after a long negotiation process fraught with turmoil the u.k. officially leaves the european union after 47 years of membership. u.s. senate says no to the democratic attempts to allow new witnesses and evidence and donald trump's impeachment trial that paves the way to a final vote on whether to convict and remove the president expected next week. and as fears over the corona virus outbreak could grow people around the globe to report a spike in discrimination against chinese people. are

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our 2 international i'm john thomas really glad to have you with us right after 4 years of wrangling into political turmoil the u.k. has officially left in the european union after almost 5 decades of membership at 11 pm g.m.t. is the result of the biggest democratic referendum in british history was finally enacted and now there is no going back our colleagues in london have been covering the historic event throughout the evening let's look at some of the highlights. of the city. that has been allowed.

we're all still here only now yeah it's like millennium bug nothing's happened yeah the beginning you will have to face all the. well how does the country feel now is it all celebration anticlimax or whatever let's cross to a course for me sally who has the truth of being in the thick of things that is a pro briggs it party happening at the moment in parliament square so what is the atmosphere like now. well just as you're doing. nothing at least $60000.00 people to work out it's. called save the queen that i. just. look at just before. rocking the boat. she is going to sing it if it should be the 5 pulse of the book. you're. not going to get over the last of the cut into it and many people that we've spoken to it's not that i don't this is just to getting overwhelmed roads and

schools you have the 11 transition period and they're off but it will have to really be shocked it's pretty different to us what exactly. we're living in style but so many here at least the future of represents one shouldn't be but of course in other parts of the country. we'll be looking at some of my tree done admitted i hear. the whole carrying the running. and on its way many thanks for joining us well let me go diana i mean you've been campaigning this for this for your whole life i mean how does it feel fate placed very placed i have to say i mean you know we're not allowed to be tramped listen i don't want to be triumphalist but i am pleased you know finally from my point of view we've got to the end of 3 and a half years with them frankly we've got a functioning polman that's actually delivered a result and we've actually got a prime example. ista has actually delivered a pledge norman is

a former lib dem minister how do you feel bearing in mind the lib dems or the revoke article 50 well i do not you agree with that particular policy of of the site but i feel very worried for the country i mean tyrants are very honest politicians there are so you and she's absolutely straightforward in her views and she you know to believe is the best thing for britain i thought happen to believe the opposite why was the problem what we were missed that we were in or we're in a world of power blocs for those us or whether it's china russia the e.u. and britain is going to a very small fish in a very big pond full of sharks and other things you know we're not in we don't victorian times when your stand on boats and things we are at the mercy of other countries little cup apparent with the deal with america if we get one with a trade do i mean it would look he used to call the shots 11 o'clock as it happened or as i happen to love to quote it at 12 o'clock central european time even decided to channel even broach or some to the doom and gloom because in the economy there are no signs of economy thinking oh well i don't know the economy is going to pick up i mean we just look at the car industry 14 percent decrease in production over

the last year catastrophic for that had been a word of poverty or had a position where we actually got more costly exports and from the come to the big important for the 1st time in 25 years that's not going to reverse and boris johnson has trouble appeared not to be interested in manufacturing any more well the case that was based on uncertainty the fact is by actually having a deadline and in force and it was the fact it was dragged on for so long not to help but the fact is if you look at the way the car industry constructed its parts moving to and from the country all the time trying to get up to 35 times for the single part from a car the whole the whole ecology is integrated absolutely with the e.u. and if we end up leaving a single market and having and how we trade barriers that would do immense damage to car history amongst others i think a you know i find it incredibly amazing that the e.u. has done it stem aged to the european automotive industry i mean who in their right mind brings in legislation or. a such

a short time frame which means the producers can't respond quickly enough you know change their practices and then coupled with that you've got the whole diesel gate scenario with folks falcon and the other big german manufacturers and yet the e.u. is sat there and actually has created this chaos now you know that the remaining this with all due respect norman kate wanted to point to bricks it but i want to point the finger and say the you is that is it's at the fount the foundation is the source of this whole problem the prime minister will no doubt be raising a glass to celebrate the country's official departure from the e.u. and finally getting breaks it done before the 11 o'clock deadline struck just a few minutes ago boris johnson addressed the nation via a pretty recorded video message and he claimed we are at the start of a new era blight we are leaving the european union the e.u. has evolved over 50 years in a direction that no longer suits this country and that is a judgment you the people have now confirmed at the polls not once but twice.

