1 am very early thursday morning in the headlines a new front runner in the u.s. democrats race to take on donald trump's job sweep super tuesday but he's facing a backlash to over his previous iraq war policy. even part. also days after that much heralded peace deal with washington the taliban kills over 228 soldiers and police in afghanistan while the u.s. responds with air strikes. tonight. and the. greek police clash with asylum seekers of the turkish border as a runner with ankara the refugees deepens r.t. spend the night at the front here as thousands of people scramble to reach the.

driving out the front in the hope of. what's going to happen as we were trying to build we've stopped this my cameraman being schoolteacher. looks like a military person. the morning live from out international world the center of moscow. for the next half hour the latest updates from you from the newsroom as reported from russia around the world the start of this 1st former u.s. vice president joe biden has taken the reins the democrats candidate race for the 2020 election that he's now the front runner after a stunning comeback on so-called super tuesday biden won 10 of the 14 states for grabs while progressive senator bernie sanders claimed 4 including the big one california the state with the most delegates following. super tuesday polls by in

the snow than the clear leader in what's fast becoming a 2 man race but some of his early decisions could be coming back to haunt him after 2 u.s. veterans confronted biden in a rather embarrassing exchange of resupport for the iraq war previously published wondering why are you going to get it recorded it. was a rocky. road out. you might find it. was not me. you know art oh yes. you did do it but it's the content is michael bloomberg another news announced he's ending his run for the democratic 2020 presidential nomination after suffering a wipe out in super tuesday voting the billionaire for when you york mayor is now throwing his support behind joe biden breaking down all the latest 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 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 limburg 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 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 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 allowed 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 all lining up behind jill biden many observers are viewing this 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 would be vice president biden's so i would be very surprised if pressure had not been brought to bear on on

both the 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 with many of the down ticket democratic candidates well joe biden was propelled into pole position on super tuesday then centralism with warren's campaign was dealt a crippling blow she failed to place in the top 2 of any of the 14 voting states and is under pressure from bernie sanders supporters to drop out of the competition and to avoid splitting the progressive vote and of course now the day president from couldn't resist taking another dig either on the twitter. so selfish for elizabeth warren to stay in the race she has 0 chance of even coming close to

winning but hurts bernie badly so much for their wonderful liberal friendship will he ever speak to her again she cost in massachusetts and came in 3rd he shouldn't or is this a point where it's going to be compounded by the fact that she finished a distant 3rd in her 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 have also pointed out parallels with the 2016 race to which warren accused the green party's jill stein that 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 stan 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 and one be helping by ending she stayed in the race for the record if you're blaming warren for tonight's results

maybe you should reconsider your defense of voting for jill stein if a vote for jewel stein in 2016 was a vote for trump then a vote for war and today is a vote for joe biden sorry i didn't make the rules i spoke earlier for more thoughts on this a political analyst a german bracher about the democratic battle ongoing he described elizabeth warren's fall from grace karma or indeed for a comment to the da forgotten about the green party. what we've seen is the general chaos in the in the democratic party is quite clear that the democratic establishment are they have a plan their plan is to. call centrist and that's exactly what they did coming out of south carolina to use. biden's win of south carolina to to create momentum into encourage new jersey and

call it aiming. to from minnesota to drop out so that all of the fire can be directed toward bernie send a little bit want to play the role in that state in the race. others who across this morning for you then to brief you on this supposed to be a path of course right now between place between the u.s. and the taliban but really unraveled on wednesday washington's conducted an airstrike against isms group in afghanistan's helmand province of her series of deadly taliban attacks overnight where more than 20 afghan soldiers and police officers were killed with all the ink was barely dry on the huge much vaunted pace accord just a few days before. it's across the latest on the one. 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 his senior taliban official here is donald trump talking about we had a very good conversation with the leader of the taliban today. they're looking to get this and we're looking to get it and we had a good long conversation today you know they want to seize the violence and now we see the u.s. responding with an airstrike that they present as a move of self defense unclear why since the taliban never attacked the americans so that is agreement include they will draw all of u.s. troops and its nato allies from afghanistan there are still $12000.00 around 12000 soldiers and officers stationed in afghanistan and that is seen as a positive move by so many as

a trust building measure as they said the taliban was promised to see 5000 common political prisoners released promised by who by washington so what basically happened is that washington promised something it cannot guarantee and plus it has 0 authority to do the result 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 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 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 really. really really really. really really mean this is where we. are for peace on the ground. so what we can see is that the situation on the ground in afghanistan is get more and more dramatic it's a skill late in the violence is escalating and if this is a victory i don't know what a defeat should look like. spoke to middle east expert jealously riskily or only thinks the afghan government might leverage the attacks to its advantage. i think it is buried under my neck i think to the final recall if you will. when it comes

to deal making president trump trying to strew party being a deal breaker but actually i think that he has 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 sure how the talks before on america without excluding are going to government and that very much angered the atlanta government so i think that we are learning government now will also take the opportunity to criticize and this. can be trusted and also you have many government look elsewhere 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 metropolis trenchant has proven

