we need to be reached. to unleash the full power of the federal government that the separate today i am officially declaring a national emergency the u.s. steps up its response then to thwart the spread of the coronavirus following countries across europe in asia. of illustration also seeks to restrict medical imports from china which could cause prices in the u.s. to search for across that tonight. and in other news face hosting u.s. and other coalition forces near baghdad is struck for the 2nd time in a week leaving 5 people injured. there 8 pm saturday night one welcome to the program live from the arts international world news center my name is kevin for the next 30 minutes with the

latest headlines and corona virus in the headlines again the no surprise tonight several countries in the last 24 hours of declared an emergency in response to the covert 19 pandemic spain joined neighboring european nations which is struggling with containment measures right now and the u.s. has limited travel from europe restrictions also affect military personnel there according to the pentagon or donald trump's 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 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 so that he can then use to take action 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 tatted 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 to these local measures we now have the federal government of the united states under the leadership of president donald trump declaring a national emerged. see on a federal level an 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 in the coronavirus is seen president trump spy to an opportunity to boost sales for the pharmaceuticals industry at home but his push to buy american could hit consumers

in the pocket as double quotes are reports. 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. for. 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 americas 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 and 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 work we have you know shored many of these production of items not maybe the product itself but maybe a component of the product that's very basic and anyway come to united states to get more you know manufacture 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 are going to be at home so we'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. financial side of this global stock markets recovered slightly friday after suffering their biggest drop in 30 years

the route sought the world's 20 as wealthy people collectively lose nearly $80000000000.00 in their net worth while as for others were plenty of money in the bank it seems they're more than keen to use their cash to keep coronavirus virus at bay. you know. if. you'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.

members who are traveling commercial at using to be elite services a day or boards not your typical 1st class lounge for example private terminals chicken customs and security members can request for the jetted to be cleared so they minimize the interactions with other passengers on their way to their seat. because the ration tends to be very active intending virus i think the super rich

will be less effective than the rest of us simply because they have the means to us in much more interested in 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 for some reason they have tests of richest people and at the same time as so many people are worried about whether or not they're going to ask where a check for they're going to do about child care because so many schools are closing all these problems meanwhile you have people spending millions of dollars to go to go to private islands to go to. private doctor things that the vast majority of people can't office order and i do think it will continue to polarize society because this is a vastly quality inequality that hasn't been seen in american history and it's just a teeny to get worse. other elements of this anxiety of reflections also impacting

people's eating habits around the world has done is avoid restaurants and cafes peace rally next tonight reports from london. london is one of the world's top food capitals with eateries offering cuisine from every country you can imagine chinese in 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 who's famous chinatown was once thriving in crowded now the tables are empty on this i mean we are to be the referee. for them every week you need to queue our own pen to favor him a nice if we can do you have to kill our own for 30 minutes and raise all the red

races either since force the case come from the e.u. ok when he made the 3 have to come to laziness for all of the team in the reference . maybe one weeks later a sense of can are of a. we lost our own think to return. until no wrong maybe 6 weeks we lost our wrong 68 percent over to our normal business or were no lock down you know but we still lost a lot of business and italian restaurants tell the same 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 u.k. and again that's had a devastating impact as businesses which did a brisk trade in pieces and pastors are now struggling to get by the people don't know how to stop these things so the only way home. the

business go. down i don't know how we're going to reach the end of the month i don't know how we how we don't know. we're not working enough to keep it open every day in the morning in the beginning of the week in the morning most of the week we have clothes you know 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 say that. doesn't know about up and we had in this on the lawn these reserving street is one of the main street between. us where. there is nothing is so struggling that 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 immediately investor and no more so what they would 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're asking handing tracked. you can see this weekend nobody's here and then like month ago full of people here would put you off eating at restaurants do you think it's. actually a different. thing. i think if you put that. and i think that people that are kind of still says that it's just sad i tell you when it's time. it's lovely ok so i'm here when we're angry will get in the restaurant and that's probably every day as more countries inevitably go to war with covert 19 and the u.k. faces the prospect of an italy style complete knocked down maybe more than just the once popular italian and chinese restaurants that see the trade devastated east

london. it's exactly. some of the world news now tonight in the u.s. military to confirm that a barrage of rockets have hit a base housing american and other coalition troops near baghdad in the 2nd such attack on the facility this week a spokesperson said on saturday that 3 coalition personnel and 2 iraqi soldiers were wounded in that incident the 1st bombardment which hit camp taji on wednesday left 2 american service personnel and one british soldier dead that triggered retaliatory u.s. air strikes against a radio link shia militia but according to iraqi authorities 5 regular military personnel and one civilian were killed but dad says there will be consequences for relations with washington ongoing now the u.s. bombing of government security and civilian headquarters undermines counterterrorism efforts and disrupt the agreement between iraq and the global coalition well the pentagon claims it was targeting the iran backed hezbollah

militia with the aim of taking 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 it could buy 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 are attacked or threatened but iraq's president said the strikes was also badly damaged an airport being built in the holy city of karbala amounted to a violation of his country's sovereignty he also suggested that such attacks by undermining the iraqi state could risk and i still resurgence the u.s. reprisals also met with anger in the capital baghdad to. think ahead. we condemned the attacks on popular move the sites and the rock iraq has become a war zone for internal and external war american the run the flights and one of

