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victory for his party but exit polls indicate the. international thomas glad to have you with us and the democratic race to take on donald trump in the 2020 presidential election is picking up pace but ahead of so-called super tuesday it has been far from that for 2 candidates candidate has suspended her nomination and come soon after also bowed out later declared. his plans to endorse a joe biden for the democratic nomination. well march 3rd super tuesday is the day in which 14 u.s. states and one u.s. territory of american samoa vote in their presidential primary and just ahead of

that vote we have 2 major contenders suspending their campaigns dropping out of the race and at this point amy clothes shar and pete are no longer in the running they are not running for president now already we've had amy clover shar endorse joe biden and pete buddha she's expected to do that as well let's review these dramatic developments right before the big day i lot of people predicted i wouldn't make it through that speech and then they thought i would make it through the summer and then i wouldn't make it to the debates but here i am headed into super tuesday. come here and asking for your vote humbled by the knowledge that for so many that vote was won through strong through blood through sweat through tears and for some within living memory. now this is interpreted by many as showing the weight of the democratic party throwing itself behind joe biden in an effort to stop bernie sanders the democratic socialist from vermont who seems to be quite popular and

doing well now donald trump the u.s. president was certainly not afraid to give his analysis on social media as he always does this is what trump tweeted in response to the dramatic move. is out will be super tuesday votes will go to sleep the job i didn't great timing this is the real beginning of the dems taking bunning out of play no nomination again. so $415.00 delegates are at stake when voters go to the polls in 14 different us states for super tuesday to gas their vote in the democratic primary about who they would like to be the nominee of the democratic party to run against donald trump in november and at this point remaining in the race we have michael bloomberg we have u.s. u.s. senator former vice president joe biden and we have senator bernie sanders so 3 big major contenders in the race remaining people are looking ahead to march 3rd super

tuesday as people all across the united states 14 different states will be voting on the nominees so quite an exciting turn of events people didn't see this coming people wonder what will indeed happen when people go to the polls across the country. coming out of saturday yes joe biden did great but we cannot necessarily say that those numbers were pure joe biden it's a very red state donald trump just the night before it urged people to cross over he was fine both for joe biden it is to the republicans advantage to see a brokered convention a chaotic democratic race here on out so you have to wonder since saturday night and booted judge looking at and seeing as internals was there actually a conversation and said listen you're young you've got a lot more forward for you and history and history and politics maybe if you help us out here make sure that our party stays our party along establishment lines you might have a place in 20 years and we will forget you have to just think of the timing how all

of this is happening going into tomorrow with the biggest complaint right now about joe biden if he does not have as many delegates as bernie sanders does or has the popular vote behind him tomorrow is very key to getting joe biden's numbers up to or at least keeping that equal race between the 2. switching gears now the escalating us china media war has seen washington move to restrict chinese journalist working in america this comes after 3 wall street journal employees were expelled from china last month earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke to correspondent it was john of for details. it was triggered this move by the trumpet ministration the well essentially what they have done they have designated at 5 chinese outlets and they've taken them and designated as foreign missions this is the way the put them and essentially what it means is that 5 of them are foreign missions like foreign agents 4 of them are getting a cap on the number of foreign employees that they are allowed to have working for

that working for them essentially the number has gone from 160 of people 160 of employees to just 100 for instance one radio station is now being allowed only to foreign at all times and here's how washington is justifying this move have a listen the u.s. government is today instituting a personnel cap on certain people's republic of china controlled state media entities in the united states because it limits the number of chinese citizens permitted to work for these organizations in the united states at any given time it is our hope that this action will spur beijing to adopt a more fat reciprocal approach to u.s. and other foreign press in china so again the way you've said that this is a direct response to something that china has done on its own soil so essentially what the united states are doing they're just giving china a taste of their own medicine and the irony here though of course is that it's also

saying on the same breath as well as doing this that america's pushing for greater media freedom in china the same terms clamping down the amount of media freedom it's going to give journeys in america absolutely so the chinese have restrictions on the number of foreign personnel working for media outlets there now the united states has well it's also always had but now it applies to the chinese media and so indeed it could be very perplexing but according to my pump a 0 there's nothing surprising there and america remains a beacon of democracy and freedom of press. that's the greatness of our nation reporters like yours. get to ask me any question or questions we take hundreds and hundreds of questions we talk openly we express our view yes there are questions that's how we proceed in america so this is this was obviously a response to a journalist there and it's not only that particular journalist who's being surprised who's raising questions about this approach activists do that as well

