you can a truly momentous night for the united kingdom the night we left the e.u. . the winds down and a lot of breaks it is very happy that for the referendum it's finally happened. the european union the u.k. farewell for a trade deal to get to the next 11 months we get a lot of reaction from our europe correspondent. and is the union at risk of being held in scotland as the e.u. flag is low despite opposition and holyrood voting to keep it.

on the irish border amid concerns the. troubles if the withdrawal protocol fails. well finally still with us here in the studio former james. baker we are in has it sunk in that we've left the e.u. we are now independent norman baker. interesting word. independence day i think when the referendum occurs but the issue is how much influence to be half of the world's ok without sort of rules and regulations and not in a sense is a is a move towards independence on the other hand. i believe has diminished i think we

are no longer regarded as such an important country internationally as we were we had a great new opinion for example to climate change agenda we call european countries to take us with us on not into. in the world through kyoto everything else that influenced by laws has gotten and i think if you talk to comes around the world they think we've got a bit balmy talk to talk to some of them still you know and they said britain's become like a like a bunch love grandfather who's lost it that was a view on britain you know so i just wonder if actually the so-called independence of coming from being in leave you need you has actually been undermined by a lot of influence across the world but that we have economic climate. well we had a new you mention on for do we got some economic club but we're not going to be doing trade deals countries who are much more powerful than us round the e.u. do you trade do you wear your much more clout with a country that darn you got to react to that grandfathers lost it i mean you know former leader of you kids are going to say this is just what you wanted is normal

what do you make of what norman just said well i think here i think it's the shenanigans of the political system over the last few years that has really you know brought. shall we say the perception of great britain the united kingdom downwards i think we're going to go back up because if there's one thing one critical success that's happened in the last few hours is that we've got a prime minister who's to live it we are no longer a member of the you and democracy has won and you know for effectively a founding country of the whole principle of democracy and giving voters avoids a make you feel that voice is heard it eventually i think that you know our standing in terms of countries i think it's going to go back up i don't you know i don't disagree you know with the political class over the last 3 years 3 and a half his has just made a mockery of so much and it's made a mockery of how this country is perceived around the world well you know susan

said famously in 63 britons lot of them partly from the role and the american of the one who was recently said the trouble with brits is a britain is big enough you think your load in small of that your producer and let's leave it there for the moment we can now cross live to our correspondent in a very quiet looking parliament square now. what's happened it's all seems have changed now since we last spoke you. well the party official party is over there were around 10000 people here in parliament square but there are still some. people still hanging around singing songs waving. the. very happy to host the u.k. and now. european you did sing it out 2 with the top of 5 by you. a few very early and with police. some of the

crowds are not going to peacefully come out with. 2 this horse and a very good cause of the florida straw 11 and the celebrations of those who are going to surely consider this through your. years. thank you very much and to sort out we we've lost and. that was already a case he said that what it's. over now to kate thank you bill well it's hard to believe it's been almost 4 years since the referendum 4 years so let's remind ourselves how we got here. at the. it is finally here but as anyone in westminster will tell you getting here hasn't exactly been a stroll in the park it all began with the then prime minister david cameron worried about the threat from the u.k. independence party remember them cameron won the election 2015 with a small majority on the promise of

a referendum on the membership but then he had to deliver on it. 3 years ago i committed to the british people that i would renegotiate our position in the european union and hold and referendum now i'm delivering on that commitment while cameron campaigned hard to remain tory heavyweights like michael gove and boris johnson more of him later went to correct it and they got a narrow win 51.8 percent so just for a while one. having lost cameron wasn't going to stick around paving the way for theresa may to assume the top drop to quickly change their tune from hard to remain a 2 pragmatic pull the trigger an article 50 that the talks begin bricks it means bricks it breaks it means breaks ranks it continues to mean the brics it but with only a small majority in the commons the new prime minister if it should never get a deal through she called an early election to boost us numbers but it didn't quite

