealed that on the same day prosecutor shocking was shown the door the top guys of the p. R. Team once again got in touch with kiev and only took them several days to get a meeting with the new acting prosecutor general his memo suggests the folks that help bristol raise the changes at the Prosecutors Office the visiting side was surprised by the info and sent the Us State Department has completely different information describing the failure of the reforms at the Prosecutors Office but then they changed their mind and realized u. S. Officials were misinformed they also promised to hook up ukraines incoming Law Enforcement officials with ties to the state department and help organize a trip to the u. S. They informed me that they would seek to facilitate my visit to the u. S. To pass on the correct information to state department officials. After this man you were saying co officially took over from the acting prosecutor general step by step all proceedings against the firm where hunter biden had one of the top jobs began to vanish now back to mr biden seeing here and someone who used to meet him quite often as the head of ukraine according to the fired prosecutors testimony the president was pushing too on several occasions president poroshenko asked me to consider the possibility of winding down the investigative actions in respect of this company but i refused to close this investigation now where that would lead experts in conspiracy tagging or the us public as a whole i have no clue. Of voting close about 40 minutes ago in afghanistans president ial election on a day thats been marred by sporadic outbursts of insurgent violence and widespread voter intimidation at least 5 explosions and 3 missile attacks rocked polling stations in various parts of the country local media reporting that 3 people were killed and around 40 others injured the taliban says it was responsible as the 4th election since the us for simply removed the taliban from power in 2001 and the 1st since donald trump broke off peace talks with the Group Earlier this month more than 9000000. 00 people were registered to vote in this election although turnout is said to have been low figures show that only 20 percent of afghans believe that the vote will be free and fair. Afghan government currently controls slightly more than half of the country the rest is either under the taliban or contested there are about 5000. 00 polling stations that were open today down from the more than 7000. 00 which had initially been planned hundreds of them situated in dangerous areas afghan based journalist borders and the latest on the election. Today morning the elections kicked off however the turnout is very low in many parts of the country we have heard more than 20 blasts took place in the capital kabul in south or in kandahar province as well as in Logar Province and could this province the taliban are really no warrant to disrupt the process but you know despite all these threats spite all these insecurity the process hasnt which is a very big damage or a very big lets say obstacle to prevent you know the whole process but we could say that you know so far we have heard that 3 big attacks have been thwarted by the Government Forces because the Afghan Government announced more than 100000 Afghan Security forces are deployed to secure the process still they turn out overall turnout shows that people are scared off the going to the polling stations doing good c. Q. Their visit with. The. Visit to. Do that trying to see voters and for these kind of laws no one should be afraid of anyone who should vote for president because it is their right to vote the security rather. Than the goodwill of the vision and the security is good right now we are voting to have a democratic country on land should be peaceful in our people should be happy its more of a psychological wall of warfare because here we have heard from there from pakistan that our fatwa was issued. Address saying the Afghan People who want to try to you know vote so we have to wait and see tell the day. Is over because the afghan officials are waiting. Devoting a process to end and declare they are chief of mens or lets say their criticism that there has been address in the political process and also in kabul a Research Analyst at the center for conflict and peace studies outlined to us the complexities and challenges posed by todays election. I hope im wrong but we will enter through election crisis where the top contenders particularly the president his chief executive of the lobby and i would both refuse to accept the results so i think that point what the likely scenario would be that selection cannot be sorted out then lets have. An interim government where are the taliban are so. Happy about it in that it could give a chance to. Peace peace as well i think you know one of the key reasons for the taliban to not negotiate with one government is president only because in 2014 before the elections he made promises to them but once he took power. He could not fulfill those promises so i think thats a likely scenario where interim government will be created. After the election crisis come in so i think that would be the only solution in if you look at the reports that are coming that a Peace Process is going to start in a week it makes more sense for. Mass rallies demanding action over Climate Change have been held across canada with more than 300000. 00 marching in montreal alone climate activists aggressive tom burke and canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau also joined the rally during a private meeting between the pair she urged him to do more to save the environment. Meanwhile an undercover investigations found that Canadian Companies have been sending Plastic Waste overseas instead of recycling it at home canada exported more than 10000. 