And watching our to International Coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 6 pm welcome to the program. Democratic president ial candidate Michael Bloomberg has admitted his campaign made use of prison labor although the billionaire claims he was unaware it was happening it seemed hired a firm to help with his 2020 alexion run which in turn employed female inmates to call up voters. About this when the reporter called us which 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 prism as to do stuff for you. Being so rich you dont even bother to check what you are spending millions of dollars on. Rita reading we sad indeed 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 stop 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 Democratic 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 theres credit Michael Bloomberg did promise america more work just to. Get it. For president jobs creator. 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 to 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. Cmon 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 to 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 his 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 to stop there. He probably shouldnt but he didnt let me continue he became richer year after year he made really a selling bank is ludicrous lee price tried gadgets the same bankers who through unbridled greed set off the 2008 financial crash the provident tens of millions of people of whom as of life savings and jobs. Michael bloomberg for president. Investigative journalist Dave Lindorff believes that despite bloomberg vast wealth he is not a particularly strong 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 and which i guess becomes you know if youre if youre supposedly a democrat youre concerned about the little guy and. Enormous a packer see it a big problem because 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 against trump 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. Parts of the western world and are an opioid addiction crisis many african nations are left struggling to get enough legal medication to relieve the pain of patients. I do go with. The big boys in the end she was not even able to take the medication in the puzzle. Weve both been in management. Human rights aid for people dying in pain in the country in that community in the. Human rights. Crisis that has featured far fewer have. International. Medical use of the painkiller tramadol particular number. Control is a substance of growing concern particularly in North Central and west africa regions of africa now account for 87 percent of pharmacies by proces worldwide and not the recent rises genome or centauri. Its a trafficking. To me shooting hoeing. The numbers are stark the International Narcotics control board says the majority of all morphine is used in consumed by just 17 percent of the worlds population who live in western parts of the world at the same time african and Asian Countries can only satisfy a tiny fraction of their medical needs political analysts also under berner says at the end of the day its all about money. Karma Suitable Companies out of business is 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 bill of build the and demand for the natural keep want 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 it cynical but lives tick 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. But the National Strike in france over proposed Pension Reforms heading into its 4th week a dance troupe in paris is stepping out of the theatre and onto the streets to make their feelings hurt. But to the point last of us all to what the girls have shown you with swan lake is 15 years of sacrifice and its daily work every day every morning 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 they cant go on until theyre 64 its not possible and perhaps the most beautiful protest that paris seen at this step but they dont see is what actually striking behind them they had fattest the bread culture in danger and now the latest to sink so and to report by the french government this right is now in tickets you can get it shipped from someone and they according to process intended advice to spy on our Pension System is being unsustainable this is the only way to like i mentioned basically at least not system. Forms and until it reaches the next. And nothing was done while the focus may be off from its right now time is a problem some like to slow to a point is the baby blue chip ration continues to be tight Pension Systems force the world just raining on the white house as a result of the countries to have been slowly raising that a toilet or cooling of sewerage the tension that exists and the problem is that the demographics have changed in 1946 when the system was invented and you have. People paying for one pension and today you got one too. With 7 people going for ones attention to circles that is completely unsustainable so it needs to be rethought 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 1st one to to have a worse situation so its clear that he was right. As. More money to retire on well not so fast according to process independent pension advice it is to see a lot the situation is that perhaps it is the clintons government has been suggesting its own fight that showed that the overall cost of frances cage system has in fact stabilized even reduced and that huge deficit government to this warning about could just be a blip shrinking down to 5000000000 you rates by 2030 so this is a misery percentage of for the public government one of its 1st measures of world was to suppress a tax on words. Its called 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 curb the toxic evasion because there is a lot of the leniency with stex evasion in this country but very very few people trudge people want this new feudal american style dystopia that is the very program of president franklin but dont want that absolutely new days of strike action have already been announced that france has this standoff between unions and the gaps that its been using in the meantime parties. Are determined to see the bait to scare away and. Meanwhile dance is helping one teacher and gonna get his students to study harder his story airs here on r. T. On friday. You know. What weve got is. I love he does because he makes me happy this is a story from guyana about people who just love to. My name is. Im not on social media mr jackson. Im joined by she is screwed by leaping on quote im a trainee teacher. From. The right track get to trim pretty close if you. Do you want to bring dance into every classroom in the world. I did it. With britain yet to free itself from the European Union and the brics that process dragging on some have decided to take matters into their own hands and split from brussels themselves at least in the grocery aisles. Most emotions 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 the one from lancashire the one with you in a sprout. Youre sure sprouts taste really nice if theyre cute in the salty tears of remain or. Many of our customers are interesting knowing where the food comes from lincolnshire sprouts lincolnshire sprouts because theyre from lincolnshire. Yorkshire sprouts because theyre from yorkshire many of our customers like to know them. As parts of australia continued to be ravaged by wildfires the Prime Minister is coming under increasing pressure to adopt greener policy is all about story and more after this short break. Is your media a reflection of reality. In the world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. By. