jackson wiki leaks is julian assange allegedly being tortured in london today until monday join the underground by following us and you tube twitter facebook instagram and sound cloud. to unleash the full power of the federal government and the separate today i am officially declaring a national emergency that's the u.s. stepping up its response than just what the spread of the coronavirus countries across europe and asia had done the same thing. from the ministration also seeking to restrict medical imports from china now too which could cause prices in the u.s. than just search rick ross it. in other news a base hosting u.s. and other coalition forces the a baghdad strike for the 2nd time in a week leaving 5 injured.

hello there very good evening it's 11 pm saturday night here in moscow live from the r.t. international world news center it's a kevin service for the next 30 minutes with the headlines as reported from russia tonight 1st then several countries in the last 24 hours have declared an emergency in response to the covert $1000.00 pound demick spain joint neighboring european nations which is struggling with containment measures the u.s. is limited travel from europe the restrictions also affect military personnel there according to the pentagon and the big news of the last 24 hours to donald trump announcing the u.s. is stepping up its risk level and therefore response. to unleash the full power of the federal government to for today i'm 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 the 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 set things up now trump described 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 school 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 now the news lines in president trump spurred an opportunity to boost sales for the pharmaceuticals industry at home because of the pandemic but his push to buy american could hit consumers in the poll could 2 double quarter 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 the. 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 and 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 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 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 us 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 down we have 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 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 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. more of the money side of this global stock markets recovered slightly on friday after suffering the biggest drop in 30 years and so the world's $500.00 wealthiest people collectively lose nearly $444000000000.00 in net worth as for others have plenty of money in the bank it seems they're more than keen to use their cash to keep the coronavirus at bay. you know.

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. 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 chicken 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. interesting the virus i think the super rich will be less accepted than the rest of us simply because they have the means to us and much more trust it much more. large scale wades 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 they're all 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 a chat what they're going to do about childcare 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 can't office or and i do think it will continue to polarize society because this is a vast equality or inequality that hasn't been seen in american history and it's just a teeny to get worse well you're picking up on it's a big worry for people for so may be 0 contracts in the service and hospitality sectors and of course for those whose will business is to run them isa rally's been to the british capital for us to see firsthand how the catering industry is coping right now as diners avoid restaurants and cafes out of fear. 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 on this anyway already. 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 30 minutes away it's all the regular basis but there are serious 1st case that come from the u.k. we immediately have to kind of laziness for all of the tea leaves a reference and maybe one weeks later a sense of kind of virus and here we lost our own think to return. until no wrong maybe 6 weeks we lost our wrong 6080 percent over that our normal business i would know locked down you know 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 u.k. and again that's had a devastating impact as businesses which did a brisk trade in pieces and passed is now struggling to get by the people don't know how to read these things so the only way home. in the business i 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 in the morning and the beginning of the week in the morning most of the week we have closed you know we feel we. saw now the weather is strange and we supposed to get. there is nothing as you can see there where i sit on the launch i mean when i say that we. launch

a dozen of it up and we are in this handle on this story is one of the main street between. where. there is and 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. any telly and restaurant no more but what they will 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. of handing chinatown you can see this weekend nobody's here and then like months ago full of people here will put you off eating at restaurants and you think it's. actually a different. thing it's i think that people with. people that

are kind of successful and it's just sad i tell you and many restaurants. in this lovely ok and so i get when we're hungry will get in the restaurant 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 rust. but to see their trade devastated is the only artsy london. other news tonight the u.s. military is 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 saturday that 3 coalition personnel and 2 iraqi soldiers were wounded in that incident now the 1st bombardment which hit camp taji on wednesday left 2 american service personnel and one british soldier dead that triggered retaliatory u.s. airstrikes against

a rainy and linked shia militia but according to the iraqi authorities 5 regular personnel and one civilian were killed in it baghdad says there will be consequences for relations now going forward 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 but 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 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're attacked or threatened but never ex-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 he also suggested that such attacks by undermining the iraqi state could risk an isolator surgeons the u.s. reprisal was also met with anger in the capital baghdad. and i think i had to marvel at the about it and we condemned the attack some popular move lies a synthesis sites and the rock iraq has become a war zone for internal and external wars american the run the fighting one of them threatens to be out there and ultimately iraqis are the ones so for victim that. schools are being settled between america and iran and it is happening in our soil it violates our soul rinty 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 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. middle east expert at

