on punish. maybe my voice will be heard next spring to our love. seeking justice for the victims of fame aside. starts november 21st on the w. the business day though it is live from berlin that he was president elect. donald trump nominates more controversial figures for his cabinet. trump tabs robert f kennedy junior and environmental active is to a spread misinformation on vaccine to has the united states top health agency also coming up toxic small blanket, the indian capital daily authorities, close primary schools to serve rise in respiratory illness. north korea's leader kim jong own calls for the mass production of attack drills this after your brains of north korean troops are already fighting for moscow and supplying russia with weapons. the

welcome to the sale. i'm nicole fairly. you as president elect donald trump, has announced more controversial cabinet picks a week after his decisive election went, including a republican sweep of both chambers of congress. that means republicans will have the final say on improving trends. choices to head of all government agencies speaking as mar, longer resort. in his 1st public appearances election nights from 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. kennedy who's part of a famous democratic political family as a long time on health and environmental activist, but has raised eyebrows with many of his views, including questioning the advocacy of vaccines. he ran as an independent presidential candidate before dropping out of the race and endorsing from the 2 campaigns together. promising to quotes make america healthy again. we have the sickest country in the world. and this, this rage took yes. we need to bring donald trump to watch instead of make america how and so you can beardsley 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, 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 wasn't surprised. i would 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 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 bought, who's 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 depend 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 worry. does it know robert f kennedy junior has other stances that sort of fall in very much a similar tone. it 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 fluoridation, there's no scientific evidence that there's anything wrong with it. and there's actually advantageous, 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 ivan 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 talks about coping 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 it that he speaks very convincingly, but he also in the same breath, he speaks against vaccines that a lot of established medicine, 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. we only have a couple of seconds, but i don't want to let you go without in 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 skepticism about what's gonna happen during the confirmation process. she 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 examples of this is no light topic. essentially i have 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 have is, is going to be sure with are occasionally 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 going to get your insights. thank you so much. i the air pollution levels have stored in cities across southeast and south asia, forcing the closure of schools and temporary bands on outdoor activities log,

categorize as unhealthy shout of the vietnamese capital hanoi. and the indonesian capital is a card a while air quality and pockets on 2nd largest city. lahore, deteriorated to hazardous levels, the cooler temperatures of ottoman winter, worse than the annual small trapping deadly pollutants. a mere authorities in india as capital daily or trying to tackle dangerous microscopic air pollutants that have reached more than 50 times. world health organization limits, as in daily just trying to go about the dates de lice. in the dense choking haze is difficult to find. so i feel where it tasted in my eyes, i just came from my phone. my eyes are burning and i'll have to wash them. i'm also 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 low wind speeds, leave it suffocated by small basically able to reason of this is not causing a day or 2 because of our lifestyle, the ramp, construction ethics and all the traffic is a part of cancer 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 haze. 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

a rule. so roaming the streets, spring war to try and keep down the small one on a central construction work that's 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. i asked our daily bureau to sandra paid us on how safe it is to go outside at the moment. while i walked out and to has is add that's for sure. and when we say half of those, we really need to find small a 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 met says they are really are able to costs to be a damage. they don't uh, they penetrate into the bloodstream. they can lots

d p in the long. so if people and that can also need to, to be a long term disease as cardiovascular diseases, that can cause cancer. and they can also delay development in children. so this is really something that needs to be contained by the 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 lacking. it is like trying to put a 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 and at the international level because it is a problem. but 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 as of what to spray, i think people will be at risk here. and a very recent 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 fine particular mathis and the air. that's a staggering number. we're actually just seeing some of these counter met. measure is those stop gap measure as, as you call them stroll in spring water 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 daily well, you see,

look at the ben ons going to school is, i mean the primary school is kids 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 actual refi 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 still have your teams that are paid this month. always grace speaking to you.

thank you so much. and we can now take a look at some other stories making headlines today. the coalition of 3 loc as left wing president unreal. camara, the center eoc as one of the parliamentary election projections show his national people's power. a party is oncourse for a 2 thirds majority. based on how you all kinds of power after september as presidential election. he's promised to come back graft and alleviate poverty following severe financial crisis in the country. the 5th type boon to hit the philippines and 3 we it is now headed towards taiwan. people were left stranded and herds of livestock were devastated after ty, food and soggy, struck on thursday. villages were evacuated after a triggered flash floods. forecasters now say a new type food thread is drawing closer to the philippine north korean leader kim john own has ordered his military to begin mass producing exploding drones.

according to state media. young young has been ramping up the development of new weaponry and recent years and increased arms exports to russia. the attack drones carry explosives and crash into targets that are better at the reading air defenses than missiles north korea and russia recently signed a major defense treaty agreeing to strengthen their military cooperation and according to keep on its allies. north korean troops are already fighting for russia in the war against ukraine. 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. the more significant may be the ripple effects of a 3rd country sending troops into the conflict. especially when we're young with the 1st of the battles is like north korean soldiers, good white mark, a new chapter of 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. a nato has reacted cautiously condemning north korea's involvement, but fall and short of proposing direct counter measures. and warning that the 2 way partnership between russia and north korea will have consequences beyond ukraine. more and more as in north korea, iraq, china, and of course, rush of working together working together, gives you great spots at the same time a restaurant has to pay for it. and one of the things they are doing is different technology, which is now threatening the in the future. maintenance of to us continental you're, but also our partners in the inner pacific. defend, 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 the western systems, south korea and president he on. so your said his country could review the possibility of sending military aid to ukraine poor and get more weapons into the conflict. the wild card is the u. s. president elect. donald trump has praised both north korea's kim john and russians. vladimir putin. trump takes office on the 20th of january, a waiting game where everything is on the line for ukraine. alexander lift gate is the age up program coordinator of the european council on foreign relations, and joins us now from berlin. alexander, welcome to the double, you know, president zalinski and the report we just saw it called north korea's involvement in major escalation to share this assessment or yeah,

