we need to be reached. as the coronavirus takes hold around the globe the world health organization labels the outbreak a pandemic. also this hour and the latest of what appears to be politically motivated attacks in germany the car of a prominent right wing politician is torched in berlin. whenever a car is set on fire or. the. attacked you can be sure this is an attack against you. and 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 on his part. you're watching are to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. with the number of infections now topping more than 110000 across the globe the world health organization has declared that the corona virus can now be labeled as a pandemic. in the past 2 weeks the number of cases of 19. increases certain for. and the number of affected countries has tripled we have that for may be our system and that 19 can be. used as a pundit meek. and in the race to find a vaccine for the virus scientists in london are on the lookout for human guinea

pigs to infect for money in the 1st test of its kind we can announce that we have commenced the development of the world's 1st commercial human coronavirus challenge study more to we also known as controlled human function model we are pleased to be able to try and assist in the battle against coded 19 the study will in fact $24.00 people with 2 strains of corona virus similar to cope with 19 but causing milder symptoms scientists try to develop a vaccine against the outbreak all in tears 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 they'd be tempted to take part. mike you. know i can't if i was younger. but i'm one of those so dirty ones that are going to kick the bucket so. you know. i haven't worked for months so relieving

money. wow. i don't know then 1000. too much. corn to my so i mean i won't die from it but i hope that i'm not even highly confident 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 $71.00. now because i have hundreds of high health conditions why would i if you have no i would have. real thing seriously to go to cuba now seriously now. you know if you know people say duffers is pushing people there's going to be change that students think if you're healthy and. then they would be a danger people here i would be without children and yet definitely. a safe house

for my son who's much younger. but. 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 prospected that's when i realized ok this is actually serious it doesn't serve my feet no scaremongering people for most people to sentiments are more like until yesterday i was thinking people who are 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 didn't like wash your hands and stuff but otherwise i feel it's. yeah it's just too much i don't know. earlier we spoke to a viral just about the chances of finding a back scene. and the vaccine or drug is recommended by to be special and told her to eat locally have to be tested being 1st in animal and i

mean we're demonstrating that they all seem sort of grown about us that they don't plan to be tested in being in volunteers the others may be close to the 19 so this means that this vaccine if it is successful it would have no protection against anything that is tested in a volunteer to convict somebody however based on the animal studies the overall risk would be minimum and the hope is that if that state policy is reasonable that this vaccine would be deployed in the next reaches a broad scale testing me just face to. all the head of the european central bank has warned if the e.u. fails to act against the coronavirus it risks an economic shock global stock markets have already suffered record falls in recent days the situation has been aggravated by the biggest collapse and the price of oil since the early 1990 s. when gas to have takes a look at what could come next 2020 will go down in the history is the year

where everything that could go wrong when drawn a subject that has dominated the news all week. the corona virus spreading fears grow of a global pandemic a huge spike in cases like the prices down more than 22 percent earlier today the biggest loss since the launch of the gulf war the saudis have launched and oil price markets are getting punched in the face a decent bottle of law i'm 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 seen a 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 millions 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 has been sparkled by the coronavirus spreading around europe italy we've 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 backed it on the

market being even more pressure to it and we have seen what the outcome is now will 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 hove to lease 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 shale industries they're now selling oil cheaper than it costs them to. reduce the airlines with no passengers 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 the 1st it worst drop in oil

price in the early nineties and the stock market probably everywhere even about jobs and really posted with the worst one day drop ever there's no point in panicking the government still have tools to delay a meltdown tax cuts debt relief but the loonie work for a while and after that well they'll be no point in padding because it will be too late. don't forget we have plenty more analysis online including a new op ed by phosphorus. and he gives his take on the coronavirus epidemic and the panic it's creating you can read that and more party dot com. a high profile right wing german politician appears to be the latest victim of a violent attack on lawmakers in the country nicholas fast from the alternative for germany party had his car destroyed and berlin it albert 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 all the politician nicholas faced go up in flames last night a car caught fire in charlottenburg the firefighters extinguished the blaze but could not save the car because of the suspicion of a possible political motivation we were handing the investigation over to a specialist unit yesterday morning the police called told me that in. set on fire 2 in the morning and there was really demo shit faced as a member of the european parliament for the anti immigration alternative that germany policy he's pretty adamant of 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

far and therefore it's pretty clear although they haven't really up till now they have claimed this arson attack yet but it's clear that there's attack stands for a.f.p. is a polity have a polarizing effect on german public opinion there anti immigrant stance and deliberately provocative statements from so members has seen them rising in the polls and slammed by their rivals party which tolerates far right extremists and let's call a spade a spade not since i am on its ranks. the a.f.d. is a racist and nationalist a 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 even appealed to all journalists and politicians to tone down their rhetoric against the policy after a rise in the number of violent incidents. whenever

a car so. on fire or. the apartment or house of. attacked you can be sure this is an attack against. they tried to they tried to bully not only us but also people. 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 mayors in the country saying a large number of them had been insulted assaulted or simply threatened with quite a few saying they'd being beaten or spots us in 2015 independent mayor of cologne henrietta wrecker 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 a record pro refugee stance last june senior politician of all 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. the turkish president has courted controversy after comparing the approach to the migrant crisis by the greek authorities to the nazis. there is no difference between what the munchies did and these images from the greek buddha of. greece has taken steps to reinforce its border with turkey installing barbed wire as migrants have continued to try and cross the frontier despite tear gas being fired from both sides over the weekend nazi comparison comes as turkey and the e.u. have been talking about reviewing a 4 year old deal aimed at stemming the refugee flow to europe meanwhile the austrian chancellor has had some tough words for turkey. those. dollars to i

