but i have the only thing it is about the u.s. president elect joe biden reveals his picks for the white house that says donald trump finally relents, son agrees to begin the transition process of the mining operation in the disputed nagorno-karabakh region, leaves one azerbaijani soldier dead and a russian safir injured we were right next to the city of the get full of returning refugees. people who've scud by the wall people student show can feel full for the future. the last thing they need is more explosions. in paris,

protesters continue to rally as anger builds over a police operation which saw a temporary migrant camp cleared from the french capital. and the developers of russia's new vaccine say it's not just highly effective, but also highly affordable costing as little as $20.00 wherever you are, whenever you are, whoever you are, it's time for the news that r t international on down the corridor joining you here in the studio, welcome to the program. now in the u.s. president elect, joe biden announced his top cabinet picks for the white house. he said the world has its hopes resting on his team to restore america's historical role as a global leader. in calls from world leaders that i've had about 18 to 20 so far, i'm not sure the exact number in the weeks since we won the election. i've been

struck by how much they're looking forward to the united states. reassert its historic role as a global leader both in the pacific as well as in the atlantic all across the world . together, these public servants will restore america globally scoble leadership and its moral leadership. without engaging in needless military conflicts and our adversaries in check and terrorists at bay. meanwhile, donald trump has told his team to cooperate with the transition to a biden presidency. however, mr. trump maintains his fight to overturn the election result is not yet over. ilia trying cause, been looking at how biden's white house team is shaping up. america's foreign policy needs to be properly fixed after 4 years of diplomatic rock says one who says the man whose own white house mistakes as donald trump saw them were thorley taken care of by the outgoing administration. the time has come for the u.

turn to go full circle. there's been some damage done. that is going to take some time to dig ourselves out of. but there's no doubt that joe's got the right people to do it. the man taking over the oval office in 2021 was president obama's number 2. so who are the best people to set these apparent wrongs? right. well, the former deputies of obama's team, of course, how easy, i'm really starting to get that joke that barack scott himself a 3rd term. let's take a look at the collective portrait of a deputy dream team. one squad member clearly thinks it was the meddling russians who god, donald trump, elected in the 1st place, made jake sullivan biden speak for national security advisor. this was a moment where we realized that the russians had decided that they were going to actively interfere in the u.s. election. that they were going to intensively work to undermine the pillars of u.s.

democracy. and that they were going to try to defeat hillary clinton. if it wasn't for the russians, if you know what i mean, this career boost would have come much earlier. after all, mr. sullivan served as an advisor for the hillary clinton campaign. and yes, he worked as a national security advisor to the vice president biden. and here we're looking at someone who was all for upping u.s. involvement in syria. tony blinken, the new man taking care of america's foreign relations in syria. it's tougher, it's longer. it's going to take time to build up the syrian opposition, but we believe it can be done. our commitment is to help them to support them, to give them the training, to give them the equipment to give them the air, the power, to give them the advisor. and it all comes back to hillary, who, infamously said this about libya. we came, we saw he died, right. as you may have guessed, mr. blinken was among the star democrat diplomats who love the idea of getting

libya sorted through intervention. his c.v. highlights include deputy secretary of state deputy national security advisor and national security advisor to the vice president. so moving on with deputy dream team, you simply don't deserve the position of intelligence director under joe biden. if you haven't been deputy to a big name, let's say in the cia under obama, without further ado. here's avril haynes, the former deputy cia director also happened to serve as the deputy national security advisor right after tony blinken. some give ms. hanes credit for making america's drone wars more transparent. her critics though, paint her with a different brush focusing on her role as the architect of the drone program. one which is associated with scores of civilian deaths. a slight stain on the record, isn't it? any great team deserves at least

