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she, i decided not to show them at all because i felt when the ball i falsified my profession was attacked a very warm welcome. it's just gone. 8 am here in moscow, and you're watching us an international meeting. first a heinous assassination. that's how the united arab emirates described friday's killing of a wrong top nuclear scientist, jordan. another key player in the middle east also condemns the death as the u.a.e. urged all sides to prevent instability and escalation in the region. the attack sparks uproar in a wrong capital with rioters burning the flanks of israel and its ally the us, as well as the portraits of donald trump and joe biden, demanding war with america to wrong, 100 mediately blames the instant on israel,

which denies the accusations. here's what is known about the assault with her on the ready vowing retaliation. it will only activate the triangle of tension between the u.s. into, out on the run. and the ghost on of explains that creates a real headache for a future biden administration. so far it's been up to iran to make accusations and israel alongside with the us quite expected. lee are its prime suspects in response . israel, the one country whose spies might actually know more about iran than iran knows

about itself. has had this to say. i have no clue who did. it's not that my lips, the seals, because i'm being responsible. i really have no clue. and the united states, the same united states that kicked off 2020 with an open assassination over iran's top general has been completely mute this time. and it would be perfectly fine given the total lack of evidence and nation thousands of miles away from iran had anything to do with the killing except in the past 2 weeks. several unconfirmed reports claim the don't know, trump was seeking options to attack iran to further detail its nuclear program. factories that them would make a perfect target given he was quite a celebrity for israeli intelligence. remember the name focus of the so here's this director right here. and he says, the generally is to our knowledge, the closure project. but then he adds special activities. you know what that is?

special activities will be carried out under the title of scientific know how developments and in fact, this is exactly what iran proceeded to do. it continued this work in a series of organizations over the years by aggravating iran. trump would also be throwing a spanner in the machinery of joe biden's foreign policy. given that the president elect has hinted at a friendly, a stance on to iran, will offer to iran a credible path back to diplomacy. if iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the united states would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for follow on negotiations. with our allies, we will work to strengthen and extend the nuclear deals provisions while also addressing other issues of concern and europe, whose leaders probably still have a p.t.s.d. over january's prospects of world war 3. have been pointing out that this latest

killing creates a tough road ahead for biden, a few weeks before the new u.s. administration takes office. it is important to preserve the scope for talks with iran, so that the dispute over iran's nuclear program can be resolved through negotiations . we therefore urge all parties to refrain from any steps that could lead to a further escalation of the situation. during the past 4 years, trump has sent america's relations with iran, back into the pit of us, tell it by unilaterally tearing up the nuclear deal, recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital. and sending his top diplomat on a charm offensive to all of the middle eastern nations that oppose iran. that's definitely what the israelis were aiming for. i mean, they're there, they're sure and hope is that the united states gets involved in a military action against iraq. that's, that's their ultimate goal. that's their ultimate object. you know, void of that. the next best thing is to ensure that the united states doesn't

improve relations with iran, by rejoining the iranian nuclear agreement. and the way you do that is the sabotage . any effort at diplomacy? i mean, when you knock off the number one scientist in iran's nuclear program, in a suburb of tehran in a bold, daring daylight attack, you're not going to have the iranians go, whoa, that's ok. let's, let's get on with diplomacy. it's going to get the reaction, it's getting right now, a hard line. iranian response that will further restrict the efforts of not totally shut down the efforts of international inspectors. and only increase international concern that iran might be edging towards a military weapon ization effort. this new high profile death, even though there's no hard evidence to reveal the culprits will only once again prove to tehran, that the raw power is hell bent on destroying it, and with the wounds from the assassination of general sonny money still fresh in the mind. no one can be expecting restraint from iran and as if i didn't make some