pay off labor leader jeremy corbyn astounded the critics forcing a hung parliament and to cling to power they had no choice but to team up with the northern irish units the do you pig we have reached an agreement with the conservative party on support for government in parliament that proved to be a major point of contention the e.u. offered a bret's it deal with an all ireland backstop to avoid a hard border on the island of trade talks went sour but that sounded too close to a united ireland. so she went with an all u.k. backstop instead but that left the entire country in the grips of an e.u. customs union which many saw as a bret's at the trial despite all kinds of ideas to avoid that scenario from alternative arrangements to. technological solutions none of them quite fit to the bell the withdrawal agreement is in short a reckless leap in the dark there will be. people going into the lobby is against this deal it is a denial of our democracy and therefore of the national interest the democratic

unionist party will be voting against withdrawal agreement we now have the problem with around only 20 percent of the public appear to think that this is a good deal and it should come as no surprise that so few members of parliament are also willing to support it not once not twice but 3 times parliament rejected the deal and with that 529 t. it was time for the end where i will shortly leave the job that it has been the honor of my life to hold. the 2nd female prime minister but certainly not the last. i do so with no ill will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. now the end of may spark the beginning of course the former foreign secretary sees control with one aim in mind breaks it by how do we and he said he'd leave without

a deal if he couldn't get a better one do or die get breaks it done let's get back to john great to get bricks done the best way to bring this country together would be i think to get bricks it done johnson even try to suspend that pesky parliament getting in the way of his plans just weeks before the u.k. was due to crush out many sorts as an attempt to dodge scrutiny and the courts ruled on the hopeful but then the unthinkable another deal. how you could you see you. could see the prime minister. my friend going to johnson we have a did we go of a deal put it in the microwave what was the new deal well remember that all i didn't backstop that's right forces up and ready brek that bill was more like the breaking to fast off the d.p. hated it but you also didn't seem to care but without the numbers in the commons just like you read that before him he found his deal through but he was an

accepting defeat just yet can he make a comment today because. you will not get back to brussels and you know that makes you think yes and so yes i did you a great deal in the end he was not dead in the ditch either mostly of parliament it was back to brussels asking for yet another extension with that guaranteed and he's also in the election he's been gunning for since he took charge i just been to see i'd see the queen earlier on and she agreed to dissolve parliament for an election but would it be a something which are are not a hung parliament in the spirit of the season farsight rights carol's daughter. it worked and a 2 seat majority in the commons certainly it was so simple morris was able to do

what is pretty decisive to get that bret's it done at least in the commons now just a trade deal to secure by the end of the year so the bracket battle is far from over what could possibly go. so well to discuss all this further are now joined by former deputy mayor of london roger evans roger many thanks for coming in i mean how do you feel do you feel any different were out well how long it's taken i don't think when we originally got the results of the referendum back in 2016 any of us anticipated that it would take this long but this is a major milestone and it's good to to get out of the way and we have to as my old boss the prime minister was saying look forward bring the country back together and work on making this a success over the next year in the years to come what is to say is taken as many years it has to be to get to where we are but the next steps have been described as

sort of even harder than the last 3 years i mean using the boris johnson comes fresh as a trade deal and in the time that's left well it's a challenging task because it's quite a short time but you have to remember of course that because we've already got a relationship with the you a lot of the material is in place here already so it's not like we're starting from scratch in the same way that the trade deal the e.u. did with canada was and there's quite a lot of the regulations mechanisms in place for deals around the world already i would anticipate that we probably won't want to change quite a lot of it actually but boris johnson he said all along he was a comprehensive deal does doesn't he do you think his plan all along was to been to leave without a deal. i don't think so but i think it's important that no deal is on the table because anyone who negotiates for a living will tell you that unless you're prepared to walk away you're not going to get an optimal deal so i think it's very important that the prime minister's hands