00 tonnes of it to malaysia in 2018 and its claimed that this is led to a drastic increase in the number of illegal processing plants that are. Inside this factory we see workers exposed to potentially toxic fumes without proper protection. Wherever this there are ways to malaysia ways where those plastic ways or whatever ways we will send it back and we will fight back even though we are a small country we cannot be bullied by a developed countries and we asked people of the climate march of montreal whether they were aware of whats happening with canadas waste. You know what happened months ago you can speculate no. I know pointing to a recent c. D. C. Report a lot of just plastic containers being shipped to malaysia where to get it i just wanted to get your response about how you. Feel so really feel ashamed but that we should take care of our. Dishes in a sense im sorry to hear that my building has not. Kept up with whats happened so. Its terrible for civil its if its shocking. We should do something about it long range. Should be you are looking as well will think. You could do a lot of things with respect to the last. Degree of lawlessness and i think should things here start someplace like a city where sort of send it over there where its just said as one company mentioned that the philippines has experienced similar problems to malaysia in recent years but president attends i put an end to the violations and sent tons of the rubbish back to canada as well as to other countries physicist and environmental scientists that he run course says canadian politicians only Pay Lip Service to him bottom mental concerns true or not such a hypocrite he would not be marching in montreal he would be making an announcement that theyre going to ban this kind of moral and improper behavior in the world which is to export you are toxic garbage most canadians do diligently recycle and they participate in the in that recycling programs and the as soon that their cities and governments are you know following how Companies Collect and store and recycle this material they cant imagine or they most canadians wouldnt wouldnt think that these companies are actually selling the materials off to distant lands to to the developing world kind. Freeze its nasty parker see is what were seeing now among our canadian politicians they dont do the real things that they have the power to do instead they would prefer to do token gestures like walking this march. You know without say from moscow still ahead a weight loss pill which is reportedly behind as many as 2000 deaths seize the drug make a face on that mock trial in france its all next story when we come back. Max geysers financial Survival Guide liquid assets now those that you can convert into account as quite easily. To keep in mind no assets are made to inflation to watch because theyre bored. More of the weekends world news for you now into a Health Scandal that rocked frogs a drugmaker verizon trial over a weight loss pill but something may have killed as many as 2000 people the drug in question is called mediator and it was introduced in 1976 for diabetics who were trying to lose weight france banned it 10 years ago but that was long after other European CountriesHealth Officials claim it could be a contributing factor in the deaths of patients those who survived say their lives have been ruined they stole my life i had just retired and thought i was going to begin a new life but they cant live in my house now i cant see anyone i get tired all the time so if you knew that it was so you poison the lucky ones like me are condemned to a slow death my life is ruined the truth was hidden from the patients a lie it was created thats why there are doctors pharmacologists and officials that are being accused of conflicts of interest we expect exemplary sanctions because whats at stake is not only what survey did its also about prevention because we cannot say today that these practices do not exist i refresh almost the 1st doctor who linked to the deaths with mediator she told us why this trial is so important. When that dont you suppose civic we have been waiting for this trial for many years because he has been announced and then it was always being delayed now im thinking about the victims some of them are not with us and one that they died without making it to the end of this trial it makes me feel so sorry and upset today the trial got in the way we see a very carefully crafted sequence of bringing the case to a tough indictment and a spreadsheet totally revealing the level of the tragedy more than 3700. 00 people have a right to compensation so whats the current thinking well its alleged that the pill caused the High Pressure in vessels that supply blood to the lungs which in turn delivers it to the left atrium of the heart causing a variety of problems its now reported that some of the deaths were the result of Heart Failure and cardiac arrest a lawyer for the drug maker those says the did not know about the side effects resulting in those heart problems are in fresh oil again believe the french people today have little trust in medical companies and that dangerous. Many scientific publications proved the toxicity which was just enough to be discovered that alone would be enough not to buy this lie from severe the criminal investigation in the victims interests is now underway but it is also in our interests it benefits decided to show that the pharmaceutical companies crimes if they are recognized this crimes by the 4th one go unpunished but today we french people want to trust any medication its necessary to understand what happened with the mistake by the health care regulators was and how the lab was cheating and we have to learn from that and everybody must remember the. Victims of oppression in sudan are accusing a major french bank of complicity in human rights abuses in the country. Sudans de facto central bank during a period when widespread right violations by the regime were being carried out in the country from correspondent takes a look at the accusations. Charges. And genocide linked to the conflict in Sudans Darfur region have long been made against the countrys former president bashir but now an alliance of human rights organizations waltzed to broaden the responsibility to include french bank b. M. P. We call on the french authorities to promptly open an investigation to determine whether b. N. P. Is criminally responsible for its dealings with sudan 2 out of knowing plaintiffs have waived their right to remain anonymous they are my son an activist who spoke out against the government he was injured during an attack on his village in darfur later arrested and beaten and he says he saw close relatives shot and killed the 2nd is how our silly who was kidnapped by jun 2 we force is a loyal to the former Sudanese Government she was shot tortured and so 100. 