they disagree with the such a well characteristic that might bump a always giving to the state of media freedom in the united states we are uncomfortable with governments deciding what constitutes journalism or propaganda so we get to see now a kind of tit for tat thing has been reciprocal on both sides what china is reaction going to be if you heard the figure well again the united states are saying china has started now the chinese obviously they are unhappy the released a statement on twitter saying that they are very disappointed with such approach don't take my word for it take this indeed between china and the united states we have some differences but we do not think it's appropriate for the united states to take steps interfering with the work of journalists coming from china so it does look like this is going to go on for a while because china is known to well if you show if you meet them with force they will meet you they will double that force and respond likewise but there the united

states they have been facing some criticism for not having some clear current guidelines as to how foreign media operates or is supposed to operate under its laws for instance which media outlets are supposed to designate them themselves as as foreign agents as i've said all along but i'd say the prerogative of america yes r.t. america has got the same at the same had the same pill to swallow but for instance if it applies say it would be a logical assumption to make to say it applies to foreign media. funded by foreign governments but for instance a qatari funded outlet media outlet there and feeling fine they are not getting this label shame that the media outlets the chinese and the america have been given in the past so a lot of people not a lot of people but some experts and they have been seeing they have been saying

that it is the finley very old attempt at applying geo political pressure on so it's an entity's uncertain government. or let's cross live now to and lee who is an economics and finance professor at new york university thanks for being with us here on our international. so if they're having me again if we get right down to it what does washington hope to achieve by reducing the number of chinese journalists working in the united states i'm sure they. want people to fall in line with the narrative that washington wants to put out into the world and so having fewer journalists means fewer journalists can conduct investigative reporting. and therefore cannot dig up information that disagrees with. the mainstream narrative but let me step back

a bit here. it really does appear that washington's move it was in retaliation to what the chinese did but what the chinese was doing was basically following a law they had already passed that applies to everybody and not just the americans which is. journalists in china are not allowed to bad mouth the chinese government and this is actually no different than what japan has passed they have the same exact law and japan happens to be a democracy and happens to be a u.s. ally and and so there's actually no real difference in the laws here. so. the u.s. would be fine if they had a similar law and if the chinese journalists broke laws here in the u.s. but apparently no laws have been broken by chinese journalists so for the

u.s. government to basically take this step it sounds like it's a very political move and not one that is grounded in the rule of law if the u.s. government decides to go down this path it's then making itself. more of a state that doesn't follow the rule of law and become one that's lawless and that would have major repercussions to its reputation. ministration is not known for being friendly to the press even here or there in the united states what does this move say about freedom of expression in america in general. well i think it's being curtailed more and more it's clear that these little moves chip at a freedom that should be in place and it's price similar to the

whole climate change situation where it's the frog that's boiling in the hot water and. and because it's happening at a incremental pace. a lot of folks are not aware of it and eventually the whole freedom may just disappear without people realizing because it's incremental and so it's it's very disturbing actually thank you for your thoughts and lee professor of economics and finance at new york university thanks for being with us here on our 2 international. and afghan police say that at least 3 people have been killed and 11 others wounded in an explosion near a football ground in the eastern province of cost no one has claimed responsibility for that attack as of yet but earlier on monday the taliban said that it would relaunch operations against the kabul government after president ghani refused to commit to the terms of a peace deal between the u.s.

and the islamist group the reduction in violence has ended now an operations will continue as normal as part of the u.s. taliban agreement on mujahedeen will not attack foreign forces bus or permissions will continue against the kabul administration forces the pact stipulated that kabul would it release 5000 taliban members from prison in turn the group pledged to free 1000 government detainees that was supposed to pave the way for direct talks between the 2 sides but president carmi has said the swap cannot be a precondition for interim afghan peace talks casting doubt on the viability of the plan. for its part the u.s. has promised to withdraw its troops from the country over the next to 14 months subject to the taliban's compliance with the deal and despite monday's setbacks that still seems to be donald trump's intention. we're getting out we want to get out we had good meetings with the taliban and. we're going to be leaving and we're

going to be bringing our soldiers back home we've been there for almost 20 years it's a long time we've done a great job in terms of getting rid of terrorists now it's up to other countries to get rid of those terrorists i would caution everybody to to think that there's going to be an absolute sation of violence in afghanistan that is probably not going to have it's going to go to 0 are you tailor looks now at whether hopes of securing a lasting peace in afghanistan were misplaced. 18 here is $1.00 trillion dollars over $150000.00 dead for rough gonna start in the us the road to peace has been long bloody costly but a new dawn is on the horizon and it's being hailed as a victory this is for. the. the deal signed by washington and the taliban has promised to bring to