were not tied by parliament in a way that they were before the election in december and goodness may look look at how fast things of moved once that blockage was taken out of the way also trade deal with the the us as well i mean trump is notoriously difficult to negotiate with do you think the boris johnson will surrender to the us do you think what we've seen some interesting indications already in other areas of policy. boris is not keen to tie himself too closely to donald trump his political opponents of course like to compare boris with trump i have to say having worked with boris for 8 years i think there chalk and cheese they're very different people and boris wall want to make that gap known between them that said of course you know we've got a 1000000 americans apparently working in the u.k. and a 1000000 british people working in the us we have the same language the ties between

us for a very strong and. very historical so the ground should be in place for a very good deal between us that's also then turned back to domestic policies as well do you think after all the division and the senators and we've seen it in the celebrations tonight this is the 1st step to actually uniting the country we have a decision we're going forward and you think that boris johnson can keep everybody on side while i was really impressed with the response of steve baker the parliament tarion who said that he was going to enjoy a quiet drink to celebrate but he wasn't going to make a big fuss about it or. belittle people who opposed this decision at the end of the day the. a fair point they didn't win now we have to come together to make this work for the u.k. and it's important that everyone is doing their best for our country and on one final question in terms of break say we've seen division as well of the nations within the u.k.

do you think this could lead to scotland wales disappearing and leaving england basically well wales is quite briggs's you so i think there is the danger that the scottish situation i think paradoxically is less of a problem that it would have been if we come back with a hung parliament in december because of course another real referendum on independence would have been a condition the s.n.p. would have applied to taking part in a government of different parties so we don't have to have a referendum now there will of course continue to be moral pressure from the s.n.p. for for a referendum but they do have a lot of problems running scotland at the moment the education systems not a good number of their other indications are not good in their economy isn't doing particularly well so perhaps they need to sort those things out before they talk about independence. let alone rejoining the as i think they might like to try to do that's quite a long way down the line isn't there we should say roger evans many thanks for

coming in thank you thank you. we're going to leave artie's ukase live coverage and bring you up to date with some of today's top stories right here our 2 international that'll come up in just 90 seconds stay with us. 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 the we see from sanders showdown. you know world of big partisan. lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that

mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. are broadcasting live from our studios moscow this is our international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. we're covering a lot of different news today in the u.k. and the european union and let's go to the united states 1st where democrats have been dealt a blow in their hopes of impeaching president donald trump in

a close ballot senate republicans have defeated an attempt to allow the presentation of new witnesses and evidence that vote was $51.00 to $49.00. days or 49 nays are 51. motion is not agreed to a trump was impeached by the democratic controlled house of representatives in december on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress his trial began in the republican controlled senate on january 21st although democratic house managers did their best to sway senators this evening's vote against new witnesses paves the way for a final decision on whether to acquit or convict to trump and that vote is expected next wednesday. after the vote senate minority leader chuck schumer denounced in the conduct of the trial as a ship. it's a gray and tragedy one of the worst tragedies that the senate has ever overcome

america will remember this day unfortunately where the senate did not live up to its responsibilities where the senate turned away from troops and went along with the sham trial. for some comment on how all this may play out we cross live to julio rivera editorial director at reactionary times dot com thanks for being with us here on r t international. this is been crazy with ups and downs and now inside information with the new york times reporting that john bolton has much to say including the defense. scipione of the lawyer for donald trump. but right now republican senators have blocked new witnesses and evidence from appearing this would include john bolton and his revelations or what some might call revelations are you surprised that this. you know i'm not surprised at this at

all listen the democrats ultimately they had their crack at the apple in the house and they called i believe it was a hoards of about 17 witnesses so if they had smoking gun evidence enters something that would have risen to the level of you know what the burden of proof that it would have taken to prove high crimes and misdemeanors then they would have had a shot of her moving the president book you know quite frankly you know it's their impressions of what the phone call was you know you had adam schiff kind of you know all mining what he thought and you know the content of the phone call blood zelinsky and trump told the belligerents on the phone call stated that there was nothing you know went on on the phone call that was wrong you know my position has always been this that you know the united states government subsidizes to a certain degree the ukrainian government the ukrainian government to a certain degree subsidizes brief must so if you have a hunter biden making a $1000000.00 a year you know off of gauri small when he has no experience in the energy sector

