Democratic president ial candidate and Michael Bloomberg admits that his campaign has used prison labor there employed by a firm the run call centers from a private u. S. Prison for women to drum up support for his 2020 election run. About this when the reporter called us but as soon as we discovered which friend done this we immediately ended our relationship with the company and the people who hired them imagine being so reach you have people who have people who have prisoners to do stuff for you. Being so rich you dont even bother to check what you are spending millions of dollars on. Rita rating we sat in did when we learn a vendor of a vendor of a vendor use prison labor we did know about it and we never would have allowed it we dont believe in this practice and we immediately stopped working with pro com and the people who hired them so how do you do it pay someone to pay someone to tell them Mike Bloomberg is a big spender he was last to do in the president ial race and he has already outspent all the other democrat candidates on Campaign Advertising i mean the guy has so much money he doesnt seem to have the time to check what he spent a good dog but they his credit Michael Bloomberg did promise america more work just to. Get ahead. For president jobs create. Problems. Right america more jobs even if you dont particularly want them what makes it much much worse is that many of the prisons in the states a private run for profit and there are laws that force people to work so if you are in a jail and you are told to work you have to youll be punished sometimes they pay you as much as 20. 00 a month thats right 20. 00 a month now heres the irony Mike Bloomberg billionaire one of the richest people in america was essentially paying for what is a slave labor to cool people apparently tell them that easy good god wait the bloomberg is he was paying someone to pay someone to tell everyone what a good guy he is trump says he wants to run the nation like hes running is business god help us. Everybody says stuff that comes back to bite them but when billionaires do it its generally an order of magnitude. It gets. Worse the further you dig when he launched his campaign his media Bloomberg News sent out a letter thousands of its journalists pledging to uphold its principle of not investigating its own this is the sort of person mike is Mike Bloomberg started as a middle class kid to work its way through college and built a business from a single room to a global entity creating tens of thousands of could paying jobs along the way. There he couldve he probably shouldve but he didnt let me continue he became richer year after year he made really a selling bank is ludicrously priced products all gadgets the same bankers who through un bridled greed set off the 2008 financial crash the provident tens of millions of people those of life savings and jobs. Michael bloomberg for president i investigated journalist Dave Lindorff believes that despite bloomberg vast wealth he doesnt particularly measure up as a strong democratic candidate. It really shouldnt be acceptable for anybody liberal or conservative to use prison labor its forced labor bloomberg is a multibillionaire hes worth like 54000000000. 00 hes made his money by you know not paying attention to things like that. That hes not concerned about the little guy. Which i guess becomes you know if youre if youre supposedly a democrat youre concerned about the. Enormous apocrypha see it a big problem i think its going to hurt him a lot i dont know where people get the idea that bloomberg is the great savior for democrats in the race in the race to get struck he has almost no poll support all he has is money. Billionaires have not traditionally done that well running for office its. You know you got to have money to run for president but when you have that much money i think that most people are pretty suspicious of your motives in running for office. In the western world enjoy an opioid addiction crisis many african nations struggling to get enough legal medication to relieve the pain of patients. I did. Before getting morphine. And she was not even able to take the medication because a. Weve both been in management. Human rights people dying in open country in that community in the. Human rights. Crisis that has featured far fewer headlines. International attention is the nonmedical use of the painkiller tramadol particularly now for gun. Control is a substance of growing concern particularly in North Central and west africa regions of africa now account for 87 percent of pharmacies cry proces worldwide and not the recent rises jew almost entirely. The trafficking in charge. Of the numbers are pretty stark the International Narcotics control board says the majority of morphine used is consumed by just 17 percent of the worlds population who live in western parts of the world the same time african and Asian Countries can only satisfy a tiny fraction of their medical opioid needs political analyst Alessandro Bruno says at the end of the day its all about money. Hermas Suitable Companies are businesses big businesses with many salaries to pay they need and a lot of them are listed in the stock market in other words they have shareholders they have to take care of so because these western companies focused on the expensive medicines theyve reduced the availability and demand for the natural keep wants thats why the subject of morphine again is such a not just controversial its unusual its something that people dont talk about very much its sad to say its cynical but lyme stick a 2nd seat to profits and earnings and the the entire capitalist system contributes to that its always a matter especially since in the last 25 years. Stock Market Performance has taken precedence over everything else. With the National Strike in france over a proposed Pension Reforms heading into it for now a dance troupe in paris is stepping out of the federal to the streets to make their feelings clear. Path. What the girls have shown you with swanley is 15 years of sacrifice the 2nd its nearly word every day every morning i could see and there is a limit to how long its possible to remain at that level if you want to continue to see pretty dancers on stage you cant go along of one till theyre 64 so its not impossible it perhaps the most beautiful protest that carries this but i dont see what actions like behind them they had that is right. Culture. And now the latest single. Pension report by the french government to destroy its now takes a hit show supporters sign up and they according to process independent Pension Advisory Committee describe our Pension System this thing called sustainable this is the only way to like i mentioned that basically at least my system now forms a definite will write its importance and until it arrives in the next is nothing its done while the focus may be off from its right now over time a crisis is a global problem some like it slowed to a fine but its the baby boom but chip ration continues to wear tight Pension Systems across the world a straining on the price of costs as a result of the countries to have been slowly raising that time back to or warning of soaring up tension since the problem is that the demographics have changed in 1906 when the system was invented you had people paying for one pension and today youve got 1. 