headlines this hour calls for calm as several countries witness the wave of panic buying with shoppers stocking up on essentials in anticipation of a worsening kovac 19 epidemic plus. to tell the people to leave the. lettuce from the e.u. accuses turkey of weapon icing refugee flows as the bloc bolster security at the greek border leaving tens of thousands of my porn star in no man's land. to whistleblowers confront the world's chemical weapons watchdog demanding a fair hearing after breaking rank to disagree with the organizations findings that backed an attack in duma syria in 2080. 1 with the top inspection teams

both with impeccable record both featured bentley from the west background who have never set a foot wrong suddenly go wrote. a warm welcome to you it's friday the 6th of march and you're watching r.t. international with me nicky erin now a number of new covert 1000 cases around the world has passed 100000 this friday with several countries detecting the corona virus for the 1st time here in russia where 13 cases have been recorded at medical services are on high alert and people arriving from the worst hit nations have been instructed to self isolate for 2 weeks with fears of a pandemic growing shoppers worldwide are starting to panic buy as they rush to stock up on essential. stripped bare is a stroke is prepared 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 room panic shopping happening all over the country the great soil of paper pad it is in full cry warming stores and clearing shelves of staple goods as coronavirus called one australian newspaper even left 8 of its pages empty suggesting its readers use them as an alternative to toilet paper with more on the supermarket on flows around the world his piece all of a. 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 panic buying essential 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 of being flying off the shelves as people prepare for potential self isolation as the covert 19 crisis spreads around the world while emergency testing tens of being set up at hospitals to identify those with the virus the german government has been giving its assessments of the current situation or sticking to it pretty means she knows china's coronavirus outbreak has become a global pandemic you know it 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 muse systems that the viruses be attacking the economy is also taking a real pounding the german airline is canceled hundreds of flights with around $150.00 aircraft per 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 whether they are afraid of the virus. the supermarkets have been blunted and you take what you can kill in order to serve something it's home as a fact as i will wait where they need. not to be so hysterical. fabric that is their greasy i mean once you have a small struggle which would last for 14 days supply in some food and again food is over. whatever famille says i think it's massively exaggerated that i'm not doing pennies buying and doing my usual grocery shopping it would be nice to know if others who did the same then it would not need to drive to multiple stores this might be the new one that there was an epidemic many people die every year and now we have this corona virus 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 concerns over the impact in a nation with a paltry system of sick pay compared to other european countries you could see some forced to survive on just over 100 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 hygiene and avoid touching bases be sure all of us of tea. iran has also been scrambling to contain the virus that is saying on friday it would limit travel between cities is the number of cases 32 over 3500 at least 107 people have died in the country including advisers to the supreme leader and the foreign minister where there is the islamic republic's healthcare system buckling under the strain of the crisis the us president has said washington is

willing to come to to rand's assistance but they rainy and leadership wasn't too impressed with the offer. if we can help the iranians with this problem we are certainly willing to do so we would love to be able to help them and all they have to do is ask we will have great professionals over there we have the best of the world if that's the truth that at least we've the medicine sanctions that is the 1st step so we have done the right mia nation wrong and we apologize no 1st step is to release banking transactions to purchase medicine what do we have a medicine medicines and food. humanitarian goods including medical supplies are officially exempt from the united states is sanctions against iran but other financial restrictions including those that target the country's banks they limit to ron's ability to import vital medication and sanctions have led to shortages of drugs used to treat cancer and epilepsy there are however many in the us establishment who would like to see those sanctions made even tougher

a case in point is advocacy group united against nuclear iran which is spearheaded by former u.s. government officials such as john bolton a precious big pharmaceutical companies to stop doing business with to run however since the corona virus outbreak it has said it believes the humanitarian needs of the of toronto's the sanctions are in paving of the author it is ability to find the illness. the americans have been forcing companies across the world not to cooperate with iran it's not just the banking sector the banking sector does not allow any medicine to be purchase through the network but not only are they blocking bad but they're also imposing conditions on pharmaceutical companies that are so tough that in reality no one will work with iran so the americans through the sanctions have killed the iranians and right now they are impeding iran's battle against the coronavirus. foreign ministers from across the

