it's 10 o'clock live from central london this is also u.k. . the party continues in parliament square a lot of breaks it is very. often the referendum it's finally happening. the european union the u.k. you farewell now just a trade deal to get sorted in the next 11 months we'll find out more about that from our europe correspondent. attention also turns to the prospects of a u.s. trade deal we will be getting reaction from our correspondents across the pond.

is the union at risk vigils are being held in scotland as the e.u. flag is set to be lowered despite the opposition and hold the agreed vote to keep it. and process starts on the irish border consigns the departure could spark a return to the troubles if the withdrawal deal protocol fails. well it's just on the an hour to go until the u.k. d.z. you know joining us for the next 3 hours to see him brics and beyond it for you get me to diane james and former lib dem home office minister no one baker thank you for joining us this evening and i thank you very much for joining us sorry about the dieting aggression that about to start with you. were asking name but not in practice yet you trust boris to get a. not at all i mean you know it's fascinating isn't it we're all talking about the

seething with celebrating wrecks that well we've got a year long transition period we ought to be thinking about celebrating grex it on the 31st december assuming boris johnson that she delivers the trade deal and gets and delivers on all of the promises on the transition period and say incredibly skeptical. of this way i'm not 100 percent behind him yet norman the lib dems in effect representing the 48 percent in the election clearly out of step with public opinion well i mean the that's a separate issue an election votes to be brought back to but about it was a lot about bricks it obvious most of it a lot about terry mcauliffe and lots of other bits and pieces to do so but nevertheless obviously was a very bad result the general election for us and indeed for the little party however i mean i don't say that operation tonight we're very concerned about the future but i agree with diana misunderstood we're not at the end of the game yet in terms of what this fund it looks like we don't know what it will look like finally and this is this is the 1st box the 1st item in the box the 1st d.v.d.

is if you want to go before we do it finally and talk with will we hear more from you to throw out even thank you very much indeed for being with us well it is fair to say the mood is very divided this evening as remain as morning breaks 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 truth of being in the thick of things at the pro party and the rainy parliament square. bring us up to date what is the atmosphere like there now. well it is absolutely in parliament square there are files of people here who have gathered just under an hour the u.k. will officially leave european union and it will be a moment of celebration for all of the people gathered here we've seen and widdecombe taking to the stage as well as to march to the business but also addressing the crowd as a performance going on at the moment everyone's listening very intently the other says because it's been peaceful. people have been waving flags and singing songs as

well but again just not what i would so go until the. moment when the u.k. leaves and will expect much noise noisy crowds and the much more. sort of ration that you could hear just getting on the way to hide. the surroundings thank you very much indeed from parliament square well to discuss everything that's been happening tonight by for what actually party candidate which finds time much like mitch thank you very much for joining us i get my teeth in here is starting to me celebrations going on around me but it is the day that all breaks it is have been waiting for is it everything that you'd expect i think it's a little bit everything and more i think what we have to look at is this is a true independence day that we've we've been waiting 3 and a half years for i think what we have to do is recognise a seismic shift that we've seen in the u.k. and european election system and what nigel for raj has done is unprecedented for

the last several 100 years the 2 parties he created he created the braggs a party he created ukip and he's brought bragg's it to where it is today without him none of this would happen so maybe it would be nigel farage day so if we talk about what the briggs party accomplished what we accomplished were many things. we have visser rated the labor party destroyed the liberal democrats by taking votes away from them ensured there would never be a 2nd referendum except the proxy that we had with the vote which ensured people wanted to leave gave boris a large enough majority by standing down our seats so that he can get a clean break regs in a year from now should negotiations on the withdrawal agreement go bad i think we're so much better and this is the best thing for democracy that's happened in 100 or 200 years in this country you say it's the best thing for democracy but 48 percent of people are against it still in some ways it might be joy from the rights it is but still a lot of sadness in the country as well do you feel for them i feel for everybody

but i think you know democracy plays a key role and if you go back to the 17400000 people that voted 3 and a half years ago for braggs it and it was frustrated by a parliament that 75 percent decided to disregard the will of the people that's absolutely wrong in any democratic process to ignore democratic principles and usurp democracy by saying i know better than you we're not going to great in bragg's ok we had the vote they wanted to do another vote the liberal democrats shot themselves in the foot by saying we're going to just disregard article 50 and too bad for you and then you know jeremy corrigan actually played a role with the labor party by staying on the fence and he disregarded 5000000 of his own voters so that's why we've got such a stonking majority with with with boris but the problem is you polarize the country i mean the country is polarized i mean the divide is there as bill was saying that you know if we have got a divided country that divide that remain

