on just. about near moscow this tuesday in the headlines like the legal team for 3 russian athletes accused of doping violations say they hope for a major breakthrough the court of arbitration for sport they claim the key documents in the case against the medal winning sports contain forged signatures the lawyer speaks to us for the 1st time coming up also. the. intervention team to the greek border with turkey now as it scrambles to prevent a huge influx of refugees coming from. this team climate activists totenberg continues to make waves in the media that he speaks to one young man in a push back against what she claims is environmental alarmists. like and i'm sure

she's very nice i don't want to shame in any way she's innocent in all of this how south i believe. they are spreading panic amongst so many young people. by their life martin financial world who sent here in moscow is kevin i with you for the next half hour thanks for your company who can stick with me to for the next 30 minutes as to take you through the headlines as reported from russia tonight 1st off some of the central evidence of the doping claims against 3 russian athletes is said to be hanging by a thread this evening their legal team claims that critically important documents contain forged signatures of the whistleblower at the heart of the allegations the sports arbitration court has demanded a live picture explain themselves now tonight for the 1st time here is the lawyer of one of those by athletes. in response to

a statement about the forging of mr rajan gov signature we received a document that was submitted by the i.o.c. to see a ass it is another statement by mr rajan with you signature according to this document he in knowledge is that he did not sign any of the previously submitted documents with his own hand allegedly with his permission his electronic signature was used however the conclusions of experts suggest that the electronic signature was only used on 2 of 9 documents regarding the remaining 7 documents the experts concluded that the signatures were applied by another person that means they were falsified the athletes you may recall were hit with lifetime bans back in 2017 out of their implicated in the alleged state sponsored doping scheme they were stripped of the silver medals they wanted to such a limpid 3 years before that the birth rates of pale began on monday the court of arbitration for sport in response to the claims of the lawyers the court ordered

the international olympic committee now to explain whose signature is are on those documents. the court of arbitration for sport panel of arbitrators has accepted the statement about food signatures in i.o.c. documents and has ordered the international olympic committee to provide an explanation within 24 hours well it's still pretty much early days on this but so far the o.c. hasn't commented publicly on the allegation that key signatures were forced forged rather the athletes are seeking monetary compensation for the damage to their careers their lawyer says a decision is expected in the next few weeks and that he's optimistic the win the case. i want to point out that the question of religion goes signatures is not our only argument we always expected that our flutes would be absolved of guilt by c. as on the basis of our the evidence that we have collected however the question regarding signatures arose on the eve of the court hearing we initially got

concerned regarding one particular signature after that we conducted a fool examination of all of the signatures as well we have claimed there was forgery and expect that this will be taking into account in the future see as decision which is coming in the next few weeks. well it is follow that up next tonight the border agency has said it's deploying a rapid intervention team to reinforce greece's border with turkey with thousands of refugees have been gathering the last few days brussels has also promised to provide athens with a 700000000 euro package now to help deal with the crisis the build up again after turkey said on friday that it would no longer prevent asylum seekers were tempted to head to europe at the station followed a dramatic surge of violence in syria did live province greece has reacted angrily to the turkish move it's now turning away anyone attempting to enter the country illegally in a suspended asylum applications a decision at the un refugee agency has said lacks any legal basis shiela dubai has

got the latest. european commission president asla von delaying was in the border towns between greece and turkey she took a military helicopter and was assessing the situation from above in the air now she announced in a press conference that the e.u. would fully support its member state of greece in this time of crisis she talked about the frontex rapid intervention team being brought in this would mean both craft and border guards coming to greece to shore up the efforts here she talked about some 7w7cw euros in fact to support greece in this time of tension with its neighbor turkey and she talked about implementing and triggering the civil mechanism protection mechanism now this is a mechanism that's used by the e.u. when one member state is in a time of crisis and it's to improve the prevention the preparedness and the

