Democratic president ial candidate multibillionaire 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 which as soon as we discovered which friend a subcontractor had done this we immediately ended our relationship with the company and the people who hired them imagine being so rich 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 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 work just to. Get it. For president. 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 well 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 guy 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 get. Its 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 good paying jobs along the way there he couldnt he probably shouldnt but he didnt let me continue he became richer year after year he made really a selling bank is ludicrously priced tried gadgets the same bankers who through under greed set off the 2008 financial crash depriving tens of millions of people of those of lifes savings and jobs. Michael bloomberg for president investigative journalist Dave Lindorff believes that despite bloomberg vast wealth he doesnt think he measured up as a strong democratic candidate. It really shouldnt be acceptable for anybody liberal or conservative to use prison labor its forced labor bloomberg said is a multibillionaire hes worth like 54000000000. 00 hes made his money by you know not paying attention to things like 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 its 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. Of the west the wild enjoy an opioid addiction crisis many african nations are left struggling to get enough medication to relieve the pain of the patients. I do. Not even able to take. Well pain management. Human rights. People in pain in the country and that is not the human rights. Crisis that has featured in far fewer headlines. In 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 closer regions of africa now account for 87 percent of pharmacies procured sees worldwide and not the recent rises jew almost entirely to trafficking. Or 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 the western part of the world the same time african and Asian Countries can only satisfy a tiny fraction of their medical opioid need political analyst out of sandra bruno says at the end of the day its all about money. Her most 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 ability and demand for the natural he 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 lives stick a 2nd seat to profits and earnings and the thing that 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. The Holiday Season hasnt stopped a protest movement in hong kong after weeks of relative calm there have been violent clashes again with police seemed the demonstrators have also found another way to let out their frustration against beijing by taking to the virtual street to the Popular Video game. I dont blame you for not having the guts to throw the true bombs to the police in reality but in the game there are guns and rocket launchers and you dont have the guts to kill those may 1 game of. These cockroach said the deer returning to g. T. A. 5 to be to the fire only burn brighter and again are we ready. With the National Strike in france over proposed Pension Reforms heading into its 4th week a dance troupe in paris has found a rather creative way to show their disdain. And finding out. An impromptu public moment by valerie the parents floating across the steps they may not like they dont sing on the small stepping out to line. And perhaps the most beautiful protest that paris seen at this step but they dont see is what actually striking behind them they had that is the bread culture in danger and now the latest signal. To report by the french government that respects chile i was but i havent seen it thats to check it. Out. Im not something that they would lose i just need to look at the scheme which see what time it graced 60 feet to the point last of us all to what the girls have shown you with swan lake 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 alive if you want to continue to see pretty dancers on stage you cant go along of one till theyre 64 so its not impossible and destroyed its now in tickets we get it shipped from someone i dont think according to prophecy in the pitch advice its just by borrowing and the system is being sustainable this is the only way to like i mentioned that is. Not still. Forms of debt and it will. Until it reaches the next is nothing and still while the focus may be off fronts right. Now time of crisis is a problem some of them like to slow to find but its the baby blue chip gray she continues to retype pension systems across the world just raining on the white house as a result of the countrys see the been slowly raising that a time or warning of soaring up pension checks and its the problem is that the demographics have changed in 1946 when the system was invented and you had people paying for one pensioner and today youve got 1. 