ok link up. to unleash the full power of the federal government and the separate today i am officially declaring a national emergency this is art international that's the main story this hour the u.s. stepping up its response to thwart the spread of the corona virus following suit with countries across europe in asia. and the greek island of lead as a possible cause its 1st infection it's a big deal locals there fear they won't be able to cope therefore while they're contending with an overcrowded refugee camp on the island. if it gets like italy will be doomed because the island only has one hospital displaced slaves with. a lot of people you don't know we saw also u.s. markets react to that shows support from washington making short term gains at

least off the stocks took their worst hit since 1870 black monday crash this time caused by investor fears over the handling of the covert 19 crisis. by their one i am early saturday morning here in moscow life from r.t. international's world news h.q. kevin owen here with a 30 minute update thank you time review tuned in around the world and its coronavirus start of the news again various lines and tell you 1st off several countries have declared emergency status friday in response to the outbreak of covert 19 spain joined a number of other european nations which is struggling for containment measures and the big news in the last few hours donald trump announced that the u.s. is stepping up its risk level and response to unleash the full power of the federal government that the separate today i am officially declaring a national emergency. 2 very big words. the action i am taking

will open up access to up to $50000000000.00 of. very importantly for. a large amount of money for states and territories are in our shared fight against this disease and we heard from trump you speaking in the white house rose garden surrounded by mike pence and other officials explaining the dramatic measures now being taken in the united states in response to the corona virus outbreak now so far in the united states we have 1800 confirmed cases as well as 41 deaths now when trump declared a national emergency that freed up roughly 50000000000 dollars worth of funds that you can then use to take action and and set things up now trump describes how they are setting up these drive through testing centers that are being set up around the country in which people are able to be tested they don't get out of their car they

just drive up they'll be tested and then drive away and that way they're not getting out of their car there's no danger of them spreading it in the area in which the test is taking place trouble also took the opportunity to tout his travel ban to the european union a band that has been criticized you know many pointed out it doesn't apply to certain countries but regardless touted and said it was an absolutely necessary measure and talked about the need for closing the borders and why closing the borders is very very important in a situation like this now trump was the only one who spoke and we also heard from different officials quite interesting remarks but it appears that in addition to measures that are being taken on a local level here in new york city in different parts of the country we see local states of emergency being declared local dramatic measures being taken states have schools closed their schools you know public events are being canceled all throughout the united states new york city at this point has outlawed any gathering of more than 500 people broadway has been closed down in addition. these local

measures we now have the federal government of the united states under the leadership of president donald trump declaring a national emergency on a federal level and action is being taken a number of u.s. corporations such as wal-mart and others were listed by the president as being involved in the efforts to to fight against her on a virus and get us through this crisis here in the united states yeah just last hour i spoke to david lindorff he's founding editor of the online news web site this can't be happening when it is he believes the u.s. is not ready to deal with the pandemic that horses are already left the barn in the united states. administration had been lowballing the numbers and keep he kept a boat from landing because he didn't want to have the patients with coronavirus added to the totals because he was trying to say that he had stopped the. pandemic in the united states states don't have a lot of money and they don't have

a lot of personnel there's a lot of you know shortages that we have here it's only a $1000000.00 spittal beds for the whole united states with one of the lowest censuses of beds per 1000 people so we're going to get overwhelmed pretty quickly the world health organizations want more covert $1000.00 cases a now being recorded in europe each and every day that in china at the height of the break there is director general called on countries everyone to take aggressive measures to try to slow the spread of the illness. europe has now become the epicenter of the pundit make. reported cases and is done the rest of the world combined product from china more cases out of now being reported every day than we reported in china the highest of its. at the height of its appeal. before the whirring announcement for europe u.s.

president donald trump already placed a ban on foreigners flying into the u.s. from 26 european nations public figures of course to the really the in the canadian prime minister self isolating for 14 days after his wife tested positive for covert 90 after a visit to the u.k. around the world more than 130000 infections have been registered with the death toll now at $5000.00 and climbing as it stands countries are clamping down on people mixing in public schools workplaces being shattered in major sports fictious to spawn but with anxiety naturally spreading just as fast the virus is providing opportunities for the unscrupulous as if there was enough to worry about show the birds can report from paris. with panic in no short supply coronavirus here are for some enterprising individuals well shysters to be more precise have been concocting a variety of scams to make a quick buck now we're all well aware that the 1st line of defense against the

virus is toll watch on her when you're out in the boat touching everything from. the handrails to picking up things in shops it's a bit difficult to run into a bow through scrub. every time well thank goodness of course those little travel sized bottles of hand sanitizer to fight those nasty germs and that is of course if you can still find eddie the phones don't stop printing this morning we had the schools the town hall the public transport company everybody was gel we are under siege with demand far outstripping supply the cost of $1.00 gel exponentially increased the problem was considered so serious the french government stepped in an ounce to you that today we will take care of the degree regulating the price. of hierarchical the gel another 'd precaution for many is to do on a face mask

