the biggest stories of the week right here on our international nations' world why why did close the borders and businesses and livelihoods suffer as the coronavirus is officially declared a pandemic. stocks and oil prices take a major. travel restrictions are widely imposed we look at the ramifications. and russia and turkey carry out their 1st joint patrols along the highway in syria in a move to prevent terrorist activity that may harm civilians. from

our studios in moscow this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now the 1000 corona virus continues to wreak havoc with the worldwide death toll now over 6000 the consequences are impacting businesses and jobs with events being canceled and people told to stay home takes a closer look. fear is growing and 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. include is certain to unfold. and the number of our fixed countries has tripled we have that for many of the our system and that quoted 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 citizen spock it 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 covert 19 shaking 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 be 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. the anxiety spreads it also provides an opportunity for the unscrupulous to cash in as artists rather dubinsky reports now from paris. with panic in no short supply

of virus hearing from some enterprising individuals well shysters to be more precise i've 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 . $200.00 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 printing 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 jail exponentially increased

the problem was considered serious the french government stepped in to you that today when you take care of the degree regulate the prices of hydrocodone it jelled another 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 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 all flasks 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 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 antivirus purifier is 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 . so remember to kiss well physically as we've been told what is is such 6 but the

acronym keep it simple stupid don't get caught show the table ski. paris as the crisis develops more and more stories are coming out about the effects on regular people case in point is the small greek island of lesbos which recorded its 1st infection a few days ago but adds fuel to the fire because the island is also struggling to house more than 20000 refugees in a crowded camp where conditions are dire vangelis he talks has been hearing the islanders concerns. i'm standing here in front of the luria 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 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 a virus like that spreading among the camp and this is what. if it gets like the 2 it 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 unloved infection spread further you can imagine what will happen to them of them and there will be many issues and they'll be big the virus is likely to spread very fast it will only be moria the affected but also my touring the whole island of less possibly in trouble i have family in there and of course i'm afraid here we have our homes our farms our jobs they say many bad things about us but it's us they living 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 camp but as winner. at least all refugees who are

living in the scalp for many many years now they have a different opinion this chris sligh least. a lot of people here you don't know we saw somebody told me yesterday to people how many. of us are you sick so they're not even treating me nobody's paying any attention the virus is already here even if your in the hospital does not help much because you cannot be cured. i sleep in a container with other people. well senior bankers are warning the world to brace for an economic shock and the head of the european central bank says leaders need to act urgently to contain the spread of infections global stock markets have suffered record falls in recent days as well crude oil prices also took their sharpest weekly dive since the 2008 financial crisis as supplies far outstripped drying demand it wasn't just down to the health crisis though

a price war broke out which saw saudi arabia diggin after oil producing nations failed to reach agreement on cutting production artie's by god you have looked at the possible consequences. 2020 will go down in history as the year where everything that could go wrong went wrong a subject that has dominated the news all week. the corona virus spreading fears grow of a global pandemic a huge spike in cases 3 prices down more than 22 percent earlier today the biggest loss since the launch of the gulf war the saudis have launched and oil prices 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 trump 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 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 by 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 steep 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 prices 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 typical placated so far i've never seen anything like this back to the. and 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 us 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 us shale industries then now selling oil cheaper than it costs them to produce the adeline's with new passengers the hotels with no guests the businesses 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 that worst drop in oil price in the early nineties and the stock market probably everywhere even in the dow jones and greedy posted with their 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 dr that well they'll be no point in panicking because it will be too late. the us democratic parties to hopefuls are going head to head in sunday night's debate with joe biden riding the wave after beating bernie sanders in this week's round of primaries that story and many more coming away after a short break this is our 2 international in the weekly.