a close what seemed and on the ending a war times many thought it wouldn't happen the deal has come after 18 months of pulling and tugging of head shakes and walking away but in doha the paper was finally signed and it seemed to be one of those rarest situations where in parties involved were happy well almost all because apparently someone forgot to ask the afghan government what its take was fun spoiler a lot it's got a few concerns the in could barely dry it on the deal when the afghan president vetoed a key clause the release of 5000 taliban militants as part of a prisoner swap if. there is no commitment to release $5000.00 prisoners i have shared this with dr kelly this is the right and the decision of the people of afghanistan they have requested it so it could be included in the agenda of the interim afghan talks but it cannot be a prerequisite for talks. now this is not

a side note to the deal it is in fact to the condition on which intra afghan peace talks will start a veto the full threatens to bring this entire thing grinding to a halt president gone his reaction there shows how washington has missed the point here that signing that piece of paper is ironically the easiest part and the promising prisoners which on yours is as unhelpful as dropping demands that the taliban officially recognize gone his government are going to govern. and was not even invited to the negotiations and when they participated not only participated. not as a government representatives because ordinary afghans and that in itself is a very significant indication of how the situation was developed president gunner said this we have been fighting. for about 80 to 90 percent of the battles have been raised by afghan troops or basically. means

that will fall upon or anybody else have to deal with the government so this is maybe one of the hurdles many murders down the road but let's not forget the u.s. is an old hound pretending to be the peacemakers even when it's cause the mess in the fast place and with an election just around the coup want to trump probably wouldn't be against adding to his eye make great things happen rhetoric sure has middle east deal of the central small bust them boom and kim jong un isn't quite ready to step away from his new killer rockets but trump got his photos and it seems he's already eyeing up his next money shots be meeting personally with taliban leaders in the not too distant future. and we'll be. very much hoping that they will be doing what they say they're going to be doing they 'd

will be killing terrorists when in doubt sign a deal poses for a photo then crown jewel south victor eve others to figure out the logistics tried and tested political analyst must talk to him believes afghanistan is facing enormous challenges. i think talking to some of you officials here to look national and international and even see how thin it has been a speech or probably a state of confusion you know no one is in a position to really figure out how things really pan out into the street gonna be clear sylvania challenges at that street. the past one as we were talking about by a prison a strap that is one major issue of that is already putting the lid process off the track 2nd issue of whether the ballot on had been a damning won't be talking to be a man will be i stopped money i'd ministration that's going to challenge a little process that's not the major he should that's going to challenge a good process yet i bet many challenges i hope for us and bill's challenge or so

c.d.'s which given it to jupiter died so what good did the success of the process is are to international still ahead in the program and huge turnout in israel for its general election but isn't 3rd time lucky for the pm and human netanyahu we've got in the exit polls and opinion after a short break stay with us our international. join me everything on the alec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. you know we talk a lot on the show many years about economy and currencies and what makes a currency really what makes a currency is scarcity for example gold is

a currency it's money because it's scarce that's the primary reason people use it as money keynesian economics or socialism is usually unworkable because the people who are organizing it think that well you can just print all the money you need you need a program print more money there's socialism for banks on wall street as was pointed out recently one of the big presidential debates you know bank gets in trouble just print more money well what's the ultimate scarce commodity what is the ultimate scarce commodity think about it what is the ultimate scarce commodity. international polls have closed in israel and what is been the highest election turnout in over 2 decades voting took place for an unprecedented 3rd time in under

a year and it's early still but benjamin netanyahu likud party well it's like it will come up short of a majority leader looks deeper into the preliminary results. the initial exit polls do put the country's prime minister benjamin netanyahu with some 5 parliamentary seats ahead of his main rival the former army chief benny guns now this is certainly good news for the likud camp but it does mean that they still one seat short of a parliamentary majority so of course we're going to see a lot of bickering in coalition making happening in the coming days there was a lot of concern that the voter turnout would be low this was a surprise it was the highest it's been in the past 21 years and this is despite the fact that there are at least 5 and a half 1000 people who are quarantined here in israel with a coronavirus there were concerns that people will turn out to vote because of that those people voted at 16 special stations set aside especially for them and then