response to a disaster by a member state that gives you an inclination as to how serious this issue with turkey is being seen as have a listen to what else live on the land had to say frontex is now getting ready to deploy a rep it border intervention team secondly we can provide financial assistance of 700000000 euro to greece those who seek to test europe's unity will be disappointed turkey is not an enemy and people are not just means to reach a goal we would all do well to remember both in the days to come now all this comes after in the last few days turkey's president who once said that turkey would no longer hold the borders under that agreement that was thrashed out by the e.u. in turkey back in 2016 the basic idea of that agreement was the e.u. was to plow around 6000000000 euros into turkey. an agent he would shut the borders

for my clients coming through into the e.u. this was sort of at the height of that migrant crisis that started around 2015 open the borders and in the last few days thousands upon thousands of migrants have attempted to come into greece i'm sure to give you a sense we're in one of the border towns now and just behind me you might be able to see a police vehicle many of these vehicles around the border towns ready to detain any illegal migrants who attempt to cross the border we know that in the 24 hours up to choose the morning around 5000 attempting to do that most return back several would detain in said the detention centers or correction facilities another quick point says also been visiting this week since they say he has said that the e.u. and greece in particular will not be blackmailed this is a blatant attempt by turkey to use desperate people to promote his jew political

agenda and to divert attention from the horrible situation in syria the 10s of thousands of people who tried to and to greece over the past few days did not come for me to live they have been living safely in turkey for a long period of time most of them speak turkish through and through. and europe will not be blackmailed by turkey over the refugee issue now what's really interesting is some of the people i've spoken to on the ground have said that the my clients that have attempted to come through over the last few days have not been from syria they've been countries such as afghanistan bangladesh from pakistan for moon rock go easily and they were at pains to stress that this is not as a result of the turkish military operation in libya in the north of syria something that president a suggestion is now he was speaking in the last 24 hours suggesting that this situation gets so bad that millions could be coming towards the e.u.

a lot of 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 a 1000000 and well there is fear amongst many e.u. leaders who see it as using people as political pawns boucher in chips to try and pressure the european union into supporting the military operation in that the north of syria so far european allies of nato allies have decided not to do that but this people essays what this is all about this is not about not having enough money to look after refugees and migrants in its own country this is about pressuring the european union to step in and take me to turkey in the spine in the north of syria people a few risk but the reality is on the ground there are tensions here and people are afraid that this could be the start of a repeat of 2015 migrate to

a crisis could be a real flashpoint area will be a political office told us the e.u. needs to pursue a more comprehensive strategy to avert any new migrant crisis. contacts can support the creature order authorities it cannot do much more than the greek authorities themselves so it's not a real soldier you should not even at the short term and in the long run we have to expect that such situations will repeat. we will see them most likely also on other border sections of the european union and therefore there needs to be a holistic solution of the problem 1st you need to establish those countries where there is a cheese coming from now we are. looking to the peace treaty development between us and afghanistan this is

a good development we already have development of large parts of syria but the european union has increased the pressure of its economic sanctions the economic warfare against this war torn country so the european union and does not help to build the homeland of those in my trade my trance who has come already into the european union 20 is 15 so we are not doing the right thing to solve this crisis in a holistic way we are just looking at this for a section increase now and think that it's only an issue of protecting the border it's much larger the challenge. as the impassioned climate activism of the swedish team go to timber continues to inspire millions of young people around the world seems resistance to the movement is growing to case in point 19 year old you tube an army side she shot to 'd fame recently in recent months for advocacy of what she calls climate realism she denounces what she says amounts to environmental alarmism

and in the process has been dubbed the anti grettir over her controversial positions at dunmore can spoke to me then about why she decided to weigh in on the debate and war she's hoping to achieve. most people on the site of climate alarmism if you will label us the climate deniers and that is a term that i really dislike because it sounds like we don't really look into the science we don't do our research we just hate the planet and just wanted to strike this and we're just selfish and ignorant and that's not what we're about we're about being scientific skeptics and looking into more sensible yet ways to improve the environment to be more in line with our values when it comes to interacting with nature and so yeah that's what climate realism is about it's about scientific skepticism and having more discussions in the scientific spirit was