historic picks for his tave something that's the line. take us media, put them on that's life at and about europe's at guantanamo how our rights groups describe kurdish controlled refugee camps, holding hundreds of women and children with european citizenship. they report contains chilling eyewitness accounts of inhumane and degrading treatment. last winter 3 and children were burned alive. we saw the bodies, so the babies the tried to burn my neighbors, turned on their turquoise knifes towns as well as the children. 2 men in military uniforms who had their faces covered with these cards and were carrying kalashnikovs entered very fast. they took my son who was asleep. i screamed, they said, don't scream or we will be to you. the children injured by gunfire had to wait for

a long time before being transferred to hospital. during the syrian war, hundreds of european women and their children have been detained by kurdish militia for security concerns. but the report warns many were manipulated or even forced to travel to the country by islamic state, husbands or recruiters. kurdish authorities say they lack resources to manage the camps properly. and although kurdish authorities admit it's their responsibility to provide safety and security for detainees, they blame the international community for failing to cooperate. and in particular, the e.u. states who citizenship, the women and children hold, and some e.u. states insists the detainees are a national security threat and that comes above any duty of care. the decision was that the dutch government does not have to pick up these children and these women from syria right now. what the judge says is that this is a political decision. and that it is not up to the judge to decide whether they

should do this or not. i emphasize that a national security threat means a threat of the most serious kind to the public. the resists, serious risk from anyone who's aligned with ours. sole keith best form, a vice chair of the european council on refugees told us that whatever the situation people in these camps have rights human rights is something that you just cannot contain in one country or whatever it is universal. and that the laws about human rights should be applied in the diversity and that includes in these camps rather than leaving those even if they. 'd are accused of crimes or accused of having gone to support an action or a group or terrorist group which is contrary to the laws of the country 2 of which there are citizen. but those people should be brought back to the country,

prosecuted and tried for that offense in their country of which they are national. i can understand the reluctance of security services wanting these people to come, but, but at the end of the day, you have to do with your citizens as you find them rather than just forgot all left to be forgotten about most teachers in norway fair personal consequences if they send partings of the prophet mohammed in cloth, according to a survey, we talked with one who says that there is now a very, very real danger to those working in the profession. after the murder of some, well, i decided not to show them at all because i felt it's winnable. i felt my profession was attacked at the moment and the freedom of speech over expression was attacked, of course. and i wanted to find other ways to express myself and to

achieve the same goal with my teaching. because the characters get to your drawings are not the goal. they're just just a part of criticism against a religion. and there's other texts we can use as well. the 1st comma after the brutal beheading of french teacher, some your piety, who showed cartoons of the prophet muhammad in class. and the issue has sparked a storm in the country while president mccracken insists the cartoons are about freedom of speech. many muslims are outraged on the answer to one of our competitors was murdered because he taught our competitor, it was the victim of an islamist terror attack. you

know, we didn't teach or we spoke to minds that they should be free to decide how to explain religion to students. there's the law on the the law on that one hand and freedoms of speech on the other hand. and we can maneuver in between the limits of those. and i don't want to have anyone telling me which texts to choose in my teaching. i think it's really important that teacher, it's all around the world, is allowed to to, to make those choices by themselves. we have the curriculum and we have these limits and i think for us it's really, really important too to make choices about these things ourselves. the thing is that the each and curriculum has a very important main topic. that's democracy and citizenship. and we are teaching in with the law on one hand,

the laws against hate speech and in the rain. and we have the human rights on the other hand rights. so we have to maneuver in, in between them and for us. and we will have to find our way to achieve, to develop the students' skills and their, and ability to, to read attacks with a critical mind. and i think we can do that even though we're not showing the least, specific pictures. in a historic 1st u.s., president elect, joe biden's selected an all female press team as part of a promise of a more diverse administration. tell of more pain gauge is the reaction from an, unusually gushing about media. the u.s., mainstream media seems thrilled that it will have a new white house team to report on this january. and the biden administration

