with. the world. as the coronavirus takes hold around the globe the world health organization labels the outbreak as a pandemic. and the latest of what appears to be politically motivated attacks in germany the car right wing politician is torched in berlin. whenever the car set on fire or. the. 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 along the way. a very warm welcome to the program on this wednesday evening it's 10 pm here in the russian capital let's get started with a live news update. 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 19. increases in forward. and the number of affected countries. we have therefore to may be our system and that 19 can be contacted are used as a pandemic. the number of infections has now topped more than 118000 across the

globe with more than 4000 deaths occur on a 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 also known as controlled human infection 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 at 19 but causing milder symptoms scientists trying 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 they'd be tempted to take part. the make it full 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 haven't looked for months i really need some 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 i'm not even tightly complaints to 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 a hands on high health conditions why would i if you have no. real thing seriously tell me to kiss now if seriously no. i mean you know if you know she puts her she's pushing people they're going to be changed

to you think if you're healthy and. be a danger people here i would be we don't. think. they'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 prospecting that's when i realized ok this is actually serious it doesn't serve a fitness scaremongering people for most people to sentiments are more like 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 didn't like wash your hands and stuff but otherwise i feel it's. yeah it's just too much i don't know we spoke to a biologist about the chances of finding a vaccine. and the vaccine or drug that it is recommended to buy would be

rational and in the folder to be too low but you have to test it being 1st in animal and then any human will demonstrate that they are same sort of chromo biases that don't be tested and eyeing in volunteers the odds may be close to the 19 so this means that this vaccine if it is successful it would have no protection against the cold 90 anything that is tested in volunteer. however based on the animal studies the overall risk would be meaning 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 say it's too meanwhile the head of the european central bank has warned if the e.u. fails to act against the coronavirus it rests in economic shock global stock markets have already suffered record falls in recent days the situation has been

aggravated by the biggest collapse in the price of oil since the early 1990 s. . 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. so the corona virus spreading fears grow of a global pandemic a huge spike in cases where the price is 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 of course we have the impact of the crisis which has been sparked by the koran of 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 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 hope that 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 shale industries then now selling oil cheaper than it costs them to produce the ad lines 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 bit worse in the oil crisis in the early nineties and the stock market probably everywhere even without jobs and greedy posted 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 loonie worked for a while and after that well they'll be no point in padding because it will be too late. just a reminder we have plenty more online including a new op ed by a philosopher. and he gives his take on the corona virus pandemic and the panic it's creating you can read that and more on our website dot com. a high profile right wing german politician appears to be the latest victim of

violent attacks on lawmakers in the country nicholas pass from the el turn a different germany party his cart destroyed in berlin peter all 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 bork the firefighters extinguished the blaze but could not save the car because of the suspicion of a possible political motivation we're 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 there was really damage 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 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 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 payments 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 henrietta reckons now really 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 of all 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 is called for an increase in security for politicians serving the public who will increasingly finding themselves in the line of fire for all to believe. 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 the attack is the latest on u.s. and coalition facilities and iraq falling unverified video claims to show the moment of the rocket attack on tuesday washington announced it would be deploying missile defense systems in iraq are fears of further iranian retaliatory attacks tensions in the region have remained high following the u.s. air strike on iran's top general earlier this year. 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 revealing 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 to the turkish prison that one is abusing refugees is abusing money grins exploiting this suffering and using them as a weapon against the european union middle east expert who are shallow 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 benito country said we're never going to support you because you are you giving attention everywhere so he knows that that the nato countries and the european countries will not support him so he has a one and a big leverage over the european union it's the crisis and he wants to push through the poor so this disadvantage in order to lead opened the door and lead the court to europe in order to get the european backs confronting russia and confronting other countries and specially greece. joe biden heads the pac to clinch the

democratic party nomination after the former u.s. vice president chalked up big wins in the latest round of primaries. all those who have been. all those have been counted. this is your campaign. just to reach you many. cleared the. now we're very much in line. by no 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 film often 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 donald trump and it became very clear to me that joe biden is

the right person to do that he's the nicest person that we cover 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 poor kids are just as bratty just as town's 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. it 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 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 trumps efforts to investigate a political opponent predicted to trump will win a 2nd tom claimed that biden has 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 he makes it seem. the beginning of this whole race i mean biden was coming forth then you know you know the democratic party says everybody you're going to do this everybody will be 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 perm does is they pick their annoying to one and they do everything to rig the entire environment there annoyed to candidate 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 work is treated 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 noise it's very hard for the american public to kind of see through that. a u.s. nuclear submarine has been captured on film breaking through ice in the arctic with critics saying it's a clear sign of the increasing military buildup of the area a vessel was taking part in a u.s. led drill aimed at improving operational capabilities and the 1st and region.

