this is what it was because did a piece of dancing coral cultural view of the grammys. this is r t international in the biggest stories of the week from us nations worldwide closed borders and businesses and livelihoods as the corona virus is officially declared a pandemic. stocks at all prices take a major hammering to a severe travel restrictions are imposed more widely we look at the ramifications. elsewhere russia and turkey cut short their 1st joint training patrols along a key highway in syria the move to prevent terrorist provocation that may harm civilians.

hi there thanks for watching just to midnight here in moscow this very early monday morning and welcome to the weekly roundup of the big headlines of the last 7 days as reported by us to you and of course one main story is dominating and set to dominate for a good while yet coronavirus as it stands so far this morning the death toll from it has passed 6000 globally it's having a devastating effect the consequences are rippling through jobs and businesses with events canceled and people being told to stay at home reporting next he goes off. fear is growing fear is that someone discovered an actual jumanji border the real world in an almost biblical like game of pandemonium. very regularly and 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 to weeks the number of cases of 9. include is certain to unfold. and the number of our 52 countries has 3 people we have that for 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 in the. seas 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 markets 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. here is still the certainly good advice so as the only society spreads so too it seems is

opportunity the coronavirus is providing opportunities for the unscrupulous to cash in during all of this and charlotte who belsky reported in the week from paris. with panic in no short supply virus hearing from some enterprising individuals well shysters to be more precise have been 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 her and when you're out in the boat touching everything from . 200 to picking up things in shops it's a bit difficult to run into a bathroom and just 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

have the schools the town hall the public transport company everybody wants gel we are under siege with demand far outstripping supply the cost of an 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 hydrocodone it jelled another 'd 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 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 and on the spot following these students were 1st to pay a 150 euros and find spoke policeman for having broken the law that bans complete face covering in public spaces police investigation found the d.'s 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 so the presence of an alarm system will perform if they have the opportunity a robbery by trick the majority of the victims of robbery or 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. so remember to kiss well physically as we've been told what to be is this search but the acronym keep it simple stupid don't get caught short of people ski r.t. paris. as the crisis develops more and more stories around the world are coming out about the ramifications for people next case in point when we reported on the small greek home of the less boss that recorded its 1st infection a few days ago but it's particularly big news there because it's a place that's also struggling to house more than 20000 refugees in a crowded camp where conditions are already dire evangelise sepsis our correspondent went to that island to talk to the islanders there but what they're worried about coming up face to face with anytime soon. i'm standing here in front of the laurier refugee camp in the lesbos 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 coronavirus 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 fires 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 but one of the feel unloved infection spread further you can imagine what would happen if they but went in with them i go there will be many issues and they will be big the virus is likely to spread very fast it will merely 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 leaf 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 it 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 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 viruses 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. and then in the week. senior bankers warning the world to brace for an economic shock they said their head of the european central

bank telling leaders that they need to urgently to contain the spread of infections global stock markets suffered record falls in recent days crude oil prices also took their sharpest weekly dive since the 2008 financial crisis as supplies far outstrip drawing demand wasn't just out of the health crisis though a price war broke out which saw saudi arabia dig in after all producing nations failed to reach agreement on cutting production next more senior correspondent looks at the possible consequences 2020 will go down in history is the year where everything that could go wrong went wrong a subject that has dominated the news all week. and the corona virus spreading fears grow of a global pandemic a huge buy good pieces of crude 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 so 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 we backed it on the market being even more pressure to it and we have seen what the outcome is now 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 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 costs them to produce the adeline's with no passing just the hotels with no guests the business is with new 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 worse drop in oil price in the early nineties and the stock market probably everywhere even down dalton greedy or sick with the worst one day drop ever there's no point in panicking 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 well let's take each day as it comes let's go to go on although rather disjointed with less fanfare talking of which the democratic party's 2 hopefuls preparing for the big head to head clash in sunday night's debate few hours from now joe biden on the front foot of the beat and bernie sanders in this week's round of primaries less fun fair than you'd expect they will tell you what that's all about since we're. join me every 1st week on the alex salmond sure i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm sure. i'll see you there.

