borrow and then give away cash to their friends causing now this huge crisis. in this civil war. that kids really blew. a new us president's job on rose to and what he's called the civil war can democrats and republicans but then immediately goes on to dismantle trump policy in a flurry of executive orders. mainstream media swoons over the new commander in chief's inauguration speech on guess debate whether america is really can be healed any time soon. either we're going to resolve these issues peacefully through the battle of ideas or in 10152100 years we

will resolve them violently is just not all blown assault on behalf of the democrat party and their alliance with the tax social media tyrants eliminate any boy straight any opposition to any any political dissent that's going to challenge the radical left engender. a powerful blast caused by a gas leak rips through a residential building in madrid killing 3 people we hear from eyewitnesses at the scene. we were working near the building we heard a massive explosion and we all ran outside to help people think only the walls vibrates and we thought it was in the university of illinois we went outside of this rubble and streets on. either very good morning to this. is r.t.

international thanks for joining us. first this hour joe biden's been sworn in as the 46 president of the united states bringing to a close donald trump's 4 years in office the ceremony was like no other security was so high d.c. resembled a war zone an unprecedented 25000 national guard were called in to avoid a repeat of scenes like the one seen 2 weeks earlier during the capitol hill riot right also no crowds of supporters because of the pandemic instead some 200000 flags were placed on the national mall and in a speech joe biden called for unity quote an historic time of crisis and challenge we must end this civil war the pits really gives blue rural versus urban or rural versus urban conservative versus liberal. we can do this if we open our souls to so hard in our hearts if we

show a little tolerance and you. know if. really understanding the other person's shoes as my mom would say just for a moment stanley new shoes. ok for more on joe biden taking over the reins of power our correspondent has done a few joins me you're following what joe had to save talking about is mother a few cliches thrown in there about standing in other people's shoes we've heard all this i mean we hear this when we're about 6 years old anything new in a speech well certainly what some people might find certainly new is this image he's trying to adopt the image of a peacemaker of a doctor in a medical surgical mask trying to heal america's room issue he did say that in his quick sound bite that we had a listen to. this red versus blue and yada yada yada and if you listen to all that you may actually think that this is what he's trying to do but if you look at his

actions it's not these are not the actions of a healer but rather of a person who's trying to raise every trace of trump from the american history and a lot of people tens of millions of people would find no problem with that they would they would be happy they would cheer him on just saying yes do the job just a a novel no if i everything that trump has done and joe is doing that he on the very 1st day in office he's expected to sign some 17 executive orders just making the one of the sharpest u. turns in the american political history this would include bringing america back into the world health organization bringing america back into the paris climate accord canceling this infamous border wall in mexico that the trumpet ministrations spend billions of dollars and still on the finish now world it's most likely never going to be finished and so on and so forth and again a lot of people would find no problem with that but there are some 70000000

americans who voted for trump it means that while the certain. he may not have been satisfied with every single thing that donald trump did in office if they voted for him it probably means they approved of the majority of the well his executive orders and his policies that he and acted and this is a very big world gesture i should say in the face of all these tens of millions of people who voted for trump but one thing that joe biden does have the donald trump didn't is the would seems right now is an overwhelming almost religious support of the mainstream media have a listen to this. those lights that are that are just shooting out from the lincoln memorial i look it's like almost extensions of joe biden's arms embracing america president elect joe biden and vice president harris told the griffin regret

out of the privacy of our hearts if just for a moment so that we all could share it he doesn't keep a lot of things secret when it comes to his emotions and his and his family and his love for his family. well these are some very very passionate words and donald trump didn't get to enjoy even a minuscule fraction of that admiration joe biden gets well it seems for free just because he was sworn in he hasn't done anything he obviously does have a political past under the barack obama administration but he still hasn't done a single thing as a president apart from promising to world just make it look as if trump never happened and he's already getting this overwhelming wave of admiration from the media we used the word gushing about the media portrayal and i was a bit skeptical about whether that was actually it was absolutely joe biden's arms

it's not rocket science is it i mean the u.s. media almost entirely left leaning and he's a democratic party president they want to like him what's going to be fascinating for me is all they're going to try and get him impeached are going to try and dig up dirt on him at every opportunity the way they did with donald trump is that going to be some some kind of scrutiny do you think where there have been some calls at least when it comes to the world the vice president there are there have been some attempts and some promises from some republicans to launch impeachment proceedings against. bailing out black lives matter approach riots as those who have bee those who were taken into custody over the rioting during the black lives massive protests have been some speculation and some planning for that but you're absolutely right let's not forget the plans to impeach donald trump they were out there the very 1st day he was sworn in and this is

