god it was. god. god. asians around the globe reported anti chinese racism and increased a stigma over growing fears about the coronavirus. probably be experiencing subtle forms of. people not taking people's body away from us. for way gets its way in the u.k. but leaves washington fuming at its ally for allowing the chinese telecom giant to help build britain's 5 g. network. to get away for good. britain gets its final rubber stamp from the european parliament as british any piece bow out with their last curtain call.

hello you're watching r.t. international i'm rosana lockwood welcome to the program. we start with this the world health organization has declared an international health emergency over the current virus outbreak the organization is concerned about the spreading of the virus to countries where the weak health system than china where the virus initially emerged. i'm declaring a public close emergency of international concern over the global outbreak or call a number of voters let me be clear. this declaration is not a vote of no confidence in china on the contrary doug continues to have a confidence in china's capacity to control the outbreak. well meanwhile fears of the corona virus spreading far quicker than the disease itself it's also

seen asians around the world reporting a spike in racism in ontario canada 1000 signed a petition calling on local schools to keep children who have recently traveled to china out of class the petition also says such people should be isolated for 17 days and regional school flora he 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 well this strain of corona virus 1st emerged in the chinese city of rouhani and has never been seen before close to 8000 cases of the disease have now been confirmed in china alone the viruses 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 chou gives us her perspective on the issue. our friend of mine has told me the other day she dropped out her daughter and her

daughter was just having a bad day she's 3 years old and. the daycare teacher kept saying if she said is she ok and she kept having to justify herself and say no we haven't travelled or we've been back to or 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 friend sad 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 thick skin 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 most of us where parents are not just in canada with kids of the virus and leading to tensions in the u.k.

asians have spoken as well about what they're calling an increasingly hostile environment in their day to day lives meanwhile in asian countries including south korea and japan signs have been since shop window saying no chinese allowed is terry chew again with her reasons why we should pay attention to the cases. the reality is that the flu kills a lot more people 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 70800 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. while the current of ours is nearly outbreak that's having devastating consequences millions of locusts are wreaking chaos and destruction in east africa bringing the region to the brink of famine we'll tell you more on that later in our news bulletin. now the u.s. has one of the u.k. has been put at risk over london's decision to greenlight the involvement of the chinese tech giant huawei in the building of britain's new 5 g. network ahead of a meeting with the prime minister boris johnson washington's top diplomat might pompei or warned that intelligence sharing between 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 number citizens to translate 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 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 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 1 obviously not by any means the only threat. that rowdy session in the european parliament has seen the curtain full on british any piece for the final time after lawmakers approved it breaks it withdraw agreement britain is set to quit the e.u.

on friday evening and the leader of the breaks the party nigel farage had this parting dick at brussels. so this is it the final chapter 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. well it's a word 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. that's. a new phase of negotiations between london and brussels to agree on the shape of the future relationship is due to start on time prefers to european commission president us live on the law and said the competition must be at the heart of any future arrangements. 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. of us not the end of brics it go to spine the u.k. leaving the e.u. britain will enter an 11 month long transition period meaning the country will remain in both the e.u. customs union and single market earlier we spoke to a soon to be ex m.e.p. from the brakes 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

ever things no this is a real devolves we go in our own way there was going to be divergence the u.k. is going out learned its lessons now what can britain do about it our prime minister boris johnson must be the most maintain and uphold 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 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 no deal with the e.u. we'll have to buy japanese cars and american cars instead of being w.'s i don't think that we're going to like. now there's outrage among palestinians after the u.s. president unveiled a peace plan which critics call heavily biased in favor of israel more than 40 protesters have been injured in clashes with israeli security forces in the west bank.

