humans have a great ride why we shuffle off our mortal coil and that he owes. the e.u. waves bye bye as britain gears up to sail off into the murky waters on its voyage along here i cannot mix storms and i'm doing mutiny from both startling and northern ireland. also this hour as fears over the run of virus outbreak grow people around the globe reported in the increased stigma and discrimination against chinese people. and it's a race against time to save a one year old baby's life as his parents try to raise the $2400000.00 price tag for the world's most expensive medicine.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q and must count thanks for joining us this hour. the world is counting down to the historic moment of britain divorcing its 47 year partner at the european union friday it finally marks the end of the brackets saga on the eve of britain's departure brags that opponents gathered in brussels and london to mourn and the belgian capital a central square was lit up in union jack colors as band played british music in london a pro e group stood outside parliament in a show of sadness with britain scheduled to quit at 11 pm local time a storm of uncertainty is growing amid a jittery economy and rising discontent from scotland and northern ireland instead of hearkens with more. big day is here the u.k. is finally divorcing the e.u. after 3 and a half years of seemingly endless negotiations that lays ministerial trips back and

forth between love that of brussels we now have the unique opportunity of witnessing the brics it unicorn rex it means bricks it and we're going to make a success of a story breaks it still breaks it breaks it breaks it breaks it breaks it what does it look like nothing's changed well just because you can see bricks it doesn't mean it hasn't happened all the u.k. is the bow to dive head 1st into single life any time soon for now there'll be no new relationships or partners divorce is pretty tough and i'll take some time to get over things which is why they'll be an 11 month long therapy transition period the u.k. e.u. will talk about the new relationship that means from now the u.k. stays in the comfort zone of the single market the customs union and the budget the 1st day when they'll stop co-habiting and go their separate ways will be january 1st 2021 if there are no delays so despite the u.k.

staying for a little while it will be like renting a room in a house you can live there. help with bills except you'll have no say in any house matters british m.p.'s will be sent home and won't take part in any decisions and definitely no union jacks allowed the symbolism of british army peace leaving strasburg for the last time is that something that says to you there's a brighter future for britain ahead so what exactly is the deal what will the u.k. gain and lose the 1st to go next year it will be the single market and the customs union but the u.k. will be able to find new friends negotiate new global trade agreements e.u. regulations go out the window for example g.m. food companies like buyer which brought monsanto in 2018 aren't allowed to develop or sell new genetic we modified products in europe or the u.k. bret's it could change all that well the biggest breaks it blockage was northern

islands the question of border and customs check seemed almost impossible to resolve both sides argued until the cows came home. compromises a stalling with whom to falls says stephen fry at least unless it seems your northern ireland the plan is for belfast to stay in the u.k. customs there are 3 what followed e.u. customs rules so everyone should be happy and if they're not belfast can vote to change things after 4 years then there's the question of fair play brussels wants a level playing field in any trade agreement that means definitely no massive tax breaks havens subsidies or crushing labor and environment standards basically the

e.u. is worried it's losing a member and gaining a competitor right across the channel is on your knees. we will do all this in the knowledge with the departure of great britain a potential competitor will of course emerge for us that is to say in addition to china and united states of america there will be great britain as well the talks have both sides will reads it's back to the drawing board on workers' rights for the regulations and many more questions and businesses are jittery especially with sajid javid tough talk there will not be alone months we will not be a rule to go we will not be in the single markets and we will not be in the customs union and we will do this by the end of the year across the channel the neighbors seem more optimistic that a deal can be reached you know that. if we want to be complete so that everyone is clear about our intentions on the european union side there will be 0 tariffs 0

quotas 0 dumping but it's not all smooth sailing while the northern ireland situation seems result for now at least scotland is seriously thinking about it so scarce it and planning a 2nd independence referendum stunning election win last night for the s.n.p. renew is reinforces and strengthens the mandate we have from previous elections to offer the people of scotland a choice over their future that mandate says that it is for the scottish parliament not a westminster government to say whether and when this should be a new referendum on independence with so many unknowns the brits might have agreed that at least some special bricks accordions would be a good idea to market historic events and spend some taxpayers' cash surely money could bring everyone together and not what it comes to bricks it a fully fledged war is on the way hash tag bricks it 50 p. is an insult to all of us who want to remain also we don't celebrate peace and