seems quite thrilled about its upcoming relationship with the 4th estate. and president biden believes that the media is a critical piece of our democracy. he also believes, though, that the media's job is to hold him accountable. he walk of that relationship, the idea of a better relationship with the executive branch is certainly appealing to the media . you are being very aggressive, as is the job of a white house correspondent, david gregory, and i are sitting here talking about our experiences. pissing off everybody in that room, pissing off president obama pissing off president bush 1st, long as i've been alive for as long as you've been alive. no leader of the free world has publicly spoken about the press. the way trump does it is points already the press are hitting home the hard questions. how do you plan to save yourself and your business? does russia have any leverage over you the mantra or otherwise? and if not, will you release your temperatures to prove it? how will that color your attempts to build a relationship with a leader who has been accused of committing an act of espionage just. 8 kidding,

those were the questions they asked when donald trump was transitioning into power . now at this point, biden has already been the president elect for 3 weeks. and this is how tough it has actually gotten. going to encourage unions to cooperate our grandkids back to classroom, sir. if the media is giving him such a grilling, what do you see as the biggest threat to your transition right now, given president trump's unprecedented attempt to obstruct and delay a smooth transfer of power, you just spoke of. some of the dangers of the president's continued stonewalling of this transition, but it doesn't appear that the president is going to come around anytime soon and admit defeat. so what are you going to do? and what is your message to republicans who are packing up the present refusal to concede? yes, the press is doing its job and being oh, so tough on biden. some democrats want investigations to go forward against

president trump after he leaves office. do you support that? there's going to be some tension between getting unity getting things done, working the republicans and investigating any wrongdoing that occurred during the trial administration. so we've got journalists accepting joe biden's, non answers as the focus now seems to shift to his picks for the cabinet, who all seem to follow a certain pattern. but i didn't. once his teams have people of every race, color, creed, gender, and sexual orientation, who supported the war in iraq. now with poll after poll showing that the american people are tired of foreign wars, you would think that the media would press him on the fact that he's filling up his cabinet with washington establishment or ox. but the mainstream us media has decided not to go there. this is about the least flashy team you could possibly get . they are deeply experienced. they are humble, and they are life long. public servants is the experience of intelligence professionals for 3 years at the cia has been handling the national security team.

the transition for joe biden on national security and is a respected intelligence professional trying to repair what is broken here and less focused on the team of rivals, to repair team, to fix what has been broken. now to be fair, there are a handful of journalists asking real questions, but this pretty much sums up the new attitude to just take a moment and just, i don't want to talk moment too, to drink you in for just a moment, because i'm having to get used to looking at a president again, you know, i've gotten out of gotten out of the habit you got to go. i got a warm up for joe biden. so after a presidential term of digging for dirt around the white house seems like now the media is busy filling the trenches back again. one thing we can certainly expect, will be another 4 years that are the polar opposite of the last kaleb up and r.t.,

new york. the court of karabakh is trying to rebuild after the war between armenia and azerbaijan, with russian emergency workers on the frontline of the relief effort in the region's biggest city. stop on the cause you are really worried about this and it's a pretty, it's a happy day for the region that the city has reopened. one of its good looks of things to the russian peacekeepers. children are learning again, but i think you're going to think that, oh, you're going to introduce is still visible to

you t.j. . he's a medical center has been built alongside deployed emergency units to provide 1st aid to both rescuers and citizens straight. he has moved to dismiss 13 soldiers out of unlawful killings in afghanistan, but as the country deals with the fallout from a damning report, donald hawkins asks if it will hurt those on involved in the crimes. don ho explains the bridge in inquiry is sending shock waves through australia, dozens of afghan civilians and prisoners of war, killed and brutalized by special forces the evidence systematically and deliberately covered up. and as the grim details emerged, the calls for army top brass to take responsibility have grown. the report was heavily redacted, but it still described as possibly the most disgraceful episode in australia's

military history. and the commanders are feeling the heat. but you see him right, there is a process to be followed here. we've received the inquiry. when we could go, we need to follow a very deliberate, very methodical and very fair process. suring that we spend every individual's privacy and better for this will take time. it took 4 and a half years to work through this report. it was delivered one week ago, and we are now working through what's the best damage control well and apology for starters. to the people of afghanistan on behalf of the australian defense force. i sincerely and unreservedly apologize for any wrongdoing by a stroll in soldiers. such alleged behavior profoundly disrespected the trust placed