oh. well amid the outrage that has engulfed the streets of the west bank donald trump's senior middle east adviser and son in law jerry cushion 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 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 called that the eastern part of show and abu dis pola slave as did the last of these abu dis and spoke to people there about trump's 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 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 no demand for us he doesn't give from us most of our lands but i think there must. be

a shame and that 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. well yeah we spoke to the mayor of averages himself. he says donald trump would do better trying to take care of his own country. with joe's is 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 tom is the president of the united to stay it. he does in the business and the palestinian and his land is only for action. to the white house for the new terror. yeah he didn't nor palestine he didn't know anything he does come with this a blow for to really act to the 1st for the new york for here he bus to care for him and. for that authority or no to this but then to present the palestinian people and the palestinian steer. well will be back with more news after this short break.

but 2020 presidential campaign is beginning to look a lot like the 2016 race but this time around the insurgent is bernie sanders who's

not even a member of the democratic party voters again are not interested in establishment politicians in fact they appear to be rebelling against the movie scene from sanders showdown. a modern day plague is wreaking havoc and east in africa the region is suffering its worth locus invasion in decades hundreds of millions us swept across kenya somalia and ethiopia with the u.n. warning of the potential for famine it goes down the 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. 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 wouldn't. do it because it's their country that's not what i say they have there's a cage everywhere here you cannot even eat outside never 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 claw gets 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 destruction but were never used perhaps now is the time. and other international news 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 form ecuadorian president rafael correa a host on our sister channel r.t. spanish you have to watch that interview in full on our website but here's a preview. 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 home. 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 who still thinks saying that

we have to fight in afghanistan or 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 who are in the old fashioned way of talking one more question of mucho. you spend a lot of time interrogating u.s. 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. or 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 it 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 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. well that is your update for now i'll be back here with the rest of the team in just over 30 minutes time with more news from around the world will see that. i. a

i. we don't want to kind of instead empty it with a with an axis and the monument we want to kind of closet of and bustle of streets filled with events. with this space this conference center so maybe i love going to conferences and debates and such events like the battle of ideas and the bobby confront these are the kind of things was it just riding on gives us that imposts making connection with people to set up projects. during the grid to pressure old must remember there was most of the family were

working. there wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation that things are going to get better. there was a real sense of hope. there isn't today today's america where shaped by the 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack soloed. engineer election manufacture consent. another prince holds according to no i'm comes. one set of rules for the bridge after several different . that's what happens when you put her into the hands of narrow sector we'll switch with this is dedicated to increasing power for chelsea just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america.

welcome to the alex salmond show on the evolve bt the day that britain finally departs the you to pinion after many false starts boris johnson has got breaks it does but it looks like the celebration of a new political dog will be somewhat understated we mark the day with an interview with britain's longest serving m.e.p. claude moraes who looks back with fondness at the concrete achievements of the european parliament for working people i'd retold to the secretary general of new europeans the pro european campaign a group today and i pack up their tents then we'll ask to hold westminster hiles

former liberal democrat presidential candidate rick city and labor opec and former pike commie president i'm pro european north africa wakely to the to the future of britain's you to painful nation ships but 1st to your tweets mess just and even those of the mighty response receipts to our programs on scotland's future and last week sure on the homeless with 10 says amazing good guys out there you never hear about doing something constructive to help the homeless. this gives you hope to see people doing miss morton says it's amazing how such good intentioned people whether well in their hearts to make a difference can help those who fallen on such hard times they are brilliant and could teach us all how to be better people well said brian says some of that was homeless for 3 and a half years it's great the homelessness is finally being shown that with help people can have the lives changed we never know what life holds for us along i says so much admiration for the wonderful sikh community who work hard to do this

beautiful soules everyone indeed they are i know in scotland sask substances borders should be ashamed of themselves we have a right to our freedom we have rights billie hammett says the 2021 scottish parliament or holiday elections should be fought on the basis should the people of scotland vote for it you know actual declaration of independence will be declared that way the u.t.i. it voted for will be the undeniable democratic will of the sovereign nation alan says i think scotland should be that you and of course the u.k. however scotland should aim for being in efta and finally selma from british columbia says the question really is who is this he says no and the scottish people who are already indeed 14 with the feet marching the streets say yes period we did civil and government disobedience.