the concern around voter fatigue that these are the 3rd elections in the space of 11 months and when i was speaking to people throughout the course of the day many did say that they felt disillusioned many of them said they felt disgusted and this was a word that was echoed by the country's president when he addressed the nation. your crew or it was always a day we consider to be a celebration of israeli democracy and i must say that today i feel most sense of celebration only a sense of hard shame for you the citizens of israel we don't deserve another horrible election campaign that deteriorates into such filth like the one that ends today. the political stalemate has been won between the country's ruling elite could party and the blue and white party of beni guns now these 2 parties have been a can make over the past 2 elections and the only thing that's really changed since these elections today monday and the last elections that were held in september is

that in november you had the israeli prime minister indicted and in january you had the american president announce his peace deal of the same tree but neither of those developments seems to have eaten away at the sense of most israelis here. feels. hurts me a lot to see that we've got into this situation because it cost so much money this is a country that's trying to keep its head above the water in the current global economic environment. i think the situation is a disgrace i think have an elections for the 3rd time says a lot about our politicians we are in the situation where no one is willing to compromise we are forced to go to the polls again and again i believe we're heading for force an election so it's not about on the one hand the situation is not the best it's on the other we're trying to remain optimistic i would personally like to see a unity government i want to see cooperation between the parties because at the moment according to the polls there are no other options. there were protests against

netanyahu ahead of these elections at the same time as i'm clear that should he win how will he actually govern the country while facing criminal charges in court now he has been playing hard to hardball at the same time he's announced that he will and makes the jewish settlements in the west bank and a sizable piece of land known as the jordan valley in the occupied west bank naturally this has dismayed our voters and we've also heard from palestinians who say that if these exit polls prove to be correct then israelis have voted for alex ation as i say we still need to hear the final results we're expecting those to come out sometime on monday but certainly the early signs are that the country's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is going to be a very happy man. use a border agency frontex says it has been put on high alert and will be deploying extra support to greece which has seen thousands of asylum seekers attempting to make their way through the country from turkey following an intensification in

fighting in syria's italy province turkey has said it can no longer accommodate millions of refugees and has opened its borders with the e.u. . greece though is unwilling to accept newcomers and insists it will turn back anyone attempting to enter the country illegally in addition to crossing the 2 countries land border many migrants have been attempting to reach boat in the past day and a half with over a 1000 people making it to the eastern islands controversially on monday video emerged reportedly showing a greek coast guard vessel intimidating a dinghy full of refugees firing warning shots into the water around them and in a separate incident a child drowned off the coast of lesbos when an inflatable boat overturned here is a look at how the crisis is unfolding 'd. i.

always good to. be. on in my mind this isn't me go away during one country. but the very latest we have all this unfolding situation comes from the lead in this day the president saying that at the moment as it stands hundreds of thousands all refugees and migrants of cross the border towards greece or making their way into all its greece he says will eventually become millions the doors are now open

now you will have to take your share of the burden hundreds of thousands have crossed soon it will reach millions well here in germany the state of bavaria. has been expressing their well happiness with turkey they say that is just attempting to try and squeeze more money out of the european union and that they using this current wave of of migrants and refugees as a all in attempt to blackmail the european union we need a quick political solution it is clear that we must not allow ourselves to be blackmailed by turkey that's a sentiment that really being echoed in greece athens has suspended all 'd asylum applications for the next month at least greece the greek government anyway says that turkey is using these refugees and migrants as pawns in an attempt to gain more diplomatic power turkey's decision to to allow the these refugees and migrants

from the wards greece came in an increase in violence on their southern border with syria as fighting increases in northern syria. turkey says they just can't handle the sheer numbers of people that are currently seeking refuge in their country but turkey that actions in opening their border well that goes against the 2060 deal that they struck with the european union in which case that turkey would accept how millions of refugees in exchange for financial aid now the french president stepped in saying his country is willing to provide help full solidarity with greece and bulgaria france is ready to contribute to european efforts to give them rapid assistance and protect the borders we must act together to avoid a humanitarian and migration crisis the european council president charles michel is expected to visit the region very soon alongside the greek prime minister to

assess what's going on on the ground as europe tries to get together its response to turkey's decision to open its borders to refugees and migrants in a situation which is beginning to look increasingly similar to that which we saw in 2015. well that does it from i'll be back with more news in about 30 minutes stay with us and start international. joining me everything on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to a guest in the world of politics sport this list i'm showbusiness i'll see that. you know goodall for.