e.u. have thrown their full support behind greece this friday after meeting for a 2nd day to discuss the refugee crisis at its border with turkey clashes have been continuing along the frontier under a heavy haze of tear gas as police were pell tens of thousands of asylum seekers attempting to cross into europe shola do bensky reports. well chiefs have said they won't be pressurised foreign ministers were meeting on friday to discuss the situation here on the border between greece and turkey amid fresh tensions as you can see some of the army vehicles leading the border area now and this is both sides have been accusing the other of using tear gas we've had images from the greek side that they say shows turkish c.s. gas being deployed into no man's land and into their territory and what they described as being a series of coordinated attacks they've also provided us with images which show

c.s. gas canisters that they say they were able to lay to retrieve which have markings on them now they have also been reports that the. military and the police force are aiding the migrants to try and cross into greek territory in fact some are even accusing them of trying to julan means using violence to demand access to not just greece but the e.u. but those are of course unconfirmed reports now the e.u. foreign affairs minister has been defiant about the situation and has said that the borders will remain closed if you want to eat critical situations. people have to. they don't have to tell the people. and people have already passed. lead to these.

well turkey has said it borders will remain open they have been open now for a round a week and we know that camps are forming on the other side on the turkish side as migrants come close to the border in the hope of getting into the e.u. . right now. amid these skirmishes between the 2 sides we know that turkey is now reinforcing its security forces on the border. a 1000 special forces officers are being deployed to the merrick river on the border fully equipped 3 people being pushed back now i just want to give you a sense of how many people have tried to get through or at least hunger attempts or been of people trying to get through in the last week we're talking 203040000 attempts in the 12 hours between thursday evening and friday morning they were just under 3000 attempts actually down from the night before when there was some 7000

attempts for people to get through the border now turkey has said this is syrians who are waiting to try and cross into the e.u. 3 says that's not true in fact they've given the statistics that show all of the around 250 people that have been arrested in the last week the majority were from afghanistan some 64 percent they said in regard to syrian suit being arrested it so far only 4 percent but the feeling here in greece is one of defiance we know that they're also trying to extend the fence the physical fence between turkey and greece extending it from around 12 and a half kilometers to 40 kilometers and in fact we've seen new barbed wire fencing passing us it stands defiant and has the e.u. to back it the message to migrants is you shall not pass. ski r.t. casting yes on the greek turkish border. let's go live now to political analyst. welcome to the program is going to have you with us now neither side seems to be

giving way here when it's the migrants who are really suffering less stuck in the middle how do you see this playing out. well i don't see an end game in this situation it's a good look. with local so suffering as well. areas where because of the council but if your gums are being sent there i'm not one of them neither by the happy dance nor by the current government so we're going to see this can picture sort of for a long time i guess because it is the right of any country to accept or refuse ask their students borders to immigrants. but there he is actually pressuring this group this those people to pressure e.u. and the big government to be weaponized by turkey. being the

census of you such a situation it is impossible for government to do anything more than refuse access or going to has been heavily criticized both the spending i thought of the applications in using brute force to repel the migraines can i things continue in this vein well it's just been through this is especially by turkey not by other e.u. countries. it's. our game and immigrants are booked him. around in the middle who but. the greek government has no other option that his or theirs or this board has is it's defendants who have the guns now there are 4 or 5000. migrants already in the zone between greece and turkey if greece accept them going to be 500000 more and if that the pressure will people not being applied. now while you're watching what is the right.

i don't see what else that the government could do bigger government. and of course using refugees as a political point is wrong turkey is already hosting nearly 4000000 refugees there are 590-0000 refugees in a province waiting to cross into turkey so you think europe should be doing will. be to do more but. he's in a dire political situation. we mustn't forget that during the previous refugee crisis. the political system you actually collapsed obiter dictum a big part of this were destroyed. scenes where europe is unwilling to have for some kind of solution because it's afraid the. counters i think you will use it it's what we use the migrant issue as a personal point against the you it's the it's governments now the situation in

