the headlines now 3 times in northern eastern france accused belgian neighbors of illegally dumping rubbish across the border a correspondent shot at the investigation. being described as being on i mean just fill scale and you can see why. for the 1st time since the start of the outbreak the number of cases of coronavirus outside of china has exceeded the number inside the country we look at how it is spreading. a body is going through some restructuring in the deed crease in the resistance to infections secondly when to there's a high concentration of people in houses buildings bars and other places and the high concentration of people is a condition for epidemics brit. venezuela slams u.s.

sanctions as a weapon of mass destruction and a type of warfare with donald trump threatening even more strict on the country's oil sector. but are they good even just an icicle care of moscow you watching the international residents of times in northeastern france are creating a stink by trash talking that belgium neighbors are accusing them of some serious cross border fly tipping shot at the bin ski visited the rich. this may look like part of a landfill site but it's not all of this waste has been dumped here illegally we're just a few miles from the border with belgium and luxembourg and the french town of all core mu 9 is one of many struggling to cope with what you can see mountains and to mountains of garbage that have appeared since october in nearby

red it's a similar story trash both household and commercial has been dumped under the cover of darkness city. at 1st we thought it was regular waste but it turns out people are illegally dumping their washing machines. they're throwing everything away. yes but here we see it's far more serious we estimate around 200 tons of waste it's enormous as far as the pollution we don't know what's inside it could be tonnes of who knows what type of products chemicals. we don't know we see cleaning products plastics but more could be hidden it didn't take long before locals track down where the waste was coming from what if we did i was looking through the trench piles and piles of it it all had signs of being from the same place we

searched and found out it was from one term. and that if there is an invoice is it and. i'm very clear it says and who have been so of s. . when the company was contacted it denied any knowledge of illegal waste dumping but the local resident jessica told me that since that statement the fly tipping has continued it's been described as a dumping on an industrial scale and you can see why back in redone the local. association is also concerned. on the water source or close to this pollution so there can be a problem because it could affect our pond this is the 21st century there are designated places to put waste like this on it's an acceptable and people are doing this regularly the mayor's office says the cost of cleaning this up is beyond its

means. on a financial level this is impossible to solve we have a small community of $1000.00 people it would cost the equivalent of the whole annual budget to get rid of this. a criminal investigation into this problem with cross border dumping has we know you didn't and customs agents have stepped up their patrols now in 2017 they reported 7 metric tons of waste like this was illegally trafficked into france in 2018 that shot up to 130000000 metric tons now although there are no figures yet available for 29000 it is clear that this issue is escalating the communities here are fed up of being a dumping ground for of the people's waste they want more regulation and a calling on the e.u. to step in to solve

a problem that some believe europe's open borders are helping to facilitate. r.t. in mosul. now the number of new cases of corona virus reported outside of china has for the 1st time exceeded the number of new cases inside the country on tuesday china reported 411 new cases while the rest of the world reported 427 and more than 30 countries around the world and now battling the virus were journalist anton kosofsky has spoken with the celebrated russian medical professor and specialist me to devolve about the true threat posed by the spread. here is the work there are 2 types of coronavirus the alpha coronavirus involves

the human virus has been circulating among people for hundreds of years seasonal coronavirus type of acute respiratory viral infection this year around 7 percent of acute respiratory viral infection cases are coronaviruses. here and now you are just got accustomed to them yes humans got accustomed to them they are lethal they cause some trouble especially among children while li's virus is mostly spread in winter. and winter our body is going through some restructuring or a decrease in the resistance to infections secondly when to there's a high concentration of people in houses buildings bars and other places and the high concentration of people is a condition for epidemic spread why is it happening in china there are many people them and there's a high concentration of population that they call it a deadly virus on t.v. it's not deadly it's always been and will always be and we should be ready for that i've got 2 words to say about mosques and these goals rags must the told but in

china and even in some places in russia they have tight mass with a respirator they can protect other people if you are able to do so the mosque on top you personally know or only to a minor extent but why is this the most of it does the response through our eyes as well yes and also these pools they can protect them against large droplets a person becomes infected when he or she speaks maybe i have infected you or you are trying to infect me i hope you won't i also hold a lot to be honest masks can partially protect from that. now the u.s. president or trump has threatened further sanctions on venezuela's oil. meanwhile caracas has branded american restrictions as a weapon of mass destruction accusing washington of waging a mosque full of warfare it has been a year since the u.s. formally recognized and is why this opposition leader is the country's interim president and officially that the legitimate government of nicholas the washington

