well, or you'll get what you wanted me to and even if you don't look at the other players in the middle east, slam the assassination of iran's top nuclear physicist with pledges of retaliation, creating a quad near future biden administration and seriously threatening ties between 2 iran and washington teachers in norway are afraid to show cartoons of the prophet muhammad in class, according to a survey fearing personal consequences. following last month's murder of a french teacher, party talks with one of them. after the murder of her teeth, i decided not to show them at all because i would have all

my profession attacked and australia's government says it will act on a report revealing its troops committed war crimes in afghanistan. but is their actions to affect those who had nothing to do with the allegations? a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with may make you stay here necessary as a nation. that's how the united arab emirates has described. friday's killing of the wrongs top nuclear scientist, also voicing concerns on deepening tensions in the middle east. the emirates condemns the crime of the assassination, could cause or norse rights to practice the greatest possible restraint. so as to avoid dragging the region to new levels of instability and threats to peace. the

attacks bonked uproar in iran's capital with his burning the flanks of israel and its ally the us, as well as torching portraits of donald trump and joe biden will demanding role with america to run immediately blames the incident on israel, which denies the accusations has what is known about the insult with strong already vowing retaliation. it will only aggravate the triangle of tension between the u.s. and israel under iran, as a ghost on of explains that creates a real headache for a future biden administration. so far it's really up to run to make accusations, and then israel along side with the u.s.

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 the 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 this director, writer and uses the journalism is to announce the closure project. 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 new nitty. 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 friendlier 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 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 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. most teachers in no way personal consequences if they show cartoons of the prophet muhammad and plus a 7, has found that in the wake of last month's murder of french teachers, samuel patz,

he had displayed images of the founder of a slum to students when the weekend teaches says, there are now very real dangers to those working in a profession after the murder of some, well, i decided not to show them at all because i felt it's wonderful. 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 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 showing the images and many worry about bringing up related issues like islam or together concern about scaring students is the main reason. given many also

worry about negative reactions from both students and parents and in france. parties, brutal, murder is proving extremely divisive. president mccrone 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 competitor, it was the victim of an islamist terror attack. the norwegian teacher we spoke to they should be free to decide how to explain religion to students. there's the law and that is as i said, 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 the, 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 these specific pictures. australia is demanding china apologize for posting a shocking mock up images of honest, i mean image of an australian soldier with a knife to the throat of an afghan child. a warning you may find the image disturbing the pictures part of a tweet by china's foreign ministry spokesperson condemning the unlawful killing of afghans bottle story in troops. but prime minister scott morrison lashed out at the images truly repugnant, demanding its removal and apology. early australia is that move to dismiss 13 soldiers over unlawful killings in afghanistan. but as the country deals with the fallout from a damning report, donal hawkins asks 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 that his insufficient and unacceptable. it's not which of blowers, it's not david, that's right, it's not jail. she manning. it's not julian, it's noted snowden, it is the war criminals who need to be put in prison. and the moment i came to sinai on this, it was even going to think what kind you mean when i mean life am streets 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 branded every soldier, he's all of the 3000 as murderers, 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 fought between it's a guerilla 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 what happened and you know, the politicians have a lot to answer for this and, and everyone stocking 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, 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. still to come, we'll ask why u.s. media forwarding of the president elect, joe biden, if he feels there's ministration team that stories after the break. when else should seem wrong, but old rules just don't call me world the thing yet to seep out. does this become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. the

foreign policy team of a potential buy in ministrations be counted by the liberal media. we tell you why all this should be for a fine also, there's a lot of talk of a great recession and build back better, just looking backward, bodes well for the future. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics. sports business, i'm show business. i'll see you then. come back in a historic 1st u.s. president elect joe biden selected an old female communications team, as part of

a promise of a more diverse administration. capable can assess is how an unusually buoyant american media, treating biden and islam in the 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 poison. already

the press are hitting home the hard questions. please give yourself your business. does russia have any leverage over you the mantra or otherwise? and if not, will you release your true friends to prove it? how will that color of 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. 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 backing up the president's 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 he 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 take a moment and just i don't 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. 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. amid widespread criticism of the lock down from the public and even his own party and pasted questions. prime minister is looking to ease restrictions ahead of the christmas break. well as spondon in london for more details now is what more do we know? well, boris johnson has long been criticized by different parts of the political spectrum for his handling of the coded crisis. but perhaps no more than by his own m.p.'s

