the price of oil nosedives along with global stocks as saudi arabia it ramps up production and a dispute with russia. plus turkey's president is in brussels discussing the unfolding migrant crisis at the greek turkish border where tens of thousands of refugees remain in limbo. and violence erupts in italian prisons with inmates furious over their conditions and the strict new measures brought in to combat the spread of the florida virus. you're watching our 2 international bring your live news updates from our studio

here in moscow welcome to the program. world oil stocks are taking a major hit following the failure of crude oil producing countries to agree to production cuts as a man for oil falls amid fears about the coronavirus saudi arabia says it will increase output after a dispute with russia with more here's artist. quite a somber atmosphere here on wall street they are already calling it black monday we saw a 15 minute free is on futures trading when the stock market opened big dramatic plunge on the stock market the biggest drop we've seen since the 2008 financial crisis and on top of all of that we've got an oil price drop 30 percent decline in the price of oil a plunge in the price of oil the biggest drop we've ever seen in oil sense in 1901 and at this point it being traced back essentially to the negotiations with opec saudi arabia has come forward and called for

a decrease in oil production due to limited demand around the coronavirus well russia has come forward and said that this call for a reduction in oil production and a cap on oil production doesn't really make sense because it would give the united states an unfair advantage but this is what has been said by russian officials the russian oil industry has a high quality resource base and a sufficient financial strength to remain competitive any predicted price level as well as maintain its market share for russia's interests this deal is simply logical we giving up our own markets remove cheap arab and russian oil to make way for expensive american she'll make it worthwhile for them saudi arabia did not appreciate russia refusing to go along with their proposal for a production cap and so they flooded the market and the price has dramatically gone down 30 percent drop $31.00 a barrel here in the united states and in response to that we've got economists

talking about how dangerous this situation really is we believe. the price war on equivocally still to this weekend when saudi arabia aggressively cut the relative price which is still that is crude but the most at least 20 years this is turned into a scorched earth approach by saudi arabia in particular to deal with the problem of crude. production the saudis are the lowest cost producer by far at this point the whole world is waiting to see who will blink 1st russia or saudi arabia now the shale companies in the united states those are companies that extract oil and natural gas from the shale of the united states through the practice of hydraulic fracking they have been suffering quite a bit furthermore we've got algeria and france among other countries stepping up and calling on saudi arabia to negotiate and saying that they've got to get this resolved the world economy is in a jam people are very very nervous will wait to see what happens next. for live analysis we're now joined live by global head of currency strategy and market

research at f.x. t.m. now how did the markets going as they did today surprise you at all what was your reaction during the 15 minute pause and what not. well i think that if this was a roller coaster ride you would have surrendered really really thick stomach to be able to handle this these really shoot shoot drops a more markets 9 months of way you look at it in japan you had a 5 percent decline u.k. for c. 100100 a kind of 8 percent u.s. still my consumption so much they had some hopes trading the 15 minutes they yeah the declines is through as we speak now post a percent generally speaking market sentiment most already in a very fragile are states anyway what this is nutri done is say if this was a sinking ship because of the war stock market as a rip us that leaks well this saudi arabia russia tensions really don it's just the ship i want to look at cent because it's really going to create also the prices

it's going to accelerate the selling yes it's more drama and it's more negative seen over the nansen but there is a benefit that hopefully this will help the market find its books of evil oil prices maybe the bottom radius around $30.00 and the stock markets hopefully will find them not because we've only just include it the worse week of stock market moves since 2008 and now it's a day we've seen the worst date in trade in since 2000 the president a driver in the. we've heard from some analysts that the saudis were playing a high stakes game gambling essentially and pushing the opec group to a breaking point do you agree with that. to some extent yes by the same point i think this is quite a power play from saudi arabia to say look we've done and we've committed ourselves for close to 5 years now towards rebalanced in the market yet will prices historically still remain very low even before this 30 percent shift lower price

oil was only around $40.00 which is a 3rd what it was in 2014 where was closer to 120 dollars and saudi arabia shows some so much flexibility trying to cooperate try to well have so many opec members in opec plus now in seeing descends on the table saudi arabia's decided to use its own power play and it could work but it means more painful produces and it means mopane for the oil prices sometime to come over me this helps the consumer and sends a little oil prices and lower again that would save some time to see for so consume a sense of the way there's been a lot of fingers being pointed at russia saying that they've started an oil price war but of course there's $2.00 sides to every story and moscow says that the opec deal just wasn't a profitable offer so where's the truth lie the truth lies in oil prices were heading for a fall anyway this is what was said and even if plus an opec last week did a great deal it could have maybe put it through one crisis but the coronavirus

