Pharmaceutical Company Johnson and johnson to pay 527000000. 00 for oklahomas Opioid Epidemic. And why afghans are expressing 100 years of independence from british rule through art. Theres hope of a breakthrough after months of tensions between the u. S. And iran the french president emanuel mack wrong has offered to broker a conversation between donald trump and the iranian president Hassan Rouhani trying to salvage something from the 2050 nuclear deal the u. S. Leader appeared optimistic about the idea of moving the relationship forward that wraps up whats been happening on the final day of the g. 7 summit. The prospect of a meeting between us who were a new president was not am likely outcome of the g 7 in berates but as the summit came to an end its host the french president suggested talks between donald trump and Hassan Rouhani were possible. At some point there has to be a meeting between the iranian president and the us president i hope that in the next few weeks this meeting will take place france plays a role along with the other partners who signed the iran deal trump who pulled the u. S. Out of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal last year and imposed sanctions said he was open to diplomacy were looking for Nuclear Weapons globalist missiles and a longer period of time very simple we can have it done in a very short period of time. And i really believe that iran can be a great nation id like to see that happen the development came one day after the unexpected arrival of the Iranian Foreign minister in berates jihads our reef was invited by the french president who had been asked by some g 7 leaders to mediate in the crisis. Trust conciliatory tone was also extended to trade he said beijing and washington could begin talks to resolve the tariffs dispute going into this summit a man or mackerel said he wanted to use it to make progress on the escalating tensions over iran and trade to help tackle the amazon rain forest fires and hell divisions using multilateral cooperation at the end of the 3 day meeting it seems the french president has succeeded on several fronts they were unresolved issues though the u. K. s Prime MinisterBoris Johnson received only a vague promise of a future trade accord with the u. S. And was no nearer to a deal on breaks it with the European Union i think its the job of everybody in parliament to get this thing done and that is what the people want by the way its what our friends and partners on the other side of the channel want they want they want this thing done they want they want it over last year trump refused to sign the final g 7 statement this year has scrapped it replacing it with a one page summary of the meeting so with no commitments in writing the challenge will be to. Compel leaders to act on the thoughtful promises they have made such a butler aljazeera spirits. Brazil has rejected an offer of 20000000 dollars from g 7 leaders to help tackle the fires burning in the amazon an aide to the president travels on the road told local media the money would be better spent in europe earlier mr paulson r. O. Said the suggestion of creating an International Audience to save the rain forest reached brazil like a colony series of reports now from the state of mato grosso one of the hardest hit areas. This place may now look like a golf course but it was once a muscle in jungle. Located in the state of mind a little fall in the center of brazil decades of deforestation have this a profitable area for agribusiness and thats why the recent fires affecting the amazones are not surprising to people like blue another sun dos. Every year there are fires but the situation is worse now because of Climate Change and the president he basically tells people to go and cut down trees and nothing will happen to them the data we have here shows the heat and it can be verified whether its a fire he compares the maps of 2018 with what is happening this year millions of trees gone with the help of sea source and fire. The map shows us where the fires are we travel for 4 hours and arrive at one of the places that highlighted in parts of the amazon the burned areas have increased by 83 percent in just the past year fires are natural at this time of the year because of the dry weather the heat and the wind but environmentalists say that the sharp increase seen this year is due to farmers setting the forests allied to clear the land for pastures the problem is that in many cases those fires get out of control the brazilian law says that landowners can only cut down 20 percent of the tree. In their property but thats rarely enforced catalogs not his real name is a small farmer in the area hes afraid to show his face president who has repeatedly said he wants to open up the amazon for business cattle says that has encouraged people to burn more trees for the fiscal is us there are no controls nobody is watching what people are doing both or not or says he wants development and this is what development may bring there is no limits to ambition it is Everyone Wants more. Deeper in the forest its not difficult to find cut down trees hidden in the woods hiding from the satellites its the 1st step to conquer New Territories and extend the agricultural frontier for cattle and crops the government insists the situation is no worse than previous years but satellite imagery shows Something Different and thats why countries like germany and norway have halted all payments to the amazon fund at using the government of failing to protect the environment but enough of