to unleash the full power of the federal government of the separate today i am officially declaring a national emergency the us steps up its response and to thwart the spread of the credit virus following suit with other countries across europe and asia. as the greek island of lesbos records its 1st infection locals fear they will not be able to cope while a contending with an overcrowded refugee camp. if it gets like the 2 it will be doomed because the island only has one hospital is precisely what east let's hope a lot of people here and now you don't know we saw. also u.s. markets react to a show of support from washington making gains after stocks took their worst hit

since the 1987 black monday crash this time caused by investor fears over handling of a covert 1000 crisis. are broadcasting live direct from our studios moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us right several countries have declared an emergency on friday in response to the outbreak of covert 19 spain joined a number of other european nations which are struggling for containment measures and now donald trump has announced 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.

a large amount of money for states and territories are these in our shared flood 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 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 wasn't 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 us 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 they've lindorff founding editor of the online news site and this can't be happening believes the u.s. is not ready to deal with the pandemic. the horses 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 corona virus 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 organization has warned that more $1000.00 cases are now being recorded in europe each day than in china at the height of the outbreak there its director general called on countries everywhere to take aggressive measures to slow the spread of illness. europe has now become the epicenter of the pundit make we reported cases and is done the rest of the women combined product from china more cases of now being reported every day than we reported in china the highest it's. not the height of its appeal to me. before the warning announcement for europe u.s. president donald trump had already placed a ban on foreigners flying into the u.s.

from 26 year period nations public figures are not immune either the canadian prime minister is isolating for 14 days after his wife tested positive for covert 19 following a visit to the u.k. around the world more than 130000 infections have been registered with the death toll now at 5000 countries are clamping down on people mixing in public schools and workplaces are being closed and major sports events postponed but with anxiety spreading just as fast as the virus is providing opportunities for the unscrupulous as dubinsky reports now from paris. with panic in no short supply of virus hearing from 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 told watch on her and when you're out in the pouch touching everything

from. $200.00 to picking up things in shops it's a bit difficult to run into a both room and just 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 ringing this morning we had the schools the town halls the public transport company everybody was joe we are under siege with demand far outstripping supply the cost of jail exponentially increased the problem was considered so serious the french government stepped in to you that today when you take care of the degree regulate the prices of hydrocodone a gels another precaution for many is to do on a face mask a tiny bit of cough covering your mouth and 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 arena and 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 of masks 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 world 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

on the spot following these students were 1st to pay a 150 euros and find smoke policeman for having broken the law that bans complete face covering in public spaces police investigation found the d.'s police were pretending to be police wearing a mask for health reasons is absolutely not illegal. there are trying to pick on the weak 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 they're up to this type of canvassing allows these crooks to enter your home check the presence of valuable objects of the presence of an alarm system 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 gaining momentum the french national consumer and ford office says it's received thousands of reports of dog dealings we're talking everything from magical lumps with disinfecting properties to antivirus purifier is the simple and most effective method to stay virus free is something that we should all been doing anyway and that is the early washing our hands with soap and water it's that simple . so remember to kiss well physically as we've been told what is is such but the acronym keep it simple stupid don't get caught. paris here in russia 11 new cases of corona virus have been confirmed bringing the total number of people infected to 45 across the country moves are being made to

clamp down on any further spread now health officials have announced flights to the european union plus switzerland and norway will be reduced starting monday passengers will be limited to travelling to capital cities only. the crisis is posing unique difficulties for one of greece's smaller outlying islands one case has now been registered on lesbos which is host to a densely packed refugee camp where more than 20000 are living in dire conditions evangelise success has been speaking to some of the islanders. i'm standing here in front of the area refugee camp in the listless research we're about 20000 refugees are held in an area that was initially built for 2000 people area it's not the base 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 coronavirus around the world

a lot of the people are concerned he went around and spoke to the locals to see what he had to see a little fear of a virus like that spreading that. if it gets like it too it 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 lead the infection spread further you can imagine what will happen. with them and there will be many issues and they'll be big the virus is likely to spread very fast it will only be moria that's affected but also my tooling the whole island of lesbos will be in trouble i have family on the island. of course i'm afraid here we have our homes our farms our jobs they say many bad things about us but it's us daylan with this issue but as the locals are raising concern about such a belief iris on the island. nothing of those cases have been confirmed here at camp but as we went around at least 2 refugees who are living in the scalp

for many many years now we have a different opinion. but at least. a lot of people you don't know we saw somebody told me. 2 people how many. i'm sick but they're not even treating me nobody's paying any attention the virus is 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 people. in a krone virus is driving a rollercoaster on wall street as well u.s. stocks were covered on friday after several indices suffered their worst shocks in decades over fears the pandemic is tipping the world's towards recession the bounce back comes after the federal reserve pledged to inject $1.00 trillion dollars into the markets to ease the strain and it has been a wild ride for investors over the past week on thursday the dow jones industrial