a very drastically different picture that we're seeing right now when it comes to joe biden and it seems like while you're passing who voted for trump and who didn't run biden as you. president and just watching that coverage you would totally feel as if your voice it just went to nothing as if you will parts of trumpet ministration that joe biden is trying to just raise you just flat out stump out of history and will but if you if you are a donald trump supporter and if you're wondering what's going to happen to you well there is a plan that some people have in the media and that would be well let's just put it like this education. where there are millions of americans i'm also worried almost any republicans. somehow need to be deprogrammed they are members of

a cult we're trying to scold there are republican members of congress i know who clearly have lost their minds who just will not accept reality when it comes to the facts about donald trump i'm comparing the words of a individual who would incite and radicalized somebody as osama bin laden did to what president trump did. so well again when it comes to those who stormed the capitol just a few days ago and those people who even donald trump eventually denounced and. he did not condone that behavior at the end well a lot of people even most of republicans they they would be glad that those people would have to be deprogrammed of well just violence taken out of their systems but if you're a peaceful if you were peaceful if you didn't take part in storming the capitol then well how how likely is that you would accept the just some people would decide that you would have to do that as if you were some robot and you'd have to get this

code just taken out of your system you know and this going back to this message of peace that joe biden is sending was trying to send the 25000 national guard troops we don't exactly you know reinforce that picture joe biden is the most peaceful and you know president that is painting this image. well we'll find out if he is or if he isn't depending on what he does with u.s. troops abroad the circus continues there's a new ringmaster his name is joe biden thanks for the update now the media coverage of the inauguration left left a bad taste in some people's miles including that of legal and the media analyst lionel i've instructed my family in the event i were to somehow ingest some poison and you rushed me to an emergency room and you had to induce emesis vomiting for those at home if you don't have any syrup of please play today's media

coverage because. i think i would upchuck it was the worst saccharin this is anadan nonsense the best of the best was a fellow by the name of chris wallace who was on fox news facts news much which used to be considered conservative whatever that means and he said that he's been covering inaugurations since 1961 says j.f.k. ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country when we had stentorian oratory the only thing we have to fear is fear itself and chris wallace said with a straight face this was the best inaugural address he's ever heard. i'm in a parallel universe imagine every cliche everything you've ever heard thrown

into a hat and just pulled out and read and this this finding this almost. cult like it is incantations up the stage at the u. unity and what did he do within the 1st he went straight to the white house walked in and basically reversed a number of serious executive orders that president trump had such initially so in the day when he were to say we're all coming together we're all coming together the 1st he does is give me that pen and then there you go there's your unity and joining his speech to a bun also said that america needs to come from white supremacists in an apartment for instance certain terms supporters comes amid a confrontational climate in which both democrats and republicans are using highly charged language to attack each other on t. america host ben swan so today's pub casque us to about the hostility. the use of

language is so important as a journalist i know words mean something and we constantly use language to to demonize and dehumanizing people on the other side it's leading us towards very drastic measures am i right about that or my overstating it no you're absolutely right morris language matters and you're exactly right that it's dangerous and to call your next door neighbor who is a white male who voted for trump the mystic terrorist is not going to result in good downstream effects and i always tell people there's only 2 options either we're going to resolve these issues peacefully through the battle of ideas or and 10152100 years we will resolve them violently is there something that needs to happen in terms of trying to find some form of unity from now former president trump or about to be former president trying to create

a feeling of unity he has talked a lot about defending his supporters and protecting them but at the same time what could he do to say there's got to be a better way to treat these people and to not not just demonizing the but the humanizing that's coming from the incoming administration that strongly a spouse says identity politics as a way to organize society identity politics by definition is the opposite of unity because it ghettoize us into tribes whether it be political tribes whether they be sexual orientation tries will there be skin color tribes it is the opposite of a unifying message at a moment where there is such rage toward the losing side i don't think we've ever seen this happen before where rather than taking a victory lap rather than celebrating the win we're seeing almost like what you might call a sore winner is that is that how you would describe it the democrat party and

their alliance with the tax national median tyrants. you eliminate any way straight any opposition any any political dissent that's going to challenge you know the radical left agenda and so you're talking about your politics people have a reason to be scared one side is not allowed to speak and it's more than just not speaking is it not if you don't have the right to speak and we're going to talk in your place in your stead about how you must be deprogrammed this is not a new phenomenon right this has been happening under the eyes and noses of lawmakers here in our country who have just decided to turn a blind eye to it because like you said it's easy for people to say well you know these things aren't happening or they can't happen on a bigger scale because you know maybe those people should have just found little quiet or you know maybe they were a bit too controversial ok n a now president biden about president biden due to to assure people that hey we're not all in the me here and we don't have to be in