friendship by the one thing to saluted our friends and neighbors. the brags that 50 pence marks the acceleration of the new iraq dogma nation ollie's and debilitating control freakery so the government prefers to spend time and money and it's pathetic breasted $50.00 pence and the so-called bracks and festival rather than try to sort out the problems that bracks it creates well with so much left to be settled before bricks it lost means of bricks it at least we can finally see the promised bricks unicorn even if it looks slightly more like a goat with a whole life like did some good hoping for you in the car i'm really really good. well a clock with a countdown to the moment the u.k. officially it leaves the union is expected to be projected on to downing st marks the tears will gather in parliament square to celebrate the departure we spoke to professor of law i'm government tom brooks and soon to be ex i mean from the bronx

at parnate nathan gale to get their insight on the bricks at developments. 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 must be fair he must maintain and poled the promises he made in the general election in december and when it comes to it if the e.u. offered us a 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 selves but no deal with the e.u. i suspect it will very much be a practice it's in name only i don't think there'll be much of divergence if any at all from the european union the preparations have stopped so that's a sign that they are planning to have

a deal of some kind the only way they're going to get the a widespread comprehensive deal and everything they need to get a deal on by the end of the years if there isn't much change to what the current situation is that takes a while to do so we're not seeing signs of that the other thing i would add is as to why i think it and they've only this that we were promised a freedom of movement. into this year and the government has confirmed the last 48 hours it will continue until june 2021 at the very least a 6 month extension on that so i think we can expect more extensions to come and much of a break if any. the world health organization has declared an international health emergency over the coronavirus its concern that as the virus spreads internationally countries are not prepared to deal with the outbreak meanwhile an increased global stigma and discrimination is being reported against people from china where the virus originated on that has the story. borders on lockdown

zombie like scenes of quarantine cities the world is united in trying to concoct a healing sero virus which has infected hundreds in china has now reached the united states villages have started to physically block themselves off from the capital and need cases have been confirmed of around the close of germany and japan . in the contest of deadliest bugs the new coronavirus doesn't even come close to the order for many a flu but tables turn dramatically when it comes to the ability to strike fear in the masses and this fear is also bringing out the racist in some people with the chinese diaspora in canada among those at the receiving end our friend of mine has

told the baby other day she dropped on her daughter and her daughter was just having a bad day she's 3 years old and. that daycare teacher kept saying if she said is she ok and she kept having to justify herself and say no we haven't traveled or we are a certain amount of time and other friends that they could not get an. errand for whatever reason. kept getting canceled and they wonder if it is because of their last name are you chinese has become a frequent question faced by canadians of asian descent chinese school students whose parents have recently visited china have been urged to stay at home for a while in france a local newspaper published this on its front page headlines saying yellow alert and yellow peril and the internet to kiss did what it does best made

everything worse online jokes and puns adding to the mocking of the chinese cultural habits but the asian communities fighting back with a hash tag i am not a virus if we all agree not to. things like the run of virus trying to wouldn't happen just. the virus because it's made in china. i just a mask to protect myself from this corona virus but it's made in china so i'm playing myself. cool for self quarantine are being sounded all over the world by ordinary citizens and authorities alike such tactics against the virus have been made into a trend by big governments who have cut ties with china and by beijing itself which however says that the isolation measures are a necessary evil to stop the new disease in its tracks the purpose of the

government is to put 2 lives and health of the people at the top of all. priorities therefore i have been personally directing and deploying the epidemic prevention and containment work this time now it seems it's a matter of whichever comes 1st either the virus or the hype around it has to stop but who knows whether the outbreak of racism will also be halted the reality is that the flu killed a lot more people ill people are comparing this to the sars outbreak sars killed $44.00 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 all of canada there have been 3 confirmed cases of a chronic virus 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. squandering money on foreign military campaigns has become something of a hobby for washington d.c. says oscar winning film director oliver stone he spoke to former i could dorian president rafael correa a host on our sister channel r.t. spanish. 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 dick 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 interrogates a good 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 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 wing's fighting with the right wing's 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. you'll be able to watch the full interview on our website artie dot com there you can also

