underscore. based off the heralded peace deal with washington the taliban kills over 20 soldiers and police in afghanistan while the u.s. responds with strikes. greek border police clashed with asylum seekers of the turkish border and growl with oncor over a refugee depot party spend the night at the front here thousands of people scrambling to reach the e.u. and driving out towards the front cheer the hope of getting a sense of what's going to happen as we were trying to build we've stopped this my cameraman being school teacher i looks like a military person. we were asked by the president joe biden scored several big wins during super tuesday the democrats were vital voting day mostly at the expense of

progressive bernie sanders who supporters they the party establishment ganging up to get rid of him. coping with coat coronavirus corinth enough he's more describes his 2 weeks in south by relation to russia after a trip. to quarantine i would like to. get to the polls as a result it is a. very warm welcome to your watching r t international with me nicky arun it's great to have you with us in our top story that is supposed to be a path towards peace between the u.s. and the taliban right now but that appears to be unraveling this wednesday washington has conducted an striking. it's the islamist group in afghanistan's

helmand province after a series of deadly taliban attacks overnight which killed more than 20 afghan soldiers and police officers and all with the ink barely dry on a peace accord maria phenomena is across developments. a historic peace deal we heard that will pave the way to peace and prosperity in afghanistan we heard it took 19 years to come to this point and of course needless to say the world expected a lot plus just hours before donald trump was on the phone call with the taliban's leader and the group's chief negotiator but a 35 minute conversation and here i can agree of truly historic moment a direct contact between a u.s. leader and his senior taliban official here is donald trump talking about we had a very good conversation with the leader of the taliban today. they're looking to get this and we're looking to get it and we had a good long conversation today you know they want to seize the violence and now we

see the u.s. responding with an airstrike that they present as a move of self defense unclear why since the taliban never attacked the americans so that is agreement include they will draw all of u.s. troops and its nato allies from afghanistan there are still $12000.00 around 12000 soldiers and officers stationed in afghanistan and that is seen as a positive move by so many as a trust building measure as they said the taliban was promised to see 5000 common political prisoners released promised by who by washington so what basically happened is that washington promised something it cannot guarantee and plus it has 0 authority to do the result of getting government does not seem to agree. there is no commitment to release $5000.00 prisoners i have shared this with dr colleagues this is the right and the decision of the people of afghanistan they

have requested it it could be included in the agenda of the interim afghan talks but it cannot be a prerequisite for talks. it sounds like a person for a parallel reality no. otherworld then you have to remember that the again a crisis is a very complex one there are many sides involved and what is desperately needed for peace and prosperity is to see all these parties involved on the same page and this is by the way something that has been trying to do so many times bringing all these parties including the government the tally byrne to more to seat and talk and discuss the agreement so most group also was very happy to see this you know finally historic peace deal and don't trump was not the only one this peace deal was praised as a victorious one this is really. really really really. really really bring this is where we this is for. you.

so what we can see is that the situation on the ground in afghanistan is get more and more dramatic it's a skill late in the violence is escalating and if this is a victory i don't know what a defeat should look like a middle east expert on journalist on the risk thinks the afghan government might leverage the attacks to its advantage. i think it is very on the minute i think that this urge to the final recall if you will are when it comes to doing making president trying tries to party bigger deal maker but actually i think that he has attempted to make a remark just might be that there are divisions within the taliban and that those who are against disagreement went with these attacks in order to sabotage any possible progress which could have big names why don't you all know how to talk to before because on america with the taliban extruding are going to go up and then

they're very much anger at the up not a government so i think that they are learning government now will also take the opportunity to criticize it this. can not be trusted and also they are going to go elsewhere others maybe to play a more important role in the art that it produces be it to russia be a china build there are because as i said the american and the top administration has proven that it's our own big huge oil in growing there are any progress in the situation of. clashes a broken out of the border between greece and turkey with greek police using tear gas and stun grenades to drive back asylum seekers attempting to cross into the e.u. according to turkish officials one person was killed and 5 others wounded by live fire from the greek greek side a claim that athens has faced lee denied all thousands of displaced people have been massing on along the border after taking said it would no longer prevent

