which i did. get chills up the movies because i'm listening to. most of the west. does not. asians around the globe reports anti chinese racism and increased stick whatever growing fears about the coronavirus. are already experiencing subtle forms of backlash people not taking are replanted people steady away from honest. always gets his way in the u.k. but leaves washington fuming get it sol i felt allowing the chinese telecoms giant to help build britain's 5 g.

network. to get away for good. breaks that gets its final rubber stamping from the european parliament as british army pays buyouts with the last curtain call. a very warm welcome to you watching on c international with me. and our top story this hour fears of the coronavirus all spreading fall quicker than the disease itself has also seen asians around the world reporting a spike in racism and on taria thousands signed a petition calling on local schools to keep children who have recently traveled to china the origin of the outbreak of closs they petition also says such people should be isolated for 17 days and which is old school authorities has rejected the idea. what we are trying to get at really is to make sure the situation is not

giving rise to any inadvertent racism or any of those things that could single out a community at this time. the strain of corona virus 1st emerged in the chinese city of rouhani never been seen before close to 8000 cases of the disease have now been confirmed in china alone the virus has since spread to at least 15 countries but all of them have only had isolated cases with canada registering 3 canadian residents and activists terry chu gave us her perspective on the issue. our friend of mine. told me the other day she dropped off her daughter and her daughter was just having a bad day she's 3 years old and. the daycare teacher kept saying is she sick is she ok and she kept having to justify herself and say no we haven't traveled or we've been back to a certain amount of time she's ok she's not sick she's just having a bad day as august subtle things like that are happening all over that i'm hearing

about another friends that they could not get an uber and for whatever reason. kept getting canceled and they wonder if it is because of their last name we understand what being an ethnic minority in a place is like most of us have experienced that doesn't really bother us as much but really the concern is the younger children it's 2020 we should hope that our children wouldn't have to deal with the same things that we had to deal with growing up and that really is the biggest concern for most of us were parents or it's not just in canada where fans are the virus leading to tensions in the u.k. asians have spoken out about one bed calling in increasingly hostile environments in their day to day lives meanwhile in asian countries including south korea and japan signs of being seen in shop window saying no chinese allowed his terry chew again with her reasons why we should pay attention to other cases. the reality is

that the flu kills a lot more people you know people are comparing this to the sars outbreak sars killed 44 people in this country 41 people in my city alone the city of toronto are hit by cars last year. you know so the risk is much higher on the day to day life things 3500 people in canada die from the flu be some 800 people a year die from air pollution so there are certainly rest that are much much higher that because we see them on the day to day will internalize those as miss right now and all of canada there have been 3 confirmed cases of the coronavirus the odds of someone actually catching it are very very low and i think it's just fear based it's something that's unknown it's in the media there's a media frenzy so people have just reacted in a very illogical manner. the coronavirus isn't the only outbreak that's having devastating consequences millions of locusts to rican chaos and destruction in

eastern africa bringing the region to the brink of famine tain one back later news bulletin. u.s. has warned the u.k. has been put at risk of london's decision to green lights the involvement of chinese tech giant huawei and the building of britain's new 5 g. network ahead of a meeting with the properties prime minister washington's top diplomat want pompei 01 that intelligence sharing between allies could also be compromised. the chinese communist party presents the central threat of our types our view is fundamentally this when you have a chinese state sponsored company deeply tied to the chinese communist party to permit the private information of your citizens or the special security information of your citizens to transit a network that they chinese communist party has the legal mandate. to obtain creates risk and so we've been talking about this with the united kingdom for so long. trying to put as much pressure on the u.k. as possible to reverse the decision that they announced earlier this week to allow

the chinese tech giants who i way to have access to and to help develop the ukase incoming 5 g. network now it's important to note that access for why wait will be limited to only 35 percent of the of the network if you will and even that is only limited to non couper non-critical parts of the network so for example why we won't be getting access to critical parts of the infrastructure like military bases and so on but even so the u.s. still trying to put pressure on claiming that y. way represents a security risk although the u.k.'s foreign secretary dominic robb was adamant that the u.k. governments have handled this properly have a targeted approach and protect our security protects our relationship with our closest intelligence allies 5 eyes technology changes rapidly i mean we talk about

