today. we reached. the biggest stories of the week on our team nations worldwide close borders and businesses and livelihoods suffer as the coronavirus has officially declared. the oil prices took a major hammering tube how severe travel restrictions were more widely imposed we looked out the ramifications. looking ahead to the democratic party's 2 hopefuls for a head to head clash and sunday night's debate with joe biden on the front foot atop the beating but he's on this and this week's round of primaries.

it's the weekend here a lot international where we talk through the stories that got the most attention this week. and let's start of course with coronavirus the effect of close at 19 all proving in crease me and escapable one way or another among the latest developments donald trump has tested negative $1000.00 off to have met with the brazilian official who later turned out to have the inspection. last night after an in-depth discussion with the president regarding cobbett 19 testing he elected to proceed this evening i received confirmation that the test is negative so the virus seemingly hasn't managed to wrestle it away into the white house but it's having a devastating effect on the lives of the $156000.00 plus who are known to be infected with the consequences rippling through jobs businesses and with scores of

events cancelled as people are told to stay reporting that here's a course none of. fear is growing fear is that someone discovered an actual jumanji aboard the real world in an almost biblical like game of pandemonium. thing right here in. europe and locusts are actually swarming the middle east and africa as you're watching this but one crisis is of course overshadowing all others the coronavirus and the world health organization is confirming our worst fears in the plans 2 weeks the number of cases of course viewed 90 you know to. include so as to unfold. and the number of affected countries has 3 people we have that for

many of the our system and that 19 can be kind of. a pandemic it's been a nightmarish shock week for stocks to the worst plunge in decades wiped trillions of dollars from the market for the average american it meant the crisis lifted more than $20000.00 out of each citizens pocket also fueling the quick sell off season donald trump's announcement that all european holidaying plans are to be cancelled to keep new cases from entering her sure's we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days the u.k. being one of the few countries to evade the initial ban was perhaps some very sad irony when london publicly and apparently gave up on all efforts to contain the disease eventually vice president mike pence thought better and added the country

on the banned list too but america's major indices. he's kept reeling as if it were the stocks themselves that had caught covered 19 shaken with fever even the federal reserve's absolutely massive cash lifeline utterly failed to pay to the market's black as trump struggled with a response this is not a financial crisis this is just a temporary moment of time that we will overcome together as a nation and as a world meanwhile europe officially took up the torch from china as the new epicenter of the pandemic even big jean offered its condolences and as cities and all nations went on lockdown reactions have been mixed from ransacked supermarkets to prison riots to some making the best of the situation.

globally almost all major sporting events have been either canceled or postponed leagues championships and public gatherings are all on the banned list so until this jumanji board is cleared of what lessons can we learn well be bald be careful. and wash your hands. well you hurt and wash your hands plus with anxiety spreading just as rapidly the coronavirus is providing opportunities for the unscrupulous as cited to bensky reports from paris . with panic in no short supply of virus hearing from some enterprising individuals well shysters to be more precise being concocting a variety of scams to make a quick buck now we're all well aware that the 1st line of defense against the

virus is total watched on her hands when you're out in the pouch touching everything from. $200.00 to picking up things in shops it's a bit difficult to run into a both room to scrub. every time well thank goodness of course those little travel sized bottles of hand sanitizer to fight those nasty germs and that is of course if you can still find eddie the phones don't stop ringing this morning we had the school the town hall the public transport company everybody was gel we are under siege with demand far outstripping supply the cost of gel exponentially increased the problem was considered so serious the french government stepped in and do you that today when you take the degree regulating the prices of hydraulic holic jelled another precaution for many is to dawn a face mask

a tiny bit of cough covering your mouth and is this season's must have it seems the face mask took over paris fashion week so if you have the money instead of paying a couple of euros for one you can spend thousands if you like except that the type of mask available over the counter or even from a renowned fashion house is pretty useless against the virus that's at least according to the french government which at the same time is requisitioned all stocks and production over masks for the next few months reserving them for health workers and those who are infected but. the scammers have a new ploy france has you probably know a world famous ban or fully covering your face in public that's mainly aimed at conservative muslim women but some tricksters have twisted it to their advantage dressing as police officers they've been told getting chinese visitors to paris who

