Both with impeccable record both featured bentley from the west background who have never set a foot wrong suddenly go wrote. A warm welcome to you its friday the 6th of march and youre watching r. T. International with me nicky erin now a number of new covert 1000 cases around the world has passed 100000 this friday with several countries detecting the corona virus for the 1st time here in russia where 13 cases have been recorded at medical services are on high alert and people arriving from the worst hit nations have been instructed to self isolate for 2 weeks with fears of a pandemic growing shoppers worldwide are starting to panic buy as they rush to stock up on essential. Stripped bare is a stroke is prepared for a Pandemic Take a look at this we went out to take a look for ourselves yesterday and there wasnt a toilet roll inside the room panic shopping happening all over the country the great soil of paper pad it is in full cry warming stores and clearing shelves of staple goods as coronavirus called one australian newspaper even left 8 of its pages empty suggesting its readers use them as an alternative to toilet paper with more on the supermarket on flows around the world his piece all of a. Its called how mystic alphen in german literally translates as hamster buying but it doesnt mean that people here were leaning across the federal republic of being stocking up on adorable Furry Friends it means theyve been panic buying essential in fear of the coronavirus empty shelves in supermarkets across berlin have become a common sight as people hoard fresh fruit and vege as well as nonperishable goods like pastor rice toilet paper Hygiene Products and other basics of being flying off the shelves as people prepare for potential self isolation as the covert 19 crisis spreads around the world while emergency testing tens of being set up at hospitals to identify those with the virus the German Government has been giving its assessments of the Current Situation or sticking to it pretty means she knows chinas coronaVirus Outbreak has become a Global Pandemic you know it is always a question of finding the right balance on the one hand between the restrictions necessary to contain the virus and on the other enabling every day life to continue whats clear is that we have not yet reached the peak of the outbreak its not just the muse systems that the viruses be attacking the economy is also taking a real pounding the German Airline is canceled hundreds of flights with around 150. 00 aircraft per grounded the German Economy one of the most robust in europe is facing the real possibility of sliding into recession we asked people here on the streets of whether they are afraid of the virus. The supermarkets have been blunted and you take what you can kill in order to serve something its home as a fact as i will wait where they need. Not to be so hysterical. Fabric that is their greasy i mean once you have a small struggle which would last for 14 days supply in some food and again food is over. Whatever famille says i think its massively exaggerated that im not doing pennies buying and doing my usual Grocery Shopping it would be nice to know if others who did the same then it would not need to drive to multiple stores this might be the new one that there was an epidemic many people die every year and now we have this corona virus theatre its absolutely sickening it is silly which is being the hardest hit in europe all schools and universities have been closed for 2 weeks in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus panic buying is also being seen in the United Kingdom where theres also huge economic concerns over the impact in a nation with a paltry system of sick pay compared to other European Countries you could see some forced to survive on just over 100 euros week the reality is we dont know what is going to happen next with this new virus the best advice we have is to avoid panicking practice good hand washing hygiene and avoid touching bases be sure all of us of tea. Iran has also been scrambling to contain the virus that is saying on friday it would limit travel between cities is the number of cases 32 over 3500 at least 107 people have died in the country including advisers to the Supreme Leader and the foreign minister where there is the islamic republics Healthcare System buckling under the strain of the crisis the us president has said washington is willing to come to to rands assistance but they rainy and leadership wasnt too impressed with the offer. If we can help the iranians with this problem we are certainly willing to do so we would love to be able to help them and all they have to do is ask we will have great professionals over there we have the best of the world if thats the truth that at least weve the medicine sanctions that is the 1st step so we have done the right mia nation wrong and we apologize no 1st step is to release banking transactions to purchase medicine what do we have a medicine medicines and food. Humanitarian goods including medical supplies are officially exempt from the United States is sanctions against iran but other financial restrictions including those that target the countrys banks they limit to rons ability to import vital medication and sanctions have led to shortages of drugs used to treat cancer and epilepsy there are however many in the us establishment who would like to see those sanctions made even tougher a case in point is Advocacy Group united against nuclear iran which is spearheaded by former u. S. Government officials such as john bolton a precious Big Pharmaceutical Companies to stop doing business with to run however since the corona Virus Outbreak it has said it believes the humanitarian needs of the of torontos the sanctions are in paving of the author it is ability to find the illness. The americans have been forcing