stance and i suppose the transfer of power is looking increasingly called i was. expects. when it comes to venezuela the trumpet ministration lives in a kind of alternate universe for example when the country faces a food crisis donald trump says there can be only one cause venezuela's president nicolas maduro people are starving here's a case worker who was wealthy 15 years ago and very wealthy 20 years ago very very well when you look today they don't have water there are no basic food they have no medicine it's incredible what's happened it is we're no we're watching very closely we don't like it we don't like it he fails to mention that u.s. sanctions have been wreaking havoc on venezuela for years or that opposition groups have actually been caught torching food warehouses in the narrative of the u.s. government these things simply don't exist. using the blockade of food medicine and

weapons to politically co-work were private entire countries and their own needs to sustain and develop themselves are actually completely criminal these unilateral kirshner criminal actions are equivalent in scope in effect to weapons of mass destruction but it gets better the venezuelan embassy in washington d.c. has been reopened after diplomatic relations are cut off you'll recall how the actual venezuelan officials were ordered to leave the country so with no diplomatic relations what exactly is this new so-called embassy. somebody who is in there. how well are they able to provide consular services. ok. very interesting because i hear that there and you see this pretend the embassy has a pretend ambassador working out of it it cannot grant visas or do any of the normal

functions that a normal embassy does for one simple reason no one would be allowed into venezuela with those visas because the embassy doesn't represent the actual venezuelan government this pretend embassy is just a big facade representing a president not elected by the venezuelan people that buy american officials duras grip and tyranny will be smashed and broken. here this evening so a very brave man. who carries with him the hopes dreams and aspirations of all venezuelans joining us in the gallery is the true and legitimate president of venezuela one who i do the ear that the u.s. government insists this is the true leader of the venezuelan people but when he arrived at venezuela's airport the venezuelan people had a pretty different opinion.

back home the one great 0 is not popular polls show that roughly 10 percent of venezuelans support him however vice president mike pence likes to brag about the fact that over 60 countries have recognized him as president this president has led now a coalition of more than 60 countries around the world but of recognize one why go as the legitimate president of venezuela but over $100.00 countries have not recognized one wedo and still seem as the legitimate president furthermore in the countries where dueto is recognized it's far from unanimous you. not agree that the recognition of glycol is an absolute gem barras months to anyone that has occupied this chamber and this is this chris and under part of the member states of europe a some of them have recognized. washington had very high hopes for one grade 0

hoping that he would go ahead and topple the dural but it didn't happen so it seems that now washington has adopted a strategy of pretending that it did and hoping that others will play along the us is totally broken international law by taking over the embassy in the name of the pm to them as well and government is the official government of venezuela whenever the us. joke most people in venezuela know that it's a joke. you can't just declare that somebody is the elected president when he isn't the elected. so the the us is making this this farce the person into the government and then saying that the embassy doesn't belong to venezuela we now have a coalition of the willing who are saying that quite oh it's the government it doesn't have any other option and he hasn't been able to push that mud euro out. of the 2020 democratic hopefuls in the race for the white house have clashed again

another t.v. debate the last before super tuesday which is seen as decisive for the posse's presidential nomination were front runner this face more attacks from his rivals for remarks he made earlier defending the literacy programs in fetal castrate the self-styled socialist words were initially made in a c.b.s. interview and his opponents were quick to pounce. we're very opposed to believe or thorough peer in the chair of cuba but you know you know it's unfair to simply say everything is but you know when fidel castro came into office you know what he did he had a massive literacy program it's not a bad thing after 4 years of looking on in horror as trump calls it up to dictators we need a president who will be extremely clear in standing against regimes that violate human rights abroad we can't risk nominating someone who doesn't recognize this fidel castro left a dark legacy of forced labor camps religious repression widespread poverty firing

squads and the murder of thousands of his own people because your bernie let's talk about his literacy program during the debate sanders was quick to point out his views on cuba racially the same as barack obama's and i said this president castro in cuba. i said look you've made great progress in educating. young people every child in cuba it's a basic education that's a huge improvement from where it once but who discussed the potential impact of scientists remarks on the race with a panel of guests. bernie sanders saying this thing at a time when the democratic party's already split its the vibe that it's going through perhaps a bit of a p.r. it means here across this i mean this is a really bad decision isn't it sanders to me shows his integrity here look he's been saying this for years that there's videotapes of him saying these things about cuba and fidel castro in the soviet union i mean how can he backtrack on those