a german media outlet that started this thing in the 1st place and it was to. portray me as kind of this evil anti-christ on the left on the right and i really just like that but then i thought let's just have fun with it and let's just play in this label and well if the media wants to portray us anti-graft of them go ahead but you don't state for the anti-gravity you stay for the naomi's act you come for the anti-graft or you can stay for the night because i am not against it up i think she is probably a super nice individual innocent in all of this and i don't have anything against her it's just that she is not about the science she's basically just about panic and telling people to change their lives entirely i demanded that government control the lives of all of the people. and that i believe has nothing to do with

science and skepticism anymore and that's really what's so awful about all of this well in an illustration of the growing concern a new poll out of the u.k. is from that almost one in 5 children in the country having nightmares no boat climate change or the 2000 youngsters. surveyed seems wrong 17 percent also said the fears of an environmental crisis are disturbing this sleep or causing them to lose their appetites no me so but again shared her thoughts on those findings. that's what we call climate alarmism because people like you talk too much and i'm sure she's a very nice girl and i don't want to shame her in any way and she's innocent in all of the star cells i believe. they are spreading panic amongst so many young people they are tearing apart relationships because people are fighting. about. who is right in all of this who's wrong in all of this and we're not allowed to speak anymore so people are genuinely worried about the planet and they think that

their grandparents and parents are destroying this planet and that's so horrible to see because it takes away their hope for the future and so many young people have their own passions and would like to pursue that passions in the future and work what a great job and now all they're concerned about is climate change that was really sad to me to be honest there's clearly an element of panic about about climate change not only among young people among many hurdles as well and or worried about what's happening do you think that's really do you think that's on justified everybody seems to believe that just because there's this great consensus out there electrically 99 percent of scientists agree that climate change is real and climate change is manmade of course climate change is real climate change has always been real the damage has been changing for millions of years but we need to be more precise in our questions and ask things like. you know missions actually that

destructive to the planet are they really. the cause of global warming or are there other factors playing into this like for example that the sun has on the climate and what's a feedback and what feedback you have whatever. there are so many other factors that are way stronger than just 0 to missions so it is ridiculous to believe that humans could have such a big impact on the climate and we cannot mass with nature and that way at least the competition that i've come to doing my own research people have said that. work is just being used to uses a project of environmental activists or you know as you but as you said left wing is some people have said you yourself for a project of the opposite of environmental conservatives how does that make you feel i really hate that this notion is out there because i know for myself that i do everything on my own i write my own speeches but never ever actually interview

and most don't know that the people that i work with from manhattan institute for example they don't know when i write my speeches they don't read. so it's all just based on my own mind and i'm having fun with all of this i have i started my you tube channel on my own this is basically all just what i am really passionate about and i don't get tons of money for what i'm doing i live at home with my family and i get a lot of support from my mother and my grandmother and that's just fantastic and i wish that people would just listen to my main mis message instead of reading what the media has to say about me and my funding and what goes on behind the scenes i'm happy to debate everyone all the time. i'm sure we'll see you here again sometime soon no next tonight reports in the u.k. so alarming surge in suicides among produce olga's you so that afghanistan though for a dozen taking their lives in the 1st 2 months of this year the country's minister

for veterans is now working on providing additional care for former service personnel. i want to understand at exactly what stage we could or should have intervened in that process it's unimaginable it's a tragedy for the institution the army that i'm so proud of where fully our eyes open and ears open so to repeat what i just said there 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 2002 and 14 what to find out what may have led so many people 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 are we've lost nearly a full 2 nights like 15 soldiers from my regiment the 1st battalion infantry have taken their own lives i can give you a quote from dr current russia that said during the vietnam war the american