00. We members executed so why did they hold the bank responsible for what has happened to them the hind the greatest crimes and Human Rights Violations that there is always money by granting the sudanese regime access to International Money markets b. N. P. Power allowed the government to function pay its staff military and Security Forces make purchases abroad all while sudan was a pariah on the International Scene for planning and committing crimes in darfur and the coins were horrific widespread Human Rights Violations between 20022008 led to the deaths of more than 300000 sudanese civilians b. M. P. Power to sit down and defacto central bank giving the former government access to International Money markets thats according to the u. S. Department of justice the complainants say that despite substantial evidence of such crimes they have largely gone on punished we want to make the voices of sudanese victims heard through this complaint to this day they have been denied the possibility of justice whether in sudan before the International Criminal court or in the u. S. That reference to the u. S. Relates to a previous case against b. M. P. Past about the violation of u. S. Sanctions partly for its dealings with sudan back in 2014 the banks settled that case for a record 8900000000. 00 following so why did the money end was it used to compensate the victims who had been identified and submitted their testimonies quite simply. Before these testimonies could be taken into account the u. S. Congress passed a law that diverted the b. N. P. Power of us find to american victims of terrorism leaving the sudanese and other victims without any form of redress for the harm they suffered and which the bank is believed. You have played a role so with the money in the pockets of the americans and the sudanese victims now making another attempt to receive restitution this time here in france thats because its allowed for corporations to be prosecuted if theyve played a role in crimes committed abroad r. T. Asked to be in for a statement it is yet to respond to that request the paris tribunal must now decide if this new complaint warrants a criminal investigation into b. M. P. Power involvement any case though is likely to prove complex and lengthy meaning the victims still have a long way to go before they may feel that theyve received any justice. Party paris. Just before we go we are back that was the message from tens of thousands of hong kong as they gathered on saturday to mark 5 years since the start of the citys umbrello revolution the time we counted beijing campaign of civil disobedience and also represents a continuation of this summers prodemocracy demonstrations. I Security Forces quickly tried to disperse the crowds with Water Cannons some demonstrators threw bricks and other objects of offices today as if and was fully authorized by the authorities it was organized by the civil human rights front which is pull millions on the streets in recent months. And that i would like from moscow so father south of there thanks for watching your next update from us is in just over half an hour to see that. The world is driven by a. Person. Thinks. We dare to ask. Through our media to play just one game so sudden this somebody comes and another and they dont know what to do with it you know their best hope is to temporize to continue on to the next American Election if trump is all with this idea of relief because the democrats saw it it disposed towards the Islamic Republic so you know maybe we can go back to the old james. Quietly give you consistent as i quietly you believe the impression that i must. School. That is if she warned you and i do. 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Congressional candidates challenging the status quo ahead of the 22. 00 idea lection with a democratic candidate didnt North Carolina campaigning for a socialist america dollars or more coming up in todays going underground but 1st today the country britain and the United States bombed catalyzing the killing wounding or displacing of millions goes to the polls what happens in afghanistan has shaped the course of the 21st century from 911. 00 towards all around the world while the us is Brown University estimates around 150000 were killed after 911. 00 in afghanistan the u. K. Saw 13000. 00 of its own soldiers killed or wounded there the International Criminal court dropped all investigations into Coalition War crimes earlier this year after Donald Trumps top diplomat mike pompei o effectively banned Court Members from traveling to the usa im announcing a policy of u. S. Peace restrictions on those individuals directly responsible for any i. C. C. Investigation of u. S. Personnel so todays afghan elections take place amidst deliberate u. S. Attempts to curb International Law as well as taliban claims washington is interested only in perpetual conflict mr barak is the problem is that he says you are. 1000 dollar well so if big kill thousands of us why we cannot kill one of them were 2 of them so with this to go away he would have 2 different i would simply have to different people who look different to the north of people up on the bridge over there but we are with a bunch more really what we have 2 different people it was not always like this in fact 911 only happened 2 days after the al qaeda its as a nation of after