i. believe now michael bloomberg drops out of the race to be us democratic party's 2020 presidential candidate joe biden who mounted a major super tuesday comeback. days after a heralded peace deal with washington the taliban killed over 20 soldiers and police in afghanistan while the u.s. responds with airstrikes. reported police clash with asylum seekers at the turkish border as a round with grove of refugees deepens party spent the night at the front here as thousands of people scramble to reach the even. driving out towards the front here in the hope of getting a sense of what's going to happen as we were trying to fill we stopped this my

cameraman being a schoolteacher by looks like a military personnel. and coping with corona virus quarantine r.t. as more and describes his 2 weeks in self isolation at home in russia after a trip to hong kong. leaves for mentioned quarantine i would like. as. it is a. very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me making airing. now michael bloomberg has announced he is ending his run for democratic 2020 presidential nominee after suffering a wipeout in super tuesday voting the billionaire and former new york mayor has now thrown his support behind joe biden who made a stunning comeback in the big. this contest in the the parties primaries so far

former vice president biden has won 10 of the 14 states that voted yesterday or the progressive senator bernie sanders claimed for the biggest prize is california which has the most delegates up for grabs saunders appears to have won there before super tuesday got underway 2 contenders dropped out encouraging their supporters to now get behind the self-styled democratic socialist and we'll have more developments from our correspondent caleb open later in the program stay tuned for that. i suppose 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 and strike against the islamist group in afghanistan's helmand province as off this 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 for national reports 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 are a 35 minute conversation and here i can agree truly historic moment a direct contact between a u.s. leader and his senior taliban official here's donald trump talking about we had a very good conversation with the leader of the taliban today. they're looking to get we're looking to get it and we had a good long. and. they want to seize the violence and now we see the u.s. responding with the an airstrike that they present as a move of self-defense unclear why since the taliban never attacked the americans that it is agreement include they will draw all of u.s. troops and its nato allies from afghanistan the rest still 12012000 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 $5000.00 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. if get a 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 you know another world then you have to remember that the again

a crisis is a very complex one there are many sides involved and what is desperate in the need for peace and prosperity is to see all these parties involved on the same page and this is by the way something that most good has been trying to do so many times bringing all these parties including the government the tally byrne to more to seat and talk you know finally historic peace deal and don't trump was not the only one these days deal was praised as a victorious one this is a great. way. to proceed city everything you can see are we this is for peace. so what we can see is that the situation on the ground in afghanistan is getting 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 the defeat should look like. middle east expert on journalist ali risk thinks the afghan government might leverage the attacks to its

advantage. i think it is very home to my neck i think that this urge to the final recall if you will are when it comes to doing making the president trying trying to strew party bigger deal maker well actually i think that he has attempted to make a remark just might be that there are divisions within the taliban. who are against this agreement. with these attacks in order to sabotage it any possible progress which could have big names up until now it looks a big forest on america with the taliban extruding are going to go up and they're very much angered the up not it got so i think that we are learning government now will also take the opportunity to criticize and to say we. can not be trusted and also you have many government. bodies maybe to play a more important role in the arctic cruises be it to russia be a china build there are because that's what i said the american metropolis train

has proven that it. would be future oil in going there are any progress in the situation. clashes have 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 side i claim that athens has fiercely denied thousands of displaced people have been amassing along the border after turkey said it would no longer prevent refugees from attempting to head to europe greece has said it will turn back migrants attempting to cross its borders illegally and have suspended asylum applications for a month artie's it solid events k 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 so i did the border with turkey we're in a town called fairies and i just want you to get

a sense all. 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 wards 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 and his 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 sachin and they all seemed to be pretty tense knew 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 the largest political policies of previous years that these people to enter our country without carrying any permit for documents would have 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 going 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 along 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 now. 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 not far from where 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 the migrants camped out on the border.

