thinks we dare to ask the players in the middle east. slam the assassination of the wrongs top nuclear physicist with pledges of retaliation, creating a quantum off the future biden administration and seriously certain times between 2 wrongs and washington future. the norway are afraid to show cartoons of the prophet muhammad in class, according to a survey bearing personal consequences. following last month's murder of a french teacher, party talks with one of them after the borough. but she, i decided not to show them at all because i felt i felt

my profession was attacked truly is government says it will act on a report of religious troops committed war crimes in afghanistan. but if threatens to affect those who have nothing to do with the obligation to very well, welcome to you, watching r.t. international with me first a heinous assassination. how the united arab emirates describes friday's killing of a wrongs top nuclear scientist, jordan, another key player in the middle east also condemns the death of the u.a.e. urged all signs to prevent instability and escalation in the region. the attack sparked uproar in a wrongs capital with rioters burning the flags of israel and its ally the us,

as well as touching portraits of donald trump and joe biden, while demanding war with america to run immediately blames the incident on israel, which denies the accusations has what is known about the assault with her on a low ready vowing retaliation. it will only aggravate the triangle of tension between the u.s. israel and iran, as a ghost town of explains that creates a real headache for a future biden administration. so far it's been up to run to make accusations and israel alongside with the us quite expected. lee are its prime suspects. warning

against any adventurist stick measures by the united states and israel against my country. particularly during the remaining period of the current administration of the united states in office. the islamic republic of iran reserves its right to take all necessary measures to defend its people and secure its interests. 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 is not that my lips are sealed 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 of 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 that donald trump was seeking options to attack iran to further detail its nuclear program. factories that there would make a perfect target given he was quite a celebrity for israeli intelligence. remember that moon 5 years ago. so here's his direct and uses. the general loom is to announce the closure project on mars. but then the 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. i know for preside a well, he doesn't know how well i know him. if i met him in the street, most likely i would recognize him. he does not have a minute. he did not have immunity, and i don't think he will have immunity 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, would 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 objective. 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 to 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 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 is ation 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 gen, son, imani, still fresh in the mind. no one can be expecting restraint from iran, but we can get live now. it's not any benefit for my israeli defense minister. thank you for joining us here on out international today. i'd like to ask you for your response to iran that blaming israel for killing factories. are they well, as a former defense minister of israel,

i would have no idea specifically on this particular event. what i can say is this guy was not a benign nuclear scientist. his focus and expertise was the weaponization. that's what he did that his business of connect in the nuclear part, to the weapon. and this is a very, very dangerous thing. not only that, we know whenever the inspectors wanted to meet him. iran, again and again, the clientele allow him to meet these inspectors. so if he was just some benign scientist would be, should have been no problem. we have an evil empire that's been hijacked, right? the laws that have hijacked a very good nation of persians, and taken it down a route of weaponization nuclear weaponization. a very dangerous one for the region

. and if i may, for the entire world, my 1st name doesn't justify the killing. again, i have no idea who did it, but what i can see is why it may have happened, and why it's important and vital to stop this ongoing effort. massive effort of nuclear weaponization. if the world wakes up one morning with tehran, having 23 or 5 nuclear weapons, it's a terrible new world. the nightmare world for everyone, for the united states, for russia, for everyone, it would mean that the entire region would start a nuclear arms race because no one else would want to be without that sort of weapon. it would mean that iran who currently is terror all around the region and the world would be able to do so, but not regular terror nuclear terror. this is something the world has to stop for

you. do you think that the disruption of iran's nuclear program was the goal of this attack? and what do you make of 2 wrong thing to program? what would be suspended regardless look, it's very clear that is keen and very systematic about progressing towards acquiring nuclear weapons. that there wasn't just a ticking bomb, he was a ticking nuclear bomb and the world they use pressure and policy and other dimensions haase to stop iran from doing this. this is a regional interest. we see all the regional players who are opposing iran's nuclear ambitions. it would just be a nightmare for everyone, and the world in its entirety has to stand up and stop this. well, critics would say that your countries, denial of the assassination is hard to believe,

especially given that benjamin netanyahu had to publicly, publicly wants to remember. the name you know, the one question i would ask is if there was such a benign nuclear scientist what, why did he walk around and run around iran in the motorcade with the security guards as if he were secret person? if you're just dealing with civilian nuclear capabilities, there's nothing to hide. why was he hidden from the inspectors? what has iran got to hide? iran blamed all 5 murders. they face nuclear scientists on israel. why would it blame your country for no reason? you know, i don't know what their entire line of thought is. what i can see is what their actions are. these people, you know, the ayatollah sort of like an octopus,

