but. you know it was worth it was her who. thanks martin prepares to our banker and sam away from the e.u. that eggs into the uncharted waters of gregg's it and the weather brewing mutiny from both scotland and northern islands. as fears over the corona virus outbreak grow people around the globe reporter spike in discrimination against chinese people. who think it's a raised against time to save a one year old boy's life as his parents try to raise the millions needed for the world's most expensive medicine. to. a very warm welcome you are watching r

t international with me the carry. on in 6 hours from now britain's divorce from the e.u. will be complete with the brig's a guillotine falling on of 47 year partnership on the eve of britain's departure british euro files and european angle files gathered in london in brussels to mourn in the belgian capital a square with the looming ated in union jack colors as bands played british music iconic figures like sherlock holmes were present to march night in london however briggs's celebration party is set to take place in parliament square but with britain's that will count of the exit doors at 11 pm local time a storm of uncertainty is growing about what the future holds here's daniel hawkins with more big day is here but u.k. is finally divorcing the e.u. after 3 and of 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 bricks it unicorn rex it means bricks it and we're going to make

a success of a story of bricks that steel 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 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 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 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 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 u.k. . hey brooks it could change all that or 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 competitor right across the channel of yours on your own and it in we will do our this in the knowledge now 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 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. 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 scared it and planning a 2nd independence referendum the stunning election win last night for the s.n.p. renu 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 of koreans would be a good idea to market historic events and spend some taxpayers' cash surely money could bring everyone together and not what it comes to bricks it

a fully fledged war is on the way hash tag bricks it 50 p. is an insult to all of us who want to remain the brags that 50 pounds marks the acceleration of the new iraq of dogma nation elisa 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 bracks 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 unicorn even if it looks slightly more like a goat with a horn. the 1st 2 cases of corona virus have been confirmed in russia into chinese nationals on thursday the world health organization declared an international health emergency saying some countries are simply not prepared to deal with the outbreak. collaring public calls emergency of international concern.

over the global outbreak of normal calling of course on our voters let me be clear this declaration is not a vote of no confidence in china on the contrary w. continues to have a confidence in china's capacity to control the outbreak the world health organization from urgency committee have cautioned countries against stigmatizing behavior as increased global discrimination is being reported against people from china where the virus originated r.t. think donna 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 is she sick 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 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 that grown a virus in china wouldn't happen just seen just kicked. the virus will die soon because it's made in china. i just want to 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 seem to call rotavirus and back in the colonial era white people literally bring 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 schools 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 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 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 the 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. meanwhile the u.s. commerce secretary is under fire for comments made during a live interview in which he said the corona virus outbreak will boost the u.s. economy alone and talk about a victory lap over a very unfortunate jory milligan's disease but the fact is that i think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs north america's promise secretary's comments . logically question of or an exhibit that was standard and humanity to the sufferings of the no some people epidemic in china this not really necessarily to

more jobs in the united states as he claimed the u.s. china relations it's not really. mother nature we are all in the same boat it happens elsewhere. more even though it's time to rival it's always as the as tories that death rate is only controlled intro to only 2 con 2 percent right now compared to now i can 6 percent what sorts in china and 70 percent in hong kong back in 2003 so i think a temporary. understandable you see people act out in europe. looking for somebody to look at the spanish through millions that's not me has to take spanish seems china have already i think if i could be any sequence up there right it could be treated like a typical crew in the future scenes have already been invented a few days ago and you'll be out in the market next 2 years. palestine is seeing another day of public anger of a total transplant to bring peace to the region. and

ramallah demonstrators were met with tear gas after they started fires and began a village a group of protesters burned tires and tried to break through a security barrier some even scout the security wall to fly a power. estonian flag from a is where the rallies held all across the gaza strip local journalist fired reports from the area. we're here even knowing it to ballyards one of the cases where he. prayed and now it's of palestinians that come really just here today in rejection of marriage can be the end of the century because they believe that it does not say that there are many moments like this palestinians that it means everything in the world but you continue to return to the legitimate right the

right of self-determination and the each other to stablish in our policy in the same way that east jerusalem as its capital because it was in the united nations in the ninety's it was sad when. building was also among those who slums trump steal thousands of gathered in a campus all the city of a mom to voice their discontent people burnt an israeli flag and chanted slogans calling for the protection of jerusalem's our oxen what's. still to come on the program the family of a one year old russian boy with a rare condition are desperately trying to raise money for the medicine he needs and thus no mean feat it is the world's most expensive story and more in a few moments.