fears and that is over a global recession which are growing more serious by the day because the fires can stronger that means impacts not what economy's going strong demand for those going to truck in 2020 it's already born this could trads and it's going to contract by mall based on the virus it's an area of the border of the us 2 it's the u.k. europe and the united states just a few of those different regions it's a german speaking oil market we're going to fall anyway this is just accelerates at the trough. to me ahmad global head of currency strategy and market research at affix t.m. thank you for joining us on the program today. turkey's president is in brussels in a bid to find a compromise to the unfolding migrant crisis at the greek turkish border the visit comes amid a deepening diplomatic standoff between ankara and athens that's left tens of thousands stranded at the frontier peter oliver has the details. potentially

combative meeting with the turkish president mr de wine later on monday. what we're expecting to hear from the line after this meeting is pretty much what we've heard from her as she heads into it she's been saying that turkey must take back the refugees and migrants it told were able to cross its border and try and enter into the european union and that there was a real need for action from ankara to deescalate the situation finding a solution to this situation should we cry or if we leaving the pressure that is put on the fortune and ensuring that the individual rights to ask for asylum is respected and it requires supporting both greece and turkey to deal with the pressure they are and well for his part president has sent a message to the greek government in which he said don't worry about these refugees

and migrants heading to your borders open up your doors let them in because ultimately in the opinion of mr to one they don't want to stay in greece they want to move through greece into other e.u. member states ok agree these people will not come and strain your country they will cross it will go to another european country why are you bothered us who told you look at these containers these 3 who will open these doors you didn't believe now i'm telling you open your doors to get rid of these birds and well turkeys decision to tell migrants that they wouldn't try and stop them crossing into the e.u. has resulted in some incredibly tense scenes at the border that at times have spilled over into violence.

well germany is the preferred destination for many of those trying to cross the border in the german foreign minister heiko mass has criticized for what he sees as un crew trying to use these refugees and migrants as political pawns europe's message to turkey is clear we believe in of sharing of the burden but we do not accept people who find themselves in disparate situations should be misused as political pawns or the situation has led to demonstrations in europe both in favor of taking in more refugees and migrants and against doing just that the crisis in syria has led to and the increasing violence in syria has led to an increase in the amount of people crossing the border from syria into turkey however the word from

the greek authorities as to just who they've arrested trying to make that crossing from turkey into greece is that the vast majority of those people are actually coming from afghanistan the country of course which has its own. currently deteriorating in trouble situation on the ground there following the breakdown of a truce with the taliban. and attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus the time governments lock down vast swaths of the north of the country and drastic measures come as the number of infections and the world's 2nd worst hit country reached over 9000 growing by more than one and a half 1000 overnight while the number of deaths has risen by almost 100 since yesterday amid the latest restrictions uprisings broke out in a number of jails science demands for improved conditions prisoners have been are probably angered by new rules which have seen a suspension of family visits and this footage shows a group of inmates on the roof of the san batar prison in milan burning imams and

shouting. freedom but the most severe bolt was seen in the northern city of medina which left 6 inmates dead in sicily the relatives of some detainees gathered near a jail concerned over a potential prisoner infection. so well as coronavirus has been raging for almost 3 months he spoke about everything except the prisoners this is unfair because in this building we don't even have that right now nambla says just got in and we have no idea why one of the ministers to be prompted all this people have sentences of less than 5 years have to be treated as deep in measures at home as. we discussed those present protests as well as italy and europe's response to the crisis with political analyst paul or phone he believes that u.s. efforts have so far fallen short. definitely there are in the prison those interests but of course this is used to to uprise with the christians and

try to get the permissions to return home at least don't really so be says quite so disturbing events measures to be increased in the prisons because of course the inmates are very close to each other the possibility oh. the virus really needs there but i mean all this outcry seeing is. largely not just definitely. this is a bit of far mismatch in the provisions that the doctors but on the other hand they say that means into lee is a democratic country and there are a number of interests to be taken into account the e.u. has confidence is and can intervene above the member states but even in this case we could pass a c.e.o. of the e.u. to intervene in this emergency as being very vague because you calling

