thank you for taking. on the story 6 that's right. the headlines this hour in the latest of what appears to be politically motivated attacks in germany the car of a prominent right wing politician. whenever the car set on fire or. the other the a car plant or. attacked you can be sure this is an attack against a a state with the corona virus spreading across the globe british scientists offer to in fact volunteers for money in a bid to develop a vaccine we asked londoners whether they would step forward. oh why not get infected twice to get twice as much if i was younger. my bank but i'm one of those so don't you want to kick the bucket so why would you go. with joe biden

records another strong performance in the latest round of the us democratic party presidential primaries we look at how the establishment favorite appears to be the chosen one despite some embarrassing moments. there is pm here in moscow he watching out international now a high profile right wing german politician the pace to be the latest victim of violent attacks on rule makers in the country nicholas fest from the alternative to germany party had his car destroyed by arson in berlin peter all of the reports on the worrying trend. this street is the scene of what is potentially the latest in a growing number of politically motivated crimes in germany this time it's a politician nicholas 1st goal put it. flames last night

a car caught fire in charlotte and bork the firefighters extinguished the blaze but could not save the car because of the suspicion of a possible political motivation we are handing the investigation over to a specialist unit yesterday morning the police called told me that my car had been . set on fire 2 in the morning and. was severely damaged faced as a member of the european parliament for the anti immigration alternative the germany party he's pretty adamant that who he thinks is behind this i'm not the 1st victim of this kind of arson attacks this is really the signature. of the anti fire and therefore it is pretty clear of though they haven't really up to now they haven't claimed this arson attack yet but it's clear that those attack stands on t. for a.f.p. as a party have a polarizing effect on german public opinion there anti immigrant stance and

deliberately provocative statements from so members the scene that rising in the polls and slammed by their rivals party which tolerates the far right extremists and let's call a spade a spade nazis and monitoring. the a.f.d. is a racist and nationalist and military state party. party which is openly nationalist they are against foreigners and they have members who are close to being fascists the cochairman of the even appealed to all journalists and politicians to tone down their rhetoric against the party after a rise in the number of violent incidents. whenever

a car set on fire or. the apartment or house of. attacked you can be sure this is an attack against a if. they tried to they tried to bully not only us but also people who. you know who are letting their apartments to members of the in a democracy you have to. come to terms even with members of parties which you do not support it's not just politicians from controversial parties that are facing up to the prospect of attacking germany 2019 so well over

a 1000 politically motivated attacks on politicians with a recent poll of masm the country saying a large number of them had been insulted assaulted or simply threatened with quite a few saying they being beaten or spots us in 2015 independent mayor of cologne henriette ereka narrowly survived an assassination attempt by is then a full of extremists who stabbed her in the neck the day before the election the attack was motivated by wreckers pro refugee stance last june seeing it see the politician fall to live was shot dead at his home in central germany a far right nationalist with possible links to a.f.p. is facing trial for his murder the government has called for an increase in security for politicians serving the public who are increasingly finding themselves in the line of fire teachers all over ati belin. the health minister in the u.k.

has tested positive for corona virus it does come as scientists in london are on the lookout for human guinea pigs to infect for money the 1st test of its kind on humans in a bid to find a vaccine. we can announce that we have commenced the development of the world's 1st commercial human coronavirus challenge study model also known as controlled human friction model we are pleased to be able to try and assist in the battle against cope with 19 the study will infect $24.00 people with 2 strains of corona virus similar to cope with 19 but causing milder symptoms as scientists try to develop a vaccine against the outbreak volunteers will be paid as much as 3 and a half 1000 pounds but only visits from doctors will break up their 2 weeks in isolation we asked londoners if that be tempted to take.

make it for no other card if i was younger. but i'm one of those so don't you one second to kick the bucket so. you know i. haven't worked for months really big money. wow. i don't know 10000. too much. so i mean i won't die from it but i go get there i'm not even highly complains that the statistics behind it is true anyway oh why not if i get infected twice to get twice as much at the age of 71. now because i have one's own high health conditions why would i if you have no i would have. real thing seriously tell me to kiss now seriously now i. mean you know if you know people say lovers is pushy people there's going to be

