egypt because egypt raise its minimum wage the democratic choice of the trump corporate law joining us as we try to find out more knowledge. is not a clock live from central london this is all to u.k. . a politic get started in a lot of brick city is very happy that 4 years on from the referendum it's a funny thing. the european union the u.k. farewell for now just a trade deal to get sorted in the next 11 months we'll find out more about that from europe correspondent. attention also turns to the prospects of a u.s. trade deal we'll be getting live reaction from our correspondents across the pond.

protests in the autumn it concerns the departure could spark or turn to the troubles if it concerns the departure could spark return to the troubles if the withdrawal deal protocol fails we'll be joined by. well it's fair to say the mood is very divided this evening as it remain as more than brics it is raise a toast to a new era in just 2 hours from now let's cross live to our correspondent who has the traits of being in the sake of things the probe into the reigning parliament square there is isa evening to you what is the atmosphere like there the moment. well part of the square is beginning to get a lot busier than it was just an hour ago when you last joined to be part of the square is pretty much full now there have been hundreds of people by the hour by

the minute joining these protests and the well known approaches free to celebrate should actually because in less than 2 hours the u.k. will find that he has left the european union officially legally not especially hold. people gathered here is a cause for celebration there are people for the stuff of us. charging here paper a many cause while they've been driving past the big support of again what's going to take place in just under 2 hours now that is the u.k. officially leaving the earth and you. all thank you very much indeed for that and obviously we'll get plenty more from isa throughout the evening now protesters have also been gathering at several locations along northern ireland's border with the republic organized by the border communities against bretz that group campaigners are concerned about how boris johnson's deal will see them have different rights than those in having less than

a mile away in addition the withdrawal agreement guarantees any checks needed across the irish sea rather than on the land border but the prime minister has stated when doing that and there are worries that a refusal to follow the deal could spark on rest even a return to the troubles. for more on this we're now joined by outgoing shin fein m.e.p. martina. martino good of you to join us this evening well you're out of a job so what next for you. it was never a good job and i've said this to you on many occasions i have had the honor and privilege of representing the people of the north of ireland and ireland for 7 years 7 months and i was listening to your commentator is there say that the u.k. is leaving millet's not even as a single unit because the north of ireland has been given special status we will stay in the custom union rules will apply single market and e.u.

tax and the reason why that is because i'm leaving in the minutes to go on to start of the border the bridge and which is the border protection in ireland and on like what you are saying it's a micro way i could put one foot in derry and the other in donegal so for anyone to trying to suggest that it is 2 different member states it's one country and that was why i recall in the brutal agreements crucially important and that was why on wednesday that the n.e.p. is forwarded overwhelmingly for no harder border an errand i'm talking about that about border martin if i can just jump in there to sort of the protests on the border could be really say a return to the troubles we think. you seem fixated about about this the war is over no people are exercising their democratic right to protest because we come from a city that longer stands gerrymander and because 50 years ago people took to the

streets because their folks wear deny to them and we had one man one vote so even though there's a transition the people in this city know that into our signs they're going to lose their representative they m.e.p. my sound is not going to get to the against the democratically expressed wishes of the people of derry of the people of the north of ireland who want those to stay in the e.u. so people are protesting the going the fact that we are i new citizens therefore we are each used to sins and our e.u. rights are being taken away from us a 2nd plant citizens lots of talk then as a result of brick said about the possibility of reunification do you think we're any closer now to a border poll. well unfortunately that's within the gift of the british and secretary of state and he's ignoring opinion poll after pinion paulette's talent have been shown one of the demonstrators are that there is

a mood in and out of the barn in the majority of people if they're being ousted they want to see in the unification environment the said that they will support that lord ashcraft was the last opinion poll and 48 percent 46 percent said that they wanted irish unification in the cycle pirated 77 percent but of course they are in the opinion polls so just like new celebrating or some people are celebrating i'm not in tonight and i respect the fact that the british people ordered to the moon so i will acknowledge that you know it's somewhat it's utterly hypocritical not to like people in the north america and to have our say what union we want to be a part of perhaps the majority might want to stay with the human britain or perhaps it would say we want to say we want to be united ireland that's a thing if we want and we will do that and get a parkway back into the e.u. so give up the same opportunity as what some people who are celebrating this longer

i actually think rex it is a disaster i think there's no good backs it but i wish you were voted out of some great to talk to you so much your time thank you very much take care. well just on the whole of the country 48 percent to be precise and didn't want tonight's deadline to come let's cross over to our to your case now derek today here is getting the reaction from the remain as identity rest i was the mood like now that where you are. there is a really strange mood i have to say behind me is parliament square you spoke to before he's with the leave leaves at the moment i've been hunting high and low for a main as i was told that there was going to be protests then the police told me that there were no protests so i've managed to find a few i've managed to find actually. a mother and son from germany the son is studying here at the moment for about 6 months and i managed to find another remains will turn to just show up 1st just as i said your student