a few qualified veterans. this one is no exception. take john kerry, he's getting his comeback. chance to the job of special presidential envoy for climate goes to the former secretary of state. bear with me for a bit of feedback on the team from someone familiar. the incoming administration could not have chosen that to pursue now for the foreign policy and national security teams. ok, at least there are no surprises, and the world knows what to expect. joining me live now is the 2020 u.s. vice presidential candidate from the libertarian party spike cohen. thank you very much for joining us on the program. now joe biden says his new team is ready to lead the world and not retreat from it. is that the impression you get from his choice of candidates? well, i think if you like the continued expansion of u.s. imperialist foreign policy, then this is a dream team for us. donald. we got tony blinken, we got michelle flournoy,

admiral haynes and others who served under the obama administration. and while they were there, they were the main cheerleaders for the expansion of the war in iraq. the involvement in expansion of the war in syria, the continuation of the u.s. sponsored genocide in yemen and the involvement and invasion of libya by the us military. in fact, michele flournoy actually criticized obama for not being enough of a war hawk in syria. so if that's what you want, if you want more dead u.s. troops and dead people overseas, if you want more trillions of dollars being run up in debt to continue this empire imperial system going, then this would be the ideal pick for us as a libertarian. i'm certainly against it. let's stay on that subject. biden also said his team is ready to confront america's adversaries and not reject its allies . i mean, i guess we can assume that he's referencing to trump's. for example, the request for nato countries to pay their way in the military alliance. but what

do you think we can read into that in terms of what foreign policy we're going to see is this global leadership or some sort of war hawk agenda? do you think? well again, if i think if i leadership, you mean the continued expansion of u.s. war posture, policy perpetual war policy then? yeah, i guess that's the leadership that just got elected into office. now to be clear, donald trump gave his america 1st rhetoric to his voter base,, but the reality was u.s., imperial foreign policy continued under him as well. it may not have it as expanded as quickly as it may have under hillary clinton, but it certainly didn't recede and it certainly didn't end. and it does look like joe biden is going to continue the proud american tradition of a year after year. continuing the expansion of the u.s. military into an increasing number of sovereign countries around the world. and also stay on that topic. how big of a challenge do you think it's going to be for biden, to restore what he considers this global leadership that he talked about? i don't think it's going to be much of a challenge to continue it at all. i mean,

it's something that has largely been going on since the end period of the cold war after the cold war was over, was very quickly determined that in order to be able to keep, you know, military contractors in the rest of the military industrial complex, nice and, and fat and on the, on the taxpayer dime that they had to continue this expansion of paul, of, of imperialist foreign policy that's continued on with the so-called war on terror . and every other aspect that foreign policy. so i don't think it's going to be much of a challenge is just going to continue to, to leverage the, the war state that's already been created before. and so they, are you surprised at all that? there are so many survivors from the obama administration. do you think this is going to be history repeating itself, or is it going to be, you know, they're going to be more threats of war last, what do you think? i don't think it's going to be a surprise, and i think again, it's just going to be a continued expansion of u.s. war footing, where we are at a can a perpetual state of war with countries that largely meant us no harm. so no,

i am not the, i'm not the least bit surprised and frankly, if donald trump and been reelected, i wouldn't have been surprised if that continued expansion of u.s. sponsorship of the saudi led genocide in yemen were continuing. and the continued drone bombing of, of people around the middle east and surrounding environs continued and expanded perpetually. that's, that's not a surprise. that's what happens when we continue to elect republicans in office. well, let's focus a little bit now on the trumpet ministration. we heard that he's agreed to a transition of power, but at the same time he also, he's also said that he hasn't given up on those legal challenges he's pursuing. but do you think this is the 1st sign of him throwing in the towel? where do you think it's going to go? i think it's time to let his supporters down easy. i think, you know, he said that he won the race and that he won it by, you know, many, many millions of votes in that you know that the court challenges would show that he did win it and that's not what's happening. and as a result, he's having to kind of do the, you know,