i. D. S. Has lived in this area his whole life he has been struggling to find a middle ground between preservation and development. The simplistic speech of the president that he is attacking n. G. O. S he is attacking families from here they want to take resources from n. G. O. S because we publish the truth he says we are attacking the country we can all Work Together for preservation and development somebody needs to explain to the government we are not the enemy government control is the only way to prevent the destruction of what is left of amazonia but what worries many here is that they claim the Central Government is purposely looking away that is how will. That matter good also. And as brazil struggles to control tens of thousands of fires people in peru are using brooms shovels and branches to fight back the flames there the countrys Civil Defense body says more than 140 hectors of forests in the a pretty much region have burned. A judge in the u. S. State of oklahoma has ruled the pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson helped fuel americas Opioid Epidemic the companys been ordered to pay 572000000. 00 in damages over its aggressive marketing of addictive painkillers and a galaxy has that story from Norman Oklahoma. Oklahoma set out to take on a pharmaceutical giant and after 7 weeks of evidence judge found bachmanns ruling was blunt and found that johnson and johnson is culpable in fueling an Opioid Crisis thats claimed more than 6000 lives in this state the crisis has ravaged the state of oklahoma in the s. B. And made it a bit immediately for this reason i am entering into a plan that consists of cost. 572000000 102028 dollars to a media living really a nuisance the case is being seen as a landmark ruling in dealing with a Health Crisis thats claimed tens of thousands of lives across the u. S. The centers for Disease Control and prevention say that in 2017 alone close 250000 people died from opioid overdoses lawyer Reggie Whitten was part of his legal team and lost his firstborn son to addiction i feel like im always looking their. Protest no but i think myself lost and theyre celebrating the day we got to get help. He says the kids lawyers for johnson and johnson say theyll appeal the decision calling it legally floored the States Lawyers were asking for 17000000000. 00 from the company but only got a fraction of that is the amount of money that johnson and johnson has been ordered to pay may not be what the state of oklahoma wanted but the message it sends is clear the judge in this case was unequivocal in blaming Big Pharmaceutical Companies in their role in an Opioid Crisis has blighted the lives of so many and with fountains of other cases across the country this may set an important precedent to what the pharmaceutical Companies Put do and tiva settle before this trial got underway with mondays ruling oklahoma now has close to a 1000000000. 00 for treatment and this is being seen as a huge victory by those that work on the front lines fighting the epidemic were very very happy this is a good day for the sake of oklahoma we took on a giant Major Pharmaceutical Company and a judge in Norman Oklahoma said you killed people its time to pay the case was being closely watched across the u. S. In ohio alone there are 2000 pending cases but after mondays ruling pharmaceutical Companies May now be forced to pay out billions and gallacher all this era Norman Oklahoma. Hong kong leader kerry has warned that the escalation of violence in antigovernment protests is becoming more serious peaceful protests turned violent over the weekend as the city enters its 12th week of demonstrations protesters are calling for a controversial extradition bill to be scrapped not just suspended and for them to resign but shes refusing to go and denies that the governments lost control of the territory. The question of resignation is also being that i think a responsible chief executive at this point in time should continue to hold the fort and do her utmost to restore law and order in hong kong some people have said that since there are continued violence we should stop communicating i said in my introductory remarks that that was also another too extreme view that we should prepare for reconciliation in society by communicating with different people so im saying that yes we have to say no to violence we want to put and to a chaotic situation in hong kong Law Enforcement and so on at the same time we will not give up on building a platform for dialogue. This was a regular weekly Media Briefing given by carrie lamb the chief executive of hong kong but it was the 1st time we have heard from her since the weekend when we saw what could probably be described as an escalation in the violence both on saturday and sunday we saw preapproved marches taking place in different parts of the city and whats becoming a pats in some protest is breaking away towards the end of those marches blocking roads resulting in the Police Taking action in the form of firing many rounds of tear gas in this Media Briefing there was again no sign whatsoever that carrie lamb is going to bow to the demands of the protesters even though she did say shes open to talks with them one of the key demands of the protesters is for an independent inquiry to be set up into the crisis specifically into the conduct of the police and kerry has said time and time again that the time is not right for an independent independent inquiry while there is violence still going on on the streets she was also asked again whether she would resign