headlines this hour calls for calm several countries witness a wave of panic buying. season to tell the people. because just. the. refugee flows the security at the greek border left tens of thousands of migrants. and confront the world chemical weapons watchdog demanding a fair hearing after breaking ranks. in syria. why would

a pair of the top inspection team leaders both with impeccable record both incidentally from the group background who have never set a food wrong. live from moscow thanks for joining us. welcome to the program. the number of new infections around the world has surpassed the 100000 this friday 3900 confirmed cases in a single day several countries have also detected their 1st outbreaks as the corona virus continues to spread here in russia where 13 cases have been recorded medical services are on high alert and people arriving from the worst hit nations have been instructed to isolate for 2 weeks with fears of a pandemic growing shoppers across the world are starting to panic why they rush to stock up on essential. stripped bare is a straw 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 in saw a movie panic shopping happening all over the country the great soylent paper palate is in full cry shoppers swarming stores and clearing shelves of staple goods as coronavirus called one australian newspaper even left 8 of its pages mts adjusting its readers use them as an alternative to toilet paper with more on the supermarket onslaught around the world hears pieces of. 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 have been flying off the shelves as people prepare for potential self isolation as the covert 90 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 he knows 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 muse systems that the viruses be attacking the economy is also taking a real pounding the german airline lufthansa has 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 are afraid of the virus. the supermarkets have been plundered and you take what you can kill in order to serve something at home as a fat ass i will wage where they it is important not to be so hysterical. paperwork that is there greasy 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. but there are a familiar i think it's massively exaggerated i'm not doing penny buying and doing my usual grocery shopping it would be nice if others who did the same then you would not need to drive to multiple stores this is because 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 we 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 faces peter all of our t. . 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 over 100 people have died in the country including advisors to the supreme leader on the foreign minister with the public's health care system

buckling under the strain of the crisis the us president has said washington is willing to come to toronto assistance in rainy leadership though wasn't too impressed with their 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 a little east leave the medicine sanctions that is the 1st step we have done the rainy a nation wrong and we're poor joints no 1st step is to release banking transactions to purchase medicine and do even medicine and to ship medicines and food. a humanitarian goods including medical supplies are officially exempt from the u.s. sanctions against iran other finance restrictions on the country's banks for example impede tehran's ability to import vital medication now these sanctions have led to shortages of drugs used to treat epilepsy other illnesses as well there are

however some of the united states establishment who've been pushing for even tougher measures a case in point is the advocacy group united against nuclear iran that spearheaded by former u.s. government officials including the hawkish john bolton prior to the corona virus outbreak it had been pressuring big pharmaceutical companies to stop trading with iran has since said though that the humanitarian needs of the iranian people must be met professor said mabyn morally from the university of toronto all this just how that for mental leagues this thing sanctions are being. the americans have been forcing companies across the world not to cooperate with iran it's not just the banking sector and 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 the americans through the sanctions have killed the iranians

and right now be or impeding iran's battle against the koran abayas. foreign ministers from across the e.u. have thrown their full support behind grief after meeting for a 2nd day on 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 repairing masses of asylum seekers attempting to cross through europe and of thousands of refugees have been gathering along the border since turkey said last week it would no longer on a 26th the. deal. developments here's charlotte do with. the e.u. 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 into their territory 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 8. 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 if you want to avoid critical

situations. 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 a tent 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 syrians who are waiting to try and cross into the e.u. 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 suit being arrested it so far only been 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 clematis up to 40 kilometers and in fact we've seen new barbed wire fencing

passing as it stands defiant and has the e.u. to back it the message to migrants is you shall not pass. ski. casting yes on the greek turkish border. we discussed the current border crisis with a political analyst from greece and a turkish ambassador. the greek government there's no other option here. do. you have exams now we are for. my. zone between greece and turkey. 500000 more and the person will keep. being applied i don't see what the government could do but really we mustn't forget during the previews refugee crisis. the system you're actually collapsed over traditional 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 40000000000. worrying about them is a concept which can be described as a daily short europeans should not have caused their ears to our warnings for the last 7 years we called them numerous times and we're still telling them the solution is to bring democracy to syria the solution is that for the user to use to go to europe or for them to stay in turkey and unfortunately the partner was ignoring us and now i think they are starting to take us seriously. to whistleblower struck back at the world chemical weapons watchdog issuing responses to an earlier inquiry by the i.p.c.c. w. the organization previously said the pair had gone rogue off they publicly criticize its conclusions about an alleged chemical attack in duma syria 2 years ago and now want to scientific hearing and that has a director general accuse the watchdog of ignoring them. 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 ny 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 cast 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 by evidence their behaviors even more egregious as they had manifestly incomplete information about the doom and vesta gave their conclusions were erroneous uninformed 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 records 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 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 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 and we have asked for its response to the claims in the meantime we spoke to former f.b.i. agent and whistleblower colleen rowley he suspects a smear campaign. 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

believe ability 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. hurts and says it will deploy the navy to provide to you fishing vessels from entering its waters it's becoming a case they can point in the breaks and trade talks as he thought he 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 delicate 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 searching the stage for a confrontation on the high seas we have increased a. question 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 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 they 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 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 elements decided to take that action. i think that it would just from my palm. 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 until we should have our own waters back in the past we have an atom and if it's belgium's fired everyone gets bigger quote than the english fisherman so sank scholar to be done if the english freshman done an offense that would be

arrested on the other side of the channel the food of mistrust is neutral and the sense is that a confrontation is inevitable. finale 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 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 we are going towards or no deal with the u.k. as ourselves the european union not only france would lose a lot anyway it is not in our interests or u.k. interest we must find an agreement with great britain. a 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. in called. in other news now on cross the world this was the scene on friday and at the news in capital as one of the worst terror attacks in recent times hit the african nation 2 suicide bombers blew themselves up on a motorbike outside the u.s. embassy in tunis killing one police officer wounding several others in no immediate claims of responsibility. in afghanistan an unknown gunman his rampage through a 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 the 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 the gates students protesting near borders national university of colombia on the protesters had been building barricades torching police vehicles on hurling projectiles the country's seen months of demonstrations as call grow for the improvements to the education system. a lot of u.s. election focus right now is on how the democratic. the choice is pretty much down to white men in their seventy's but why a congresswoman tulsi gabbard is that when the race she won 2 delegates in american somewhere that means she makes it through to the next democratic debates the party executive though wants to shift the goalposts on that has 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 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 this pressure 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 tosi 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 work on the 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 locked around just like they've done in the past furthermore tulsa 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 as 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 knicks thought he documentary provides a glimpse behind the scenes in a show in martial arts college in little miss kung fu the team and back in 30 minutes with the latest.

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