just the sort of solidarity among states which has not been seen. it's come out that scores of south african women were sterilized in public hospitals without their consent revelations have come to light in a new report and we spoke to one of the victims who found that her uterus had been removed only when she tried to get pregnant 11 years on. 1st tool of the b.b. was to be and they had to perform a c. section i remember when i walked up i asked them why they have reached by michonne my family then they explained that the b. was too big and then 26 to make good engaged after trying for about 4 to 5 months. without me being able to conceive with any thought i should go see a doctor just thought it was just my. infertility issues dr will prescribe medication over fine and when it goes there that's when i learned that i didn't

have to risk it all i don't think there was anything wrong with me i didn't have any complications before birth and i didn't have any complications after birth for some reason for i'm known reason they just decided to move my uterus i'm seeing it and non-greasy in because as i'm sitting here at this moment i don't know why i was leading this to i lived when i met with dr ed ridge who confirmed that he was in the procedure happened he also could not give me the answer all you could say to me was that they did the operation to save my life i don't know to save my life from what the commission for gender equality investigated complaints from 48 victims south africa saw sterilization as a way to fight hiv and hospital staff for some of the women to sign consent forms according to the world health organization the country suffers from the world's largest hiv epidemic or than 4000000 women are hiv positive according to the report

illegal sterilization that was carried out in 15 public hospitals between 20022005 the study was complicated by the fact that hospital staff then tried to hide documentation however the victim we spoke to says she's not even a child be positive. i'm not positive are high. offices they're quite aware of this and i'll say this in camera they are quite aware of the practice and you know doing anything new i mean being held accountable it seems like our doctors of the law i didn't the same in the end i couldn't have signed it because at that time i was a minor and my mom who was with me all the time also didn't claim any quinson form no woman deserves to go through what i am going through what and why 2 are all going through it is literally lyster lives a drug one to my daughter to be singing the same song that i'm singing today because it's time bearable with the pain that comes with this it's

a it's unbearable and most of all rights. to my rights as a human being were very laid to my right is a woman with ted my reproduction right were taken away from me and no woman ever and so therefore the should go through what we are going through we have contacted south africa as health authorities for comment and will bring you any response when all the health minister now wants to urgently investigate the issue. a trial has gotten underway in the netherlands of 3 russians and a ukrainian accused over the downing of him each 17 the malaysian airlines boeing was blown out of the sky over eastern ukraine almost 6 years ago killing all 298 people on board russia rejects the accusations and claims the investigation is biased are to charlotte devinsky has been following the case. we've been getting lots of information about how the court will proceed not just over the next few weeks but over the next few months and beyond this is all taking place at the court

behind me which is the scriptural judicial complex in the shadow here of the airport where m.h. 17 made that final flight that fatal flight which ended in the deaths of 298 individuals what we know is that all 4 men the 3 russians and one ukrainian have denied the charges against them those charges of been suspected of being involved in transporting a book a missile from russia into eastern ukraine 3 of the men will be tried in absentia they are not here the 4th man or leg. is also not here but he has a defense team that he has appointed and he has denied outright all of the charges against him the names of the victims of the mh 17 crash will all read out to the court this morning the judge that head judge describing the heavy soilent in the

court as people listened to those names he also talked about this being a court case that had already been played out in the media and he said it was something that had fired debates we've also heard from the opening remarks of the prosecution team who talked also about the family victims and their statements. another relative explained in detail how the family responded how difficult it was he describes her sorrow like this everything feels meaningless i have no energy connection with life. while this criminal trial will come as a relief for some for others it will be a heavy burden to bear every time the best occasion appears one relative may feel home from their wounds reopened well the head judge described what happened to m.h. 17. is being an atrocious disaster he also said that while the 4 men are suspected of being involved in transporting that book missile from russia to ukraine and the

trials will be held simultaneously they cases will not be joined we've been taking a look back at how this court case arrived it's a trial it's set to last more than a year 3 russians and the ukrainian are accused of helping to bring a book missile launch from russia into eastern ukraine where it fired the fatal shot that brought down the boeing 777 some of those that we expect to be here are 13 secret witnesses whose identities are being protected and that's because dutch prosecutors say they face significant risks to their safety but even before the court has heard a single argument some are treating the trial as a story that already has no stone left unturned brushes probably involved and if involved they're probably going to cover it up 51 percent of russians and directly involved are right now it looks like it's russia's fault because. it's russia's

