think. 2 americans and one british soldier are killed in a rocket attack on a military base in iraq with many others left wounded the u.s. has reported retaliated with a strike on the iraqi militia. as the coronavirus takes hold around the globe the world health organization that labels the outbreak as a pandemic. in the latest of what appear to be politically motivated attacks in germany the car of a prominent right wing politician as a poor student berlin. whenever a car set on fire or. in the wind or. attacked you can be sure this is an attack against

a deep. fried broadcaster one of direct or studios moscow this is hard to international armstrong thomas certainly glad to have you with us we start with breaking news this hour 2 americans and one british soldier killed with at least 12 injured in a rocket attack on an iraqi air base near baghdad it has also reported that american forces have retaliated with a strike on a rocky militia near the syrian border and he's possibly or more. we are hearing from the u.s. coalition forces in iraq that at least 15 petition rockets were fired on a military base to the north of baghdad that houses american military personnel 2 american soldiers and one bush servicemen have been killed and we are here in between 10 and 12 people have been wounded and are being treated for their injuries now the attack happened at 7 50 in the evening local time when. stay as of yet no

ones came for sponsibility for the attack on the military base which is north of baghdad and which houses the u.s. led coalition forces the vehicle that launched the rockets has been found an investigation has been launched now we are hearing of strikes that are happening in the iraqi province and in the syrian area of kamel near the border it is not certain whether these are tell you a treat tax for the strikes on the air base but it certainly does seem that way at the moment at the same time this is the latest attack after a series of attacks in recent months to hit you and coalition sites in iraq just this past tuesday the americans announce that they were deploying missile defense systems for the eventuality of such occurrences happening at the same time we can tell you that tensions in the region and particularly in iraq have been increasing ever since the assassination of

a top in reining in general because some silly money so a short time ago and since then we've seen these tensions escalate. for more on this i'm not doing a lot of blood here and crew to ask you who is a retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel thanks for being with us here on r.g.p. international. i guess let's start with the basics it has been a long time that the u.s. has been in iraq and the middle east in general american military outpost have been a frequent target though of attacks in the past few months who do we think could be behind this latest one. well you know we like to think if you know american like you think it's all the iranians but really i think it's iraqis themselves that want both iranians and americans out of their country you know this is opera the country is an opportunity for violence there's no doubt about that. that the infrastructure that was destroyed when we went in and now you know in 2003 has not been rebuilt i

mean the country people are tired and they want they want what's been happening to stop which means they want the u.s. out so it could be anyone could be people in the within iraqi be the islamic state folks who like to call and. could be interested in reading and forces it could be iranians within iraq but the point is this this reflects a very frustrating anger against the u.s. who won't leave we will not leave for some reason so. we know that the attacks have escalated recently can we expect even further escalation now that we're getting reports the u.s. is retaliating and america is never known for sitting back when there are attacks against their own do you think that we can see something bigger coming up. i know i don't think it's going to let up you know we've got we forward

a ripple in the process of forward forging to push the patriot batteries these kind of you know prevent missile type attacks so obviously you know this may be one reason also the u.s. is pushing nato to become more involved in nato is notorious for not being very competent in situations like this where they are you know when there's violence and the ability to pick off one or 2 people and now the particular donor country has to deal with the political ramifications back home i don't think iraq is a popular mission for nato that's what trance trying to push off on them pumping you know and as for the defense secretary would like to see nato take a bigger role but this kind of attack is something that also works against nato as willingness to go down into that mess and you know carry on with a very unclear mission both for nato and for the united states real quickly i want

to touch on something that you just mentioned the u.s. has just boosted its missile defense capability in iraq could this be. this attack could be a response to that move it well i don't have it's a response yet but certainly. it's in the context of that you know the patriot missile is not not the best way to you know protect a country from a missile attack it's basically a lower technology version of what's available out here which means the u.s. will export that to. what we consider 3rd world countries you know put give them are not very capable acquit. you know giving them the patriot putting patriot there in iraq serves that purpose pretty well i think anger at that because when they put the patriot missile battery in really put the patriot system in any or any system that the u.s. would put the end. this means the u.s. isn't going to leave so it's sending that message is we're here to stay and i think

the people in iraq and other forces on the ground here that don't want us are reacting to that. you know it has to end at some point and they see opportunities to send their message and i think that's what all right interesting to hear thoughts of course karen could ask a retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel thanks for being us here on r.t. international as always thanks for having me. for 2 years now 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 outside china has increases so as to unfold. and the number of affected countries. we have therefore may have to be our system and that quoted 19 can be contacted are used as a pundit make the number of infections has now topped more than 118000 across the

globe with more than 4000 deaths the crime virus has spread to 114 countries with numbers are 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 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 also known as controlled human friction model we are pleased to be able to try and assist in the battle against code with 19. study one fact $24.00 people with 2 strains of corona virus similar to covert $1000.00 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 wonder nurse if they would be tempted to take part.

