the headlines this hour calls for karma several countries were. stocking up on a. worsening. season to tell the people. because just. also had the e.u. accusing turkey of weaponize in refugee flows as the blog pulls the security of the greek border left tens of thousands of migrants stuck in no man's land. to whistleblowers confront the world chemical weapons watchdog demanding a fair hearing that's after breaking ranks to disagree with the organization's findings on the 20. syria. why would

a pair of the top inspection team leaders both with impeccable records both feature gently from the western group background who have never set a food wrong suddenly go rogue. live from moscow thanks for joining us to an art international i'm done hawkins welcome to the program. covered 19 infections globally has surpassed 100000 this friday with 3900 confirmed cases in just one single day several countries have also detected their 1st outbreaks as the crow virus continues to spread and here in russia where 13 cases have been recorded medical services are on high alert people are arriving nations have been put. in for 2 weeks fears of a pandemic growing shoppers worldwide are starting to panic as they rush to stock up on essential. stripped there was 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 memories panic something happening all over the country the great soil and paper pad it is in full cry swarming 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 onslaught around the world hears people all over . it's called how mystic alphen in german literally translates as hamster buying but it doesn't mean that people here in berlin and across the federal republic of being stocking up on adorable furry friends it means they've been hunted 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 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 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 that 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 virus is be attacking the economy is also taking a real pounding the german airline lufthansa has canceled hundreds of flights with around $150.00 aircraft carrier 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 pearlie whether they are afraid of the virus. the supermarkets have been plundered and you take what you can kill in order to have something at home as a fact as i will wait where they it is important not to be so hysterical fabric that is their crazy i mean once you have a small staggered home which would last for 14 days as supply in some food and food is all right. it but i think it's massively exaggerated i'm not doing penny buying and in my usual grocery shopping it would be nice if others who did the same then you would not need to drive to multiple stores you might be the mule and that there is an epidemic many people die every year and now we have this coronavirus theater it's absolutely sickening any 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 poultry system of sick pay compared to other european countries it could see some force to survive on just over 100 year old 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 their faces peter all of the party. iran has also been scrambling to contain the virus saying on friday it would limit travel between cities as the number of cases surged over 3 and a half 1000 at least 107 people have died in the country including advises the supreme leader on the foreign minister with the public's health care system crumbling under

the strain of the crisis the us president has said washington is willing to come to assistance their new leadership though wasn't too impressed with the offer. if we can help the arraign aeons 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 the little east leave the medicine sanctions that is the 1st step say we have done the rainy a nation run and we're poor joints no 1st step is to release banking transactions to purchase medicines do even medicine and to ship medicines and food. humanitarian goods including medical supplies are officially exempt from the united states sanctions against iran but other financial restrictions including those that target the country's banking system impede terrans ability to import model medication the sanctions have for instance led to shortages of drugs used to treat cancer and epilepsy as well there are those in the united states establishment who've been pushing for even tougher measures in the case in point is the advocacy group united

against nuclear iran that spearheaded by former u.s. government officials including the notoriously hawkish john bolton prior to the coronavirus outbreak it had been pressuring big pharmaceutical companies to stop trading with iran and has since said though that the humanitarian needs of the iranian people must be met professor say it may have been roundly from the university of to run it all is just how detrimental the existing sanctions are being 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 purchased 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 they're 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 after meeting for a 2nd day of friday to discuss the escalating refugee crisis at its border with turkey clashes have been continuing along the frontier under a heavy haze of tear gas with greek police are appealing masses of asylum seekers attempting to cross to europe tens of thousands of refugees have been gathering along the border since turkey said last week it would no longer or a 26 the migration deal broken down the latest developments here charlotte dubin ski. 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 a turkish c.s.

gas being deployed into no man's land 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 jewel 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. critical situation. people have to. they don't have to tell the people.