earlier this week u.s. and canadian fighter jets intercepted 2 russian reconnaissance aircraft off the alaskan coast the u.s. has been raising concern over threats it claims it faces in the arctic last year congress approved the funding for 2 new icebreakers while backing a plan for no less than 6 others all back in 2018 thousands of american soldiers took part in a massive nato military drill in norway while the u.s. points to russia as the main threat in the region has approved its new arctic state policy running through until 2035 that sets out the country's main objectives tasks and national interests there according to a document russia is primarily focused on financial issues from improving living standards of local russians and fostering the economic development of the area by fielding a long range missiles and expanding its military presence in the region russia has

left us with no choice between proven homeland defense capability and capacity. now to discuss the situation further we're now joined live by the director of the crisis research institute at oxford mark are many are very welcome to the program does russia pose a direct threat to north america in the region as washington claims. i think this is very improbable because if you think about it why at the height of the cold war did the united states and russia or the soviet union not come to blows it's because in fact each of them is so geographically remote from the other that even where they have quite a close border between alaska in the far east of siberia there's a vast on inhospitable terrain that any army would have to cross before it reached anything that any plausible aggressive would want to attack so i think both alaska northern canada and for that matter the northern arctic regions of russia are effectively places that you would have to be mad to want to invade even allowing

for climate change making the degree of accessibility of the sea more probable the still the land is likely to remain covered in snow or otherwise is accessible for me paul foreseeable future so how would you assess the u.s. efforts to enhance its defense capabilities and the reason is that a dangerous development at all. well there is the risk that what may just be a kind of protective of its patch by this branch of the us military that feels it's been the cinderella service of the us armed forces for many years really since the 1880 s. and now trying to appeal to congress to fund new equipment new weapons new radar and other of the tronic used often facilities that you begin to create a tension that doesn't really need to exist and it will be interesting to see how canada reacts whether chemical we also want to spend more in the arctic region undoubtedly the possibility of icebreakers raising the northeast passage between

china to europe through across the north of russia is a big economic issue but also a strategic issue for china rather than russia but the americans we talked. this area also talk about china if china can move large quantities of its exports through by sea as well as overland through russia i see past all the mushroom then it's not as easily block capable in the event of some putative future crisis with the united states i think myself though there is this danger that the more you talk about potential possible future crises the more you begin to make people feel that they're actually just around the corner and you begin to talk yourself into the very potential conflict which you theoretically trying to determine all along that line we're also outlining earlier russia's policy in the arctic that they are wanting to improve the living standards of local russians there and looking about the economic development in the area that a better line of thinking. yes i think we can see coffee because of the it has spittle to rain both of northern russia and for

that matter northern calendar in alaska a lot of the relatively small number of residents do live standards well below the average for their countries and so taking advantage of some possible improvements in sea accessibility and so on may not be a threat to countries across the north of the arctic sea but they may in fact enable the quality of life to be greatly improved and not just in russia but we may think perhaps the canadians and some parts of northern alaska could benefit from this kind of approach rather than from militarization against a potential but i think highly improbable threat. mark almond director of the crisis research institute of oxford thank you for your time and your comments. the mayor of amsterdam is considering a ban on tourists buying marijuana despite the fact it's said to be one of the main attractions for visitors charlotte even ski reports. 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 to lure 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 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 that will have

will they come up with a not come from the people still. but often as many people know it's one of the main reasons people do you people will enjoy their time a little less so maybe they won't come back everybody is 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 bear and could have some 40 percent of respondents said that if they were put britain they would find. not the way to 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 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 are 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 see.