Were shot tuesday. I got a lot of protesters are angry over sudans struggling economy with tear gas. And calling on the youth why there is a special need for Young Workers at polling stations for this years president ial election. We will start with the crisis thats overcome so many communities in the u. S. Not coronavirus actually and this is the fight against opioid addiction in the past a few hours the u. S. Justice Department Says the drugs manufacturer pharma has pleaded guilty over its role in the countrys Opioid Epidemic and deal with the u. S. Government the company is pleading guilty to 3 federal criminal charges and will pay a fine of 8300000000. 00 share pretends he is following this one in washington d. C. What more details have you got she has. Right so those 3 those 3 charges are essentially about misleading the government about its activities and the manner in which. Was marketing opioids it would it falsely would tell the government that it had safeguards to ensure that its opioids really being prescribed and used in ways where they should be used obviously opioids do have a and the judgment medical purpose for people with chronic pain however heard you fall in the ninetys made a decision to Start Marketing their opioids as a cure all for all sorts of for all sorts of elements telling doctors that it wasnt even addictive even though the science shows that the it is enormously addictive but not only that paying doctors and pharmacists to prescribe oxycontin to millions of patients or thats what this this or this is all about so they say that they they admit to paying doctors to write more prescriptions they conspired to dispense opioids without a legitimate medical purpose that 8000000000. 00 figure that keeps being thrown around we should be very clear purview farmers are in bankruptcy so its very unlikely it will pay any. Anything more than a fraction of that amount which is why there is a certain amount of criticism about about whether this is all being rushed a bit too far whether weather whether alternative whether alternative measures could be being taken but some of the details say for example. The d. O. J. Point stupid you learning that one doctor was known by patients as the candy man and was prescribing crazy dosing of oxycontin yet heard you had Sales Representatives greet with that doctor more than 300 times you saw details coming out from the d. O. J. And those involved with this prosecution a clearly very satisfied. The unlawful dangerous scheme profits over people by seeking to increase scripts for addictive jaros even when they were not medically appropriate and at the height of the u. S. Opioid crisis a time when in vermont where im from and across the country people were suffering under opioid addictions that sometimes ended in death and so many of those addictions stories began with oxy cotton it is wrong and we hope that guilt produce guilty plea will send a message that the department of justice will not allow big pharma and big tech to engage in illegal conduct that corrupts the doctor patient relationship she had when we say Opioid Epidemic in the United States how big is that just for a view as outside of the country or maybe arent aware of the scale of it all. Well we got we have figures from the government here which suggested 470000 people since 2000 have died as a result of addiction and overdose i just found some new figures actually from the health and Human Services agency 2 out of 3 Drug Overdose deaths in 2018 involved and opioid but this is a really interesting interesting number terrifying number in 2018 an estimated 10300000 people age 12 or older misused opioids in the past year 6 specifically 9900000 people misused prescription pain relief it really was like but like you were talking about an 808000 people used heroin and thats also a really interesting angle to this is because having been prescribed prescription opioids when a lot of patients either couldnt afford their prescriptions anymore because of the for Profit Health care system here in the u. S. Or were denied them because they didnt really need them so Many Americans then turned to the black market heroin fenton though so it wasnt in some ways the opioids that the Purdue Pharma were encouraging doctors to prescribe then became a gateway drug to the drug abuse using illegal substances like heroin and fentanyl this is what was just so damaging across the u. S. She had on the political side of things is there significance in the fact that this is being pushed through by the d. O. J. The department of justice just 2 weeks before the president ial election. Theres been a lot of reporting already done which suggests the d. O. J. Of the trumpet ministration in particular was very keen to reach a settlement before the election so that donald trump can go particularly to rural areas where opioid addiction was particularly high although the nationwide and say look i promised you we would crack down on Nuclear Addiction on the big pharma and other you know the Campaign Promise and here it is weve got Purdue Pharma to pay 8000000000. 