asylum seekers from attempting to head to europe greece has said it will turn back my prince attempting to cross its borders illegally and has suspended asylum applications for a month after he saw the defense he drove along the border on tuesday night to see the desperation of those stuck in the impasse. come further down south we're still on the greek side to the border with turkey we're in a town called fairies and i just want you to get a sense. the action that's happening all around us we're just outside the town hall the local mayors office and it looks like people are gathering here in the anticipation of going to war to the turkish border and forming some kind of human chain tonight to ensure that there are no illegal crossings from turkey we know that since saturday more than 24000 people have attempted to cross the border but we're hoping to speak to the local mag to find out how he in this town are going to

deal with it. so we didn't get to speak to them he wasn't hit tonight but we did get to speak to many of the people who were taking part in that they sat and they all seemed to be pretty tense new the mood was full of tension in fact one guy said to me you can feel it. everybody is here tonight because we want to help greece protect its borders from any kind of illegal migration we see people from bangladesh afghanistan anywhere from places that have nothing to do with war and they come to our country essentially the e.u. we think europe should change its stance and contribute to send a strong message to turkey for you because the policies of previous years that these people to enter a country without carrying any permit or document was a very big mistake and created issues of inequality greece is not alone it is european country but europe should support it because until now greece is not being

supported we've left the town the whole now we're driving out towards the front here in the hope of getting a sense of what's going to happen on the border overnight to get a sense of what this human chain to protect the greek borders from anybody trying to cross that it's going to be a line so we're just coming up to a checkpoint. where they're stopping us. yes. we have to turn around ok so we're being told we have to turn around we can't go any further. not far out from ferris we spoke the greek on me in what looks like illegal migrants on this side of the road.

we've had a chat with the offices they said we can't film but they have confirmed that they found the 2 illegal immigrants trying to cross the software we are in the script land behind and they told us that 2 individuals from afghanistan to receive an update from the volunteers who are not securing the greek food and the affair is a video showing my quince camped out on the border. as we were trying to film. we were stopped this my cameraman being scooted up by work like a military personnel tool to the border. so just an update on that situation all that's been smooth but we have moved away from the border because we don't want to create more tension with the security personnel

that are there but it gives you a sense of how much tension there is here given the fact that the volunteers are out willing to be in the middle of nowhere in the way to secure their borders the fact that we were told not to come anywhere near the border that the greek prime minister said this week that his country wouldn't be blackmailed by turkey and he said that they would do. everything possible to stop an invasion of migrants crossing the border illegally and that is exactly what we're seeing in towns like this that ability for people to take up their own norms and to go to the borders to protect greece from anybody trying to cross even ski r.t. in ferris. the super tuesday results are currently coming in as the democratic party's biggest test reveals who voters want as their u.s. presidential pick 14 states are deciding on the most significant one day barometer

of what things are heading for the candidates well so far former vice president joe biden has taken 9 states while progressive senator bernie tsongas has topped the polls in 3 the biggest prize is california which has the most delegates up for grabs voting still underway there with saunders currently leading before super tuesday got underway 2 contenders drops out encouraging their supporters to now get behind joe biden. i am ending my campaign and you are saying. i am looking for a president who will draw out what is best in each of us and i'm encouraging everybody who's part of my campaign to join me because we have found a leader in vice president soon to be president joe biden march 3rd 2020. i will be casting my ballot for joe biden. a common thread throughout the scramble so far to get the democratic nomination is

for the rivals to take a bunny saunders' more pain breaks down aspects of the campaign. it's been a long winter for the democrats they've been feeling the cold burn oh you know we know you believe. in god you know here you're her in the lobby. it was but now as the spring rolls in the party has descended into panic i think it's a little late to stop and i think that's the problem the game it is pretty much over reading last night about the fall of france in the summer of 1940 and the general run no closer to churchill and says it's over can either coronavirus or bernie sanders be stopped totally transform society firing squads dungeons torture

and exile so he's been pretty clear that's what he supports morning standards but stopping the burning machine is not an easy task after all most rank and file democrats more or less agree with his policies so here's how the operation has moved forward. the reds are coming trigger those cold war terrorists socialism is a threat to american freedom see that hammer and sickle and be afraid be very very afraid i believe if castro and in the ribs had won the cold war there would be executions in central park and i might have been one of the ones getting executed and certain other people would be there cheering let's not forget that bernie sanders once praised cuba's achievements in terms of literacy and health care were very opposed to be authoritarian they tour of cuba but you know it's unfair to simply say everything goes but you know when fidel castro came into office you know