turkey you mentioned that there are 4000000. migrants and refugees but most part of this population were actually invited. into ricky from perth i'm going to put i want. to play the game but using them. there he has given the almost previous 2 megrims from my forgotten those who are. there tickets from turkey several lines and his great at the migrant flow only assume. so what's going to happen here i mean if europe doesn't take that any of the refugees do you think take he's just going to tell them to go home. no that's the reason why the security forces 000 already in the area they want to use this as a part of a hebrew war against greece to play more and more pressure. to get the security

forces of greece. as you might know turkey's. violating. the and we've each and every day by. warplanes flying gobo. our borders in the not our islands as you might know circle he's already here is. part of cyprus and his troops inside a european country so the game is bigger than just the migrant issue it's turkey spoil the sea he's taken being offensive against. the greece and using the e.u. as a pressure point. petrus argerich political analyst thank you for your time thank you very much. that's a whistle blowers have struck back at the well chemical weapons watchdog issuing

responses to an earlier inquiry by the f.t.c. w. the organization previously said the past had gone rogue off so they publicly criticised its conclusions about to alleged chemical attack and duma syria 2 years ago they now want a scientific caring and i letter to the director general they accuse the watchdog of ignoring that work. inspect to be and i tried on many occasions to meet with you you may also know or perhaps 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 gray 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 now 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 whistleblower's 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 by 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 qualification. 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 to be 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 open c.w. sir 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 that 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. with lost their p.c. w. face responds to the claims and the mean time we spoke to former f.b.i. agent and whistle blower colleen rowley who suspects a smear campaign at the. the allegation and 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 in 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 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 entity that changed conclusions of reports would be the suspected entity that is not telling the truth. still to come in the program something fishy is going on in the waters around

britain the government said to deploy the navy to repel the new 8 year fishing vessel once greggs is complete because a lot to offer to break. we're feeding our hopes our dreams our desires our money to compete this creates a what do we get back to nowhere like that's that's a bad deal so when is technology jumping out of the street when is that going to be helping me to keep you healthy to keep me informed or to keep me you know connected and i missed it so we will live in an area the post screen area where we will live with less at all these screens and it will be more in harmony or it will help us make. the questions are as ben what do you do with global economy that relies on just in time to live array of parts and services

mostly from play wage china is interrupted by a global pandemic and can't be overcome with more money printing that's the big question. join me every 1st week on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back burton says it will deploy the navy to prevent a fishing vessels from entering this war so this is becoming a key sticking point in the briggs it trade talks as he's the only 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 to warn 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 of 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 nasty battle 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 fronts decided to take that action. i think that it would just from apology meant that we need to. we need to manage ourselves and on fully prepared to things i don't think it would worry that the u.k. fisherman until we should have our own waters back. in the past we haven't adam and if it's belgium's everyone gets bigger quote than the english fisherman so shanks got to be done if the english fisherman down on

a friend would be arrested on the other side of the channel the feeling of mistrust is neutral and the sense is that a confrontation is inevitable. financial we haven't really been informed 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 horta france but also for french fishermen in general about this year so obviously it is a deal or no deal but i think that if you are going towards a no deal with the u.k. as ourselves the european union not only france would lose a loss anyway it is not in our interest or u.k. interest we must find an agreement with great britain. e.u. 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 long time allies.

now in other news across the globe officials in 10 years here say 5 police officers and one civilian have been wounded after 2 suicide bombers blew themselves up close to the u.s. embassy in the capital there will be no immediate claims of responsibility for the . health officials in afghanistan say 27 people have been killed and 29 wounded after a lone gunman opened fire as a memorial ceremony in the capital kabul abdullah abdullah a leading political figure in the country was in attendance but here's scaped unharmed the taliban has denied carrying out the attack which comes just days after the u.s. and the islamist group signed a peace deal to end the 18 year conflict. why a place in a colombian campus or use tear gas and water cannon they gave students protesting

near the go to national university of colombia on a day which has does not been building barricades torching police vehicles and hurling projectiles the country has seen months of demonstrations as calls grow for improvements to the education system. thanks for joining us here on r.t. and so national kevin owen will be here with all the latest world news in about 30 minutes. is you'll be a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being

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