it was. because i was like. god. asians around the globe reporter and he chinese racism and increase stigma over growing fears about the coronavirus. are already experiencing subtle forms are the backlash people not taking are people also very away from us. for way gets its way in the u.k. that leaves washington fuming at its ally for allowing the chinese telecoms giant to help build britain's 5 g. network. what about all the actual types who are going to wave goodbye. and bracks it 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 sure is out a lot could welcome to the program. now the world health organization has declared an international health emergency over the corona virus outbreak the organization is concerned of the spreading of the virus to countries with weaker 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 douglas 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 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 a regional school authorities has rejected that 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 or this strain of corona virus 1st emerged in the chinese city of groupon and has never been seen before close to 8000 cases of the disease have now been confirmed in china alone and the virus are 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. 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 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 all those subtle things like 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 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 it's not just in canada where fears over the virus and leading to tensions in the u.k. agents have spoken out 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 seen in shop window 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 70 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 risk right now and all of canada there have been 3 confirmed cases of the coronavirus the odds of someone actually catching it are very very low and i think it's just fear based it's something that's unknown it's in the media there's

a media frenzy so people have just reacted in a very illogical manner. or the current of ours isn't the only outbreak that's 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 bulletin. 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 wall way in the building of britain's new 5 g. network head of a meeting with the prime minister boris johnson washington's top diplomat might pompei a warm but 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 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 giant who i way to have access to and to help develop the ukase incoming 5 g. network now it's important to note that access for why wait will be limited to only 35 percent of the of the network if you will and even that is only limited to non couper non-critical parts of the network so for example why we won't be getting access to critical parts of the infrastructure like military bases and so on but even so the u.s. still trying to put pressure on claiming that y. way represents a security risk although the u.k.'s foreign secretary dominic robb was adamant that

the u.k. governments have handled this properly 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 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 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. european union is bidding farewell to britain with the u.k. divorce deal with the e.u. set to come into effect on friday evening opponents of bricks united in the belgian capital to more in the united kingdom the imminent departure from the e.u. like chafey train the union jack was being done to brussels main square late in the

evening iconic british symbols that are set up homes. and red coats were seen at the gathering. lower on wednesday a rowdy session in the european parliament saw the curtain for the british any peace for the final time after lawmakers gave final approval to the breaks it withdraw agreement and the leader of the brics a party not a fraud had this parting dig for 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 it bad actually we're going to wave goodbye well it's 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 off their preferred european commission

president as you have on the lane said the 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 is not the end of bricks and though 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 of the divorce sees just will not accept that it's over that they have a person's going on and that they're going to create a new life for themselves and they're trying to hang on to that marriage and they're trying to control what the spouse spends and where they live and all these of 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. must maintain. the promises he made in the general election in december and. if the e.u. offered itself horrible deal because they want to maintain control over he must walk away and say well no big 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 they're going to like that. now there's outrage among palestinians after the us president of bailed 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. amid the outrage that has engulfed the streets of the west bank donald trump seen in middle east advisor and son in law jared cushnie 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

a 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 arab neighborhoods on the outskirts of east jerusalem and these are the areas east and north of the existing security barrier including the eastern part of a father and. paulus live visited the last of these i spoke to the people about trump's proposal. this doesn't look exactly like a capital city and yet its hero in the village of abu dis on 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 his duracell is a capitol 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 you know what they give israel you know the fear he doesn't give anything to

some pieces here here here. and. he has no learned for us he doesn't give us take from us most of our land but i think there must be for the trumps initiation and for the other people the. i have to hear our voice. i think this will lead everybody to the good think and not 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 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. appleby's earlier we spoke to the mayor of a british himself. he says don't trump would do better trying to take care of his own country. with the drug is the capital of palestine

and i would this is considered as a suburb of trolls of them we will not be brought to. 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 land is only for really action to the. to the white house for the new terror. 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 he busted care for himself and. for that authority or not to disturb it but he didn't

represent the palestinian people and the palestinians. oh the virus more news after this short break. you know world's big partners movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

what we're going to talk about here is the debt because planet earth has a most fear of approximately 3 to 4 times global g.d.p. which i think is between like 80 trillion so there is like you know almost 400 trillion now in debt it's the debt us here and it has a profound impact on the 21st century. a modern day plague is wreaking havoc in eastern africa the region is suffering its worst locust invasion in decades hundreds of millions of swept across kenya somalia and ethiopia with the u.n. warning of the potential for famine it goes down 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 end fast and send planes to spray them but insecticide otherwise they will destroy everything. and. the way it

looks like and. that's what i see they have desiccated everywhere here you cannot even eat outside when ever do you have to lock yourself in the house. for the locals the infestation means much more than just having to stay indoors they've eaten everything farmers complain brought to the brink of desperation with their plantations left barren people facing famine by the veracious swarms of insects swarms larger than cities.

one airline 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 locus destruction but were never used perhaps now is the time. oscar winning film director oliver stone claims that scoring 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 and you'll be able to watch the full interview on our website but here's a 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 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 neo conservatives but they're warmongers in the old fashioned way of talking 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 any 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 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 and 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

'd. 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. showdown.

we don't want the m.p. with an axe and the monument we want the kind of. streets filled with events. with was misplaced as this one from some to us maybe i love going to conferences and debates and such events but the battle of ideas and the bobby confront these are the kind of things used to be striving on gives us a whole us making connection with the people who set up projects. this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss this one and i'm christiane washington coming out to time finally come by the d.h.l.

to declare a public health emergency surrounding the coronavirus while investigate. a $550000000.00 settlement over of the use of facial recognition technology wise that among barely a slap on the rest and you could win a presidential jet for just $25.00 no lie we're going to tell you why mexico is all shooting off their barely used plane and why some say it's all the destruction so much to get through on this very busy day so let's get started. and we begin today as the w.h.o. has finally done what many say is taken far too long the world health organization has declared the coronavirus a public health emergency in order to give it that this designation the w.h.o. has determined that the corona virus constitutes a quote public health emergency of international concern which the w.h.o. defines as an extraordinary event. today the emergency committee to unanimity slee concluded that it was no time to suggest to do w.h.y.

. corinna virus break is a public. international concern. we keep in mind that there's a nation has only been used 5 times in the past 15 years including for the ziggo virus and the bola and it gives the w.h.o. certain capabilities to ramp up the response of governments and organizations around the globe who are rushing to contain the illness in several ways including sending the message to the world that the outbreak is indeed a serious health emergency as for the corona virus itself as many as almost 60000000 people have been quarantined in cities across china with 7700 people now infected and now the 1st case in the united states has been transmitted from person to person that case is reportedly in the city of chicago. other makers are now under pressure as many are concentrated in the city of will have at the epicenter of the outbreak g.m. honda and nissan have plans and and they have announced that they are withdrawing

employees from china and may be suspending manufacturing in the country past the lunar new year in shanghai officials are providing companies in the city from resuming operations before february 9th in an attempt to keep citizens at home and avoid spreading the infection g.m. is the largest u.s. automaker in china and the most exposed with an assembly plant in rwanda that employs about 6000 workers for the wagon are about 100 miles away from one hand but have also taken precaution and are suspending travel to china multinationals are quickly realizing how much it depends on trying to not only just for manufacturing palace and supply chains but also for its consumer power it alone accounts for roughly one 6th of the global economic output one 3rd of the global supply chain and is the de facto world's largest manufacturers it's consumers buy more cars and smartphones than anybody else and multinationals depend on chinese tourists to spend about $250000000000.00.