Roll big with. The democrats. The expense of progress of. The party establishment. Coping with. Quarantine. For a trip. When they mentioned. It isnt. Just after 4 am in mexico city 9 pm in sydney on one in the afternoon right here in moscow on wednesday march the 4th welcome to r. T. International i mean in the. We begin with breaking news in the program what was supposed to be moves towards peace between the u. S. On the taliban appears to be unraveling this wednesday washington has conducted under a strike against the Islamist Group in Afghanistans Helmand province. Reports emerge of a series of deadly Taliban Attacks overnight which killed more than 20 Afghan Soldiers and Police Officers a corresponding maria from austin joins me in the shooting now with more on this maria its only a few days isnt it since a suppose a peace deal no this uptick this resumed violence in afghanistan can we make sense of this why so a historic peace deal we heard that will pave the way to peace and prosperity in afghanistan we heard it took 19 years to come to this point and of course needless to say the world expected a lot plus just hours before donald trump was on the phone call with the talibans leader and the groups chief negotiator but i got a 35 minute conversation and here i can agree of truly historic moment a direct contact between a u. S. Leader and his senior taliban official and here is they will trump shortly after that conversation promising they will be no violence. We had a very good conversation with the leader of the taliban today. Theyre looking to get this and were looking to get it and we had a good long conversation today. They want to seize the violence. And now we see the u. S. Responding with it and the airstrike that they present as a means of self defense unclear there why since the taliban never attacked the americans and you just mentioned getting soldiers and policemen died in that Taliban Attack you mentioned it took 19 years to get to this age 2 decades of violence and strife so the big question was what were some of these key. Died in the do just remind us of the most important thing is that saturdays agreement include they withdraw all of us troops and its nato allies from afghanistan there are still 12012000 soldiers and officers stationed in afghanistan and that is seen as a positive move move by say many as a trust Building Measure as they said the taliban was promised to see 5000 common Political Prisoners released promised by who by washington so what basically happened is that washington promised something it cannot guarantee and plus it has 0 authority to do the result you get a government does not seem to agree. There is no commitment to release 5000. 00 prisoners i have shared this with dr college and this is the right and the decision of the people of afghanistan chef they have requested it or said it could be included in the agenda of the interim afghan talks is a very complex one there are many sides involved and what is desperately needed for peace and prosperity is to see all these parties involved on the same page and this is by the way something that moscow has been trying to do so many times bringing all these parties including the government the taliban and to more screw to seat and talk and discuss you know the agreement so also it was very happy to see this you know finally historic peace deal and the long term was not the only one the peace deal was praised as a victorious one lets take a listen. This is a great. Way. To proceed so that they really mean this is where we this is for peace on the ground. And these are words the reality now we see like dozens of soldiers killed a u. S. Heating positions of the taliban as an air strike so the violence is definitely as collating on the ground and if this is a victory they talked about i dont know what kind of defeat then we can have a very dead in the overnight in afghanistan and the talks us through thanks very. Well lets stay with this issue and try and double little bit further into some of the topics really that was going through we heard of on the program live professors from shorja from the dean of the school of International Affairs and friend of the program as well there we have a true days of suppose a progress and just a week to that schedule that all important prisoner swap that so much was was riding no this how undermining our weapons these attacks to the peace deal. In square serving and i dont consider the drunk by conspiracy as really badly on government and thats the reason why. He seems to be running because. As you were our correspondent rightly said americans are promised that i want to release 5000 prisoners we dont concert in the Afghan Government be sure of the shooting words of the tigers and prisoners in his custody and secondly prior history. And be an option in violence as a precondition for the need of the other one the reduction in violence will maybe. Again be the us forces and need to be a happy and also the problem is that now that the e. U. Has been signed the one thing that the us would be a bargaining position or we are going to go and i am backing down the i refrain from iraqi what stocks i mean to write about where your spirit him for them to be on our forces so i think the trust between the United States and the socalled i know we are going to be so wholl and asked of even what i want are sensing that we have an opportunity not because the u. S. Seems to be weakening he eats i am going on which makes them easy to fear him to be about going to be we going father so i guess the u. S. Has a credibility problem here and i wouldnt call these i wouldnt be hard on our colleague mark im going to listen to wolf for all were going to get with that in mind. What is the reality of peace here how do you see it because peace talks have reached the final phase before many times over 19 years how much debris alex here we grounded in today. Well you know what peace can only be achieved without you for all the new 3 factions in afghanistan one winter hawkish are going to feel that if anyone has been given a fear hand and right