my. in today's headlines as the corona virus takes hold around the globe the world health organization that labels the outbreak as a pandemic. also this hour in 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 the car set on fire or. the. most of this attacked you can be sure this is an attack against a 50. 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.

you're watching our to international coming to live from the russian capital where it's just turned 9 pm welcome to the program we start with breaking news this hour as the iraqi army says 10 rockets have hit a base housing u.s. military personnel near baghdad it's unknown if there are any casualties at this time the attack is the latest on u.s. and coalition facilities in iraq and we'll be bringing you more on this story as it develops. and other news the world health organization has declared that the corona virus can now be labeled as a pandemic. in the ponds 2 weeks the number of cases 90 you know. increases so as to unfold. and the number of affected countries has 3 people we have that for many of the us

system and that quoted 19 can be. used as a pandemic. the number of infections has now topped more than 118000 across the globe with more than 4000 deaths the corona virus has spread to 114 countries with numbers growing by the day 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 and 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 model we're also known as control human infection model we're pleased to be able to try and assist in the battle against coded 19 the study one fact $24.00 people with 2 strains of corona virus similar to coated 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 and isolation we asked londoners if they'd be tempted to take part. the make it 4 no alcohol and if i was younger. but i'm one of those so don't you one second to kick the bucket. you know say i have to look for months i really need some money. wow. i don't know then 1000. too much. corn to my so i mean i would die from it but i hope i'm not even tightly complaints to the statistics behind it is true anyway so why not get infected twice to get twice as much at the age of 71. now because i have hundreds of high health conditions why would i if you have no.

real thing seriously tell you to kiss now if seriously no. i mean you know if you know he puts. people that are going to be chained to the street think if you are healthy. then they will be a danger people here i would lean we got to watch and then we have to from a. safe house for my son who is 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 a more like flu until yesterday i was thinking people were over reacting today i'm starting to realize that i've got to take my seriously course you have to like.

be taking care of it in 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 about seen. any vaccine or drug it is recommended by to be fresh more than in the folder to eat locally have to be tested being 1st in around them and i mean the human who demonstrated that they all seem sort of grown about is that they don't plan to be tested and ironing in will and dearest dogs maybe close to the team so this means that this vaccine if it is successful it would have no protection against the cold it might be anything that is tested in volunteer. however based on the animal studies the overall risk would be minimum and the hope is that that if that state policy is reasonable that

destruction would be deployed in the next reaches a broad scale testing me just say 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 and the situation has been aggravated by the biggest collapse in the price of oil since the early 1990 s. my god looks at what could come next. 2020 will go down in history as the year where everything that could go wrong went wrong a subject that has dominated the news all week. the corona virus spreading fears grow of a global pandemic a huge spike in cases 3 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 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 trump 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 corn team aligns 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 course we have the impact of prices which is made by the corona virus spreading around europe italy will be in it and then of course the . situation with oil which is a bit complicated and so far i've never seen anything like this be back to the. 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 us 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 loomed out 3 and

a half times as much the us shale industries they're now selling oil cheaper than it costs them to produce the adeline's with new 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 worse in the oil crisis in the early nineties and the stock market probably everywhere even if it did our jobs are greedy or stick with the worst one day drop ever there's no point in panicking government still have tools to delay a meltdown tax cuts debt relief but the loon you work for a while and then after that well they'll be no point in padding because it will be too late. and just to remind you we have plenty more analysis online including

a new op ed by philosopher. and it he gives his take on the corona virus pandemic and the panic it's creating you can read that and more on our website r.t. dot com. a high profile right wing german politician appears to be the latest victim of violent attacks on lawmakers and the country nicholas fast from the alternative for germany party and his car destroyed by arson in berlin there are 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 car politician nicholas faced go up in flames last night a car caught fire in charlotte and borke 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. i was really damaged faced as a member of the european parliament for the anti immigration alternative that 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's pretty clear although they haven't really up to no they haven't claimed this arson attack yet but it's clear that there's a stance and a.f.p. is a party 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 nazis and monitoring. 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 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. they tried to they tried to bully not only us but also people of 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 be insulted assaulted or simply threatened with quite