a means we don't have to continue that how does this growing animosity there's a part of america that feels left behind for whatever reason they feel forgotten and they feel that either the political parties back them and straw hat into that base in a considerable way so i think to bring unity we need someone to talk to that base there is talk of how do we deal with trying supporters to extremely hypocritical one of the things that most one of the things that a lot of trouble opponents criticize donald trump for is that he is divisive and that he is polarizing and that he harms unity right so for people to say that and then at the same time be talking about you know reprogramming 75000000 americans or d. platforming them or trying to silence them or calling them you know nazis are nazi enablers all these very very you know inflaming terms it's extremely hypocritical because they're doing the exact same thing but actually far worse than

what they complain that donald trump or even some of his supporters have been doing and it's weird how people can sort of see that blind spot due to their own political biases. as he's done of mention a few moments ago during his 1st day in office joe biden's been busy signing a whole pile of executive orders reversing some of them terms of policies including those on climate coronavirus and immigration following drum strong stance on migrants some are hoping a by demonstration would take a softer approach with the recent thousands strong u.s. bound migrant caravan from guatemala it's clear the new u.s. president will have his work cut out but an american studies professor daniel schorr told us what he expects from joe biden's policy on migration. first we have to look at why millions and millions of people was to leave their moment in one door it's in what did. in nizo war ravaged nations which have been affected by us

foreign car seen by in ministration certainly represents a fairer approach to immigration i think it's important to point out how hypocritical that then is when the winds have been treated differently venezuelans are receiving special temporary status while central americans and mexicans and other south american as an immigrant from around the world are not so they'll continue to use immigrants as a political. play thing or a political football political ploy i think this is very immoral people don't choose to leave their home when is that forced to leave their homes by so sure economic conditions imposed on their mind period. but despite bad sweeping changes to trump's domestic policy some are wondering if there will be the same dramatic shift in u.s. foreign policy i guess as a closer look. it all depends on where you stand for some biden's inauguration

maybe the beginning of for sad year is for others it's a light at the end of a dog dog tunnel the united states is back and europe stands ready to reconnect wouldn't old and trusted partner to breathe new life into a cherished alliance if only it were that simple trumps raid cond be easily undone old bones have been broken some irreparably so but some and only some can be salvaged we do have. a big task ahead of us in restoring revitalizing those relationships i do think it starts with showing up again some of our allies and partners question the sustainability of our commitments based on the experience of the last recent years and that's going to be a hard hard hill to climb anyone hoping for a revolution a rethinking of american foreign policy

a sadly going to be disappointed the new administration has inherited and braced trumps hostility to china for example so if you were hoping for an end to the trade war the tariff hikes or saber rattling you're outta luck i also believe that president trump was right in taking a tougher approach to china i disagree very much with the way that he won about it in a number of areas but the basic principle was the right one the nominee for secretary of defense lloyd austin very much agrees with the nominee for secretary of state highlighting 2 primary potential threats to america clearly the strategy will be arrayed against the threat and then china is is presents the most significant threat going forward because china is ascending russia is all sorts right but it's it's in decline they. also approve of trump's middle east policy

specifically a huge diplomatic push to get muslim nations to establish relations with israel oh and the new you recognize capital of israel jerusalem abstaining too as is the rift in a 2 caused by turkey buying things it shouldn't such as russian missile systems turkey is an ally that in many ways is not acting as a now i should and this is a very very significant challenge for us and we're very clear eyed about it they also approve of trump's middle east policy they've already said they'll do everything in their power to stop the new gas pipeline being built by europe and russia which presumably includes sanctions against european nations no mention of the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan there presumably staying for a 20th year or 2 trumps record spending in the military no sign of that going away in fact the new administration believes defense capability should be increased even

further there is one stark difference between trump's and biden's foreign policies it's iran in my judgment the. for whatever its limitations are succeeding on its own terms in blocking iran's pathways to producing for some material for nuclear weapons on short order. there you have it the only stark difference between america's old and new foreign policies donald trump may be gone but his political spirit lives on in the new administration joe biden terrifying i think to a lot of countries that will hope that his presidency does not mean a return to war. as was personified by barack obama in his libya and trencher i think another thing that we all fear is that biden was part of an obama

