the u.k. set sail from the e.u. on its previous brock's a voyage but off to 47 years of cooperation there are fears of economic storms are new to me and scotland to move an island. a peace plan that triggers violence donald trump's accused of taking sides in the israel palestine conflict as the palestinian authority cut ties and protests break out in the west bank. as fish is lucrative the corona virus outbreak that's a reported spike in discrimination against chinese people and.

a french farm fight to strike tons ugly in paris where riot police resort to take out water cannons. it's 2 pm it's sunday it's the weekend here on r t as we look back at the biggest stories of the past 7 days welcome to the program . so let's jump in the u.k. has fallen in the bit it's farewell to the european union bringing to an end almost hoff a century in the blog and an extended period of up people following the historic referendum back in 2016 but britain's new beginnings on without insights into. 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 please sit down resume your seats put your flags away you 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've lived through you know you want to write a review because. 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 joy and the captain's ready to steer them to a brighter future. stores in the end but a beginning the e.u. has evolved over 50 years and it got rich and the suits this country but the other

half is seasick and predicting a doomed voyage for people to realize that if. we would because of that it's good if you try to be very productive we make you feel. similar to what we have you. don't we will be worse off but see the u.k. is still it's just pretty or 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 the signs are that this government is prepared to sacrifice our

country's interests and values for short term political advantage on ascent i'll try to deal with general 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 had from europe a little classified cheska is a tea and. a political commentator on what might be ahead for post black separation . 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 with our story at the end of the the year if it's a wish is so i mean it's not going to take home the u.k. if it happens it's as much in the interests of the u.k. is it 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 be some very very difficult negotiations i don't think there's any possibility that the lawrence conservative government who clearly elements really want to move away from you are going to sell out the united states but 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 of convenience for birds that's

not going to happen i don't think. another big story from the past week the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas has said that he's cutting ties with both the united states and israel that came after donald trump announced washington's long awaited peace plan for the middle east conflict. it will. tell you 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 if not let to angry protests across the gaza and the west bank critics say i mean is there i would stand to benefit from the so-called deal of the century my vision presents a win win opportunity for both sides was was. 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. a lot of these demonstrations i had to move out of the firing line as the israeli police deployed tear gas. under the proposed palestine without a capital in a group this which is a cramped arab neighborhood on the outskirts of jerusalem teens porousness spoke with some of the residents. 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 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 sort of start everybody think it's. you know it's. one of the village in the town and we really visitor center 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 any think. this is it doesn't give us take from us most of our large 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 trumpet. putting so much faith in it. r t abilities. the current virus outbreak has now claimed its 1st victim outside of china chinese national in the philippines on thursday the world health organization declared an international health emergency but made a point of commending china south that to combat the spread of the disease. this

declaration is not a vote of no confidence in china on the contrary douglas continues to have a confidence in china's capacity to control the outbreak the world health organization also stressed that countries should avoid stigmatizing chinese nationals over the virus artie's igor standoff 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 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 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 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 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 want to 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 cynical rotavirus 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 were already experiencing subtle forms of backlash people not taking 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 44 people in this country 41 people in my city alone the city of herat now are hit by cars last year. you know so the risk is much higher on the day to day life things 3500 people in canada die from the flu. some 800 people a year die from air pollution so there are certainly rest that are much much higher that because we see them on the day to day window internalize those risk right now and all of canada there have been 3 confirmed cases on 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 ahead a look back at when a to step in stray sions in a french capital where a maserati by firefighters a ton of fire and some of the best pictures from not on of course the details in just a minute. but hopes and. i put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to reach. out to going. which is what before 3 of the more people. interested in the water.

you. must talk about 20th century socialism this is when governments made mal investments and then they bailed out those mal investments until the economy went bankrupt versus 21st century capitalism this is when banks make mal investments they when they go bad they bail out the malinvestment and that cycle continues until the economy goes bust and that's where our city. welcome back and that's how to europe protests have continued to greet

a grip france this week on tuesday thousands of firefighters were out in paris and yet again it descended into violent clashes with police. ok. it's a 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 fire fighters 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 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. securing 2010 to 2800 firefighters have faced an increase and the number of verbal and physical attacks against them police colleagues get more because of the greater 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 fake it's all image and secrets that fire fights is

police offices and i believe it's working back in august of last year those attacks were said to just a right would like with men. people claiming that there is a problem with your ring 5 fighters with the police into a situation and then attacking them in fact there were some a 110 sots or tanks being told it every single day that's right those attacks reached $23000.00 so that some of the reasons why the 5 might just say that they deserved to have risk premium just like the police paid they are on the streets again in paris hoping that this time their voices will be heard by the government shocked even ski r.t. in paris. the family of a one year old russian boy has been trying to raise money to save his life baby 2 more has a rare condition and the treatment acquired just happens to be the most expensive