5 g. it's going to be here for a period what is the greater challenge for us is and as the own technological innovations happen in the evolution happens is that we think a bit more smartly in strategically the u.k. but also i think with our 5 eyes friends in particular the us about how we build up a stronger diversification of players in this space particularly around tech companies that feed into our telecom systems so this. rob saying that the u.k. really will have things under control but there have been fears that and other u.s. officials would be looking to restrict the amount of intelligence that they share with the u.k. because according to the u.s. would never allow critical intelligence to go across networks that they don't have trust and confidence in now with that being said the u.k. again insisting that the special relationship between the 2 countries is strong and

of course this is all against the backdrop of rexx it u.k. leaves the e.u. to morrow evening and they will be looking to secure trade deal with the u.s. as well as of course trying to keep good ties with china so how they manage this particular fallout and how they face off from this pressure with could the fire not feature relationship. it's a question of severity this is something that often people say they tend to have identity politics where they name a person and that's the bad guy i think we need to be a bit more rational in my humble opinion because you can just have one incident on an aircraft or on a city or on a power plant that will shut down half the country or medical service with ransomware it's not a matter of whether one country is better than another it's the nature of the threats and whether china has the best advance cyber weaponry the us have their own weaponry all the countries are developing these iran and north korea i can go on

and so the question is more bike agree how much of this is industrialized nation hood. using this kind of technology to inflict damage and surveillance and intellectual property theft of other countries so china is probably a big player obviously not by any means the only threat. around the session in the european parliament has seen the cousin fall on british any pays for the final times for the 1st of a ski excuse me for the final time as after lawmakers approved the brig's it withdrawal agreement but instead to quit the e.u. on friday evening setting in motion a year long transition period the leader of the brogues it party nigel ferrars had this parting dig at brussels. so this is it the final chapter at the end of the road a 47 year political experiment we use of europe we just hate the european

union it's as simple as that nigel for she is a low voice and loathed in pretty much equal measure depending on who you speak to in the leader of the break that party wasn't going to let his last chance to address the european parliament go without making a bit of a scene in the chamber there you want to burn our national flags or we're going to wave goodbye i will look forward in the future so working with you please sit down resume your seats put your flags away you're leaving and take them with you if you are leaving now and i but the issue with the flags comes after just last week david so i saw you who's the president of the european parliament said that flags fell foul of current rules that prohibit ban is being shown in the chamber as you might imagine mr for us a lot to say about that he said it just showed how the european parliament in brussels institutions was trampling over the rights of member states well away

from the sideshow in brussels on wednesday there was some serious business being done in fact the deal that will see the door for certainly happen was ratified in parliament we heard from the lion the european commission president who said that brussels was putting a very good deal as far as they were concerned on the table for the u.k. to sign but the in amongst all of the goodies they were offering the united kingdom that they were demanding regulatory alignment when it came to things like workers' rights like environmental concerns and social protections we are considering a free trade agreement with 0 tariffs and 0 quotas this would be unique no other free trade agreement offers such an access to our single market but no precondition is. but european and british businesses continue to compete on

a level playing field. we will certainly not expose our companies to unfair competition for those talks on a trade deal between the u.k. and the e.u. post breaks that get underway on the 3rd of march it may well put the united kingdom in a bit of a rock and a hard place situation between the european union on one side and the united states on the other london of course once lucrative trade deals with both however that may fall foul of those words regulatory alignments that the european union are insisting upon because if the u.k. agrees to regulatory alignment with the european union they may not get the trade deal that they hope to be able to get with the united states they certainly are leaving on the 31st but they're leaving into this transition period if you think briggs it's going away any time soon another thing coming it's going to be here for a little while yet to talk about. when i seem to be x.

any people from the banks that party here believes britain will have to go its own way whether brussels likes it or not. it's almost like when there's a divorce and one of the divorce sees just will not accept that it's over that they have a person's going on and that they're going to create a new life for themselves and they're trying to hang on to that marriage and they're trying to control what the spouse spends and where they live and all these of us things no this is a real divorce we have to go in our own way there was going to be divergence the u.k. is going to go in one direction the e.u. will continue in the direction it's going in because it will not lend its lessons now what can britain do about it our prime minister of course johnson speak for him he must maintain. the promises he made in the general election in december and when he comes to it if the e.u. offered itself horrible deal because they want to maintain control over he must walk away and saving those being we're going to do

a deal with america we're going to do a deal with japan we're going to do a deal with china sells but no deal with the e.u. we'll have to buy japanese cars and american cars instead of b.m.w.'s i don't think that they're going to like that. as outrage among palestinians after the u.s. president on about a pace plan which critics call heavily biased in favor of israel more than 40 protests have been injured in clashes with israeli security forces in the west bank . and maybe outrage that has and gulf the streets of the west bank doubleton senior

middle east advisor and son in law jared kishner has poured scorn on the ability of the palestinians to know their own state. if they want to get to a conclusion they have to act like people who are ready 1st aid and they're proving through their reaction that they're not ready to have a say you have 5000000 palestinians who are really trapped because of bad leadership if they if they screw up this opportunity which again they have a perfect track record of missing opportunities if they screw this up i think that they will have a very hard time looking the international community in the face saying they're victims saying they have rights this is a great deal for them. according to the proposed plan palestine would be handed a capital in one of 3 arab neighborhoods on the outskirts of east jerusalem these are the areas these towns will have the existing security barrier including kathak out the eastern part of. this point to say a visit to the last of these other days on spokespeople about transfer. this doesn't look exactly like a capital city and yet it's hero in the village of the outskirts of east jerusalem

