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security forces. every year churning in from right across the globe welcome to international. democratic candidates. dropped off the u.s. presidential nomination race ahead of so-called super tuesday it's the party's biggest voting day people. are throwing their weight on the establishment favorite . i am ending my campaign and you are saying. i lied to indorse.

party and. i'm looking for friends who will draw. in each of us and i'm encouraging everybody who is part of my campaign to join me because we have found that leader in vice president soon to be president joe biden. will super tuesday is when the largest number of states head to the polls on the same time 14 to be exact more delegates are chosen than on any other day around a 3rd are up for grabs those delegates will then go on to make the final pick front and center for the democrats is a battle between former vice president joe biden progress of senator bernie sanders who is currently out in front with an 8 party delegate lead. while taking to twitter donald trump accused the democratic party of attempting to stop there a front runner from getting nominated again the president was referring to the nomination in 2016 which he says was skewed in favor of hillary clinton.

he's out all of the super tuesday votes will go to sleep the job i didn't great timing this is the real beginning of the dems taking burning out of play no nomination again 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 looking at a thing is internals was there actually a conversation and said listen you're young you've got a lot more forward for you in history in history in politics maybe if you help us out here make sure that our party stays our party along establishment lines you might have a place of 20 years of the old forget you have to just think of the time 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 out to

at least keeping that equal race between the 2 you know there is indeed a lot going on super tuesday also marks the 1st time the controversial billionaire mike bloomberg will be on the ballot philip martin has been looking though what the choice the democrats are putting before voters and what the ole hope and coleman as one of the sick of the race for the democratic presidential nomination 3 major contenders stand out now of course the candidates are emphasizing what is different about them however they do have some things in common all 3 are white all 3 are male and all 3 are 2 in their late seventy's meet the grandad's who are contending for the democratic nomination. joe biden is 77 years old and he's the youngest to many he reminds them of an easygoing grandpa with a bad habit of forgetting people's names please come back in less than 13 years or . are chad thank you very much all right it's christian but anyway i just

heard chris i don't know i just did shock now he's known to get a little touchy feely with women he says that's because it was acceptable back in his time and it's an old man habit that he just can't break. we're going to cut from you remember that awkward feeling you had when your grandfather was telling anecdotes about his rough and tough younger days well of joe biden becomes president you might as well get used to it and corn pop was a bad dude and he ran a bunch of bad boards and i did it back your nose day job things have changed one of the things you had to use if you use pot made your hair you had to wear a bathing cap. and series up on the board would list message a master you off the board rock about the drag you off where you came off and he said i'll meet you outside now sometimes the stories just get so weird to wonder if

he's maintaining his sanity going you know sure he received medical school route it was it would be a richer gerald county executive county executive. closer to graft slightly here we were in a situation i had a president ask me they had a cancer and. now hoping to take out joe biden is former n.y.c. mayor mike bloomberg now michael bloomberg like many grandparents is known for his generosity. $21.00 of those were people that i spent $100000000.00 to help elect all of the new democrats that came in and put nancy pelosi in charge and gave the congress the ability to control this president i bought i got them he works really hard to be hip with the kids even knows what a meme is. with my screen i think this.

big gay ice cream is the best many suspect he may harbor some racial prejudices. and then there's bernie sanders the elderly socialist originally from brooklyn he's the kind of grandpa that everyone seems to be scared of can either coronavirus or bernie sanders be stopped they are bernie bolsheviks they are bernie brownshirts that's what they are and their revolution will result in death and misery another whole would do more or another whole cost or whatever we call the next great socialist atrocity totally transform society firing squads dungeons torture

and exile so he's been pretty clear that's what he supports many standards when i now many times bernie sanders family has apparently urged him to move into a retirement home but he decided to run for president instead one thing about bernie though is that despite his age it's the young voters who love him the most. not just the campaign we already both generate should know both the ridge show grass roots good now sanders critics love to point out that despite the fact that he rants and raves against billionaires he's certainly no poor man himself sure laugh all you want but it's very possible that one of these 3 elderly white men could be the next president of the united states yes if donald trump fails to be reelected it's all but certain he'll be replaced by someone with white hair white skin and a deep voice and while that does not fit the liberal democratic party message about inclusion it also follows a longstanding u.s.

