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since the beginning. of the world this is r t international my name is you know me and you're very welcome to the program. top story 2 democratic candidates have dropped off the u.s. presidential nomination race ahead of so-called super tuesday it is the party's biggest voting day people. are trying their weight behind the establishment favorite. my campaign and. my. party. and. i'm looking for. 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. ok so what is ahead is super tuesday about is when the largest number of states head to the polls at 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 progress of senator bernie sanders who is currently out in front with an 8 party delegate lead even he thinks the establishment is coming after him there is a. strong. but it's not a secret that anybody in this room or the corporate establishment is going to go to the political establishment is going to get a little do everybody taking to twitter don't trump accuse the democratic party of

attempting to stop their front runner from getting nominated again the president was referring to the nomination in 2016 which he ses was skewed in favor of hillary clinton in fact he's not the only one. is out all of the super tuesday votes will go to sleep each oh pardon great timing this is the real beginning of the dems taking burning out of play no nomination again the democratic leadership is fighting hard to stop bunny than to stop trump. just dropped out of the presidential race. this is all about stopping some of the democratic party's moderates or shall we say establishment wing coalesces around biden to stop bernie it's starting to look a lot like 2016 when the same wing rallied around clinton 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 the 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 a long established that lines you might have a place of 20 years of the won't 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 yes so many issues out play in fact super tuesday marks the 1st time the controversial billionaire mike bloomberg will be the ball it's a lot like kill him up and to really take a look at the choice that the democrats are putting before voters and in fact one thing that 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 . are you have drunk you very much all right it's christian but anyway i just heard chris i don't know i just did shark 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.

or going to quote from you remember that awkward feeling you had when your grandfather was telling anecdotes about his rough and tough younger days well if joe biden becomes president you might as well get used to him in court want was a bad dude and he ran a bunch of bad born. and i did you know and 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 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 on me john sad now sometimes the stories just get so weird yeah to wonder if he's maintaining his sanity i'm not going to notice to do surely receive medical school if you are to be rich there's generally county executive county executive being here and i propose that we do press lightly right here we were in a situation i had a president ask me the head of the cancer which. 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 spend $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's eyeball i got them he works really hard to be hip with the kids even knows what a meme is. which my screen i think the. big gay ice cream is the best many suspect he may harbor some racial prejudices. earth.

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. yeah lionel who is media less than a friend of the program as well has been speaking to us he thinks that having the following kind of the skill of a speaking about us the big 3 democrats is a bit rich. when you deal with a party that speaks about their 1st lady and biden married gender

did fluidity you and ed demographic heterogeneity the new when young men. and then you end up with this the older rich guy 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 correctness the democratic party is absolutely petrified. another big update on

a developing story turkey's claiming that more than 130000 asylum seekers have made their way into greece the e.u. is border agency frontex earlier said it's now on high alert and will deploy extra support for athens now it all stems from an intensification really 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 was crossing by law and many migrants been attempting to reach greece by boat in the past day or so with over a 1000 making it to the eastern benjie and islands on monday video emerged purportedly showing a greek coast guard at best firing shots a day in the fall of refugees for them to turn around and in a separate incident a child drowned off the coast of lay's boss when an inflatable boat overturned now the latest refugee influx is sparking major concerns among senior e.u.

politicians peter all of our experience. 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 since the moment we open our borders the number of those who are headed 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 a repeat of what we saw in 2015 even if they're not i find it an acceptable the president had one and his government are not negotiating their discontent with the situation with us the european union but instead taking it out on refugees this is not the right wing in my opinion. because it's also with regards to turkey we see the burden that turkey is bearing by comedy 4000000 refugees but we must not only fulfill the obligations from the. an 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'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's game to exert diplomatic pressure turkey's 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 in 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 over r.t. . afghan police a volatile east 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 carrying out the attack however just a day earlier the taliban said it would relaunch operations against the kabul

