in the stories that shaped their way karen r.t. joe biden and bernie sanders lead the race for the u.s. democratic presidential nomination after a simple change day but with a number of candidates dropping out to endorse biden there is a growing belief the party establishment has already shown its preference but also this hour turkey's refugee dispute with greece deepens as tens of thousands of asylum seekers try to cross into the e.u. although those who have made it over the border are being rounded up and deported and this really puts millions in the north of the country on lockdown after the number of coronavirus cases jumped by 1200 people in a single day. hello

good afternoon welcome the latest news and a look back at events over the last 7 days you were watching the weekly here on r.t. international now this week super tuesday saw bernie sanders and joe biden emerge as the leading candidates in the democratic race for the presidential nomination however biden did receive backing from 2 of his main rivals before the vote and also picked up support from michael bloomberg who dropped out of the running after paul showing in the polls. i'm ending my campaign and endorsing john by. the way i'm delighted to endorse and support joe biden vice president. joe biden and i hope you will join me in working to make it through and actually. just remind you super tuesday is when the largest number of states do you had the pulse of the delegates who are chosen then go on to make their final selection for

candidate from dawson from blue to. biden won the most states sanders only got 4 states to biden's 10 with a one of sanders think trees was california which has the most delegates nevertheless biden still leads the can't and sanders blames quote the establishment there is a. strong. anybody in this room or the corporate star who's really is going to go for the political establishment is going to get a little do everything. remained in the right after being awarded to delegates from the u.s. territory of american samoa should have allowed her to take part in the next debate however the democratic national committee then changed the rules again and expects . 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 totals the 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 so see 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 to route 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 tulsa's anti-war stance taken as she is

a u.s. service member that is the real unforgivable 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 martin r.t. new york. in other news greece says it has stopped around $39000.00 asylum seekers from crossing into the from turkey situation escalated after angry said it would no longer on or

a migration deal. a lot of. the cut 7 was. the result of under the greek territory has been our us ability. and in my mind this is really me go a way of entering one country. now on thursday turkey announced the deployment of a $5000.00 additional police officers to the border to stop greece driving back asylum seekers migrants are continuing though to try and cross despite

a gas from both sides the foreign ministers have backed greece following talks on the escalating crisis reporting there from the border his shot of events. in the dead of night they've set up camp these migrants who say they are from syria have succeeded where so many haven't they've crossed the border from turkey into greece already left the one or all on but even the most basic of comforts can come at a cost on the one hand lighting a fire means warmth for the children on the other it means being visible to the security forces in full and t. is trying to protect greece's borders. greece says it stopped thousands from entering into its borders within the last week of those who have made it through many have been arrested and they have been taken to detention facilities like this

one here behind me the surround 10 miles from the frontier now you can see children playing clothes hung out to dry so despite the barbed wire and the high fences specific your posts life goes on greece has just announced that it will create another center in this area to do with any new body going to cross from turkey the plan is to deport them as soon as possible and while e.u. chiefs have come to greece's aid saying it is acting as europe shield others are more critical of the book's position this is a moment to which people is questioning guy davidi existence and the role of the of the european union not so we don't have to feel to run off that we still much of the people we must help the people to understand how complex is the light on pixie's day these days the war there and and and showed the ability to have the

political force to fix that and not calling these people and these disparate people . because calling a greaser shield that means that these people are our weapon for the president and he says the buddha should be opened there is no. even in the in the policies of the european union that allow the members to suspend. did the right. to request. you know contrary i know the disease a very difficult situation but democracy and the rule of law must apply more than ever in this kind of situation and my opinion francesco. about dignity. the conditions on the border are not dignified he said neither was the existence of many thousands of migrants who live on a day to day basis stuck in limbo in sentences like we've seen he's

calling on the e.u. to sort out its issues and to find a solution to the crisis so that countries like greece no longer left shouldering the burden of migration. ski r.t. near the greek turkish border well pais have blamed turkey for the crisis and i demanding too that brussels ends all cooperation with the country. this is again a good lesson for us that european union and 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 it does the other gun just wants more money from us and this has to stop in february it is clear that mr hat. are not a reliable partner or sound so i think that you should keep the interim

council because i think that your piano sex cavil 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. meanwhile following 6 hours of high stakes negotiations in moscow this day the leaders of russia and turkey have agreed on a ceasefire in syria's war torn province they back opposing sides in the conflict which has brought them close to direct confrontation. this notion with this group but we don't always agree with our turkish partners in our evaluation of the situation in syria but critical moments having high level bilateral relations we've always managed to find common ground on controversial issues and have found acceptable solutions. but at midnight beginning on the 6th of march

a ceasefire will be implemented we will take all necessary steps to ensure it lasts our goal is to do everything possible to prevent the humanitarian situation from deteriorating in the region that is there also agreed to set up a 12 kilometer long humanitarian corridor or near the king and 4 highway in the center of the province joint patrols along it will begin next week because they have direct of their own poll piece institute says it is in the interests of both moscow and ankara the ceasefire helps. 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 i think it was very wise to have called this bilateral meeting to hammer it out because the danger of flooding into war and possibly including nato was very real the whole issue of the of the war torn province is not that different than the war torn aleppo province which

