god god. god. god. asians around the globe reported anti chinese racism and increased stigma ever growing fears about the coronavirus already experiencing subtle forms of backlash people not taking our very class people's they're going away from us. while way gets its way in the u.k. but leaves washington feeling that its ally for allowing the chinese telecoms giant to help build britain's 5 g. network. we're going to wave goodbye breaks it gets his final rubber stamping from the european parliament as british army with their last person call.

a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me. our top story the world health organization has declared an international health emergency over the coronavirus outbreak the organization is concerned of the spreading of the virus to countries with a weak a health system than china where the virus initially. i'm declaring a public close emergency of international concern. over the global outbreak of call a number of voters let me be clear this declaration is not a vote of no confidence in china on the contrary. continues to have a confidence in china's. to control the outbreak. well meanwhile fears of the corona virus are spreading far quicker than the disease itself is also

seen asians around the world reporting a spike in racism in ontario thousands signed a petition calling on local schools to keep children who have recently traveled to china out of class the petition also says such p.p. pull should be isolated for 17 days original 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 but strain of corona virus 1st emerged in the chinese city of new han and is never been seen before close to 8000 cases of the disease have not been confirmed in china alone the virus has since spread to at least 18 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 travelled 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's subtle things like that that are happening all over that i'm hearing about another friends that they could not get in. and jenna for whatever reason. kept getting cancelled 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 where parents are not often counted o.f.a. as over the virus are leading to tensions in the u.k.

asians have spoken out about what they call an increasingly hostile environment and 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 his terry chew again with her reasons why we should pay attention to all the 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 7 be some 800 people a year die from air pollution so there are certainly rest that are much much higher but because we see them on the day to day window internalize those as risk right now 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 coronavirus isn't the only outbreak is 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 the news bulletin. for us as well in the u.k. has been pose a risk of london's decision to greenlight the involvement of the chinese tech giant huawei and the building of britain's new find g. network and had a meeting with the prime minister boris johnson washington's top diplomats one pompei a warmth that intelligence sharing between the allies could also be compromised the chinese communist party presents the central threat of our talks 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 stash of security information ever 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 coeur 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. 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 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 mr 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 brics 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 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 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. 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. around especially in the european parliament to see because in for a long british army pays for the final time optional make is approved the brags

that withdrawal agreements but in fact to quit being here on friday evening on the lead at the break that party nigel ferrars had this parting dig at brussels. so this is it the final chapter at the end of the road for a 47 year political experiment we love europe we just hate the european union it's as simple as that you know you want to burn all that stuff we're going to wave goodbye i will look forward in the future to working with you please sit down and resume your seats put your flags away you're leaving and take them with you if you are leaving now. a new phase of negotiations between london and brussels to agree on the shape of their future relationship is due to start on february the 1st european commission president as live on the lion's facon protection must be at the heart of any future arrangements but 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. that's not the end of gregg's it despite the u.k. leaving a year or so and well into an 11 month long transition period when the country will remain in both the e.u. customs union and single market earlier we spoke to a soon to be ex any pay from the brics 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 though 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 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 misspeak he must maintain and uphold the promises he made in the general election in december and when he comes to it if the e.u. offered us a horrible deal because they want to maintain control over is he must walk away and say well no deal 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. there's outrage among palestinians after the u.s.

president on vowed 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 engulfed the streets of the west bank donald trump stadium middle east advise that on something lower jared kushner has pulled school along 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 1st aid 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 the 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. and according to the proposed plan palestine will be handed a capital in one of 3 arab neighborhoods on the outskirts of east jerusalem these are the areas east and north of the existing security barrier including. the eastern part of and abu dis artie's paulus leah visited the last of these abu dis and spokespeople there about trans proposal. this doesn't look exactly like a capital city and yet its hero in the village of decent 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. 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 it for us he doesn't give us from us most of our lands but i think there must. be a share and that people 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 policy on r t appleby's. earlier we spoke to the matter of abu dis himself. he says donald trump would do better trying to take care of his own country. with the.

capital of palestine and i would this is considered as a suburb of drawers of them we will not be brought there. from the historic city and 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 business and the palestinian and his if it's only for action to the to the white house for the new terror yeah he didn't or palestine he didn't know anything he does come with this a blow for to really act to the whole 1st floor of the new york swore here he busted care for him and. for that authority or not that is there but he didn't

represent the palestinian people and the palestinians. and modern day plague is wreaking havoc in eastern africa the region is suffering is worst locust invasion in decades hundreds of millions of swept across kenya somalia and ethiopia with the u.n. warning of the potential for famine because donald has the story. 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.

they destroy everything in their path including all farmers who want the government to act fast and send planes to spread them but insecticide otherwise they will destroy everything. and i really believe. that it looks like. that's about it as they have desiccated everywhere here you cannot even eat outside on every 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 funding of the hobby for the united states he was speaking to former ecuadorian president rafael correia the host of our sister channel r.t. spanish if you have to watch the full interview on our website here's a preview. but if you strongly criticized for your book 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 home. well. i think the 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 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 neoconservatives but they're warmongers in the old fashioned way of talking one more question of 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 wings fighting with right wings 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 our international whereas i will quit will be with you at the top of doubt with all the latest headlines. i. a i think.

we don't want to kind of inspect empty plaza with a with an axe and the monument we want to kind of closet of and bust streets filled with events with the see it with this space this was done from sent us maybe i love going to conferences and debates and such events like the battle of ideas of the bobby can for instance these are the kind of things this would be striving on gives us that imposts making connection with other people to set up projects. i actually don't think monopolies per se are the problem it's it's monopolistic access to credit or to politicians and public but with the crony financial ism crony capitalism that's the big problem that's.

thinking of getting abused on the ones we got in here she. said you know it's still trapped in this. we don't need a crate with him he will just start freaking out and he will when it's pretty much anywhere near. breeding dogs or caged in inhumane conditions on puppy farm i mean 67 years you know they've been locked up in a cage outside you see no protection from the weather the heat you know the cold air the rain the snow nothing they have no protection. to get what you. are going to get through chaos across the u.s. crude puppy mills are supported by dog shows and pet stores most of the puppies are coming from this large scale factory farming kind of operations are being sold and at stores even joined a good businesses are involved like agoa mom santa there has been a shocking amount of organized opposition to efforts to increase the sands of care

for dogs bred in commercial rating for so many years most of that opposition is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with jobs don't buy dog on how to. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to get out of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. guys are. this 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 $3.00 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 austere 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 he single empire before it has collapsed with that sort of hubris and the economist magazine now agrees with us dethrone ing 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 kinds. around the world we do control the financial grid especially since 1971 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 ng 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 are 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 come 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 try.