to earn money. that's right these shows are simply not accountable and we're just getting more and more true that. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for god's guys are. under us a scene in several u.s. cities as a new president joe biden pals to overcome the deep rift between democrats and republicans. we must end this on civil war. the pitch really gives blue. message of unity gets a gushing response from the mainstream media are just a bait whether it's a promise that can be kept. people have a reason to be scared in 10152100 years we will resolve them violently. and the european commission moves a step closer to introducing

a vaccine passports despite resistance from several e.u. member states. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teach here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. joe biden has been soaring and as the $46.00 president of the united states bring to a close donald trump 4 years an office but amid deep divisions in american society just hours after the inauguration people took their discontent to the streets. in portland protesters face off with riot police officers fired tear gas into the crowd earlier a mob descended on the democratic party's offices in the city where they smashed windows seattle also saw violence with protesters creating barricades and starting

fires in the streets over in colorado a protester set fire to a large u.s. flag in the state capital clashes broke out as car protesters tried to put it out. the inauguration ceremony itself was like no other with security so high that d.c. resembled a war zone and unprecedented 25000 national guard members have been called in to avoid a repeat of scenes like those seen 2 weeks ago during the capitol hill siege and resting across the u.s. came despite biden and his speech stressing that he'd strive to bring about unity. we must end this civil war that pits read against blue. rural versus urban or rural versus urban conservative versus liberal. we can do this if we open our souls so to harden our hearts if we show a little tolerance and humanity and if. we're willing to stand in the other person's

shoes as my mom would say just for a moment stand in the shoes really this is something that joe biden tries to put on this cloak of a peacemaker someone and surgical mask you know tending to and mending the wounds of the american democracy but the society is not stitching together that easily because in effect what joe biden is doing so far his actions have boiled down to dismantling everything that donald trump has done in the past 4 years this includes bringing america back into the world health organization into signing back the purse climate accord dismantling the infamous border wall that trump just kept throwing money at and still failed to erect and so on and so forth there's plenty of policies that joe biden has a big problem with but one thing that joe biden does have and what donald trump didn't and still doesn't have is the world overwhelming support of the mainstream

media those flights 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. to grief and 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 some very passionate words just putting it diplomatically like joe biden's arms reaching out yeah very very passionate very passionate but again just imagine so the very 1st day this is the kind of slack that the mainstream media are giving joe biden because well they just they just giving him credit for just being there for just getting into the white existing just for existing the already love him and cherish him with trump the media war with against him started

instantly like with when various outlets were comparing his inauguration crowd with the obama's inauguration crowd and so one like you know getting down to the very single to single person you know nit picking on the smallest of details because sometimes he was criticized very rightly so by the media but very often they were just you know clutching at straws and with joe biden it isn't happening and more on top of that some media analysts and media figures they already have a well. planned those who voted for trump there are millions of americans are not so worried. and. somehow we 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. individual who would incite the

radicalized somebody as osama bin laden did to what president trying to right now with such love the joe biden gets from the media he has risking. not being the peacemaker that he seems to want to be but rather deepening the crisis by failing to understand why tens of millions of people more than 70 millions of people voted against him. media coverage of the inauguration left a bad taste and certain people's miles and quitting legal and media analysts 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 ipecac please play today's media coverage because i think i would upchuck it was the

worst saccharin distance anadan nonsense the best of the best was a fellow by the name of chris wallace who was on fox news fax 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. i just pulled out and read and this this finding this almost. cult

like it these incantations of the stage at the you 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 initially so in the day when he wanted to say we're all coming together we're all coming together the 1st he does is give me that pen and there you go there's your unity during his speech joe biden also admitted america needs to confront a white supremacy and an apparent reference to certain trump supporters arise a political extremism white supremacy domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat. highly charged phrases like domestic terrorism used by democrats but science trumps the science behind excuse me especially in the mainstream media have led to