average fell 10 percent in a single day marking the biggest decline since black monday in 1987 it then recovered over 9 percent or nearly 2000 points on friday president trump gave a rare oval office address to the nation on the krona virus but failed to call investors nervous about the economic damage covert 19 is causing this is not a financial crisis this is just a temporary moment of time then we will overcome together as a nation and as a world. boom bust has gathered expert analysis to try and map out where the stock market is heading besides covert 19 another factor at play is oil just seeing prices drop and a supply surge can watch the program in full on our 2 dot com and of course our you tube channel. this is the beginning of the greatest financial crisis in u.s. history to financial crisis of us 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 really graham i think 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 to 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 that corona virus can be cured the damage is already done 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 u.s. has done everything wrong this stimulus package is is 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 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 u.s. 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. international more news that short break stay with us. special times require special reporting of course the kaiser report has been

anticipating so much of what's going down around the world it's not a big surprise for those of you who've been watching us for so many years. you see every passage is a death of something all passages involve some kind of conflict in between where one is trying to reconstitute the old way of doing things but it doesn't work as a service i'm often working with people in those in-between so again i think the key is how do i find my path through all of this and where do i find innocent those moments we have to start beginning to trust what is coming from within.

welcome back this is our t. international now another whistleblower has called out the international chemical weapons watchdog it is now the 4th person in a matter of months all of them casting doubt on the o.p.c. w.'s investigation into the alleged 2800 chemical attack in syria's duma you know ominous employee described 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 organizations 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 and similar to the i'm surprised by recent events in the organization the mistreatment of 2 highly regarded and 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 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 team the drug. to subsequent to reverse the findings and road 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 knowing open 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'm

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 has already reacted calling on the watchdog not to dismiss the claims too quickly of particular interest is the fact that this whistleblower unlike the other 3 whistleblowers 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 we spoke to a former f.b.i. agent and whistleblower coleen rowley she says the more people come forward the more difficult things will get for the o.p.c. w.

. with 4 whistleblowers it becomes increasingly difficult for them to say that they are wrong sick senator and of course we would hope maybe even more whistleblowers would come out at this time this is a classic problem powerful entities and especially if they are lying to the u.s. government and they think that oh we're being protected by you know powerful entities so that we need to go along and you know let's just hope that there is more integrity and more the integrity that the 4 whistleblowers have shown let's just hope that they can muster more people with that kind of integrity again to fix this organization which is really needed in the world. and some developments coming from the middle east this hour iraq has announced it is going to complain to the u.n. security council over u.s. led air strikes that left 6 iraqis dead on friday on friday and 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. forming of government security and civilian head courses undermines counterterrorism efforts and disrupt the agreement between iraq and the global coalition the pentagon claims it was targeting the iran backed. hezbollah militia which it accuses of carrying out a deadly rocket attack against coalition personnel 2 days earlier the u.s. has said it retaliated torrie 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 conceive hizbollah by their

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 that the so-called precision air strikes actually killed 3 government soldiers 2 police officers and a civilian and unfinished airport in the city of karbala was also damaged the attacks have been met with some anger in the capital and i think ahead. we condemned the attacks on popular move. the sites in the rock iraq has become a war zone for internal and external wars america in the run the fighting one of them threatens to beyond it and ultimately iraqis are the ones who for victim. schools are being settled between america and iran and it is happening now soil it violates household rinty it while it's our rights now 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 dr roshini is a foreign policy adviser to the iraqi parliament he told us that the ongoing u.s. military presence is proving to be extremely harmful for his country. it's. the so what if iraq it's also the life of iraqis but let's not forget the american attacks actually killed iraqis just civilians and and a policeman so i think. it's always the victims i don't think the americans will withdraw it will not happen by themselves what they actually they paid trillions of dollars since 2003 it's it's not it's my thought is that there is no sense of draw 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 well that way i think only on that way we can change the situation in iraq. there are a few places on earth where i sense of identity is more keenly felt than in jerusalem in the east of the city though there is fury among palestinians living there at how washington refers to them in a new human rights report they're described as arab residents or not israeli citizens our middle east correspondent paul sleeper 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 resistance on an israeli citizens the move that has infuriated many with palestinian leaders saying it's an attempt to wipe out their national identity it's just playing with 10 men out as it stands means nothing to us and by the way many can go to resent us. that means nothing to us we. people of the palestinians when i say i'm pretty senior and in some places they don't call. 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 i'm not going to give this national freedom fighters' the. rights to decide. 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 on an 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 the capital the change in american terminology comes amid increased wrangling over the contested city the american president donald trump's middle east plan says such a recent should remain the softened capital of the state of israel for ever. r.t. east jerusalem political analyst amir oren in television says jerusalem's palestinians a could have more political leverage in israel but that would mean accepting israeli citizenship. the residents off. the palestinian residents could claim israelis hipper than sheep and in that case they could vote in the elections to the knesset and flip the government from to his adversaries

but. choose not to do it choose to remain loyal palestinians and this is where they clash with both the government and the. united states has. used various terms in order to describe isro. the west bank and the gaza strip you can. look it up throughout the years it has changed and it does a from we'll be back in about 30 minutes and 30 seconds with more to stay with us.

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