tradition a media analyst little things helping the cause of it so is the big 3 democrats is a bit rich. when you deal with a party that speaks to the 1st lady and biden mary gender did fluidity you and ed demographic heterogeneity the no when young men. and then you end up with this the older rich guy they don't care about diversity they don't care anything they want to win everything about this election it has been the source of great comedic relief for me that being said. i want everyone to appreciate what we have right now because we have one of the most seismic collapses of the democratic party is about to. enjoy now we have 2 people

so you talk about between a rock and a hard place between this soul and corrupt us the democratic party is absolutely petrified of. the use border agency from taxis it's been put on high alert and will deploy extra support for greece which is seeing thousands of asylum seekers try to make their way in from turkey it's because of an intensification in fighting in syria as it led province which led turkey to claim it can no longer accommodate the refugees and so opened its borders with the e.u. greece though is fiercely resisting and insists it will turn back anyone attempting to enter illegally as well as crossing buying land many migrants have been attempting to reach greece by boat in the past day or so with over a thought isn't making it to the eastern and chain islands on monday video emerged

purportedly showing a greek coast guard vessel intimidating and full of refugees firing warning shots into the water around them and in a separate incident. child drowned off the coast of last boss when an inflatable boat overturned well the latest refugee influx is sparking major concerns among senior politicians us peter all over explains. as the situation at the border between turkey and greece escalates the turkish president has warned to expect the number of people trying to cross to increase so that since the moment we open our borders the number of those who are headed to europe has reached hundreds of thousands now will be more soon this number will be in millions while politicians here in germany are adamant this must not turn into a repeat of what we saw in 2015 even is there not i find it an acceptable the president had wanted his government are not negotiating their discontent with the situation with us the european union but instead taking it out and refugees this is

not the right way in my opinion. because it also with regards to turkey we see the burden that turkey is bearing by comedy to almost 4000000 refugees but we must not only fulfill the obligations from the relevant agreement but you must also remind the turkish side that it is also fulfilling its obligations nowish and right now. in the state of the very a they are very unhappy with the turkish government accusing ankara of trying to squeeze more money out of the european union we need to create political solution it is clear that we must not allow ourselves to be blackmailed by turkey it's a message echoed by the greeks who have suspended all asylum applications for a month athens says migrants are being used as pawns in turkey's game to exert diplomatic pressure turkey's decision so you opened its border with greece is directly linked to an increase in military action near to its border with syria

ankara says they just can't handle the number of people fleeing violence and heading towards them they blame the european union for not living. up to promises turkey's actions violate a 2016 deal with the european union in which they agree to take millions of refugees and migrants in exchange for financial aid the standoff between greece and turkey has led to french president emmanuel micron offering his assistance 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 sharma shell is set to visit the border between greece and turkey to assess the situation on the ground for himself as it continues to increasingly resemble what we saw in 2050 these are all over r.t.

. let's move the program on afghan police say that at least 3 people up in killed 11 others wounded in an explosion near a football ground in the eastern province of khowst no one has admitted currying the attack however earlier on monday the taliban said it would relaunch operations against the couple government after president gani refused to commit to the terms of a peace deal between the united states and the islamist group. the reduction in violence has ended now an operations will continue as normal as part of the us taliban agreement on mujahedeen will not attack foreign forces but the operations will continue against the kabul administration forces 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 or pulling out of afghanistan is still very much donald trump's goal to despite monday's setbacks.

