all, we can be the generation, the ends at so good. malaria must die. so millions can live the day that we news long from berlin, us president elect. donald trump, nominate more controversial figures for his cabinets. trump tabs, robert f. kennedy junior and environmental activist was spreading misinformation on vaccines to have the united states. top health agency also coming toxic small blankets, the indian capital daily authorities, close primary school, the mid of sharp rise and respiratory illness and police in south africa said they're determined to arrest hundreds of legal minors. they cornered under ground relatives say they'll die without the food and water authorities are blocking the

are welcome to the show. i'm the call for list you as president elect donald trump has announced more controversial cabinet picks a week after his decisive election when including a republican sweep of both chambers of congress. that means republicans will have the final say on improving trans choices to head of all government agencies. speaking ad is mar, longer resorts. in his 1st public appearance since election 9, trump said he was naming former independent presidential candidate and vaccine skeptic. robert f. kennedy junior to leave the department of health and human services. people like you, bobby, don't get too popular, bobby. you know, the 3 step about the level. now we want you to come up with things and ideas and

what you've been talking about for a long time. and i think you're going to do some unbelievable thing. nobody. nobody's going to be able to do it. like you to kennedy who comes from the famous democrats. political family is a long time health and environmental activist, but has raised eyebrows with many of his views, including questioning the advocacy of vaccines. you ran as an independent presidential candidate before dropping out of the race and endorsing trump and the to campaign together, promising to quote, make america healthy. again. we have the sickest country in the world and this is out of rage. yes. we need to bring donald trump to watch instead of make america how and so you can be easily of our election team and joins me now. this is not a surprise, steven, was it? but it is controversial. explain our viewers. why will to be fair in the way in the weeks and days leading up to the election, the trump administration was still saying this was unlikely that he would lead any

sort of department because they knew that i would assume they knew that could scare off some voters, but as the election results came in and they solved the, the bread there when this apparently came back up to the forefront. so in that sense, it wasn't a surprise. and yet it was a surprise i'd say with the picks that we think of the past few days. it was not so much of a surprise. robert f kennedy junior is most famously perhaps the son of robert kennedy, robert f. kennedy is a legend, an icon in american history. he was former us attorney general. he was a us candidates, a candidate for us presently before he was us as a civil rights icon. and robert f. kennedy junior, his son also has a legacy when it comes to his environmental environmental environmental activism. he's sued large corporations and one over environmental issues. and i think for his advocates, they see in him this man who cannot be boss, is willing to speak truth to power. the problem is for his opponents, he's a man who now chooses to attack the health community more than anything else. that's his biggest goal. that's his biggest target is the health bureaucracy. and

you mentioned vaccines. that's what most people associate robert f. kennedy junior with right now. he has said very clearly that he doesn't think that there's any safe and effective vaccine. full stop. you said that he believes that vaccines caused autism. he still believes that these are conspiracies that are going around for a long time. they are widely the bumps. they go against every consensus in the medical community, and yet they still exist in many communities. and so the fear is that even through a nomination, much less an appointment. but once you get to appointment already, you see an incredible discouragement of an apparatus. it's very, very important. we've seen the significance of the public health bureaucracy when it comes to the pen demik. when it comes to infectious diseases that may still be out there. so for a lot of people, this will be seen with great concern. yeah. but it's not just a stance on vaccines that has people worried as it know. robert f. kennedy junior has other stances that sort of fall in very much a similar tone that is kind of conspiratorial outlook that he has on vaccines. one of them is floor edition in the tap water that's been done for decades to prevent

teeth, a tooth decay in americans. and while there has been some controversy in the past about the safety of fort ation, there's no scientific evidence that there's anything wrong with it. and there's actually advantages, but again, this is another point where he sees doubts and where he comes in as well. there been other things like the use of certain medications for coping 19 iron mac, then this is a horse drug. i believe the widely applied and invalid veterinary medicine that a lot of people, including donald trump, believe would be effective against over 19, also largely debunked. you can change the process. he's made a rad it personal statements thing, for example, talking about a parasite that he has in his brain at one point. other things that are very strange, talked about cub 19 being engineer despair, jews and chinese at one point. so things that you can't really look to the side of the problem is that he's also very um, personally think here is not in some ways he speaks the issues that many americans do have when they look at public health. when they look at the state of american health, we know that america suffers from larger rates of obesity and overweight,