now in the way the us is doing it its used to be biased towards the gun and want because of the us the need some going to respect the militants and dirt from our son so that is handling other factions and remember its not only the Afghan Government there are these one who are large are going on significant. Leaders who had a brother and are east across the country and did lots all are have some best interests in getting the wiring in the hour here in the so is not going to do our use of my decided war and thats where to be in so long so even if the you was given drugs and weapons out of the boston drop in are what you actually like a scramble and different sizes will retry and position themselves for superiority and thats where i believe the arghandab were going to be looking me going to meet or not because i think im in the receiving end and money and i are on it he has seemed to have been sidelined with this sort of Peace Process and theyre struggling to find themselves are who are going to zoom in and i went with the odds and i think ok i want to try and get wind of this back and its a needed a spear piece is going to be hiring cheap just briefly on and another aspect to this we talk about the peace deal days ago but just last night we know that donald trump held a phone call with the talibans chief negotiator and hours later we have this attack on soldiers and police it was said to be a very productive phone call how much of the timing is it is this a coincidence home saying is this predominant trump. Well we know that you know he is given up on his cards and he is sure that i wonder if he looking for a way out the u. S. Government announced even before the deal that but there are going to be. Willing no troops that would draw will happen anyway so that is even the taliban the kind of you know bargaining chip in there americans and in the other government and in other states for us because the north theyre going to beat all the americans so i think the you know the strategic credibility and commitment is there saw such a good level that its not able to really make sure their needs or at least the out of their concern for them will be here together that others build their new foreign lands meet 70 nobody drama and write of how can we in was in jordan proud of going down are just still scheduled for march 10th into looking unlikely now the u. S. Is willing or how can the entire interrupt on iraq so i think trump even asked and he says hes got a living relationship with all of our other where frankly weve always been the leader of the 1000000000 in qatar i very much doubt the u. S. As much leverage because i do want you to i want to respect force and respect power and right not to see a weakness in the in the u. S. Position and theyre not going to respect the you know any sort of 3 block that does not mean that it has a constructor of the u. S. Civil. Liberties union to meet and thats when they are able to ensure any progress in this trump thanks for your time this hour as always charlie a professor and dean of the gender school of International Affairs in new delhi. Ok moving on now the growing migraine standoff between greece and turkey has seen top ranking e. U. Officials visit the border brussels is pledging to the poirot Additional Forces and provide millions of euro in aid to athens praising it for being europes shield law visit comes a few days after turkey lifted border restrictions which had been preventing a mass migrant influx to europe tens of thousands have been trying for days to get across or to charlotte drove along the border to see the desperation of those stuck in the impulse. Come further down south we still own the creek so i did the border with turkey where no town called fairies and i just want you to get a sense of the action thats happening all around us were just outside the town hall the local Mayors Office and it looks like people are gathering here in the anticipation of going to war to the Turkish Border and forming some kind of human chain tonight to ensure that there are no illegal crossings from turkey we know that since saturday more than 24000 people have attempted to cross the border but were hoping to speak to the local matt to find out how he and his town are going to deal with it. So we didnt get to speak to them he wasnt hit tonight but we did get to speak to many of the people who were taking part in that they sachin and they all seemed to be pretty tense knew the mood was full of tension in fact one guy said to me you can feel it. Everybody is here tonight because we want to help greece protect its borders from any kind of illegal migration we see people from bangladesh afghanistan anywhere from places that have nothing to do with war and they come to our country essentially the e. U. We think europe should change its stance and contribute to send a strong message to turkey the largest political policies of previous years that these people to enter a country without carrying any permanent document was a very big mistake and created issues of inequality greece is not alone it is european country but europe should support it because until now greece is not going supported weve left the town the whole now were driving out towards the front here in the hope of getting a sense of whats going to happen on the border overnight to get a sense of what this human chain to protect the grave. Borders from anybody trying to cross illegally its going to be a line so were just coming up to a checkpoint. Where theyre stopping us. We have to turn around ok so were being told we have to turn around we cant go any further. Not far out from faris we spoke the greek on me in what looks like Illegal Migrants on the side of the road. Weve had a chat with the offices they said we cant film but they have confirmed that they found the 2 Illegal Immigrants trying to cross the software we are in the script land behind and they told us that 2 individuals from afghanistan to receive an update from the volunteers who are not securing the greek food and the affair is a video showing my quince camped out on the