fault. it's clear some don't need to wait for any court verdict to draw up their own conclusions russia claims this kind of coverage has a clear intention in the beer and media campaign has taken an unprecedented scale of russia and its citizens are presumed guilty that is unacceptable it has been launched in the last few days prior to the hearings in order to compensate for existing gaps in the evidence and to conceal the attempts to manipulate the facts so that it fits with a chosen theory for the prosecutors say they have evidence that the book a missile system was transported from russia into the donetsk region of ukraine in the days before it was fired now russia says that's not true it's presented evidence that the fatal missile serial number. can be traced all the way back to the $980.00 s. when it says it was transported to ukraine then a member of the soviet union and it's there it stayed after the collapse of the

u.s.s.r. but the joint investigation team into the mh 17 tragedy has russia says ignored what it believes is a crucial piece of the jigsaw russia was also refused full participation in the probe and as such says it will not recognize the verdict reached here by the court despite the fact russia was denied being a full participant of the joint investigation team since the very 1st day of the tragedy the russian federation has actively assisted the investigation and during the past year is conveyed to a dutch colleagues a large amount of data connected with the mh 17 crash unfortunately most of these materials were ignored by the joint investigation team this includes a test by the book manufacturer to try and pinpoint the location it was shot from.

russia claims that test shows the mis are likely came from an area controlled by ukrainian forces but the findings were checked it by the j.i.t. with its report stating that russia and ukrainian rebels were responsible. we have established that the russian federation was complicit in the downing of m h 17 because they made available the weapon that was used to shoot down the plane we have all the material to substantiate that the official investigation also receive criticism from malaysia 43 malaysians died in the catastrophe which involved the country's national carrier but his thought is they were not given full access to essential information that was contained in the black box of the flight recorders while the country's now. former prime minister has raised doubts from the very beginning we see too much politics in the idea was not to find.

but in all that. he seemed to be content. to be on russia many relatives of those who were killed in the mh 17 disaster are expected to be present at the trial so this is a court case about finding the truth and perhaps finding closure for a devastating chapter of their lives some have already crane for not closing its skies over a conflict zone in the east of the country but whatever the outcome here regardless of whether the 4 men all found guilty or innocent nothing will ever bring back their loved ones. r.t. them. the latest survey by the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america group has revealed a high levels of suicidal thoughts among service members

a study shows i must have have considered taking their lives since joining the military and around 2 thirds know a better ins have killed themselves this all comes as no surprise to iraq war veteran anti-war activist and emmanuelle. most of the veterans that i know i think have. indeed had those thoughts and i think. your mindset changes quite dramatically. throughout your service and i think after being deployed and especially if you. had seen or experienced combat and i think. after those deployments and then the point multiple occasions i think all of this plays a factor in whether or not. better ins are more prone to commit suicide to become violent to become addicted to. alcohol people come home and lives in relationships and families are put under incredible stress because people are

coming home and after having experienced all of those horrific things often turn to very destructive behavior to cope with those things. almost 40 percent of veterans also report a lack of job opportunities after they leave the service post military about or in say they face a loss of purpose they struggle with reintegration into the community and normal social interaction and health problems and getting treatment are other issues they face and emanuel again says getting out of wars globally would help. the u.s. government unfortunately is not doing enough the u.s. government has done more over the years the veterans administration is in much better shape today than it was 15 years ago when i 1st started using it but that's not because the government took it upon themselves to do it it's because thousands of veterans and family members of veterans stood up and fought for those things and

of course the wars continue to go on so we need to deescalate all of the current wars we need to withdraw from afghanistan completely we need to withdraw from iraq we need to withdraw from syria we need to withdraw from libya we need to withdraw forces from somalia and all over africa. and that would be the best 1st step if we don't the the best thing you can do for veterans is to not create more veterans. that's all for this hour news wise but if you're looking for more head on over to our web site r t dot com for countless articles and interviews extending it. as budget we talk about trump he's gonna demystified so political space if you weren't

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chances of it turning hot rise in syria and as thousands of men women and children flee from war e.u. nations are involved in is the european union defying international law on refugees we ask the norwegian refugee council if the specter of coronavirus will be used next by the e.u. to support international law plus how can you liberal britain in the usa with your hospital beds but capita than russia china beat coronavirus we get the take of the permanent mission of china to the un fang yong on sanitizing the statistics of coded 19 oliseh ball coming up in today's going underground or 1st attacking after meetings with both u.k. foreign secretary dominic rab and russian president vladimir putin and while deploying ground troops against russian and syrian forces in syria while sending soldiers to libya as he threatens to flood the european union with refugees even the mainstream media here is beginning to question which side president one is on joining me now from anchorage of the cipher it is.