why he signed to see the u.k. leave. the european union thank you. very disappointing very big time certainty and. yeah i don't know what will happen and it will be very difficult for me in the future to. my life in the u.k. . yeah but i you know. i'm sad because my son wanted to once to. the u.k. and now we don't know if it does yeah and simon your main i am how you're feeling i'm i'm i'm i'm just ashamed to be honest with you i just made friends with these 2 people. you know these people. why are we leaving such a great thing you know i don't really understand this is nothing to do with truth

it's nothing to do with. churchill it's it's just to do with nationalism and i'm not and i i'm i'm gritty ashamed about using. foul. well why didn't why did why don't you be nice to people that i mean you know this is this is why this is this is this is they are not these on not just national. you know people are you doing you know i mean i'm i'm i'm afraid that the people here today are not representative of the whole of this community. you know there are no on the street there are no black people here i have to say that and you know it's true isn't it you know i mean there are no black people here today it's just middle aged white men. that is really all born here to stand against the right to like some middle aged white men but you

know every. thank you simon and thank you you know thank you joshua you can see very divisive and the question assignment on. what remains will be thinking about why all we did in the u.k. . get it right back to the studio. thanks very much indeed for that that they were to do that live in central london well if there is anyone who's marking today with celebration it is the brics it party well here to discuss the moment that britain finally leaves the e.u. outgoing breaks it party m.e.p. james wells james best of my you know god 1st of all i. needed the sox's about how good is that it was that and so how does it feel now that the my which is actually here. delights it's i'm proud i think. delighted obviously you know this is something that we've been in the press apart to be working for for the last year it's something that some of my colleagues have been working on for nearly a decade now so it's

a meant to stay. and. you know this is a must if moment in our history what was it like on your last day in the european parliament the last time when you left. me. straightly i mean obviously you know that some of us are really really pleased for you waving flags yeah we certainly did and i would offer that mind you we did actually which is hypocritical actually because nigel actually got his speech cut off because we won't waved just little flags like this and yet they spent 5 minutes singing old line zine with scarves and everything so we did feel a little bit put out by that behavior you know so look at the ramifications there about what's happening scotland already there already as we know about independence we've also heard that wales is doing the same thing as well do the bracks it could lead to the breakup of the union i don't think so i don't think so i mean i and i do and i do empathize with. the people in scotland voted to remain but you know you need to remember the more people voted to levy you the vote for the s.n.p.

so that's an assistant the not many people know so i think you know what is scotland going to do i think about 757678 percent of their trade is with the u.k. and if the u.k. or england diverges which is what boris johnson says we're going to do on regulations then we can have a border across between england and scotland there's of see there's i will see the question of the currency they would use so it's not that simple i think but you know i am sympathetic are you sympathetic because obviously not just the majority of the stay in the you but 48 percent of this country do you feel any remorse whatsoever for those because there are people really really upset about this tonight don't feel remorse you know in a democracy you i mean listen 48 percent of those people in the country they voted in that referendum if it had gone the other way we wouldn't have even been

having this conversation it wouldn't of trying to form this long we you know and i think most leavers that i've spoken to and certainly myself we would have accepted the result so you know if you participate in democracy by that mere pop participation. and you give it that rubber stamp and you know it is you need to have losers consent you know we cannot have a functioning democracy if when we don't get what we want we don't accept the result we don't have a divided country right now and do you think we perhaps could unify after this i think we need to absolutely and i think you know i think those in the country fought against bracks it for the last 4 years and i need to accept it and they need to move on and you know because i think with this such a big opportunity for the country and i think everybody in the country need to get behind and make it work we're going forward then now it's all about negotiating that trade deal isn't another trade ideas that we're going to have as well do you trust boris johnson to negotiate a good trade deal. well. you know we voted for the little agreement

in the brits a party we voted with it for it holding our nose essentially because it's not perfect we're still giving away tens of billions of pounds for the pretty privilege of leaving we'll still be under the jurisdiction of the c.j. for maybe up to a decade and we don't necessarily get our fishing rights back but you know the the improvements the buses made to the withdrawal agreement do give us the opportunity to actually deliver a good breakfast but it doesn't mean. he's he's got a majority of over 80 so he owns this now so he if he drops the ball and messes up this time he can't blame anyone else so it is found or a series that he got 11 months to do as many not know he hasn't actually because the e.u. are going to publish their draft negotiations i think in february and they'll be finalized in march and then it takes 3 months to ratify the deal at the end of the year so we've only got actually 7 months. also of course you've got to bear in mind

we could be forming in the arms of the us with a trade deal many people very worried about that do not have a feeling of responsibility the fact that we're pushing britain into something that could have serious ramifications again it comes down to our government you know they're going to be sat round the table they don't have to agree to anything you know and america is our closest ally they've been up close ally for decades so i don't think we should fear america you know there's a big opportunity for us in fact actually america is our largest trading partner in terms of actual nations obviously the e.u. is the single market but in some ways to keep going on about america over that could be that the savior but there is every chance of a no deal outcome still with the e.u. what's that going to do for the economy and business sentiment. it would be a big adjustment for sure but you know this is why it's important that the e.u. know except the facts that we're leaving. and sit down and negotiate seriously with