amazingly settled down once it was liberated from the from the control of jihad ists of extremists of al-qaeda and that's the exact same thing in the 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 the area one 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 row perhaps. the number of coronavirus cases globally has risen to more than 100000 now with these government has put a number of regions in the north of the country on lockdown and to stop the spread

of the outbreak it does cover an area that's home to around a quarter of a sleaze population biggest region quarantined is long including is capital milan you can see here the city's main square she's been packed with tourists and then does that it is pretty much empty now the need to create bands anybody leaving or entering the region unless for essential work needs or emergency situations most public places including schools museums and cinemas are closed and public events have been banned too with a probe meanwhile in china 10 people have been killed. there and 38 rescued after the collapse of a hotel being used as a quarantine site for suspected coronavirus patients 23 people are still trapped under the rubble in the southeast of the country it's still not clear what led to the collapse. now as nations to scramble to stem the spread of the corona virus here in russia there are so far 14 confirmed cases dozens are in quarantine

and under observation well our senior correspondent not against the air has also gone through 2 weeks of self isolation at home following a trip to hong kong he told us what his experience was like and the bad the other measures russia is taking to keep infections at bay one of the things you could do you realize as a bearded man is you just look silly in the face mask but this is my only 7 year from hong kong my trip to hong kong and i was only there for a few days while i was there there were hardly any infections or in the weeks since but coming back to moscow the medics here really didn't care so you were treated like anyone else and our 1st taste of what was the card was still in the player when a lady came aboard and this is while we were still in the plane having landed she took all our measurements our temperatures and she was in full hazmat gear so we walked past passport control into the baggage area and there were dozens and dozens

of medics in full house my gear covered head to taking down everything about us what we did who we were with where we were all part of a huge russian effort to make sure that the 19 virus didn't gain a foothold here the monitoring of the epidemiological situation was organized from the initial days of this complex situation additional measures were taken to strengthen sanitary and quarantine control at checkpoints across the russian border 6 new cases of corona virus infections were recorded during the monitoring period in all cases a full range of necessary and see epidemic measures was organized which prevented the subsequent spread of the infection. to. when they 1st mentioned quarantine i thought would be like a mini vacation you get to sit at home and as it turns out it isn't after all so he calls throughout the day starting in the morning for medics asking how you're feeling when there are any symptoms call whatever. visited by police and

medics just to check up on you to make sure that you are still at home eventually out of sheer boredom with the terms of the quarantine agreement that i signed at the airport and the penalties are pretty severe so for example if if you leave the house to go to the shop which you can then you just leave and nothing nothing happens well that starts a fire and potentially community service if you leave the house or apartment the quarantine zone and you infect someone adds up to a year in jail a year in jail if you infect someone and they go on to die that is up to 5 years in prison which is a pretty severe punishment to. a lot of fear i would say panic would around the world and in russia as well which is which isn't being helped by the fact that there's

a lot of misinformation misleading information on the internet for example one russian sub security company for example is identified a message being repeated online that is spreading misinformation and there are people out there that are you know enjoying this. good evening i have some bad news there really want to save the people i care about i beg you to spread this information as much as possible if our thora does do not want to inform us about this will have to inform each other about this leaked information there are 20000 patients with corona virus in moscow walk with masks don't go to crowded places take care of each other and stock up on food i fortunately it's sad that shops will be empty this information is more than reliable. the end of the day it's just common sense to follow advice that you read on the

internet and read it for example followed vies that you hear from doctors job wash your hands regularly don't touch your fish. as a bit of personal advice that i can give you if you've got a trip up in the immediate future to a place where there's preval break don't go the quarantine isn't worth it. but against the of then i have to whistle blowers are planning a new legal challenge to the world chemical weapons watchdog is after an o.p.c. w. inquiry granted the inspectors road when they went public in the wake of their study of an alleged attack in duma in syria save years ago and i want a scientific hearing and in a letter to the director general they accuse the watchdog of ignoring their work. inspect to be annoyed tried on many occasions to meet with you you may also know open house 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 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 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 join 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 open c.w. center 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 your chief of cabinet from france 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. to their will we have asked for its response to these claims and main time we spoke to the former f.b.i. agent and whistleblower him to suspect a smear campaign the watchdog. 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 allegation 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 the billing be 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. britain says it will deploy the navy to prevent teen fishing vessels from entering its waters it has become a case taking point in the bronx to try top says now explain. the town of pool on england's south coast is one of the u.k.'s oldest fishing communities in the local economy relies heavily on the fisheries industry it's a calm and a delhi 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 that if their ships

try to access british war to go before the movie to keep them out searching the stage for a confrontation on the high seas we have increased. the times that we think the fish in the u.k. is currently in a so-called transition period in the goetia 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 that demands 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 more way they 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 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 know 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 from apology meant that we need to. we need to self manage ourselves and on we are fully prepared for things like that i don't think it would worry that the u.k. fisherman until we should have our own waters back in the past we have an atom and if it's belgians fired everyone gets bigger quote than the english freshman so shanks got to be done if the english freshman done an affair 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 in a sort of but we definitely are 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 a no deal the u.k. as ourselves the european union not only france would lose a loss anyway it is not in our interests or u.k. interests we must find an agreement with a 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 alley r.t. import and that brings us to the end of the weekly for this hour don't forget there

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