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in the stories that shape the week recorder police clash with asylum seekers on the border with turkey they round over and over refugees deep in parties spent a night on the frontline and thousands were able to reach the. detroit to watch the front in the hope of getting a sense what's going to happen as we were trying to film we've stopped this my cameraman being school teacher my looks like ministry personnel. joe biden and bernie sanders now read the race for the u.s. democratic presidential nomination following the all important super tuesday of the amount of endorsements biden's now from those that are dropped out there's a growing belief the party establishment has already shown its preference. and it
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really put its northern provinces on lockdown amid the corona virus outbreak with the streets of tourist miko's like along the looking eerily empty and coping with 14 and russia. describes his 2 weeks in isolation after a trip to hong kong. mentioned. as it. it is a. watching the weekly here on our t.v. our recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us this hour. says it has prevented around $39000.00 asylum seekers from crossing into the e.u. from turkey the situation escalated after angra said it would no longer honor
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a deal on migration. oh a little bit of. america 0 7. i. always go to the greek voted tory who gave the rest of the day. and in my mind this isn't me go way over and getting one country. on thursday turkey announced the deployment of a $1000.00 additional police officers to the border to stop greece driving back the asylum seekers migrants are continuing to try and cross to fight tear gas being
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fired from both sides and up and using a water cannon greece has said it will turn back all those attempting to cross illegally and have suspended asylum applications for the month. drove along the border to see the impact the crisis is having. come further down south we still need greeks so i did the border with turkey we're in a town called fairies and i just want you to get a sense of the action that's happening all around us i would just outside the town hall the local mayors all face and it looks like people are gathering here in the anticipation of going to war to the to border and forming some kind of human chain tonight to ensure that there are no illegal crossings from turkey so we didn't get to speak to the man he wasn't hit tonight but we did get to speak to many of the people who were taking part in the sachin and they all seemed to be pretty tense
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new the mood was full of tension. in fact one guy said to me you can feel it. everybody is here tonight because we want to help greece protect its borders from any kind of illegal migration we see people from bangladesh afghanistan anywhere from places that have nothing to do with war and they come to our country essentially the e.u. we think europe should change its stance and contribute to send a strong message to turkey only because the policies of previous years that these people to enter our country without carrying any permit or documents would have a very big mistake and created issues of inequality greece is not it is european country but europe should support it because until now greece is not going supported we've left the town the whole now we're driving out towards the front in the hope of getting a sense of what's going to happen on the border overnight to get a sense of what this human chain to protect the greek borders from anybody trying
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to cross illegally it's going to be a line so we're just coming up to a checkpoint. where they're stopping us. yes us. right now you just official we have to turn around just ok so we're being told that we have to turn around we can't go any further. far out for various we spoke the greek on me in what looks like illegal migrants on this side of the road. we've had a chat with the offices they said we can't film but they have confirmed that they found the 2 illegal immigrants trying to cross the software we are in the square planned pint and they told us that 2 individuals from afghanistan to receive an update from the volunteers who are not securing the quick we would end the affair
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is a video showing the michael. camped out on the pool. as we were trying to film. we were stopped this my cameraman being scooped it up by will like ministry personnel tool to the border. so just not date in that situation all that's been smooth but we have moved away from the border because we don't want to create more tension with the security personnel that are there but it gives you a sense of how much tension there is here given the fact that the volunteers are out willing to be in the middle of nowhere in the way to secure their borders the fact that we were told not to come anywhere near the border that the greek prime minister said this week that his country wouldn't be blackmailed by turkey and he
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said that they would do everything possible to stop an invasion of migrants crossing the border illegally and that is exactly what we seeing in towns like this that ability for people to take up their own norms and to go to the borders to protect greece from anybody trying to cross even ski auti in ferris thumb period i mean piers blame turkey for the crisis are now demanding brussels and all cooperation with the country. this is again a good lesson for us that the 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 is the end the gun just wants more money from us and this has to stop infinity is clear that mr. sorkin are not
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a reliable partner or sound so i think that the e.u. should keep the interim council because i see that your piano. have lost a lot. i mean in my view would be an appropriate response for the e.u. to suspend the turkish customs union with immediate effect. and . we may well be demanding this in the not too distant future. super tuesday a major day for primary elections and caucuses in the us has cut the number of candidates in the democratic race for the presidential nomination of bernie sanders and joe biden now leading 3 candidates including the billionaire and former new york mayor michael bloomberg said they were quitting to back biden a move seen as a bid to undermine sanders i am ending my campaign and endorsing joe
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i am i i i enjoy us joe biden and i hope you will join me i'm delighted to endorse and support joe biden for president. there is a massive strong. but it's not a secret that anybody in this room or the corporate establishment is going to go to the political establishment is going to go to everybody. now just to remind you super tuesday is when the largest number of states head to the polls the delegates one go on to make their final selection for candidate after endorsements from blue to judge and globish are biden won the most states sanders only got 4 states by 10 the one of sanders victorious california have be most delegates kilmartin breaks down how bernie sanders has come under attack from his rivals. it's been a long winter for the democrats they've been feeling the cold burn a you know we know you believe. in god