them threatens to be out there and ultimately iraqis are the ones. that. schools are being settled between america and iran and it is happening there now soil he did violate. it while it's how right now we are calling for the united nations to intervene. but. i am surprised that the government is ignoring such action if 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. middle east expert a risk told us that despite donald trump's anti interventionist campaign promises he 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 the troop presence in syria and there's maybe little thought of. this but iraq is

the one place in the middle east where trump has not spoken about troop withdrawals or troop reduction and i think a lot of that may be used related to the oil you know iraq is very rich country iraq is a special case that we've got in mind i think that 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 a lot bases all the actions don't be too up to target these groups from launching more attacks wanted to kill americans. elsewhere defying a ban on mass gatherings aimed at containing the coronavirus hundreds a yellow vest activists nonetheless are out protesting the french capital this saturday it's the 70th consecutive week of anti-government demonstrations and their latest rallies already seen scuffles with police.

i. guess a messy scene is there again on friday the french government banned all gatherings exceeding 100 people in order to prevent the spread of a deadly virus but that's not stopped this week's protests though as you can see with demonstrators saying they want president mccrone to realize that they have not gone away around 2000 police offices have been deployed to disperse the activists rally comes a day before french voters head to the polls to vote in local elections which are still going ahead despite the coronavirus crisis. and the whistleblowers calling out the international chemical weapons watchdog who can report is now the 4th person than in a matter of months all casting doubt on the o.p.c.

w.'s investigation into alleged 2018 chemical attack in syria's duma the anonymous employee this time describes an atmosphere of fear within the organization. working in the organization has been eye opener and the cause of deep 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 were stunned and frightened into silence by the reality of how the organization operates the threat of personal harm is not an illusion or else many others would have spoken out by now just to rebury for you 2 other former experts earlier came forward to denounce the o.p.c. w.'s report on the alleged chemical attack in doing there in syria with the organization found the government guilty of using chemical weapons against its civilians the former employee said they took part in the investigation on the ground they claimed evidence there suggested the attack could not have been conducted as described in the report undermining its conclusions than others have claimed the attack may have been staged. the o.p.c. w.

for its part denies those accusations insisting there's 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 was a blow and now was 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's i fully support their endeavors rusher is 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 4 whistleblowers become recently difficult for them q who say that they are rolled expenditure 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 for what of lords and share our own 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 swedish nurses who say they were denied jobs as midwives because of their religious beliefs have failed to get the case heard by the european court of human rights they declined to enter the day to take up the case saying sweeten it acted lawfully the court

observed this week improvise 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 but a back story here the nurses retrained as midwives but refused to carry out abortions because of the christian faith swedish law requires midwives to be able to carry out the procedure women have already lost several previous court battles against the authorities saying they suffer discrimination but they case is dividing opinion. it is not a human right and 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 was 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 those only hire doctors were willing to provide abortion but the idea that the government should step in and tell that hospital owner that he can hire who he wants and that people can act according to convict to do their convictions is just a basic violation of personal sovereignty if you 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 that 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 there or about saving life not about

ending life and the very nature of approaching life. it was described as france's worst of a child sex abuse scandal a retired surgeons gone on trial accused of abusing hundreds of children many alleged victims have come forward including the doctors 2 nieces. i think when he arrived in the cost but all the authorities i don't know at what level were already aware of this and no one intervened to prevent him from being recruited. if it's not his family who revealed the less chronic problem it's the 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 will the pickle clinical 6. so you can go kill quinn is supposed to feel sick of he acknowledges deviant behavior and he doesn't dispute the possession of child pornography but he denies acts of penetration to prevent his paedophilia from getting out he locked himself up cut all social ties it's only of session with his collection of images and this need to put his fantasies on paper.

only seconds ago around the world in brief egypt's worst storms in decades the thoughts have killed at least 20 people many of the deaths are being attributed to collapsed buildings road accidents in electrical incidents flooding willing see if the south is severely affecting transport. links and many say they were. all running water. a ban on public gatherings in chile has none the less not deterred angry crowds from rally against the president they're calling for him to quit widespread anger over inequality in a push for constitutional reform of seeing months of unrest violence of the latest protests so what police respond with tear gas and water cannon elsewhere. to say it is it making the best of it italy's streets may be deserts because the coronavirus right now i've got friends i've been talking to them tell me what

they're going through but they're certainly not silent nationwide italians are taking to their balconies to break the eerie quiet as people pick up an instrument or simply burst into song in a flash mob move to lift the spirits while stuck at home good only it's really. nice to see it in these testing times i think the motto is keep calm carry on as they say wherever you're watching us this weekend all of us see the team with safe and pleasant weekend more hours he'll come from us in our news more of various social media money was kevin owen here in moscow back with more in just over half an hour we've got some great programs lined up for you and your part of the world after the break coming up and joining.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for in duration let it be an arms race is on the offense very dramatic development only really going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical daryn time to sit down and talk. to.

the f.d.a. as primary role is and regulation of what the label says is and there is actually in there's the f.d.a. is not regulating quality production sourcing any of those things they're regulating that what you say is on the label is actually on the label the most shocking thing about the pet food industry that has remained since basically i started doing this work is the f.d.a. compliance policies i still cannot understand how and industry is provided by a federal tax supported organization loopholes to avoid federal law if you go to the f.d.a. website and just type in compliance policies and then scroll down the pain.