we do. understand that it's going. 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 to thwart the spread of the corona virus following countries across europe in asia. or the trunk of illustration also seeks to restrict medical imports now from china which could cause prices in the u.s. to surgery across it and also the news a base hosting u.s. and other coalition forces near baghdad is struck for the 2nd time in a week leaving 5 injured. pm saturday night welcome to the program live from the out international world news

center my name is kevin oh in the next 30 minutes for the latest headlines thanks for your time richard and around the world so that it's coronaviruses start again unfortunately several countries in the last 24 hours have declared an emergency in response to the covert $1000.00 pound mc spain joined neighboring european nations which is struggling to contain it the u.s. is limited travel from europe and the structures also affect military personnel there according to the pentagon and of course the big news the last 24 hours as well donald trump announced the u.s. is stepping up its risk level and therefore 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 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 when trump declared a national emergency that freed up roughly $50000000000.00 worth of bonds 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 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 to these local measures we now have the federal government of the united states under the leadership of president donald trump declaring a national emergent. 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 well going through

his head president trump has spied no opportunity to boost sales for the pharmaceutical industry though because of the pandemic nobody's push to buy american could hit consumers in the poke it too is little quarter explains next tonight. 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. coronavirus 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 you 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 one 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 its forgotten one crucial point pretty much all u.s. antibiotics vitamin c. pills 1st aid supplies are supplied by chinese companies americas and chinese restaurants that see the trade devastated. let's check in on some other news tonight now the u.s. military has confirmed that a barrel 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 saturday that 3 coalition personnel and 2 iraqi soldiers were wounded in that incident now the 1st. on wednesday left 2 american service personnel and one british soldier dead that triggered retaliatory u.s. airstrikes against the iranian linked shia militia but according to the iraqi authorities that 5 military regular personnel and one civilian were killed dad says there will be consequences for relations with washington. 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 around but it could type 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 conceived hizbullah 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 threatened but iraq's president said that those strikes which also badly damaged an airport being built in the holy city of karbala amounted to a violation of his country's sovereignty end of the day he also suggested that such attacks by undermining the iraqi state could risk an i still receive the u.s. proposal reprisal was also met with anger in the capital baghdad. and i think i had to marvel at the about it that we condemned the attacks on popular move through the sites and the rock iraq has become a war zone for internal and external wars and now rick in the run the fighting one of them threatens to be out there and ultimately iraqis are the ones who for victim . schools are being settled between america and iran and it is happening in our

soil it violates our soul 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 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 at a risk told us that despite donald trump's anti intervention his campaign promises he doesn't see u.s. troops withdrawing from iraq any time soon. from the beginning trial asked looking about the necessity to withdraw from the endless wars he attempted to draw down the troop presence in syria or is this basically. just that. but iraq is the one place in the middle east which has not spoken about troop withdrawals which from production and i think a lot of that might be used to really be oil you know iraq is very well

restructuring iraq is a special case. with that in mind i think that it 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 a lot bases all the iraqi actions don't work that these groups are launching more attacks targeting american bases. defying a ban on mass gatherings aimed at containing the coronavirus despite all the hundreds of yellow vests activists about out in the french capital saturday it's the 70th consecutive week of anti-government demonstrations and the latest release or scuffles with police to.

hear some pretty nasty scenes there as you can see on friday the french government banned all gatherings exceeding 100 people in order to try to prevent the spread of a deadly virus but that didn't stop this week's protests demonstrators saying they want president mccrone to realize they have not gone away 2000 police officers have been deployed to disperse the activists but rally comes a day before french voters head to the polls to vote in local elections still they're still going ahead despite the crisis watching out internet. thank you for it too it's exactly 20 minutes past the hour ahead another whistle blower steps the shadows with allegations against the international chemical weapons watchdog more like his claims against the o.p.c. w next.

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in the depths. or a maid in the shallows. again another whistle blowers calling out the international chemical weapons watchdog it's not a 4th person then in a matter of months or casting doubt on the o.p.c. w.'s investigation into the alleged 2018 chemical attack in syria's duma the anonymous employed describes an atmosphere of fear that. working in the organization has been an 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 well 2 other former experts earlier came

forward to denounce the o.p.c. w.'s report on an alleged chemical attack in 2 more in syria where the organization found the government guilty of using chemical weapons against its civilians the former employees though 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 others have claimed the attack may have been staged for its part the o.p.c. w. denies the accusations insisting there is no evidence to support those claims in february that a 3rd person came forward accusing the organization of attempting to smear the former employees the latest was so blowers know strongly criticize 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 russia is no calling on the watchdog to not be hasty in dismissing their 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 on he did with 4 whistleblowers to become creasing lee 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 of 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 that 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. was described as france's worst of a child sex abuse scandal retired 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 john's like hospital the authorities i don't know at what level were already aware of this and no one intervened to prevent him from being recruited to them you know some people. even if it's not his family who are healed the less chronic 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 pickle clinical 6. so you can support if you also get 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.

to swedish nurses who say they were denied jobs as midwives because of their religious beliefs have failed to get their case heard by the european court of human rights it declined to take up the case saying sweden acted lawfully. the court observes that sweden provides nationwide abortion services and therefore has a positive obligation to organize his health system to ensure that the effective exercise of freedom of conscience of health professionals does not prevent the provision of such services but a back story those nurses retrained as midwives but refused to carry out abortions because of their christian faith swedish law that requires midwives to carry out the procedure women had already lost several court battles against the authorities saying they suffer discrimination cases 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 convention could 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 they're all about saving life not about ending life and the very nature of abortion and life. so just over a minute i see what else is how they run the world in egypt whether the the worst storms in decades or thoughts have killed at least 20 people many of the deaths attributed to collapse buildings road accidents and electrical incidents flooding those severely affected transport links let me say this still without power running water. chili about public gatherings there hasn't deterred angry crowds from rally against the president calling from the quotes again widespread. inequality and the push for constitutional reforms the months of. protests police respond with tear

gas and water cannon dear old italy next. well at least streets may be deserted because of the coronavirus curfews but certainly. nationwide italians have been taken to the balconies to break up the required thinking of instruments bursting into song as you do in a flash move to lift the spirits. and i think they say. they see it too in these rather testing times us face and keep calm and carry on where we are watching. tonight specially if you hold up the watch t.v. . all the best day well have a nice weekend best you can keep up to date with all the rest of our. social media i'm kevin. back in about the next programs are lined up for you after this break.

you see every passage is a death of something all passages involve some kind of conflict 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 the key is how do i find my path through all of this and where do i.