asians around the globe report anti chinese racism and increased stigma of the growth it is about the coronavirus are already experiencing subtle forms of backlash people not eating or reclast people's dirty away from mines. while away gets its way in the u.k. but leaves washington fuming at its life for allowing chinese telecoms giant to help build britain's 5 g. network. breaks it gets its final rubber stamping from the european parliament as british m.e.p. is bow out with their last curtain call. a

very warm welcome to you watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron. the world health organization has declared an international health emergency over the corona virus outbreak they were going station has stressed though that this does not amount to a vote of no confidence in china where the new virus 1st emerged and it isn't recommending limits on trade all travel meanwhile phase of the corona virus are spreading far quicker than the disease itself is also seen asians around the world reporting a spike in racism and on taria 1000 signed a petition calling on local schools to keep children who have recently traveled to china out of class they petition also says say that such people should be isolated for 17 days a regional school authority 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. a strain of corona virus 1st emerged in the chinese city of who has never been seen before close to a 1000 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 resident and activist terry chu gave us her perspective on the issue. a friend of mine has 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 well there are subtle things like that that are happening all over that i'm hearing about another friends that they could not get in. 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 will have to deal with the same things that we had to deal with growing up and that really is the biggest concern for was the last where parents are. it's not just encounters where fay's over the virus are leading to tensions in the u.k. asians have spoken out about what they call an increasingly hostile environment in their day to day lives meanwhile in asian countries including south korea and japan signs of being seen in shop windows saying no chinese allowed here is terry chew again with her reasons why we should pay attention to other cases. the reality is

that the flu killed 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 in 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 corner virus isn't the only outbreak this having devastating consequences millions of locusts are wreaking chaos and destruction in

eastern africa bringing the region to the brink of famine we'll tell you more on that later in our news but it's. the u.s. has warned the u.k. has been put at risk of a london's decision to greenlight the involvement of the chinese tech giant huawei and the building of britain's new 5 g. network ahead of a meeting with the british prime minister washington's top diplomats my pompei awards that intelligence sharing between allies could also be compromised. the chinese communist party presents the central threat of our tops 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 national 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 in coming 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 coup or 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. government have handled this properly have a targeted approach. protects 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 very technological innovations happen in evolution happens is that we think of it 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 mr rubb 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 more even than they will be looking to secure a trade deal with the u.s. as well as of course try to keep good ties with china so how they manage this particular fallout and how they face off from this pressure with could the far in that future 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 and i power plants 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. 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 by degree 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. and rowdy session in the european parliament has seen the curzon fall on british any pace for the final time after lawmakers approved the break that withdrawal agreements but instead to quit the e.u. one friday evening setting in motion a yearlong transition perry as the leader of the brig's a party nigel farage 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 our europe we just hate the european union it's as simple as that nigel for she is

a lived in loathed and 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 divorce 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 the precondition is that 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 alignment 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 got another thing coming it's going to be here for a little while yet to talk about. well earlier we spoke to a soon to be ex any pay from the bronx

a party who 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 over things no this is a real divorce we 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 boris johnson must be he must maintain and uphold the promises he made in the general election in december and when it comes to if the e.u. offered us a horrible deal because they want to maintain control over he must walk away and say well no doing 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 no deal with the e.u. we'll have to buy japanese cars and american cars instead of b.m.w. use i don't think that they're going to like the. sound range among palestinians after the us president unveiled a peace plan which critics can have said cole heavily biased in favor of israel more than 40 protests have been injured in clashes with israeli security forces in the west bank. well amid the outrage that has engulfed the streets of the west bank donald trump sr middle east advisor and son in law jared kushner has poured scorn on the ability

of the palestinians to run their own state if they want to get to a conclusion they have to like people who are ready for state and they're proving through their reaction that they're not ready to have a state 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 our neighborhoods on the outskirts of east jerusalem and these are all the areas east and north of the existing security barrier including the eastern part of and you did this point to sleep i visited the last of these other days since spoke to people there about trying to proposal. this doesn't look exactly like a capital city and yet its hero in the village of the outskirts of east jerusalem

