you performing for the supreme. midnight right now here in moscow in the headlines for you billionaire michael bloomberg drops out of the u.s. democratic party's 2020 race indorsing joe biden is kind of the see there who's faced a backlash despite having a very super tuesday. was the easy part i was looking for elsewhere days after the much heralded peace deal with washington the taliban kills over 20 soldiers and police in afghanistan while the u.s. responds with airstrikes and. now the flood of the keep an eye on greek border police clashing with those asylum seekers at the turkish border as a row with anger over refugees deepens tonight r.t.

spent last night at the front of thousands of people desperately scrambling to reach the e.u. driving to the front in the hope of being a schoolteacher by looks like a military person. or their life or most international world news center here in moscow this very early thursday morning as they just turn midnight here my name is kevin owen here for next 30 minutes for the latest from the newsroom for you as reported from russia around the world 1st the race for the white house we're sticking in the united states for the top story for us price vice president joe biden has become a front runner in the democratic party now it's after his decisive victory on super tuesday as 14 states have ended counting votes biden won 10 out of the 14 states that voted while the progressive senator bernie sanders claimed 4 including the.

big one california the state with the most delegates up for grabs following super tuesday as polls biden is no clearly leading in what looks set to become a 2 man race but some of his earlier decisions have been question 2 now 2 u.s. veterans confronted biden for one supporting the iraq war. wondering why didn't you get it really wouldn't. you. say right. now. you might find. one are here. oh yes. you don't do it you know awkward moment for him the main time michael bloomberg announced he's ended his run for the democratic 2020 presidential nomination after suffering a wipeout in super tuesday voting the billionaire and former new york mayor is no

throwing his support behind joe biden breaking down the latest developments from new york city 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 it appeared almost that michael bloomberg was attempting to buy the democratic nomination let's take a listen we say 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 by. joe biden take a listen i am ending my campaign and endorsing joe biden i. 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 now at this point we've got many figures in the democratic establishment or lining up behind 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 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 was the that would be vice

president biden's 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 well while joe biden was propelled into pole position super tuesday senator elizabeth warren's come by was dealt a crippling blow she failed to place in the top 2 in any of the 14 voting states and is under pressure and from but he saw the supporters to drop out of the competition to avoid splitting the progressive vote coast of the day to the tweet

opportunity president trump couldn't resist taking a dig. so selfish for elizabeth warren to stay in the race she has 0 chance of even coming close to winning but her as bernie bradley so much for their wonderful liberal friendship will never speak to her again she cost in massachusetts and came in 3rd he shouldn't war as disappointment is likely to be compounded by the fact that she finished a distant 3rd in a home state of massachusetts supporters of bernie sanders claim that her decision to stay in the race cost the self-styled democrat socialist victories in $3.00 states and bigger wins in several others they also point to the parallels with the 2016 race to which warren accused the green party's jill stein of helping to sway the election in donald trump's favor. anything you do that helps donald trump get one inch closer to the white house is a danger charl of us vote for star and moves donald trump closer to the white house would love to see the venn diagram of people who are still mad at jill stein for

being a spoiler in 2016 and those now insisting the war on one be helping by the name she stayed in the race for the record if you're blaming warren for tonight's results maybe you should reconsider your defense of 14 for jill stein if a vote for jewel stein in 2016 was a vote for trump then a vote for warren today is a vote for joe biden sorry i don't make the rules i spoke earlier to political analyst a judge about the democratic battle ongoing you describe elizabeth warren's fall from grace karma indeed for earlier comments about the green party that what we're seeing is the general chaos in the in the democratic party is quite clear that the democratic establishment are they have a plan in their plan and it is too close to those to be advanced a so-called centrist and that's exactly what they did coming out of south carolina to use. biden's winner south carolina to to create momentum and to

encourage new jersey and we call it amy. 2 from minnesota to drop out so that all of the fire can be directed toward bernie sanders and a little bit want to play the role in that by staying in the race. and that is the tracking tonight fear the surge posed to be a path towards peace between the u.s. and the taliban right now but that appears to big time unraveled wednesday washington has conducted an airstrike against 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 offices will all but of course so barely dry on that peace accords. just a few days ago reflections across those developments them. 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'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 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 if get a 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 from a parallel reality you know another world and you have to remember that there ghana 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 taleban 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 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 escalating the violence is escalating and if this is a victory i don't know what if it should look like. reporting there for us to get more force to from middle east expert in genocide a risky thinks the afghan government might know leverage their own advantage. think

