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my pass through all of that sure word a wife flying in it's in those moments we have to start beginning to trust what is coming to. the biggest stories of the week on r t nations worldwide close borders and businesses and live in livelihood suffer and the coronavirus is officially declared. stocks and oil prices took a major hummer into a severe travel restrictions were more widely imposed we look at the ramifications . russia and turkey cut short their 1st joint patrols along a key highway in syria and a move to prevent terrorist provocation against civilians. looking ahead to the democratic party's 2 hopefuls prepare for a head to head to head to class and clash in sunday night's debate with joe biden on the front after beating bernie sanders in this week's round of primaries.
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a very warm welcome this is the weekly bringing you the latest world headlines along with a roundup of the week's top stories. of the effects of coronavirus are proving increasingly inescapable one way or another among the latest developments donald trump has tested negative for covert 19 off the headmaster brazilian officials who later turned out to have the infection. 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. the virus seemingly hasn't got into the white house but it's having a devastating effect on the lives of the $157000.00 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 at home reporting that is
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a cost on earth. fear is growing fear is that someone discovered an actual jumanji border the real world in an almost biblical like game of pandemonium. 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 plants 2 weeks the number of cases of course viewed 90 you know to. include is certain to unfold. and the number of affected countries has tripled we have that
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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 our 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
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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 block 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.
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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. of players with rags dieties spreading just as rapidly be corona virus is providing opportunities for the unscrupulous and seller depends he 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 told watch on her and when you're out in the boat touching everything from
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do you have 100 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 any the phones don't stop ringing this morning we have the schools the town halls the public transport company everybody wants gel we are under siege with demand far outstripping supply the cost of one gel exponentially increased the problem was considered serious the french government stepped in to you that today when you take the degree regulating the prices of hide. a number precaution for many is to do on a face mask a tiny bit of cough covering your mouth and is this season's must have it seems the
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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 arena and 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 of 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
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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 in the room 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
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a robbery by trick the majority of the victims of robbery elderly who are physically weaker tell your loved ones to take precautions and the scams it seems gaining momentum the french national consumer and fraud office says it's received thousands of reports of dog dealings we're 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 fairly washing our hands with soap and water it's that simple. remember to kiss well not physically as we've been told not to be used as such but the acronym keep it simple stupid and don't get called. ski r.t. paris. some areas face it unique difficulties the small greek island of les pauls recorded his 1st infection a few days ago but is also struggling to house more than 20000 refugees in
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a crowded camp where conditions are dire evangelos observes has been hearing islanders concerns about coping with a new health crisis. i'm standing here in front of the laurier refugee camp in the listless reese we're about 20000 refugees are held in an area that was initially built for 2000 people area it's not the best 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 in the realm of the world's 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 and this is what. 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 to him of them ago
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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 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 belief iris on the island and jewels are ensuring that nothing of those cases have been confirmed here at the moria 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 displaced slaves but at least. a lot of people here now you don't know we saw somebody told me yesterday that 2 people have it's yes men and good men and. that's why i'm sick but they're not even treating me nobody's paying any attention but these kind of viruses already here even if you are in the
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hospital it does not help much because you cannot be cured you know i sleep in a container with other people on the. scene. because they're warning the world to brace for an economic shock the head of the european central bank say's leaders need to act urgently to contain the spread of infections global stock markets have suffered suffered record falls in recent days crude oil prices also took their sharpest weekly dive since the 2008 financial crisis as supplies strips dry and demand it wasn't just down to the health crisis though a price war broke out which source saudi arabia diggin after all producing nations failed to reach an agreement on cutting production and gas looks at the possible consequences 2020 will go down in the history is the year where everything that could go wrong went wrong subject that has dominated the news all week. to grow the virus spreading fears grow of a global pandemic
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a huge spike increases through prices 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 drug 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 coron seen an airline's 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 by we the whole world is facing
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catastrophe it isn't just one problem it's many and they feed each other they multiply each other 1st the airline suffer fuels 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 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 backed 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
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greed gave out loons to people to buy houses that they couldn't afford we hoped at least 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 u.s. shale industries then now selling oil cheaper than it cost them to produce the allies with no passengers the hotels with no guests the businesses with no clients in 2008 the world's economy collapsed because a bunch of people missed their house payments now entire industries are on the verge of fooling like dominoes we have heard the 1st it worth in the oil crisis in the early nineties and the stock market probably everywhere even in the dow jones and greedy forces with their worst one day drop ever there's no point in
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panicking the government still have tools to delay a meltdown tax cuts debt relief but the loonie work for a while and after that well they'll be no point in panicking because it will be too late. so we had local elections underway in france despite nationwide were strictures to stop the spread of coronavirus we look at the measures being taken across the country after the break stay with us. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development the only really engaging loses i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and.