find more on stories from around the globe like the top british t.v. news presenter is forced to resign after using a shakespeare code containing the word ape and an online brace grown with a black man also. infamous russian prankster of over and alexis posed as brother tom burke and her father and a call to joker start joaquin phoenix lobbying for a cameo in the sequel. the family of a one year old russian boy diagnosed with a deadly rare genetic disease are running out of time to raise the $2400000.00 for the world's costliest medicine to save his life but being forced to rely on a lot of being held by the company the prize a free dose of a child's life artie's mere financial reports to move just turned one most kids his age would have taken their 1st steps by now but to more has and he can seat either even rolling is a hard task right now he has

a rare disorder caused by a defective gene spinal muscular atrophy. without special medicine to moon might never get the chance to blow 2 candles out on a birthday cake and the east medicine is the most expensive drug in the world ever. we were happy that a clinic in the us responded and billed us $2500000.00 which at 1st we didn't know where to get the money from we started to contemplate selling everything and asking relatives for the money but we realized that wouldn't even get us halfway there of course we were upset that it's very expensive but at least we have hope and despite the stress along with adrenaline we are simply aiming towards the goal but time is against him more doctors say he has 12 months maximum otherwise even the most expensive drug ever want to be able to help at the time we spoke to his dad they

had so far only managed to reach 10 percent of their goal. before new years around 46 fundraisers rejected us now the numbers are up to 60 large fundraisers won't take us because the sum is enormous they haven't experienced such a situation before so it is easier for them to take responsibility for a case that is less expensive when u.s. regulators approved the gene therapy last may there was plenty of talk about how revolutionary it is it can save a life with a single injection but there was so much small talk about just why it is so incredibly expensive we have used value based pricing frameworks to prise organza amount of around 50 percent less than multiple established benchmarks including the tin your current coast of chronic spinal muscular atrophy therapy it's very difficult to say what a fair price it all depends on what the distribution is going to be you have got

the health companies that the big farmers have got the the government so you've got the regulators. and the insurance companies and they all seem to be in a big conflict of interest with each other despite all these these that large. investment costs it's very difficult for people to really know how much is actually a return on investment and how much the. just pure profit so i think we've got a bit of a broken system right now if the company appears to recognize the barrier the price presents its run in a yearly lottery with $100.00 days is of the miracle treatment the in given for free a lottery where the prize is a child's life crisis old medicine at this level is a deeply worrying new reality for health systems right the way around the world and we know that increasing numbers of drug companies are charging these very excessive prices and if we don't do something about them then it's going to cause this to do

inability old access to health care for literally millions of people will be called into question there is no point in having medical innovation and have a new medicines if they're priced so high that the patients that need and can't get access and really honestly charging 2000000 euros for a medicine is deeply unfair because the people who need the drug will not be able to get that all too many s.m.a. diagnosed people around the world that is the order affects one in 600-211-0000 people but each of them or rather their families in every corner of the planet will have to struggle to get expensive treatment trying to strike a balance between hope that it could be cured and fear that they might not have enough time or enough money. our t. from moscow still to come a u.s. investigative news site sans libel notices to canada's spy agency for claiming it's

directed by russia details after the us. thanks. you know world a big part of the lot 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. 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks. we don't want to tell the m.p. with an axe and the monument we want the kind of urban streets filled with events

the theater with myspace is this conference center 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 this would be striving on gives us that impala making connections with other people to set up projects. welcome back to us investigative side consortium news has such a libel notices to canada's spy agency and major broadcaster after they claimed it was directed from russia the editor in chief of consortium news told us the claims are designed to distract from its top story that a top canadian minister it lied about her grandfather's nazi connections. we have our own independent view this seems not to be able to be tolerated so we need to be smeared and marginalized as somehow being directed by

a foreign power the article that they question about chrystia freeland is completely true our grandfather did run a notch english paper in occupied poland during the war what we have being treated to what being accused of is being somehow directed by a foreign government hostile foreign government in their view as if domestic dissent indigenous dissent cannot exist on its own that we must be directed from a foreign power that we cannot have our own agency to be outside the herd of corporate media which is largely government controlled to give a different point of view from people who'd been inside the establishment so we have been trolled before and accuse of being put in puppets in crown kremlin stooges accept you know you put up with it but when it gets to this level of a major intelligence agency and a major television network we we have to take some action and we sent this demand letter demanding a retraction and an apology back in 2017 consortium news that canada's then