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welcome back you're watching the weekly here on r t international now the russian and turkish military have carried out their 1st joint patrol along a new security cord or in syria's war torn in the province and this comes after the 2 sides finalized the deals of a cease fire agreement that was struck in moscow earlier this month their deal established a 6 a kilometer buffer zone on either side of the m 4 highway which cuts across syria from east to west the joint patrols aimed to ensure the cease fire holds but the accord has been rejected by some extremist factions including. which exercises de

facto control inside the shattered province russian military did encounter some opposition along the road on sunday saying that it. changed its route to avoid risking civilian casualties. at the moment terrorist try to use civilians including women and children as human shields the russian circus 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 earlier shows a group of syrians protesting against the joint patrol the men burned 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 in its 10th year but in recent months have come increasingly close to direct confrontation has accused of failing to abide by the. agreements made by not separating the extremist factions from the more moderate groups political

analyst use of everyman believes the joint patrols can still help solve the problem . well 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 hopefully going forward turkey will be able to do a better job of this working closely with russia on neutralizing these groups. on to the u.s. election now in 2 states are postponing their presidential primary. as over health concerns georgia and louisiana will now have to wait a further 2 months to go to the polls meanwhile sunday night is the 1st one on one debate for the 2 men vying for the democratic party's nomination amid the coded 19 pandemic the decision has been made not to have a live audience during the debates one of the moderators has also dropped out over health concerns and the event has been relocated nonetheless former vice president biden is on a roll after clinching big wins in tuesday's primaries. all those who have been

knocked down all those have been counted let's be sure this is your campaign. just to read you many of the news cleared to do this. now are very much in line biden won in mississippi missouri idaho and michigan a delegate rich state which rival bernie sanders picked up in 2016 that has led to biden being presented by many in the media as the candidate best place to to beat donald trump in november but as our comments the democratic primary establishment seems to have already made up its mind despite a growing number of. gaps. in the race for the democratic nomination is down to 2 horses and it's pretty clear where the bets are going they are on joe biden the good guy it's time for us to beat 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've ever met 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 trade assembly plant worker who questioned his views on gun rights. he also has hinted that he. leaves that race and intellectual ability are somehow connected poor kids are just as bright and just as towns white kids on top of that he's 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. 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 we saw him with sarah palin we've seen him in the past the question is does he still have his job and is funny and is he has sure if he can you imagine that man in the presidential did by we don't know trump and there's not enough money 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 interest. language media aim to influence americans on the home tough activity promotes conspiracy theories targeting biden while lauding trump's efforts to investigate his eating political opponent r.t. predicted detroit 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. it has 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 i c section and remember when i walk up i ask them why they have each by nature in my family then they explain that the people is too big and then 26 to make good engaged after trying for 4 to 5 months without. but that me being able to conceive with any thought should go see a doctor i really just thought it was just my. infertility issues doc told prescribe medication opera fine and when it goes there that's really learned 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 birth for some reason for i known reason they just decided to move me. i'm seeing it and non-greasy in because as i'm sitting at this moment i don't know why i was leading this to alive when i met with dr edwards who confirmed that he was there 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 save my life from white. south africans or a commission for gender equality has investigated complaints from 48 victims the country saw search sterilization as a way to fight hiv aids and hospital staff forced some of the women to sign consent forms according to the world health organization the country suffers from the world's largest h.i.v. epidemic more than 4000000 women are hiv positive according to the report illegal

sterilization was carried out at 15 different public hospitals between 20022005 the study was complicated by the fact that the hospital staff tried to hide the documentation the report pushes south africa's health minister to investigate the victim we spoke to says that she's not even hiv positive. i'm not a chubby positive our high. offices they are quite aware of this and i'll say this on camera they are quite aware of the practice and they know doing anything no one is being held accountable it seems like our doctors of 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'm singing today because it's time bearable with the pain that

comes with this it's a bear it's unbearable and most of all rights violated my rights as a human being were violated my rights as a woman 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. those of this hour of the week we'll be back 32 minutes stay with us. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. in the united states presidential candidates debate the future of the u.s.

and the world. max kaiser and stacy herbert dig into the burning questions of this election cycle one topic every week. tax student debt trade wars corporate money universal basic. and more catch up with what's front running this sunday exclusively on r.t. . the f.d.a. is primary role is and regulation of what the label says is and there is actually in there the f.d.a. is not regulating quality production sourcing any of those things they're regulating that what you say is on the label is actually on the label the most shocking thing about the pet food industry that has remained since basically i started doing this work is the f.d.a. compliance policies i still cannot understand how an industry is

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