overweight us, then you would see and perhaps other countries that there are diseases associated with that, that they're suffering from. he speaks that, that he speaks very convincingly, but he also in the same breath, he speaks against vaccines and a lot of a stablish medicine that the committee experts say you can't do that, that, that doesn't work. i think what we're seeing is really just kind of he speaks to a crowd who in english has benefit over decades from the advances of vaccines and from from medicine itself. right. we used have a problem with polio in the us. yeah. we just have more problems with measles. we haven't as much since vaccines have been taken out, but because these generations don't have personal experience. they've lost that kind of institutional memory of that. and so a lot of these things maybe haven't been explained effectively and into this gap come someone like a, an artist k junior, who can exploit that at the we only have a couple of seconds, but i don't want to let you go without talking about this send a confirmation process because all of these are nominations at this point. how hard of a time is from going to have especially getting his most controversial picks through . i think we're all racing with matt gates,

who is the the nominee for attorney general, for example, that there's a lot of um, skepticism about what's gonna happen during the confirmation process. he had an investigation ongoing in the house where he served that was can once he resigned on wednesday, it's believe that will be taken up by the senate. it's looking at sex with a minor, for example. so this is no light topic. and essentially they've already said that they're, they're not very sure about it. i mean he is seen by many as basically a troll. he has no experience with the d o. j accepted being investigated by them for a while. there was no prosecution all the way. there were no charges. the same was going to be half is going to be true with arc a junior, there are going to be those who look it doesn't say i'm not sure we need to go through a full confirmation process and see what's going on. remember, republicans have the majority in the senate, but if 3 or 4 go over to the other side, then that can effectively cost a nominee out. so it's going to be very close. even barely, always great to get your insights. thank you so much. i to india now, where in delhi has introduced richter anti pollution controls to come back

a spike in toxic smog authorities in the capital have closed all primary schools and ben, non essential construction. after air pollution rose to more than 50 times the safe limit recommended by the world health organization in delhi. just trying to go about day to day life in the dense choking haze is difficult to find. so i feel or say something my eyes i just came from my phone. my eyes are burning and i'll have to wash them. i must have finding it difficult to breathe because unfortunately for the millions who cooled daily and the surrounding area home, this struggle simply to breathe freely is nothing new. each winter seats a city gasping for fresh air as cold temperatures and the low wind speeds leave it suffocated by small. this basically evolution of this is not causing a day or 2 because of our lifestyle, the ramp construction sections of the traffic to the part of the country and the diesel cars window. the guy they all get daily is notoriously packed roads.

assessing the effect of the farm is burning crops, double in neighboring regions, also to blame for the accurate hayes. the practice is a false cheap way to clear the fields with new planting. it's long been illegal, but authorities have done little to prevent it. critics say politicians are scared of angering. farm is a key vote to block media. officials and daily have announced measures to protect the vulnerable and clear the old primary schools have been ordered to close with young children, especially susceptible to air pollution trucks like this one are also roaming the streets spring war to try and keep down the small one moment a central construction work is being fanned, but experts say these are all just stop gap measure is one of india's most pressing problems. studies, blame and pollution for more than one and

a half 1000000 premature deaths each year. 100 pages. mine is our daily bureau team, essentially. you're obviously not joining us from home. you're in the studio, so you've been out to date. how safe is it to go outside right now? a while i walked out into hazardous add, that's for sure. and when we say hazardous, we really need to find smaller particular concentration in the that's when i, or square and f as to, to mosque this morning when i try to, to work. and these find packets get particular matches. they are really, are able to costs to be a damage they don't or they penetrate into the bloodstream. they cannot be p in the long. so people and that can also lead to severe, long term diseases, cardiovascular diseases, that can cause cancer. and they can also delay development in children. so this is really something that needs to be contained. but what we're seeing is that as ground 12th day, almost every winter here. exactly. we've talked about this problem so many times

and still it persist. college are officials to blame well, i would say a lot of experts for sure would agree with this that the political win is essentially still that can get. it's like trying to port small band aids on a festering movement and this smoke situations reocurring every year. it's a festering wound or what needed a strong political, whether or not just you're in deli, at the local regional level, but also at the national level at the international level. because it is a problem that the fact is that essentially also affects all the costs of self asia, like neighboring pockets done for instance. and as long as there is not wider ranging approach that goes beyond the stop gap measure. so watch a spring. i think people will be at risk here and a very research study in the lancet. the medical journal that was published in july

really came to the conclusion that about 7 percent of the day that's occurring in daily can be attribute to, to the high concentration of find potential that mattress and the air. that's a staggering number. we're actually just seeing some of these counter measures, those stop got measures as you call them straw in spring water to, to no limitation limits the small and india supreme court sondra last month rule that clean air was a fundamental human right. to what extent does this recurring problem exacerbate inequality in the country? and specifically in mega cities like delhi, while you see, look at the ben ons going to school is, i mean the primary school scripts are supposed to be at home, which means essentially they are going back to online schooling. but this is for the middle class, this is for the rich and for the super rich, this is not for the kids that are living in slums who do not have devices to attend online mattress. so they are deprived of education to start with. and also it is