a tiny bit of cough covering your mouth and nose is this season's must have it seems the face mask took over paris fashion week so if you have the money instead of paying a couple of euros for one you can spend thousands if you like except that the type of mask available over the counter or even from a renowned fashion house is pretty useless against the virus that's at least according to the french government which at the same time is requisitioned all stocks and production all flasks for the next few months reserving them for health workers and those who are infected but the scammers have a new ploy france has you probably know a wolf famous ban or fully covering your face in public that's mainly aimed at conservative muslim women but some tricksters have twisted it to their advantage

dressing as police officers they've been told getting chinese visitors to paris who were wearing face masks telling them that they had broken the law and had to pay an oath in the sport following these students were 1st stupid 150 years and finds most policeman for having broken the law that bans complete face covering in public spaces police investigation found the d.c. police were pretending to be police wearing a mask for health reasons is absolutely not illegal and then there are a very trying to pick on the weak and the elderly in the district around bordeaux there are reports of people selling door to door decontamination services for a snip at 1500 euros these con artists use a pressure washer to do a little bit of cleaning that's not all there. to this type of canvassing allows these crooks to enter your home check the presence of valuable objects or the

presence of an alarm system or perform if they have the opportunity a robbery by trick the majority of the victims of robbery or elderly who are physically weaker tell your loved ones to take precautions and the scams it seems are gaining momentum the french national consumer and fraud office says it's received thousands of reports of dog dealings we're talking everything from magical lumps with disinfecting properties to empty purifiers the simple and most effective method to stay virus free is something that we should all be doing anyway and that is our early washing our hands with soap and water it's that simple so remember to kiss well physically as we've been told what to believe is a search but the acronym keep it simple stupid and don't get caught. r.t. paris russia 11 new cases of corona virus have been confirmed bringing the total

number of people infected in this vast country to 45 moves are being made to further spread health officials no new news last few flights to the european union and non-sugar nations in switzerland norway will be reduced from monday will be limited to travelling to capital cities only. the coronavirus crisis is posing unique difficulties for one of greece's smaller outlying islands to one case has been registered on lesbos but it's huge news there because of course that's an island that's host to the densely refugee camp where more than 20000 living in dire conditions evangelise sips as a correspondent says on this when he went there to speak to the islanders firsthand about their worries. i'm standing here in front of the laurier refugee camp in the lesbos reese we're about 20000 refugees are held in an area that was initially built for 2000 people area it's not the best when it comes to fighting in the

conditions are not the ideal for people living in such a small area but now with the spread of corona virus a relic of the world a lot of the people are concerned he went around and spoke to the locals to see what they had to say about a fear of a virus like that spreading among the camp. if it gets like italy will be doomed because the island only has one hospital it is good if they manage to isolate one or 2 of those infected with corona virus one of the feel and let the infection spread further you can imagine what will happen. with them again there will be many issues and they will be big the virus is likely to spread very fast it could be maria that's affected but also my telling the whole island of lesbos will be in trouble i have family on the island and of course i'm afraid if we have our homes our farms or jobs they say many bad things about us but it's us who are dealing with this issue but as the locals are raising concern about such a bit leaf iris on the island and jewels are ensuring that nothing of those cases

have been confirmed here at the moria camp but as we went around and we spoke to refugees who are living in this cow for many many years now they have a different opinion this place like what he's. doing a lot of people here now you don't know we saw somebody told me yesterday that 2 people have it so yes men and good men. i'm sick but they're not even treating me nobody's paying any attention on the virus who's already here even if you are in the hospital it does not help much because you cannot be cured you know i sleep in a container with other 13 people. virus has also taken its toll in economy u.s. stocks have risen slightly friday after several wall street indices suffered their worst shocks in decades of a phase the pandemic was tipping the world towards recession the bounce back came after the federal reserve pledged to inject $1.00 trillion dollars to the markets

to ease the strain thursday the dow jones industrial average fell 10 percent of the single day marking the biggest decline since black monday in 1087 remember that other major american indices also closed significantly lower donald trump gave that rare oval office address to the nation seem to cause more problems that it may have solved it failed to come investors' nerves about the economic damage that 19 is causing. this is not a financial crisis this is just a temporary moment of time that we will overcome together as a nation and as a world. our bus team across the an r t they've gathered some experts together to see if they thought the same as donnington another factor of play is oil at seeing a price drop in a supply searches at the prices you can watch the program on full it's interesting r.t. dot com or you tube channel. this is the beginning of the greatest financial crisis in u.s.