sending their tentacles all across the region. they want to create a regional hedge moni right there, looking back thousands of years. they want to be ahead timony over the entire region and turn it into a center of nuclear weapons that would create a weapons race that it took decades to do away with the united states u.s.s.r. nuclear race. now we have a new one, but in a very area, this is something that no one in the world could want. do you think that this assassination is going to make it harder for president elect biden to operate in the region as iran says it will? no, quite the contrary. i'm sure that president biden, who has said time and again that he would accept nuclear weapons in iran. i'm sure he would not want iran to go nuclear with weapons and in

that sense, i think we certainly support any policy that iran's nuclear weapon ambitions, including a good deal that would actually stop it. not a bad deal that would allow it. i see no issue here. nothing about it. former israeli defense minister, thank you. most teachers in norway, fip, personal consequences if they show cartoons of the prophet muhammad in class. the survey has found that in the wake of last month's murder of french teachers thumb your party here displayed images of the founder of islam to students. on the weekend. teachers says they are now very real dangerous to those working in the profession. after the murder of some of the tea, i decided not to show them at all because i would have all my profession 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 character to get your drawings are not the goal. they're just a part of criticism against a religion. and there's other texts we can use as well. according to the poll, almost 2 thirds of teachers, fish sharing the images and many worry about bringing up related issues like islam altogether concerned about scaring students is the main reason given though many also worry about negative reactions from both students and parents and in france. parties are brutal, murder is proving extremely divisive. president mccracken insists the cartoons are about freedom of speech, but muslims are outraged when

the answer to one of our competitors was murdered because he taught our compassion and was the victim of an islamist terror attack. the norwegian teacher we spoke to adds that they should be free to decide how to explain religious students. there's the law on that is 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 a tax cuts with a critical mind. and i think we can do that even though we're not showing the least specific pictures. australia is demanding china

apologize for posting a shocking mock up image of an astray and soldier with a knife to the throat of an afghan child. a warning you may find the image disturbing, but picture is part of a tweet by china's foreign ministry spokesperson condemning the unlawful killing all of our guns by australian troops. but prime minister scott morrison launched out at the images truly repugnant, demanding its removal and an apology. early australia's moves did it to dismiss 13 soldiers. they have unlawful killings in afghanistan. but as the country deals with the fallout from a damning report, donald hawkins asked if it will hurt those not involved in the crimes. the burden 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. in each case is

important that not only is there accountability in the defense forces for individual alleged acts, but also in the chain of command about those. you had responsibilities and accountabilities in that chain of command. 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. there is a process to be followed here. we've received the inquiry one week ago. we need to follow a very deliberate, very methodical and very fair process. 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 whistle 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 life am streets, you know, 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 is 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 street is murder, and it's just not right. and it will have an awful impact on these people who are very vulnerable. afghanistan is not, and no more wars. it's not fought between. it's a guerilla warfare. the reality is they can't sending back these soldiers try and time again. and i think that was quite wrong. and that explains, i think in part what happened and you know, the politicians have a lot to answer for this and,

and everyone stocking to cover all 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, where 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 in a historic 1st us president elect joe biden selected all female communications team

as part of a promise of a more diverse administration. kelly more than assesses how an unusually buoyant american media are treating biden on to slam a nation's 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. please just make yourself 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 got. going to encourage unions to call offering 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 to 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 can we just says take a moment of this. and i want to talk moment to, 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 r.t. new york. not some world news, in brief police have searched the home and office of diego maradona's doctor in argentina, prosecutors are looking into negligence claims over the football star. the 60 year old died on wednesday after a heart attack while recovering from brain surgery. and indonesian volcano eruption is that i was flying 4 kilometers into the air. the public has been banned from coming anywhere near the area. no injuries or damage to property have yet been reported. and a small german town has found

a novel way to keep the christmas spirit alive, while maintaining social distancing rules limit the pun, demick in the south of the country or drive it lets locals place orders while passing through the christmas market. and that was how the news is looking based on our city. we would just like to reiterate that the views of our guests are that own and that the accusations made earlier by i guess regarding iran's nuclear program are his own opinions. we thank you for choosing r.t. . this monday will be back with more in 30 minutes.

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