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in that you would do here your primary in the 43. in the but now as the spring rolls in the party has descended into panic i think it's a little late to stop for that i think does the problem the game it is pretty much over i really want to study about the fall of france in the summer of 1940 and then general reno cause of churchill and says it's over can either coronavirus or bernie sanders be stopped totally transform society with firing squads dungeons torture and exile so he's been pretty clear that's what he supports many standards but stopping the burning machine is not an easy task after all most rank and file democrats more or less agree with his policies so here's how the operation has
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moved forward. the reds are coming trigger those cold war terrorists socialism is a threat to american freedom see that hammer and sickle and be afraid be very very afraid i believe castro and in the red said won the cold war there were the executions in central park and i might have been one of the ones getting executed and certain other people would be there cheering let's not forget that bernie sanders once praised cuba's achievements in terms of literacy and health care were very opposed to be authoritarian nature of cuba but you know it's unfair to simply say everything goes but you know when fidel castro came into office you know what he did he had a massive literacy program is not a bad think after 4 years of looking on in horror as trump cozied up to dictators we need a president who will be extremely clear in standing against regimes that violate human rights abroad we can't risk nominating someone who doesn't recognize this fidel castro and if
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a dog magazine forced labor camps religious repression widespread poverty firing squads and the murder of thousands of his own people. let's talk about his literacy program but most millennia old don't even remember the cold war communism doesn't really scare them and socialism certainly doesn't so time for plan b. . now bernie sanders is accused of splitting an already weak and fractured democratic party why we would risk this extraordinary opportunity by nominating somebody who has a tendency to divide their own side is beyond me furthermore sanders is accused of having views that just won't fly in a general election the face of the democratic policy might be spouting things that's absolutely nothing but you know voters but this narrative doesn't seem to work either. so now bernie sanders is accused of being a russian plot to undermine american democracy this claim is repeated by other
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presidential candidates as well as robert o'brien the national security advisor and his sources are named though these reports that the they want bernie sanders to get elected president that's no surprise he honeymooned in moscow and it turns out that in fact bernie sanders once even visited russia you know years ago back when it was called the soviet union yeah that's pretty old news scraping the barrel let's go on to plan d. . time to unite behind joe candidates are dropping out perhaps a bit prematurely and putting their energy behind joe biden by does come up a little bit and i don't know what's happened barely i think good trying to take it away from i don't know if that's fair but i guess it's politics when you get right down to it what's fair why throw in the towel so early well they've got to do everything in their power to defeat bernie sanders in 2016 leaked e-mails revealed by wiki leaks show that the d.n.c.
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went guns blazing to end his bid for the white house now will they be so lucky the 2nd time caleb mopp and archie new york earlier my colleague unit o'neill spoke to new york city council hopeful marni whole asa she thinks the democratic party's national committee is doing all it can to stop sanders. democrats everybody falls in line they line up so perfectly everybody drops out. and you know throws their way to support biden so you know in that in that respect you sort of see how you know the democratic party is her coalescing and micromanaging every way that they can support biden. and you know i see it you know bernie sanders he said the system was rigged you can see how it's being rigged against him former democratic chair donna brazil got into a heated exchange after a suggestion that the democratic convention wouldn't be rigged against we can
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listen together to just what was said data hello race i get sick and tired and for people to use russian talking points to sell division among americans that is stupid so rather go to hell that is completely absurd i mean this is the same donna brazil who would pass the questions to hillary clinton so hillary would have you know an unfair advantage in the debates against foreign santer so i mean that this is completely absurd and it's actually really really infuriating because what it is is you know it's really the democratic party trying to cover their tracks and really not so well in the fact that they're really working against you know bernie sanders who really is essentially you know a real contender and possibly the front runner. still to come in the weekly a rare sight and one of italy's main tourist attractions milan at the coronavirus scares the usual swarms of tourists away from its streets details on that story and
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more after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic to follow only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. why do we go to war because we view the key to economic growth as oil and energy we go to war is vice president cheney said for the oil that's why they invaded iraq for the oil that's why trump says the one thing we want syria we really don't want to go to war
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with russia we want to just control the oil. and the gas blood and the pipelines through afghanistan so the military is really an extension of controlling a world of energy and oil. welcome back the number of coronavirus cases globally has now exceeded 100000 and italy's government has now put its northern provinces on lockdown in a bid to contain the spread of the outbreak in the country the new measures cover an area which is home to run a quarter of italy's population banning any one leaving or entering the region unless for under for work needs or emergency situations as you can see typically
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busy streets of one of italy's tourist mecca small on are almost empty but the number of confirmed corona virus cases rising by 1200 and a single day most public events are banned across the country into early april. meanwhile in the southeast of china 10 people have been killed 38 rescued after a hotel collapsed according to local media the venue was being used as a quarantine site for suspected run of virus. 23 people are still trapped under the rubble it's still not clear at this point what led to the collapse. as a nation scramble to stem the spread of the corona virus here in russia there are so far 17 confirmed cases dozens are in quarantine and under medical observation. of has been through 2 weeks of self isolation at home following a trip to hong kong he told us what the experience was like and about the other measures russia is taking to keep infection at bay. one of the things you quickly
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realize as a bearded man is you just look silly in a 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're treated like anyone else and our 1st taste of what was to come was still in the play when a lady came aboard and this is while we were still in the plane having landed she took all our measurements are temperatures and she was in full has mackin so we walked past passport control into the baggage area and there were dozens and dozens of medics in full hazmat get covered head to toe taking down everything about us what we did who we were with where we were this is all part of a huge russian effort to make sure that the 1000 virus didn't gain a foothold here the monitoring of the epidemy illogical situation was organized