things honestly you know he's just you know reaffirming ideas that he has had for many years the concern is not him saying good things about the literacy program it's i said it thing that mussolini got the trains to run on time that was not what it is that people associated with what mussolini did it happened to be the case but he was a murderous dictator as was castro spineless democratic stablish mean shows their true colors it's like a litmus test every time you can say one positive word about cuba or a one word in defense of venezuelan sovereignty they want to make sure there's no critique and so imperialist critique of the u.s. foreign policy establishment so this is a very sophisticated form of censorship to try to narrow the perimeter is as we have more and more debates within the democratic party coming out of that anyone

can all get literacy is a bad thing literacy programs that's probably we could all agree on that but isn't this an era of judgment on bernie sourness paul given there are lots of countries with good literacy programs with social programs and robust human rights records i mean this is surely shooting one self in the foot before important electoral. we have a democratic nominee who is tipping his hat to castro the murderer for having a literacy program so it's not just a question of stature ship or narron things it's making 100 percent sure we have a nominee who is electable and the concern is once the public realizes what bernie sanders has said in the past he's an unreconstructed socialist and the united states that generally not a calling card the unofficial religion of the united states is in its eye communism and we just have to listen to richard previous comments but see here some of the anti-communism but the truth is that the youth of this country in the multinational working class who supported bernie in nevada 46 percent of the votes that he won in

nevada they are not anti socialists they understand who the true enemy is the enemy is not venezuela or cuba or china it's the 1000000000 is right here in the pentagon in the white house the former. mayor of new york city michael bloomberg and on wall street i will quote george w. bush who said we judge other countries by the worst of their actions we judge our own country by the best of our intentions and i think that's true you can look at a country like cuba and yes you can learn about literacy programs that work health care programs that work and we should be able to do that in a rational way again especially when you look at the fact that people like president trump and president obama before him and numerous presidents before them partnered with murderous regimes like saudi arabia which now is being funded by the u.s. in its war against yemen which is threatening to kill millions of people and yet

that is something that isn't being discussed still had feed a salad the majority of sector workers in britain apparently hide their opinions if they don't fit in with mood liberal views that's according to a recent report will have a look at that because of the stories just for a break. that's also going. to. the nature. of the. structures to break decided to show. some function so i hope for the best to.

put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be present. want to. have to go right to be close this is what before 3 of them or you could get. interested in the waters of. the ship. again now multi $1000000.00 national security agency surveillance program in the u.s. only managed to provide unique data for just a couple of cases that's according to a newly declassified study by u.s. government watchdog the n.s.a. surveillance program called prism tapped u.s.

domestic phone calls between 272-0196 posed to the public by the whistleblower edward snowden it was a preventing terror attacks in the past 4 years the program has cost taxpayers something like $100000000.00 however major dives have not been raised over how effective it actually is that's because the new report reveals that in a 4 year period the program yielded only one significant investigation. moreover only twice in the last 4 years did it manage to generate information that wasn't already known to the f.b.i. the prism program was authorized through several pieces of legislation including the u.s. patriot act it was 1st signed by president george w. bush in the wake of the 911 attacks and it was revised as the u.s. freedom act following the snowden revelations in 2013 but it is set to expire next month and the trumpet ministration is struggling to keep it alive so let's get some

analysis analysis we can talk to the journalist and author larry and he's with us and you very welcome thanks for coming on joe do you do a load of the prison program sufficient to keep it going. of course not and it proves what was for known to anyone who could see clearly that this was a fraud from the very beginning this was about power and money the power of the government to control the american people and the money that the contractors that ran this program have made this based on false fear and that's the last line of defense of the united states all the time to try to confuse the interests of a small number of powerful people with the interests of the nation you know its course terrorism is real but that's more likely to die of lightning in the united states and europe terrorism that has never been sort of an ira bombing campaign as there was here i'm in london right now this is completely hyped up and it proved that it was something that violated the 4th amendment rights of american truly eagle searches and seizure and it showed what again anyone could clearly have seen

you know the united states has had a long history of this false fear of keeping the american people afraid and trying to say that they have to be protected it's basically a protection racket they scare the people and then they say we will protect you that's what the mafia does and that is as i said plenty of money is involved here and in addition to that to drum up that fear the f.b.i. particularly after $911.00 we're running a numerous sting operations where they would get an informant and in one case they even gave drugs and $50000.00 to these guys to plant a bomb a fake bomb at a synagogue where i happen to be living right above it in the bronx in new york and then they arrest them soon as they put this bond on it was a complete fraud even the judge in the case said that these guys that it was the f.b.i. that was creating a sense of danger not the so-called assailants here so it's very good to see this report come out upon the confirm which i think was very clear from the beginning ok big thing then that there is enough false as you call it to keep surveillance programs like this actually going. no but they will drum up some more i mean we see