the slow walk down of his supporters who are convinced that he was, you know, robbed in the election. and, and so you know, i don't it for see him actually refusing to transition to the biden ministre, should i don't forsee any of that. i think he's playing good cop to his voter base and he's playing bad cop to the other side, voter base. that's what democrats republicans do. they play good cop to their base and bad cop to the other side to keep american voters voting for lesser evils. one more question here, mr. collin, what's the response from the public and media to biden's cabinet choices and you know, what do you think the future of that is going to be as well? well, i'll tell you joe jorgensen and i, in our, in our presidential vice presidential campaign. we traveled to 48 states and interacted with countless americans across the country. and whenever the subject of us foreign policy came up, universally the american people want these wars to end. now, whether that will wither that will lend itself to them. whether that will lend itself to them, rejecting these pics,

or whether or half of america will hate it because it's not a republican and half of it will love it because it's a democrat. i really couldn't tell you. but in general, if you just talk about the subject of us foreign policy, the average american wants the wars to end, the average american wants the troops to come home. the average american doesn't think that the u.s. military should be used as the world's police or that it's done a good job at it, or that it done anything other than lead to an increasing number of veterans coming home with, you know, p.t.s.d. and other chronic health problems and not to mention the measurable suffering and harm that's being done overseas. so the average american wants this to end whether that will play out or not in public outcry,, but that remains to be seen. spike cohen, 2020, u.s., vice presidential candidate for the libertarian party. thanks for joining us on. the program is a pleasure. thank you. donna. russian peacekeepers have started a d. mining operation in the disputed nagorno-karabakh region following the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan. but as more of gaza have reports, it's

a risky business. the sheer intensity of this war, the sheer quantity of me sells ammunition bombs used, are astounding. the sad truth is that it will take years to find and make safe every unexploded munition footage visited by john, raining cluster bombs and cities and towns and never got in a car. buck sparked outrage, but adds, rage dissipates, and evaporates, cluster bombs, don't with us. and so we are ready for anything, especially air drop bombs and cluster munitions, often rounds of drops too low or don't have enough rotation speed. and they wind up unexploded in people's gardens or kids' playgrounds, or they could be at previous military outposts. the soldiers may have left,

but the munitions remained with russian engineers and sappers. part of the peacekeeper contingent have been tasked with the mining operations other than daily patrols and roads and near outposts. they also assist local sappers. there's plenty of work for both. what complicates matters even further is that we aren't out in the middle of nowhere and you can't very well blew every unexploded shell up. we have right next to the city of state by the get full of returning refugees. people who have been scarred by the war, people still in shock and fearful for the future. the last thing they need is more explosions. any minute, no munition found categorized. category 3 is the least dangerous. these shells or rockets are generally and fired and can be transported for disposal. category one of the worst booby traps cluster bomblets,

all volatile munitions that my be destroyed on the spot. in this area we identified 2 r.p.g. rockets into 125 millimeter tank rounds. it's true and dangerous work, but helping out a man's and sappers best friend, the mining dogs. her name is jacqueline. she's a belgian shepherd. she took part in the fee for world championship in 2018. she has been through a lot of training and we've been together for 3 years. you use whatever you caton the war may be over, but every other day we hear of another incident. another casualty, a mine going off or an old grenade exploding. the peacekeepers mission is to establish peace and bring back calm, which you can't do if people are terrified of the very ground they walk on more, i guess the of see from the garden

a car bought another news. the french president has announced the country will start easing its lockdown. this weekend, emanuel macron also said everything would be done to prevent a so-called, 3rd wave. the sydney, you know, the peak of the 2nd wave has passed. we fared much worse figures, but we avoided the vaccination, must be transparent with all the information available about each stage. what we know as well as what we don't know. i also want to be clear, i will not make vaccination mandatory from saturday. businesses will start to reopen, although the lockdown will remain in place. it will only be lifted on december 15th if daily infections drop to 5000 cinemas and the theaters will reopen, then however, bars and restaurants and cafes will remain closed throughout the christmas period. only reopening as part of the 3rd phase from january 20th. that's when schools and universities will resume in person teaching. also in france,