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welcome back the russian on turkish militaries have carried out their 1st joint patrol along a new security car door in syria's war torn italy a province now it comes off of the 2 sides finalize the details of a cease fire agreement that was struck in moscow earlier this month that deal established just 6 kilometer deep buffer zone on either side of the m 4 highway which cuts across syria from east to west but joint patrols aim to ensure the cease fire holds the accord has however been rejected by some of the extremist factions inside the shattered province including hyatt torah which exercises defacto control the russian military didn't count as some opposition along the road this sunday saying it changed its route to avoid risking civilian casualties. cherished civilians including women and children as human shields the russian turkish coordination center decided to shorten the route distance to avoid any incident that could result in civilian suffering. video of one disturbance on the highway
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earlier shows a group of syrians protesting against a joint patrol the men byrne's tires and used cars to blockade the road so that the military vehicles could not pass russia and turkey have been backing opposing sides in the ongoing civil war in syria which will soon be into its 10th year but in recent months have come increasingly can you direct confrontation mosco has accused of failing to abide by the astronaut and sochi agreements but by not separation makes trimix functions from the more moderate groups political analyst yousif erin believes the joint patrols can help solve the problem. all we have to realize right now is the area is home to 3 almost 4000000 people and there's about 10012000 i believe fighters that russia and the assad regime label as are designated as terrorists turkey of course designates the. group as terrorists as well now when you have 10000 fighters entrenched in an area of 3 to 4000000 people it's very
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very hard to extract these people without dealing damage we've seen what the americans have done in iraq oh when they tried to extract about 5010000 fighters out of that area the area was leveled massive 1000000 casualties and turkey is trying to be much more careful in removing these terrorists from this area as it's creating friction between assad and the rebel groups and the opposition joint patrols like the one turkey and russia are doing together to create this buffer zone between both sides are very very important but that does not change the fact that these groups that are designated as terrorist do need to be neutralized. hopefully going forward turkey will to be able do a better job of this working closely with russia on neutralizing these groups. despite restrictions on nationwide closures of restaurants and other public places process. go to the polls this sunday for local elections turnout is so far down
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around 5 percent our numbers from the 2014 vote present a monument promise that that the elections need to be timely to ensure democracy on stressing expert advice be sought regarding the health crisis the government tried to calm any public fears over hygiene at the polling stations with new measures workers are wearing latex gloves while there's regular disinfection free hand gel and even arrows drawn on the floor to keep a safe distance from other voters. going to the u.s. election now in 2 states are postponing their presidential primaries over health concerns georgia and louisiana will now have to wait a further 2 months to go to the polls sunday night will go see the 1st one on one debate for the 2 men vying for the democratic party's nomination kovac 19 pandemic means it'll be a pretty small gathering too there will be no live audience watching joe biden and bernie sanders slug it out one of the moderators has also dropped out over health concerns and the event's been relocated nonetheless former vice president biden is
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all role after clinching big wins in tuesday's primaries. although. should be. left behind. if you can. just. do this. now we're very much alive. and well in mississippi missouri idaho and michigan a delegate rich state which rival bernie sanders picked up in 2016 votes led to biden being presented by some media as the candidate best place to be donald trump in november but as caleb moore predicts plains the democratic party establishment seems to have already made up its mind despite the growing number of biting gaps. 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 time for us to beat
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donald 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 ever met but 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
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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. i was actually joe biden also poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids by the way. and actually biden and you're a lying dog faced pony soldier. that's got to 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 by. it is declining i don't think he has the energy and he has been a skilled debater we 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
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busy can you imagine that man in a presidential debate 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 trump's efforts to investigate his heating political opponent predicted to trump will win a 2nd term claimed that biden has called to be unraveling on some eyes that allegations of corruption are doing real damage to his presidential bid now the race is getting
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heated as the field has narrowed so the question is now will joe biden be able to keep that good guy image when it's time to start taking shots at bernie sanders. r.t. new york. on friday u.s. federal judge ordered the release of army whistleblower chelsea manning from jail ruling that had detention 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 imprisoned for refusing to testify against wiki leaks before a grand jury now though and that's because kevin reese describes the legal process used against manning as fundamentally unfair. well this whole case is an injustice
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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 the 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 gel 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 by laser a national law and these to come to an end really signals where the trouble is going when it comes to julian a songe and wiki leaks they already have an indictment against julian a songe 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
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very confident about the evidence they have or about that indictment they want more . thanks to using r.t. ends on us now we're back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines will say that. you are no offense but you no longer a young woman in fact you are one of the last living survivors of the nazi else asked i'm aware of it. leverage it all you like. you can never forget we're going now auschwitz was really like to be in hell because you would never believe it wasn't a human candle to have as
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