to unleash the full power of the federal government and the separate today i am officially declaring a national emergency the us them stepping up its response to the spread of the corona virus following countries across europe and asia. while the trumpet ministration also seeks to restrict medical imports from china now which could cause prices of the u.s. to surge for. another user base hosting u.s. and other coalition forces near baghdad is struck for the 2nd time in a week leaving 5 injured.

there is called midnight to very early sunday morning and here in moscow welcome to the program live from the r.t. international world news center is kevin now in here you save us for the next. hello there is called midnight a very early sunday morning and here in moscow welcome to the program live from the r.t. international world news center is kevin now in here you save us from the west is limited to travel from europe now instructions also affect military personnel there according to the pentagon while donald trump of course also this early weekend announced the u.s. was stepping up its risk level and response. to unleash the full power of the federal government to this 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

very important and a large amount of money for states and territories or localities in our shared fight against this disease. if in the meantime elsewhere president truman sold us energy officials to. have oil to fill up the nation's emergency reserves biggest prize crushing need is. an opportunity to boost sales for the pharmaceuticals industry because of the because well it has pushed to buy american could hit consumers in the poke it is don't call to report. if 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 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. 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 us antibiotics vitamin c.

pills 1st aid supplies are supplied by chinese companies america is basically pharmaceutically dependent on china if china banned their exports of drugs the us 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 at the very top of the 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 that we have is 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 anyway 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 on 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 is a crisis someone is 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 to go see netflix co-op or other you know online watching platforms hulu or whatever the case might be and same thing with medications. are the ramifications the money side of this global stock markets recovered slightly friday after suffering the biggest drop in 30 years it saw the world's $500.00 wealthiest people collectively lose nearly $444000000000.00 in their net worth either which way as for others with plenty of money in the bank it seems that they're more than keen to use their cash to keep the coronavirus a 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 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 all their best injures on their way to their seat. because the ration tends to be very soft is into any virus i see the super rich will be less effective than the rest of us simply because they have the means to us all 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 for some reason and they have tests there just

before 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. private doctor 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 vastly quality inequality that hasn't been seen in american history and it's just continuing to get worse. yes real big worry for people to be free logs from 0 contracts in the service an isp or tele he said his mother calls one of these small businesses as well tough times now graphically see in this next is eastern rally he went on to the streets of the british capital see 1st time the catering industry is coping as dion is literally 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 who's famous chinatown was once thriving in crowded now the tables are empty on this i mean we already have. time for them if a week you need to know our own him a nice if we can do you have to kill our own for 30 minutes and raise all of the referees in this other cities force the case. from the u.k. we immediately have to come for all of us to to leave the reference and maybe

one weeks later since. we lost our own think to return. until now are wrong maybe 6 weeks we lost our wrong 6080 percent over that our normal knees 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 impedes isn't pastors are now struggling to get by the people don't know how to 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 see. in the launch doesn't have it up and we are in this and that alone these reserving story is one of the main street between. us well. there is nothing new so struggling that people are scared to stay around you know we all slum that is what they make of the corona. love italian food but they don't get the immediately investor and the will to the display was people are afraid to being around people so your dry. over 400 years didn't have you notice recently that the business is quiet. what is going down and down because people are scared

they are scared of hearing chinatown you can see this weekend nobody's 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. i think if you put that. and i think that people that are kind of sort of says that this is just sad i tell you when it's time to say. that it's likely ok so i'm here when we're hungry 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 lockdown maybe more than just the once popular italian and chinese restaurants that see the trade devastated east london let's check on some other news next this morning 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 last week a spokesperson said saturday that 3 coalition personnel and 2 iraqi soldiers were wounded in the incident the 1st bombardment was hit camp taji on wednesday left 2 american service personnel and one british soldier dead that triggered retaliatory u.s. airstrikes against an iranian linked shia militia but according to iraqi authorities 5 regular military personnel and one civilian were killed in it baghdad says they will be consequences for relations with washington now moving forward 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 maintains it was targeting the around but could type hezbollah militia with the aim of trying to take out 5 of the groups weapons storage facilities. in response to this attack on an iraqi base that hosts coalition forces supporting the iraqi fight against isis we carried out precision defensive strikes to degrade and destroy it vance conventional weapons that have