soldiers were only ever allowed to do 2 years operational service not country says we now have u.s. veterans served on $8.00 to $10.00 tours 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 the present vented 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. right let's try coronavirus know the world health organization has said that with over 90000 people infected with the new chronic virus the world is now in uncharted territory countries are now drawing up plans to deal with a pandemic and a warning of shortages of mask and other medical supplies health officials at the world health organization have also been encouraging the public to avoid excessive

personal contact including handshakes and cheek this is big thing in russia of course people stop doing it a lot of people comic republic suggested a foot shake your elbow bump could replace more traditional greetings slightly trivial but here you can see these are u.s. senators testing at the elbow gesture as they met with 2 women who'd been cleared to leave quarantine now we're going to a bit of a debate about this let's talk about the medical side of it some rather say we've got only dr norman lewis on the line we're going to get more and said we couldn't get hold of him so let's talk about the medical side of this rather than the debate inside of it dr thank you for being with us i'm just looking at the headlines coming through now on a news feed the factories could be. forced to close in the u.k. you know it was death toll in italy rises by 27 percent to 9 british woman virus it 10 or even hotel test positive a covert 19 university of oxford chinese and other asian students and staff are isolated yet you know there's

a lot let's talk about the stigma of this 1st of all there is a lot of there are a lot of people that feel that they're being ostracized if they're even going to a country that may have this kind of thing is it a how much of a problem is it you think 1st off. well i think i think there is a problem with people being stigmatized i think it has been some references for example to the kind of yellow peril i kind of resurrecting the kind of old anti communist anti chinese concept of this kind of virus spreading around the world from china and i think it's. you know that is potentially quite dangerous because it is setting up different people as being seen as as the problem when you know we are dealing with a medical problem yeah it's not a it's not a. with your hand law it is a moment how much off guard i guess is the best word for our countries or around

the world you hear there's no one size fits all way of trying to deal with this every country's going to get on with it by themselves for instance angola's stop receiving planes in from italy now. we're going to see more of that kind of thing. but i think we are unfortunately i think a lot of these reactions are kind of need jerk their understandable on one level but at another i think they are disproportionate and on not really sufficient and they're not going to stop this this virus from from spreading in the way that it has you know i do think that we need so beheads here we need a balance pros and cons i think the real problem here is that the whole scenario has been painted as a word. he's an aria and you know i think worst case scenario is a very important in terms of 80 percent of the world could contract is one of the one percent of them could die that's the kind of worst case scenario isn't it that's been painted well i mean it's even factually wrong because the one percent

who will get it not all the people that get it are going to die from it and. that's just the fact of what we know so far hundreds of thousands died from blue every year so how much more you know what different kind of ballgame is this is this i hope it virus. but this is that this is the problem isn't it and that's why i'm saying i think you need balance if you take something like 2 because losses which is a very very low and dangerous virus illness last year there were 1200000 deaths from tuberculosis cheaper close's rates for example in the u.k. are going up i don't see anybody wearing masks about utilises i don't see trains being stopped i don't see cities being locked down. there just seems to be a disproportionate reaction or overreaction but you are medical are you sell your medical person are you denying the this is going to potentially be a miss is that according to most people that have looked at this they say this is the tip of the iceberg because they say one person potentially

a super spread it could spread the virus to at least 5 other people who keep dividing it up like a big spider's web what's going to happen you know how. long it sorry. i'm sorry to disabuse about i'm not a doctor. doctor of international politics. right ok well anyway from for a political point of view they did it anyway that was kind of fire all these medical questions are in the army but yes ok so you think it's overblown pointless me ask you whether these masks are going to work because it's cause an ill wind that blows nobody any good you know we're seeing these people that are making the hand gels in the face mask they're doing real good profit at the moment do those face mask work have you spoken to about it. well i. i've been reading the world health organization's own advice and they say they're not really an effective. barrier against if you have the disease wearing it helps in terms of people that are treating your whatever but wearing it in public and all that is is just as far

