yes, you're more likely to walk free if you're rich or if you've got 2 eyes, 2 ears and one now. so you should be seen here and a whole lot more than you're saying. if you don't take that advice, easy going to dig yourself in the day's headlines, key players in the middle east. slam the assassination of iran's top nuclear physicist, but pledges of retaliation creating a quagmire for a future biden administration and seriously threatening ties between tehran and washington. also this hour teachers and norway are afraid to show cartoons of

the prophet muhammad in class, according to a survey during personal consequences. following last month's murder of a french teacher, r.t. talked with one of them. after the murder of the t, i decided not to show them at all because i would have all i felt my profession was attacked and australia's government says it will act on a report revealing its troops committed, war crimes and afghanistan. but threatens to affect those who had nothing to do with the allegations you're watching are to international coming to you straight from the russian capital where it's just turned 2 pm. welcome to the program, first, a heinous assassination. that's how the united arab emirates has described.

friday's killing of iran's top nuclear scientists, also voicing concerns on deepening tensions in the middle east. the emirates condemns the crime of the assassination. it kosher no sides to practice the greatest possible restraint. so as to avoid dragging the region to new levels of instability and threats to peace, they attack sparked uproar in iran's capital with rioters burning the flags of israel and its ally the us, as well as touching a fortress of donald trump and joe biden. all demanding of who work with america around mediately blamed the incident on israel, which denies the accusations. there's what's known about the assault. 1

but tehran already vowing retaliation. it will only aggravate the triangle of tension between the u.s. israel and iran. as it arced on of explains that creates a real headache for a future biden and ministration. so far it's been up to iran to make accusations, and then israel alongside 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 that donald trump was seeking options to attack iran to further deal relit 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 on mars. but then the special activities, you know, what are those 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 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 path 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 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 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 heading 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 as 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. most teachers in norway fair personal consequences if they show cartoons of the prophet muhammad in class, according to, a new survey. that's in the wake of last month's murder of french teacher. by t., it displayed images of the founder of islam to students. on our weekend, teacher says there are now very real dangers 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 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 to your

drawings are not the goal. they're at just just a part of criticism against our religion. and there's other texts we can use as well. according to the poll, almost 2 thirds of teachers here showing the images and many worry about bringing up related issues like islam. all together, concerned about scaring students is the main reason given though many also worry about negative reactions from both students and parents. and in france, brutal murder is proving extremely divisive president across and says the cartoons are about freedom of speech, but 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.

the norwegian teacher we spoke to that they should be free to decide how to explain religion to students. there's the law on the is the law and it 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 right. and we have the human rights on the other hand rights. so we have to maneuver in, in between them. and for us, we will have to find a 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 image of an a stray unsolder with a knife to the throat of an afghan child. a warning the image we're about to show you might be disturbing. the picture is part of a tweet by china's foreign ministry spokesperson condemning the all lawful killing

of afghans by australian troops. but prime minister scott morrison lashed out at the image as truly repugnant demanding its removal and apology. beijing defended the tweet, insisting us really should be the one apologizing to the afghan people. and bear's already moved to dismiss 13 soldiers over unlawful killings in afghanistan. but as the country deals with the fallout from its damning war crimes report and the hawkins asks if it will hurt those not even involved the burden inquiries sending shock waves through australia. dozens of afghan civilians and prisoners of war killed and brutalized by special forces. the evidence systematically 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 who had responsibilities and

accountabilities in that chain of command. the report was heavily redacted, but it's 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 wish of blowers it's not david, that's right, it's not jealousy. manning? it's not, julian, it's noted snowden, it is to war criminals to be put in prison. and the man i came to stand by on this issue was even going to think war crimes. and you know, what i mean? my experience is we've seen in defense chiefs that i 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 served 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,

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 have good, very vulnerable. afghanistan is not, and no more wars. it's not fought between us. 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 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 still had a way look at why u.s. media are funding of our president elect, joe biden as the fills his administration team stories after the break.

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thinks we fear to ask welcome back. and a historic 1st u.s. president like joe biden selected in all female communications team. as part of a promise of a more diverse administration. artist says how an unusually buoyant american media are treating biden and his nominations, 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. because when you hear something 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. 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. can we just take a moment and just i don't want to talk like 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 in. one thing we can certainly expect will be another 4 years that are the polar opposite of the last r.t.

new york. and widespread criticism of the lock down from the public and even his own party. m.p.'s, britain's prime minister, is looking to ease restrictions ahead of the christmas break. and we're going to cross live to our correspondent on that. tell us the details. well, throughout this crisis, the prime minister boris johnson, has faced criticism for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, and not least from many on his own backbenchers. and he faces yet another rebellion from tory m.p.'s because many of them are unhappy that move out of this lockdown. this coming they're going to move back into a so-called 3 tiered system. in particular, there are some areas which have been put into $23.00 of the most stringent of measures in place, limiting people's rights to move and meet an also to open businesses. and because of that, he's come under criticism from m.p.'s who represent people in those areas. but he's

written a letter to his backbench m.p.'s, promising that he will give them more of a say when it comes into reviewing these measures. 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 insisting 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 the prime minister has indicated that these measures will come to an end at some point in january where he will give those m.p.'s that right to speak out. but the number of them, particularly those representing constituents in 2 or 3 areas. unhappy with the government's communication strategy that far as the prime minister is can retreat

to following the evidence. we agree to a full copy cost benefit analysis, all its impact 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. and 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 isolating. the government of also indicated that measures will be eased over the christmas period, so people can visit their families that indication by the prime minister that coming into the new year. he also wants to make things more relaxed to some, even within his own cabinet, including the foreign secretary, dominic rod who think that it might not be so easy for voters lock down the

restrictions to be lifted. if 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 plenty for the prime minister boris johnson to consider as he tries to keep all happy his scientific advisers on the one hand. and also of course his back and jumpy public artie's easily reporting live from london. and that's our global news update for this hour. thanks for tuning in wherever you may be. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of

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the foreign policy team of a potential biden. ministration is being touted by the liberal media. we tell you why all of us should be horrified. also there's a lot of talk of a great reset and build back better does looking back or bode well for the future. to discuss these issues and more, i'm joined by my guest, patrick hemmings, an employment he's the editor and founder of the 21st century wire. and 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 uprose in effect, that means you can jump in anytime you want. and i was appreciated. ok, let's go to patrick 1st. their employment in watching the potential by a cab and being presented to the public through the liberal media. we heard of phrases like they are like the avengers is like they're super heroes or something

like that. and then there was a talking head on p.b.s. saying, these are intensely professional people and they're apolitical. i mean, 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 horse that are still being fought and they're being but within the liberal media is cheering them as if they're 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. the.