nearer moscow in the headlines tonight billionaire michael bloomberg drops out of the race to be the us democratic party 2020 presidential candidate endorsing joe biden who mounted a major super tuesday comeback. days after that much heralded peace deal with washington today the taliban kills over 20 soldiers and police and afghanistan while the u.s. responds with airstrikes. greek border police clash with asylum seekers at the turkish border as a route with ankara over refugees. spent a night that very front here is thousands of people desperately scramble to reach the.

book. as we were trying to fill we were stopped this my cameraman being school teacher. looks like. by their life martin to nationals world news center in moscow this wednesday is kevin. thank you for your company as a guide you through what we're talking about here tonight in russia starting with 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 voting the millionaire a billionaire rather let's not sell him and former new york mayor is now throwing his support behind joe biden who made that stunning comeback in the biggest contest of the primary season former vice president biden want. 10 out of the 14 states

that voted yesterday in the end or the progressive bernie sanders claimed 4 including the big one in california that's the state with the most delegates up for grabs following super tuesday is voting biden is no the clear democratic front runner than in what looks set to become a 2 man race breaking down latest developments tonight caleb maupin. 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 'd it appeared almost that michael bloomberg was attempting to buy the democratic nomination let's take

a listen. to it mayor bloomberg. we. see not and i'll look at your docket up gardner so like lumbergh certainly had his detractors donald trump was known for criticizing bloomberg for his height calling him mini mike many others i'm in the democratic camp are 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 i entered 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 it shooting that go more difficult mike bloomberg followed the pattern of other recent drop outs of the democratic primary putting all his weight by. joe biden take a listen i am ending my campaign and endorsing joe biden in that 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 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 burning oh you know we know you believe it was going to hear your driver was in the lobby read through the 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 for that i think does 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 closer to 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 cuba's achievements in terms of literacy and health care were very opposed to be or authoritarian 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 magazine 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 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 robert o'brien the national security advisor and his sources are named there these reports that they they want bernie sanders to get elected president that's no surprise he honeymoon 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 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 early 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 next. supposed to be the big puff towards peace right now between the u.s. and the taliban but appears to be unraveling big time this wednesday washington has conducted an airstrike against these the most group in afghanistan's helmand province of her series the deadly taliban attacks overnight which killed more than 20 of them soldiers and police offices all with barely dry on a piece of coal just a few days old re if an ocean was 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 at 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 that it is agreement include they will draw all of u.s. troops and its nato allies from afghanistan the rest 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 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 that 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 one. world 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 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 a great. way. to proceed so they really mean this is where we are this is for peace on the ground. so what we can see is that the situation on the ground in afghanistan is getting more 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 a reflection of the middle east expert in general how they respond to spread it to

things the afghan government might leverage the attacks to its advantage you know. i think it is very undermining i think to the final recall if you will. when it comes to do making personal and trying trying to strew party being a deal maker but actually i think that he has attempted to make up a lot just might be that there are divisions within apollo 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 up until now the talks have been forecast on america without oil pan extruding are the only government under very much anger at the atlanta government so i think that they are learning government now will also take the opportunity to criticize and. not be trusted and also you have many government look elsewhere or others maybe to play

a more important role in the are a process russia be a china bill to iran because as i said the american metropolis trenchant has proven that it. would be should while in going around any progress of the situation. track a potential flashpoint in europe now clashes a broken out at the border between greece and turkey with greek police using tear gas and stun grenades to drive back asylum seekers attended across into the u.k. so desperate over into the e.u. rather so desperate they according to turkish officials one person was killed and 5 others wounded by live fire from the greek side that's something the athens fiercely denies it must be said thousands of displaced people have been massing along the border after turkey said it would no longer prevent refugees from attempting to head to europe they said it will turn back migrants attempted to cross its borders illegally and they suspended controversially asylum applications for a month we can report our to charlotte he drove along the very border on tuesday night

to see firsthand the impact the crisis is having on these desperate people. come further down. south was still in 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 maso face 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 a country without carrying any permanent 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 has not been 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 the all. but he trying to cross illegally is going to be blind and 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 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 personnel to watch 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. a minister 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 protect greece from anybody trying to cross. r.t. in ferris. totally different thing to protect against next those talk coronavirus latest on the nation scramble to try to stem the spread of it and hit home the message here in russia so far 6 cases have been confirmed dozens are in quarantine and under observation no if you thought you not see them on screen for a bit our senior correspondent would go to the events because he himself had just completed 2 weeks of self isolation at home after he came back for

a brief trip to hong kong he told us what that experience was like and about the other measures russia is taking right now to keep infections. 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 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 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 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 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 it be like a mini vacation you get to sit at home and as it turns out it isn't after 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 and you just leave and nothing nothing happens well that's that's a fine potentially community service but if you leave the house where apartment the quarantine zone and you infect someone adds up for 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 was identified a message being repeated online that is spreading misinformation and there are people out there that are you know enjoying this. lenna good to 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 all with or it is do not want to inform us about this will have to inform each other bald 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 food unfortunately it's sad that shops will be empty this information is more than reliable. in the do it's just common sense to follow advice that you read on the internet and breaded for example followed vies that you hear from doctors example 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 without a break don't go the quarantine isn't worth it yeah we're going to talk about those places minutely what's happening there will be good to see more and still with a twinkle in his eye but the words no doubt after his 2 weeks off well italy latest there are developments to tell you about the covert 19 death toll is now over taken iran's giving at the highest number of fatalities outside china and new internet the italian government said it is now closing have been considering it but now it is closing schools and universities nationwide for 10 days in attempt to contain the virus in that beautiful country the world health organization says that more than 90000 people have been infected in 80 countries worldwide health officials at the w.h.o. with a job there on the right now are also encouraging people to do what more ad was

saying there avoid excessive personal contact including handshakes big thing that is here in russia but people are stopping doing it's all ok and avoiding kisses on the cheek it's republished advice illustrating that a foot shake or an elbow bump not too vigorous though could perhaps replace more traditional greetings case in point here some u.s. senators testing out the elbow alternative as they met 2 women who've been cleared to leave quarantine while this measure might be effective there are some others of course that should be well avoided. 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.

you know it's all about staying calm common sense with so much misinformation advice overload and no shortage of obvious anxiety that makes 2 we brought together technology consultant norman lewis and also microbiology researcher rochelle patel to share their expertise with us. respiratory viruses such as influenza this wire is relatively novel in new to us related coronaviruses such as sars and murders. do you. 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 like 2 colossus which is a very very low and dangerous virus illness and last year there were 1200000 deaths from 2 pilasters cheaper 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 real and 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 and

overreaction just look at the stock market 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 stay at home self 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 with on the verge of martial law being in. i 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. leave you without

a thought stay well thank you for watching our channel r.t. international live from moscow got some great programs lined up for you variously in your part of the world after the break for me kevin and for now have a great evening. the corona virus is a global health danger that is yet to be contain this fire is also raise questions about the integrity of supply chains open borders and the weaknesses of globalization and dangerously this virus is being used as a political weapon. time

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