a matter of enforcement when i was traveling to work this morning. yes, i was wearing a mosque and f, f, p to mosque. i'm also writing app to re fi us at home. so i am one of the person that can do that, but as i was passing a park, there were young kids probably from a secondary school doing rounds running for physical education. this should not have happened. so a matter of enforcement or also people just accepting it as a fact of life at this time of the year is also something that would really require political way to get out of this. definitely cycle. you know, we use daily purity of senra pay. this meant always great speaking to you. thank you so much i. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. these really military says it will strike against any attempts to bring weapons from syria into lebanon to supply the has the militia. the warning follows to is

really airstrikes against the syrian capital, damascus, and the suburbs. they are in state media say at least 15 people were killed in the attacks with more than a dozen. others wounded bro, palestinian demonstrators rallied outside a football stadium in paris ahead of a game between france and israel. thousands of police officers were deployed over security concerns for is really fans, but there have been no major incidents last week. at least 5 israelis were injured when supporters of is really club mccarthy. tel aviv class with locals and amsterdam north korean leader kim jong owen, has order his military to begin mass producing suicide drones, according to state media, young young has been a ramping off the development of new weaponry and recent years and increasing arms exports to russia. suicide drones carry explosives and crass and targets, but they're better at a meeting air defenses. then michelle's saying with north korea, because the country recently signed

a major defense treaty with russia agreeing to strengthen their military cooperation according to key van its allies. north korean troops are already fighting for russia in the war against ukraine. we can now take a look at what that could mean for ukraine on the battlefield and for north korea's own relations with its neighbors. russia as cor, ask region where ukrainian troops had been fighting to hold land. they seized at the end of the summer. now they say they're not just fighting russian soldiers, but north koreans as well. this footage, released by ukraine's intelligence agency, appears to show north korean soldiers receiving uniforms and equipment at the military base in the far east of russia. since then, western intelligence agencies say an estimated 10 to 12000 north korean troops have traveled to the course region supporting russian troops trying to retake the

territory. north korean soldiers could free up russian troops that moscow wants on the front line in eastern ukraine. but it's unclear just how much of a difference they'll make in the war. not least because of a language barrier with their russian counterparts. more significant may be the ripple effects of a 3rd country sending troops into the conflict. special the young with the 1st of the battles is with north korean soldiers, good white mark, a new chapter, global instability. next, it'd be nice to most of you together with the world. we must do everything to ensure that this russian step toward expanding the war and giving me this true escalation. escalade becomes a loss your whole girl stuff. nato has reacted cautiously condemning north korea's involvement, but falling short of proposing direct counter measures and warning that the 2 way partnership between russia and north korea will have consequences beyond ukraine.

the sea, more and more as in north korea, iraq, china, and of course, rush of working together working together against your great spots at the same time a restaurant has to pay for it is one of the things they are doing is delivering technology, which is now in the future maintenance of to us continental you're but also our partners in the inner pacific. japan, for example. indeed south korea is intensely worried about its northern neighbors move. the north army is massive 1200000 soldiers and regularly provoke south korea with missile tests and border confrontation of south koreans. worried that the north will gain valuable combat experience in russia and possibly in ukraine itself . the north is also testing its military equipment against western systems, south korea, and president young sir. your said,

his country could review the possibility of sending military aid to ukraine, pouring yet more weapons into the conflict of the wild card. is the u. s. president elect donald trump has praised both north korea's kim john own and russia's vladimir putin. trump takes office on the 20th of january, a waiting game where everything is on the line for ukraine. the coalition is through long as president, the nora camara, the center. you all k has one the parliamentary election and the country projections show that this on our eoc is national people's power. a party is on course for a 2 thirds majority in parliament, left us to send our eoc into power after september as presidential elections. his promise to come back graft and alleviate poverty. as rolando struggles to emerge from a severe financial crisis is victory marks a break from the political oligarchy that have long dominated through long politics . earlier i spoke with political analyst spikey associates are about to move to in

colombo and i asked him what the outcome of this election means 1st for longer or where he does look like landslide victory. and what he does mean for street car, on the basis of past experiences, that when governments have got such huge majority is very soon it goes solid. i need some management of that majority. that is going to be the biggest challenge, i suspect, follow the president because the n b p is effectively the j v p. the janice, having the parent on the who launch to insurgencies against the government to see that got so that fairly sort of some of the j b be caught, it might well be very strong missing of the nationalist and some might be boxes. and so it's a question of whether they will mold well, what is the technocrats should have been brought into the n p. p university lectures, and people accept tools that do not have much experience of being in government.

