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

by their morning just want to end this very early sunday morning in moscow welcome to the program live from the r.t. international world to center my name is kevin and here is service for the next 30 minutes for the latest as reported from russia and its coronavirus unfortunately topping the several countries in the last 24 hours of declared an emergency in response to the covert 19 pandemic spain joins neighboring european nations which is struggling with containment measures the u.s. has limited travel now from europe the restrictions also affect military personnel there according to the pentagon while the big news the last couple of days was that donald trump announced the u.s. is stepping up its risk level and their full 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

very important and a large amount of money for states and territories or localities in our shared fight against this disease present from sold to us energy officials to purchase large amounts of oil to fill up the nation's emergency reserve after the biggest price crushing years trumps also spotted an opportunity to to boost sales for the pharmaceuticals industry at home because the pandemic but is pushed by american could have the effect of hitting consumers in the pocket more quarter explains next . 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. but. the order.

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 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 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 that 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 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. the more the effects the coronavirus global stock markets recovered slightly friday after suffering the biggest drop in 30 years or so the world's $500.00 wealthiest people collectively lose nearly $444000000000.00 in the net worth of either which way has brothers were plenty of money they're buying too it seems they're more than came to use their cash to keep the coronavirus 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 . you know. 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 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 to rise to much more. large scale plagues united states charges people die. thousands of dollars for coronavirus tests and surely doesn't have enough tests to go around for some reason they have tests available for the bridge 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 to. private doctor things that the vast majority of people can 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 continuing to get worse yes big concerns a lot of people free labs maybe and 0 contracts in the service also patella t. sectors particularly on childcare and told it coming in and those people running small businesses to let restaurants talking to which he said rallies bring to the british capital to see firsthand how the catering industry is coping right now as diners literally have been avoiding restaurants and cafes out of fear. london is one of the world's top form a food capitals with eateries offering cuisine from every country you can imagine

chinese in the tightly in 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 of the red races either since for us. case from the u.k. we immediately have to come so late for all of the reference and maybe one weeks later since. we lost our own think to return.

until now a wrong maybe 6 weeks we lost our wrong 6080 percent over that our normal feast days were no lockdown you 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 pizzas and pastors are now struggling to get by the people don't know how to. always stay home. in 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 changing and we're supposed to get busy that is nothing as you can see there where i sit on the launch i mean i don't when i say that. about up and we are in the standalone these reserving 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 the same immediately and restaurant no more but what it will do to the display was people are free to being wrong. so your drive of 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 you or anything it's i think if you put that. and i think that people that are kind of so this is what makes this just sad i tell you when it is trying 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 knocked down maybe more than just the once popular italian and chinese restaurants that see the trade devastated east to london. in other world news this morning the u.s. military is confirm that a barrel of rockets if it a base housing american and other coalition troops near baghdad in the 2nd such

attack on the facility this week spokesperson said saturday that 3 coalition personnel and 2 iraqi soldiers were wounded in the incident the 1st bombardment which had come on wednesday left 2 american service personnel and one british soldier dead that triggered retaliatory u.s. air strikes against iranian link shia militia but according to the iraqi authorities 5 regular military personnel and one civilian were killed but dad says there will be consequences for relations with washington over it 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 around back to 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 conceived

as by 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 are attacked or threaten iraq's president though said that the strikes which also badly damaged their port being built in the holy city of karbala mounted in fact for violation of his country's sovereignty he also suggested to me that such attacks by undermining the iraqi state could risk and i still receive the u.s. reprisals also met with anger in the capital baghdad. and i think i had. we condemned the attack some popular move lies ation forces sites and the rock iraq has become a war zone for internal and external wars and now rick in the run of 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 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 on the wrist told us that despite donald trump's anti interventionist campaign promises doesn't see u.s. troops withdrawing from iraq any time soon. from the beginning trouble just looking about the necessity to withdraw from an endless war he attempted to draw down the troop presence in syria or is this basically a little all over. the place 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 to really be loyal you know iraq is very well rich country iraq is a special case. with that in mind i think that 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 a lot bases or the iraqi actions don't be to up to target these groups from launching more attacks are going to kill american bases. much more ahead including a ban on mass gatherings because of the covert 90 it's not kept french yellow vests activists from coming out of force that we got the pictures we got the story so those were back. special times. going down around the. big surprise for those of you watching.