change to think if you're healthy and. they will be a danger people here i would be we got children then we have to think. we're safe house for my son who's much younger. i think of the beginning i thought people were over i think something on the stand like how serious it was but when i heard like schools were being closed how many people cost effective that's when i realized ok this is actually serious it isn't serving the scaremongering people for most people to sentence or more like flu until yesterday i was thinking people were over reacting today i'm starting to realize that i've got to take it seriously course you have to like. be taking care of it in like wash your hands and stuff but otherwise i feel it's. it's just too much i don't know what we spoke to about the chances of finding of access. any

vaccine or drug is recommended by to be special in order to really have to be tested being 1st in animal and i mean we're demonstrating that they are safe sort of coronaviruses that don't be tested in airing in will and dearest and they are very close to the 19 so this means that this vaccine if it is successful it would have no protection against it anything that is tested in volunteer to convict somebody is over based on the animal studies the overall risk would be minimum and the hope is that that if that state process be reasonable that this vaccine would be deployed in the next reaches a broad scale testing me just say it's true. meanwhile the head of the european central bank has warned if he fails to act against the coronavirus it does risk an economic shock global stock markets have already suffered wreck or falls in recent

days in the situation has been aggravated to buy the biggest collapse in the old price since the early 1990 s. but it does the have looks now what could come next 2020 will go down in the history is the year where everything that could go wrong went wrong a subject that has dominated the news all week. so the corona virus spreading fears grow of a global pandemic a huge buy good piece is prices down more than 22 percent earlier today the biggest loss since the launch of the gulf war the saudis have launched and oil prices the markets are getting punched in the face a decent bottle of wine is now more expensive than a barrel of oil which as a consumer you might think isn't so bad i mean cheaper fuel truck seems to think it's good. good for the consumer gasoline prices coming down so here's my question what's the point of cheap fuel when you can't drive or fly anywhere because of an

epidemic because of coron team al lines are clearly not going to stock up on kerosene all sorts of derivatives fuel derivatives will experience less demand as traveling goes down that is going to be one of the factors that will likely keep b. or cries depressed now you are starting to get by we the whole world is facing catastrophe it isn't just one problem it's many and they feed each other they multiply each other 1st the airlines suffer fuel cheap but no one's flying anywhere no one travels tourism collapses meaning medians of people lose income if millions stop making money they stop buying stuff so the factories shut down meaning more people lose jobs and so on of course we have the impact of the crisis which is made by the corona virus spreading around europe italy we have just seen it and then of

course the. situation with oil which is a bit complicated and so far i've never seen anything like this we backed it on the market being even more pressure to it and we have seen what the outcome is now we get to the crux of it think a little trip back to 2008 he is a graph showing the u.s. debt market in 20082 trillion it collapsed because bankers high on greed gave out loons to people to buy houses that they couldn't afford we hoped at least that they had learned their lesson. watch what they did next since then they've loaned out 3 and a half times as much the us channel industries then now selling oil cheaper than it costs them to produce the adeline's with no passing just the hotels with no guests the businesses with no clients in 2008 the world's economy collapsed because

a bunch of people missed their house payments now entire industries are on the verge of fooling like dominoes we have heard the 1st that worst drop in oil crisis since the early nineties and the stock market probably everywhere even down jobs are really posted with their worst one day drop ever there's no point in panicking the government still have tools to the lay a melt out tax cuts that belief but the loonie work for a while and after that well they'll be no point in padding because it will be too late. never again see if they would just for a minute remind you we always have plans young minds here including a new op ed by the philosopher slab oil in it he gives his take on the coronavirus at the democrat and the panic it is creating you can read it at r.t. dot com. still ahead feed the matter of amsterdam is considering

a ban on taurus buying marijuana we'll have a look at why just awful. what

is the difference between embarrassing gaffes and elder abuse joe biden certainly excels at the former and maybe is the victim of the latter we're told dimension of mental health is off limits to what degree is the public the right to know. again that joe biden is in pole position to clinch the democratic party nomination after the former us vice president choked up big wins in the latest round of primaries. all those who have been knocked down all those have been counted let's be sure this is your. just. many.