a accusations of aggravating tensions are to america spends one spoke to his podcast cast about the language coming from the blue camp. but we constantly use language to to demonize and dehumanizing people on the other side it's leading us towards very drastic measures 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 a 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 in 10152100 years we will resolve them violently add 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 tech social media and tyrants to eliminate any boy starting 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 it's 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 that 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 all 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 to have the. as is growing animosity there's a part of america that feels left behind for whatever reason they feel forgotten and if you know that neither the political parties back then and strong into that base in a considerable way i think to bring unity we need someone to talk to that base there is talk of how do we deal with a troll supporters to extremely hypocritical one of the things that most one of the things that a lot of drum 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 or 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 the spy bought in sweeping changes to trump's domestic policies some are wondering if there will be the same dramatic shift and america's foreign policy non-constant has more. 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 khant 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 the most significant threat going forward because china is ascending russia is all sorts right but it's it's in the klein they are. also approve of trump's middle east policy specifically a huge diplomatic push to get muslim nations to establish relations with israel oh in the new year recognize capital of israel jerusalem abstain 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 way for whatever its limitations was succeeding on its own terms in blocking iran's pathways to producing for some material for a nuclear weapon on short order there you have it the only stark difference between

america's old and new foreign policy is donald trump may be gone but his political spirit lives on in the new administration joe biden a 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 venture i think another thing that we all fear is that biden was part of an obama administration that accelerated the. ideas the diffusion of fundamentalist islam ism in the middle east isis day 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 ism but of course the big danger here is we have back to back to readers when the united states was

supporting the mujahideen in afghanistan which led to the destruction of the twin towers and these are the sorts of foreign policy minded i guess is that return to stack the senate foreign relations committee so it had to back the iraq war and then say it all changed because we heard from that speech full of the usual platitudes redolent of obama and they all change because of biden is taking rule unless you're changing glueing blinken and all the rest of them that he's appointed around. still had any and the u.a.e. arming the latest countries to put interests in russia's kevin vaccine strain more after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to. let it be an arms race on. dramatic development only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. few sit.

thank. you welcome back the global roll out of russia sputnik the vaccine continues to gather pace the united arab emirates is the latest country to register it for emergency use in india the russian job has been given the green light for phase 3 trials pharmaceutical company dr reddy's who is behind the trials in the country says they hope to get approval by march if all goes well spending view will be used alongside the astra zeneca vaccine and india's kovacs and which they have already been rolled out we spoke to dr reddy's managing director. about why they chose sputnik. the 1st reactions which are coming out in india i deserve for the government. of 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 the sputnik is also a very odd once vaccine and may hopeful that it will work with the well received we're very pleased with the finds behind the work seen as you more it has a humanized sales are used but this isn't a go on dates then you have are 2 different direct orders or dives for the made vaccine and the booster doors that's another one dates of the also install the safety data and also some if you can see data and the science behind how this vaccine was deadlocked and the platform which was in the ad if you want to know why it is like the based on. the platform was considered but it's saying the if you can see it not going to do don't look very good soul give

a very privileged and honored to part of a deduction but russian company idea after to bring this like into india back in russia the mass vaccination program is gaining momentum and one more foreign journalist has taken out 1000000 and a half russians came to be so wrong that already exist. so let's give this out at israeli t.v. news anchor and of kill har who came to moscow to report on russia sputnik the champ but ended up getting it himself he shared his thoughts on maxine with us. as you were 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 fortunately the russian fund for direct investment was receptive and do we visited

the. institute and talked with mr ginsberg the head of family as you well aware and talked with the researcher who was the response 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 experiments and only then are committed to the splash you know to other western journalists already took the book seen in a 1000000 over 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 russian folk scene is nobody wanted the russian to take part in the cake in the party few can call it that so i think the moment that the european medicine authority will sit on the papers going there and see 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 europe is moving closer to introducing a vaccine passports with grace and at least saying the scheme could provide a way out of current restrictions that are all countries on board are split over explains. as the e.u. looks to present a united front when it comes to the fight against covert 191 measure we could well see coming in sooner rather than later of vaccine passports as more people are vaccinated the documentation in mutual recognition or vaccination become of up most important though it is premature to envisage the use of vaccine certificates for other purposes than health protection and a year approach may facilitate other cross border applications of such that if it gets in the future the idea certainly isn't to everyone's taste but the loss of another summer season would be

