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between the us. live from moscow this is r.t. international 30 minutes of news and views start. 2 democratic candidates. dropped the us presidential nomination race ahead of so-called super tuesday it's the party's biggest voting day. are throwing their weight behind the establishment favorite. i am ending my campaign and endorsing joe biden and i to endorse. the need to unite our party and our country i'm looking for

a president who will draw what is best 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. was super tuesday is when the largest number of states head to the polls out the same time 14 to be exact more delegates are chosen any other day around the 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 progressive senator bernie sanders who is currently out in front with an 8 party delegate lead will taken to twitter donald trump accuse the democratic party of attempting to stop their frontrunner from getting nominated again the president was referring to the nominations 2016 which he says were skewed in favor of hillary clinton. she's out all of the

super tuesday votes will go to sleep he 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 with 20 years of the well 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 numbers out or at least keeping that equal race between the 2 incidentally super choose the also

marks the 1st time the controversial billionaire of mike bloomberg will be on the ballot killable open has been looking at the choice the democrats are putting before voters and what they all have in common as we enter the thick 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 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 . our 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 2. 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 used pot made your hair you had to wear a bathing cap. and stories 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 you have to wonder if he's maintaining his sanity i'm not going to notice to do surely receive

medical school if you're rich there's generally county executive county executive. closer to graft slightly here we were in a situation i had a president ask me the head of the kitchen. 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. which my screen thinks this. big gay ice cream is the best many suspect he may harbor some racial prejudices

'd. you know. 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 to do more or another whole accost or whatever we call the next great socialist atrocity totally transform society with firing squads dungeons torture and exile so he's been pretty clear that's what he supports many standards what

i've 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. well we also spoke to media

a list lionel who thinks having babies come to that so the big 3 democrats is a bit rich. when you deal with a party that speaks about diversity and not by an airy gendered fluidity and demographic heterogeneity the new 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 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 and 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 seller and correctness the democratic party is absolutely petrified. in moving on to more world news this hour turkey's claiming more than 130000 asylum seekers have made their way into greece the e used border agency from texas earlier said it is now on high alert and will deploy extra support for athens it all stems from an intensification in fighting in syria's it live province which led turkey to claim it can no longer accommodate the refugees opened its borders with the e.u. greece though is fiercely resisting and insisted we'll turn back anyone attempting to enter illegally as well as crossing by land many migrants have been attempting to reach greece by boat over the past 24 hours or so with the over a 1000 making it to the eastern and jian islands on monday video emerged

purportedly showing a greek coast guard vessel intimidating a dinghy full of refugees firing warning shots into the water or run them and in a separate incident a child drowned off the coast of legs boss when an inflatable boat overturned the latest refugee influx is sparking major concerns among senior e.u. politicians 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 the little since the moment we open our borders the number of those who have had to europe has reached hundreds of thousands that will be more soon this number will be in millions while politicians here in germany are adamant this must not turn into repeat of what we soared to. and 15 if they're not i find it unacceptable the president had one of his government are not negotiating their discontent with the situation with us the

european union but instead to get out and refugees this is not the right way in my opinion. also with regards to turkey we see the burden that turkey is bearing by comma dating 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 now and right now. in the state of the very a they're very unhappy with the turkish government accusing ankara of trying to squeeze more money out of the european union we need a quick 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 game to exert diplomatic pressure to ease decision to open 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 which they agreed 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 of the aussie. afghan police say

found her at least 3 people have been killed 11 others wounded in an explosion near a football ground in the eastern province of khowst no one has admitted as yet carrying the attack however on monday the taleban said it would relaunch operations against the government after president downing refused to commit to the terms of up . the steel between the united states and the islamist group. the reduction in violence has ended now and operations will continue as normal as part of the us taliban agreement or mujahideen will not attack foreign forces but the operations will continue against the kabul administration forces i would caution everybody 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 all of afghanistan is still very much donald trump's goal to the spine monday setbacks.

we're getting out we want to get out we had good meetings with the taliban and. we are going to be leaving and we're going to be bringing our soldiers back on we've been there for almost 20 years too 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 the war in afghanistan has not only been a real struggle for the us but also its allies on the ground britain's minister for veterans as expedient as a mental health program to help former soldiers it recently emerged that there has been a surge in suicides among the grouping since the beginning of this year i want to understand 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 open and is open you know we know 14 veterans have taken their own lives in the past 2

months alone most served in a particular army units involved in britain's mission in afghanistan between 222014 . the fine died what might have led to so many in such a short period of time 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 platoon lots like 15 soldiers from my regiment the 1st infantry have taken

their own lives i can give you a quote from dr current russia said during the vietnam war the american soldiers were only ever allowed to do 2 years operational service that country says we now have u.s. veterans $8.00 to $10.00 talls of africa and iraq that's like an experiment this is what he said that's like an experiment that's never happened in human history the rates of p.t.s.d. about time in 2001 present to present and we are now starting to see the effects of the iraq and afghanistan war such as captains taking their own lives people with really good pensions with no reason whatsoever on paper saw it for the rest of their life for the sense of having a good pension taking their own lives. to come on living with the consequences of the afghan war a doctor who helped the americans track osama bin laden has gone on hunger strike