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back and back to our top story this hour after 47 years britain's divorce from the european union will be complete in just a few hours or at least pass was the got what the government is claiming for joining us now live to give us some more insights is professor jones an economist from lancaster university i believe he's going to join us on the line now. ok well we'll be bringing you our guest later in the program he's not on a lot at the moment but we'll go back to that story apologize for that moving on to other stories now the family of a one year old russian boy are fighting for his life that they're trying to raise the money needed to treat his rare condition but the medicine required just happens

to be the most expensive in the world maria for national has the details. to 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 as he may without special medicine to more might never get the chance to blow 2 candles out on a birthday cake and they smell is the most expensive drug in the world ever the bill now is $2400000.00 they made a discount it was 2.5 hour 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. 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 preserve gas matter around 50 percent less. the 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 these that large. investment costs it's very difficult for people to really know how much is actually return on investment and how much is just pure profit so

i think we've got a bit of a broken system right now at 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 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 precision 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 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. hearty from moscow. human rights group amnesty international has criticized greece's plan to deploy a floating barrier to prevent migrants reaching the greek islands from turkey. this proposal marks new law school asian in the greek government's ongoing efforts to make it as difficult as possible for asylum seekers and refugees to arrive on it sure and will lead to more danger for those desperately seeking safety greek officials say the floating barrier will help contain the increasing inflows of migrants that will be installed north of the island of less both where migrants often make their crossing over

a relatively short stretch of water the barrier will be almost 3 kilometers long and more than one metre high agrees that has been struggling to cope with its refugee crisis almost 60000 people arrived by sea last year about double the figure for 2018 human rights groups have condemned conditions that greek my current camps with some holding many times more the number than they were designed for thousands of greek island has have demanded their closure. the overwhelming number of newcomers who landed on greek islands has created tension with thousands of residents and business owners taking to the streets in protest they've been demanding a much tougher line on migration from the government. we're trying 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 is where we

have nothing against the refugees and migrants have shown their 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. the migrants 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 and they're not leaving open the borders so they can go to salute bulgaria germany. ok returning to our top story this hour now after 47 years britain's divorce from the european union will be complete in just a few hours or at least that's what the government is claiming let's go back to that guess that we promised you now joining us live with some more insights is professor duran to john's economist from lancaster university thank you for joining us on the program there will be a proxy celebration party in parliament square this evening we understand but this withdrawal agreement is basically to reason treaty with lipstick on that was to

celebrate. it's the middle of a process really the still a lot of work left to be done in terms of negotiating the trade deal going forward with the european union and also a lot of other issues concerning security the data fishing industry and so on the european union. yesterday was saying is very keen to sort this out within the context of an association agreement and that means wrapping up all these separate issues into one and having a common governance structure to oversee that meanwhile the u.k. is looking for a very simple free trade agreement something along the lines of what canada has so we are likely to see arguments in the next few weeks over exactly what kind of arrangements there are going to be in the next phase of the negotiations of course

all this has to be done by the end of this year to meet boris johnson's deadline it is possible to extend the transition period but the u.k. government seems not to want to do that there's so much to be done it's going to be a real challenge to get everything done within the timeframe that the conservative government really likes to keep repeating that brags it is done but so is that it just started with many years of negotiations. formally certainly it's done and the withdrawal agreement that we've had and which passes now and we get the u.k. out of the european union has allowed agreement on 3 things 3 important things the financial settlement the situation of e.u. nationals that are in the u.k. and u.k. nationals that are still resident in the you and also the situation with northern ireland and that is the tweak that you mentioned the boris johnson introduced to

graft onto to reason with all agreement so that phase of the negotiation is over and the u.k. to my. it's will formally be out of the european union but as you say much remains to be done and this is critical because the u.k. hasn't really been clear on where it wants to go we know that the u.k. wants to diverged from european union rules and that's a matter of freedom i guess but we don't know which particular rules it wants to divert on and this matters for industry because these rules concern standards that goods that are being traded between the u.k. and the you have to meet if they are going to die a virgin for example the automotive industry then that's going to have big impacts on the industry and it will lead to a loss of income a loss of output and a loss of jobs in the u.k. so there needs to be clarity now on the part about exactly what it wants and where it wants to divert it's all very well saying we want to be free to do what diverged

but diverged to do what. it was quite interesting how well the commission president as live on the line said yesterday that you would not accept unfair competition from the u.k. but wasn't the whole point of bricks. we don't know what the point of brigs it was to divergence have the freedom to divert whether that means it's divergence to have just a different regulations that are in some sense equivalent or to have regulations that allow undercutting a lot of people wouldn't be terribly happy if the divergence took the form of less work or protection for example so a lot remains to be seen if it's a matter of equivalence then there would be presumably some scope for negotiation that would allow relatively free trade without too much interference of the borders there really is a challenge for the u.k.

government in setting out very clearly what it wants and this is what the u.k. government over the last 3 years has persist. failed to do. professor and john economists from lancaster university thank you for your time. and like you for joining us here on r.t. international we're back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines join us then. you. know. a lot of 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 polices from sandhurst showdown. trade and investment to become magic spells to conjure economic development. most people think about trade they think about goods and services being exchanged between countries and the investor a chapter of a trade agreement is about something very different but what when investment leads to toxic manufacturing that destroys sacred sites all the environment. that means local communities that are being poison.