it's like i'm up for 3 in the morning can't be. interested always in the why. should. the u.k. set sales from the e.u. on its. 47 years of corporation fears of economic storms mutiny in scotland more than on a. peace deal that triggers violent struggle trumps accused of taking sides in the israel palestine conflict the palestinian authority has cut ties with israel and protests break out in the west bank. as fears over the corona virus outbreak there's a reported spike in the. national. ugly

in paris where riot police resort to tear gas. from moscow thanks for joining us in the weekly on our teams and. welcome to the program now the u.k. has finally bid its farewell to the european union bringing to an end almost half a century in the blog on extended period of up evil following that historic a friend of back in 2016. new beginnings i want without uncertainty of course or 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 it will be alignment 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 that we we lived through your book you want to write victory. i'm very excited for our future over 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. and but the beginning of the e.u. has evolved over 50 years in a direction that 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 productive we take. 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's 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 but 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. as 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 suit so i'm anthony webber a political commentator on what exactly might be ahead postbox it was a. we're ensuring it transactional purdah build up months now we 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 without free will at the end of the the year if it's

a wish is 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 you qasr interests to actually 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 no it difficult negotiations i don't think there's any possibility that even more 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 with ours our new partner in this marriage of convenience to boast that's not going to happen i don't think. the president of the

palestinian authority has mahmoud abbas has said he's cutting ties with the united states and israel came after donald trump what else 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 but what was meant to bring an end to the longstanding conflict in fact led to angry protests across gaza and the west bank that as 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 . that was a realistic 2 state solution that resolves the risk of palestinian statehood to israel's security was never never never

was it's a great plan for israel. it's a great plan for peace. was a lot of these demonstrations i had to move out of the firing line as the israeli police deployed tear gas. now under the proposed plan palestine would get a capital in abu dis that's a crime to arab neighborhood on the outskirts of jerusalem paulus lir spoke with some of the residents living there. this doesn't look exactly like a capital city and yet its hero in the village of abu dis on the outskirts of east jerusalem that the american president who once 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. or the people who are is just. a start everybody think. you know it's. one of the village in the town and we believe his 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 is that you know the fear he doesn't give anything to. be says he doesn't give from us most of all they have to hear our voice.

i think this will lead everybody to the good just think conflict of the say what we want to hear and the people here so want be appraising here don't be upset that key to the city of abu dis but inhabitants here themselves are pessimistic as to the promise that it unlocks it's hard to understand why president trump is putting so much faith in at. r t d s rights groups to have shown serious concerns over the details of donald trump's new deal. because it has. received. that is going to. enable actually act. and next quarter which is 3. dollars. makes a shoe is. is always of the original lot and will be american administration who is

saying that's ok 'd you go ahead and do it and if that's the measure this is what we do want to say where is the rest of the universe what is the part of the united states already declared war on univision criminal court over its investigation to get its did such a nation situation in palestine its put all these issues and you choose cause you see good negotiations that are clearly. as has all their actions over the past 3 years meant to produce a palestinian rejection that would pave the way for is really exceeds. the koran a virus outbreak has now claimed its 1st victim outside of china a chinese national in the philippines on thursday the world health organization the cleared an international health emergency but at a point also 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.

joe continues to have a confidence in china's capacity to control the outbreak of the world health organization also stressed that countries should avoid to stigmatizing chinese nationals over the virus artie's egos that often are 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 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 to klyce did what it does best made everything worse if we could only agree not to read this. things like the coronavirus in china wouldn't happen just seen it cooked 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 might claim myself. when it disgustingly ironic that people are being racist towards asian people as the. virus and back in the colonial era white people literally illnesses 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 we're already experiencing subtle forms of backlash people not taking our very 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 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 kills a lot more people ill people are comparing this to the sars outbreak sars killed 40 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 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. still to come a look back at the latest demonstrations in the french capital where a mass rally by far far just turn violent and some of the images from that some of the tiles off this price. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by foreign person to those with. dares thinks. weak dear and to ask.

in a world of big new models and conspiracy 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 smart 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 troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. program. continue to grip france this week on tuesday thousands of firefighters were out in paris it again descended into violent clashes with police.

oh. it's a risky profession and they want to be back 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 a massive recruitment troy's they need assistance because they say that the number of old school 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 oh no there are 2 problems firstly our work involves a high level of risk and this should be factored in. securing 2010 to 2018 firefighters have faced an increase in the number of verbal and physical attacks against them police colleagues get more because of the great a risk they face and we're demanding an increase also i did not get 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 site is police offices and i believe it's working back in august of last year those attacks are said to switch to a right which is 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 recorded every single day throughout the year those attacks reached $23000.00 so that's some of the reasons why the firefighters say that they deserve to have risk premium just like the police are paid 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 seoul 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 blame 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 it should be escalation and 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 at 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 was a syrian army recaptured one of its live provinces largest and most strategic tells . the formal spot ferrante government protests had been under rebel control since 2012 and russia had opened humanitarian corridors for people to leave the area before the operation was a no has insisted the offensive be stopped as more data of reports it seems washington's got different standards when it comes to its own actions. the fall of

newman 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 the promise he kicked in russia and turkey mediated a cease fire which then lost the islamists seemingly couldn't keep their fingers off the trigger. about islam and the reason for the escalation is the reason is the militants control totally or nearly totally by chop out all nusra. and i at ariel sharon 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 zones by the way the terrorists keep striking those corridors hindering the departure of peaceful civilians trying to retain them as human shields. we've seen it 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 assad 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 stop flooding rebel armories with weapons and advanced guided missiles but ok so what would america do if it was attacks during the cease fire how would it fight terrorists to hide behind civilians mislead the public preaches and voices its concern about religious 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 raca 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 a member. back then broken civilians running out of the city mosul every day

horrified that isis sent us jets in equal measure but apparently what america leveled cities it's the right thing to do we're not perfect guys we can make a mistake and in this kind of warfare will happen but we are the good guys munificent people on a battlefield know the difference isis 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 arised by coalition bombs or the survivors who are still years later cleaning up the rubble i'm surprised the pentagon hasn't blamed them too for forcing america to use so many bombs it's clear the cases in mosul iraq the american and british bombers targeted the

jihad the islamic state opponents but these people were intermingled with the civilians they had base. themselves in 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 of russia have helped at least 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 lot of the 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 too. exactly 77 years ago the bloodiest battle of world war

2 came to an end in what was a major turning point in the conflict after nearly 200 days of fierce fighting the remaining nazi used traps in the city of stalin grab surrendered to the red army we spoke to a veteran who was in the city about living on the edge of death during one of the world's one of the worst battles in history. we were schoolboys we boarded the boat and went to stanley grad. you know what. i wanted to finish my school and take up shipbuilding. we have lots of very beautiful ships sailing along the volga you for your i don't.

buy that. it was never ending under the bomb you could see your enemy what could an ordinary soldier at the front expect he just had to believe if you were wounded it meant you hadn't been killed. no my post. near pneumonia we simply were not thinking about death and we would have been killed if we were thinking about it maybe a newcomer to. vote

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