7 people think when the pension the circles that is completely unsustainable so it needs to be recalled and i basically i think youve got all these demonstrations of people saying yes but not yet you know not now i dont want to be the best one to to have the worst situation so its clear that he was right on that as you know there will be more money to retire on well not so fast according to process independent Pension Advisory Committee this is the see all of the situation is that perhaps its doing is the clintons government is suggesting its own findings showed that the over whole cost of front susPension System has in fact stabilized even reduced and that huge deficit the government to this be warning about could just be a blip shrinking down to 5000000000 you rates by 2030. So this is a misery presented to for the public government one of its 1st measures of world was to suppress a tax on words and mccoist was called earlier by the french the president of the rich but if you tax bill you know so you must not forget to add an Exchange Controls in order to occur for tax evasion because there is a lot of the leniency with specs evasion in this country but very very few people trust people want this new feudal american style dystopia that is the very program of president franklin but i dont want that absolutely new days of strike action have already been announced that france has this standoff with the unions that its been using in the meantime artists and performers time to time and just see it beat to scare away that way. And dance is helping one teacher and garner get his students to study better his story is here our take on friday. You know. What. I love he does because he makes me happy this is a story from going on about people who just love to. My name is sucky im not on social media to jackson. Sr im 25 she is screwed by leaking a little quote im a trainee teacher. In russia good to be true friend of course. He wants to bring guns into every classroom in the world. And i. Am. A britain hasnt left the European Union yet but with things dragging on for so long some of decided to take matters into their own hands and split from brussels themselves at least in the grocery aisles. To morrisons to see if these taste any better tried brussels sprouts. This problems have the right to their own identity they are from yorkshire so there. Im self identifying as a yorkshire sprouts in solidarity even though im from lancashire theyre one with you in a sprout. Sprouts taste really nice if theyre cute in the salty tears of remain are. Many of our customers are interested in knowing where their food comes from lincolnshire sprouts lincolnshire sprouts because theyre from lincolnshire yorkshire sprouts are called yorkshire browns because theyre from yorkshire many of our customers like to know them. Australia continues to burn and bake with record breaking temperatures and wildfires but the Prime Minister has been out defending the coal industry same by environmentalists as a group because of Climate Emergency its our next story and 90 seconds. Join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and ill be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see you then. Im one who will ever argue that there are words the end of the word the victims its also important to also distinguish the fact that whenever we have a crime. Genocide and other cases of genocide. That were talking about issues confronting it and injustice and reparations for it are important it is important to confront the crimes wherever they happen but it shouldnt be means to dilute you know the experience of. It in this particular case of the. Deadly forest fires in southeast australia have been raging for almost 2 months now with firefighters facing extreme conditions against them to record heat wave with temperatures predicted to stay in the high 30 to 40 celsius over the weekend and into early next week as of now 5000000 hectares of land been burned nationwide in australia over the past few months 9 people have lost their lives and more than 150 homes have been destroyed smoke from the fires has blanketed the countrys largest city sydney pollution that has crossed the critical mark sometimes 11 times higher than the life threatening threshold. On friday environmental activists gathered outside the. Residents of australias Prime Minister calling for stronger action to fight Climate Change justice blocked central streets and said demanding that australia declare a Climate Emergency heres how the Prime Minister explained the situation. A strategy is taking action on Climate Change what we why do is engage in reckless and job destroying an economy crunching targets which is being seeking to be postured to us at the moment. Graeme sawyer from the Australian Association for Environmental Education believes that the government is putting industry 1st. Weve always had farmers but weve never had fires like that and part of the issue is really bad environmental policy over a long period of time which is allowed the country to get out of out of shape i think the big reason why theyre defending the coal industry is because the coal industry over many many years is bored so very close to government and a lot of money supporting governments got a little lobbyist and stuff working with governments on these issues the real issue i think is that they get a significant amount of revenue from the coal industry jobs in the coal industry not that significant when you look at the industries across the whole economy it seems to be an