a risk told us that despite donald trump's anti intervention his campaign promise says he doesn't see u.s. troops withdrawing from iraq any time soon. from the beginning trial has spoken about the necessity to withdraw from the endless wars he attempted to draw down the troop presence in syria are those that made it clear to. us that it was. 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 may be used to be oil you know iraq is very rich country iraq is a special case. with that in mind i think 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 of a lot bases all the actions don't work that these groups from launching more

attacks are going to kill american base. a focus on france to find a battle mask other ngs aim to contain the corona virus there nonetheless hundreds a yellow vests activists have been out protesting in the french capital this saturday it is their 70th consecutive week of anti-government demonstrations and the latest rallies already seen scuffles with police. on friday the french government banned all gatherings exceeding 100 in order to prevent the spread of the deadly virus but that didn't stop as you can see for yourself this week's protests with demonstrators saying they want president mccrone to realize that they have not gone away around 2000 police officers have been

deployed to disperse the activists that rally coming a day before french voters head to the polls to vote in local elections which are still going ahead despite. crisis exactly 20 minutes past 11 moscow time this late saturday evening ahead another whistle blower steps out the shadows with allegations against the international chemical weapons watchdog more than on the latest claims against the o.p.c. . special times require. so much of what's going down around the world a big surprise for those of you watching us here.

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 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 innocent those moments we have to start beginning to trust what is coming so. i get as much before the break that another whistle blower and i was calling out the international chemical weapons watchdog it's now there for the 4th person in

a matter of months all costing on the o.p.c. investigation into the alleged 2018 chemical attack in syria's duma an anonymous source employee who describes an atmosphere of fear there. 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 well of course to other former experts earlier did come forward to denounce the o.p.c. w.'s report on the alleged chemical attack and do more in syria where the organization found the government guilty of using chemical weapons against its civilians now these former employees said they took part in the investigation on the ground further they claimed evidence that suggested there that the attack could not have been conducted as described in the report therefore undermining its

conclusions others have claimed the attack may have been staged as the o.p.c. w.b. denies those accusations insisting that there's no evidence to support the claims that in february 3rd person came forward accusing the organization of attempting to smear those former employees the latest will supply or is no 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 i fully support their endeavors russia's 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 on he did with 4 whistleblowers to become recently

difficult for them to say that they are wrong sick senator out and of course we would hope maybe even more worst of wars would come out at this time this is a classic problem of power full entities and especially if they are linked to the us 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. it was described as france's worst of a child sex abuse scandal a retired surgeon is going on trial accused of abusing hundreds of children many alleged victims have come forward into adult his 2 nieces.

i think when he arrived in the 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 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 short of the pinnacle pinnacle 6.

you can support for divorce it could 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. the story next about 2 swedish nurses who say they were denied jobs as midwives because of their religious beliefs and who failed now to get their case said by the european court of human rights it declined to take up the case saying sweden it

acted lawfully. the court observes that sweden provides nationwide abortion services and therefore has a positive obligation to organize its health system to ensure that the effective exercise of freedom of conscience of health professionals does not prevent the provision of such services a little back story the nurses retrained as midwives but refused to carry out abortions because of their christine faith swedish law that requires midwives be able to do that the women had already lost several court battles against the authorities saying they suffered discrimination but the cases defied it 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 those 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 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 profession 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 abortion ends life. rather well for some more news in brief egypt's worst storms in decades are thought so killed at least 20 many of the deaths have been attributed to collapsed buildings road to the electrical incidents flooding severely affected transport links and many say that without power or running water still chilly. about on public gatherings hasn't deterred angry crowds from rallying against the president calling from the quit in the good widespread anger over inequality and the push for a constitution. reform of seeing months of unrest while unset the latest protest saw police respond with tear gas and water cannon now italy. this is nice to see considering what the italians are going through streets may be deserted because the coronavirus but this really not silent good on the nation what

italians are taking to the kidneys to break the eerie quiet as people think up an instrumental simply burst into song as you do in a flash more to lift the spirits while stuck at home but in fact though it's sort of good on you could live to see that these testing times keep calm carry on as they say rev you watching us around the world specially hold up right now at home in quarantine or something like that thanks for watching us take the time that we appreciate it have a nice weekend for me kevin 0 in the rest of the team check out our social media or our. newsroom in just over a half more programs after this break. but as we talk about trouble he's gonna demystified this whole political space if you weren't clear before like these folks are no better than us so you know i you know you can reach out to friends say you know take responsibility maybe.