foreign minister line about her grandfather's role in world war 2 chrystia freeland claimed he was actually a war victim working to return democracy crane when in fact he edited a nazi propaganda journal freelon now promoted to deputy prime minister ignored subsequent questions on the issue and tried to shift attention through unrelated unproven allegations on russian meddling i don't think it's a secret that american officials come publicly said and even i'm going to merkel has publicly said that there were efforts on the russian side to destabilize western democracies and i think it shouldn't come as a surprise if the same efforts were used against canada deloria again hopes that this story will get more attention. mail largest paper in canada had a headline that said chrystia freeland grandfather was the editor of a nazi newspaper so they found out that it was true and her office had to admit it

was a very sad and troubling time for that she's trying to deal with an interesting question is what's the timing why did they dredge up a 3 year old consorting news article now that came out in december of 2019 a christian q. and a just got a new position not only did she become deputy prime minister a month after her reelection in october last year she was quoted in the publication in canada by an analyst as saying that she is now are functionally the prime minister so she has along much power in the current government we would like this to be more bigger than this is bigger and consortium news this involves all people have been smeared. staying with the fine against fake news the u.s. is not ready to tackle this information that's according to democratic presidential candidate elizabeth warren and she released a plan to fight online fake news ahead of this year's election are to scale up and looks back at her party's own history with fakes. in this new information age with post truths and fake news a balancing you can be sure that the 2020 alexion is will not be immune from

deceptions that's why u.s. senator elizabeth warren has made cracking down on dissin from ation online a central plank of her campaign the stakes of this election are too high we need to fight the spread of false information that this empowers voters and undermines democracy i'll do my part and i'm calling on my fellow candidates and big tech companies to do their part to now it's certainly admirable to preserve the truth in a world of the lies and war and does seem to be ahead of the game on that score as the other candidates haven't really chimed in on it yet however warren does not seem to be opposed to fake news and dison from ation when it serves their own ends after all remember how long it was that elizabeth warren was claiming to be native american she finally backed down on it but it took some time i am not a tribal citizen and i am sorry that i extended confusion about tribal citizenship

and tribal sovereignty and for harm caused she also claims to have been fired in an early teaching job for getting pregnant and that story fell apart turned out she left the job all on her own and she's not alone now her rival for the democratic nomination joe biden likes to play it fast and loose with facts he told a story about pinning a medal on a u.s. soldier in afghanistan and it turns out he flat out made it up young navy captain up in the mountains in the corner of elm in afghanistan one of his buddies got shot fell down a ravine this guy climbed down a ravine carried is going up in his back under fire general want to be to pin the silver star on him biden recently took a swing at bernie sanders claiming that a video of him was doctor that claim turns out to be not true. either there's a little doctored video going around by one of bernie's people saying

i agree with paul ryan the former vice presidential candidate about wanting to privatized so security now another democratic party hopeful michael bloomberg who happens to be a billionaire and media conglomerate owner says he's not opposed to poisoning the well with less than accurate info either quite honestly i don't want all the reporters i'm paying to write a bad story about me i don't want them to be independent media outlet that he owns bloomberg news actually has an editorial policy of not going after other democratic party contenders but they have full permission to go after donald trump often those complaining about the dangers of fake news will then create fake news themselves it turns into a vicious cycle of deception revealing a kind of cynicism on the part of those who raise the alarm bells about the need to crackdown on dissent from asian however as the 2020 lections get closer you can be sure that rhetoric about keeping the media claim is going to only get louder i

don't know that elizabeth warren actually believes that her pose of will change anything or i don't actually believe that she even necessarily thinks this is a real. i don't believe that the democrats have any desire to actually engage cheri also information i think that. there are. power where the russians. very very rich it's very. very i think the reason why this is become an issue for the democrats is because they don't they're not doing very well in fact i think we ceded ormus amount of people walking away from the democratic party to be able to. eat.