00 and admit their guilt however as i suggested earlier the a lot of state attorney general saying no this is too soon for a start to follow the Sackler Family the sakhalin name you make seal around the world on culture institutions that money that the cyclist only made was from opioids they had a direct role in the marketing the whole strategy of marketing oxycontin theyre not really being held accountable these are just spread sheet numbers as the cost of doing business as things stands partly because per who is in is in bankruptcy proceedings asako family and Corporate Executives avoiding prosecution themselves criminal prosecutions themselves for the moment and lots of other legal legal. Processes on the way there they say look this is too soon were still getting depositions from the Sackler Family from others about how much they made what their involvement is and youve already settled and that there is that suspicion that this isnt really holding anyone to account its too soon and its for trust political gain and once again as we often see in the us these at least fines turn out to be just a cost of doing business for companies that have a billions and billions of dollars and caused enormous amounts of damage she had her times the reporting from washington d. C. She had thank you. Lets look at nigeria where protests against Police Brutality were protesters defying a 24 hour curfew as well as a call for calm directly from the president mohamed bihari. Security forces in lagos opened fire on wednesday morning after several demonstrators were reportedly shot dead on tuesday in another part of nigerias commercial capital a large fire was burning at a bus station. And then there are these videos emerging of men in uniform opening fire killing people in lagos on tuesday they are in uniform as you say but Security Forces are denying any involvement here is in a budget with more. Security officers are still out on the streets so some individuals many of them weve seen over the last few hours weve seen videos of some people even going into peoples house trying to break into their cars break into rooms apart from the violence weve seen earlier today they want reports of a section of the Nigerian Port Authority building in a set on fire and weve also seen how a television station was burned a large section of it was a set of beliefs by some people and then the identified people protesters say its not them one of the independent channel was for most of the ad because of what it called impending attack on the i need to operations in lagos eventually after a few always the television station is back on and now and weve also seen how apart from that bus station with also seen how people have been running helter skelter that means that the protests are still going on in lagos despite the run around the clock car fuel being put in place the governor has addressed the lagos state community asking them to calm down asking for patience while this is being sorted out. There are protests in sudan as well with Security Forces have fired tear gas at people complaining about the cost of living the annual inflation rate hit a record peak of more than 200 percent last month Transitional Governments struggle to revive sudans economy after the overthrow of president of the shia last year morgan with more from him. Protesters in khartoum and various parts of sudan are common rating the 21st of october which marks the anniversary of the 1st sudanese revolution in 1964 now the black smoke that you see behind me is the result of protesters burning tires to express their frustration at how this government has been operating over the past 2 years protesters say that the Economic Conditions have been getting worse since this government took power in august last year and they also say that the military is still in control of many institutions something that they say goes against their revolution which started in 2018 now protesters have been met with tear gas and stun grenades most of them have run away from where they are right now to just a little bit to where i was standing right now and then back again and they say thats because they do not accept this use of force by Security Forces now many of them also say that theyre not here to oust the president the government of Prime Minister abdullah but rather to vent out their frustration and to put pressure on this government to try to improve the Economic Situation as well as complete what they say is the demands of the revolution which is forming a transition Legislative Assembly and holding to account those who are responsible for killing protesters since 2018. Thailands Prime Minister says hes preparing to lift emergency measures imposed to stop protests there. Insists the ban or gatherings will be overturned if there is no more violence thousands of people have rallied for 8 consecutive days in defiance of the ban they want the Prime Minister go on as well as reforms to the morning kate. Excuse me. Hong kongs main airline is having its wings clipped because of the disastrous consequences of the Coronavirus CrisisCathay Pacific so nonstop a major restructuring 6000 jobs will go and its regional subsidiary airline will be closed as well or it slowly has more on cafes planned for survival. Cathay pacific only recently began recovering from protests in hong kong but badly hit demand last year but the pen demick dealt a 2nd blow with International Borders closed the Hong Kong Based ally and saw its passengers drop by nearly 82 percent in the 1st 8 months of this year its announced it will cut nearly a quarter of its stock and shut down its regional human cathay dragon analysts say theyre not surprised or. Cathay pacific is not the only ally in the region to undergo a major restructuring last month Singapore Airlines announced the largest retrenchment in its history cutting more than 20 percent of its stock tie and ways for bankruptcy protection in maine here in malaysia the National Carrier is in talks to restructure