from the e.u. on its voyage to 47 years of cooperation there are fears of economic storms. also this hour a peace plan that triggers a. trumps accused of taking sides in the israel palestinian conflict as the palestinian authority. protests break out in the west bank. as fears globally over the coronavirus outbreak there's a reported spike in discrimination against chinese nationals.

french to strike in paris where riot police tear gas. from moscow thanks for joining us in the weekly here and. welcome to the program. the u.k. has finally bit its farewell to the european union bringing to an end almost half a century in the block and an extended period of upheaval following that historic referendum back in 2016 britain's new beginnings the uncertainty quarter explains. no it's not a late new year's celebration it's the u.k. setting sail from the e.u.

after 47 years of being docked they're going to wave goodbye i will look forward in the future so working with you pays to chandra's you in your seats put your flags away you know anything a conflicted brussels bids them farewell you will be missed especially by european bureaucrats when it comes to london's money going into their coffers on the other hand westminster has been such a nuisance lately it could be just goodbye and good riddance almost half a century of the united kingdom's membership in the european union is over we want to have the best possible relationship with the united kingdom but it will never be as good as membership that could mean after the 11 months transitional period the u.k. finds itself in rough waters stranded at sea with no trade agreements unless something can be ironed out before 2021 when they'll be alone months we will not be

a rule 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 so how are things going aboard britain's flagship while half the crew is celebrating they're free to sail wherever they want finally the country actually going to get going on here right now is that we we we lived through your book you want to write a review victory. i'm very excited for our future and so you were very to make our own decisions i wrote those controlled i write migration policy very patriotic it's a real great failing and the captain's ready to steer them to a brighter future. stores may end but the beginning of the e.u. has evolved over 50 years you know da rich and the suits this country but the other half is seasick and predicting a doom voyage for people to realize that if. we would because of that

it's good if you try to be very disruptive we make you feel. similar to what we have you. know we will be worse off but see the u.k. is. it's just really are is that some are even considering mutiny so angry they might abandon ship should the u.k. government continue to deny scotland right to choose we may reach the point where this issue does have to be tasty i am not ruling that we must focus firmly on building and winning the political piece for independence persuaded to climb aboard with concessions northern ireland is watching events closely while naysayers have dared to suggest the captain is ready to surrender british sovereignty into washington's hands the signs are that this government is prepared to sacrifice our country's interests and values for short term political advantage on

a sell out trade deal with donald trump. was foreign secretary he embarrassed this country and his prime minister he shows every sign of being prepared to sell itself when and if the u.k. find safe shore sometime somewhere it might be without the treasure it was once promised unless boris johnson finds his sea legs quickly x. marks the spot for brags that booty we heard from european law professor francesco to. me webber a political commentator on what exactly might be in school for post written. where i'm trying as a transitional period to build up months now we've still got to get down to the final detail the trading arrangements and so on various a lot of faith being portrayed in. the cards really are are on the u.k.'s side because. the u.k. you can leave with our story at the end of the the say wishes so i mean

it's not going to protect me harm the u.k. if that happens it's as much in the interests of the u.k. as a interests to have a deal so are you personally feel that the u.k. will be out at the end of the year there is no doubt in my mind that over the next 1012 months. there are going to these and there is very difficult negotiations i don't think there's any possibility. even lawrence in the conservative government who clearly elements really want to move away from you are going to sell out the united states let's not be too deluded about the extent to which america is going to replace the european union and sign a new partner in this marriage and convenience to boast that's not going to happen i don't think. president of the palestinian authorities mahmoud

abbas has said he's cutting ties with the united states and israel came after donald trump announced washington's long awaited peace plan for the middle east. we inform you here that we are cutting all relations with you and with america we have said the same thing to america including security relations well what it was meant to bring an end to the longstanding conflict in fact led to angry protests across gaza and the west bank that his critics have dubbed the so-called deal of the century as one that benefits israel and israel. my vision presents a win win opportunity for both sides was was there was a realistic 2 state solution that resolves the risks of palestinian statehood to israel's security was never

was it's a great plan for israel. it's a great plan for peace. was. this demonstrations i had to move out of the firing line as the israeli police deployed tear gas. all of the proposed plan palestine would get a capital in this arab neighborhood on the outskirts of jerusalem. with some of the residents living now. this doesn't look exactly like a capital city and yet it's hero in the village of abu dis on the outskirts of east jerusalem that the american president who wants the future capital of a palestinian state to be now not only has the issue divided israelis and palestinians but as you can see by the security barrier it's also divided palestinians from palestinians so on this side you have some of east jerusalem on