i mean russia is threatening the united states you know during the impeachment hearings we had adam schiff the chairman of the house intelligence committee actually say during the proceedings in the senate that we have to fight the russians over there and ukraine rather so they won't come here i mean this is the kind of false fear that we live under in the united states that is an absurd statement even during the 1st cold war we never have and no one ever thought soviet troops would be on us territory is just ridiculous but the american people been and measured in this and i've been dominated by this type of thinking for decades so they get away with it but hopefully this report will get the wide attention of reserves so that's beginning people begin to question these false narratives of fear and why they need these kinds of $1000000000.00 programs that make them rich and keep them powerful but does nothing for the american people and in fact it invades their privacy in a complete violation of the constitution do you think the tide is sending their nice of him to d d but i mean people generally think well account got nothing to hide so you can

look at my data in an actual facts overall we're trying to protect me. that's nonsense it's nonsense to say that a lot of people do think that but why should someone be spying on me when i have not when you do understand there's no real threat here and this is the key issue that has to be driven and i don't think it will because i think the media plays right along with the government says and will could try to come up with new ideas like i just said russia will be other things now coronavirus i mean there's always a fear there's always a fear that's driven into the american people they live in fear and it's a false here so i don't see the tide turning it should and oprah does because we don't know but this report should hammer that home that this is a bogus program there is no national security at stake there is no reason for the government of spied on american people when only one case came out of all of this and it has to stop ok terry nice to talk to them share leiria independent journalist and author thank you. but. now 80 percent of

employees in britain's arts and culture sector say that they hide their views if they don't actually fit within the liberal norms and that includes support for the country's conservative party among other things apparently a new survey has revealed a growing environment of self censorship our survey shines a damning light on the corrosion bullying intimidation and intolerance that is active among a community that thinks of itself as liberal open minded and equitable in a poll of some $500.00 respondents many highlighted the risks of holding so-called controversial opinions spanning topics including breaks it religion sexuality and also gender fewer than half of those questioned said that they felt their views were respected and some even claim that they were offered money to stay quiet about corrupt practices in their field while others pointed to wider problems in their working communities. it wouldn't be advisable to point out that the arts tend to do

well under the conservatives or arts culture and indeed education sector which are not dominated by monolith the politically correct class mostly of privileged white middle class people by the way who impose their intolerant views across those. anything to do with gender issues especially trans issues you get a lot of flak either from not being on message enough or being off message or 2 on massoud meanwhile another traditional bastion of free expression is also under pressure in the u.k. a think tank is warning the country's universities have quote lost the trust of the nation over attitudes towards patriotism the report quotes governors and chances are you fear academic institutions are seen as out of touch and it goes on to say that the sector should show that it speaks for and reflects the whole of the carryin recommends to education leaders should avoid being critics who actively despise those who have traditional values it also encourages universities to make

sure students feel safe to express conservative viewpoints a professor at the london school of economics told us universities are supposed to allow critical examination of all ideas. british universities have become what we call very wolk that is the very sensitive to. sexual inequality and student unions in particular but also all sorts of groups of students create riots and low pay the university authorities make a great deal of noise in different ways it's a sink and an academic or a visitor who's been invited to speak at the university or one of the students at the university said something which doesn't fit in with the kind of left wing typically correct consensus. the loss of students who are very shy about expressing their views particularly of the conservatives i don't particularly

believe in bricks in. the hop prostates and even here in moscow and that's the news for now more from the top of the. nuclear power plants have become a battleground in the u.s. in vermont people are demanding the shut down of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous air power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limit this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it

moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy is power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the. struggle. for my guide to financial survival this. device used by professional. money. that's right these are simply not accountable and were just. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get informed as are. greetings and sell you. well the 2020 years are upon us and as we

venture into the unknown of the next decade the human race is facing some pretty brutal challenges not only that we have brand new threats like climate change but we are also still haunted by many of society's oldest problems like war famine pestilence and now all dressed up in the 21st century technology and speed wardrobe and one of mankind's most ancient of scars slavery and the trafficking of human beings has truly truly found a new home here in the dawning of the 2020 psychology today is now reporting that currently across the globe there are over 40000000 people in slavery and that never before in human history have this many people but in slaves and while yes never before in human history there has also never been 7000000000 of us that shouldn't lessen the impact of these numbers because tragically my friends the business of buying and selling human beings for sex labor and servitude is booming in fact

according to the international.