is backbench conservative m.p.'s who have long argued that some of the lockdown measures some of the restrictions placed on the public on businesses and on people's livelihoods. the mental health wellbeing, all encompassing, they think has gone too far and have been an over reaction to the coded 1900 pandemic. and they've long railed against them. and now the prime minister has faced somewhat of a rebellion on his hands. we understand that a number of m.p.'s this week are looking to rebel against the latest set of tier system, the so-called free to system that has had what it hasn't been locked down. and. 'd the prime minister trying to do his best to head off a rebellion, writing a letter to m.p.'s and promising them that they will have a final say again in january when these measures are reviewed. and also promising to listen to the more and to not be as dismissive as perhaps some criticize him for being these will not be easy decisions with christmas around the corner and the

difficult months of january and february ahead of us. we will need to continue to exercise caution, where we have robust evidence that the decease is in decline, particularly in those $23.00 areas that are already showing marked improvement. and the case rates are low enough to allow light to restrictions, areas will be moved down. now next thursday, or this coming thursday, should i say, will mark the end of lockdown in the return to that 3 tier system with tijuana, having perhaps the easier of the restrictions placed on the population in those areas. while those areas into 3 will have the harshest restrictions, not as harsh as knocked down, but still many restrictions on people's movements and businesses. and in particular, m.p.'s who represent constituents in those areas are happy exactly with how the government have handled this. as the prime minister is kind of following the

evidence, we agree to a full copy cost benefit analysis, all its impacts on our economy and public health. before he introduces anything that will lead to years of economic harm, that could end up being worse on people's lives. in the virus itself, we are still in an endless cycle of lockdowns that simply are not within the government have again, we stood up to meet over the last few weeks to get a handle on testing, trace, and isolation. now those restrictions are looking to be eased a week before christmas. the government want to give people the opportunity to go visit family and friends during that period. but perhaps not everybody within the government thinks that measures can be eased so easily either before christmas or even in the new year. one of those voices being a high ranking member of the cabinet,

the foreign secretary dominic rob this process doesn't work. and infection rates start to go back up again. are we facing a 3rd wave in january and february? but there's a risk of that if we don't get the balance, right? so with all of that being the case, the number of coronavirus deaths in the u.k. for the past week daily figures with averaging around 465, the rest who believe the justification for these measures. there are others who say it's not taking into account the other damage being done to people's lives, people's mental health. and of course, the other health elements which are being pushed back, surgeries being pushed back because people lack access to health care because of cases being privatized. he said, thank you for speaking to us live from london, and thank you for joining us. joining us here on r.t. international. that's all for me for today,

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they were going underground after repeated aerial bombardment of syria by israel armed by britain e.u. nations in the united states coming up in the show, we ask a former middle east based m i 6 agent, whether a joe biden presidency signals, a new road to damascus, and the renewal of isis al qaeda and u.k. u.s. the u.s. attempts at regime change in syria, even during a global pandemic. and what bloodshed to expect from obama officials accused of facilitating civilian drone killing and the destruction of libya, africa's richest per capita country. and as an inquiry launches in, rumania after a coronavirus intensive care units that fire and kills 10, we investigate oscar tipped film collective with its echoes of el edged incendiary profit driven corruption for which an inquiry continues here in london into the

grenfell fire in the poorest area of one of the richest in the world. all this more coming up in today's going underground, the football star, diego maradona being mourned today around the world. not only once said in my heart, i am palestinian. he declared the motives of western powers in syria was to destroy a secular nation hours before he died. warplanes from israel by britain, even nations, and the us a bomb, the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world, damascus. joining me now from room is the conflict forums, alister crook, who cut his teeth at m i. 6. and since the siege of bethlehem has dedicated his life to deescalating violence. alice jeff, thanks so much for coming on going underground. i think it's a 1st time, although you don't choose the right before. just how do you explain the fact that during a pandemic we know antonio good terrorism. he wanted a worldwide ceasefire. why was there this barash of aerial bombardment from the israeli air force on damascus? and this happening as we here in netanya.