activists have rallied for a 2nd day in paris following the last last week's clearance of the st. denny migrant camp. on monday riot police moved in with tear gas to break up. the demonstrations. anger has been building since the authorities tried to remove some 2000 migrants at the temporary camp last tuesday. and although human rights groups say around 800 still remain in while still in france, the government has passed the 1st stage of a controversial new law, which critics say undermines media freedoms with all the details of just what it entails here. charlotte to ski. well, there is a protest taking place behind me outside the national assembly here in paris, where those deputies are both on this global securities law. a law that's been very controversial. we've seen protests across the country over the last week or so against that, and not speak, cause journalists unions, and n.g.o.s say that this law, which contains a specific article, octal 24,

will criminalize publication of images of police offices where you can see their faces. if there is an intent to harm and that would be punishable by one year in jail or the $45000.00 euro fine. now those groups say that this essentially gives the green light to stop journalists from doing their jobs because they won't be able to potentially film police because they could find themselves in the criminal courts. for doing that shocking images emerged from a monday evening where it was showing the police using brute force force to clear a migrant camp in the center of the city. does have a look at some of those in the images of what unfolded.

well part of the job of journalists is to document what the security forces are doing and whether there are any abuses of power of bolli them. it was one journalist who was forced to the ground by police offices of the images and videos circulating on social media and showed the police not just using that tear gas, but actually when they would trying to move those tents in one scene, they pick up a tent and they essentially eject a migrant out of it. and in another video that we show, you know, the social media as a migrant trying to leave the scene, he is forcibly tricked by a police officer at those images shocked. many people here in fronts, including the interior minister,

who has until now cited time and time with the police. such an image is showing the dispersal of the illegal migrant camp on republic square. a shocking, i have requested a detail report of the facts from the police by midday tomorrow, i will make a decision after that. there is an investigation that's been opened into what happened on monday evening with doesn't say even the interior minister saying he was shocked by those images. but many people might say, if it wasn't for the journalists there, covering that if it wasn't for the citizens taking those images on their phones, if they were not allowed to do that, then how would proper investigations be able to be carried out. how could you hold the police accountable when they use force that is beyond that of the remit of their jobs? now that even the un have also criticized this law, essentially saying the news media must be free to do their jobs. the government says this move is necessary because it's important to protect the police,

protect the police at a time when they face unprecedented violence in doing their job. and police unions say that this law doesn't go far enough. they say that by the time this image is approved cost and somebody is a arrested taken to account for doing that. then you know, those images could have been shared thousands and thousands of times move. so they're actually cooling for the low to be strengthened even further. still on the way a shot in the arm for the fight against the coronavirus, the makers of rushers vaccine say it's not just highly effective but also won't break the bank all the details. and

is you'll media a reflection of reality in a world transformed what will make you feel safe, isolation or community? are you going the right way or are you being direct? what is true? what is faith? in the world corrupted, you need to descend to join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. now for the post-mortem. how did you major political parties change to this election cycle? joe biden maintained an already weakened and divided democratic coalition. is there

such a thing as trump is? did he change the g.o.p. or did the g.o.p. change? welcome back to the program. now the developers of russia's new covert vaccine, say the latest test data shows it's 95 percent effective. maria financial to talk through the findings with my colleague and her former small degree is currently in phase 3 of his clinical trials and is going to last for at least 4 more months. but we already received early interim results and they are quite impressive. the 2nd interim analysis of clinical trial data showed a 91.4 percent efficacy for the sputnik the vaccine on day $28.00 after the 1st dose vaccine efficacy is over 95 percent. 42 days after the 1st dose, the us based foreign giants, pfizer and there are also recently announced that their drug is almost 95 percent

efficient, but they get all their research center. the company behind sputnik we say they are, a vaccine is unique and they are native we are using 2 forms of the virus administered via 2 different injections. the data from us to resent it to has confirmed that this is more effective than using just one form of the virus. our method is more than 90 percent effective. as demonstrated by sputnik, we were open to sharing our human done a virus with other companies. the developers of sputnik me say that the recent results are based on the analysis of the data on $19000.00 volunteers who took part in the trials and who received already both 1st and 2nd doses of the drug. well, it seems that so far sputnik to me is the cheapest coronavirus vaccine on the potential market with the price of less than $20.00. of course we're talking about both needed doses that is versus $39.00 price tag for pfizer and $74.00 for my that in the vaccine. experts say that u.k.