its debts but the finance minister recently said the government will not provide any Financial Relief or debt guarantees raising questions about the fate and future of malaysia airlines. More gloomy days are predicted to lie ahead the International Air transport association forecasts passenger traffic will not recover until 2024 and now a tech startup has begun testing a Digital Solution this is a sort of a digital trial Health Survey that a lot of people are looking to use to open up orders and sell music or games so if the industry get behind Something Like that with governments around the world except that the airlines like out they wouldnt be in such trouble its called the common pass and aims to be the 1st globally recognized document that a passenger has tested negative for code at 19 before a flight. The Airline Industry is hoping this will help encourage and travel even if its only by a small state line slowly aljazeera on the import. In the news ahead pakistan announces a record rise in the number of coronavirus deaths weve got reaction coming from islamabad and rescue teams in vietnam preparing for catastrophic flooding to get even worse. Hello at the moment the weather throughout the Arabian Peninsula right up to the caucasus is quiet as not entirely true in the eastern med this circulation has given some wonderful thunderstorms in crete what if youre there you may not think so drifts of hail on the ground and the influence of that is increased the breeze and so dance attempts are trying to come down in beirut and jerusalem for example for the having a hard time really otherwise things are about where they should be allowed to breeze coming down through iraq in the gulf and it was doha 31 degrees a little bit below average but not a big surprise really it is a dry time the its true throughout north africa as well it should be true pretty soon. And south sudan but as yet there are still a few showers every day the main rain is further assayas Lake Victoria areas are 3 uganda rwanda and burundi and further west and got all this rain will go further south and it stretches fingers down every now and again you might even find a little tropical circulation developing not far from madagascar but i think not. For the assassin back at a particular thank you botswana and south africa god is the northeast its been particularly warm and that warms has driven the building of clouds and shark has attempted dropping a little bit and there are a few shows whats on the storms around. But. He began it was undergoing it just here i got shot i fall down i felt like i was that a documentary filmmaker once granted unconditionally his line of contrasts his experiences with those seeking refuge today and intimate you know of the consequences of the policies of detainment is really unnecessary all this misery they cannot absorb this number that people have to suffer in this way it is unacceptable and refugees stand on to 0. Roof. Oh oh. With the release of the top stories the u. S. Justice Department Says the drugs make it has pleaded guilty for its role in americas Opioid Epidemic and is to be fined more than 8000000000. 00 and a half a 1000000 deaths are linked to the addictive prescription painkiller oxycontin. In Lagos NigeriaSecurity Forces have reportedly fired on protesters again on wednesday despite a 24 hour curfew crowds of returns to the streets to demonstrate against Police Brutality. And in sudan Security Forces have been firing tear gas at protesters there complaining about the cost of living the Transitional Government struggle to revive the economy after the overthrow of president on 1. 00 of the shia last. A Memorial Service is being held in france right now for the teacher who was beheaded samuel patti killed after showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his students and 18 year old from chechnya in russia was shot dead by police after fridays attack 7 suspects have been taken to an Antiterrorism Court for questioning by a judge well short time ago the french president who manuma tweeted this photo in memory of the 47 year old who has now been awarded the highest honor for service 2 fronts smith with more than paris. Emmanuel micron will award the leisure to some your patsy at the sorbonne some your party was a teacher and so bonnies of course frances most celebrated university while much of france was understandably horrified by the gruesome brutality of this murder of this teacher mccrone is under pressure from the far right to be seen to be acting he has an eye on the elections in 2022 when hes likely count or least likely opponent will again be Marine Le Pen from the far right only a couple of weeks ago macron was promising to crack down on what he called islamic separatism this was his idea that conservative islamic beliefs are trying to eclipse the more liberal beliefs of the French Republic but as this happens as the ceremony goes on in the strange cities of bordeaux. The police are being asked to provide protection to mosques because theyve received threats of violence the prosecutors been giving more details about the case and how it came to this 18 year old chechen was able to identify some your party and he says that the students who identified that teacher were paid about 400. 00 to them for just 14 and 15 years old and they gave a description of the teacher and stayed with the killer as he went to attack the teacher now the students say that they were told by this killer that he was simply going to make mr patsy apologize on video for showing these cari