a perhaps it's a divide be bridged i think it can be bridged but there's polarization for a lot of other reasons and i think there are economic and i can go into the economics of if you look at 2008 nobody wants to talk about this but sterling dropped 34 percent in 2008 when the central bank the bank of england decided to print a trillion dollars to bail out the banks but nobody talked about that sterling dropped from $2.00. down to the 140 range so what the division is because people are unhappy about wealth inequality and i can name you know for 2 hours i can tell you what the other problems are with what's been going on through the universe of things and it's not just brags that there aren't happy about so did briggs it cause a polarization or did the vista ration of the middle class cause the problem you know i would argue that there are many other problems that need to be addressed but people don't trust politics they don't trust politicians any longer and this is true in the media plays a big role in that and i was interviewed by b.b.c. many times the b.b.c. feel that it's their obligation to tell people what to think rather than have

people want to hear their views and that's not the way it should be just boris johnson can negotiate for you talking about economics this is a key point to boris johnson could negotiate the kind of trade deal that the brics it is would actually want or it's not just the brigadier's would want i think that we're in a much better position that we don't have to pick up the debt from the profit southern europeans because the italian banks need to recapitalise their bust deutsche bank has a big problem they've got 17 trillion dollars in derivatives so we would be on the hook for those bank bailouts now can boris come up with a deal to negotiate it the jury's out on that i mean if he gets a good enough team in there yes anything's possible is the e.u. likely to push back i would say 90 percent are we likely to leave without a deal probably but that's probably the best case scenario and that's really what we wanted to begin with and all the time to lies in that i'm going to leave it there thank you very much indeed thanks for having me we've got plenty more to come

this breaks it nice. being britain's farewell ahead if they yearlong trade talks we get the latest from our europe correspondent. most people think just stand out in this is this you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice so the biggest read. truth to

stand down to lose business is just the right questions and demand the right answer . question. look the plastic is a problem it's 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 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 yes. i actually don't think monopolies percentage are the problem it's monopolistic access to credit we're politicians and probably both but the crony financial isn't

crony capitalism that's the big problem that's the. core of your. the e.u. says goodbye it seems there are plenty who want scotland and northern ireland to bid farewell to the u.k. the e.u. flag is set to be lowered from outside holly rood at 11 pm the seedling not long 'd now despite a vote by the scottish parliament to keep it flying. the . pro e.u. protesters a bit outside the scottish parliament since this afternoon. meanwhile in scotland

bracks a day has seen fresh calls for a 2nd referendum on the country's independence. as we have all heard before the national result in the 2016 referendum is very tight with believe votes narrowly winning 52 percent to 48 however in scotland that result was heavily in favor of remain with 62 percent of scots wanting to stay in the e.u. and that has been the rallying cry for the s.n.p. in the years since and the party's clear remain stance helped secure gains in the recent general election returning almost 50 m.p.'s. a future where only one parliament and the government accountable to the people of scotland are responsible for the decisions and the international partnerships that sheep herd direction under destiny a future where we continue to be an open welcoming place to live study and work

and a valued member of the european family of nations meet no mystique after tonight that future is only open to eyes with independence or joining us now to discuss the scottish angle to rex it is actor and campaign of brian cox brian many thanks for joining us this evening i should say it's a sad evening for many people in scotland i mean what's the feeling from people that you've spoken to. well i think everybody's of the same anyone has for scottish independence is of the same mind and of the same feeling yeah it's a sad day earl it's a very sad day we we didn't you know we before had 62 percent for remain. and we're very we've always been a much more internationally orientated country tradition that's very much part of it and it's something that we want to continue but again the powers that be have decided. with the recent election. we've gone back to

a kind of. tory majority that does not represent scotland and it's it's like a history of this going on for so long and it happened during the fact she has been such a decimated a lot of scottish industry and again it wasn't representative folk the people of scotland and i just think it's time that we left x. and it's time not only that we left but you know the sound england let us go you know all of us you know looking for scotland to represent itself and there are calls for a 2nd independence referendum the stark reality as you know and have what i have because westminster boris johnson simply won't allow it yeah that looks like the stark reality but we are persistent and we will go on until we get it you know that the door isn't closed it's still a door which has got a slight it's slightly ajar and we'll explore it up for all it's worth brought up the time don't think i have some sympathy with the position you find yourself in

democratically in it i have to say how can you possibly secure this referendum with the government to westminster with a big majority and so strong against it was a tactic ah. good tactic. well that's not to say what the track as i think the tactic is that we just have to hold true will to what we believe and make you know and make the people of scotland you know they see how they've been betrayed on this along this whole process the people of cattle might have felt they were betrayed and you don't want to start going down that rate damn well no i think that we're much more counting. scotland as a cheap this far without any any kind of. any major kind of conflict and i still think it's a negotiated thing that can be negotiated but i do think that the time has come that scotland does move on and move away because it's gone on far too long and