what he did he had a massive literacy program is not a bad thing after 4 years of looking on in horror as trump cozied up to dictator. we need a president who will be extremely clear in standing against regimes that violate human rights abroad we can't risk nominating someone who doesn't recognize this fidel castro and if a dog can see forced labor camps religious repression widespread poverty firing squads and the murder of thousands of his own people. let's talk about his literacy program but most millenniums don't even remember the cold war communism doesn't really scare them and socialism certainly doesn't so time for plan b. . now bernie sanders is accused of splitting an already weak and fractured democratic party why we would risk this extraordinary opportunity by nominating somebody who has a tendency to divide their own side is beyond me furthermore sanders is accused of having views that just won't fly in a general election the face of the democratic policy might be sponsoring things

that's absolutely nothing but your votes but this narrative doesn't seem to work either. so now bernie sanders is accused of being a russian plot to undermine american democracy this claim is repeated by other presidential candidates as well as robert o'brien the national security advisor and his sources are named though these reports that they want bernie sanders to get elected president that's no surprise he had a motive and moscow and it turns out that in fact bernie sanders once even visited russia you know years ago back when it was called the soviet union yeah that's pretty old news scraping the barrel let's go on to plan b. time to unite behind joe candidates are dropping out perhaps a bit prematurely and putting their energy behind joe biden does come up a little bit and i don't know what's happened to. the good trying to take it away

from i don't know if that's fair but i guess it's politics when you get right down to it what's fair why throw in the towel so early well they've got to do everything in their power to defeat bernie sanders in 2016 leaked e-mails revealed by wiki leaks show that the d.n.c. went guns blazing to end his bid for the white house now will they be so lucky the 2nd time caleb mop and new york you know go to new york city council hunt for money how do you think the democratic party's national committee is doing all it can to do radio song since chances. democrats everybody falls in line they line up so perfectly everybody drops out. and you know throws their way to support biden so you know in that in that respect you sort of see how you know the democratic party is her coalescing and micro-managing every way that they can

support biden. and you know i see it you know bernie sanders he said the system was rigged you can see how it's being rigged against him former democratic chair donna brazil got into a heated exchange after a suggestion that the democratic convention would be rigged against we can listen together to just what was said hello of our race i get sick and tired and for people to use russian talking points to so division among americans that is stupid so rather go to hell that is completely absurd i mean this is the same donna brazil who would pass questions to hillary clinton so hillary would have you know an unfair advantage in the debates against her instanter so i mean that this is completely have. it's actually really really infuriating because what it is is you know it's really the democratic party trying to cover their tracks and really not so well in the fact that they're really working against you know bernie sanders who

really essentially you know a real contender and possibly the front runner. as nations scramble to stem the spread of corona virus and hit home the hygiene message here in russia there are so far 6 confirmed cases dozens are in quarantine and on the observation well senior correspondent mark gauthier of has just completed 2 weeks of self isolation at home following a trip to hong kong he told us what the experience was like and about the other measures russia is taking to keep infections that. one of the things you could do you realize as a bearded man is you just look silly in the face mask but this is my only 7 year from hong kong my trip to hong kong and i was only there for a few days while i was there there were hardly any infections or in the weeks since but coming back to moscow the medics here really didn't care so you're treated like

anyone else and our 1st taste of what was to come was still in the play when a lady came aboard and this was while we were still in the plane having landed she took all our measurements are temperatures and she was in full has mack in so we walked past passport control into the baggage area and that is where the real party started i mean there were dozens and dozens of medics in full hazmat get covered head to toe taking down everything about us what we did who we were with where we were this is all part of a huge russian effort to make sure that the 900 didn't gain a foothold here the monitoring of the epidemiological situation was organized from the initial days of this complex situation additional measures were taken to strengthen sanitary in quarantine control at checkpoints across the russian border 6 new cases of corona virus infections were recorded during the monitoring period in all cases a full range of necessary anti epidemic measures was organized which prevented the subsequent spread of the infection. when they