a few saying they being beaten or spots us in 2015 independent mayor of cologne henrietta reckons now really survived an assassination attempt by isn't 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 seen yet 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. . he is facing trial for his murder the government has called for an increase in security for politicians serving the public who will 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 nazis. there is no difference between

what the munchies did and these images from the great 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 not a comparison comes asked her key and the e.u. have been talking about reviewing a 4 year old deal aimed at stopping the refugee flow to europe meanwhile the austrian chancellor had some tough words for turkey. i would like to thank greece for doing everything to defend europe's external borders this is an attack by turkey the turkish president and the other one is abusing refugees is abusing money grants exploiting this suffering and using them as a weapon against the european union. middle east expert kershaw believes the turkish leader is using the migrants as leverage. turkey is left alone in this region why because turkey wants to have its say in the middle east on the

mediterranean part of. africa but turkey has no no ally with him turkey is part of nato and it wants the nato countries to support him but the nato countries said we're never going to support you because you are giving attention everywhere so he knows that that the nato countries and the european countries will not support him so he has a one big leverage over the european union it's the crisis and he wants to put the poor so the. advantage in order to lead opened the door and lead the score to europe in order to get the european backs confronting russia and confronting other countries and specially greece. still to come the mayor of amsterdam is considering a ban on tourist spying marijuana and more after the break. what

is the difference between embarrassing gaffes in elder abuse joe biden certainly excels at the former and maybe is the big name of the law we are told mention of mental health is off limits to what degree is the public the right to know. the world is driven by shaped by. seeing. wheat dear to ask.

joining me every week on the elec so i'm unsure what i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business oh so you're. welcome back we start the 2nd half of the program with a quick reminder of our breaking news this hour the iraqi army says 10 rockets have hit a base housing u.s. military personnel near baghdad it's unknown if there are any casualties attack is the latest on u.s. and coalition facilities in iraq and of course we'll bring you more on that story as the information comes in. joe biden heads the pack to clinch the democratic party nomination after the former us vice president chalked up big wins

in the latest round of primaries to all those who have been knocked down all those have been counting. on this. just to reach a good many. cleared the. now were very much in line. biden won in mississippi michigan and 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 placed to be telling trump in november despite some notable gaffes along the way explains. 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 all trump and it became very clear to me that 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 poor kids are just as brady just as chalons 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 gotta 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 who 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 fizzy 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 the trouble when a 2nd tom claimed that biden has come 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 him it when it's time to start taking shots at bernie

sanders. r.t. new york former new york city council candidate marni believes biden success may not be as spontaneous as it seems the beginning of this whole race i mean biden was coming for 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 today 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 wife of course that coming to save the american people you see this kind of orchestrated a we are close. lugar everybody kinds of everybody falls in line to support biden who's kind of the chosen one i think when you have so much of that

norway's it's very hard for the american public to kind of see that. the mayor of amsterdam is considering a ban on tourist spying marijuana despite the fact it said to be one of the main attractions for visitors are to charlotte 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 most tourists it's like well known things like. we 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 that will have when they come up with a not come from the people still call me as often as many people now it's one of the main reasons people do come people who come will enjoy their time a little less so maybe they won't come back everybody's time here for the coffee shops if the murder is going to stop the coffee shops stories 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 the big news they would find a way to find 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 find 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 amsterdam'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 a clue 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 coffee 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 let's even ski out c. in amsterdam. a senior american general has admitted that the us has actually 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 that some of the worst terrain in the world they played a very steep price in their own fighters 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 to 8600 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 the violence something that's far from certain to 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 releases 5000 fighters immediately that the afghan government wants to stagger their release in line with a reduction in taliban violence which allows army 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 at 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 a 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 really few foreign policy success for him that's been your global news update for this hour for all the latest and up to the minute reports follow us on twitter or facebook.

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