a cool for calm i was shocked to strip the shelves in stores in several countries in preparation for potential self isolation from coronavirus. touch in greece for accusations at each other as the situation was about shadforth with one cry aloud and tens of thousands of refugees to attempt to get into the e.u. . and whistleblowers confront the wild chemical weapons watchdog to demand a hearing after being granted rove quartering their investigation of the large attack in syria. why would a pair of top inspection team lead both with impeccable record both incidentally

from the west bank who have never sent a food will suddenly go rogue. it's just gone midday in the russian capital a very warm welcome for myself and the whole team and. lots of stories for you to start with probably one of the biggest ones over the past few weeks and 2000 cases of corona virus around the wild have been confirmed in just the past day here in russia medical services are on a lot especially in those key cities where arrivals from the most affected nations are required to self isolate for 2 weeks one of the out there affects being seen wild why it is shocked this emptying shelves to stock up on a sun chills and a straight out the media's being accused of whipping up hysteria with some stores rushing 20 to paper after a rush of panic buying. stripped bare is

a stroke is prepare for a pandemic take a look at this we went out to take a look for ourselves yesterday and there wasn't a toilet roll inside the right kind of shopping it's happening all over the country the great soylent paper pad it is in full cry warming stores and clearing selves of goods as coronavirus called trade in newspaper even left 8 of its pages empty suggesting its readers use that as an alternative to toilet paper with more on the supermarket onslaught around the wild his pita all about from berlin. it's called how mystic alphen in german literally translates as hamster buying but it doesn't mean that people here were leaning across the federal republic of being stocking up on adorable furry friends it means they've been panicked by essentially in fear of the coronavirus empty shelves in supermarkets across berlin have become

a common sight as people hoard fresh fruit and vege as well as nonperishable goods like pastor rice toilet paper hygiene products and other basics have been flying off shelves as people prepare for potential self isolation as the covert 19 crisis spreads around the world while emergency testing tents of being set up at hospitals to identify those with the virus the german government is being giving its assessments of the current situation or sticking to it but he means you know china's coronavirus outbreak has become a global pandemic is always a question of finding the right balance on the one hand between the restrictions necessary to contain the virus and on the other enabling every day life to continue what's clear is that we have not yet reached the peak of the outbreak it's not just the moon systems that the virus has been attacking the economy is also taking a real pounding the german airline lufthansa is canceled hundreds of flights with

around $150.00 aircraft currently grounded the german economy one of the most robust in europe is facing the real possibility of sliding into recession we asked people here on the streets of berlin whether they were afraid of the virus wired of an issue and these were the supermarkets have been plundered and you take what you can kill in order to serve something at home as a fantastic i will wait where they need. not to be so hysterical. fabric that is their greasy i mean once you have a small stud home which would last for 14 days as apply in some food and again food is all right. they were familiar i think it's massively exaggerated but i'm not doing pennies buying and doing my usual grocery shopping it would be nice to know if others would do the same then you would not need to drive to multiple stores for this you might be doing you invite there is an epidemic many people die every year

and now we have this coronavirus theatre it's absolutely sickening it is silly which is being the hardest hit in europe all schools and universities have been closed for 2 weeks in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus panic buying is also being seen in the united kingdom where there's also huge economic called so over the impact in a nation with a paltry system of sick pay compared to what the countries could see so forced to survive on just over $100.00 euros week the reality is we don't know what is going to happen next with this new virus the best advice we have is to avoid panicking practice good hand washing her dream and avoid touching bases be sure all of us see the. clouds of tear gas out the back shop this friday along some of the border between greece and turkey both countries are firing canisters in the increasingly fractious step lock over swelling numbers of migrants trying to get

into the e.u. . this video that you can see right here accusing turkey of dropping take out using drones some refugees managed to use the lack of visibility to make it across the border thousands began heading for the new several days ago after turkey claimed it could no longer contain them right now many are staying at a makeshift camp along the border now the numbers are growing fast as have drafted in additional police swat officers on the greek side pushed back charlotte to penske has been the next looks at how both sides are fueling the situation. greece and turkey have long had an acrimonious relationship now as greece feels its borders are under attack this time by migrants leaving turkey sparks are flying on the ground here is where the battle lines are being drawn but perhaps the real

conflict is being fought through the power of the news and social media with both sides labeling claims and counterclaims as fake. turkey has accused greece of using live ammunition killing and injuring my quince who are trying to cross the greek police and border units have fired plastic bullets and live ammunition on migrants waiting between the cast danny's impassive coolly border gate the 5 men who were wounded had been shot in the food growing head and chest by live bullets turkish state media even says it has evidence of violence perpetuated by greece. and that is the type of excessive force which the greek border police is using there started using live ammunition on refugees and migrants be to be people of archippus give us the turkish side creates and disperses fake news targeted against greece today they created yet another such

