britain sells off into murky waters on its coast voyage full of fear and economic storms and they bring you news from both scotland and northern ireland. plus fears over the coronavirus outbreaks grow with people around the globe reporting an increase 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 true point $4000000.00 price tag for the world's most expensive medicine. watching r t international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow

welcome to the program. the world is counting down to the historic moment of britain divorcing its 47 your partner the european union friday it finally marks the end of the brics it saga on the eve of britain's departure that opponents gathered in brussels and london to mourn in the belgian capital a central square was lit up in union jack colors as bands played british music iconic national symbols like sherlock holmes were seen at the gathering in london a pro e.u. group stood outside parliament in a show of sadness it was britain scheduled to quit at 11 pm local time a storm of uncertainty is growing amid a general economy and rising discontent from scotland and northern ireland as did the hearkens with more of the 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 lot 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 story breaks it still breaks it breaks it breaks it breaks it breaks it what does it look like nothing's changed world just because you can't see bricks it doesn't mean it hasn't happened all the u.k. is about to dive head 1st into single life any time soon for now they'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 or transition period where 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 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 and 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 no you want to burn our national flags or we're going to wave goodbye i will look forward in the future so working with you please sit down resume your seats put your slags away you're leaving and take them with you if you are leaving now. 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.

brock'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. to. compromise a stalling with tween 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 territory but follow e.u. customs rules the border won't be here but somewhere here in the irish sea 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 know me. of tax breaks havens subsidies or crushing labor and environment standards basically the use of war of it's losing a member and gaining a competitor right across the channel gives you and your know it we will do our this in the knowledge that 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 but talks have both sides of all reeds 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 that 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. 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 the 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 underway. a. tiger breaks it 50 p. is an insult to all of us who want to remain the brags that 50 pence marks the acceleration of the new iraq of dogma nation allee'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 breck's it festival rather than try to sort out the problems the bracks it creates well with so what's left to be settled before bricks it lost means of bricks it at least we can finally see the promised bricks it unicorn even if it looks slightly more like a goat with a horn or a clock with a countdown to the moment the u.k. officially it leaves the union is expected to be projected onto downing street backstairs 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 m.e.p.a.

from the bronx at party nathan gale to get their insight on the backs of 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 i suspect it will very much be. in name only i don't think there will 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 and we were promised that freedom of movement would end this year and the government has confirmed the last 48 hours he will continue until june 2021 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 and countries are not prepared to deal with the outbreak i'm declaring a public close emergency of international concern over the global outbreak of call a number of voters let me be clear. this declaration is not a vote of no confidence in china on the contrary w.h.o. continues to have a confidence in china's capacity to control the outbreak the

organization's emergency committee has cautioned countries against stigmatizing behavior as increased global discrimination is being reported against people from china by the virus originated r.t. is your style of has the story. borders on lockdown zombie like scenes of quarantine cities the world is united in trying to concoct a healing seram 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 around the world including germany and japan. in the contest of deadliest bugs the new coronavirus doesn't even come close to the order from merely 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 the daycare teacher kept saying if she said she ok and she kept having to justify herself and say now we haven't traveled or we've been back to a certain amount of time and i had one friend a colleague of hers went around to everybody who was asian in her office and says are you trying to lose are you from china 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 klyce did what it does best made everything worse we could all agree. that it. things like the virus trying to cap and just stick to it. because it's made in china. i just need to protect myself and it's grown virus but it's made in china playing myself. online jokes and adding to the mocking of the chinese cultural habits but the asian communities fighting back with a hash tag i am not a virus calls 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 people are comparing this to the sars outbreak sars killed 44 people in this country 41 people in my city alone. 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 7 be 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 miss 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. squandering money on foreign military campaigns has become something of a hobby for washington d.c. says oscar winning film director on her stone he spoke to former ecuadorian president rafael correa a host on our sister channel r.t. spanish. but if the guy who 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 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 to caney 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 wing. as mr putin said if you know if you as i did with him you said it doesn't make a difference who's president of the united states. you'll

be able to watch that full interview on our website r.t. dot com soon there you can also find more on stories from around the globe like. a top british t.v. news presenter is forced to resign after using a shakespeare quote containing the word ape in an online. with a black man so. infamous russian protesters have over and lexis posed as a veyron mental campaigner and her father and a call to start. 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 maria from national reports. seymore have just turned one most kids his age would have taken their 1st steps by now but to more

hasn't he can see either even rolling is a hard task right now he has a rare disorder caused by a defective gene spinal muscular atrophy known as a semi without special medicine team or might never get the chance to blow 2 candles out on a birthday cake and they smelled a scent is the most expensive drug in the world ever. the bill now is $2400000.00 they made a discount it was $2.00 our life has turned into a nonstop crowdfunding marathon with limited time very limited time 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 dead they had so far only managed to reach 10 percent of their goal bring all of us that we

have a goal and we simply aim towards reaching this goal and we do not think about anything else but this goal and we are optimistic that when u.s. regulators approve 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 all gas mind around 50 percent less than multiple stablished benchmarks including the 2 in 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 power companies that the big farmers have got the the government's got the regulators. and the insurance companies and they all seem to be in a big conflict event. trust 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 is 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 days of the miracle treatment been given for free a lottery where the prize is a child's life price of medicines 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 day inability old access to health care for military 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 out 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. r.t. from moscow. the latest plan to tackle fake news is released by u.s. presidential candidate elizabeth warren that's despite her party's own troubled past with fakes that story and more after that are.

you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracies 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 truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. we don't want to tell the instep empty with an axe and the monument we want the kind of urban streets filled with events the theater with this myspace has come from some to us maybe i love going to conferences and debates and such events like the battle of ideas and the bobby can for instance these are the kind of

things used to be striving on gives us that impala making connections with other people to set up projects. welcome back the u.s. is not ready to tackle this information according to democratic presidential candidate elizabeth warren as she released a plan to fight online fake news ahead of this year's election. and looks back at her party's own history with fix. in this new information age with post truths and fake news a bounding 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 asian 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 lies and warren 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 penning 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 and 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 tipping the superstorm 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 that 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 before very very. 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. lastly we bring you some world news and brief. defense agreement run a fine with the u.s. has triggered mass protests in athens as anti-war protesters 7 filled the streets on thursday as well as a similar demonstration in october of last year during the u.s.

secretary of state's visit the deal aims to boost military cooperation and comes amid escalating tensions with neighboring turkey a reporter disputes. plus tragic footage is emerging from the syrian area of mahratta all newmont after its liberation from terrorists a historic mosaics museum in the us code listed sight of ancient villages has been gutted the syrian army found that after recapturing the territory in the province last week most of the artifacts have been successfully recovered however. and police have fired tear gas at anti-government protesters throwing rocks setting tires on fire and blocking roads in the colombian capital activists have been on the streets since november their post-tax and pension reforms and demand an end to the killings of rights activists protesters also want a peace deal with the country's rebel movement. that's

a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com for the details on all of those stories and many more. looks the plastic is the promise of the food supply in the oceans we keep plastic and obviously plastic in the human body is going to kill you right so life expectancy is down banning plastic is not going to change the equation one iota right. because it's too far gone so should we care or just consider that humans had a great ride why we did then then shuffle off our mortal coil and that yost. trade and investment have become magic spills to conjure economic development. most

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