because. hundreds of 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 temps or have 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 syrians who have been 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 up to 40 kilometers and in fact we've seen new barbed wire fencing passing us it stands defiant and it 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 and we spoke earlier with about the current border crossers with a political analyst from greece and a turkish ambassador. the greek government has no other option in his or theirs borders as ships do. you have the guns now we're 4000. migrants are already in the zone between greece and turkey if greece accept them we're going to be. 500000 more the person who people whom the being applied i don't see what the government could do but we mustn't forget during the previous refugee crisis. that the system you're actually collapsed over tradition will be part of this were destroyed we have been taking care of the asylum seekers for the last 10 years and the it spend more than 40 billions. worrying about them

is a concept which can be described as a daily short europeans should not have closed their ears to our warnings for the last 7 years we call them numerous times and we're still telling them the solution is to bring democracy to syria the solution is not for these or at least to go to europe or for them to stay in turkey and unfortunately in the park there was ignoring us and now i think they are starting to take us seriously. to whistleblowers have struck back at the world chemical weapons watchdog issuing responses to an earlier inquiry by the a.p.c. doubling the organization previously said the pair had gone rogue after they publicly criticized its conclusions about an alleged chemical attack in dubai syria 2 years ago and i want a scientific hearing and in a letter to the director general it cuse the watchdog of ignoring what. inspect to be annoyed 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 of 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 had 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 he 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 so we have asked the o.p.c. devotee for its response to the claims in the meantime we spoke to former f.b.i. agent and whistleblower colleen rowley who suspects. 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 obsolete ability that they would have gone rogue they and 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. that had all the international gone fishing all normal ties and breaks its hold said a big sticking point of a sea waters will tell you more details on that off the break. do you believe in miracles it would seem democrats due out to the joe biden surge

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good to have you back of course and says it will deploy the navy to prevent to you fishing vessels from entering its waters becoming a key sticking point in the bronx at troy talks as explained. 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. sufficiently 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 deaf or secretary 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 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 elements decided to take that action. i think that

it would just from apology meant that we need to. we need to self manage ourselves and on fully prepared for things i don't think it would worry that the u.k. fishermen until we should have our own waters back. in the past we have adam and. belgium's fides everyone gets bigger quote those than the english freshman so sank spot to be done if the english freshman done an affair not 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 when a sort of a financial we haven't really been informed we hope this case is looking up because if there were no negotiations it would mean 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 obviously it is a deal or no deal but i think that if you are going towards a new deal the u.k. as ourselves the european union not only france would lose a loss anyway it is not in our interest so u.k. interests we must find an agreement with great britain. e.-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 alley. in other news now from across the globe with this was the scene on friday and. one of the worst terror attacks hit the african in recent times 2 suicide bombers blew themselves up on a motorbike outside the u.s. embassy internews killing one police officer wounding several others have no immediate claims of responsibility. going to start an unknown gunman his

rampage through memorial ceremony in kabul officials have confirmed 32 were killed dozens more wounded. a leading political figure in the country was in attendance he escaped unharmed islamic state says it was behind the attack the atrocity comes just days after the u.s. and the taliban signed a peace deal to end the 18 year conflict in afghanistan. police in the colombian capital used tear gas and water cannon against students protesting near gotos national university of colombia on thursday just as had been building barricades torching police vehicles and hurling projectiles country seen months of demonstrations as calls grow for improvements to the education system. a lot of u.s. election focus right now is on how the democratic party choice is pretty much down

to white men in their seventy's but hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard is still in the race she won 2 delegates in american samoa and so it makes it through to the next democratic debate the party executive though wants to shift the goalposts on that as the details. 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 special 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 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 any club or shares 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 locked around 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 of this vitally important war agenda caleb mop and r.t. new york next super series the democratic nominee for the presidential race is in the spotlight in crosstalk that he went back in 30 minutes they were the latest headlines we'll see about that. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. the question this hour as ben what do you do with global economy that relies on just in time to live array of parts and services mostly from. wage china is

interrupted by a global pandemic and can't be overcome with more money printing press the big question. hello and welcome to crossfire we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle do you believe in miracles which seems 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 at 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 anytime you want and i always appreciated let's go to beirut 1st rania i feel like after super tuesday looking at the corporate media that you know there's a whole lot of gaslighting going on it's already a foregone conclusion bernie's out here and james carville says he should step up step down and leave the campaign but you know for a very long time joe biden had that position but no one said that he should step down i really think this gaslighting really shows the a lot of collusion between the d.n.c. and the media to.