absolutely. i think we're thinking about the significance of this move um, it is important to that. so that's the said to not look at the kind of military impact directly, but at the symbolic character, this has solve this consulate in this military escalation as well. this conflicts and what does it hasn't he does with the taste is by less little conflict between 2 european nations. and that happens a part of the cult by allies on both sides with whether they're in the us and, and a taste there's an escalator, has into the reason of the conflict which opens up a lot more avenues by escalation in the future. and may be the most stock remind. this is the most stock reminder for europeans, yet of the interconnections between um security and a's on the one hand on the korean peninsula and kind of direct security impacts. on the other hand, in your and we'll get to those in a 2nd. but 1st i want to ask you about how south korea has been reacting to all of

the station. urging for an immediate withdrawal of north korean troops from the conflict and talking about their own security concerns. why is souls specifically so worried about this sole main concern basically uh, addresses the delivery of advanced military technology to north korea. and of course what this means for the stability on the agreement as well. so we know that north korea and killing you're getting money, they're getting food aid. so this on the one that pops up, the not 3 and redeem it. basically throws the lifeline to the north of greenwood genes to a, to foster stability on the one hand. on the other hand, of course, um, it allows enough to really seem to uh, in the worst case accelerate is weapons for all its mass. it's nuclear weapons program. and it's a ballistic missile program, and this of cause then changes completely the calculations on the green button's

left in terms of the speed of escalation. and on top of that, the soul is very of course, worried about the potential russell involvement in the conflict on the korean peninsula. the overall, i think, the, the escalation. but this has never been this high, at least in decades as it is at the moment. all right, talking about technology, you can don't want us just order the mass production of exploding drones, suicide drones, as they're called. to what extent do you think this could be linked to his increased cooperation with water put and i think, i think it's absolutely late. i think it shows the screen side from, from the one you crane, where with these kind of drones have been extremely important. it remains to be seen how, how maybe even the rest of the technology will support north korea in being able to produce these drones. and of course, the, the worry is that a north korea that is able to mass produce these kinds of weapons that are so

important on the probably the best deal will incense them to prove. it's a rust that will allow you to prolong this was out this world even longer and prevailed in the end. so again, this is the star from idaho. that's a use of last great weapon development that has become so relevant. i see in europe . yeah. and i want to get back to what you touched on there at the beginning. you recently wrote that maybe for the 1st time asian nations are seeking to shape the european security order. what does that mean for a europe? i mean, for europe, that means what we need to change the scope of, of, of how we think about the conflict in ukraine. but also how we think about cooperation with a basically all hotness in asia as the security environment in asia become so important to us. we need to step up cooperation, for example, with south korea in terms of intelligence sharing. and they have been at the forefront of breaking news about the rest,

the local deployment of the russia. so this is 11 important avenue. and the 2nd one of course, is uh, the industrial military cooperation with south korea who have a, a functioning, what functioning military industrial complex. and as europe raises to, to be published to turns. and south korea can take homes, a mentor, a role in helping us to get where we want to be in terms of our defense pasta as quickly as possible. that was alex on the left from the european council on foreign relations. fascinating insights, thanks for your time. thank you very much. on the south african now we're hundreds or even thousands of people are trapped in a gold mine and the country's northwest province draft. that is by authorities waiting to arrest them for illegal mining relatives have been blocked from providing food or water to the miners. a law enforcement tactics that they say is

already having deadly consequences. in agonizing waiting game on folds in south africa's northwest province. as 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 mine had been blocked by police. now all they can do is stand by helpless. i've put my brother. what brother came to mind me to do my name? now we've got 7 months inside, but i'm looking for the brother m o. i don't. if he's in communication with somebody present, that's why you see most of those must come on because we have a lot of the day we have phones. but there's that all of our kids that they offer our children as friendly so we run till so our government must help us. but the government has refused to help anyone who stays under ground. the officials

say the miners can come out any time, but they are unwilling to do so because they feel of arrest and possible deportation. the 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 the we also charging them. um, depending on the conditionality and maybe the state testing the country because the mine was the commission. officials say it is too dangerous to send down rescuers. one volunteer who went to check on conditions reported seeing several dead bodies. the south african human rights commission plans to investigate. the police action maureen scientists have discovered was believed to be the largest single coral on earth in the pacific ocean. researchers found it near the solomon

islands initially, believing it to be a shipwreck. the coral is 32 meters wide and 34 meters long researchers say is distinct from a coral reef, which is made up of many coral colonies. and before we go, here's a reminder of our top stories today. us president elect donald trump has announced more controversial cabinet pick. trump says he's naming former independent presidential candidate and vaccine skeptic, robert f. kennedy junior to lead the department of health and human services. in the us capital has introduced stricter anti pollution controls to combat a spike. in plastic, small authorities and dealing of close to all primary schools after air pollution rose to more than 50 times the safe limit recommended by the world health organization. and that's the end of our show for more news and analysis. remember

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