as we were trying to film. we were stopped this my cameraman being scooped it up by well looks like a military person out to the border. so just an update on that situation all that's been smooth but we have moved away from the border because of see 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 every. 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. for r.t. in ferris. as a nation scramble to stem the spread of coronavirus and hit home the hygiene messages here in russia there are so far 6 confirmed cases dozens are in quarantine and under observation our senior correspondent 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 that russians taking to keep infection that bet. 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 the cup was still in the play when a lady came aboard and this is while we were still in the plane having landed she took all our measurements are temperatures and she was in full has mackie and 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 gear 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 1000 virus 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 and see 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 he calls 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's that's a fine 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 was identified the messages being repeated online that is spreading misinformation and there are people out there you know enjoying this. he and lana good even 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 thore 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 corona virus in moscow walk with masks don't go to crowded places take care of each other and stock up on for a fortunately it's sad that shops will be empty this information is more than reliable. but. the end of the day it's just common sense don't follow advice that you read on the internet and read it for example followed vies that you hear from doctors 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 this be without break don't go the corin team isn't worth it.

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to compete this creates what do we get back to nowhere like that's that's a bad deal so when this technology jumping out of this one is the goal is you helping to keep you healthy for her to keep the you know you connected and i missed it so we will live in an area the post sweet area where we will live with less at all these screens and it will be more in harmony who will help us. welcome back let's get back now to our top story this hour michael bloomberg has announced he's ending his run for democratic 2020 presidential nominee also suffering a wipeout in super tuesday voting to supply plotting hundreds of millions of dollars into his campaign well as live to me now to get the latest it was

a pivotal day of voting in the field of candidates is now never going just talk us through the developments place indeed well after 14 u.s. states voted for their presidential primary selecting who they wanted to be the nominee and michael bloomberg had a particularly bad showing with very very low vote numbers it appears he has dropped out of the race now it's important to know this was the most expensive presidential primary campaign in u.s. history half a $1000000000.00 was spent and ads were everywhere in the lead up to super tuesday michael bloomberg was advertised during the super bowl football game all over us society you really couldn't miss him and it became almost a joke that perhaps he was trying to buy the democratic nomination take a listen. blume burke.

we. see not at all look your doc. was. now michael bloomberg is a former new york city mayor in addition to being very wealthy through the media and it's quite interesting to know that his past as mayor of new york city and his past in the business world came up during the campaign the fact that there was kind of an office culture of sexism and sexual harassment that was raised as well as the issue of stop and frisk and police brutality and other policies he had while being mayor of new york city and if this point to his campaign has concluded here's what he told his supporters 3 months ago on into the race for president to do if you don't know trump today i'm leaving the race for the same reason to defeat donald

trump because it is clear to me that staying in would make the cheating that go more difficult now michael bloomberg has followed the pattern of other democratic presidential candidates who recently dropped out of the race and given his support to joe biden the former vice president quite interesting take a listen he's not the 1st one to have done this amy clovis shahr as well as pete booed as did the same thing let's listen. i am ending my campaign and endorsing joe biden in the i'm 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 compete 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

in the it seems pretty clear that at this point the establishment of the democratic party is kind of closing ranks around joe biden in an effort to stop bernie sanders widely seen as a left wing populist and a populist and kind of an insurgent against the democratic party's elite and longstanding establishment let's review exactly how efforts are going down to defeat what many are calling the burning machine. it's been a long winter for the democrats they've been feeling the cold burn oh you know we know you are you live on the law or in god you know where you're wrong in the 43. years we're now we're in.

the in the 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 then general reno cause of 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. bernie sanders 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 reds 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 or 3rd period nature 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 it's not a bad thing after 4 years of looking on in horror as trump cozied up to dictators 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 and i can see it 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 millennial 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 spouting things that's absolutely nothing but you know 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 the they want bernie sanders to get elected president that's no surprise he had a moment in 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 d. . time to unite behind joe candidates are dropping out perhaps a bit prematurely and putting their energy behind joe biden by just come up a little bit and i don't know what's happened barely i think they're 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 mopp and archie new york. well thanks for joining us here on the international this wednesday night as always we love to hear your thoughts on all

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