that the american president wants the future capital of a palestinian state to be now not only has the issue divided israelis and palestinians but as you can see by the security barrier it's also divided palestinians from palestinians so on this side you have some of east jerusalem on the other side you have the rest of it and it's anyone's guess how a city like this well if a function as a capital. structure. or capital of palestine. or the people who are is just sort of start everybody think it's. you know it's. one of the village in the town and we believe is jerusalem is a capital this is the parliament building here in abu dis now it's closed and it doesn't look like much but this is where presumably a future parliament will function from when trump says that this is a win win situation for both palestinians and israelis well it seems he's being

cynical at best about a singer and be able to want to make peace but they have to give us. you know what they give israel you know the fear he doesn't give anything to us he just some b. says you're here here. in your own land. he has not earned for us he doesn't give to us who take from us most of our lands but i think there must be for the trumps initiation and for the other people as they have to hear our voice. i think this will lead everybody to the good think and to conflict together say what we want to hear and the people here so want be appraising here don't be upset that key to the city of abu dis but when inhabitants hear themselves are pessimistic as to the promise that it unlocks it's hard to understand why president trump is putting so much faith in it. r t apple juice earlier we spoke to the man himself. he says donald

trump would do better trying to take care of his own country. with joselo is the capital of palestine and this is considered as a suburb of drawers of them we will not be brought. from the historic city and we will always be a bart of the doors of them mr that is the president of the united the state. he does in the prison the palestinian and his if it's only for the live action. to the white house for the new terror. he didn't nor palestine he didn't know anything he does come with this a blow for to really act to the whole 1st for the new york for here

he busted care for himself and. for the careful here not to disturb it but then to present the palestinian people on that list didn't steer. and modern day plague is wreaking havoc in eastern africa and the region is suffering its worst locust invasion in decades hundreds of millions of swept across kenya somalia and ethiopia with the u.n. warning of the potential for farmland it goes down and has the details. less than a month into 2020 and there's already been a whole year's worth of doomsday panic from fears of world war 3 to the coronavirus and now a biblical one africa is suffering from one of the worst locust outbreaks in the continent's history.

even if they destroy everything in their path including all farmers who want the government to end it fast and send planes to spray them but insecticide otherwise they will destroy everything. under a very big. way it looks like. that's about what i see they have desiccated everywhere here you cannot even eat outside when ever do you have to lock yourself in the house. for the locals the infestation means much more than just having to stay indoors they've eaten everything farmers complain brought to the brink of desperation with their plantations left barren people facing famine

by the veracious swarms of insects swarms larger than cities. one airline that had to turn back out of fear as the bugs would clog its engines but as apocalyptic as it already sounds experts fear that if not contained now the situation will get much worse locusts breeding season starts only in march so the swarms will be roaming around ravaging people's food supplies for some time yet

there is no limited impact on last season's crops coming season is due to be planted around march or april and this will cause side with a new generation of swarms so that the potential to impact food security and livelihoods in the horn of africa is tremendous kenya has started spraying the swarms with pesticides a desperate measure as it's fear the chemicals could poison what little of the crops remains in the past giant nets flame throwers and even lasers were proposed as weapons of mass locust destruction but were never used perhaps now is the time. oscar winning film director oliver stone claims the squandering money on foreign military campaigns has become something of a hobby for the united states he was speaking to film ecuadorian president rafael

correia the host on our sister channel r.t. spanish you'll be able to watch the full interview on our web site here's a preview. but if you were strongly criticized for your work let's delve deeper into why that is firstly tell us how your military experience in vietnam changed your views and your life is a whole. well i think a turning point for me. was when i went to vietnam and i saw the american army in vietnam fighting a war it was like moving a whole city into a country like moving huge amounts of equipment which we never brought back to the united states which we just disposed of and much of it went to the so-called enemy the north vietnamese a waste of money huge waste of money and i i say that because that is an american hobby a system that we cause we become spoiled dick cheney you still think saying that we have to fight in afghanistan and iraq not to pull out and now syria he's added

syria this is the wish list of these i would call them the open servitors but they're warmongers in the old fashioned way of talking with in a mood so. you spend a lot of time interrogating give us history you're a critic of the u.s. national security system you're considered to be against the system and this causes you problems within the united states. yes there is no party in the united states there's no democratic voice except 3rd parties that are small that say why are we fighting wars i don't hear it from any of the major candidates except one or 2 on the democratic side but they don't have a chance of winning in other words hillary clinton and her group and joe biden are just as pro-war as any republican dick cheney they just do it in a different way maybe it shows you how locked up america is how right so far to the right as america gone that hillary clinton is recognized as a democrat i can't believe that democrats used to be against war in other words

there's no real left in america in power it's all right wing's fighting with the right wing's as mr putin said at the interviews i did with him he said it doesn't make a difference who's president of the united states. thanks to chasing r.c. international we're back at the top of the hour with the latest. batch

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