presidential candidates debate the future of the u.s. and the world. but dig into the burning questions of this election cycle. every week. student. was money. this is art international just turned 9 pm here now billionaire michael bloomberg in the headlines tonight dropping out of the race to be the us democratic party 2020 presidential kind of it endorsing joe biden the one who mounted a major super tuesday comeback we'll tell you all about it. days after

a heralded peace deal with washington the taliban killed today over 20 soldiers and police in afghanistan while the u.s. responds with strikes. and grief border police clash with asylum seekers at the turkish border as that row with refugees deepens our team spent the night at the front as thousands of people scramble to try to get into the e.u. . trying out what's the fun in the hope of getting a sense of what's going to happen as we were trying to film we were stopped this my cameraman being schoolteacher. looks like a ministry personnel to. play their good evening at live from are will do center here in moscow this wednesday is

kevin owen with you for this half hour round up well welcome to the program stick around to take you through all the headlines as reported from us in russia tonight 1st what's happening in the race for the white house in the states michael bloomberg has announced he's ending his run for democratic 2020 presidential nominee after suffering a wipeout in super tuesday vote the billionaire and former new york mayor has now thrown his support than publicly behind joe biden who made a stunning comeback in the biggest contest of the primary season former vice president biden won 10 out of the 14 states that voted yesterday while the progressive senator bernie sanders claimed 4 including the big california one the state with the most other gets up for grabs following super tuesday voting biden is now the clear democratic front runner in what looks set to become a 2 man race breaking down the latest developments for you tonight caleb maupin from new york city. after a poor showing on super tuesday when 14 different us states voted in the presidential primary michael bloomberg seems to be ending his campaign now this is

after spending roughly half a $1000000000.00 on his presidential campaign the most expensive primary campaign in the history of the united states and many looked on and saw the amount of money bloomberg was spending the fact that he had advertisements on the super bowl and on many different places just the ads were popping up all over social media etc then joked about it but many also worry that it 'd appeared almost that michael bloomberg was attempting to buy the democratic nomination let's take a listen. to mayor bloomberg. we. see not at all look your doctored up gardner selection was certainly had his detractors donald trump was known for criticizing bloomberg for his height calling him mini mike many others and the democratic camp

were critical of his policies when he was the new york city mayor they pointed out issues like police brutality stop and frisk that took place under his administration furthermore revelations about sexism and activities in his businesses and some of the culture of sexual harassment when he worked in the business sector in the private sector out of that was pointed out as well and at this point as he's dropped out it seems like he's giving his supporters a message this is what he had to say 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 do if you don't know trump because it is clear to me that staying in would make that shooting that go more difficult mike bloomberg followed the pattern of other recent drop outs of the democratic primary putting all his weight. joe biden take a listen i am ending my campaign and endorsing joe biden in the i'm looking for

a president who will draw 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 now at this point we've got many figures in the democratic establishment or lining up behind it jill biden many observers are viewing this as a sensually an effort to defeat and stop bernie sanders the upsurge of support for bernie sanders is seen as a threat to the democratic party establishment let's take a review of the efforts to defeat burning sanders it's been a long winter for the democrats they've been feeling the cold burn oh you know we know you believe it was going to hurt your primary was 43.

years without knowing that 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 a reading last night about the fall of france in the summer of $940.00 and then general reno cause of churchill and says it's over can either coronavirus or bernie sanders be stopped totally transform society with 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 castro and in the red said won the cold war there were the 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 his 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 is not a bad think 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 can see it forced labor camps religious repression widespread poverty firing squads and the murder of thousands of his own people but issue of money 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 spouting things that's absolutely nothing but you know voters 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 raw. robert o'brien the national security advisor and his sources are named there are these reports that the they want bernie sanders to get elected president that's no surprise he honeymooned 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 does come up a little bit and i don't know what's happened bernie i think they're trying to take it away from him 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 archie new york you know spoke just know to blog for the

libertarian national committee he told me the democratic establishment coalescing around joe biden right now. i think there was there's certainly been a concerted effort as far as i can tell by what we could call moderates in the democratic party to try to find a candidate behind whom they can unite and that would be that would be vice president biden so i would be very surprised if pressure had not been brought to bear on on both a jazz club char and bloomberg to get out of the race i think most democratic party officials particularly those elected officials their biggest concern is not actually defeating donald trump it's making sure that they stay reelected this is why i think so many people in the democratic party were really concerned about senator sanders being the nominee it's it's not just that he would not be able to defeat donald trump but that he might cause severe reaction among voters 'd with many of the down ticket democratic candidates. this supposed to be

a path towards peace between the u.s. and the taliban right now but that appears to be unraveling big time this wednesday washington has conducted an as strike against islam his group in afghanistan's helmand province entre series the deadly taliban attacks overnight which killed more than 20 afghan soldiers and police offices and whole with the inc pending trial on how big a cold just a couple of days ago griffen ocean 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 a 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 its 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 this and we're looking to get it and we had a good long conversation today and 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 your authority to do the result if getting government does not seem to agree each