that it. would be should while in any progress of the situation. i'll update now on a story to bring you from last couple of days clashes of broken out at the border between greece and turkey with greek police using tear gas and stun grenades to drive back asylum seekers attempting desperately 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 now cover to that cyclone the athens is fiercely denied tonight 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 in tel aviv the start of this greece has said it will turn back migrants attempting to cross its borders illegally and a suspended asylum applications controversially for a month to r.t. shall aduba the ski went there 1st time to see what the heck was going on she drove along the border on tuesday night to see the impact this crisis is having. come further down south was still in 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 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 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 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 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 to hold now we're driving out towards the front here in the hope of getting a sense of what's going to happen. 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. we have to turn around ok so we're being told we have to turn around we

can't go any further. not far out from ferris we spoke the greek on me in what looks like illegal migrants on this side of the road. we've had a chat with the offices they said we can't film but they have confirmed that they found the 2 illegal immigrants trying to cross the software we are in the script land behind and they told us that 2 individuals from afghanistan to receive an update from the volunteers who are not securing we would end 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. like a ministry person out to the border. so just not date in that situation all that's been smooth but we have moved away from the border because we don't want to create more tension with the security personnel that are there but it gives you a sense of how much tension there is here given the fact that the volunteers are out willing to be in the middle of nowhere in the way to secure their borders the fact that we were told not to come anywhere near the border that the greek prime minister said this week that his country wouldn't be blackmailed by turkey and he said that they would do everything possible to stop an invasion of migrants crossing the border illegally and not. 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 charlotte even steal our tea in ferris it will continue to follow it now let's say 10 minutes or so and talk about it later coronavirus plenty to talk about fortunately as a nation scramble to stem the spread of it hit home the message to russia there are so far 6 confirmed cases dozens are in quarantine and under observation now you have seen across one of the of on screen for 14 days funny that is because he's just completed himself 2 weeks of self isolation in a home after a brief trip to hong kong he told us than what this experience was like and about the other measures that russia is taking 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 months 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 are 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 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 would be like a mini vacation you get to sit at home and as it turns out it isn't after all so you're cool throughout the day starting in the morning for medics asking how you're feeling when there are any symptoms cough or whatever you also had visited by police and medics just to check up on you to make sure that you were still at home i mean eventually out of sheer boredom with the terms of the quarantine agreement that i signed at the airport and the penalties are pretty severe so for example if if you leave the house to go to the shop which you can then you just

leave and nothing nothing happens well that starts a fire and potentially community service if you leave the house or apartment the quarantine zone and you infect someone adds up 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 examples identified a message being repeated online that is spreading misinformation and there are people out there that 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 days do not want to inform us about this will have to inform each other about this leaked information there are 20000 patients with coronavirus in moscow walk with masks don't go to crowded places take care of each other and stock up on food unfortunately it's sad that shops will be empty this information is more than reliable. in the do it's just common sense to follow advice that you read on the internet and breaded for example follow device 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 preval break don't go the quarantine isn't worth.

your some salad vice or he's been through the whole 2 weeks thankfully he's fine back at work so well he was talking about places that are probably not best to go to at the moment certainly these hot spots italy is one of them there is a museum from italy tonight beautiful country but it's really suffering the moment covert 19 death toll there is no overtaken iran's is the headline giving it the highest number of fatalities outside china and other developments from italy to the government they're now saying it's going to close schools universities nationwide for 10 days in attempt to try to get a handle on this virus there the world health organization says now that more than 100000 people have been infected in 80 countries worldwide health officials at the show are also encouraging people to do is more and said avoid excessive personal contact including handshakes and kisses on the cheek how to shake for instance here in russia really popular thing everyone does it but people are pulling back home or trying other things talking to which is republishing advice illustrating that a foot shake or elbow bump could replace more traditional greetings here are some

u.s. senators testing said elbow alternative could be careful count. too heavy but they met 2 women they'd been cleared to leave quarantine to go down ok this measure may be effective but there are as we heard from her again other suggestions doing the rounds which should be well avoided. it is understandable that you may feel anxious about the outbreak to get the facts from reliable sources to help you accurately determine your risk so that you can take reasonable precautions.

so so much misinformation advice overload and cause no shortage of understandable anxiety that makes 2 we've brought together for you technology consultant norman lewis'. microbiology research patel to share their experience. compared to other respiratory viruses such as influenza this is relatively novel in new to us related coronaviruses such as sars and murderers. do you. credible ince 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 tuberculosis cheaper close is right for example in the u.k. are going up i don't see anybody wearing masks about you but the law says 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 one must 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 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 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. you know as the great british say once went keycard carry on it works in britain works for the world works for russia too but of course of the common sense things as well wash your hands be sensible what you travel in eccentric cetera well that's it for now as

ever on topic covering more stories if you want more perspective on people involved in the coronavirus thing to talk about it with his latest guess or worse like to take his salt how bad is it was it going to turn into that's after the break for me kevin oh it thanks for watching take care stay well and all of these so. these policymakers are grown accustomed to the idea that every single problem can be solved with money fronting why can't we solve the coronavirus of money printing the market now is starting to scratch just had a little bit and saying wait a minute that's insane so therefore valuations look like they're going to be marked down already in correction territory on these markets down 10 percent are going to have to bear market valuations down 20 percent probably i think the likelihood is

extremely high i really have a 50 to 60 percent drop that's probably a 10 to 20 percent probability. hello and welcome the cross off where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the coronavirus 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.