in prison claiming that both he and his family or injuring enqueue main treatment and that he's been all but abandoned by the u.s. his story still ahead. turn itin israel's latest election is thought to have been the highest in more than 2 decades the spy voters are going to head to the polls for an unprecedented 3rd time in less than a year so far it seems embattled prime minister benjamin netanyahu has a narrow lead and there's already claiming victory about this despite the fraud charges he faces on day floundering palestinian peace deal reporting from tel aviv . we're 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 baby guns who is a former army chief and this is good news for the netanyahu camp 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 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 fake news around the coronavirus would also keep people at home and 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. 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. but neither of these developments seems to have taken away from the voter fatigue that still seems quite entrenched as these israelis told us. 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 are headed for force an election so it's not about on the wall. the situation is not the best but 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 how will he even 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 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 as soon as we hear them we'll bring them to you. indeed we will update you on the results when the are clear and meanwhile we discuss the exit polls with the stuff in the stuff it's the palestinian national initiative and also with her rhett's newspaper columnist gideon levy and they pointed out how the turnout is surprisingly high despite a future fickle it seems according to the exit boards that. benjamin ateneo is going to be the next prime minister he's going to continue to be the prime minister of israel even though he carries with. heavy criminal drug use he may be prime minister while the trial is going on but you know it's

a serious dreidel and i don't see how we can do both but i trust the that he will use all of. my people asian kids who put this over the table there was a very important factor which is the arab community the palestinians who live in israel have also voted in the largest amount since a very long time because everybody feels that it's cool for it's happening everybody feels the risk of the explosion not to know who did everything you could . to mobilize the supporters to come and vote for him it's very clear that they are supporting the continuation of his policy regarding this of the fact that the man is indicted and he's facing the cases of corruption. let's focus on scandinavian where more than half of sweden's landscape is made up of sweets

a forest but it's in serious danger european n.g.o.s and scientists say relentless harvesting is destroying the ecosystem sweden prides itself as being a part a goal of sustainable timber practices but forest campaigners claim the methods used are far from environmentally friendly. according to official reporting under d u habitats directive $1415.00 forest bio talbot's in sweden do not have a favorable conservation status today only about 6 percent of the productive forest land in sweden is formally protected.

sweden is failing to reach its national and international environmental targets the potential to achieve these targets is reduced every time there is logging in a high conservation value forest act now. 14 out of the 15 habitats forest habitats in sweden are not healthy based on european reporting old natural forests are increasingly disappearing and just because trees are standing doesn't mean that they are a healthy forest where you're going to have a heavy impact on soil product a video which is actually going to hurt foresters in the long run really destroying ecosystem services the ability for the forests to filter water the ability for

those forests to protect the landscape from natural disasters these are things that everybody has to balance at once the forest industry in. europe we have already what we see that there are huge differences for example. do you know so much. now and it is destroying the environment very very much you know certainly germany this is for ages already shows that you have to reach a moment of policy in europe as it is now. to a story we're closely following today a doctor who helped the americans truckers some of bin laden has gone on hunger strike in prison shekel afridi say that's a protest against the inhumane action shown to him and also it was from lee he

isn't solid confinement exactly he is not allowed to move the family is allowed to meet him after 15 days i am not. without him i can 2011 shekel afridi launched a fake vaccination program to collect d.n.a. samples from bin laden's family so that the u.s. could find him but dr afridi was then arrested by pakistani intelligence jailed for treason 2012 he was sentenced to 33 years convicted of having ties to militants a freebie himself was denied the charge his sentence was later reduced by 10 years before becoming president donald trump promised to rescue the doctor but nothing has been done you think you can get the doctor out yes i do i think i would get him out in 2 minutes i would tell them let him out and i'm sure they'd let him out you probably. get him into

a minute of. a lot of them saw. fulfill his promises. well we have got onto the pakistan foreign ministry also the u.s. state department for some reaction on this when they get back to us we'll bring it to you meantime a former cia analyst turned whistleblower john kerry dr afridi's helpless and calculable successive presidents fail to solve this point 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 bin laden 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 that's how the news update is looking for now but for right up to the minute quite literally updates this choose they are a twitter page you covered well worth a follow on some of your scorning time this is our to international of the season.

why don't we go to war because. the key to economic growth is oil and energy we go to war. president cheney said for the oil that's why they invaded iraq for the oil that's why trump says the one thing we want in syria we really don't want to go to war with russia we want to just control the oil. and the gas lines and the pipelines through afghanistan so the military is really an extension

of controlling a world energy and oil. oh max kaiser this is the kaiser report you know we talk a lot on the show many years about economy and currencies and what makes a currency usually 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 a 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.