in us by the afghan people who would ask 1st to the country to help them. action has begun to trickle down so far. 13 soldiers are facing anything from warnings to discharge if they fail to explain their actions. it's still unclear though, if criminal proceedings will go ahead and many feel this is insufficient and unacceptable . it's not the wish of blowers, it's not david mcbride, it's not jealousy. manning? it's not, julian, it's noted snowden. it is the war criminals to be put in prison at the moment. i came to sinai on this, it was even going to think, what kind you mean when i mean my experience of rapes in afghanistan, defense chiefs have opted to go further and strip medals from the thousands of afghan veterans who had nothing to do with the crimes causing a massive backlash from the military community and beyond. this is not fair on thousands of our soldiers who served with distinction and deserve the thanks of

a grateful nation, not to be thrown under the bus. over the last 3 weeks, 9, serving and veteran soldiers, 8 men and one woman have taken their own lives. though there's no direct proven link to the scandalous britain report. some say perceptions of collective blame are damaging veterans' mental health. basically brand. every soldier sees all of the 3000 as murders, and it's just not right. and it will have an awful impact on these people who are very vulnerable. afghanistan is not a normal war, it's not between it's a guerrilla warfare. the reality is they can't sending back these soldiers time and time again. and i think that was quite wrong. and that explains,

i think it what happened and you know, the politicians have a lot to answer for this and, and everyone's ducking for cover on the leadership has also made clear that responsibility must go up the ranks for what happened in afghanistan. accountability ris with those who allegedly broke the law and with the chain of command responsible for the systemic failures involved. ironically, general campbell himself was in command of australian troops in the country from 2011 to 2012. when most of the killings in a broken report took place, even receiving a distinguished service cross for his efforts, his medal doesn't appear to be up for a vacation. and as the scandal drags on with army chiefs finding themselves under fire from all sides, accused of doing too little too late. dodging blame themselves are now collectively punishing innocent veterans, whatever the outcome,

the broken report fallout is only just beginning. let's take a look at some other world news in brief. now police have searched the home and office of diego maradona's doctor in argentina, prosecutors are looking into negligence claims over the football stars death. the 60 year old died on wednesday after a heart attack while recovering from brain surgery. and indonesians located no eruption has sent flying 4 kilometers into the public has been banned from coming anywhere near the area. no injuries or damage to property have yet to be reporters . a small german town has found a novel way to keep the christmas spirits one maintaining social distancing rules. and with the pandemic and the south of the country, a drive in let's locals placeholders or passing through the lockets and mike, thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. we're back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines. we'll see. you then.

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to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guest. kevin is an employment he's the editor and founder of the 21st century wire. here in moscow, we're joined by bob. she's a political analyst and editor at, you know smee internet media project. all right, gentlemen, crossed up rose in effect, that means you can jump in anytime you want, and i was appreciate it. ok, let's go to patrick 1st. their employment in watching the potential, by a cabinet being presented to the public through the liberal media. we heard phrases like they are like the avengers is like, they're super heroes or something like that. and then there was a tough thing head on p.b.s. saying these are intensely professional people and they're apolitical. i mean, i almost fell out of my chair when that was said here, i look at this team and it's a rogues gallery of people that want endless war promote them. were very much

involved in designing a wars that are still being fought. and they're being in the liberal media is cheering them as if there is some kind of an enlightenment after darkness. ok, obviously the donald trump is the darkness in their mind. but there's a lot of continuity here. and i think this is what's really terrifying. and we have election cycle after election cycle where the public says they're sick and tired of these wars, but it doesn't seem to have much of an impact on the professional manager class that runs what i call the foreign policy block. take it away, patrick. you're right to point out peter about the continuity, there's a, if you look back in history, there's a tremendous continuity of u.s. foreign policy from the ministration to administration. it's a slow moving elephant. it doesn't change much between administration, but it did change for the last 4 years. this is.