that the american president once 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. our capital of palestine. or the people who are is just sort of start everybody think. you know it's. one of the village in the town and we believe a 07 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 acing and be able to want to make peace but they have to give us what they give israel you know the fear he doesn't give anything to. 0 here. and. he has not earned he's for us he doesn't give us from us most of our lands but i think there must. be a sharon and people as they have to hear our voice. i think this will lead everybody to the good to think and to conflict together to say what we want to hear and the people here so want be uprising here don't be upset that key to the city of abu dis but inhabitants here 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 abilities early we spoke to the matter of other days himself. he says donald

trump would do better trying to take care of his own country. with the. capital of palestine and this is. a suburb of tours of them we will not be brought. from the historic city we will always be a bar 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 to the white house for the new terror. yeah he didn't nor palestine the only thing he does come with this is a blow for to really act to the whole 1st floor of the new york for here

he bus to care for him and. for the for the a noted but then to present the palestinian people and the palestinians here. a modern day plague as we can have like in eastern africa the region is suffering its worst no custom vacation in decades hundreds of millions of swept across kenya somalia and ethiopia with the u.n. warning of the potential for famine it 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 fast and send planes to spray them but insecticide otherwise they will destroy everything. and i really. do it because it's their country that's what got us here 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 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 that squandering money on foreign military campaigns has become something of a hobby for the united states he was speaking to former ecuadorian president rafael correia host on our sister channel r.t.

spanish you'll be able to watch the full interview on our website but for now here's a quick preview. but if you 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 as 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 you. 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 week because 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 neo conservatives but they're warmongers in the old fashioned way of talking and one more question of mucho. you spend a lot of time interrogates you give us history you're a critic of the us 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 for joining us here on c.n.n. as now we're back in 35 minutes with the latest.

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is the kaiser report you know if you look at the world or the globe you know there's the land there planet earth then there's the atmosphere at the. earth and then there's like the stratosphere happens over there. what we're going to talk about here is the debt because planet earth has a debt. of approximately $63.00 to $4.00 times global g.d.p. which i think is between like 80 trillion so there's like you know almost $400.00 trillion now in debt it's the debt oser and it has a profound impact on the 21st century what's left if we make it through the 21st century which i don't think we will but anyway stacie max we're still going through our whole post davos sort of look at what is happening in the world and of course

you and i here on kaiser report years ago warned that the dollar would be toast especially that very moment that barack obama pulled iran off swift that was a powerful weapon only we had it only the united states could do that we were the number one as trump has been and dad was saying we're number one we're number one that's what obama also proved that's what he said when he pulled them off swift but there in lay the future demise as every single empire before it has collapsed with that sort of hubris and the economist magazine now agrees with us dethroning the dollar america is weaponize ing its currency and financial system its use of sanctions could endanger the dollar in the long term and i have all this data in particular i like this chart at the bottom that's an increase in the amount of

sanctions applied to various countries around the world we do. control the financial grid especially since 971 and you know the fact is that we were very benign dictator as benign controllers in that grid for a very long time until people started having their own ideas about their own individual economic sovereignty and now we punish them it's hard for people to imagine how the dollar can be used as a weapon or weaponize ing currency because the invisible and it take it for granted is like fish in a fish bowl you know throwing a revolt against water right there like they're not even aware of the water they live in water that's surrounded by water they don't consider water their enemy why should they but we live in a world dominated by the u.s. dollar what brought home to me was a story recently in iraq where trump said you know we're going to freeze iraq's assets at the new york fed something like $30000000000.00 worth so no country is sovereign ball countries especially if they do any deals with energy whatsoever all energy is priced in dollars and all those dollars go to the new york fed so they

have the ability to turn off or turn on your economy at the will and trump is using that as a weapon of war that's an act of war so sanctions are an act of war and by cutting somebody off from the new york fed that's an act of war so so we're at war we want from currency war to trade war to hot war these are acts of war if you think of dropping a bomb on a village and killing people is an act of war then so is turning iraq off from the new york fed we're at war with iraq in a huge huge powerful way right now but again kaiser report has been reporting on this for years we we point out the warning signs it takes years to finally happen and it hasn't happened like that it will eventually happen suddenly but it happens slowly at 1st we 1st told you about this in 2009 and we told you this would happen the economist magazine how many years later 010 years 11 years later is agreeing with us but it will eventually be very suddenly that suddenly the u.s. dollars.