more the news of the week away from corona virus for a minute the russian and turkish military have carried out their 1st joint patrol along a new security corridor in syria's war torn province it comes off the 2 sides finalize

the details of a cease fire agreement that was struck here in moscow earlier in the month deal established a 6 kilometer deep buffer zone on either side of the m 4 highway that cuts across syria from east to west the joint patrols aim to ensure the cease fire holds the accord though has been rejected by some of the extremist factions they crucially including. which exercises defective control inside the shattered province the russian military did encounter to some opposition just yesterday along that road sunday saying it's changed its route to avoid risking civilian casualties now. terrorist civilians including women and children as human shields the russian coordination center decided to shorten the route distance to avoid any incident that could result in civilian suffering. what you see here is video of one disturbance on said highway showing a group of syrians protesting against the joint patrol ties and used cars to

blockade the roads so that military they couldn't. have been backing opposing such a course in the ongoing civil war which is into its 10th the uno but in recent months they've come increasingly close to confrontation diplomatic dull but recently moscow's accused of failing to abide by the us she agreements by separating the extremists from the groups political analysts use of air and believes the joint patrols can all that said still help solve the problem right now . what 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 very hard to extract these people without dealing damage

we've seen what the americans have done in iraq 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 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 if we've been hopefully going forward turkey will to be able to do a better job of this working closely with russia neutralizing these groups latest on the race for the white house no 2 states proposing their presidential primaries of the health concerns georgia and louisiana well have to wait a further 2 months to go to the polls sunday night though coming up we'll see the

1st one or one debate for the 2 men vying for the democratic party's nomination the code $1000.00 pandemic means it's going to be a pretty small gathering much more than a visit no live audience for a start to watch joe biden and bernie sanders slug it out also one of the moderators has dropped out of the health concerns and the event's been relocated nonetheless former vice president biden seems to be on a bit of a roll right now after clinching big wins in choose days primaries all those who have been knocked down all those have been counted let's be frank this is your campaign. just will reach you many. cleared through the skin is used. now are very much alive biden won in mississippi in missouri idaho and michigan a delegate rich state which rival bernie sanders picked up back in 2016 that's led by being presented by some media as the candidate best place to beat donald trump in november but as kellett mopin reported in the wake the democratic party

democratic party establishment seems to have already made his mind up all that said despite the growing number of biden gaffes of late. 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 donald trump and it became very clear to me 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 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 without 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. in his 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 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 activity promotes conspiracy theories targeting biden one lording

trump's efforts to investigate his eating political opponent predicted to trump will win a 2nd term claimed that biden is called 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 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. story next we brought you the week has been revealed that schools 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 late. bus tour the baby was too big and they had to perform am i c. section and remember when i walk up i ask them why they have each bandage on my

tammy then they explain that they be was too big and then 26 to make good engaged after trying for about 4 to 5 months our dad. but that me being able to conceive with any thought am i should go see a doctor i really just thought it was just my land and fertility issues dr will prescribe medication our fine and go with a that's fairly and that i didn't have the terrorists at 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 bad for some reason for and known reason they just decided to move my uterus i'm seeing it and non-greasy in because as i'm sitting in 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 in the procedure happened he also could not give me the answer or you could say to me was that they did the operation to save

my life i don't want to save my life from white while i'll tell you just a moment south africa's commission for gender equality is investigating complaints from 48 victims the reason for this the country's sore sterilization at the time as a way to fight aids and hospital staff forced some of the women to sign consent forms according to the w.h.o. the country suffers from the world's largest h.-o. the epidemic has been long note more than 4000000 women are hiv positive and according to the report illegal circle is a she was carried out in 15 hospitals between 20022005 the study was complicated by the fact that hospital staff that tried to hide the documentation the report pushed south africa's health minister to investigate the issue and meet the complainants about the victim we spoke to she says she's not even h.l.v. positive. i'm not any 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 then to doing anything no one is being held accountable it seems like our doctors am above the law i didn't sign any paper and i couldn't have signed it because at that time i was a minor and my mom who was there with me all the time also didn't sign any consent form no woman deserves to go through what i am going through 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 am singing today because the time bearable with the pain and that comes with guests and there is unbearable and most of all rights violated my rights as a human being we are violated my rights as a woman and were violated ted my reproduction right were taken away from me and no woman ever in south africa should go through what we are going through were awful awful things have to go through in the world that's the way things part of these

last 7 days for us in our news review the week from art international is coming up to 20 minutes past midnight this early monday morning i'm careful in saying thank you for watching if you hold up at the moment with the coronavirus quarantine except for except you're watching t.v. stay true to us keep you posted as best we get information in concerning reporting on it from russia over the next days and weeks check it out see dot com as well for a very good night for now. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. dramatic development it only really. will be very. time to sit down and talk.

you see every passage is the death of something all passages involve some kind of conflict between where one is trying to reconstitute the old way of doing things but it doesn't work as i'm often working with people in those in between so again the key is how do i. through all of this. innocent those moments we have to start beginning to trust what is coming from within. i don't. want to you as a. community and you miss almost no. no no.