false who'd at the injured migrants and one dead supposedly by greek fire i categorically deny that it would be turkey also claims that those trying to cross this border are syrian refugees but greek authorities say the majority are from countries such as afghanistan from pakistan from morocco on social media videos purporting to show migrant crossings are circulating as click bait it is a wall of words they have borders and they have the right to protect them the greeks have been europe's shield for much longer than most people realize ever since there has been islam. the e.u. is fighting against refugees turkey is fighting to protect refugees it seems the world is divided over who is at fault here although one side turkey is apparently dumping migrants and forcing them to cross the border on the other hand greece is

allegedly using brute force to repel them both accuse the other of using tear gas as a weapon to either push migrants towards or away from the border but as the war of fake news is playing out on the ground it's the my clients who are suffering being batted back and forth between turkey greece and the e.u. even ski for r.t. casting is on the greek turkish border while in the european parliament several furious m.p.'s are demanding the e.u. and cooperation with turkey for causing this latest crisis. this is again a good lesson for us that european union doesn't solve our problems it only makes the problems worse we paid 6000000000 euros to the turkish regime and what do we get after some of the several years we only get blackmailed again so does the other gun just wants more money from us and this has to stop infinity is clear.

are not a reliable partner and so i think that you should check your interim council because i think that your p.r. taxpayer certainly have lost a lot of money i mean in my view would be an appropriate response for the e.u. to suspend the e.u. turkish customs union with immediate effect. and. we may well be demanding this in the not too distant future. one touches opposite border that's the one with syria moves are being made to defuse weeks of escalating violence the leaders of russia agreed a cease fire in the water on it in the province following extensive talks in moscow the 2 powers are backing opposing sides in the conflict which has brought them at times perilously close to direct confrontation where for national brings us more on

this discussions. it took a total of 6 hours 3 of them ted ted between ludmer putin and reject type 11 that's a lot for top men and then the 2 countries delegations including foreign and defense ministers join their leaders and the discussion continued it was clear from the beginning it is not going to be an easy chorus a shouldn't both leaders came out to journalists with the outcome of thursday's crucial talks on syria the key point is that the 2 sides came to an agreement to deescalate the syrian turkish crisis in serious war torn evil province and just. this in concrete putin added the gun signed a document detailing a ceasefire on the ground in a glib that starts from midnight march 6th your job is sought at midnight beginning on the 6th of march a ceasefire will be implemented we will take all necessary steps to ensure it lasts

through our goal is to do everything possible to prevent the humanitarian situation from deteriorating in the region. so the ceasefire is certainly agcy point but there were some other steps agreed upon between russia and turkey the 2 sides decided to establish a so-called safe corridor 12 kilometer wide 6 kilometers north and 6 kilometers south from syria's strategic and for highway connecting and lattakia and to start joint patrol of this area to secure it to make it a safe zone starting march 15th widely reported described thursday stalks with the head of the gun in general as a positive move through the cycle of the solution to this group but we don't always agree without turkish partners in our evaluation of the situation in syria but in a critical moment having high level bilateral relations we've always managed to find common ground on controversial issues and have found acceptable solution. a

while ago the turkish president announced a special gather rain on syria in istanbul but not only between russia and turkey but also with france and germany that's what meant putting convinced his turkish counterpart that they do not need mediators and this is why we saw mr as a gun coming here to moscow kremlin and having a discussion with white marketing executive director of the wrong pool peace institute told our team in both russia and turkey centrist to ensure that the cease fire holds. we should all breathe a sigh of relief because truly russia and turkey were on the brink of direct conflict it was careening out of control and i think it was very wise to have called this bilateral meeting to hammer it out because there were the danger of it actually adding into war and possibly including nato was very real the whole issue of the of the war torn in the province is not that different than the war for

aleppo province which amazingly settled down once it was liberated from the from the control of jihad it's of extremists of al-qaeda and that's the exact same thing in italy a province the important thing is that the m 4 in an m 5 highways will be open up that's important to certainly to russia into syria but let's also remember that everyone is having some problems back home there's a huge brawl in the parliament just yesterday with 2 with the parties fighting each other the opposition parties are not thrilled that everyone has essentially embedded turkish military forces with al qaida to serve as human shields to prevent the syrians from retaking their own territory he's gone way out on a ledge and i think he's finding himself at the end of his political rope perhaps. a big story to whistle blowers are planning a new legal challenge to the wild chemical weapons watchdog that's often o.p.c. inquiring brantley inspectors broke up today went public in the wake of that study

