i. think. britain prepares to bank around and sail away from the music heads in the charted waters of briggs's with mutiny from both scotland and northern ireland. fears over the corona virus outbreak growth 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 for life as his parents try to raise the millions of dollars needed for the world's most expensive medicine. to tell you with us this is r.t. international. in just 10 hours from now britain's divorce from the european union

will be complete with the briggs's guillotine falling on a 47 year partnership on the eve of britain's departure british europhiles and european anger falls 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 homes there were seen at the gathering in london a pro e.u. group stood outside parliament in a show of sadness with britain set to walk out of these exit doors at 11 pm precisely local time a storm of uncertainty is growing about what the future holds and more is artie's daniel hawkins. 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. sit unicorn rex it means brix it and we're going to make a success of

a story of breaks that deal breaks it breaks it breaks it breaks it breaks 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 bore transition period where the u.k. and the e.u. will talk about the new relationship that means for 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 seats put your slags away you're leaving and take them with you if you are leaving now was. 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 you kate. breck's it

could change all that well the biggest bricks 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 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 of yours on your own and it in 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 see 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 diluted. if we want to be. clete 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 this 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 bricks 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 elise and debilitating control freakery so the government prefers to spend time and money and it's pathetic breasted $50.00 pants and the so called breck's and 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 can don't talk is expected to be projected on to downing street briggs it is planting party in parliament square professor of law and government tom brooks and soon to be ex briggs it party m.e.p. nathan gill gave us their take on the seismic 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. of. the 1st 2 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in russia to chinese nationals those they the world health organization declared an international health emergency thinks some countries simply aren't prepared to deal with the outbreak i'm declaring a public close emergency of international concern over the global outbreak of colon are very innovative 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 or the virus originated you can start off explains. 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 is she sick is she ok and she kept having to justify herself and say no we haven't traveled are we the back or a certain amount of time 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 only agree not to eat this. things like the corona virus in china wouldn't happen just seen just 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 are getting the cold virus and back in the colonial era white people literally believe 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 were already experiencing subtle forms of backlash people not taking class

people's everyday away from minus 2020 we should hope that our children wouldn'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 kills 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 70 some 800 people a year die from air pollution so they're certainly rest are much much higher but because we see them on the day to day window 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. meanwhile the u.s. commerce secretary is under fire for comments made during

a live interview in which he said the current virus outbreak will boost u.s. economy i don't want to talk about a victory lap over a very unfortunate very milligan's disease but the fact is that i think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs in north america was on the secretary's comments i highly. logically question of or an exhibit that was standard and humanity for the sufferings of you know some people epidemic in china that's not really necessarily to more jobs in the united states as he claimed the u.s. china relations is not really a sewer sum game mother nature we are all in the same boat it happens elsewhere or more even though it's come to rival it's always as got to be a story that death rate is only controlled controlled to only 2.2 percent right now compared to now i can 6 percent in china and 70 percent in hong kong back in 2003 so i can temporarily. understandable you see the fact that in europe toppled the

rupee and that's not me as to look at the spanish flu it kills millions it's not me has to take spanish seems china has already i think if i could be any sequence up there right it could be treated like a typical threw in the future best scenes have already been invented a few days ago and we'll be out in the market next 2 years so to come this hour the family of a one year old russian boy with a red condition but desperately trying to raise money for the medicine he needs and that is no mean feat is it's league world's most expensive story for the right.

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 the lisa sanders showdown.

the family of a one year old russian boy fighting for his life trying to raise the money needed to treat is a condition that the medicine the quad just happens to be the most expensive in the world and has details. seymour had 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 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 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 orgasmatron 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. 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 the in 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 where onward and we know all that increasing numbers of drug companies are charging these very excessive prices and if we don't do something about them and then it's going to cause this to 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 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. r.t. from moscow. human rights group amnesty international has criticised greece's plan to deploy a floating barrier as a way of preventing migrants from reaching greek islands from turkey discard the measure as an alarming escalation this proposal marks an alarming in school nation

in the greek government's ongoing efforts to make it as difficult as possible for asylum seekers and refugees to arrive on insurance and will lead to more danger for those desperately seeking safety. greek officials say the floating barrier will help contain the increasing inflow of migrants it will be installed north of the island of lesbos where migrants off to make their crossing over a relatively short stretch of water the barrier will be almost 3 kilometers long and more than one metre high greece has been struggling to cope with this refugee crisis almost 60000 people arrive by sea just last year that's double the figure for 2800 human rights groups have condemned the condition migrant camps for some holding many times more the number they were actually designed for thousands of greek islanders have demanded closure. the overwhelming number of newcomers who landed on the greek islands has created

tension with thousands of residents and business owners as well taking to the streets they demand that the government scrapped plans to house more migrants. we try to give a message around to the whole world that this can go on it can't go on anymore let's just has had the load on their shoulders for 5 years this this laser or not we have nothing against the refugees and migrants have shown this solidarity all this time but we are asking for a change to government policy that should lead to the equal distribution of refugees and migrants. this the migrant should go we're not racist simply the situation on the island is out of control 100 percent you can see for yourself what's happening coming in and they're not leaving open the borders so they can go to salute bulgaria germany you know mike. i can speak now to a political analyst patricio give you very good to have you on. international are

calling this floating barrier plan an alarming escalation how do you see it. well. actually the government this government is not is doing too little too late. this floating bar it is just 2.7 as long. as a sitting the government said in a suit to appease the fury of the greek islanders but so for them being it's not such a big deal i mean that's what they always well know isn't it they want some kind of action is this not a suggestion that trying to help is just a gesture nothing more the under-served. not trust that they're. there actually if you read it they can take it no more. between living migrants and that interest being close to when someone is say as one

to one to some islands. there are. absolutely infuriated. worse than perhaps just being ineffective is it as you're suggesting it could actually be dangerous perhaps some say international seem to think this barrier will endanger the lives of migrants. going to that's where it obviously the national was during the decade of human suffering and the grab and go for human rights or the humanist of a group students i have a questionable witness well one of them where they ask alan there's the good people to put human rights at the migrants. a boil them before the human rights of the local citizens how can this be possible human rights are not heaven sent they're not. got sent they have to go right back in october usually this actor

is a state. the greek state has not respected 2 basic human rights of the great citizens. if you look at the migrant camps in particular in those posts the right of the crowd it the migrants unhappy about that the island doesn't how paint that the recession many immigrants said they're protesting against it one might argue that a lot of this is down to the actions of the e.u. what's the e.u. going to do to help what did need to do to help well to begin with be to just close the borders on the greeks they've got to bring the migration issue so. it's up to greece to handle. this huge issue only chome i don't see any e.u. salie there the in even if the e.u. . open decided to open borders again. would be even more immigrants that would tend to even more migrants to enter e.u.

and greece greece with this initiative on the migrants this is just a gateway. under under the best of the migrants that they reverse greece and cyprus because we have to. we have to. return to cyprus as well because it's not just a group of them which is also suffering a great deal of my grand bargain and. they are where left on our own on our own devices so any accusations finger doing greece and cyprus graydon's us. that's also a lever that many many thanks for your time appreciate it petrus a good political analyst is my guest thank you very much. thanks as always to you guys for tuning always appreciate your loyalty this is up to you join me for thanks to.

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