would like to think greece are doing everything to defend europe's external borders this is an attack by turkey the turkish president to one is abusing refugees is abusing money grins exploiting this suffering and using them as a weapon against the european union journalist and writer demetrius constant accomplice believes it was a mistake for the turkish leader to make such a comparison to the nazis. there is more and more are still an instrument one of the world to me a 3rd of the army is doing because he defies reason and logic. to compare now greece with the nazi is. irrelevant i mean it doesn't make sense even to comment on so i think it proves that the mr go on. his to do with reality very dangerous c.v. is to read you know of the mediterranean because there are probably all true i would try to force us would who would like to see

a class between guta and thought again given. to. both of both nature it would be a disaster for. most of the huge underestimating the kind of good you could response he would receive a point. joe biden is in pole position to clinch the democratic party nomination after the former us vice president chalked up big wins in the latest round of primaries. all those who have been knocked down all those have been counted left before and this is. just over a week ago many of the pundits declared this. now we're very much alive. 5 in one in mississippi michigan missouri and idaho 3 of these are delegate rich states which rival bernie sanders picked up in 2016 that's led to biden being

presented by much of the media as the candidate best place to beat donald trump in november despite some notable gaffes along the way killed up in the house more. the race for the democratic nomination is down to 2 horses and it's pretty clear where the bets are going there on joe biden the good guy it's a time for us to beat donald trump and it became very clear to me that joe biden is the right person to do that he's the nicest person i think i've ever met but 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 over 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. i was actually joe biden also poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids by the way. and actually biden and you're a lying dog faced pony soldier. that'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 by. it 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 a presidential did by with donald 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 trump's efforts to investigate his heating political opponent predicted to trump will win a 2nd claimed that biden has called to be 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 former new york city council candidate mourning the loss of believes biden success may not be as spontaneous as it seems. in the beginning of this whole race i mean biden was coming forth then you know you know the democratic party says that everybody you're going to do this everybody will be the corporate media also starts to say all this negative noise about barry i think what's happening now is very

interesting this is usually what the democratic party does is they pick their annoying to do and they do everything to rig 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's coming to save the american people you see this kind of orchestrated think we are close to jet blue or 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 norway's it's very hard for the american public to kind of see through that. the mayor of amps or down is considering a ban on tora spying marijuana despite the fact it's said to be one of the main attractions for visitors charlton's he reports from the city. the dutch are often hailed as being progressive particular when it comes to soft drugs now amsterdam is

a hot spot for kind of base 2 or ists 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 more serious it's like well known things like. we term stuff like that wait wait it's hash. more than $17000000.00 visit every year putting a huge strain on the city of around a 1000000 people the situation is so bad that the mayor of amsterdam is actually considering banning tourists from buying kernis this briefing from the highlights the issues it says 65 percent of foreign tourists come to sudan 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 i'll have will

they come up with a not come from the people still. 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 amsterdam but the survey also showed a more worrying impact the to ban could have some 40 percent of respondents said that if they were put britain they would find another way to buy the drug this should be perhaps a major concern for a city that is already struggling to deal with the darker side of the drug industry and point 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 $75000000.00 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 saddam's coffee shops are aiding and abetting the ugliest side 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 launder criminal money that has cooled for a crackdown it please suppression 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 looking to copy this 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 much even for all see in amsterdam.

a senior american general has admitted that the us has been helping its chief anomie 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 some of the worst terrain in the world they paid a very steep price and their own fighters it was that independent of our support there was very limited support from us and our character as it is very limited support was. the revelation comes as the u.s. military begins cutting the 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 2600 by this summer and to withdraw completely over the next 14 months but a complete 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

harder than we believe or consistent with an idea to actually carry out this point . the plan is showing other signs of strain as well with the taliban insisting that kabul released 5000 fighters immediately but the afghan government wants to stagger their release in line with a reduction in taliban violence have mentalism me from the center for conflict and peace studies believes the deal is already failing. in afghanistan it's seen that the deal is already breached several points you know they were the 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 interim one negotiations start on the march it has not started or the taliban. prisoners being 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 if you look at this. the americans have 9 months to drum selection of one deal can really help him. that could be one of the very few foreign policy success for him. that's a roundup of the day's top news for now but i'll be back in about 30 minutes with all the latest.

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them to maximize are plentiful survival guide. looking forward to a year that's no doubt. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain delegates. watched as a report. greetings and salutation as we stand here staring down the dawning of a global pandemic there are many safety measures and precautions that countries and communities across the globe are adopting or considering in their efforts to prevent and contain the spread of the coronavirus efforts include things like

closing schools and universities and acting travel bans teaching proper senator kerry practices like say washing your hands. executing a massive 37000 strong series of military exercises with nato allies along the russian border in europe. wait what was that last part again yes well massive crowd drawing events like w w's wrestle mania the 2020 olympics and yes even the coachella music best. coachella have been talking about canceling postponing or limiting crowd sizes at their events the us military industrial complex is apparently exempt from all fear of his of spreading the coronavirus and is moving forward with what's being called defender europe 2020 so what does this latest adventure in militarism in tail well according to nato is very own website exercise defender europe 20 is a.