a thinkable for nations whose tourism industries of already being ravaged by coronavirus so covert passports may be the only way to go greece isn't going to let the idea get caught up in bureaucratic navel gazing they've already got the certificates in place we are starting to issue digital vaccination certificates this is not a restriction on the contrary it will help us get rid of the restrictions that covered places on travel for european citizens spain is also in support for the idea of an vaccination document while the italian travel and tourism federation is pressuring rome to act on their behalf we have vaccinated over 1000000 people so far and this number will reach some 10000000 by spring it would be a real shame not to take this opportunity to bring back to safe travel for a fairly large number of people those who lobby on behalf of the airline industry are also won't understand a really keen to get this idea off the ground when the european mutual recognized

vaccination certificate would be an important step towards giving governments the confidence to safely open their borders and passengers the confidence to fly without the barrier of quarantine while this is certainly up for consideration the stated goal of the e.u. commission remains faxon ating 70 percent of the. population by the end of the summer but not everyone sees covert purse bought as a panacea the president of roumania has suggested that vaccine passports would divide europe's population in 2 while the world health organization is calling on people to be a bit more thoughtful when it comes to travel and not clamor to get back on planes all over the world as soon as possible i asked people here on the streets of berlin what they thought about the proposal it's a big problem for me because i don't want to be vaccinated so they have to catch me

and to vaccinate with with force the main point should be the focus not on travel but people we have to think about the community and that should be the main reason for certificates but at the same time sensitive because might encourage people to get vaccinated thus helping society i think it's unfair because only the people who are vixen will be freed to travel to work to go to the cinema everything and the people who are not so there will be discriminated by doing fascination i think you will allow us to get back to normal and things are suitable for the new it does seem that some kind of vaccine document will be the way forward we'll know more after thursday's actual summit but the mood music coming out of brussels seems to suggest that a plan could well be in place by the end of this month peter all of her r.t. . that's her breakdown of today's top headlines for now but if you're looking for more you can always head to our website r.t.

dot com thanks for tuning in this hour. so rumors assumes he's. going to be named chris mccomb the new member states nothing to. fear among those who just can't stand forever or both if they didn't feel that oh. antarctica is a very international community i. mean it used to try to flee. to the city of the kids who face this so studies need to eat. there's

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welcome to the alex salmond show we were bright set done but call the grisoft and we'll look at the political year ahead the you have begun crisis will end in the muleteer and how will the political parties fear in this do normal from the right we asked top tory commentator peter oborne obama's johnson be condemned for bungling the pandemic but will only be lauded for bringing the country through to vaccination and from the left professor barfi we ask him well a subpoena style most new labor party has the grit to cut through in these tough economic times ahead all that coming up in the show but notice me though with your tweet surely emails and your messages well we've had a tremendous response to my show last week featuring cambridge for all i just talked to chris seth and public health expert dr penn kamiya steve alter it says just watch dr chris smith on alex ab initio best bit of information about covert

i've had said for pandemic started follow the experts get advice steve. bobby says i've been saying it since august masks should be compulsory there are much fewer disabled and people with underlying illnesses venturing out there are few people with a genuine reason not to wear a mask larger shop says so many amateur epidemiologists under all ages spreading misinformation hopefully unintentionally i prefer to listen to the experts and once more i thank them for their clear summations and advice also i thank alex since nina for bringing us this week we sure it's much appreciated well thank you lorna garde mcentee says great show with 2 guests that everybody should pay attention to too many people simply don't understand the facts relating to this pandemic kizzy says gray sure alex senses media questions we're all asking thanks for some answers and maybe the 2 halves of the u.k. scotland and england will answer why we.