as the bridge and celebrations continue across of the u.k. not everyone is rejoicing the with britain now having walked out of the user exit doors and into the corridor of the transition period there is a storm of uncertainty brewing about what the future will look like taking a look at that is artie's hearkens. big day is here the u.k. is finally divorcing the e.u. after 3 and a half years of seemingly endless negotiations that lays ministerial trips back and forth between london and brussels we now have the unique opportunity of witnessing the brics it unicorn rex it means bricks it and we're going to make a success 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 or 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 or transition period where the u.k. and the e.u. will talk about the new relationship that means from now the u.k. stays in the comfort zone of the single market the customs union and the budget the 1st day when they'll stop co-habiting and go their separate ways will be january the 1st 2021 if there are no delays so despite the u.k. staying for a little while it'll be like renting a room in a house where you can live there and help with bills except you'll have no say in any house matters british m.p.'s will be sent home and won't take part in any

decisions and definitely no union jacks allowed what about our national flags we're going to wave goodbye i will look forward in the future so working with you please sit down resume your seats put your slags away you're leaving and take them with you if you are leaving now and i 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 to go. 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 genetically modified products in europe or the u.k. bret's it could change all that well 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. on your own and it we will do our this in the knowledge that with the departure of great britain a potential competitor will of course emerge for us there is to see in addition to china and united states of america there will be great britain as well but talks have both sides while reads it's back to the drawing board on workers' rights for the regulations and many more questions and businesses are jittery especially with sajid javid tough talk that will not be alone when. 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. 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 scarce it and planning a 2nd independence referendum the stunning election win last night for the s.n.p. renew is reinforces and strengthens the mandate we have from previous elections to offer the people of scotland a choice over their future that mandate says that it is for the scottish parliament nort a westminster government to say whether and when this should be a new referendum on independence with so many unknowns the brits might have agreed that at least some special bricks accordions would be a good idea to mark a 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 always and debilitating control freakery so the government prefers to spend time and money and it's pathetic breasted $50.00 pants and the so called breck's it festival rather than try to sort out the problems that bracks it creates well with so much left to be settled before bricks it lost means of bricks it at least we can finally see the promised bricks it unicorn even if it looks slightly more like a goat with a horn. let's switch gears to the us now where democrats have been dealt a blow in their effort to remove president trump from office in a close ballot senate republicans on friday defeated in attempts to allow the presentation of new witnesses and evidence yaser $49.00 nays are $51.00 motion is not agreed to trump was impeached by the democratic controlled house of representatives in

december on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of justice congress rather his trial began in the republican controlled senate on january 21st friday evenings that vote paves the way for a final decision on whether to acquit or convict trump which is expected next wednesday spoke to julio rivera who is the editorial director at reactionary times dot com who believes impeachment is just a power play by the democrats. i think that 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 while the democrats have proven that you know their only intention is to try to regain power even if it at the cost of you know trying to remove illegally i think duly elected president who's been wildly successful while i think that the republicans scored a victory here in the fact that you know the political class i believe took

a loss here you know they tried to remove president. potential impropriety and it's not limited only to the bidens i mean you know for years the political class has been taking advantage of you know the power that they have the influence that they wield so this is not limited to the bidens i mean this is the palosi the clintons obama's and even though romney it's about time that this type of 'd impropriety gets exposed and i would like to see a deeper investigation into exactly why hunter biden was making a $1000000.00 off of greece money and any other arrangement that's going on between a member of the american government or a member of their family in a foreign entity mourners after a short break this is international. and stuff is credited with defining insanity as doing the same thing over and over

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this is r t international and the 1st of 2 cases of the coronavirus 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 i'm declaring a public close emergency of international concern over the global outbreak or call a number of voters let me be clear this declaration is not a vote of no confidence in china on the contrary w.h.o. continues to have a confidence in china's capacity to control the outbreak. the world health

