Monday morning at 11 here in moscow welcome to world news from r. T. International 1st off the number of corona virus patients located far from the deadly epicenter in china has suddenly spiked its early put emergency measures in place over the weekend with 150 reported cases and 3 deaths its europes 1st major outbreak while iran has the highest number of deaths outside china with reportedly 8 killed as a means of as a result excuse me of infection the authorities in italy have canceled a carnival in venice major sporting events are being postponed as well as entire towns and communities were put on lockdown in asia cases of infected patients surged in south korea on monday another 161. 00 people confirmed taking the total to almost 800. 00 the governments also temporarily shut down religious movements and a cult whose members make up more than half of the known infections meanwhile the United States is accusing russia of spreading alarm and coronavirus conspiracy theories. By spreadin
Security by working with the telecoms. Just trying to pose a bigger spying threat to the continent states itself people in new york. Probably us probably us anybody having. Access to. Thanks for joining us tonight as an Aussie International welcome to the program. The president of ukraine reacted with anger to the far from friendly welcome received on thursday by retiring evacuees from china riots broke out over fears the passengers might spread the potentially deadly coronavirus even tested positive for just to set up roadblocks class with police buses carrying the patients to hospital. Said his nation and falling back into the middle ages the clashes left. Officers and one civilian injured. Was i did. Was actually. You know we always say that ukraine is europe to be honest at some moments we look like Medieval Europe unfortunately lets not forget that we are all human beings all over flight from the chinese city of what hardware tens of thousands of people have been infected landed i
From moscow studio where its 2 oclock in the morning youre watching the r. T. International thank you for joining us now the u. S. Justice department has charged 2 former twitter employees with spying for saudi arabia prosecutors claim the pair an american citizen and a Saudi National used their positions to collect Sensitive Information about users critical of the kingdom you know discuss the case with down a quarter. Well its 3 people being charged here 2 or former employees at twitter one being a u. S. Citizen and the other a saudi citizen and their 3rd accomplice also a saudi citizen now the duo are being accused of using their positions at twitter to access the personal information of thousands of twitter users in the interests of the saudi government and against to be used against critics of the monarchy now on wednesday the Justice Department filed a criminal complaint against all 3 involved the defendant did knowingly act in the United States as an agent of a foreign government
With the heads of other relevant federal agencies including broadcasting board of governors show coordinate eram car influence programs funded by the act such programs shoot to counter the false assertions made by the government of iran against the United States and other democratic countries described the support such government provides to terrorist proxies and assess and describe the impact this support to such proxies causes to the people of syria yemen and other areas where the operate since that time voice of america persian has shifted from being a vehicle for presenting an American Perspective to iranians and perhaps a somewhat even handed way to apparently being a vehicle for straight up antigovernment agitation iran is another example its a country that never really made the key decision the Iranian Regime was spending a ton of money on its Nuclear Program and wanted to halt that a noble objective a good goal or the one. Threat that iran presents a so much greater than that w
A very warm welcome youre watching r. T. International with me mickey aaron good to have you with us this hour preliminary results from the council on Regional Election indicates that Pro Independence parties are set to keep their absolute majority in parliament theyre projected to win seventy out of one hundred thirty five seats the pro unity its Citizens Party meanwhile took around twenty five percent of the vote although that makes it the single most Popular Party the unionist parties together will only have fifty seven seats the troubled spanish regions former leader collars push to mount has held the outcome of victory. From as you know public of the year i want to congratulate the catalan people because they have sent a message to the world the catalan republic has beaten the monarchy and article one fifty five the Spanish State has been beaten. The official results will be announced on the fifth of january heres journalist martin rabbit with more details seven parties in the ele