minimum wage democratic choice over trump corporate law joining us as we try to find don't want to. asians around the globe report anti chinese racism and increased stigma over the growing fears about the coronavirus. are already experiencing subtle forms of backlash people not taking. people's very away from us. whoa 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. i don't. think we're going to wave goodbye. bricks it gets its final proper stamp from the european parliament as british army piece about with their last curtain call.

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

a spike in racism in ontario in 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 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 has never been seen before close to 8000 cases of the disease have now been confirmed in china alone and the virus has since brought 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 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 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 were parents or was not just encountered there were fears over the virus are leading to tensions in the u.k.

asians 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 a shop window saying no chinese allowed here is terry chew again with her reasons about why we should pay attention to other 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 70. 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 will internalize those as risk 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. of the current of ours isn't the only outbreak this having devastating consequences millions of locusts are wreaking chaos and destruction in eastern africa bringing the region to the brink of famine i'll tell you more on that later in our news bulletin. that 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 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 warn that intelligence sharing between allies could also be compromised. the chinese communist party presents the central thread 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 special security information

of your citizens to transit a network that they chinese communist party has the legal mandate. to obtain creates risk and so we've been talking about this with the united kingdom for so long. trying to put as much pressure on the u.k. as possible to reverse the decision that they announced earlier this week to allow the chinese tech giants who i way to have access to and to help develop the ukase in coming 5 g. network now it's important to note that access for why wait will be limited to only 35 percent of the of the network if you will and even that is only limited to non 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 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 growing technological innovations happen in evolution happens is that we think a bit more smartly in strategically the u.k. but also i think with off 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 this. 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 it is all against the backdrop of rexx it u.k. leaves the e.u. more evening and they will be looking to secure trade deal with the u.s. as well as of course trying to keep good ties with china so how they manage this particular fall out and how they face off from this pressure with could the fire not feature 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 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 agree 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.'s divorce deal with the e.u. set to come into effect on friday evening opponents of bricks at united in the belgian capital to mourn the united kingdom's imminent departure from the e.u.

a light show featuring the union jack has been drawn to brussels main square late in the evening and iconic british symbols such as the sherlock holmes and red coats were seen at the gathering. earlier on wednesday a rowdy session in the european parliament saw the curtain for a long british m.p. piece for the final time after lawmakers gave final approval to the bracks it withdraw agreement and the leader of the breaks the party nigel farage had this parting dig the brussels. so this is a final chance at the end of the road 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 our national we're going to wave goodbye well it's a word in the future to working with you lisa chan 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 the foppery 1st european commission president to have on the land said the fair competition must be at the heart of any future arrangements. we are considering a free trade agreement with 0 chairs and 0 quotas this would be unique no other free trade agreement offers such an access to our single market but the precondition is. but 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 brics it 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 the single market earlier we spoke to a soon to be ex n.e.p. from the brics it 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 but the other 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 in the speech 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 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. there's outrage among palestinians after the u.s. president unveiled the police 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. i. think. in the mid to the average that has engulfed the streets of the west bank donald trump's senior middle east advisor and son in law jared kush now 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 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 kathak up the eastern part of the abu dis pulis live visited the last of these are beauties 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 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 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 be fair he doesn't give anything to. be says here here 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 shame and the 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 . r t. earlier we spoke to the mayor of abu dis himself ahmed and he says donald

trump would do better trying to take care of his own country. with joselo 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 beauty and we will always be a bar of the doors of them mr that is the president of the united this day it. he does in the business and the palestinian and his it is only for the live 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 the care for the noted but then to present the palestinian people and the palestinians. and other international news 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 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 spray them but insecticide otherwise they will destroy everything. and i wouldn't. do it because it's their country. 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 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. hundreds took to the streets of athens on thursday to protest the greek parliament's ratification of an updated defense agreement with the us.

oh i. believe. about $7000.00 protesters including members of left wing parties student associations and labor unions demonstrated against the agreement chanting anti us slogans and burning the u.s. flag the new compact aims to significantly expand military cooperation as greece faces escalating tensions with neighboring turkey over maritime boundaries and drilling rights in the eastern mediterranean as well as over water on libya. 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 the host of our sister channel r.t. spanish and you can watch that interview and fall on our website but 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 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 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 news update for now we'll be back at the top of the hour with a roundup of the headlines see it then. i. a i i.

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america. salutation. well well well talk watchers it appears that hair and washing. in d.c. amidst all the distraction over the trump impeachment on these self-congratulatory pats on the back over how apparently robust the current us economy is both democrats and republicans have forgotten or you know chosen to ignore a little thing called 'd the deficit but thankfully one group here on capitol hill has and yes the congressional budget office hasn't forgotten about the skyrocketing united states' national debt than the c.b.l. step forward on tuesday with a brutal prediction that the united states deficit will top one trillion dollars

annually over the next 10 years ultimately reaching $1.00 trillion dollars in 2030 wow wow now that is truly a thing of beauty i mean you got it you got a serious you have to stand back an offer at the sheer size of the failure by our elected officials in both the white house and congress to actually you know employ a modicum of fiscal responsibility when you see numbers like 1.7 trillion. now let's keep in mind that the predicted $1.00 trillion dollar deficit is equal to the entire federal government's 1999 budget yes back when i graduated and the magnitude of this failure only gets deeper by roads the new york times reports that by 2030 the c b o also projects that the federal debt held by the public will surpass $31.00 trillion dollars which is about 98 percent of the forecast size of the nation's

economy. by a mcginnis president of the committee for a responsible federal budget told the news media quote every year we set a new post war record for debt as a share of the economy every year the congressional budget office warns the debt is rising unsustainably ignoring what is staring us right in the face is fiscal malfeasance but you know my friends who has time to pay off the federal credit card when we have border walls to build because that's important trumps to impeach and the neverending thirst of course of the u.s. military industrial complex to quench so much to do so little time now let's start watching the homes she wanted list in a city the streets you want to see. there so you like to see the crisis joyce state and see roll slice great city displays systemic dissent says

so but she's a witch so when the guild is. welcome everybody to watching the hawks i am tired rove and turn joining me today to bring us the favorite picture of the fiscal irresponsibility of the united states federal government is the host of the big picture of the one and only holland cook column pleasure thank you and you now look at how when you've covered the u.s. congress for quite some time did you ever in your wildest dreams imagine that the u.s. debt would exceed one trillion dollars a year in your lifetime absolutely really ok all right absolutely well it's a game of inches you know a trillion is a $1000000000.00 it's a $1000000.00 and it all depends on.