been provided to keep conceive hizbullah by 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 their ex-president said the 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 eisel resurgence the u.s. reprisals also met with anger in the capital baghdad to. think ahead are there let me about it we condemned the attacks on popular move lies a synthesis sites in 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 who for victim. schools are being settled between america and around and it is happening in our soil it violates our silver inti it wiley's how right 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 on the wrist told us that despite donald trump's antin to eventually his campaign promises he doesn't see u.s. troops withdrawing from iraq any time soon. from the beginning trying to look at about the necessity to withdraw from the endless wars he attempted to draw down the troop presence in syria and is now made an agreement on the benefits that it wants . but iraq is the one place in the middle east which trump has not spoken about your troop withdrawals or troop reduction and i think a lot of that may be used related to the oil you know iraq is very well restructuring iraq is

a special case for him 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 possible operations or the actions don't be to up to target these groups from launching more attacks are going to kill american bases. there defying about on mass gatherings and corrupt content of the coronavirus hundreds of yellow vest activists nonetheless protesting in the french capital saturday it's their 70th consecutive week of anti-government demonstrations and their latest trial is already seeing more scuffles with police.

that. means. wind and back a bit friday the french government banned all gatherings exceeding 100 people in order to prevent the spread of the deadly virus that's not stop this week's protests though as you can see demonstrators saying they want president to really realize that they haven't gone away to step up to the plate as they see it around 2000 police officers being deployed to disperse the activists this rally coming a day or less the day now before french voters head to the polls to vote in local elections which are going ahead despite said coronavirus crisis. and other whistleblowers calling out the international chemical weapons watchdog it's now the 4th person in a matter of months all casting doubt on the o.p.c. doublers investigation into the alleged 2800 chemical attack in syria's duma the anonymous employee describes an atmosphere of fear they're working in the organization has been open and the cause of the professional shame when i became

aware of how a key element of the organization was and clearly continues to be mismanaged i'm one of many who was stunned and frightened into silence by the reality of how the organization operates the threat of personal harm is not an illusion or else many others would have spoken out by now. 2 other former experts came forward to denounce the o.p.c. w.'s report on alleged chemical attack in december in syria where 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 there further they claimed evidence that suggested there the attack could not have been conducted as described in the report undermining its conclusions others have claimed the attack may have been staged indeed as for the o.p.c. denies the accusations insisting there's no evidence to support those claims then in february a 3rd person came forward accusing the organization of attempting to smear the

former employees we talked about another latest was a blow as 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 no calling on a 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 heated with 4 whistleblowers it becomes increasingly difficult for them to say that they are wrong sick senator and of course we would hope maybe even more whistleblowers would come out at this time this is a classic problem of powerful entities and especially if they are linked 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. in most described as from his worst child sex abuse scandal a retired surgeon is going 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 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 to them you know some people. even if it's not his family who revealed the less crime 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 that can call clinical 6. 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 pedophilia from getting out he locked himself up cut all social ties his only obsession with his collection of images and this need to put his fantasies on paper. next this morning the story of 2 swedish nurses who say they were denied jobs as midwives because of their religious beliefs and have failed now to get their case heard by the european court of human rights it declined in fact to take up their case saying sweden it acted lawfully. the court observes that sweden provides nationwide abortion services and therefore has a positive obligation to organizes health system to ensure that the effect of

exercise of freedom of conscience of health professionals does not prevent the provision of such services but in the back story the nurses retrained as midwives but refused to carry out abortions because of their christian faith but swedish law requires midwives to carry out the procedure women had already lost several court battles against the authorities saying they'd suffered discrimination now less their 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 those only hire doctors ruling 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 convicted 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 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. around the world in just over a minute and i would guess is incredibly rare occurrence in egypt look at whether

there they've had the worst storms in decades thought to have killed at least 20 people many of the deaths are being attributed to collapse buildings road accidents and electrical incidents flooding severely affected transport links and many say they're still without power and running water keep you posted on else which really about their own public gatherings hasn't deterred angry crowds rally again. the president calling from the quits is happening again widespread anger over inequality and a push for a constitutional reform of same months of unrest violence of the latest protests so riot police respond with tear gas and water cannon now italy. this is nice to see at least streets maybe deserts because of the coronavirus curfews but they are most certainly not silent nationwide italians are taking to their balconies to break up the very quiet they pick up instruments simply burst

into song 'd in a flash mob move to lift the spirits while stuck at home ben 1st though a tally is so if we accept the good on the 11 to see it in these rather testing times keep calm and carry on as they say course if you have stuck at home at the moment holed up there watching t.v. and watching us all the better for it thank you for it was appreciated for me and the rest of the team in russia stay well and have a great weekend my name is kevin owen i'm back with more in half an hour's time on our programs continue for you after the break thank you.

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