7 people later when the pensioner 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 welsh to to have a worse situation so its clear that he was right. As. More money to retire on well not save us according to process independent pension advice it is to see a lot the situation is that perhaps it is the clintons government this is gestating its own fight that showed that the overall cost of frances cage system has in fact stabilized even with d. C. And that huge deficit government to this be warning that that could just be a blip shrinking down to 5000000000 you rates by 2030 and so this is im as a representative for the public government one of its 1st measures role was to suppress the tax on where. My course is 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 occur for tax evasion because there is a lot of the leniency with stex evasion in this country but a very very few people trench people want this new feudal american style dystopia that is the very program of president for can be. I dont want them to absolutely new days of strike action have already been announced that france has this standoff between unions and the government is to new inc in the meantime parties and performers are determined to sink in the bait to scare away that what. Have i. Done says helping one teacher in gonna get his students to study harder historias here on r. T. On friday. You know. What weve got is now cause. Id love to die is because it makes me happy this is a story from guyana about people who just love to jokes my name is stuck to see. Mr jackson. Sr im joined by yes i leaking a little quote im a trainee teacher. In russia i get to trim fred of course if. He wants to bring dunce into every classroom in the world. I. Am. Still to come while australia was hit by disastrous wildfires the Prime Minister defends an industry blamed by many for the environmental disaster its all next story when we come back. Stacie are continuing our south american tour and as you can see behind me we are in Rio De Janeiro so beautiful so much going on this is a country in transition. One who will ever argue that there are worthy of 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 acknowledging it and injustice and reparations for it are important it is important to crimes wherever they happen but it shouldnt be. In this particular case of the. Deadly forest fires in the australian state of New South Wales have been raging for almost 2 months now with firefighters facing extreme conditions against them to a record heat wave with temperatures predicted to stay in the high thirtys to 40 celsius over the weekend and into early next week nearly 50000 square kilometers of land 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 blanketed the countrys largest city sydney pollution crossed the critical mach sometimes 11 times higher than the life threatening threshold. On friday environmental activists gathered outside the residence of australias Prime Minister calling for stronger action to fight Climate Change protesters blocked central streets in sydney demanding that australia at the clare a Climate Emergency heres how the Prime Minister explained the situation. 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 believes the governments putting industry 1st. Weve always had flaws but weve never had flaws 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 the shipe 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 a big wake up call by the fires and the really big issue is going to be how bad it is when the end of march. U. S. Sanctions the doping scandal surrounding russian athletes and britains exit from the e. U. Just a few of the topics that weve been discussing with the Russian Economic Development minister in a year and round up which were showing throughout the day here on r. T. What we believe in that the problems within you that are threats and chain that are very long term in the church so we see more confidence not only in trade here but it 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 a big problem for the ward as a whole its being named as a problem not only from all saved 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 or a view of you know cereal which lasts forever. Britain hasnt left the gear opinion yet and 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 department. Most of 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 the one from lancashire bit one with you in a sprout. Your shirt sprouts taste really nice if theyre cute in the salty tears of remain or use. Many of our customers are interesting knowing where the food comes from lincolnshire sprouts are called lincolnshire sprouts because theyre from lincolnshire yorkshire sprouts are called yorkshire browns because theyre from yorkshire many of our customers like to know them. Other less than a week left of 2019 thats wrap up this hour with a look at the gate just gone with polly boycott and r t u k s online series in case you missed it. As i see why mine is guide to the year that was january got brazil off on the right wing tracked 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 far right see all the elected mr. Surprise surprise quite 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 out every weekend demanding that the french president emmanuel build them an economically rosy future instead march toward a brutal acts of terror and take place in new zealand when a psycho right wing not broke into a mosque in. Lifestream the manager of tens of innocent civilians on face moving into april wiki leaks editor Julian Assange toft out of londons Ecuadorian Embassy and arrested 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 by 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 exports and washington especially blacklisted one away the chinese target giant slash major threats to aapl the gulf was getting tense too for a chair. Change in may to iran announced that it would stop complying with thoughts of the 2015. Deal im going to start enriching you radium again while in indiana and then run for mayor d one a 2nd time as Prime Minister by a landslide in indias general election in june the orange one touched down in london by the phone 7 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 precedented numbers angered by a chinese extradition law and thats the last then the summer news lol was interrupted by news of the death of a famous bananas and establishment sleazeball jeffrey at the guy with secrets about everyone had been awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges but he was mysteriously found data in his jail cell in new york triggering conspiracy theories go to the