cleared through the skin. now we're very much in line. pardon one in mississippi meet you can also missouri and the 3 delegate rich state switch rival bernie sanders picked up in 26 states that's led to biden being presented by much of the media as the candidate best place to beat donald trump and they've them but despite some notable gaffes along the way of his bill. the race for the democratic nomination is down to 2 horses and it's pretty clear where the bets are going they are on joe biden the good guy it's a time for us to beat donald trump and it became very clear to me joe biden is the right person to do that he's the nicest person i've ever met he is just a good guy and why not have a good guy in the white house after all for the past 3 years the media has been working very hard to convince everyone that pure evil has overtaken the u.s. presidency but it doesn't take very deep digging to discover that you can rub off

joe biden's good guy shine take a look at how he insulted detroit assembly plant worker who questioned his views on gun rights. he also has hinted that he believes that race and intellectual ability are somehow connected to your kids you just as brady just as towns white kids on top of that he is known to just make things up and say things on the fly that have absolutely no connection to reality we choose unity over division we choose science fiction we choose truth over facts and a lot of ways joe biden sounds an awful lot like donald trump let's see if americans can tell them apart i bet you're as bright as you are good looking. that's actually joe biden surprise we choose truth over facts. that was actually joe biden also poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids by the way without actually biden and you're a lying dog faced pony soldier. so it's got to be true and

actually biden also the narrative is supposed to be that donald trump is a big mean bully and joe biden is a lovable adorable grandpa with good intentions and he's supposed to be way better than that wild eyed radical bernie sanders except don't you remember how recently everyone was bashing joe biden i just think biden is declining i don't think he has the energy and he has been a skilled debater we saw him with sarah palin we've seen him in the past the question is does he still have his job and destroy native and is he how sure are busy can you imagine that man in the presidential did by we don't trump there's not enough popcorn in the world to do is how subtly biden inserts obama into every possible answer having significant mental faculties issues is everyone ok with biden being president of the united states when he's having difficulty remembering

the name of you know politicians that he'd be dealing with on a regular basis but now we are told that opposition to joe biden is a russian plot the kremlin's english language media aim to influence americans on the home tough act if he promotes conspiracy theories targeting biden one lording trumps efforts to investigate a political opponent predicted to trump will win a 2nd tom claimed that biden has called into the unraveling on some eyes that allegations of corruption are doing real damage to his presidential bid now the race is getting heated as the field has narrowed so the question is now will joe biden be able to keep that good guy image when it's time to start taking shots at bernie sanders. r.t. new york a former new york city council candidate money has lasted this believe that biden's success might not be as spontaneous as. at the beginning of this whole race i mean

biden 'd was coming forth then you know you know the democratic party says there everybody you're going to do this everybody obeys the corporate media also starts to say all this negative noise about perry i think what's happening now is very interesting this is usually what the democratic party does is they pick their annoying to get wild and they do everything to rigs the entire environment they're annoyed to get it it gets all the support and looks like there is sort of a white horse that coming to save the american people you see this kind of orchestrated think we are close to to jet blue over everybody kinds of everybody falls in line to support biden who's kind of the chosen one i think when you when you have so much of that noise it's very hard for the american public to kind of see it is that. a senior american general has is missing the u.s.

has been helping its chief enemy in afghanistan the taliban we've watched the taliban compress and crush isis presence on the ground in southern province and they've been very effective doing that that some of the worst terrain in the world they paid a very steep price from their own fighters it was that independent of our support there was very limited support for most america that is very limited support. revelation though does come as the u.s. military begins cussing number of troops in afghanistan as part of an agreement with the taliban to end 18 years of war in the country washington plans to reduce its presence to 8 $1600.00 by this summer and then to withdraw completely over the next 14 months but to complete that exit is conditional on the taliban holding up its end of the bargain by reducing violence something that's far from certain. date taliban attacks are higher than we believe or consistent with an idea to actually carry out this point. or the plan is showing other signs of strain to the taliban

insisting that kabul released $5000.00 fighters immediately but the afghan government wants to stagger their release say that it can verify violence is being reduced but let's get more on this now from heck is army he is with us now he's a research analyst at the center for conflict and pay studies good afternoon to you thanks for coming on what do you make of this then that the u.s. has been giving limited assistance to the taliban. we've been told that they are the enemy of the u.s. . thank you for having me. the u.s. supporting taliban to fight is not something you said last year when they were major by the one government in the taliban to crush islamic state or province the u.s. special representative for afghanistan reconciliation openly said that he gave the credit to the taliban as well so it's not something new is this perception within

