asians around the globe reported anti chinese racism that increased a stigma over the growing fears about the coronavirus. already experiencing subtle forms of backlash people not taking the reclass of people's very away from honest. qual way gets its way in the u.k. but leaves washington fuming at its ally for allowing the chinese telecoms giant to help build britain's 5 g. network. there you want to. put it away for good. practice it gets its final rubber stamp from the european parliament as british m.p.'s bow out of bed last curtain call.

hello you're watching r t international i'm rosana lockwood welcome to the program. 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 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. meanwhile fears of the corona virus is spreading far quicker than the disease itself it's also seen nations around the world reporting

a spike in racism in ontario in canada thousands signed a petition calling on local schools to keep children who have recently traveled to china out of cos the petition also says such people should be isolated for 17 days a regional 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 well this strain of corona virus 1st emerged in the chinese city of war hon and has never been seen before close to 8000 cases of the disease have now been confirmed to 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 residents an actress teri chu gave 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 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's 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 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 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 well it's not just in canada where fears of the virus and leading to tensions in the u.k.

asians have also spoken about out about what they're calling creasing the hostile environment in their day to day lives meanwhile in asian countries including south korea and japan signs have been seen in shop windows saying no chinese allowed his terry chew again with her reasons about 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 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 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 of the current a virus isn't the only outbreak that's having devastating consequences millions of locusts a 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 bulletin. now the u.s. has warned the u.k. has been put at risk over london's decision to greenlight the involvement of the chinese tech giant qual way 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 pump a warm 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 comely 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 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 core 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 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 pay 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 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 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 or 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 to. the european union is bidding farewell to britain with the u.k.'s divorce deal with the e.u. set to come into effect on friday evening opponents of breaks it united in the belgian capital to more in the united kingdom's imminent departure from the e.u. a light show featuring mean in jack was beamed on to brussels main square late in

the evening iconic british symbols such a show of homes and red coats. the scene at the gathering. earlier on wednesday a rowdy session in the european parliament or the curtain for british peace for the final time after lawmakers gave final approval to the breaks that withdrawal agreement and the leader of the brics a party not a fart had this parting dig at brussels. so this is a final chance 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 hurt our national we're going to wave goodbye i wouldn't say a word 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. a new phase of negotiations between london and brussels to agree on the shape of their future relationship is due to start on their prefers european commission

president has to live under and said that fair 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. that's not the end of brecht's it bo despite 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 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 the things you know 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 hold 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 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 being w.'s i don't think that they're going to like that. 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. was. i. well amid the average citizen go off the streets of the west bank donald trump seen at middle east advisor and son in law jared 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 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 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 would be heard in the 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 cuffer a cup of the eastern part of shore and. visited the last of these are decent 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 will ever 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 earlier some pieces here here here guys are serbs. you know and. he has no learnt for us he doesn't give us 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 that people here so want be appraising here and be upset that key to the city of abu dis when inhabitants hear themselves a 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 earlier we spoke to the mayor of abu dis ahmed abu he says donald trump would do better trying to take care of his own country. with double

the capital of palestine and i would this is considered as a suburb of the homes of them we will not be brought there. from the historic city and we will always be a blog of the doors of them mr that is the president of the united this day that. he does in brazil and the palestinian and his if it's only for the action to the. to the white house for the new. then law dined he didn't know anything he does come with this a bland for. the act to the floor of the new year he bus to care for him so. for that to follow the not to disturb it but

then to prison the palestinian students. oh i'll be back with more news after this short break. you know world big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for washing clothes watching the

hawks. the 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 who we see from sandhurst showdown. a modern day plague is wreaking havoc in eastern africa the region is suffering its worst locust invasion in decades hundreds of millions have swept across kenya somalia and ethiopia with the u.n. warning of the potential for famine a ghost town of has this 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 our farm and we want the government to act fast and send planes to spread them but insecticide otherwise they will destroy everything. that goes. on there i really. do it

because. that's what got us here they have desiccated 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 everything farmers complain brought to the brink of desperation with their plantations left barren people face. seing famine by the races swarms of insects swarms larger than cities i i i .

one ally and i had to turn back out of fear as the bugs would claw get sanctions 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 the upcoming 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 thrower was and even lasers were

proposed as weapons of mass destruction but were never used perhaps now is the time. when a film director oliver stone claims the school knowing that money on foreign military campaigns has been come something of a hopi united states he said this while speaking to form ecuadorian president rafael correa the host office of channel r.t. spanish you can watch that interview in full on our website but here's a preview. but if you were 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 dick cheney who still thinks 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 to question of mood so. you spend a lot of time interrogates you give us history you're a critic of the u.s. national security system you are 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. well that's a date and now i'll be back with the rest the team in just over 30 minutes time with more news from around the world will see that.

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