interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because they're already making a good $1000000000.00 on it and there's no reason to do that research. to unleash the fold power of the federal government that the separate today i am officially declaring a national emergency the us steps up its response to thwart the spread of the coronavirus following countries across europe and asia. for the trumpet ministration also seeks to restrict medical imports from china which could cause prices in the u.s. to search. in the u.s. coalition base near baghdad is reportedly struck for the 2nd time in a week as a test for time strikes cause the innocent casualties and your anger from iraq you lead.

a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron our top stories several countries declared an emergency on friday response to the covert 19 pandemic spain joined in neighboring european nations which are struggling with containment measures the u.s. has limited travel from europe the restrictions also affect military personnel there according to the pentagon while donald trump has announced the u.s. is stepping up its risk level and response. to unleash the full power of the federal government the effort 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 loco that is 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 one trump declared a national emergency that freed up roughly $50000000000.00 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 trump 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 trump touted it 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 the. or than 500 people broadway has been closed down in addition to 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 iran a virus and get us through this crisis here in the united states the coronavirus crisis has seen president trying to buy an opportunity to boost sales for the

pharmaceuticals industry at time but his push to buy american could hit consumers in the pocket has done. it's too little too late for donald trump's ban on european visitors panic has already set in and hordes of coronavirus doomsday preppers are already raiding supermarket shelves. and. they want. corona virus has already spread to well over 100 countries and territories worldwide pandemic according to the u.n. it doesn't care about your race creed or class even millionaires like tom hanks and his wife announced they have fallen ill and while china's all but got its own coronavirus situation under control washington still putting most of the blame for everything and anything connected to the pandemic on china the one virus that began

at the end of last year you called it the womb on virus chinese communist party has said that this is where the virus started china has unleashed this plague on the entire world through their dishonesty and their lack of transparency and corruption at it rather than using best practices this outbreak and why it was covered up you'd think they'd understand that being the origin of a pandemic was out of beijing's control but while washington continues to throw shade it's forgotten one crucial point pretty much all u.s. antibiotics vitamin c. pills 1st aid supplies are supplied by chinese companies america's basically pharmaceutically dependent on china if china banned the experts of drugs the u.s. would sink into the how of the novel coronavirus at the demick and that's given washington more than just the coronavirus to panic about i think it's been clear for a while now that we are far too reliant on china for domestic production especially

for essential products that we rely on and of course our medical supply chain is the. the very top of that list the corona virus outbreak has made clear we must combat america's supply chain vulnerabilities and dependence on china in critical sectors of our economy the coronavirus crisis puts into sharp focus the unacceptable dependence of the u.s. on china for critical medicines and their ingredients by american trend has gained new traction as a result trumps trade advisories even suggesting a change in federal law that would force the feds to buy from american companies if we have strong buy american procurement that will establish a robust base level of demand that provides the appropriate incentives for our pharmaceutical manufacturers to invest and locate domestically worried yet with all of big pharma profit making schemes in the past the outrageous lifelong cost of hiv treatment in the u.s.

spiking the prices of insulin it doesn't take an economist to wonder how the already high price of drugs might skyrocket the destruction of the supply chain is what drives the market we have all you know short many of these production of items not maybe the product itself but maybe a component of the product that's very basic and then we come to united states to get more you know manufactured so clearly it underlines how vulnerable we are as a 1st world country you know in china to produce these basic products so while you and i see the coronavirus pandemic as a tragedy of world significance big business will try every which way to turn it into a profit making extravaganza for themselves of course whenever there's a crisis somewhere there's always there to make some money off it come on you know now you're going to start seeing people going to be at home you're going to see netflix go up or other you know online watching platforms hulu or whatever the case might be and same thing with medications. global stock markets recovered slightly

on friday after suffering the biggest drop and if there were absolutely wild 20 wealthiest people collectively news nearly $80000000000.00 in the net worth as for others with plenty of money in the bank it seems that more than came to use that cash to keep coronavirus at bay. you know. we're putting extra resources into recruiting and lead educators able to provide interim private tutoring as demand is high this is driving up to their salaries and

tuition prices and. you know. members who are traveling commercial at using to book elite services a day or ports not your typical 1st class lounge for example private terminals checkin customs and security members can request for the jetted to be cleared so they minimize the interactions with all their best injures on their way to their seat.

because the ration tends to be very effective is intending the virus i think the super rich will be less effective than the rest of us simply because they have the means to us and much more to rise to much more. large scale plagues united states charges people die. thousands of dollars for corona virus tests and surely doesn't have enough tests to go around but some reason they have tests available for the richest people and at the same time as so many people are worried about whether or not they're going to have to miss work this up each at what they're going to do with child care because so many schools are closing all these problems meanwhile you have people spending millions of dollars to go abroad to go to private islands to go. private doctors things that the vast majority of people 10 office or and i do think it will continue to polarize society because this is a vast inequality in inequality that hasn't been seen in american history and it's