the tory government and come up with a good deal it's in everybody's interest is in nobody's interest for us to leave or no deal but you know boris johnson is clear that the end of this year we leave if there's no deal there's no deal but the fact is though we're going to have to tough some kind of compromise and consensus we're going to have to have all the parties on board do you think that we are going to get the deal at the end of it that would anticipated when we voted. i think you know oh. i think it will take time i think it will take time you know there's going to be an adjustment for the country. and you know there's huge benefits that we had. that may take a few years to actually kick in but you know we've we've got to focus on the opportunities now and stop looking at this as a negative thing this is a meant to stay and like i said it's a huge opportunity for the u.k. james wells many thanks here so it's good coming in thank you james good to see. we're going to take a break from r.t.

u.k.'s live coverage for now and bring you up to date with all of today's top stories here on r.t. international. first of all 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 things some countries are simply not prepared to deal with the outbreak i'm declaring a public close emergency of international concern over the global outbreak of normal colon our very core innovators let me be clear this declaration is not a vote of no confidence in china on the contrary doug lute joe continues to have a confidence in china's capacity to control the outbreak. the world health organizations emergency committee has cautioned countries against vick with ties and behavior as increased global discrimination is being reported against people

from china where the virus originated artie's eco's dawn of reports 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 the baby other day she dropped on her daughter and her daughter was just having a bad day she's 3 years old and. the daycare teacher kept saying if she said is she ok and she kept having to justify herself and say no we haven't traveled or with the bat 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 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 headlines 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 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'm i'm 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 puns 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

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 so. 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 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. 1800 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 and 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. i don't want to talk about a victory lap over a very unfortunate very millings disease but the fact is that i think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs in north america but on the secretary's comments i highly. logically questionable an exhibit that was standard and humanity for the sufferings of the nose and people epidemic in china that's not really necessarily to more jobs in the united states as he claims the us china relations is not really a sewer sum game mother nature we are all in the same boat it happens elsewhere even more even though this time the rivalry says that the a story that death rate is only controlled controlled to only 2.2 percent right now compared to now i can 6 percent what sort in china and 70 percent in hong kong it back in 2003 so i think a temporary. understandable you see people act out in europe will be looking for

somebody as to look at the spanish flu kills millions does not lead us to hate spanish seems china have already i can buy that any sequence of arriving could be treated like a typical threw in the future best scenes have already been invented a few days ago and will be out in the market next 2 years. human rights group amnesty international has criticizing greece's plan to deploy a floating barry a to prevent my quince reaching greek islands from taking. this proposal marks an alarming in school asian 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 inflows of migrants it will be installed north of the island less box 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 but greece has been struggling to cope with this refugee crisis almost 60000 people arrived by sea last year enough double the figure for 2018 human rights groups have condemned conditions that greek michael and comes with some holding many times more than that they were designed for thousands of great islanders have demanded their closure. the overwhelming number of newcomers who have landed on greek islands has created tensions 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 governments. we're trying to give a message around to the whole world that this can go on it can't go on any more let us has had the load on their shoulders for 5 years this this is we're not we have

nothing against the refugees and migrants have shown this solidarity all this time but we are asking for a change the government policy should lead to the equal distribution of refugees and migrants. is this 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 so they're coming in and they're not leaving open the borders so they can go to salute bulgaria germany. playschool analyst petra believes the fault lies with honesty international as the european union who left greece alone to handle the crisis but i want to ask where is the international was during the decade of human suffering and the grab and go for human rights of the few months of the greek citizens i have a question for him is well one of them where they ask alan that is the good people to put human rights at home my friends the islanders there actually if you raise it

they can take it no more septic grease to handle. this shoots the issue on its own i don't see any e.u. solely that. if he you. open decided to open its borders again there would be even more immigrants that hoop them to even more migrants to enter the u. and greece greece is this a nation born of the migrants. will be back in 30 minutes with more from r t u k on the final breck's it count.

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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle but 2020 presidential campaign is beginning to look a lot like the 2016 race but this time around the insurgent is bernie sanders who is not even a member of the democratic party. gand are not interested in establishment politicians in fact they appear to be rebelling against them will we see a trump sanders showdown. crosstalk in the 2020 alexion i'm joined by my guest lee camp in washington he is the host and head writer of the comedy new show redacted tonight on our team

america as well as author of the new book bullet points and punch lines in milwaukee we have jennifer to master she is a an attorney and policy analyst and in syracuse we crossed through how we hawkins he is a candidate for the green party nomination for u.s. president or across the proles in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate you like my analogy. this year 2016 we had an insurgent in the g.o.p. . vanquished all of them and got the nomination and won now we have bernie which in my opinion it was stolen from in 2016 will he prevail in 2020 because from c n n m s n b c in the democrat the d.n.c. and everybody else is against him again and small donors keep giving him money so what's in the cards for bernie this time around go ahead lee yeah you're absolutely right.