history the financial crisis of us of 2008 will pale in comparison as will the severity of this recession the summer when we look back to these numbers it's going to look externally graham i think where i differ with with my friend peter is actually think it's possible that we could get out of this thing pretty quickly come the fall in the winter i think peter has a bit of an apocalyptic view talk about the coronavirus that's not the problem no the coronavirus is just the pin the debt bubble is the problem it doesn't matter the coronavirus can be cured the damage is already gone the debt bubble is imploding you know if it wasn't a coronavirus it would have been something else this bubble has been looking for in 3 years and it finally found one the us has done everything wrong this stimulus package is as is utterly pointless the this is just government officials trying to make headlines and make news and do what they think they're supposed to do but it means nothing in the fiscal stimulus would mean nothing but i think we're faced

with with the short term deflation as we've seen from from virtually prices and everything from financials to oil to the fiscal stimulus is going to make the situation worse the us is broke did your is no money to stimulate the economy all we could do is print money we're going to crank up the printing presses we're effectively dropping money from helicopters but it's no coronavirus does anything it's going to reduce the supply of goods so after this initial decline in prices prices are going to go up because there's not going to be very much to buy the supply of goods is going to go down meanwhile the supply of money is going to go through the roof this next another whistle blows cold out the international chemical weapons watchdog it's now the full faith and then in a matter of months all of them counting on the other p.c. investigation into the alleged 2018 chemical attack in syria's duma you know most simply describes an atmosphere of fear within the organization. the threats of

personal home is not an illusion or else many of those would have spoken out by now how many more whistleblowers have to come forward before we get the truth the full truth surrounding the o.p.c. w.'s final report on the alleged duma chemical attack back when it had only 2 naysayers it was easy enough to dismiss them as a couple of lunatics inspectors a and b. are not whistleblowers they're individuals who could not accept that their views were not backed by evidence but after a 3rd came to their aid in february and now a 4th the o.p.c. w.'s narrative that they're just a bunch of rogue employees is starting to seem incredible and the organization's final report on dumas alleged chemical attack has some serious doubts to contend with the leaks publisher gray zone said it was able to verify the identity of this 4th employee but decided to leave them anonymous for their own protection here's what the leak had to say i was horrified in similar i'm surprised by recent events in the organization the mistreatment of 2 highly regarded in accomplished

professionals can only be described as opponents i fully support their endeavors in that it is for the greater good and not for personal gain or in the name of any political agenda they are in fact trying to protect the integrity of the organization which has been hijacked and brought into shameful disrepute it was the o.p.c. w.'s final report that was used to justify bombing runs by the u.s. france and britain across syria the report cited claims that gas canisters were air dropped by assad's air force on buildings housing civilians but if the original whistleblowers revelations are true they change the picture entirely that would mean the final report was utterly mishandled the duma a fact finding mission team was cut out of the drafting of the final fact finding mission report the instruction of the chief of cabinet who then appointed the team and the head of the fact finding mission to complete the task without any consultation with the duma seen the draw. to subsequent we reversed the findings

and wrote conclusions without explaining why we simply do not understand what new facts science medical opinion and engineering and what subsequent analysis justified the stern round whistleblower number 4 even suggests that this situation is only part of a larger problem is that the o.p.c. w. working in the organization has been owing opener and the cause of the professional shame when i became aware of how a key element of the organization was and clearly continues to be mismanaged i am one of many who was stunned and frightened into silence by the reality of how the organization operates the letters and demands a full investigation into the whistleblowers allegations but based on the way the organizations handled criticism so far many think such a demand is more like a pipe dream russia's already reacted calling the watchdog not to dismiss the planes too quickly of particular interest is the fact that this whistleblower unlike the other 3 were so blowers is possibly a current employee at the o.p.c. w.

technical secretariat and is watching this unfolding mess in the hague 1st hand we hope that the mounting criticism of the technical secretariat from the people concerned over the o.p.c. w.'s health will not be left unheeded focus on some headlines over the middle east next iraq has announced that it's going to complain to the un security council of u.s. led air strikes that left 6 iraqis dead last night on friday the british and american ambassadors were summoned for questioning in baghdad iraq has taken a firm stance so far stating that washington's actions will have a definite effect on relations. the u.s. bombing of government security in civilian headquarters undermines counterterrorism efforts and disrupt the agreement between iraq and the global coalition the pentagon claims it was targeting the iran back to ca type hezbollah militia which it accuses of carrying out a deadly rocket attack against coalition personnel 2 days before the u.s.