we're getting out we want to get out we had good meetings with the taliban. 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 well another illustration of the legacy of this near 2 decade long afghan war a doctor who helped the americans track osama bin laden was caught on hunger strike in prison shackled afridi sees it's a protest against the inhumane action shown to him and his family. he is in solid confinement exactly he is not. the family is allowed to meet him after 15 days i am not. with him. in 2011 shekel a freebie launched a fake vaccination program to collect d.n.a.

samples from bin the hopkins fondly so that the u.s. could find him but dr afridi was then arrested by pakistani intelligence for treason. in 2012 he was sentenced to 33 years convicted of having ties to militants afridi himself was denied the charge his sentence was later reduced by 10 years president trump promised to rescue the doctor but nothing has been done. you think you can get that doctor out of yes i do i think i would get him out in 2 minutes i would let him out and i'm sure they'd let him out he promised you were not there get him in 2 minutes that. a lot of them saw. fulfill his promises. well we have got onto the pakistan foreign ministry on the u.s. state department for reaction we will let you know what they say when we get it meantime a former cia analyst turned whistleblower john kerry yako saying dr afridi's help was in health on the success of presidents of failed to solve his problem.

dr afridi really provided a service to the united states that is one of those once in a lifetime services i don't think that the u.s. government would have been able to find some of the blood with that without the help of the doctor broke obama should have brought him to the united states from pakistan he didn't when i was working for john kerry on the senate foreign relations committee i recommended to carry that he tried to get dr afridi out he couldn't it wouldn't and shouldn't be that hard of a thing to do i can only speculate that these white houses the current one donald trump and the previous one barack obama just were not focused on this president trump was very interested in improving relations with with pakistan this is a thorn in the side of our relations with pakistan and i think he probably has dropped the issue just with having in mind closer relations overall well

there is more fallout from the home but tell me about it or this britain looks into why there's been a surge of suicides among veterans from the unit that served in afghanistan. exit polls in israel have given prime minister benjamin netanyahu a noro lead in the country's general election and he is claiming victory the spot it being the 3rd time voters have cast their ballots in less than a year the turnout it's thought to have been the highest in more than 2 decades let's look at where all this is heading to go live to tel aviv paula. paula good to see you early indications that will be showing that you know whose party. doing very well but not quite well enough for him is party to go it alone is that right. that's correct we still waiting for the final results which we will expect in the next few hours but as you say the initial exit polls do put the country's prime

minister benjamin netanyahu some 5 parliamentary seats ahead of his main rival benny gantz who is a former army chief and this is good news for me i tell ya who temp but it still means that the party for at least one or 2 seats short of being able to form a coalition majority and in this case we might see the country headed towards a 4th election this already is the 3rd election that's being held in the space of 11 months it's led to a lot of voter fatigue and there was concern that this fatigue would keep voters away but the opposite actually happened what we saw was the highest voter turnout in 21 years so certainly israelis are feeling that they want to make sure their voice is heard at the same time there were concerns that they use around the coronavirus would also keep people at home there are currently some 5 and a half 1000 israelis in quarantine they voted at some 16 special stations having said all of that there is still

a sense of disillusionment i did spend part of the day at different voting stations and talking to his way these day they say that they feel disillusioned with the process some use the word disgusted and this was a sentiment that was echoed by the country's president ruben rivlin. it was always a day we consider to be a celebration of israeli democracy and i must say though today i feel more a sense of celebration only a sense of hard shame for you know this is a reason we don't deserve another horrible election campaign that deteriorates into such filth like the one that was and sunday. now the political stalemate is between the ruling that could possibly and that of the blue and white . party the main wyvil party and over the past 3 elections they really have been neck and neck and nothing really has changed between this election and the last election held in september other than the fact that in november in the turnout he was indicted and in january the american president donald trump and mounts his deal

of the same tree but neither of these developments seems to have taken away from the voter fatigue that still seems quite entrenched as these israelis told us. he 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 congo of all economic environment. i think the situation is a disgrace i think having elections for the time says a lot about. the situation where no one is willing to compromise we are forced to go to the polls again and again i believe we are heading for a fall from the action so it's not a problem 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 post there are no other options. now there were protests