border. As we were trying to film. We were stopped this my cameraman being scooped it up by well looks like a military personnel to look to the border. So you just an update on that situation all thats been smooth but we have moved away from the border because we dont want to create more tension with the security personnel that are there but it gives you a sense of how much tension there is here given the fact that the volunteers are out willing to be in the middle of nowhere in the way to secure their borders the fact that we were told not to come anywhere near the pool. Now the greek Prime Minister said this week that his country wouldnt be blackmailed by turkey and said that they would do Everything Possible to stop an invasion of migrants crossing the border illegally im not exactly we seeing in towns like this that ability for people to take up their own noms and to go to the borders to push text greece for anybody trying to cross challenge even ski auti in ferris. They have been for the past few hours the super choose the results are still coming in as the Democratic Partys biggest test reveals who voters want as their u. S. President ial pick 14 states are deciding in the most significant one day barometer of where things are heading for the candidates so far former Vice President joe biden has taken 9 states while progress of senator Bernie Sanders has topped the polls in 3 the biggest prize though is california which has the most delegates up for grabs voting still underway there with sunders currently leading before super tuesday got underway 2 contenders dropped all right encouraging their supporters to no get behind joe biden. I am ending my campaign and endorsing joe biden in the im looking for a president who will draw out what is best in each of us and im encouraging everybody who is part of my campaign to join me because we have found that leaders in Vice President soon to be president joe biden. March 3rd. 2020. I will be casting my ballot for joe biden in the a Common Thread throughout the scramble so far to get the democratic nomination is for the rivals to take aim at Bernie Sanders caleb maupin breakstone dot a speck of the campaign. Its been a long winter for the democrats theyve been feeling the cold burn oh you know we know you are you live oh i was in New Hampshire your driver was 43. Years we have now learned that it was but now as the spring rolls in the party has descended into panic i think its a little late to stop them and i think thats the problem the game it is pretty much over im reading last night about the fall of france in the summer of 1940 and then general reno cause of churchill and says its over can either coronavirus or Bernie Sanders be stopped totally transform society firing squads dungeons torture and exile so hes been pretty clear thats what he supports money standards but stopping the burning machine is not an easy task after all most rank and file democrats more or less agree with his policies so heres how the operation has moved forward. The reds are coming trigger those cold war. Terrorist socialism is a threat to American Freedom see that hammer and sickle and be afraid be very very afraid i believe castro and in the red said won the cold war there were the executions and such a party and i might have been one of the ones getting executed and certain other people would be there cheering lets not forget that Bernie Sanders once praised cubas achievements in terms of literacy and health care were very opposed to be authoritarian nature of cuba but you know its unfair to simply say everything is but you know when fidel castro came into office you know what he did he had a Massive Literacy Program its not a bad thing after 4 years of looking on in horror as trump cozied up to dictators we need a president who will be extremely clear in standing against regimes that violate human rights abroad we cant risk nominating someone who doesnt recognize this fidel castro and if a dog can see it forced labor camps religious repression widespread poverty firing squads and the murder of thousands of his own people but issue of money lets talk about his Literacy Program but most millennial dont even remember the cold war communism doesnt really scare them and socialism certainly doesnt so time for plan b. Now Bernie Sanders is accused of splitting an already weak and fractured Democratic Party why we would risk this extraordinary opportunity by nominating somebody who has a tendency to divide their own side is beyond me furthermore sanders is accused of having views that just wont fly in a general election the face of the democratic policy might be spouting things thats absolutely nothing but you know voters but this narrative doesnt seem to work either. So now Bernie Sanders is accused of being a russian plot to undermine american democracy this claim is repeated by other president ial candidates as well as Robert Obrien the National Security adviser and his source is. Are named there are these reports that the they want Bernie Sanders to get elected president thats no surprise he honeymooned moscow and it turns out that in fact Bernie Sanders once even visited russia you know years ago back when it was called the soviet union yeah thats pretty old news scraping the barrel lets go on to plan d. Time to unite behind joe candidates are dropping out perhaps a bit prematurely and putting their Energy Behind joe biden does come up a little bit and i dont know whats happened barely i think good trying to take it away from i dont know if thats fair but i guess its politics when you get right down to it whats fair why throw in the towel so early well theyve got to do everything in their power to defeat Bernie Sanders in 2016 leaked emails revealed by wiki leaks show that the d. N. C. Went guns blazing to end his bid for the white house now will they be so lucky the 2nd time caleb mopp and archie new york earlier in the program i spoke to new York City Council hopeful morning who he thinks the Democratic Partys National Committee is doing all it counted to real sunders chances. Democrats everybody falls in