has said it's a tell a tree as strikes were sort of strikes were aimed at taking out 5 of the paramilitary groups weapons storage facilities in response to this attack on an iraqi base that hosts coalition forces supporting the iraqi fight against isis we carried out precision defensive strikes to degrade and destroy it vance conventional weapons that have been provided to keep could keep hizbollah by there are any and backers we are in iraq to support the people of iraq in their fight against isis however we always reserve the right to defend our forces whenever they're attacked or threaten the iraqi authorities though say no they say the so-called precision strikes actually killed 3 government soldiers 2 police officers in a civilian an unfinished airport in the city of karbala was also damaged it taxes be met with some anger in the capital. think ahead are there let me about it we condemned the attacks on popular mobilization forces sites in the rock iraq has become a war zone for internal and external wars america in the run of fighting one of

them threatens the other and ultimately iraqis are the ones who for victim. scores are being settled between america and iran and it is happening on our soil it violates our sovereignty it while it's our rights we are calling for the united nations to intervene. but. i am surprised that the government is ignoring such actions as you condemn both sides iran and america their actions violate iraq's sovereignty which has become a joke among countries in the region and around the world so truculent rush is a foreign policy adviser to the iraqi parliament he told us the ongoing u.s. military presence is proving to be extremely harmful for his country. it's ties the what here for iraq it's also a job or ties the life of iraqis but does not forget the american attacks actually killed iraqis just civilians and policeman so i doubt the iraqis always are the

victims i don't think the americans will withdraw it will not happen by themselves while the actually they paid trillions of dollars since 2003 it's it's not it's my thought is that there is no sense of withdrawal from iraq without getting anything from iraq it can be happen if the iraqi political blocs and the iraqi people united together and say to iran and to the united states ok that's it we will not accept you what you are destroying our country you are killing our civilians so of that way i think only on that way we can change the situation in iraq. a few places on earth or a sense of identity is more keenly felt the jerusalem in the east of the city though the fear right now among palestinians living there and how washington's referred to them in a new human rights report they described as arab residents or no one israeli citizens or middle east correspondent paula slee has been gauging more reaction in

the city. what's in a name a lot if you live in east jerusalem and a palestinian but washington has decided to simply ditch the palestinian identity of those who live here in east jerusalem the state department now considers them arab residents or non israeli citizens the move has infuriated many with palestinian leaders saying it's an attempt to wipe out their national identity it's just playing with fire and may not as he stands means nothing to us and by the way resent us from iran it means nothing to us we out of the old united people of the palestinians when i say i'm pretty soon going in some places they don't like they don't they want us to say we are israelis and if i am palestinian who is trying to say anything this is our land our country our state the state of palestine but i'm not going to leave this nationality while freedom fighters here. give rights to

decide our life and he says it's hot air this land is for the arabs it's our land we were born here in israel this is east jerusalem which israel captured in the 1967 war it's late it makes the area and it moves that is still not recognized internationally more than 360000 palestinians or non israeli citizens live here most of them hold israeli residency permits but very few have israeli citizenship they've long sought to make this area they kept the change in american terminology comes amid increased wrangling over the contested city the american president donald trump's middle east plan says that your recent him should remain the softened capital of the state of israel for ever policia east jerusalem political analyst amr oren in tel aviv told us to palestinians could have more political leverage in israel that would be the accepting israeli citizenship.

residents all for. east jerusalem the palestinian residents could claim israeli citizenship and in death case they could vote in the elections to the knesset and flip the government from netanyahu to his adversaries but. choose not to do it choose to remain loyal followers stimulus and this is where they clash with both the netanyahu government and the trumpet in this race for the united states has. used various in order to describe israel the west bank and gaza strip you can. look it up throughout the years it has changed so we've got time for so far more cold more not very social media here moscow cuts 1 27 in the morning is kevin owen saying thank you for watching sean thomas is back with more just over half an hour that between

now and then the inevitable larry king is on the air with his latest politicking here on r.t. international. on. the. oh. oh.

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important to accelerate transitions to sustainable transport sustainability. a more equitable and sustainable well. they claim their production is completely hama's. it's a complex. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something else just as he went any minute i mean look. this is the move in unison we do want to. underscore the superman. we have to realize we are all living on a small fragile spaceship together and it's really no different than a bunch of people in a harsh environment trying to rely on each other to survive we are interconnected

on this plane. we rely on each other for who around the world to survive as a species. the chinese government says it's corona virus infection rates have stabilized but can the world trust those claims asia x. what gordon chang weighs in on this edition of public. welcome to politicking i'm larry king as the corona virus outbreak worsens in italy japan and the united states china when the pandemic began says his new infection rates have stabilized and the rest of the world trusts the information coming from this chinese government as begin with gordon chang asia x. weight control.