of an alleged attack and to lie in syria 2 years ago they now want a scientific herring and in a letter to the director general they cues the watchdog of ignoring that walk. inspect to be anigh tried on many occasions to meet with you you may also know open haps not that these requests were all denied the reason given by a senior official was it's my role to protect the director general you will never get to speak with him and if you try to go around me to get him there will be consequences letters to the director of the global chemical weapons watchdog courtesy of the grey zone project there the latest development in a ping pong exchange of correspondence between david and goliath whistleblowers and the o.p.c. w. . inspector in i have tried to resolve our concerns with you in private however this saga has unfortunately escalated to a point where we are no publicly portrayed as adversaries inspectors are now being

smeared as the into this is of these values for nothing more than daring to speak out the smearing started back in february with a report in response to what the organization called a breach of confidentiality leaks that casts doubt on the o.p.c. w.'s conclusions about duma they said the gas cylinders were likely place there rather than dropped from an aircraft and that one area was likely not even subjected to a chemical attack but the report barely even touched on any of that the authors were too busy trying to tear the whistleblowers inspectors a and b. to pieces. inspectors a and b. are not whistleblowers they're individuals who could not accept that their views were not backed but evidence their behaviors even more egregious as they had manifestly incomplete information about the doom and vesta gave their conclusions were erroneous on informed and rone erroneous uninformed that doesn't seem very becoming for 2 guys who are apparently the inspection team leaders why would

a pair of the top inspection team leaders both with impeccable record both incidentally from the west and group background who have never set a foot wrong suddenly go rogue did these old circumstances not ring some warning bells they sure are confident in their qualifications but it goes farther than that inspectors a and b. categorically rejects one of the o.p.c. w.'s biggest claims against them that they have pretty much nothing to do with the investigation and no access to important information when i joined the team shortly after the start of the deployments to do inspect a b. and i continued playing a central role in the overall investigation the final report didn't exactly benefit from the editorial turnaround information was slashed details removed and facts don't explain why it's not like the inspectors didn't try to get answers to their questions before pressing the big red leak button something had gone wrong inside the o.p.c. w.'s are and we wanted you to know it's that simple they even think there might

have been a bit of deception at play the investigation was conducted by a british investigator and a lawyer from the us. the activities of the fact finding mission were managed by o. chief of cabinet from fronts whose views are echoed in both the narratives does it not strike you was somewhat biased in the the 3 individuals represent the 3 defendants the 3 countries who were responsible for the missile strikes in response to the allegation of a chemical attack in duma and o.p.c. w a leak and some back and forth later there are still so many questions and few answers as to what really happened. evolved of course here to pay for its response to the claims and we'll let you know how it responds in the meantime though we spoke to former f.b.i. agent whistleblower you know romney who suspect a small company up here. the allegation an accusation that these 2 inspectors who were amongst the top experts they

were the 1st hand investigators that actually examined the evidence the l a geisha that they went rogue makes no sense at all and again given that they were amongst the top professionals in it with the expertise in engineering and in chemical weapons these were the top people so it really is really defies of believability that they would have gone rogue they asked their close to retire you know they have done a many many years of faithful service to the o.p.c. w. they believe in the mission of truth in times of war truth becomes the 1st casualty and syria is no different at this point it would have to be one side is not telling the truth here and the the entity that changed conclusions of reports would be the suspected entity that is not telling the truth. on the way something fishy is going on in the waters around the return to companies that

they don't have quite the navy to work out the fishing vessels was one crisis that concrete. i'm hearing a woman left in the race for the u.s. democratic election nomination faces a big bottle from the hot boat a party we'll talk about those 2 stories in just 90 seconds. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

welcome back britain says it will deploy the navy to preventing you fishing vessels from entering its waters has become

a key sticking point in the brics it trade talks as easily now explains. the town of poole on england's south coast is one of the u.k.'s oldest fishing communities and the local economy relies heavily on the fisheries industry it's a calm and a daily town but life could be about to be brutally disrupted if the political rhetoric is to be believed the u.k.'s tory government of warned the e.u. that if their ships try to access british waters they'll deploy the royal navy to keep them out setting the stage for a confrontation on the high seas we have increased a. petition the u.k. is currently in a so-called transition period in the gauche a should have begun which will determine what kind of deal the u.k. will leave with at the end of december this year but when it comes to fishing the 2 sides are still far apart in the months the u.k. wants the e.u.