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. as a store. 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 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 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 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 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 to klyce did what it does best made everything worse if we could all agree not to eat this. things like the corona virus in china wouldn't happen just seen. 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'm i'm playing 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 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 very away from minus 2020 we should hope that our children wouldn't have to deal with the same things that we had to deal with growing up and that really is the biggest concern calls for self quarantine are being sounded all over the world by ordinary citizens and authorities alike such tactics against the virus have been made into a trend by big governments who have cut ties with china and by beijing itself which however says that the isolation measures are a necessary evil to stop the new disease in its tracks the purpose of the government is to put 2 lives and health of the people at the top of all priorities therefore i have been personally directing and deploying the epidemic prevention and containment work this time now it seems it's a matter of whichever comes 1st either the virus or the hype around it has to stop

but who knows whether the outbreak of racism will also be halted the reality is that the flu 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 a 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 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 window internalize those as risk right now in all of canada there have been 3 confirmed cases are a crowded virus 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 but i want to talk about a victory lap over a very unfortunate very millington disease but the fact is that i think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to north america there's a certain wing in the us the people who are in politics who want to stoke racism and another wing that is anti trying so you know this is an opportunity for them and their media outlets to promote this is going to have some impact on china's g.d.p. as the g.d.p. will slow they're probably going to buy less oil and gas from the united states is so trumps boasts that they're going to buy a $100000000000.00 is nonsense as well and it's going to have an effect on

commodities commodity production in commodity trading markets elsewhere in the world you probably see a short term devaluation of the yuan and other emerging market currencies but this is not a long term impact either in china or on the global economy. 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 a new law school nation in the greek government's ongoing efforts to make it as difficult as possible for asylum seekers and refugees to arrive on sure those 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 of lesbos 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. greece has been struggling to cope with its refugee crisis almost 60000 people arrived by sea last year that is double the figure for 2018 human rights groups have condemned conditions at greek migrant camps with some holding many times more than the number they were originally designed for thousands of greek islanders have demanded their closure. but. the overwhelming number of newcomers who have landed on the greek islands has created tensions with thousands of residents and business owners taking to the streets in protest they have been demanding a much tougher line on migration from the government. we're trying to give it a message around to the whole world that this can go on it can't go on any more lance bass has had the load on their shoulders for 5 years this these days when 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 used to make them as this is the migrants should go when the racists simply the situation on the island is out of control 100 percent you can see for yourselves what's happening they're coming and they're not leaving open the borders so then go to silly ball garia germany. political analyst go to you believe that the fault lies with amnesty international and the european union who left greece alone to handle the crisis by going to the us where it was their national was during the decade of one suffering and the grab and go for human rights of the human group citizens i have a question whether they were they ask alan there is a group of people to put human rights at home migrants the islanders there are actually a few is it they can take it no more it's up to greece to handle. these shoes

the shoe only exome i don't see any easily that. he you. open decided to open moves both as a game. would be even more immigrants that hoop them to even more migrants to enter the e.u. and greece greece is this the nation born to the migrants. all right that does it for me i'll be back with more news this is international. during the great depression which old mr

a member there was and most of my family were unemployed working class there wasn't it was bed you know much worse subjectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo debt engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to no on comes one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for. that's what happens when you put our into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for itself just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america.

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a bore now fairmont here in washington and here's a look at what we have in for you today the gloves continue to face the threat of the corona virus which has the growth of business in the disease of epicenter in china but we take a broader look at both the economic and human toll of the virus and what the infection may hold in store for the world and the recent surge in economic growth has been cooled by reports of the growing coronavirus but we take a spin around the planet to get a big picture of how international markets have been performing so much to get to so let's go ahead and dive right in. and the latest on the coronavirus leads our global report today after the world health organization declared a global emergency related to the virus on thursday china's envoy to the united nations wayne kwan addressed member states in the press to give an update on the numbers of those affected by the virus reporting there are now 9809 confirmed cases in china with 1527 case the patients in.