were wearing face masks telling them that they had broken the law and had to pay an on the spot following these students were 1st to pay a 150 euros and find smoke policeman for having broken the law that bans complete face covering in public spaces police investigation found the d.c. police were pretending to be police wearing a mask for health reasons is absolutely not illegal. there are trying to pick on the weak and the elderly in the district around bordeaux there are reports of people selling door to door decontamination services for a snip at 1500 euros these con artists use a pressure washer to do a little bit of cleaning that's not all they're up to this type of canvassing allows these crooks to enter your home check the presence of valuable objects of the presence of an alarm system perform if they have the opportunity

a robbery by trick the majority of the victims of robbery and elderly who are physically weaker tell your loved ones to take precautions and the scams it seems gaining momentum the french national consumer and ford office says it's received thousands of reports of dog dealings were talking everything from magical lumps with disinfecting properties to anti virus purifiers the simple and most effective method to stay virus free is something that we should all been doing anyway and that is the early washing our hands with soap and water it's that simple . remember to kiss well not physically as we've been told want to be is a search but the acronym keep it simple stupid and don't get cold shoulder to ski r.t. paris meanwhile other areas face unique difficulties for example the small greek island of last boss recorded its 1st infection

a few days ago but it's also struggling to house more than 20000 refugees in a crowded camp where conditions are dire evangelise sepsis has been hearing islanders concerns about coping with this new health crisis. i'm standing here in front of the laurier refugee camp in the listless riess were about 20000 refugees are held in an area that was initially built for 2000 people area it's not the base when it comes to fighting in the conditions are not the ideal for people living in such a small area but now with the spread of corona virus around the world a lot of the people are concerned he went around and spoke to the locals to see what they had to say about a fear of a virus like that spreading among the camp. if it gets like italy will be doomed because the island only has one hospital it is good if they manage to isolate one or 2 of those infected with corona virus one of the feel and lead the infection

spread further you can imagine what will happen but when to move them ago there will be many issues and they will be big the virus is likely to spread very fast it could be maria that's affected but also my telling the whole island of lesbos will be in trouble i have family on the island and of course i'm afraid if we have our homes our jobs they say many bad things about us but it's us who are dealing with this issue but as the locals are raising concern about such a bit leaked virus on the island and jewels are ensuring that nothing of those cases have been confirmed here at the morea camp but as we went around and we spoke to refugees who are living in this cow for many many years now they have a different opinion the splits like witnessed. a lot of people here and now i don't know we saw somebody told me yesterday that 2 people have it's young men and. that's why i'm sick but they're not even treating me nobody's paying any attention

but these kind of virus is already here even if you are in the hospital it does not help much because you cannot be cured you know i sleep in a container with other people who are seen up. anchors are warning the world to brace for an economic shock the head of the european central bank says he does need to act me to contain the spread of infections global stock markets have suffered rockwood fools in recent days crude oil prices also took their sharpest weekly dive since the 2008 financial crisis as supplies far outstrip drying demond it wasn't just down to the health crisis though a price war broke out which saw saudi arabia diggin off the oil producing nations failed to reach agreement on cutting production next now more on looks at the possible consequences 2020 will go down in history is the year where everything that could do went wrong subject that has dominated the news all week.

to grow the virus spreading fears grow of a global pandemic a huge spike in cases where the price is down more than 22 percent earlier today the biggest loss since the launch of the gulf war the saudis have launched and oil price markets are getting punched in the face a decent bottle of wine is now more expensive than a barrel of oil which as a consumer you might think isn't too bad i mean cheaper fuel truck seems to think it's good. good for the consumer gasoline prices coming down so here's my question what's the point of cheap fuel when you can't drive or fly anywhere because of an epidemic because of corn team al lines are clearly not going to stock up on kerosene all sorts of derivatives fuel derivatives will experience less demand as traveling goes down that is going to be one of the factors that will likely keep b.