and she said that a responsible chief executive at this time should continue to hold the fort. And australian detained in china since january has been formally arrested on charges of espionage hes young enjoy he was a chinese diplomat before becoming a naturalized Australian Citizen in 2002 has been held for the last 7 months in harsh conditions and according to australias foreign minister Maurice Payne says the government has serious concerns about his well sir we have heard those reports and we are deeply concerned there. And disappointed to learn that that is the case he was he was formally arrested in china. In the last few days. Still to come here on aljazeera. The new Visa Conditions in ecuador leaving venezuelans fleeing crisis at home stranded. And dying to tell another journalist is killed in mexico as the u. N. Is better protection for reporters. And oh there it is holes and dry across much of the middle east want to base a piece of cloud across northern sections maybe even just a stray shot pushing across into georgia but it really is about the heat particularly in baghdad how much has been high for the last few days and staying that way said 48 celsius on tuesday maybe degree on wednesday and even in august that is actually well above the average me want a very nice 30 celsius in beirut and we should see 29 on wednesday in time as high further to the south as youd expect but here it is levels are also pretty hot the moment say 40 celsius in doha feeling a lot hotter than that and similarly across that have. To feel warmer than that value as well meanwhile as the soph you got to this a Coastal Cloud just pushing into a yemen and across into amman and some to linger as we go through the next couple of days that a warm dense a lot of with a high of 28 and talking of warm days well johannesburg theres a couple of those coming your way 26 ounces on tuesday also a once in those temperatures are about 7 degrees above the average meanwhile in cape town weve got this cat in the chance of you showers and thats keeping things a little bit cooler than average and then durban out about down choose day 23 degrees but cooling off day on both days you might just pick up a stray shower. On counting the cost this week we check the pulse of the Global Economy the age of populist governments is the independence of Central Banks comes under threat and the unintended consequences of trumps trade off plus the i. M. F. Warns on the missteps of brigs its trade were. Counting the cost on aljazeera. Were watching on to 0 minings pieces these are your headlines so far the u. S. President donald trump says hes willing to consider meeting his iranian counterpart arson with honey if the circumstances are right brazil has rejected an offer of 20000000 dollars of emergency aid from the g 7 countries to help tackle fires raging in the amazon president. Said an International Alliance to save the rain forest would be a form of colonization. And a judge in the u. S. State of oklahoma has ruled the pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson helps fuel an Opioid Epidemic has killed more than 400000 people the company has been ordered to pay 570 2000000. 00 in damages it says it will appeal. Discussing the kashmir dispute with indias Prime MinisterNarendra Modi on the sidelines of the g 7 mr trump has offered to mediate after new delhi revoked indian administered kashmir as semi autonomous states as earlier this month but he has now backtracked. Well we hope that. The Prime Minister. Really feels that only. Those with pakistan that they will be able to do stuff they will be very. Vocal about it right. Mr modi maintains the crisis in kashmir is a regional dispute and that International Mediation isnt required. By you all issues between india and pakistan are bilateral and thats why we dont trouble other countries over these. And im confident india and pakistan who will one before 947 can discuss problems between ourselves and resolve them pakistans Prime Minister imran khan used an address to the nation to express his frustration with india. They defied all the Un Security Council resolutions they win against their lord they went against their own Supreme Court and high courts decisions those who are the Founding Fathers like. They win against the promises made by Prime Minister nearer to the people of kashmir and they also went against this secure constitution which says that in the years for everyone in the creation of pakistan is wrong they ended that secularism on the 5th of august they seem to miss it saying that india is for hindus only and everyone else is a 2nd class and hundreds of venezuelan migrants have been protesting at the ecuador Colombia Border demanding they should be allowed into ecuador they were stranded there after new visa regulations came into effect on monday with an 85000. 00 bonus with migrants of crossed into ecuador from colombia in the past month seeing economic and political turmoil at home the sea and human reports now from in ecuador. Monday morning at the entrance to immigration at the ecuador Colombia Border. 12 hours earlier more than 10000 venezuelans had managed to enter ecuador with their identity documents before midnight deadline went into effect requiring them to hold a valid consular visa but hundreds more arrived too late. This family is being told that they must go back because they missed the midnight deadline. 1002 did get in the majority but no food and almost no money spent the freezing night outdoors hoping that the day break theyd receive a helping hand.