they said we have some expertise and there's an eoc, it was with a selection thinking, a clear mandate and he got it and you set it there. but, but from what i'm sending in, in your previous answer, um that doesn't mean that he'll be able to just enact his policy proposals the way he wants. yes, i don't think that's going to be possible. i think that would be have, we'll have to do some sort of negotiation, which website he's probably mentioned majority is and with the rest of his party called their industry ibp. so what does he need to do? because there is, of course, a lot of, of, of, you know, this confidence and, and the government and, and governance from what people have experienced in the past. what does the president now need to do to restore that confidence and, and show people that this is a new political era as well the entire social contract. and so you lot guys in

taxes. we need a new political, the culture, as well as we need some very basic structural reforms to proceed into the future. so on the economy he has to, he said he's, we're going to work within the framework step by the i m f. but he's also talking about subsidies is not talking about a decreasing the number of public sevens, which is a huge blow to the public service. and he has to talk about privatizing a going for public private partnerships. as far as the state owned enterprises in the country, often so and then he has to deal with the north and east where he has won the draft from that in the northern capital of joshua. but if he has to come up with the full implementation of the 13th amendment, given gland pause and police pause to the people that, that, and that is the whole question of the prevention of terrorism backed out in the online security bill. so, you know, on a number of fronts she has to move fast, and i would argue that she's probably best for him to come up with

a 100 day program. actually the road running at another thing that, that he didn't mentioned there, but that's very closely linked to the state of the economy, of course is that he has promised to alleviate poverty. now, how does he plan to do that? especially at the moment where a quarter of all through logan's live below the poverty line where he's promising to do that by providing great to subsidies by reducing the taxation on those a stable to barrett by reducing the value added tax bikes. provided that is that realistic though, sorry to jump in there is that realistic given the state of the economy right now? i personally don't think so not to the scale at which he has promised it. and so that's going to be a major challenge because apart from the whole question of corruption, which is one of the key issues in the campaign. and you have to do something about corruption by putting a big push behind buys. in the 1st year of his government,

the whole question is about the cost of living. and people making ends meet on a daily basis. that's political at a low spike, so things are about a motor. thank you so much for all those insights. thank you. moving on to south african, our hundreds of or even thousands of people are trapped in a gold mine in the countries northwest province trapped that is bio for it is waiting to arrest them for illegal mining relatives have been blog from providing food or water to the miners, a law enforcement tactic that they say is already having deadly consequences. an agonizing waiting game on folds in south africa's northwest province. it's estimated that thousands of illegal gold minors have been down this shaft for 4 weeks. while police wait above ground to arrest anyone who comes out, relatives who normally bring food and water to the mind, had been blocked by police. now all they can do is stand by helpless. i've had my

brother what a brother come to my need to do my name. now we've got 7 months inside, but i'm looking for that and brad, m o, i don't. if he's in communications, i'm a product. that's why you see the book must come out because we have bought us the . we have sounds think that overall i think that they offer our children my struggling to run till so our government must help us. but the government has refused to help anyone who stays under ground. the official say the miners can come out any time, but they are unwilling to do so because they fee of arrest and possible deportation . police say they have already detained a 1000 people. do that and the stuff isn't oh, i brought up the processing them in terms of the law, meaning that we are also charging them. um,

depending on the conditionality and maybe the state testing the country, because the mind was decommissioned, officials say it is too dangerous to send down rescuers. one volunteer who went to check on conditions reported seeing several dead bodies of the south african human rights commission plans to investigate the police action they don't use to. so comalla is following the story and johannesburg and he has some more details on the line or stand off with the police. is quite a difficult situation that we have here in mine is still on the ground and those that have one community member estimates that about 4500 as a number that is between. but just that they are 5 of them, were risk by coming to members and out of their own pollution. everything signed

anything happens with the government. this possible today to move also came out. and of course today there was a default for support that also sort of treat by the committee members. of course, the coming out of the might not see the situation. these are the guys that they are hungry. they are weak and some of them need i can help definitely in order for them to suffice the justice to mix, to test and the got. and so it's just the gifts. and of course, the companies that insisting that the government should make sure that this applies to that it gets to come out. but the government also say they went in the formulas, vote down in the opposite vision. buddhism and come home so that they i rested in charge for it because it was that update from to so comalla we've reached the end of our a show, but stay with us coming up next our talk show to the point it looks as a collapse of the german government coalition, it was more news and analysis you're looking for. there's always are

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with one daring goals to help smart nature. the more likes watching it. on youtube, dw documentary, the germany is government coalition collapsed. the day donald trump was announced winner of the us elections. now durham is we'll have to decide who will rule the country in a snap election in february until then little else will get done. what i've chose has become a lame duck chancellor. at a time when germany needs strong political leadership, more than never, the economy is struggling. society is divided. europe's heavy weight has come to a home, including in foreign policy. that's especially better for ukraine, while it's too big, a supporter of the us and germany are stuck in a power vacuum. it's war against russia continues to escalate. until the point we ask germany's down phones.