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i think if you're healthy and young. then they would be a danger people here i would. definitely. a safe house for my son who's much younger. but. i think in the beginning i thought people were overreacting study and understand like how serious it was but when i. schools were being closed how many people prospects when i realized ok this is. a distant 3rd my fitness scaremongering paid for most people to sentiments are more like until yesterday i was thinking people were over reacting today i'm starting to realize i've got to take it like 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. it's just too much i don't know we spoke to of our ologist about the chances of finding a vaccine in a timely fashion. any vaccine or drug that it is recommended to buy to be

special and told her to eat globally have to be tested being 1st demanding more and i mean even when we're demonstrating that they are safe sort of coronaviruses they don't plan to be tested in airing in will and dearest d.i.v. close to the 19th so this means that this vaccine if it is successful it would have no protection against it called $900.00 anything that is tested in a volunteer to convict somebody is however based on the animal studies the overall risk would be meaningless and to the hope is that that if that state process down to reasonable that dyslexia would be deployed in the next which is a broad scale testing me just face to. the high profile right wing a german politician appears to be the latest victim of violent attacks on lawmakers in the country nicholas fast is not from the alternative for germany party he had his car destroyed by arson in berlin is pure 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 the 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. was really demolition faced as a member of the european parliament for the anti immigration alternative that germany party 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

fire and therefore it is pretty clear of though they haven't really up till now they have claimed this arson attack yet but it's clear that there's attack stands on t. for a.f.p. is a party have a polarizing effect on german public opinion their 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 and monitoring. the a.n.c. is a racist and nationalist a military spotty. 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 of. they tried to they tried to bully not only us but also. people. you know who are letting their apartments to members of

a democracy you have to come to terms even with members of cauchy's which you do not support it's not just politicians from controversial parties that are facing up to the prospect of attack in 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 being beaten. in 2015 independent mayor of cologne henriette ereka narrowly 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 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. in. the u.s. now joe biden heads the pack in the race and to clinch the democratic party nomination after the former us vice president chart a big wins in the latest round of primaries. all those who have been. all those have been counted let's be sure this is your campaign. just. many. cleared. now we're very much in line. biden won in mississippi michigan missouri and i don't hold 3 of these delegate rich states which rival bernie sanders picked up in 2016 that has led to biden being presented by much of the media as the candidate best place to be double trump

in november despite some notable gaffes along the way or to scale up and comments. 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 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'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 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 if you're a lying dog faced pony soldier. 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 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 eating 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 marni believes biden success may not be as spontaneous as it seems. in the beginning of this whole race i mean biden was coming for then you know if you know the democratic party says to everybody you're going to do this everybody obeys 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 tube one

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 coming to save the american people you see this kind of work is straight is think we are close 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 norway's it's very hard for the american public to kind of see is that. turkey's president has a rip greece over its migrant policy comparing the country to the nazis that is not sitting well with some in europe we'll bring you the full story coming up next this is art international.

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. talk about this is r t international now 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 nazis did and these images from the greek buddha. 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 the comparison comes as turkey and the e.u. have been talking about reviewing a 4 year old deal and to add stemming the refugee flow to europe meanwhile the

austrian chancellor has had some tough words for turkey. because. i would like to think greece are doing everything to defend europe's external borders this is an attack by turkey the turkish president one is abusing refugees is abusing migrants exploiting this suffering and using them as a weapon against the european union middle east expert. believes the turkish leader is using the migrants as a leverage. turkey is left alone in this region why because turkey wants to have its say in the middle east and 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're 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 that 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. the mayor of amsterdam is considering a ban on tourists buying marijuana despite the fact it is said to be one of the main attractions for visitors or to show dubinsky reports now 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 don't stuff

like that wait wait legs hash. more than $17000000.00 visitors 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 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 crowing 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

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 normal criminal money 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 dutch cities toller and mobile m sadam itself may move away from its longstanding policy questioning whether the experiment has any contributed to drug and crime problems so much even ski for all to see in amsterdam that does it for now back with more news of the top now this is hard to interest to us.

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