line they line up so perfectly everybody drops out and you know throws their way to support biden so you know in that in that respect you sort of see how you know the democratic parties are coalescing and micromanaging every way that they can support biden. And you know i see it you know Bernie Sanders he said the system was rigged you can see how its being rigged against him former democratic chair donna brazil got into a Heated Exchange after a suggestion that the Democratic Convention would be rigged against we can listen together to just what was said to hell out of our race i get sick and tired and for people to use russian talking points to Sell Division among americans that is stupid so rather go to hell that is completely absurd i mean this is the same donna brazil who would pass the questions to Hillary Clinton so hillary would have you know an unfair advantage in the debates against foreign santer so i mean that this is completely absurd and its actually really really infuriating because what it is is you know its really the Democratic Party trying to cover their tracks and really not so well in the fact that theyre really working against you know Bernie Sanders who really essentially you know a real contender and possibly the front runner. Those nations scramble to stem the spread of coronavirus on his home the hygiene message here in russia there are so far 6 confirmed cases dozens are in quarantine and under observation or Senior Correspondent outgoes dia has just completed 2 weeks of so faisel a snow job following a trip to hong kong no he told us what the experience was like at the other measures russia is taking to keep infections at bay. One of the things you could do you realize as a bearded man is you just look silly in the face miles but this is my only 7 year from hong kong my trip to hong kong and i was only there for a few days while i was there there were hardly any infections or in the weeks since but coming back to moscow the medics here really didnt care so you were treated like anyone else and our 1st taste of what was to come was still in the play when a lady came aboard and this is while we were still in the plane having landed she took all our measurements are temperatures and she was in full has mackin so we walked past passport control into the baggage area and that is where the real Party Started i mean there were dozens and dozens of medics in full hazmat get covered head to toe taking down everything about us what we did who we were with where we were this is all part of a huge russian effort to make sure that the 1000 virus didnt gain a foothold here the monitoring of the epidemiological situation was organized from the initial days of this complex situation additional measures were taken to strengthen sanitary in quarantine control at checkpoints across the russian border 6 new cases of corona virus infections were recorded join a monitoring period in all cases a full range of necessary and see epidemic measures was organized which prevented the subsequent spread of the infection. When they 1st mentioned quarantine i thought would be like a mini vacation you get to sit at home and as it turns out it isnt after all the cool throughout the day starting in the morning for medics asking how youre feeling when there are any symptoms cough or whatever. Visited by police and medics just to check up on you to make sure that you are still at home i mean eventually out of sheer boredom with the terms of the quarantine agreement that i signed at the airport and the penalties are pretty severe so for example if if you leave the house to go to the shop which you can then you just leave and nothing nothing happens well that starts a fire and potentially Community Service if you leave the house were apartment the quarantines road and you infect someone adds up to a year in jail a year in jail if you infect someone and they go on to die that is up to 5 years in prison which is a pretty severe punishment. A lot of fear i would say panic would around the world and in russia as well which is which isnt being helped by the fact that theres a lot of misinformation misleading information on the internet for example one russian sub Security Company for examples identified the messages being repeated online that is spreading misinformation there are people out there that are you know enjoying this. Good evening i have some bad news there really want to save the people i care about i beg you to spread this information as much as possible if our thore days do not want to inform us about this will have to inform each of these leaked information that there are 20000 patients with corona virus and. Walk with masks dont go to crowded places take care of each other and stock up on what you know unfortunately its sad that shops will be empty this information is more than reliable i must devote. The end of the day its just common sense. To advise that you read on the internet and read it for example followed voice that you hear from doctors wash your hands regularly dont touch your face as a bit of personal advice that i can give you if youve got a trip lined up in the immediate future to a place where theres been an outbreak dont go the corin team isnt worth it we also got some advice from a molecular biologist and also ask them if their levels of public anxiety are in step with the real risks. The panic is one thing but purpose is another but also panic is about not being able to control things but there are really little fiends each of us can do to minimize the risk to himself and the risk to others and we all hear about those things that one can do repeatedly so there is no reason to panic here but there are actually things that can be done to the most important thing you need to do it does teach us 1st tracing the contacts and 1st actually test team having reliable tests that tell you whether the person is actually infected and then tracing his or her contacts. On the politics surrounding the coronavirus is the bated next as we join another round table discussion from the cross talk team thats in moments to stay close