to follow british law and for negotiations to take place annually similar to an agreement they have with norway the you however wants to have a long term agreement with quotas on fishing missy uses the deficit tree warned the e.u. against trying to use fisheries as a negotiating chip while the french have hit back saying they're more than ready to get nasty if the u.k. isn't willing to play ball all we played with emotion was drama was passion with symbols and we know how to make it a very i think about both sides both sides very nice about them playing nasty could mean the french blockading channel ports and some british fishermen say that the french are provoking the u.k. into taking harsh measures if france decided to take that action. i think that it would just firm up. to. we need to self manage ourselves and on we're fully prepared for things like that i don't

think it would worry that the u.k. fishermen to talk we should have our own waters back in the past we have an atom and if it's belgium everyone gets bigger quote than the english fisherman so shanks got to be done if the english fisherman done enough and that we'd be arrested on the other side of the channel the feeling of mistrust is neutral and the sense is that a confrontation is inevitable but. we haven't really been in the forums we hope this case is looking up because if there were no negotiations it would mean a no deal at the end of the year in this case would be excluded from british waters this would be a disaster for the fishermen of the whole to france but also for french fishermen in general about this year so we didn't obviously it is a deal or no deal if you do that i think that if we are going towards a no deal u.k. . and european union up it not only france who says it would lose a loss anyway it is not in our interests or u.k. interest of it we must find an agreement with a great president. the u.k.

negotiations only began formally this week but already the question of fisheries could derail talks and lead to tit for tat retaliations that harm both french and british fishing communities and damage relations between these longtime allies. r.t. import. and finish myself this hour a lot of us election focus right now is on how the democratic party choice is pretty much down to white men in the seventeen's bought hawaii congress in mental seek out but is still in the race let's not forget because she won 2 delegates in american samoa and so makes it through to the next democratic debate but the party executive wants to shift the goalposts on but as caleb moore but explains. the democratic party's machine has been widely exposed for playing favorites when it comes to presidential candidates the latest example of this is the treatment of

tulsa gabbert as a result of these super tuesday vote tulsi gabbert gained a delegate and was thus eligible to appear in the televised debate so the d.n.c. then changed the rules we have 2 more debates of course the threshold will go up by the time we have the much debate almost 2000 delegates will be allocated the threshold will reflect where we are in the race as it always has the rules keep changing in order to make sure that tulsi is locked out her supporters poured out their rage on to twitter god forbid told c. gets back on the debate writes translation to see finally hit the debate qualifications so we've got to do something about that despite the fact there's literally only 5 people left in the race. you must really not want to debate stage pathetic the bias against tulsa gabbert is rather extreme media reports pretend that she doesn't even exist they claim that elizabeth warren is somehow the only

female candidate and you're going to say something about elizabeth warren is she going to benefit by being the only woman left now that amy clover sharers out elizabeth warren recently dropped out of the race so if the democrats want to keep with their message of inclusion they should have telsey gabbert on the stage but they seem to have a lock her out just like they've done in the past furthermore tulsi gabbert is currently suing hillary clinton for publicly smearing her as a russian asset now some people suspect that the bias against tulsa gabbert is rooted in the fact that back in 2016 she endorsed bernie sanders and did not line up behind hillary clinton furthermore it's worth pointing out that she's been rather critical of the debate process and the lack of inclusion back in november tolson gabbert used her permitted debate appearance to go after d.n.c. favorite candidate camila harris and her record as a criminal prosecutor the facts were damning and the harris campaign shut down shortly afterwards however it seems to be tulsi is antiwar stance taken as she is

a u.s. service member that is the real on forgivable clincher she wants to and regime change wars and cut military spending congress and just passed a $738000000000.00 war budget instead of providing for the health the safety the security of the well being of our people and our planet the democratic party's leadership seems to disagree with her they favor regime change operations and bloated military expenditures the democratic party favors continued military operations around the world done in the name of defending democracy and at home they don't mind arbitrarily changing the rules to make sure that democracy doesn't get in the way. this vitally important war agenda caleb mop and archie new york. not a route for now if you still want more though is the pace you so take a peek coming your way now that it's crossed all.

the question is what do you do with global economy that relies on just in time to livery of parts and services mostly from slave wages china is interrupted by a global pandemic and can't be overcome with more money printing that's the big question.

hello and welcome to crossfire we're all things were considered i'm peter lavelle do you believe in miracles would seem democrats do after the joe biden surge on super tuesday for them to fear of the bernie sanders candidate seat may now be contained however this is far from over taking on trump will be no easy task. crosstalk in the war on bernie i'm joined by my guess ronny a colleague in beirut she is a producer and host in the now in new york we have lionel he is a legal and media analyst also in new york we have danny he is a contributing editor at black agenda report and co-author of american exceptionalism and american innocence a people's history of fake news from the revolutionary war to the war on terror right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in.