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from the initial days of this complex situation additional measures would take to strengthen sanitary and quarantine control at checkpoints across the russian border over the past 24 hours 3 cases of corona virus infection have been identified in russia all these individuals have visited italy in the last 2 weeks at present a total of 17 cases of corona virus infection have been identified in russia. when they 1st mentioned quarantine i thought would be like a mini vacation you get to sit at home as it turns out it isn't at all so you have called throughout the day starting in the morning for medics asking how you're feeling whether any symptoms cough or whatever you also get visited by police and medics just to check up with you to make sure that you are still at home i mean eventually out of sheer boredom are pawns of the. quarantine agreement that
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i signed at the airport and the battle teasin are pretty severe so for example if if you leave the house to go to the shop which you can and you just leave and nothing nothing happens well that starts a fire then she community service if you leave the house or apartment the quarantine zone and you unfed someone adds up to a year in jail a year in jail if you think somewhat and they go on to die that is up to 5 years in prison which is a pretty severe punishment. 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 cyber security company for example was identified the message being repeated online that is spreading misinformation there are people out there you
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know enjoying this. lana 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 g.'s do not want to inform us about this we'll 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. into the day it's just common sense don't follow advice that you read on the internet and read it for example followed vice that you hear from doctors example wash your hands regularly don't touch your face. as a bit of personal advice that i can give you if you've got a trip lined up in the immediate future to
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a place where there's been that break don't go the quarantine isn't worth. following 6 hours of high stakes negotiations in moscow this thursday the leaders of russia and turkey have agreed on a ceasefire in syria's war torn it lead province they back opposing sides in the conflict which has brought them close to direct confrontation. and the solution to this group but we don't always agree without turkish partners in our evaluation of the situation in syria but critical moments having high level by the 2 relations we've always managed to find common ground on controversial issues and have found except through solutions huge is sought at midnight beginning on the 6th of march a ceasefire will be implemented we will take all necessary steps to ensure it lasts our goal is to do everything possible to prevent the humanitarian situation from deteriorating in the region the leaders also agreed to set up
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a 12 kilometer long security corridor or 6 kilometers north and 6 climate or south of syria's key and for more in a way that runs through the area these 2 countries also agreed to start joint patrols along the highway their executive director of the ron paul peace institute told r.t. it's in the interest of both moscow and ankara to ensure the cease fire holds. we should all breathe a sigh of relief because truly russia and turkey were on the brink of direct conflict it was careening out of control and i think it was very wise to have called this bilateral meeting to hammer it out because there the danger of it actually adding into war and possibly including nato was very real the whole issue of the of the war torn in the province is not that different than the war torn aleppo province which amazingly settled down once it was liberated from the from the control of jihad it's of extremists of al-qaeda and that's the exact same thing
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in live 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 rope perhaps. britain says it will deploy the navy to prevent e.u. fishing vessels from entering its waters it's become a key sticking point in the bronx a trade talks as is alie 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
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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. sufficient 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 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
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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 must 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 founts 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 have adam and if it's belgium's fides everyone gets bigger quote those than the english freshman so
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shanks got to be done if the english freshman down and if and that we'd be arrested on the other side of the channel the feeling of mistrust is neutral and the sense is that a confrontation is inevitable but when a sort of a definite 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. ah but since you're obviously it is a deal or no deal but i think that if you are going towards a new deal the u.k. as also was the european union not only france would use a loss anyway it is not in our interest so u.k. interests we must find an agreement with a great britain. the u.k. negotiations only began formally this week but already the question of fisheries could derail talks and lead to tit for tat retaliations at home both french and british fishing communities and damage relations between these long.
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this sunday of the world has been marking international women's day thousands gathered to take part in marches to champion what's been achieved but also what still needs to be done to promote equality. clashes broke out between marchers and police in istanbul rights activists gathered to condemn violence demand a quality and what they said was the oppression against women in the country that rally however was not authorized by the authorities there just like before in 2019 marchers still chose to gather but were met with tear gas and right police. meanwhile demonstrators in several french cities took to the streets on women's day
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organizers said the parades were to promote equality and emancipation those joining the rally in paris marched through the center of the city holding banners against violence and sexism towards women. and masked men disrupted a women's day rally in the central asian republic of kyrgyzstan tearing down the banners of the protesters as marching had been demanding for women and children's rights in the country as well as protesting against domestic violence there authorities claim they arrested the. and along with some of the women demonstrating local media reports claim it was mostly women detained as the rally was not authorized there either. that's a recap of just some of the stories that help shape the world these last 7 days and the latest news for more follow us on twitter or facebook. we're going to adoption is driven by banks and.
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