or cries depressed now you are starting to get my we the whole world is facing catastrophe it isn't just one problem it's many and they feed each other they multiply each other 1st the airlines suffer fuel cheap but no one's flying anywhere no one travels tourism collapses meaning millions of people lose income if millions stop making money they stop buying stuff so the factories shut down meaning more people lose jobs and so on of course we have the impact of the crisis which is made by the corona virus spreading around europe italy we have just seen it and then of course the. situation with oil which is a bit complicated and so far i've never seen anything like this i've been back to it on the market being even more pressure to it and we have seen what the outcome is now will we get to the crux of it think a little trip back to 2008 he is

a graph showing the u.s. debt market in 20082 trillion it collapsed because bankers high on greed gave out loons to people to buy houses that they couldn't afford we hove to lease that they had learned their lesson watch what they did next since then they've loaned out 3 and a half times as much the us shale industries they're now selling oil cheaper than it costs them to. juice the airlines with no passing just the hotels with no guests the businesses with no clients in 2008 the world's economy collapsed because a bunch of people missed the house payments now entire industries are on the verge of fooling like dominoes we have had the 1st that worst broke in the privacy in the early nineties and the stock market probably everywhere even the dow jones and

greedy posted their worst one day drop ever there's no point in panicking the government still have tools to delay a meltdown tax cuts that belief but the loonie work for a while and after that well they'll be no point in padding because it will be too late the culprit in fact means it will be an audience free us t.v. election debate on sunday night as democratic hopefuls joe biden embodies saunders go head to head we look at how the pots and seems to have already made up its mind and just have a 90 seconds. you see every passage of the death of something all passages involve some kind of

conflict in 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 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 from within. the world is driven by. one person those with. thinks. we should ask.

welcome back and let's dive straight into the u.s. election 2 states all postponing the presidential primaries of the health concerns george louisiana will now have to wait a further 2 months to go to the polls sunday night we'll go see the fast want to one debate for the 2 men vying for the democratic party's nomination the kind of 19 pandemic means it'll be a pretty small gathering though but be no noise ordinance watching joe biden and bonnie saw this slug it out one of the moderators has also dropped out over health concerns the events being relocated nonetheless former vice president biden is on a roll off to clinching big wins in tuesday's primaries. all those would be. all those would be counted. as your campaign. just to

reach you many of the news you cleared the. now were very much in line but i didn't want in mississippi missouri idaho and michigan a delegate rich state which rifle was picked up in 2016 and that's led to bite and being presented by some media as the county the best place to be donald trump this november but it's kate i'm open now explains the democratic party establishment seems to have ready made up its mind despite a growing number of. the race for the democratic nomination is down to 2 horses and it's pretty clear where the bets are going there on joe biden the good guy it's a time for us to beat all trump and it became very clear to me that joe biden is the right person to do that he's the nicest person i think i've heard that he is just a good guy and why not have a good guy in the white house after all for the past 3 years the media has been

working very hard to convince everyone that pure evil has overtaken the u.s. presidency but it doesn't take very deep digging to discover that you can rub off joe biden's good guy shine take a look at how he insulted detroit assembly plant worker who questioned his views on gun rights. he also has hinted that he believes that race and intellectual ability are somehow connected to your kids you just as brady just as towns white kids on top of that he is known to just make things up and say things on the fly that have absolutely no connection to reality we choose unity over division we choose science over fiction we choose truth over facts and a lot of ways joe biden sounds an awful lot like donald trump let's see if americans can tell them apart i bet you're as bright as you are good looking. that's actually. joe biden surprise we choose truth over facts.

it was actually joe biden also poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids by the way without actually biden and you're a lying dog faced pony soldier. so it's gotta be true and actually biden also the narrative is supposed to be that donald trump is a big mean bully and joe biden is a lovable adorable grandpa with good intentions and he's supposed to be way better than that wild eyed radical bernie sanders except don't you remember how recently everyone was bashing joe biden i just think biden is declining i don't think he has the energy and he has been a skilled debater who saw him with sarah palin we've seen him in the past the question is does he still have his job and destroy native and is he how sure are busy can you imagine that man in a presidential did by with donald trump there's not enough popcorn in the world to do is how subtly biden inserts obama into every possible answer having significant