in the wild where for national reports. to more than just turned one most kids his age would have taken their 1st steps by now but to more has and he can seat either even rolling is a hard task right now he has a rare disorder caused by a defective gene spinal muscular atrophy known as without special medicine to more might never get the chance to blow 2 candles out on a birthday cake and based medicine is the most expensive drug in the world ever. the bill now is $2400000.00 we made a discount though it was $2.00 are my 1st turned into a nonstop crowdfunding marathon with limited time very limited time but time is against him more doctors say he has 12 months maximum otherwise even the most expensive drug ever want to be able to help at the time we spoke to his dad they

had so far only managed to reach 10 percent of their goal. we have a goal. we simply aim towards reaching this goal and we do not think about anything else but this goal and we are optimistic acquittals that when u.s. regulators approved the gene therapy last may there was plenty of talk about how revolutionary it is it can save a life with a single injection but there was so much small talk about just why it is so incredibly expensive we have used value based pricing frameworks to prize orgasm and around 50 percent last in multiple established benchmarks including the 2 in your current coast of chronic spinal muscular atrophy therapy it's very difficult to say what a fair price it all depends on what the distribution is going to be despite all these large. investment costs very difficult for people to really know how much

is actually a return on investment and how much is just pure profit so i think we've got a bit of a broken system right now is the company appears to recognize the barrier the prize presents its run in a yearly lottery with 100 days of the miracle treatment been given for free a lottery where the prize is a child's life crisis old medicine at this level is a deeply worrying new reality for health systems right the way around the world and we know all that tracing numbers of drug companies are charging these very excessive prices and if we don't do something about it though then it's going to cause this has been a relatively old access to health care for literally millions of people will be called into question there is no point in having medical innovation and having new medicines if they are priced so high that the patients that need and can't get access there are not too many diagnosed people around the world that is the order

affects one in 6000 to one in 10000 people but each of them or rather their families in every corner of the planet will have to struggle to get expensive treatment trying to strike a balance between hope that it could be cured and fear that they might not have enough time or enough money. r.t. from moscow. and finally for this hour on monday the world remembers one of the most horrific chapters in history the holocaust journey 27th marks the day when 75 years ago the soviet army liberated the nazi death camp auschwitz the place where more than 1000000 people were brutally murdered.

what you guys will order more you to give up we had our temperature taken every morning other prisoners told us that offer this some might be done in the crime it's orian we didn't know what that meant if someone had a high temperature that was it they were gone the. morning show called that but i didn't when we arrived we didn't realize it was a camp we could smell burning we had smelled something similar before but here it was unusual acrid heavy after one crash we drove the germans out of the village and came out onto a field huge fenced with wire around the perimeter behind us barbed wire there were buildings like barracks we thought it was a german military base. level

we were playing later we saw people behind the fences we were on a look because we didn't know who they were but they realized who we were and started making welcome signals with the hands. go up of the schlieffen to ensure we saw exhausted people they drag themselves out because of the cold. somewhere in blankets or rags we paid attention to. the rise of warmth we felt that they understood everything they understood that they were being liberated the hell that they had been kept and it was over for them.

the ambulance battalion began providing 1st aid to prisoners and the kitchens also came. for those who didn't see left off the selection they put it in line and took us to the camp and that's it we thought they would burn as alive or shooters one day passed then 2 days and nobody came for 3 days we didn't know anything and suddenly they arrived in trucks put it in them and drove us to the railway station we thought they were taking his to the kramatorsk but then we saw the train. we were waiting for liberation. saved as we kept holding on to the end of my clearest memories from when the soviet army came to liberate us it was very moving

we never thought we'd survive. that's how things are looking for i'll be back at the top the hour of course coming your way now there was a part. hello

and welcome to. all the dine style is often credited for defining insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result this is the argument behind the trumpet ministrations deal of the century aimed at hooting and to these really palestinian conflict is the american president indeed insane or perhaps a genius for breaking with the old framework to discuss that i'm now joined by. former deputy israel's national security council is to ask you and it's good to

talk to you thank you very much for your time. great to be here thanks for inviting me now when dealing with bombastic and self aggrandizing people it's a it's a natural tendency in all of us to devalue or downplay the significance of what they're saying or what they're doing and both don't all champ and benjamin netanyahu are unbearably vain the times i think of with agree on that but putting that aside don't you think that trump and his team deserve a credit for at least trying something new yes i would give them credit for trying i would argue that they're probably at least as far as trump is concerned are not. shall we say motivated by the purest of intentions one might say that you know purity usually is not part of international relations and that's true as well but as somebody who has been involved in previous pieces.