certain taliban members. they believe that you know the americans have chosen us a new partner for their interest in afghanistan. if that is the case then it actually contradicts with the taliban demand of their full withdrawal you know they signed a deal with the americans. on $29.00 general february where the americans agreed that they would be a full of a draw in 14 months but you know afghanistan it seemed that the deal is already breached at several points you know they were the afghan government was attacked by the taliban where the americans came to their support the 2nd breach is that you know you have a deadline for the for the in travel negotiations start on general. today march which is today it has not started or the taliban prisoners been released so that

hasn't happened so i think there's a lot of problems with the deal already but one party that really wants to deal or the momentum to keep going is the americans so it brings us to the other point that why the americans are so eager for this peace to work for this peace deal to work i think it's mainly for the u.s. presidential elections in november 2020 i think if you look at the schedule the americans have 9 months until the president trumps election in case he wins. because of one deal can really help him. yes it could be one of the very few foreign policy success for him so if he wins in that case situation can be different either the taliban will continue their attacks or even other groups can emerge another point the americans will say that oh the situation is not the way it should be it's not conducive for us to leave so even i think at that point the

military troop surge could be interested. because you know the afghan have won some afghans believe that the americans are not in afghanistan to leave this plan for withdrawal is just a temporary one case only a case of waiting to see what happens next thanks. as army from the center for conflict and pay studies for us there in afghanistan thank you. but the mayor of amsterdam is considering a ban on tourists buying marijuana despite the fact it is said to be one of the main draws the visitor is dubinsky went to the city with this report. the dutch are often hailed as being progressive particular when it comes to soft drugs now amsterdam is a hot. spot for cannabis tourists with significant numbers coming here to try the drug vending coffee shops as a tourist coming to the city what do you think this city is famous for the coffee

shops. i think for most tourists it's like well known things like. we don't stuff like that wait wait legs hash. more than 17000000 visits every year putting a huge strain on the city of around a 1000000 people this iteration is so bad that the mayor of amsterdam is actually considering banning tourists from buying kernis this briefing from the man highlights the issues it says 65 percent of foreign tourists come to amsterdam to use cannabis and visit the coffee shops and almost hof would be less likely to visit again if bart if the mayor bans it what sort of impact do you think that will have will they come up with a not come from the people still. as often as many people now it's one of the main reasons people do you people who come with enjoy their time

a little less so maybe they won't come back everybody's coming here for the coffee shops if the murder is going to stop the coffee shops juries would stop coming to answer but the survey also showed a more worrying impact the to bear and could have some 40 percent of respondents said that if they were put britain they would find another way to find the drug this should be perhaps a major concern for a city that is already struggling to deal with the doctor side of the drug industry and following a recent report called attention to the city's problems with hard drugs violent crime and human trafficking based on sewage research cocaine consumption must represent a turnover value of at least 75000000 euros. but there are limitations to that research subversive crime can take many forms such as human trafficking and labor exploitation environmental crime arms trafficking illegal gambling and health care

fraud it's believed amsterdam's coffee shops are aiding and abetting the ugliest saw i do of the city's drug business now there are allegations that the coffee shops and sells deal back door with organized crime gangs and some being used to long criminal money has cooled for a crackdown you can use oppression of mockers between hard drugs and some drugs has a greater urgency because of the trade in hard drugs while many cities around the world are looking to coffee dutch cities toller and model i'm so damn itself may move away from its long standing policy questioning whether the experiment has only contributed to drug and crime problems so let's. see in amsterdam. and i can always keep yourself updated on our social media pages.

markets are rebounding after 8000 point decline this is a boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss their monteith aopa and i'm british born watching it coming to those measures have been floated to tackle the effects of the. coronavirus but how are markets responding we'll break it down and do it cheaper plus as markets are moving day by day what is

a long term plan for manufacturing as china begins its road to recovery we're going to take a look at the nation's industrial base and what lies in store for supply chains around the globe we have a packed show for you today so let's go and dive right in. the corona virus continues to spread across the world as europe and the united states prepare to see a sharp increase in the number of cases italy continues to enforce its walk down of some 60000000 people with 1000 new come from cases the european union per president's met with prime minister is via video conference on tuesday afternoon to coordinate efforts to combat the virus this comes as chinese president xi jinping made a visit to one china this was his 1st time since the start of the outbreak china recorded its lowest numbers of infections there were just 19 and they were all in will haunt speaking to doctors behind a screen she thanked some of the medical workers.