mental faculties issues is everyone ok with biden being president of the united states when he's having difficulty remembering the name of you know politicians that he'd be dealing with on a regular basis but now we are told that opposition to joe biden is a russian plot the kremlin's english language media aim to influence americans on the home tough act if he promotes conspiracy theories targeting biden one lording trumps efforts to investigate his heating political opponent predicted to trump will win a 2nd tom claimed that biden has to be unraveling on some eyes that allegations of corruption are doing real damage to his presidential bid now the race is getting heated as the field has narrowed so the question is now will job. i didn't really want to keep their good guy image one of trying to start taking shots at bernie sanders. are to new york. it's been revealed that

scores of south african women were sterilized in state hospitals without their consent we spoke to one of the victims who only discovered her uterus had been removed when she tried to get pregnant 11 years later. burstall of the baby was too big and they had to perform am a c. section i remember when i walked out i asked them why they have reached by mitchell mccamey then they explain the baby was too big and they include niece 16 a good engaged after trying for about 4 to 5 months. without me being able to conceive with any thought should go see a doctor i really just thought it was just my. infertility issues dr will prescribe medication opera fine and when i go through this will end it and then have it all i don't think there was anything wrong with me i didn't have any complications before

birth and i didn't have any complications after birth for some reason for i'm known reason they just decided to move my uterus i'm seeing it and non-greasy in because as i'm sitting here at this moment i don't know why i was leading this to alive when i met with dr ed ridge who confirmed that he was here when the procedure happened he also could not give me the answer all you could say to me was that they did the operation to save my life i don't want to live my life from white south africa's commission for gender equality has investigated complaints from you can see 48 victims the country saw star lies action as a way to fight hiv and hospital staff often forced some of the women to sign consent forms according to the world health organization the country suffers from the world's largest hiv epidemic more than. 4000000 women are hiv positive according to the report illegal sterilization was carried out in 15 public

hospitals between 20022005 the study was complicated by the fact that hospital staff tried to hide documentation the report though pushed south africa's health minister to investigate the issue and meet the complainants the victim we spoke to says she's not even hiv positive i'm not actually positive our high. offices they are quite aware of it and i'll say this in camera they are quite aware of the practice and you know doing anything new means being held accountable it seems like our doctors of the law i didn't say in any and i couldn't have signed it because at that time i was a minor and my mom who was still with me all the time also didn't claim any consent form no woman deserves to go through what i am going through it and what you are all going through is literally listeria lives i do not want my daughter to be singing the same song that i'm singing today because it's and bearable with the

pain that comes with this it's a it's unbearable and most of all right it's. my right as a human being we're very late and my regret is a woman who violated my reproduction right were taken away from me and no woman ever entered the river should go through what we are going through. finest hour on friday a u.s. federal judge ordered the release of army whistleblower chelsea manning from jail warning that hard to tell no longer serves any purpose manning had attempted to kill herself on wednesday. manning's appearance before the grand jury is no longer needed in light of which her detention no longer serves any coercive purpose the court further finds that enforcement of the accrued conditional fines would not be punitive but rather necessary to the course of purpose of the court's civil contempt order manning has been in prison since may for refusing to testify against

wiki leaks before a grand jury you know an activist kevin zeese describes the legal process he's been faints manning as fundamentally unfair. in this whole case is an injustice and a violation of her basic human rights the secret grand jury system in the united states is very unfair it only allows the prosecutor in the room with jurors no defense lawyer no defendant only hear one side of the story that's what manning is protesting so i know her and she's a very strong person but obviously it's a lot of pressure but i think she's more likely go out of that jail at dead than testifying she is not going to change your opinion she's made that clear and that's why this friday the judge should end this injustice and release or this is a violation of u.s. law violation of international law and these to come to an end really ringback signals where the trouble is going when it comes to julian

a songe and wiki leaks they already have an indictment against julius onj they are not supposed to use the grand jury for the purpose of gathering evidence to prove that indictment but it shows to me that the government is not very confident about the evidence they have or about that indictment they want more. not a wrap for now you can always put off facebook twitter instagram to keep up with the very night time i'm going to. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

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