just a teeny to get worse. anxiety of infections is also impacting paper of eating habits around the world has done as a void eating out reports next from london. london is one of the world's top food capitals with eateries offering cuisine from every country you can imagine chinese on the telly and food are among the more popular choices but as with almost every other aspect of everyday life coronavirus has disrupted the restaurant industry google trends data shows that interest in the secrecy and has plummeted since the crisis began from the beginning of the year interest in chinese food has fallen by 33 percent globally by 34 percent in the u.k. this restaurant and so whose famous chinatown was once thriving in crowded now the tables are empty. why repeat the restaurant. for example if a week you need to queue our own favorite him

a nice if we can do you have to queue our own for 30 minutes raise all the right reasons but there are serious 1st case come from the u.k. we immediately have to come so late for all of the tea leaves reference and maybe one weeks later since a corner of our. we lost our own think to return. until no wrong maybe 6 weeks we lost our wrong 68 percent for with our normal business i would no lock down you but we still lost a lot of our business and italian restaurants tell the same sad story as italy has been on the forefront of the fight with coronavirus interest has plunged by 24 percent globally by 10 percent in the k. and again that's had a devastating impact as businesses which did a brisk trade in pizzas and past is now struggling to get by the people don't

know how to read these things so the only ways they home. in the business are go down down down i don't know how we're going to reach the end of the month i don't know how. how we don't know. we're not working enough to keep it open in the morning in the beginning of the week in the morning most of the week we have clothes we feel we. saw now the weather is strange and we're supposed to get. there is nothing as you can see there where i sit on the launch i mean the one i see. in the launch doesn't know about up but we are in this and that alone the story is one of the main street between. where. there is and nothing is so struggling the people are scared to stay around you know we all slum that is what they make of the corona juice anxiety love italian food

but they don't get. any telly and restaurant no more what they want to do the display was people are afraid to being around people so your drive of 400 years didn't have you notice recently that the business is quiet. one is going down and down because people are scared they are scared of handing chinatown you can see this weekend nobody is here and then like months ago full of people here would put you off eating at restaurants do you think it's. actually a different. thing this i think if you were with. the people that kind of sort of says well it's just sad i tell you and many restaurants. it's lovely ok and so i get when we're hungry will get in the restaurant and that's probably every day as more countries inevitably go to war with 19 of the u.k. faces the prospect of an italy style complete looks maybe more than just the once

popular italian and chinese restaurants that see the trade devastated. iraq is secure. efficiency a barrel of rockets has again his her base housing u.s. and other coalition troops near baghdad is the 2nd attack on the facility this week and wednesday 2 american service members and one british soldier were killed by u.s. retaliated on friday with as strikes against an iranian linked group but 6 iraqis were killed in that operation leaders in baghdad say there will be consequences for relations with washington. the u.s. bombing of government security and civilian headquarters undermines counterterrorism efforts and disrupt the agreement between iraq and the global coalition the pentagon claims it was targeting the iran backscatter 8 hezbollah militia to take out 5 of the group's 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 continue his ball by they're already in 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 threatened but the wrong thing is friday so called prestige and strikes actually killed 3 government soldiers 2 police officers under civilian airport under construction in the city of karbala was also damaged but u.s. reprisals has been met with anger in the capital. those that get ahead are the little we condemned the attacks on popular mobilisation forces sites and the rock iraq has become a war zone for internal and external wars american the run the fighting one of them threatens the other and ultimately iraqis are the ones who for victim. schools are

being settled between america and the round and it is happening on our soil it while a tell 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. the middle east expert ali risk told us that despite donald trump's anti interventionist campaign promise says it doesn't see u.s. troops withdrawing from iraq anytime soon. from the beginning trial and spoken about the necessity to withdraw from the endless wars he attempted to draw down on the troopers and serial there's no maybe. just there but iraq is the one place in the middle east which has not spoken about the troop withdrawals or troop reduction and i think a lot of that may be news related to the oil you know iraq is

a very rich country iraq is a special case there and. with that in mind i think he will try as much as possible to keep the american troops in iraq but it is expected that the americans will face more and more of these attacks because the bombings of the hospital are places all the iraqi actions don't be too up to target these groups and more attacks targeting american bases. in other words the blow is calling out the international chemical weapons watchdog it's now the 4th person in a matter of months or casting doubt on their p.c. w.'s investigation into the alleged 2018 chemical attack in syria's duma they don't must employ it describes an atmosphere of fear within the organization working in the organization has been no eye-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'm

one of many who was stunned and frightened into silence by the reality of how the organization operates the threats of personal harm is not an illusion or else many others would have spoken out by now. so you have the former experts earlier came forward to denounce the o.p.c. report on an alleged chemical attack in duma in syria where the organization found the government guilty of using chemical weapons against its civilians the former employees said they took part in the investigation on the ground they claimed evidence that suggested the attack could not have been conducted as described in the report undermining its conclusions others have claimed the attack may have been staged. or their p.c.'s have you deny is the accusations insisting there is no evidence to support those claims in february a 3rd person came forward accusing the organization of attempting to smear the former employees the latest whistleblower has now strongly criticized the o.p.c. w.'s behavior the mistreatment of 2 highly regarded and accomplished professionals