Companies Across the world not to cooperate with iran its not just the Banking Sector the Banking Sector does not allow any medicine to be purchase through the network but not only are they blocking bad but theyre also imposing conditions on pharmaceutical companies that are so tough that in reality no one will work with iran so the americans through the sanctions have killed the iranians and right now they are impeding irans battle against the coronavirus. Foreign ministers from across the e. U. Have thrown their full support behind greece this friday after meeting for a 2nd day to discuss the refugee crisis at its border with turkey clashes have been continuing along the frontier under a heavy haze of tear gas as police were pell tens of thousands of Asylum Seekers attempting to cross into europe shola do bensky reports. Well chiefs have said they wont be pressurised Foreign Ministers were meeting on friday to discuss the situation here on the border between greece and turkey amid fresh tensions as you can see some of the Army Vehicles leading the border area now and this is both sides have been accusing the other of using tear gas weve had images from the greek side that they say shows turkish c. S. Gas being deployed into no mans land and into their territory and what they described as being a series of coordinated attacks theyve also provided us with images which show c. S. Gas canisters that they say they were able to lay to retrieve which have markings on them now they have also been reports that the. Military and the police force are aiding the migrants to try and cross into greek territory in fact some are even accusing them of trying to julan means using violence to demand access to not just greece but the e. U. But those are of course unconfirmed reports now the e. U. Foreign Affairs Minister has been defiant about the situation and has said that the borders will remain closed if you want to eat critical situations. People have to. They dont have to tell the people. And people have already passed. Lead to these. Well turkey has said it borders will remain open they have been open now for a round a week and we know that camps are forming on the other side on the turkish side as migrants come close to the border in the hope of getting into the e. U. Right now. Amid these skirmishes between the 2 sides we know that turkey is now reinforcing its Security Forces on the border. A 1000 special forces officers are being deployed to the merrick river on the border fully equipped 3 people being pushed back now i just want to give you a sense of how many people have tried to get through or at least hunger attempts or been of people trying to get through in the last week were talking 203040000 attempts in the 12 hours between thursday evening and friday morning they were just under 3000 attempts actually down from the night before when there was some 7000 attempts for people to get through the border now turkey has said this is syrians who are waiting to try and cross into the e. U. 3 says thats not true in fact theyve given the statistics that show all of the around 250 people that have been arrested in the last week the majority were from afghanistan some 64 percent they said in regard to syrian suit being arrested it so far only 4 percent but the feeling here in greece is one of defiance we know that theyre also trying to extend the fence the physical fence between turkey and greece extending it from around 12 and a half kilometers to 40 kilometers and in fact weve seen new barbed wire fencing passing us it stands defiant and has the e. U. To back it the message to migrants is you shall not pass. Ski r. T. Casting yes on the greek turkish border. Lets go live now to political analyst. Welcome to the program is going to have you with us now neither side seems to be giving way here when its the migrants who are really suffering less stuck in the middle how do you see this playing out. Well i dont see an end game in this situation its a good look. With local so suffering as well. Areas where because of the council but if your gums are being sent there im not one of them neither by the happy dance nor by the current government so were going to see this can picture sort of for a long time i guess because it is the right of any country to accept or refuse ask their students borders to immigrants. But there he is actually pressuring this group this those people to pressure e. U. And the Big Government to be weaponized by turkey. Being the census of you such a situation it is impossible for government to do anything more than refuse access or going to has been heavily criticized both the spending i thought of the applications in using brute force to repel the migraines can i things continue in this vein well its just been through this is especially by turkey not by other e. U. Countries. Its. Our game and immigrants are booked him. Around in the middle who but. The greek government has no other option that his or theirs or this board has is its defendants who have the guns now there are 4 or 5000. Migrants already in the zone between greece and turkey if greece accept them going to be 500000 more and if that the pressure will people not being applied. Now while youre watching what is the right. I dont see what else that the government could do bigger government. And of course using refugees as a political point is wrong turkey is already hosting nearly 4000000 refugees there are 5900000 refugees in a province waiting to cross into turkey so you think europe should be doing will. Be to do more but. Hes in a dire political situation. We mustnt forget that during the previous refugee crisis. The political system you actually collapsed obiter dictum a big part of this were destroyed. Scenes where europe is unwilling to have for some kind of solution because its afraid the. Counters i think you will