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or inmate in the shallowness. And stacey our 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 can transition. Welcome back to the program u. S. Sanctions the dopping scandal surrounding russian athletes and britains exit from the e. U. As are just a few of the topics weve been discussing with the Russian Economic Development minister and an interview airing throughout the day here on r. T. But for now heres a quick taste. What we believe in that the problems with him you that its facing sure in the very long term so we see more conflicts not only in treated here. But it can happen in many other areas what i would like to attract your attention to is the problem of the. Extra 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 outside but already from the european save my view is that the clean athletes should be able to be present on the global because it would be fair for them. Just for you to see it in the chair relax and which is a very good story its you know already it kind of you know serial which lasts forever as. Deadly forest fires in southeast australia have been raging for almost 2 months now with firefighters facing extreme conditions against them a record heat wave with temperatures predicted to stay in the high thirtys to 40 celsius over the weekend and into early next week 5000000 have takers of land have been burned nationwide over the past few months 9 people have lost their lives and more than 150 homes have been destroyed smoke from the fires have blanketed the countrys largest city sydney air pollution there has crossed the critical mark sometimes 11 times higher than the life threatening threshold. Ok. On saturday environmental activists rallied in sydney to condemn their Prime Ministers decision to go on vacation while parts of the country were engulfed by bushfires many of those gathered were also calling for stronger action to fight Climate Change responding to the crisis and criticism Scott Morrison had this to say in defense of his governments climate policy. A strategy is taking action on Climate Change what we want to is engaged 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 that believes the government is putting industry 1st weve always had farmers but weve never had flaws like that and part of the issue is really bad environmental policy over a long period of time on 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 the 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. With less than a week left of 21000. 00 lets start taking a look at the year just gone with playboy and art is online serious 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 joe challenge the far right see all of the elected mr. Surprise surprise quite a who had 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 out every weekend demanding that the french president emanuel build the 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 face moving into april wiki leaks Julian Assange toft out of londons Ecuadorian Embassy and arrested by British Police in was going to be. Fiction 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. Collapsed 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 maybe 2019 brought us an escalating us china trade war donald trump employees. Of chinese that sports and washington especially blacklisted one away the chinese target giant slash major threats to aapl the gulf was getting tense too for a chain. Inmates iran announced that it would stop complying with thoughts of the 2015 iranian deal i would start enriching you radium again while in india and render modi won a 2nd time as Prime Minister by a landslide in indias general election in june the orange one touched down in the phone 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 western dented numbers angered by a chinese extradition law and the law then the summer news law 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. Both got us to the end of the summer and paul i will take us through the rest of. If you want to watch unleashed on the stories of the year in case you missed it on you tube. Thats our global news update for this hour but dont forget you can always had to our website dot com for the details on all both stories and many more. Same camera can use to someones head is the same camera can use to build the my home but thats a human choosing what to do with me expressing my values with a tool thats what we need to do with Artificial Intelligence and swill. 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Guys are this is the kaiser report max and stacey are continuing our south american tour and as you can see behind me we are in korea de janeiro mike so beautiful so much going on this is a country in transition i think stacey well that of course is sugarloaf back there behind you one of the most famous scenes of Rio De Janeiro we are here just as slap those tariffs on brazil for a legend really manipulating their currency but just like argentina of course they arent manipulating their currency theyre having a hard time maintaining the value of their currency not as bad as argentina here of course but of course but also narrow their new president you know hes been in office for a year hes a huge family of trump so the word on the street is how much he was humiliated by trump tweeting this out without informing him 1st yeah he was totally in shock with those tariffs that were applied and thats the world of trumps of also don is to get with the program i also want to say like when we arrived at the airport here in Rio De Janeiro it like 3 in the afternoon i was surprised that we route literally the only 2 in the immigration line quite a few behind us had you know gone through the International Transfer line but nevertheless it was much quieter than i thought it would be i expected like boomtown this is a Southern Hemisphere for their summer our winter up north i thought it would be more people here more tourists and something that i wasnt sure what that was about but it was quite shocking yeah i was shocked to learn that actually in Rio De Janeiro its not really a big boom iii touristy place and that would be an area of potential growth right i mean this very famous people had the idea of coming to rio and on the beach and all this stuff is very in peoples minds and they would dream of coming here but in fact the tourism industry. It is not really work could be due to a certain lack of infrastructure etc so that could be an area of big growth it could also be all the headlines in the news about the violence throughout rio it is one of the deadliest i believe the deadliest states of brazil and theres like 22 states here and i think there were Something Like 6000 or 6000 murders in 2019 so you know mary baker from chicago can come down here during the winter and the murder rate would be roughly equivalent yes a lot sunnier but also there has been an ongoing Corruption Case member the carwash case that poll then. Lula and other major figures here so when we landed there was this headline this could be really interesting Rio De Janeiros ex governor currently facing about is illian years of jail for corruption has reportedly signed a plea bargain deal just imagine the size of the fishes who must be involved in this whistleblowing for that have been offered hes been sentenced so Something Like 266 years in prison for you know