as i can tell from what i'm reading from from the medical experts that it's it's it's it's not effective it's just a gesture it's a kind of signal it's not really really going to make much difference so worst case scenario and point is that you know i was going to say we say going to interest rates are being cut now in the u.s. we've seen you know the big events are off it's going to have huge political ramifications for a lot of governments rather particularly the ones that are a little bit unstable should we say other economies are very strong yeah well this is this is this is for me is the really big point because i think a lot of ordinary people are concerned about this and should be considered i mean it is a very real and disease but it's not. it's not on the scale of some of the things that already exist i think the overreaction to this and if you want to see an overreaction just look at the stock markets 6 trillion dollars lost last year

rights of selling of stock markets at the level of the great depression almost a century ago and the real impact of that is going to be far greater than anything this virus is going to do because this is really going to impact people's lives jobs. health services every infrastructure. project all of this is going to be really easy thing you sing along the stuff that's being said earlier more worrying yeah. a lot of stuff being sent over unpaid flights have been slashed but we hope a sense of british airlines just look at another headline the swiss army says all soldiers will be confined to a base after a case the new coronavirus were discovered in their ranks where. ring the police aren't going to be you know they're going to be not dealing with urgent cases except norn urgent operations are going to be happening it's going to have a huge effect potentially to the public i mean whether they catch this virus or not it's the way that the governments are dealing with. i think that's true and you

know in fact up until today i thought that the british government was actually handling it quite well the medical advice was very sober was very straightforward there with telling people what to do what they shouldn't be doing search or now we've kind of got almost got to such a situation where we are. on the verge of martial law being in the lead. as a way of containing this is if 500000 people are going to die from this in the u.k. in the next couple of months in fact that iraq got a lot of anything got that u.k. report in my hands on the chance to read it it's quite a weighty tome and it's quite dry planning principles section 3.5 in preparing for responding to his outbreak undertaking dynamic risk assessment did you get the headline from this what you actually proposing in the end of day of this. i think that they are proposing that 3rd the worst case scenario which is a planning worst case scenario is actually the reality and therefore once we start

seeing a spread which in fact they will no doubt be a spike in recorded instances of the disease and we will see potentially. people being barred from going to work closing down factories potentially. bringing things to a whole school in a way which would be totally a total overreaction of medical personnel not walk more public events i mean you've said yourself you want a medical person either and neither am i but you know what if your assumption here is wrong isn't it best to err on the side of caution best not to travel that's not to go to football matches except for settlers best keep the schools close question is how long because people are saying this could go on for a year it could be this have a larger. infections that come in from china and then people eventually the ones that make themselves through it the vast majority they've got this immunity to it and so the world recovers and then in future we may have flu cold corona virus seasons in future nobody knows but isn't it best to be cautious with your medical

know. well i think there's a difference between being cautious and i think people should be cautious and overreacting to something that can be contained i think you know there are some there is advice that we can take that can help to contain this just remember as well that the science community and the pharmaceutical companies are rushing to try and get a virus out there's already some promising things on the horizon is this is not going to be a year of my soul and no one well i read different reports and say that there's actually a drug that could be in tests in the in the next few weeks. you know this is not a bolt from god this is not some here we there we are immune from of the capacity of being able to use our reason and our creativity to try and solve this you know we've had normal in the past. i should leave you with that. we

we've had worse in the past and we've survived all those nice area we're going to where i know the same the worry isn't that dr norman lewis thank you sir but make me a medical doctor there for a minute my brief was all wrong but let me have your program which. obviously would not take. place well there we are there not 15 i believe yes it just out up was not at night here in moscow check it out a dot com or a very social media so much more hopefully we'll be back with more in just half an hour you're not international but who burst a couple up everywhere around the world for you after the break.