whatsoever i mean to me that's a sign of some sort of you know there's some sort of a fraud going on over there in the president troubles well within his right to ask for an investigation into what was going on the only thing that the democrats did here was a forever you know complicated you know basically a diplomacy in foreign policy because any time a future president whether it's a republican or democrat gets on the phone with a foreign leader they're going to be looking over both of their shoulders making sure that every single element of the phone call is perfectly legal or they might fall under the same type of scrutiny the president trump is fall in under here so what are the chances now of trump actually being convicted and removed after the vote on wednesday. i would say that there is no chance whatsoever i think they've basically as of wednesday they're going to have the up and down vote he's going to be acquitted you know where america is going to move on from this and i think the american people deserve that you know the house of representatives has been

discoveries under the democrats ever since they took control a year ago you know you had a lot of when you legislators they ran on a platform to try to make things better for the american people there were a lot energy issues there were brought up in the 28 you know lection they took control of the house and then they left the democratic leadership you know basically take them in a negative direction here which is going to cost them in this election they have not delivered for their constituents it's only been an all out attack against president trump here and they've basically shown no desire to move legislation forward for the american people right who editorial director for the reactionary times dot com it's going to be interesting we of course have the state of the union on tuesday hope you'll come back to us and talk to us as this process moves forward . thank you so much for having. the 1st 2 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in russia to chinese nationals on thursday the world health organization declared an international health emergency saying that 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 the cole and i quote innovator's let me be clear. this declaration is not a vote of no confidence in china on the contrary deadly continues to have a confidence in china's capacity to control the outbreak. the world health organization's emergency committee has cautioned countries against stigmatizing behavior as increased global discrimination is being reported against people from china where the virus originated artie's it was done off comment. 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 or old familiar 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 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 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 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 read this things like the coronavirus in china wouldn't happen just seen. the virus will die soon because it's made in china.

i just bought a mask to protect myself from this corona virus but it's made in china so am i playing myself. when it disgustingly ironic that people are being racist towards asian people as they get in the coronavirus and back in the colonial era white people literally in this is a country and killed thousands of indigenous people online jokes and 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 away from us it's 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 so. and all over the world by ordinary citizens and authorities alike such tactics against the virus

have been made into a trend by big governments who have cut ties with china and by beijing itself which however says that the isolation measures are a necessary evil to stop the new disease in its tracks the purpose of the government is to put 2 lives and health of the people at the top of all priorities therefore i have been personally directing and deploying the epidemic prevention and containment work this time now it seems it's a matter of whichever comes 1st either the virus or the hype around it has to stop but who knows whether the outbreak of racism will also be halted the reality is that the flu killed a lot more people people are comparing this to the sars outbreak sars killed 44 people in this country 41 people in my city alone 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 70800 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 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 a 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 over a very unfortunate very millings disease but the fact is that i think it will help to excel or aid the return of jobs in north america but on the secretary's comments

i highly. logically questionable an exhibit that was standard and humanity sufferings of the no some people at the den in china does not really necessarily to more jobs in the united states as he claimed the us china relations is not merely a sewer sum game mother nature we are all in the same bolt it happens i was aware of even more even though this time the right always as deadly as stories that death rate is only controlled intro 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 think what temporary . understandable you see people act out in europe that kill top of the rupee and for some. peons the spanish flu kills millions it's not me has to hate spanish seems china have already i think if i could be any sequence of their lives could be treated like a typical threw in the future scenes have already been invented

a few days ago and be out in the market. are that doesn't the back of. the international lead with us. you. know 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 right so life expectancy is down 10 banning plastic is not going to change the equation one iota right because it's just too far gone so should we care or just consider that humans had a great ride why we did them then shuffle off our mortal coil and that he owes.