modern civilization of america. britain sails off into murky waters on its post briggs's voyage full of fear seek anomic storms brewing mutiny from both scotland and northern ireland. as fears over the corona virus outbreak grow people around the globe reported increase discrimination against chinese people. and it's a race against time to save a one year old baby's life if his parents try to raise the $2400000.00 price tag for the world's most expensive medicine. good afternoon great to have you with us this is our international. the world is

counting down to the historic moments of britain divorcing its 47 year partner the european union friday finally marks the end of the brags that saga. on the eve of britain's departure bring to the ponies 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 was seen at the gathering in london a pro e.u. group stood outside parliament in a show of sadness but with 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 is artie's doesn't hawkins' 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 london and 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 of bricks that steel breaks it breaks it breaks it bricks it bricks it way why does it look like nothing's changed well just because you can't see bricks it doesn't mean it hasn't happened or the u.k. isn't about to dive headfirst 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 or transition period where the u.k. and the 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 the 1st 2021 if there are no delays so despite the u.k. staying for a little while it'll be like renting a room in

a house where 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 what about our national flags we're going to wave goodbye i will look forward in the future so working with you please sit down resume your seat 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. bret's it could change all that well the biggest bricks that 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 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 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. right across the channel gives you and your note it in we will do our 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 in order to. 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 them 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 on the way. hash tag breaks it 50 p.

is an insult to all of us who want to remain the brags that 50 pounds marks the acceleration of the new iraq dogma nation elise and debilitating control freakery soon the government prefers to spend time and money and its pathetic breasted $50.00 pants and the so-called breck's at festival rather than try to sort out the problems the bracks it creates well with so much left to be settled before bricks it last 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. while a clock with a countdown to the moment the u.k. officially leaves the union is expected to be projected on to downing street sprigs it is will gather in parliament square to celebrate the departure we spoke to professor of law and government tom brooks and soon to be ex m.e.p. of the briggs it party nathan gill to get their insights on briggs it developments . the u.k. is going to go in one direction and the e.u.

will continue in the direction it's going in because it will not lend its lesson now what can britain do about it our prime minister boris johnson must be fair he must maintain and uphold 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 this he must walk away and say well no deal i suspect it will very much be. 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 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 we were promised that freedom of movement would end this year and the

government has confirmed the last 48 hours it 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 is declared an international health emergency over the coronavirus is concerned that if the virus spreads internationally 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 dudley continues to have a confidence in china's capacity to control the outbreak. the world health organization's emergency committee has cautioned countries are going to stigmatize in behavior as increased global discrimination is being reported

against people from china where the virus originated but it is done off as 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 new 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 earlier 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 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 i had one friend that a colleague of hers went around to everybody who was asian in her office and says are you trying to lose our usual 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 headline saying yellow alert and yellow peril and the internet. did what it does best made

everything worse if we could all agree not to eat this things like the coronavirus in china wouldn't happen just see it cooked the virus will die soon because it's made in china. i just bought a mask to protect myself from this corona virus but it's made in china so i might claim myself. when it disgustingly ironic that people are being racist towards asian people as they get in the coronavirus and back in the colonial era white people literally illnesses the country and killed thousands of indigenous people online at the asian communities fighting back with a hash tag i am not a virus we're already experiencing subtle forms of backlash people not taking our

very class people's everyday away from us it's 2020 we should hope that our children won't have to deal with the same things that we had to deal with growing up and that really is the biggest concern calls for self quarantine are being sounded all over the world by ordinary citizens and authorities alike such that. takes against the virus have been made into a trend by big governments who have cut ties 7 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 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 window internalise those us 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 says oscar winning film director oliver stone he spoke to

former ecuadorian president rafael correa a host on our sister channel r.t. spanish. but if the girl were 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 as a whole. well i think a 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 is 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. 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 it 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 version of the interview on our website of dot com where you can also find other stories from around the world such as a top british t.v. news presenters forced to resign after using a shakespeare quote containing the word ape in an online race route with a black also infamous russian pranksters galvan and alexis poses environmental campaigner gratitude and her father in a call to joke a star walk in 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 needed for the world's costliest medicine auntie's maria for national reports. to see more than 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 based medicine is the most expensive drug in the world ever will 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 dad they had so far only managed to reach 10 percent of their goal bring a problem with us that we have a goal we simply aim towards reaching this goal and we do not think about anything else but this goal and we are up to me. that was 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 all gas man 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 despite all

these large. investment costs 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 recognise 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 crisis old medicine at this level is a deeply worrying new reality for health systems right the way around the world and we know all that increasing numbers of drug companies are charging these very excessive prices and if we don't do something about it though then it's going to cause this has been a relatively old access to health care for literally millions of people will be called into question there is no point in having medical innovation and having new medicines if they're priced so high that the patients that need and can't get

access there are not too many s.m.a. diagnosed people around the world that is the order affects one in 6000 to one in 10000 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. marty from moscow. the latest plan to tackle fake news is released by u.s. presidential candidate elizabeth warren and that's despite her party's own troubled past with bringing us through more after the break. join me every 1st week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of

the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. we don't want to tell the vince very empty plaza with an axe and the monument we want the kind of urban streets filled with events with the theater with a status conference centers 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 this would be striving on gives us a imposts making connection with people to set up projects. i actually don't think monopolies per se are the problem it's monopolistic access that monopolies have to credit were to politicians and probably both the crony financial ism crony capitalism that's the big problem happens.

welcome back the u.s. is not ready to tackle dissin from ation that's according to democratic presidential candidate elizabeth warren the she released a plan to fight online fake news ahead of this year's election on the scale of more pain takes a look back at the party's own history with fakes. in this new information age with post truths and fake news a bounding you can be sure that the 2020 alexion will not be immune from deceptions that's why u.s. senator elizabeth warren has made cracking down on disinform ation online a central plank of her campaign the stakes of this election are too high we need to fight to spread 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 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 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 to pin the silver star on them 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 privatizing social 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 or very very. scary. i go. that is very i think the reason why this is becoming 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. we're going to watch it. ok let's have a short news wrap up now for round the world. i. a defense agreement ratifies with the us is to get mass protests in athens as antiwar protesters filled the streets on thursday this follows a similar demonstration in october during the u.s.

secretary of state's business the deal instinct this military cooperation in comes amid escalating tensions with neighboring turkey of a border disputes. tragic footage is emerging from the syrian area of morons after its liberation from terrorists storage mosaics museum in the site of ancient villages is being gutted to the syrian army found after recapturing the territory in the province last week most of the artifacts have been successfully recovered. and police have fired tear gas at anti-government protesters throwing rocks setting tires on fire blocking roads in the colombian capital. being on the street since november they oppose tanks and pension reforms and demand an end to the killing of rights activists protesters also want a peace deal with the country's rebel movement. and a bridge about it today thanks for staying with the national let's stick around if

you cannot but with more than half an hour. you know world big part of a lot. it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than 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. the 2020 presidential campaign is beginning to look a lot like the 2016 race but this time around the insurgent is bernie sanders who's

not even a member of the democratic party voters again are not interested in establishment politicians in fact they appear to be rebelling against the move we've seen from sanders showdown. trade and investment to become magic spells to come to an economic development. most people think about trade they think about goods and services being exchanged between countries and the investment chapter of a trade agreement is a very different but won't win investment leads to toxic manufacturing that destroys sacred sites all the environment. that means local communities that are being poisoned if they have jacked if they do anything that the company feels is interrupting their profits they can they serve no multinationals of taking on the whole in the.