can only be described as a parent i fully support their endeavors russia is now calling on the watchdog to not be hasty in dismissing the claims. 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 with for with the lord to become recently difficult for them to say that they are role 6 extra and of course we would hope maybe even more works of lords would come out at this time this is a classic problem powerful entities and especially if they are linked to the us government and they think that all were being protected by you know powerful entity

so that we need to go on and you know let's just hope that there is more integrity and more the the integrity that the 4 whistleblowers have charlotte let us hope that they can muster more people with that kind of integrity again and to fix this organization which is really needed in the world. to a swedish nurses who say they were denied jobs as midwives because of their religious beliefs that have failed to get the courts heard by the european court of human rights it declined to take up the case saying sweden acted unlawfully the court observes that sweden provides nationwide abortion services and therefore has a positive obligation to organize his health system to ensure that the effects of exercise of freedom of conscience of health professionals does not prevent the provision of such services the nurses retrained as midwives but refuse to carry out abortions because of their christian faith so it is law requires midwives to carry

out the procedure the women had already lost several court battles against the authorities saying they suffered discrimination but they case is dividing opinion. it is not a human rights stuff to refuse to provide care this is an important decision that in the long term will help to protect women's health who i do good quality care and to be treated with respect when seeking an abortion we are very disappointed by the court's decision not to take up the cases medical professionals should be able to work without being forced to choose between their deeply held convictions and their careers i think that the owner of a hospital has every right to hire or fire somebody bed is a will is not willing to do something that they want that person to provide so for example somebody owns a hospital they can say i want every doctor here to be willing to provide an abortion and there's only hire doctors were willing to provide an abortion but the idea that the government should step in and tell bad hospital owner that he can't hire who he wants and that people can't act according to convict could do their

convictions is just a basic violation of personal sovereignty if you have a as a person have a conviction that life is precious and worthy of protection and that to be saved and that you are doing the job because you believe just that then the procession should make accommodation for that there are many medics around the world and indeed just as these midwives themselves say who went into the profession who chooses profession because that all about life they're all about saving life not about ending life and the very nature of abortion and life. and was described as france's worst ever child sex abuse scandal or tied surgeons going on trial accused of abusing hundreds of children many alleged victims have come forward including the doctor's 2 nieces.

i think when he arrived in cost battle the authorities i don't know at what level were already aware of this and no one intervened to prevent him from being recruited and so. if it's not his family who revealed the esquire next problem it's a little 5 year old girl who was raped in her own garden shed light on one of the biggest sexual predators one of the biggest pedophiles in french criminal history so all of the.

news cycle but he acknowledges deviant behavior and he doesn't dispute the possession of child pornography but he denies acts of penetration to prevent his pedophilia from getting out he locked himself up cut all social ties his only obsession was his collection of images and this need to put his fantasies on paper . the news in brief egypt's worst storms in decades i thought to have killed at least 20 people many of the deaths are being attributed to collapse buildings road accidents on the electrical incidents but they have severely affected transport links and many say that without power. running. a bomb on public gatherings in

chile hasn't deterred angry crowds from rallying against the president calling for him to quit widespread anger over inequality and a push for constitutional reform have seen months of on breast violence at the latest protest song riot police responded with tear gas and water cannon. and this in the streets may be deserted because of the coronavirus curfews but that's certainly not silence nationwide musicians are taking to their balconies in a flash mob to break the air we quiet as people pick up an instrumental burst into song to lift the spirits all stop at home. we love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories they do get in touch by following us on social media and leaving all your comments that join us again at the top of the hour for all the latest headlines.

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 therapist 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 innes in those moments we have to start beginning to trust what is coming from within. max kaiser this is the kaiser report the pandemic it dition special times require special reporting of course because report has been anticipating so much of what's

going down around the world start a big surprise for those of you who've been watching us for so many years is that right stacey max it is a continuation of the pandemic and the pandemic response in a pandemic situation we also have the oil wars going on allegedly some oil wars we have russia versus saudi arabia the price crash you know it kind of started with when the opec plus when they met you know saudi arabia essentially and russia and russia decided not to cut any production based on the decline in demand out of china and elsewhere but also right after that saudi arabia offered up to a $10.00 discount per barrel just because i guess. they'd been solomon got a little bit upset and threw a temper tantrum so that's what happened there but you know that seismic sell off a 30 percent and then followed by a like 101213 percent rise and boom bust and boom bust i thought this was an

interesting tweet to kind of look at the whole situation is from royce we went to the last episode and he was so prescient about this pandemic situation when he predicted sort of a pandemic basically that negative rates were signaling that he predicted that last june or july he says i think we have just witnessed the end of the petrodollar system non us countries will soon see a new unit of account medium of exchange and store of value a new bretton woods that will not be decided in america or by americans right well all the key players necessary for the. are involved right now saudi arabia russia and united states so the petro dollar of course was established in the early 1907 days with america and saudi arabia when america defaulted on its sovereign debt remember richard nixon defaulted on the dollar just halted on the treasury market and we went on the petro dollar stand.