it is very undermining i think is the final recall if you would lawyer when it comes to deal making president trying trying to strew party being a deal maker but actually i think that all the years attempted to make up a lot just might be that there are divisions within a polyp and that those who are against just agreement went ahead with these attacks in order to sabotage any possible progress which could have been made i'm sure how the talks of the forest on america without excluding are going to go up and down that very much anger at the atlanta government so i think that the our new government now will also take the opportunity to criticize and this. can not be trusted and also you have many government look elsewhere or others maybe to play a more important role in the our in process russia be a china built iran because as i said the american metropolis trenchant has proven

that it. would be should oil in going around any progress of the situation. latest twists and turns in a sort of embrace the last couple of days clashes a broken at the border between greece and turkey with greek police using tear gas and stun grenades to drive back those asylum seekers desperately trying to get across the border into the according to turkish officials one person was killed and 5 others wounded by live fire from the greek side that is a claim to know that athens is fiercely denied thousands of displaced people have been massing along the border there after turkey said it would no longer prevent refugees return thing to head to europe we said it will turn back migrants attention to cross its borders illegally and a suspended asylum application for a month r.t. shala do bensky drove along the border this very last evening to see the impact herself of the printing you the crisis this is having on those desperate people

trying to get into the e.u. . come further down south was still on the greek so i did the border with turkey where no town called fairies 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 mayor's 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 so we didn't get to speak to them he wasn't hit 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 changes 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 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 on the border overnight to get a sense of what this human chain to protect the greek borders from anybody trying to cross illegally it's going to be a line so we're just coming up to a checkpoint now where they're stopping us. yes.

but not. 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 square planned pint and they told just 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 like a 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 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 has 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 not. exactly what we're seeing in towns like this

that ability for people to take up their own lawns and to go to the borders to push text grease for anybody trying to cross solid even ski r.t. in ferris. royalist so 5 years or so ago to try corona virus where we are with that tonight as a nation scramble to stem the spread of it and hit home the hygiene message here in russia there are so far 6 confirmed cases dozens are in quarantine and under observation talking of which i'm seeing on screen for a while our senior correspondent. can tell he has just completed 2 weeks of self isolation at home in cell following a trip to hong kong albeit a brief one he told us here is what the experience was like and about the other measures that russia has taken to keep infections at bay you put it well by the way one of the things you could do you realize as a bearded man is you just look silly in the face miles 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 were treated like anyone else and our 1st taste of what was the card was still in the player when a lady came aboard and this is while we were still in the plane having landed she took all our our measurements our temperatures and she was in full hazmat given 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 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 19 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 had 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 invent 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 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 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 g.'s 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 food i 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 don't follow advice that you read on the internet and read it for example followed vies that 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 to the core and team isn't worth it

. yeah a sensible a voice what you say in there and keep calm to now meanwhile because so one of those places that he was talking about there where the some hot spots italy there is some news from italy tonight there's not great the covert 1000 death toll there has no overtaken iran giving it the highest number of fatalities out side china the italian government to another bit of news that came in to tell you about said it after considering it is now closing schools and universities nationwide for 10 days in an attempt to contain the virus in our beautiful beautiful country the world health organization boy what a job has got in his hands says that more than 90000 people have been infected around the world in 80 countries health officials there are also encouraging the public to do is mirrored says to avoid excessive personal contact including handshake because there's a big thing in russia but people are backing off with doing the foot shake all that kind of thing and avoid kisses on the cheek as well not so much of that here in the newsroom anyway thankfully it's a republican advice illustrating that

a foot shaker elbow bump could perhaps replace more traditional greetings we've been trying it out here are some u.s. senators testing out the elbow turn it is not too vigorously as they met 2 women who'd been cleared to leave what quarantine while this measure may be effective there are some other suggestions though doing the rounds which should of course be avoided. it's 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 close with so much misinformation advice overload and no shortage of understandable anxiety that makes 2 we brought together technology consultant microbiology researcher rochelle patel 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 murderers. do you. credit limits i think many countries have been caught offguard 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 $1200000.00 deaths from tuberculosis close is right for example in the u.k. are going up i don't see anybody wearing masks about you alone 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 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 off the stock market 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 self or in teaching. 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 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. woods in the thing is the pragmatic about it take care and keep your hands clean don't touch your face as they say and will keep you posted all the twists and turns of the coronavirus as

the story develops as well and everything else as well you can follow it r.t.d. of home or of various social media 29 minutes past midnight here in moscow thank you for watching out international as ever stand by various tailor made programs for you and your blog world after this break. the corona virus is a global health danger that is yet to be contain this fire and has also raised 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. and .

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