sweden, astra zeneca, could be cheaper than any of these 3 vaccines. but they didn't officially announce their price yet. well, the competition is obvious, but russia says the more vaccines, the better it is important for the world to have their respects. and sputnik, we can be part of the countries faction package. at the moment, we can only produce enough vaccines for 500000000 people, which means a 1000000000 injections next year. we also see a very good deed to crossfire's and maduna actions have been found over 90 percent effective. and we have no reasons to doubt those figures. several countries already announced that they want to buy russia sputnik weaker and a virus vaccine hand. we hear that sales may start already in january. but you have to understand that the price i mentioned only works for foreign customers for foreign buyers, for russians. and for russia, sputnik, we will be free. it was good news so far,

but it hasn't stopped people. certainly early on criticizing the claims were cut corners. developers weren't transparent sufficiently about their research is the been sort of any response to that criticism. but you have to understand that phase 3 of the clinical trials of sputnik we is still on to go. and according to the rules, it is forbidden to make any data public at this point, but the gamma layer research center says that they are ready to provide trial reports and all information, all data and publish it in one of the leading medical journals. as soon as face 3 is over, just last lemuria, i know you were part of the trials, weren't you? how are they going to just run through the job she received? and what's the reaction you had? the most important thing of course, is that i have antibodies, djimi, my immune system responded, and i also know that they are growing because i got to blood tests already in the last 40 days. and that point size with what research center says. so i'm very happy

with that. to be honest. one of the major questions about all the new covert vaccines is how to get them to those most in need. we spoke to virology, professor ian jones. this is the fullest sense of taste. and it confirms a very high level of protection trial data. and the excellent levels of protection that are being observed is the most important. however, the practicalities of then how you distribute it is and who is going to pay for it, then kick in. and so both the price and the storage conditions are a factor in how he's the will be able to roll out these vaccines. the most important thing is to identify the vulnerable groups, the aged, and those with underlying health conditions and ensure that they get the vaccine in the 1st wave as, as the vaccines are released. after that, there should be a discussion of the general rollout, but it will take time. that's the critical factor, the logistics of getting the vaccine out to people,

which will take up to about 2 months. so it's going to be staggered, and so going forward, i think the social distancing in the mask wearing a probably going to be a factor for the next 6 months. but they should then be simply not needed as the immunity levels increase. the united nations agency is warning the young are being forgotten when it comes to the global battle against the pandemic. children face a trifecta of threats, direct consequences of the disease itself, interruption in essential services and increasing poverty and inequality. unless the global community urgently changes priorities, the potential of this generation of young people may well be lost. unicef outlined, some of the worst aspects said in its report, found a 15 percent rise in young people living in poverty worldwide added, predicted that the lives of around $2000000.00 children under 5 could be lost in

the next 12 months. it also has to made of the education of more than $1500000000.00, schoolchildren would be hit, a senior unicef official told r.t. the youngest members of society cannot be forgotten during the school health crisis . i think the immediate response, of course, is what will and i make our most hitting adult population said. the elderly, with the direct effects was an appropriate response message from unicef. is that as countries are preparing their response plans to the pandemic and making sure that they pay attention to those hardest hit by the infection itself, that they don't lose sight of making sure that essential services that children and mothers depend upon that they're not severely disrupted because that's what's really leading to these high numbers of deaths and also to bear in mind that a lot of the economic consequences that will cause a increase in poverty,

which disproportionately affects children, will be back with more stories at the top of the hour. hope to see you then join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics. sports business, i'm showbusiness. i'll see you then. maybe your brutal truth will be.