the other side you have the rest of it and it's anyone's guess how a city like this well if a function as a capital. structure. or capital of palestine. refused. to start or the people who are is just sort of start everybody think. you know it's. one of the village in the town and we believe a 07 is a capital this is the parliament building here in abu dis now it's closed and it doesn't look like much but this is where presumably a future parliament will function from when trump says that this is a win win situation for both palestinians and israelis well it seems he's being cynical at best about acing and be able to want to make peace but they have to give us you know what they give israel you know the fear he doesn't give anything to some pieces he doesn't give from us most of our guards they have to hear our voice

. i think this will lead everybody to the good to think and to conflict together say what we want to hear and the people here so want be uprising here don't be upset that key to the city of abu dis but when inhabitants hear themselves are pessimistic as to the promise that it unlocks it's hard to understand why president trump is putting so much fate. r t. we spoke earlier to the matter of our produce himself our made up of our he said donald trump would do better looking at matters closer to home. with joselo is the capital of palestine and i would this is considered as a suburb of drawers of them we will not be brought there. from the historic city and we will always be a bar of the doors of them mr that is the president of the united to steal it.

he does in the business and the palestinian and his land is only for the live action. to the white house for the new era. he didn't nor a list dined he didn't know anything he does come with this a bland for to really act to the 1st for the new all for here he busted care for him and. for that authority or not to disturb it but then to brazil and the palestinian and the palestinians here. you corona virus outbreak has now claimed its 1st victim outside of china a chinese national in the philippines on thursday the world health organization declared an international health emergency but made

a point of commending china's efforts to combat the spread of the disease 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. well the world health organization also stressed that countries should avoid stigmatizing chinese nationals over the virus. that of now looks at a spike in discrimination borders on lockdown zombie like scenes of quarantine cities the world is united in trying to concoct a healing sero 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 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 eat this things like that corona virus in china it wouldn't happen just sink to 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 going to play myself. when it disgusting you ironic that people are being racist towards asian people as they seem to call roto

virus and back in the colonial era white people literally plague. 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's everyday 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 and schools for self quarantine are being. sounded all over the world by ordinary citizens and authorities alike such tactics against the virus have been made into a trend by big governments who have cut ties with china and by beijing itself which however says that the isolation measures are a necessary evil to stop the new disease in its tracks the purpose of the

government is to put 2 lives and health of the people at the top of all priorities therefore i have been personally directing and deploying the epidemic prevention and containment work this time now it seems it's a matter of whichever comes 1st either the virus or the hype around it has to stop but who knows whether the outbreak of racism will also be halted the reality is that the flu 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 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 he made during a live interview in which he said the corona virus outbreak would boost the american economy. i don't want to talk about a victory lap over a very unfortunate jury in the leg. but the fact is that i think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to not america's promise secretary's comments id be a logical question of or an exhibit that was standard and humanity. you know 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 really a sewer sum game mother nature we are all in the same boat it happens i was aware

of even more even though it's time to write and it's always as got me as stories that death rate is only controlled controlled 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 can piece out what temporary. understandable you see the fact that in europe. to canvass on me as to you look at the spanish flu it kills millions it's not me has to hate spanish seems china has already i think if i could be any sequence out there right it could be treated like a typical crewing and best scenes have already been invented a few days ago and be out in the market next 2 years. later some of the stations in the french cabinet are. gone it was.

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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only mostly exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. the program the protests have continued to get france this week on tuesday thousands of. us yet again at the senate into violent clashes with police.

oh. it's risky profession and they want to be back she just like the police just give you a sense of what's going on here in paris where the firefighters have come from across france to try and get their food he says her it's up by the government they say that they likely need to massive recruitment troy's they need assistance because they say that the number of old lives they receiving is increasing every year and they don't have the staff to cover it why are we protesting for 7 months because we've had no response from the administration or from the government there are 2 problems firstly our work involves a high level of risk and this should be factored in

a. security or in 2010 to 2018 firefighters have faced an increase in the number of verbal and physical attacks against them our police colleagues get more because of the great a risk they face and we're demanding an increase also has demanded that we are facing a shortage of personnel that's partly because departments on having their budgets slashed. so in terms of attacks on the firefighters there are no specific figures just for them but they're all figures for all emergency crews that's fire fight is police offices and i believe it's working back in august of last year those attacks were said to just a writer would like with men. people claiming that there is a problem luring 5 fighters with the police into a situation and then attacking them in fact there were some 110 assaults or attacks being called did every single day you write you those attacks reached 23000