media really has gone on want to i mean i look at on a recent convert i mean i'm you know i only i only came. to scottish independence really in the just at the time of the referendum when i realised that when i look to my own history and i saw how scotland had been treated and it's been treated shamefully absolutely shamefully by you know. but i'm probably not going to. train some of former every page i cease to be in any pain to live this year under in trade with you know your support for the referendum and particularly old said nicholas. assessment that just by breaking up the union she can then take scotland back into the and yet the has made it absolutely clear that scotland doesn't meet the criteria certainly on the economic side to become a member again so can you somehow cast an eye over this and give us some idea as to how you think you can get around this we need to take you know we mean to take the

business into our own her and so like you think we need the time to actually serves in the direction we are at it we will look at ourselves in the direction i think we will become viable but we just need the opportunity and the chance to do so at the moment we're a little colder no man's land and everybody's talking all about behalf but nobody's actually saying what is viable for the scots. it's certainly viable to make the move and it certainly viable to try to achieve some kind of separation i think it's tragic it's come to this i have to say but i do i just i'm sick of my country being you know sort of constantly undermined by the but that some are saying that the economics of the s.n.p. are not viable and they're spending too much time talk about independence not running the country education of itself that's an old argument too let's not mess. we're going to take a break from r.t.u. case like greg say coverage now and bring up to date with some of today's top

stories here on r.t. international. we have the 1st 2 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in russia in 2 chinese nationals on thursday the world health organization declared an international health and merge and say thank 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 norval call a number called 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 for emergency committee has cautioned countries again stigmatizing behavior as increased global discrimination is being reported against people from china where the virus originated artie's

a costar has the report. 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 or we've been back to a certain amount of time and i had one friend that a colleague of hers went around to everybody who was asian in her office and says are you trying to lose are you through 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 read this. things like the corona

virus in china wouldn't happen just see it kicked 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 back in the colonial era white people literally illnesses the 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 our

class people very away from minus 2020 what 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 the 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 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 7 be some 800 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. 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 millington disease but the fact is that i think of will help to excel or aid the return of jobs to north america which one's life out by tactlessness professor of political economist at mary's college welcome to the program jack what's your reaction to the u.s. coma secretary's remarks what they appropriate. well that's more political spin body administration is not really economic analysis look you know an american companies move their supply chains heavily to asia especially china they're there to stay for quite some time and then you know they don't make these decisions to dismantle supply chains or overnight for short term developments plus you've got to understand that china just opened its economy for majority ownership so you're going to see more american companies moving to china i predict even if that were

true that they would news their supply chain and move to the back to the united states which it isn't that's not going to result in any jobs you know look at a truck gave trillions of dollars in tax cuts to u.s. corporations what did they do to win the day to day increase jobs no they increased automation and they heard they removed jobs trump. had these 10 companies that he bragged that would bring jobs back to the united states and there was a report just released then they've done anything but that no jobs have come back to united states so this is this is political spin probably because they know the u.s. economy is weakening on a number of fronts both investment has been contract in here business equipment for 9 months and now it looks like consumption is beginning to slow what about about flat for china then what would the economic impact on the virus be for batman and globally as well. well very clearly it's going to have some impact on china's

g.d.p. or the g.d.p. will slow they're probably going to buy a list or oil and gas from the united states so trumps boast that they're going to buy 100000000000 is nonsense as well and it's going to have an effect on commodities commodity production and commodity trading markets elsewhere in the world you'll probably see a short term devaluation of the yuan. and other emerging market currencies. this is not a long term impact either in china or on the global economy i don't think so as most professor of political economy at the moment college thank you for joining us on r.t. . human rights group amnesty international has criticized greece's plan to deploy a floating barrier to prevent migrants reaching greek islands from turkey this proposal marks an alarming in school ation in the greek government's ongoing efforts to make it is difficult as possible for asylum seekers and refugees to

arrive on insurance and will lead to more danger for those desperately seeking safety great officials say the floating barrier will help contain the increasing inflows of migrants and will be installed north of the island of less both migrants often make that 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 its refugee crisis almost 60000 people arrived by sea last year and that's double the figure for 2080 human rights groups have condemned conditions in greek migrant camps with some holding many times more than them but they were designed for thousands of greek islanders have demanded their closure. yes. they have a well mean number of newcomers who've 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 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 these leaders were not 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 mcdonough's 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 yourselves what's happening coming and they're not leaving open the borders so they can go to italy bulgaria germany. president unless patch was a girl rio believes the fault lies with amnesty international and the european union who left greece alone to handle the crisis. but i want to ask where obviously the national was doing the. human suffering and the grab and go for human rights so

that you must of all greek citizens i have a question to limit well one of them where they asked alan that is the good people to put human rights to the migrants the islanders they're actually infuriated they can take it no more it's up to greece to handle. these shoots issue on its own i don't see any e.u. salute him even if he you. open decided to open its borders 'd 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. well back in 25 minutes with more live private coverage and the final countdown.

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