that were held against netanyahu before these elections because of the corruption charges he faces and what's still not clear is assuming he wins another term in office he will then be serving his to he's a really the longest serving israeli prime minister how will he then be a serving prime minister and at the same time face his charges in court that is something potentially the supreme court will need to decide upon their turnout who has been playing hardball he has said that following the elections he will and makes the jewish settlements in the west bank and quite a sizable chunk of land known as the jordan valley in the occupied west bank not naturally this has dismayed arab voters we've heard from palestinians who say that these election results are a vote for an extension and a vote for the. intimidation of the occupation in the coming hours we do expect the final results we don't think they're going to be very different to the exit polls but of course assumes. yet we await to hear whether this 3rd vote will be a concluding one or not thanks very much paula middle east correspondent paula and

helen the. well we got reaction on the exit poll results from stuff a c he heads up the palestinian national initiative and also from the newspaper columnist 1st getting 11. the question is not the comparing the question is what will be the next coming years and it seems according to the exit polls the. benjamin netanyahu is going to be the next prime minister he's going to continue with a prime minister. even though there is. heavy criminal charges and even though there was some kind of saw that he would look he made it made it much more successfully than the last 2 complaints not only or did everything he could do to mobilize the supporters to come and vote for him on the other hand there was a very important factor which is the community the palestinians who live in is that

have also voted in the largest possible amount since since a very long time all the palestinians inside israel are unified in one list which guaranteed them from 14 to 15 seats which is the highest ever got. tensions between the u.s. and china are no stretching into a media war with washington ordering china to her of the number of journalists working in america it's in retaliation for beijing expelling 3 wall street journal stuff last month kevin all got more in the story from our correspondent in course to tell of. well essentially what they have done they have designated 5 chinese outlets and they've taken them and designated as foreign missions this is the way he 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

the working for them for instance one radio station is now being allowed only 2 for an employee at all times and here is how washington is justifying this move have a listen the u.s. government is today in. using 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 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 they only hear the course is that local has also said on the same breath as well as doing this that america is pushing for greater media freedom in china so in terms. of freedom it's going to give journeys in america

yeah 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 so indeed it could be very perplexing but according to my pump a.o. 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 yourself get to ask me any questions 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 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

well again the united states are saying china has started now the chinese obviously they are unhappy 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 world. journalists coming from china so 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 the force of the united states they have been facing some criticism for not having some clear cut guidelines as to how foreign media operates or is supposed to operate on routes lose america got the same pill to swallow but for instance of 08 qatari funded outlet media outlet their feeling fine they are not getting this label of shame that other media outlets the chinese and the america have been given in the past some experts and they have been seeing they

have been saying that it is a family veiled attempt at applying geo political pressure on certain entities and certain government well among some of the reaction we have been hearing china expert suspects the u.s. government is moving to limit free speech there 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 americans the freedom of speech is a very important freedom in the constitution and it appears that the u.s. is trying to limit. the boundaries of how it can be used 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. britain's minister for veterans has brought forward a mental health program to help former soldiers it recently emerged out there had been a surge in suicides among the grouping since the beginning of this year. i want to understand it exactly what stage we could or should have intervened in that proces it's unimaginable it's a tragedy for the institution the army that i'm so proud of where he's opened and is open 14 veterans have taken their own lives in the past 2 months alone most served in a particular army unit involved in britain's mission in afghanistan between 222040 .

well to attempt to find out what may have led to so many to take such a desperate step we spoke to iraq war veteran martin webster. the numbers of suicide from my from my own regiment we've lost nearly a full potato that's like 15 soldiers from my regiment the 1st time infantry have taken their own lives i can give you a quote from dr kent drescher they said during the vietnam war the american soldiers were only ever allowed to do 2 years operational service to country says we now have u.s. veterans.