i. was. written prefers to up anchor and sail away from the e.u. as it heads into the uncharted waters of bragg's it all with a brewing mutiny from both scotland and northern. fears over the corona virus outbreak grow people around the globe reporter spike in discrimination against chinese people. and it's a race against time to save a one year old boy's life as his parents try to raise the millions of dollars needed for the world's most expensive. thanks for joining us this is r.t.

international. in just 10 hours from now britain's divorce from the european union will be complete with the braggs guillotine falling on a 47 year partnership on the eve of britain's departure british year of files and european anger files gathered in london and brussels to mourn in the belgian capital square was illuminated in union jack colors as bands played british music iconic figures like sherlock holmes there was singing at the gathering in london a pro e.u. group said outside parliament in a show of sadness with britain set to walk out of the exit doors at 11 pm local time a storm of uncertainty is growing about what the future might hold its artie's down the hawkins with more. big day is here but 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 breaks it still breaks it breaks it breaks it breaks it breaks it. 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 and 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. 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 and we'll 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 and i. so what exactly is the deal what will the u.k. gain and lose well 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 island 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 competitor right across the channel obviously on your own and 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 warrants 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 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 diluted. 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 quoters 0 dumping but it's not all smooth sailing. while the northern ireland situation seems result from 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 nort 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 that 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 of dogma nation ollie's and debilitating control freakery soon the government prefers to spend time and money and its pathetic breasted $50.00 pants and the so-called brax 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 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. briggs it countdown clock is expected to be projected on to downing street or breaks it is planned to party in parliament square a sort of long government tom brooks and soon to be eggs briggs's party m.e.p. nathan girl gave us their take on the size me change for the u k. 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 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 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 start 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 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 1st 2 cases of corona virus infection have been confirmed in russia into chinese nationals the world health organization has declared an international health emergency over the coronavirus is concerned that some countries are not adequately 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 world health organizations emergency committee has cautioned countries against stigmatizing behavior as increased global discrimination is being reported against

people from china where the virus originated i think is done and 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 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 is she sick is she ok and she kept having to justify herself and say no 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 if we could all agree not to eat this. things like the corona virus in china wouldn't happen just seen. 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 am i playing 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 in this is a country and killed thousands of indigenous people 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 we're already experiencing subtle forms of backlash people not taking our

very class people very away from minus 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 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 a city of herat now 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 but because we see them on the day to day we don't internalize those as risk right now and all of canada there have been 3 concerned cases are 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. in the meantime the u.s. commerce secretary is under fire for comments he made during

a live interview in which he said that the corona virus outbreak will boost the u.s. economy but i want to talk about a victory lap over a very unfortunate very malignant disease but the fact is that i think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to north america. and our lot in the line of a benjamin cho he's from the shanghai international banking and finance institute not so from the parish school of business welcome. at the least one would say that they were insensitive but i mean were they sensible what do you make of the u.s. commerce sixty's remarks. i just arrived here yesterday in china where the whole mind you know seeing what's happening in china i think donald trump. former secretary of commons i mean your logically questionable or an exhibit that was standard implemented for the sufferings of innocent people epidemic in china is not really would necessarily lead to more jobs in the united states as he claimed the

u.s. turned a mission is not really was something i can tell you one. yeah well i would like to think i get the impression he was referring there to supplying change because some companies are having to kind of close down shut down the car manufacturing of the solidities some tech companies close things down in china i'm guessing he means that they can make these things in the u.s. how do you see it where i think. china says even make america more successful in some sense person point of mother nature we are all in the same boat it happens elsewhere or more even though it's time to rival it's always and that really is stories that death rate is only controlled intro to only 2.2 percent right now compared to now i point 6 percent what sort in china and 70 percent in hong kong back in 2003 and the words death rate for now is only 3 percent has a lot to do with china's effort china sets

a new world's record in the end in sequencing the virus in just one week in america caustic chinese times could help to you know china has already helped invented millions in africa's epidemic and china is spending. 140000000000 us pretty exciting because of europe do you think the fear factor will play a part we seen it already people are becoming prejudiced bordelon racist at times against people from china could that fear factor make make companies reluctant to do business with those in china. i think we need a correct understanding of probability that only point 3 percent death rate right now perhaps close to or even much less than the probability of car accidents and i think the fact can dream china's growth is unstoppable you know the us just that and need it back soon or even the story 2312 it was to 10 percent in

2012 percent for the next 4 years and for the cowen coronavirus estimate abound even in the comedia which are any range of up 0.12.5 g.d.p. reductions. and economy still expected to grow at 3 percent you know it's a kind of pledges it's only temporary you know i mean kind of a change that canyon is the 1st time i heard people eating batch and you know even if you look at the other side of the story execute cars can see that's a quick in india but it was eaten in the united states so i think temporary understandable you see people like that in europe that kill top of the rupee and that's not me as to hate europeans the spanish flu that kills millions does not mean that you hate spanish saenz china china has already i think if i could be any sequence of the virus could be treated like it you go through in the future that

scene had already been invented a few days ago and be out in the market next to news and really appreciate you coming on thanks so much benjamin shall from the shanghai international banking and finance institute and the parish school of business thanks again. now still to come for you this hour the family of a one year old russian boy with a red condition that desperately trying to raise money for the medicine that he needs and that is no mean feat because it's the most medicine story. but 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 who we see from sanders show down. the plastic is a promise in the food supply in the oceans we keep plastic and obviously plastic in the human body is going to kill you so life expectancy is down and banning plastic is not going to change the equation one iota because it's just too far gone so should we care or just consider that humans had a great ride while we did then shuffle off our mortal coil and that he owes.

the family of a one year old boy all fighting for his life trying to raise the money needed to treat his red condition but the medicine required just happens to be the most expensive in the world. seymour 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 for the overthrow of 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 optimistic that 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 mind around 50 percent less than multiple stablished benchmarks including the 10 year 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 the 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. i've got a bit of a broken system right now is the company appears to recognize the barrier the prize presents its run in a yearly lottery with 100 days of the miracle treatment been given for free at last free 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 freezing 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 doing ability 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 are priced so high that the patients that need and can't get access there are not too many as some a diagnosed people around the world that is 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. r.t. from moscow. goes a quick look now at other stories making headlines around the world. the defense agreement to ratify between greece and the united states has triggered mass protests in athens as until more demonstrators are made their feelings clear on thursday a similar demo was held back in october during a visit by the u.s.

secretary of state to deal in the booth move to corporations and comes amid escalating tensions with neighboring turkey over a border disputes. a historic mosaics museum in ian esko protected site of and. should villages in syria has been left badly damaged the discovery. was made after the area was liberated from terrorists by syrian army forces on the out of assad of the building was said to be badly damaged survived after being protected by sun bags. and police have fired tear gas at anti-government protesters who've been throwing rocks burning tires and blocking roads in the colombian capital budgets are still being on the streets. they oppose tax and pension reforms and demand an end to the killing of rights activists just as also want a peace deal with the country's rebel movement.

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reading this in the salutation well well well talk watchers it appears that here in washington d.c. amidst all the distraction over the trump and preachment on these self-congratulatory pats on the back over how apparently robust the current u.s. economy is both democrats and republicans have forgotten or you know chosen to ignore a little thing called 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 and the c.b.l. stepped 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 'd when you see numbers like $1.00 trillion dollars keep in mind that the predicted $1.00 trillion dollar deficit is equal to the entire federal government's 1999 budget yaz back when i graduated and the magnitude of this failure only gets deeper by breads 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. my again as 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 to score on a city streets. the socialists see the crisis joyce state.