1st mentioned quarantine i thought would be like a mini vacation you get to sit at home and as it turns out it isn't at all so you're cool throughout the day starting in the morning for medics asking how you're feeling when there are any symptoms cough or whatever you also had visited by police and medics just to check up on you to make sure that you were still at home i mean eventually out of sheer boredom with the terms of the quarantine agreement that i signed at the airport and the penalties are pretty severe so for example if if you leave the house to go to the shop which you can then you just leave and nothing nothing happens well that starts a fire and potentially community service if you leave the house or apartment the quarantine zone and you infect someone adds up to a year in jail

a year in jail if you infect someone and they go on to die that is up to 5 years in prison which is a pretty severe punishment. a lot of fear i would say panic would around the world and in russia as well which is which isn't being helped by the fact that there's a lot of misinformation misleading information 'd on the internet for example one russian sub security company for example as identified a message is being repeated online that is spreading misinformation and there are people out there that are you know enjoying this. good evening i have some bad news there really want to save the people i care about i beg you to spread this information as much as possible if our thora does do not want to inform us about this we'll have to inform each other about this leaked information there are 20000

patients with coronavirus in moscow walk with masks don't go to crowded places take care of each other and stock up on food unfortunately it's sad that shops will be empty this information is more than reliable. the end of the day it's just common sense. follow advice that you read on the internet and read it for example followed by did you hear from doctors job wash your hands regularly don't touch your face. as a bit of personal advice that i can give you if you've got a trip lined up in the immediate future to a place where there's been that break don't go the quarantine isn't worth it the world health organization says that with more than 90000 people infected way now in uncharted territory countries are urgently drawing up plans for the situation develop into a pandemic and a warning of a shortage of mosques and other medical supplies health officials at the w.h.o.

are also encouraging the public to avoid excessive personal contact including handshakes and kisses on the cheek it's 3 published advice illustrating that a foot shake or elbow bump could perhaps replace more traditional greetings well here are some u.s. senators testing out the elbow alternative if they met 2 women who had been cleared to leave quarantine while this measure may be effective if there are some other suggestions during the rounds which should be avoided. it is understandable that you may feel anxious about the outburst to get the facts reliable to help you are crucially determine your risk so that you can take reasonable precautions.

leave early. with misinformation and advice overload and no shortage of anxiety in the mix too we brought together technology consultant norman lewis and microbiology was such a patel to shed their expertise. compared to other respiratory viruses such as influenza this wire is relatively novel in new to us related coronaviruses such as sars and murders. prevalence

i think many countries have been caught off guard i don't think this was an expected thing that a lot of people were predicting i think you need balance if you take something out to colossus' which is a very very low and dangerous virus illness and last year there were 1200000 deaths from 2 pilasters close's rights 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 the density cities being locked down in the world that we live in right now especially with their travel patterns that most people follow it becomes extremely difficult to contain. such a virus especially one that transmitted respiratory really i think a lot of ordinary people are concerned about this and should be concerned 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 of the overreaction to this and if you want to see and 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 if your state stared whole of orange. and i realize a lot of people are busy and some people cannot afford to stay home and they're sick. i think some of the choices that some of these decisions we have to make as a society come down to individual households. on the verge of martial law or being in a declared 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 this is not based on anything but i would like to hear

your thoughts on all of our stories so do get in touch by following us on social media and the comments that went back at the top of the hour with the latest thing that. these policymakers have grown accustomed to the idea that every single problem can be solved with money printing why can't we solve the coronavirus of money printing the market now is starting to scratch just had a little bit and saying wait a minute that's the same so therefore valuations look like they're going to be marked already in correction territory on these markets down 10 percent are going to have to bear market valuations down 20 percent probably i think the likelihood is extremely high a 50 to 60 percent drop that's probably

a 10 to 20 percent probability. time of the time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability very important. transition to sustainable transport sustainability spain over man a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely hama's. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something else this must be going to. do. under.

the fed says they're going to help but it doesn't help the market did londonistan you can't imagine. one in washington coming up just because the markets from dropping nearly a point will investigate why the fed intervention is not helping. one company of billions into the 2nd with it's going to tell you about at least one huge acquisition and toppled agreed to pay $500000000.00 for throttling i phone users in order to push them to purchase new phones and batteries but it's 500000000 nearly enough we have a live report so much to get here on this very busy day so let's get started. the federal reserve decided to pull the trigger tuesday morning and.