now 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 that they have requested it so 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 one. world then you have to remember that there ghana crisis is a very complex one there are many sides involved and what is desperate 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 burn to more scope to seat and talk and discuss you know 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 angry. so they really mean this is where we are 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 a defeat should look like. and if a motion of the middle east expert genitally respond to us he thinks the afghan government might leverage the attacks now to its advantage. i think it is very humble mining and i think that is the final recall if you would lawyer when it comes to deal making the president trying trying to strew projects bigger deal maker but actually i think that all the years attempted to make up a lot just might be that there are divisions within the taliban and those who are

against just agreement went ahead with these attacks in order to sabotage it and he possible progress which could have been made i'm due on how it looks at the forecast on america without oil excluding are going to go up and down that very much and of the atlantic government so i think that we are learning government now will also take the opportunity to criticize it this. can not be trusted and also you have many government look elsewhere or others maybe to play a more important role in the art that it produces be it russia be a china built iran because as i said the american but the top administration has proven that it. would be should while in any progress of the situation. let's focus on some other news now it's core processor by the way that clashes a pro can out the border between greece and turkey with greek police using tear gas and stun grenades to try to drive back those asylum seekers attempt to cross into

the e.u. the last few days according to turkish officials one person has been killed and 5 others wounded by live fire from the greek side of clay the athens has fiercely denied 1000 displaced people but a massing along the border as we've been reporting 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 they suspended controversially the asylum applications for a month r.t. charlotte to penske drove along the border for us on tuesday night to see the desperation of those stuck in the impasse come further downs. south was still on the greek so i did the border with turkey where no town called ferries and i just want you to get a sense of 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 mad to find out how he in 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 losses for you because the policies of previous years that these people to enter a country without carrying any permanent documents 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 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 great borders from anybody. trying to cross illegally it's going to be blind so we're just coming up to a checkpoint. where they're stopping us. 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 are 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 will like military personnel troops 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. mr said this week that his country wouldn't be blackmailed by turkey and 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 arms and to go to the borders to push text grease for anybody trying to cross even ski r.t.

in ferris. virus no tonight is nation scramble to try to stem the spread of it hit home the high g. message here in russia so far there are 6 confirmed cases dozens are in quarantine under observation i can tell you our senior correspondent word goes to has just completed himself you're sitting on screen because he's been self isolation at home for the past fortnight following a trip to hong kong he told us what the experience was like and about the other measures that russia is taking right now to keep infections at bay. 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 souvenir 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 were treated

like anyone else and our 1st taste of what was the card 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 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 and quarantine control at checkpoints across the russian border 6 new cases of corona virus infections were recorded join 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 after all he had calls throughout the day starting in the morning for medics asking how you're feeling when there are any symptoms call call 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 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. 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 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 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. the end of the day it's just common sense 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 there's been an outbreak don't go the coroner team isn't worth it. imre galatea of all good to see you're a good well get back to work so we're going to italy in just a 2nd but as they just made this whole big world so much smaller interconnected this whole covered 900 thing right talking about italy this news in the italy's

covered 1000 death toll is now overtaken iran's giving it the highest number of fatalities outside china italian government has said the new bit in it is no closing schools and universities nationwide for 10 days in the tent to try to contain the virus the world health organization says that more than 90000 people have been infected now around the world in 80 countries health officials at the w.h.o. what job they've got on my hands are also encouraging the public to do the basic things more it was talking about to avoid excessive personal contact including handshakes and kisses on the cheek handshake big thing in russia can't do it though it's republished advice illustrating that a foot shake or maybe an elbow bump but not too boisterous could perhaps replace more traditional greetings and here are some u.s. senators testing out said elbow alternative as they might see women have been cleared to leave quarantine to work while this measure might be effective there are some suggestions doing the rounds that should be well avoided we can report.

it is understandable that you may feel anxious about the outbreak get the facts from reliable sources to help you accurately determine your risk so that you can take reasonable precautions.

so with so much misinformation advice overload no shortage of obvious anxiety in the mix too we brought together technology consultant norman lewis of microbiology research a machine patel with a bit of take a breath that for a minute to share their experience. compared to other respiratory viruses such as influenza this is relatively novel and 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 $1200000.00 deaths from tuberculosis close is right for example in the u.k. are going up i don't see anybody wearing masks about you since i don't see trains

being stopped eventually 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 disease but it's not and 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 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 if your state stared home or intervening. 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 that we have to make as a society come down to individual households. on the verge of march. 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 this is not based on anything. i will leave it out for for now that's it for now it's a personal note here in moscow check it out see the cover of every social media for so much more for less including more advice but keeping your hands clean except for except for not so much personal contact but with more half an hour from us international but stand by our next tell him it shows in your part of the world after this break.