the death of something. kind of conflict between where one is trying to reconstitute the old way of doing things but it doesn't work. working with people. between so again. through all of the. beginning.

of the. hundreds of yellow. in the french capital today it's the 70th consecutive week of. scuffles with police. seating a 100 people in order to prevent the spread of a. deadly virus but it didn't stop as you can see it was graphically this week's protests demonstrators saying they want president mccrone to realize they have not gone away despite it all around 2000 police officers have been deployed to disperse the activists rally comes a day before french voters head to the polls on sunday to vote in those local

elections that are planned which is still going ahead despite the health crisis. and other whistleblowers calling out the international chemical weapons watchdog it's no the 4th person then in a matter of months all casting doubt on the o.p.c. w.'s investigation into the alleged 2018 chemical attack in syria's duma the anonymous employee this time 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 to the former experts earlier did come forward to denounce the o.p.c. w.'s report on the alleged chemical attack in doomer in syria where the

organization found that the government was guilty of using chemical weapons against civilians but those former employees said in fact they took part in the investigation on the ground and further they claimed evidence that suggested as they saw it the attack could not have been conducted as described in the report undermining its conclusions others have claimed the attack may have been staged and as for the o p c w it denies the accusations insisting there's no evidence to support those claims in february then a 3rd person came forward accusing the organization of attempting to smear those former employees the latest was a blow and now is strongly criticized 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 unheeded with or with the more i think become increasingly difficult for them to say that they are rolled 6 sector 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 us government and they think that all we're being protected by you know powerful entity so that we need to go law on and you know 8 let's just hope that there is more integrity and more the the integrity that the 4 whistleblowers have shara 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. and was described as from his worst of a child sex abuse scandal or retired surgeons 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 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 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 you can go kill or kony support for divorce he 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 its only obsession with his collection of images and this need to put his fantasies on paper.

the next morning the story of 2 swedish nurses who say they were denied jobs as midwives because of their religious beliefs while they failed to get the case is the latest by the european court of human rights in fact it declined to take it the case saying that sweden acted lawfully. the court observes that sweden provides nationwide abortion services and therefore has a positive obligation to organize 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 of a back story about the nurses retrained as midwives but refuse to nonetheless to carry out abortions because of their christian faith swedish law that requires midwives to do that to carry out the procedure that women have already lost several court battles against the authorities saying they suffer discrimination but the 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 that is 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 the convention 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 then the procession should make accommodation for that there are many medics around the world less and indeed just as these midwives themselves say who went into the profession who choose his profession because that or about life there or about saving life not about ending life and the very nature of a fortune and life so weighty topic to end on as no however you're watching us from wherever possible this one especially holed up at home watching the t.v. with all the coronavirus thing going i wish you all the best for the weekend of a nice rest the weekend stay safe and healthy keep up with a with your stories about who don't comb or a social media my name is kevin owen is 27 minutes past one of the morning of moscow where our next programs for you are on our very shortly after this break.

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i'm after a time see and welcome to going underground amidst a coronavirus crisis and ahead of next week's planned istanbul summit between you leaders as nato member turkey threatens the e.u. for alleged violations of international refugee law coming up on the show i was boris johnson's government declares support for thursday's u.s. warplane attack on iraq killing iraqi soldiers police on to civilians how is the kurdish community in iraq supported u.s. policy ahead of monday's on a 1st rate of the holiday joe massacre weaponized by britain and the united states we speak because representative to the u.k.

call on jamal to hear and what now for afghanistan up to trump begins repatriating thousands of us soldiers the revolutionary association of the women of afghanistan tells us what was achieved in the longest war in u.s. history plus up to 10 years of austerity and one of the lowest numbers of all spittal beds because during the western world has new come a tory johnson the next u.k. budget promised enough to tackle coronavirus we asked former scotland secretary david mundell all this and more going up in today's going on the ground but 1st i'm here the d. contemporary gallery in mayfair in london with the high representative of the united kingdom of the kurdistan region of iraq call one jamal to hear thank you so much for inviting us into the gallery can i just ask you 1st tell me about the exhibition here in london and how it is inspired by the journeys of a community that is what up to 35000000 people in the world yes well thank you so much for having me today and thanks for coming to this.