administration that accelerates at the. ideas the diffusion of fundamentalist islam ism in the middle east isis to al-qaeda so i think that is very worrying perhaps lincoln and others are thinking ok try and make some deal with iran civil tenuously fight iran by defacto helping islam islam but of course the danger here is we're back are we back to the readers when the united states was supporting rigid in afghanistan which led to the destruction of the twin towers in all these are the sorts of foreign policy. mind i did was the man who stacked the senate foreign relations committee so it had to back the iraq war and then say it all changed because we had to let speech full of the usual or platitudes redolent of obama and they all change because it by mistake and rule eschew changing glueing blinken and all the rest of that he's appointed around. powerful explosion in

central madrid has destroyed a residential building owned by the catholic church at least 3 people have been killed and 11 others injured authorities say the likely cause of the explosion was a gas leak and witnesses gave us their accounts of what happened. here we were working near the building we heard a massive explosion and we. all ran outside to help people but when we arrived smoke was coming out of the building had collapsed there was a pile of rubble on the ground. one of the seed was a gas leak i have no idea when it let's hope everything is ok but i mean only think of the walls vibrating it on and we thought it was in the university and then when we went outside the rubble and street one of our colleagues went out to rescue a person who was in place began to arrive and evacuate the area they closed off the street so we could no longer see what was going on there were many injured because it seems to have been a gas explosion the city fire department is still working in the building inspector

damage you can see it at the top post tories are destroyed firefighters are also going through the surrounding buildings checking whether they are safe and in earlier we spoke with local journalist jaime velasquez who is at the scene of the blast. we see some flames devote a lot of the building still and we know that the 'd 5 stories of the building the top of the building have seriously damaged there's a care home with 55 elderly people nearby these bilin and also a school yard of the school was absolutely full of rubble after the explosion and fortunately not any of the populace of the school and also. residents of this care home were injured the police has also sent some canadian brigades on the rescue dogs to find out if they might have stills be

somebody inside of the building or could be trapped in the remains of the building after these huge blast they believe belong to that church. was the residence of some priests and church workers unfortunately it looks like it could have been even worse the explosion. could be felt and heard from several kilometers from the spot the neighbors started recording it with the phone right away with the flames and a lot of dust coming out of this building they were really worried about you know the situation especially for example the parents of those populous of these nearby school and also the relatives of the you know the elderly that live in these care home finally when we found out that it was you know these buildings were not

affected and it was just more reduced damage neighbors started to be more. calm but but definitely they were really really really worried and some of them they are still not able to go back to the buildings because it's not safe because the structure has been seriously damaged and the firefighters are now assessing what are they going to do with the building there are still some flames and at the bottom so this situation continues to be quite unstable and we don't know exactly how it is going to play yard what is going to happen with the building and when the neighbors will be able to go back to their homes. russia has submitted its sputnik the coronavirus vaccine for approval by the european union with the evaluation process expected to begin in february but some people already king to get their hands on that 1000000 and a half russians are going to be so wrong that's already. sold out that's

israeli t.v. news anchor dove gil ha who came to moscow to reports on russia but ended up actually getting it himself he shared his thoughts with us on the banks. as you well aware russian vaccine was it didn't get much credit in the world because of the i wouldn't say haste but the speed that it was approved in russia so we honestly wanted to come in and ask and see and interview in the we approach and there fortunately the russian fund for direct investment was receptive and do we visited the. institute and talked with mr ginsburg ahead of a as you well aware and talked with a researcher who was reask and i think. there's something very generous of them to be the 1st to test it on themselves. see the effects and only

then continue with the experiments and only then are committed to the splash you know to other western journalists already took the book seen in a 1000000 over in a half of course of russian citizens did take the vaccine so i thought. yes why not let's try it it's a huge multi $1000000000.00 market and maybe some of the response to the russia book scene is nobody wanted their action to take part in the cake in the party if you can call it that so i think the moment that the european medicine authority will sit on the papers going there and see in kenya to prove be approved or not will be a really important day for this and the coffee and of course i'll be happy for you if you get the approval. meanwhile spinning visco in the green light for phase 3 trials in india pharmaceutical company dr reddy's which is behind trials in the

country says that they hope to get approval by march if that happens spinning we will be used alongside the astra zeneca vaccine and in these kovacs in which have already been rolled out respectable to it is managing director g.v. plus about why they chose sputnik v. . the 1st accident which are coming out in india i deserved for the government. public workers and all that but there are many many many people who need access to these vaccines and hence more better and i do believe that sputnik is also a very odd one strike scene and we hopeful that it will work very well we were very pleased with the science behind the vaccine as you are more it is a human aids. are used but this is an odd one then you have a different director. of the made.