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 and operations will continue as normal as part of the us taliban agreement on 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 a spine are going to go to 0 or pulling out of afghanistan is still very much donald trump's goal to despite 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 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 the war in afghanistan has not only been a real struggle for the us but also for its allies on the ground britain's minister for veterans has expedia the mental health program to help former soldiers it recently emerged that there had 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 what we know is that 14 veterans have taken their own lives in the past 2 months alone most served in a particular army units in volved and preston's mission in afghanistan between 2002 and 40.

i. i. i. i. i. i i i. well they're trying to grasp the fine dog what might have led 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 an earlier fall to 2 that's like 15 soldiers from my regiment the 1st battalion light 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 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. living on turnouts in israel's latest election is thought to have been the highest in more than 2 decades despite voters having to head to the polls for a precedented 3rd time in less than a year so far it seems embattled prime minister benjamin netanyahu had a good iting with a narrow lead with his party taking 29.3 percent of the vote that's what 90 percent no kind to it is the spite of course fraud charges that he faces on the floor and

during the palestinian peace deal reporting from tel aviv here is policy. 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 and rivlin. 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. she 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 a tab of the water in the congo of all economic environment. i think the situation is a disgrace i think having elections for the 3rd time says a lot about our competition we have a 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 full flexion so it's not about. the situation is not that 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 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. as we say 90 percent or so of those votes counted when it goes up to 100 we will of course bring you the very latest we discuss the exit polls earlier with

mustapha see stuff has been on the program quite a bit he heads up the palestinian national initiative but 1st let's hear from house arrest newspaper columnist gideon levy for his take. 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 charges he may be prime minister while the trial is going on but you know it's a serious trial and i don't see how you can do both but i trust the 10 year old it he will use all his money pull asians and skills 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 in the largest possible 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 only or did everything we could do to mobilize the supporters to come and vote for him very clear that they are supporting the continuation of his policy regards of the fact that the man is indicted and he's facing the cases of corruption. that are pretty common seen in sweden more than 2 thirds in fact of the country's landscape is made up of swathes of forest but it's in serious danger european n.g.o.s and scientists say relentless harvesting is destroying the ecosystem sweden prides itself on being a par a goal of sustainable timber practices but forest campaigners claim the methods used are far from environmentally friendly.

according to official reporting habitats directive $1415.00 forest by attempts in sweden and 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 his 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 healthy forest where you're going to have a heavy impact on soil productivity 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 where the forest industry in. europe we have already where we see huge differences for example bras. do you know so much do in sweden now and it is destroying the environment very very much in.

germany this is needed for ages already shows that you have to rethink the. policy in europe as it is now. in other story we're closely following today a doctor who helped the americans track osama bin laden has gone on hunger strike in prison shackled afridi sees it's a protest against the inhumane actions shown to him and to this family. he is in solidly confinement exactly he is not allowed to move the family is allowed to meet him after 15 days i am not. with him in 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 and jailed for treason. and 2012 he was sentenced to 33 years in prison

convicted of having ties to militants afridi himself always denied that charge his sentence was later reduced by a decade before becoming president donald trump promised through rescue the doctor but nothing's been not. think you can get their 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 he promised you were right there get him in 2 minutes that. a lot of them saw. fulfill his promises. we've got on to the pakistan foreign ministry and the u.s. state department for reaction will let you know what to say when they get back meantime former cia analyst turned whistleblower john kerry aka sais dr afridi's help was incalculable on the success of president to fail to solve his plight. 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 try 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 they coronavirus has rocked the markets right across the globe with a massive losses being witnessed should we expect it to get worse our business show boom bust delves into that and it's next.

you know we've talked a lot on the show many years about economy. usually what makes a currency is scarce for example gold. money because it's the primary reason people use it as money keynesian economics or. because the people who are organizing the. program print more money there's socialism for banks on wall street as was pointed out recently more of the big. bank gets in trouble just print more money well what's the ultimate scarce commodity what is the ultimate scarce commodity you think about what is the ultimate scarce commodity.

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