excuse to me i mean theyre not showing any great signs of caring about the environment so i think theres a lot of people in this country who are being given to be quite couple by the fires and the really big issue is going to be how bad it is well the end of march the. U. S. Sanctions the doping scandal surrounding russian athletes and britains exit from the e. U. Just a few of the topics weve been discussing with the Russian Economic Development minister and you can watch the full year end round of after this polity. What we believe in that the problems within you that states and shane that are very long term in the church so we see more conflicts not only in treated here but they can happen in many other areas what i would like to attract your attention to is the problem of the extra territorial sanctions coming from the United States and its you know it big problem for the ward as a whole its being named as a problem not only from all sides but already from the european save my view is that the clean athletes should be able to be present on the global audience because it will be fair for them. Just or for you to see it in the cheery alexina which is a very good story you know already it kind of you know serial which lasts for a. Bit less than a week left of 29000. 00 at start taking a look at the gauge is gone with polly boy and the r. T. Online series in case you missed it. As i see why my guide to the year that was january got brazil off on the right wing tract when this guy nationalist. Naro was sworn in as president of south americas largest nation a hostile takeover was launched at the start of 2019 in venezuela when this guy one guy go challenge the authority of the elected mr. Surprise surprise why dont have the backing of the u. S. And its allies planned benevolent regime change didnt work out in cities across france the Yellow Vest Movement continue to bash things up every weekend demanding that the french president emmanuel build them an economically rosy future instead march saw a brutal acts of terror and take place in new zealand when a psycho right wing not broke into a mosque in and lifestream the manager of tens of innocent civilians on facebook moving into april wiki leaks Julian Assange toft out of londons Ecuadorian Embassy and the west by British Police in was going to be. All evictions the world was shocked when paris is not true don cathedral the home of the hunchback from that disney film fell victim to a fire that store its roof and spire collapse and this moment was probably peak 2019 a comedian with no political experience and literally had played the role of an ordinary man who accidentally becomes president was elected president of ukraine 2019 brought us an escalating us china trade war donald trump employees. Of chinese that sports and washington officially blacklisted one way the chinese target giant slash major threats to apple the gulf was getting tense to. Ainge inmates iran announced that it would stop complying with parts of the 2015 iranian deal im going to start enriching you radium again while in india and then run for mayor do you want a 2nd term as Prime Minister by a landslide in indias general election in june the orange one touchdown in london on the phone 7 Royal Treatment just 3 days later after 3 years of failing to deliver braggs its u. K. Prime minister to resign may officially threw in the towel and all traces of civility she now sees the process the poisoned chalice of brags that someone else. Citizens of hong kong started hitting the streets in west a dented numbers angered by a chinese extradition law and. Then the summer news lol was interrupted by news of the death of a famous banana and establishment jeffrey at the guy with secrets about everyone had been awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges but he was mysteriously found dad in his jail cell in new york triggering conspiracy theories. To the end of summer paul is going to take us through the rest of 2950. 00 want to watch. Stories of the year look. Tired of the real world almost 7 months of protests in hong kong the actions moved online instead of crashing on the real streets of the city rival sides have found another place to settle schools new digital destruction complainer. I dont blame you for not having the guts to throw to the police in reality. You dont have the guts to. Returning to. The fire only burn brighter and again are we ready. Thats how it looks from moscow this thursday december the 26th thanks for watching next summing up again of global highs and lows im looking ahead to 2020 with russias Economic Development minister. Stacey are continuing on our south american tour and as you can see behind me we are in Rio De Janeiro oh my god so beautiful so much going on this is a country in transition. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy. Let it be an arms race. Spearing dramatic developments only mostly. I dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. You know world of big. Law 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. And 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. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation community. Good in the right way for you being so. What is true. Is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the death. Or remain in the shallows. I guess its become a great tradition just before new years eve to talk to someone who is in charge of where the russian economy is go and were here in the Russian Ministry of Economic Development once again the Christmas Trees right here to talk with minister but he might have been good morning and what a great to do that one more time lets begin with the news from the last few days and focus on the nord stream to pipeline project in the baltic sea for months the message from russian officials has been that pretty much nothing can stop a project that is almost all but complete many experts were saying that these sanctions are only aimed at the domestic audience is just a trick before the elections to show that pressure is being put on russia but now the measures are in place and russia finds itself in a position a very tricky one that technically it doesnt have the capabilities to finish the pipeline project so what does that say about how much moscow is able to come up with plan b. Plan c. Etc well there was there was already extensive comments there that coming from president bush whom is to cause a friendship and