so that some of the reasons why the firefighters say that they deserved. risk premium just like the police are paid out on the streets again in paris hoping that this time. will be heard by the government. r.t. in paris. also this week a meeting of the un security council sall russia at loggerheads with the u.k. and united states the russian representative called claims that syrian forces had killed civilians in a province unsubstantiated as moscow blamed terrorists for using human shield tactics while targeting established humanitarian corridors. we are appalled by the significant escalation in syrian regime and russian violence in libya but the escalation in it is not due to the operations of the syrian armed forces but the constant and deliberate provocations of the terrorists the lives of millions of

civilians are now even greater risks as the combined forces of the assad regime russia the iranian regime and has escalated their offensive the problem of can't be resolved as long as the terrorists that have been recognized as such by the security council continue to rain there. all the syrian army recaptured one of ellipse province's largest and most strategic towns. before the hot spots around the government protests have been on the rebel control since 2012 russia opened humanitarian corridors for people to leave the area before the operation and washington though has insisted the offensive be stopped as more density of reports it seems that washington is different standards when it comes to its own actions. the fall of the new month came as a shock to everyone it was a cradle of the revolution later the jihad against the assad rebels 2nd largest

remaining city and they gave it up without a fight a fight for the city that is it self had been a battleground for the past month. in december the syrian military set off an operation taking dozens and dozens of towns and villages in me a week's diplomacy kicked in washington turkey mediated a ceasefire which didn't last the islamists seemingly couldn't keep their fingers off the trigger. about italy and the reason for the escalation the reason is the militants. totally or nearly totally by chuck hagel nusrat and i yeah taria sham which al nusra has turned into and uses as a cover constantly bring the cease fire with the cease fire arrangements create special corridors for noncombatants so they can leave the combat zone by the way

the terrorists keep striking those corridors hindering the departure of peaceful civilians trying to retain them as human shields. seen at all before in ghouta rebels caged the women and pensioners on roofs to prevent the airstrikes i was in aleppo at the end when those same rebels held hostage 200000 civilians refusing to allow a single person human shield to leave the city and you wouldn't even know reading we sent headlines it's the usual stuff that is guilty of every sin and every hurt in syria ruthless actions by russia the iranian regime hizbollah and the assad regime are directly preventing the establishment of a ceasefire in northern syria we condemn these barbaric attacks and call for an immediate cease fire one would think if you really want to the cease fire you would

stop flooding rebel armories with weapons and advanced guided missiles but ok so what would america do if it was attacks during the ceasefire how would it fight terrorists who hide behind civilians mislead the public preaches and voices its concern about the alleged suffering of civilians only when the terrorists suffer a crushing defeat and syrian citizens of finally liberated the state department also published similar hypocritical tweets when syrian cities that are now rebuilding themselves were liberated unlike rocca that was wiped off the map by u.s. airstrikes they leveled mosul just like they obliterated raca in all. tens of thousands of innocents died i remember them back then broken civilians running out of the city mosul every day horrified that isis sent us jets in equal measure but apparently when america leveled cities it's the right thing to do we're not perfect

guys we can make a mistake in this kind of warfare or happen but we are the good guys munificent people on a battlefield know the different ways us knows that they can use human shields to avoid being hit it's their air defense system the enemy is using a tactic that actually has them become part of the target that is on them not on us not entirely sure the dead would agree those pulver arise by coalition bombs or the survivors who are still years later cleaning up the rubble surprised the pentagon hasn't blamed them too for forcing america to use so many bombs it's clear the cases in mosul in iraq are the american and british bombers targeted the jihad the islamic state opponents but these people were intermingled with the civilians they had bass. and buildings which also house civilians were next to them it's a case of burying their head in the sand and not wanting to admit that both turkey

and russia have helped at least to limit the human cost at least to many many hundreds of thousands of people i mean it is i think part of the underlying dilemma of the western states that they committed themselves so wholeheartedly to the fall of a sad that they turned a blind eye to who was fighting against him and so they have in the end said anybody who's against it is better than a. double standards but it's also turning a blind eye to these groups who have after all spawned threats to western europe because some of the supporters have carried out radical terrorist attacks in western europe to. up next artie's documentary shuttle explores the power and influence of corporate interests in the global legal system will back in 30 minutes with the latest.

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