use it its what we use the migrant issue as a personal point against the you its the its governments now the situation in turkey you mentioned that there are 4000000. Migrants and refugees but most part of this population were actually invited. Into ricky from perth im going to put i want. To play the game but using them. There he has given the almost previous 2 megrims from my forgotten those who are. There tickets from turkey several lines and his great at the migrant flow only assume. So whats going to happen here i mean if europe doesnt take that any of the refugees do you think take hes just going to tell them to go home. No thats the reason why the Security Forces 000 already in the area they want to use this as a part of a hebrew war against greece to play more and more pressure. To get the Security Forces of greece. As you might know turkeys. Violating. The and weve each and every day by. Warplanes flying gobo. Our borders in the not our islands as you might know circle hes already here is. Part of cyprus and his troops inside a european country so the game is bigger than just the migrant issue its turkey spoil the sea hes taken being offensive against. The greece and using the e. U. As a pressure point. Petrus argerich political analyst thank you for your time thank you very much. Thats a whistle blowers have struck back at the well chemical weapons watchdog issuing responses to an earlier inquiry by the f. T. C. W. The organization previously said the past had gone rogue off so they publicly criticised its conclusions about to alleged chemical attack and duma syria 2 years ago they now want a scientific caring and i letter to the director general they accuse the watchdog of ignoring that work. Inspect to be and i tried on many occasions to meet with you you may also know or perhaps not that these requests were all denied the reason given by a senior official was its my role to protect the director general you will never get to speak with him and if you try to go around me to get him there will be consequences letters to the director of the Global Chemical weapons watchdog courtesy of the gray zone project there the latest development in a ping Pong Exchange of correspondence between david and goliath whistleblowers and the o. P. C. W. Inspector in i have tried to resolve our concerns with you in private however this saga has unfortunately escalated to a point where we are now publicly portrayed as adversaries inspectors are now being smeared as the into this is of these values for nothing more than daring to speak out the smearing started back in february with a report in response to what the Organization Called a breach of confidentiality leaks that casts doubt on the o. P. C. W. s conclusions about duma they said the gas cylinders were likely place there rather than dropped from an aircraft and that one area was likely not even subjected to a chemical attack but the report barely even touched on any of that the authors were too busy trying to tear the whistleblowers inspectors a and b. To pieces inspectors a and b. Are not whistleblowers theyre individuals who could not accept that their views were not backed by evidence their behaviors even more egregious as they had manifestly incomplete information about the doom and vesta gave their conclusions were erroneous on informed and rone erroneous uninformed that doesnt seem very becoming for 2 guys who are apparently the Inspection Team leaders why would a pair of the top Inspection Team leaders both with impeccable record both incidentally from the west and Group Background who have never set a foot wrong suddenly go rogue did these old circumstances not ring some warning bells they sure are confident in their qualification. But it goes farther than that inspectors a and b. Categorically rejects one of the o. P. C. W. s biggest claims against them that they have pretty much nothing to do with the investigation and no access to Important Information when i joined the team shortly after the start of the deployments to do inspect to be and i continued playing a central role in the overall investigation the final report didnt exactly benefit from the editorial turnaround information was slashed details removed and facts dont explain why its not like the inspectors didnt try to get answers to their questions before pressing the big red leak button something had gone wrong inside the open c. W. Sir and we wanted you to know its that simple they even think there might have been a bit of deception at play the investigation was conducted by a british investigator and a lawyer from the us. The activities of the Fact Finding Mission were managed by o. Chief of cabinet from fronts whose views are echoed in both the narratives does it not strike you was somewhat biased in that the 3 individuals represent the 3 defendants the 3 countries who were responsible for the missile strikes in response to the allegation of a chemical attack in duma and o. P. C. W a leak and some back and forth later there are still so many questions and few answers as to what really happened. With lost their p. C. W. Face responds to the claims and the mean time we spoke to former f. B. I. Agent and whistle blower Colleen Rowley who suspects a Smear Campaign at the. The allegation and accusation that these 2 inspectors who were amongst the top experts they were the 1st hand investigators that actually examined the evidence the l a geisha in that they went rogue makes no sense at all and again given that they were amongst the top professionals in it with the expertise in engineering and in chemical weapons these were the top people so it really is really defies believability that they would have gone rogue they asked their close to retire you know they have done a many many years of faithful service to the o. P. C. W. They believe in the mission of truth in times of w