riots in several u.s. cities just hours after a new president joe biden. the deep rift between democrats and republicans we must end this civil war. the. message of unity gets a gushing response from the mainstream media we look at whether the enthusiasm is just the. shock this is. the european union moves a step closer to introducing. sports this 5 resistance from several members.

247 news live from moscow this is r t international my names you know me when you're welcome to the program. joe biden has been sworn in as they 46 president of the united states bringing to a close donald trump's 4 years in office now he has vowed to bring american society together but here with the scenes in some cities just hours after his inaugural address. you know this is portland where a far left on t. 5 members faced off with riot police officers fired tear gas into the cried earlier a mob descended on the democratic party's offices in the city and that damaging to

broken windows seattle also solve violence with protesters creating barricades and starting fires in the streets and let's bring it to colorado where protesters set fire to a large us flag in the state capital denver scuffles broke out as kuntar protesters tried to pull it away. in organization ceremony itself was like no other with security so high d.c. resembled a war zone i don't president to 25 fellows a national guard members had been called in to avoid a repeat of scenes like the one seen 2 weeks earlier during the capitol hill right as mentioned the unrest seen across the u.s. came just hours after biden stressed strive to bring it by community. we must end this civil war 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 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 in a 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 the 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 someone like you know getting down to the very single to single person you know nit picking in the smallest of details because sometimes he was criticized very rightly so by the media but very often they were just you know what you need through it and with joe biden it isn't happening and more on top of that some media analysts and media figures they already have a. plan those who voted for trump there are millions of americans are not so worried. and. somehow need to be deprogrammed they are members of

a cult cult 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 them radicalize somebody as osama bin laden did to what president trump did right now with such love that 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. if there's enough speaking to neil harvey it will be media coverage just as he gore was alluding to at the end there all of the an organization left a bad taste in some people's markets including legal and media lowest level 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 played today's media coverage because i think i would upchuck it was the worst saccharin this does an a dying 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 did 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 had such initially so in the day when he wanted to say we're all coming together we're all come in the other the 1st he does is give me that pen and there you go there's your unity yeah despite biden sweeping changes to double trumps to mystic policies after the inauguration some are wondering if there will be the same dramatic shift in

america's foreign policy their senior correspondent the reports. 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 dark dog tunnel the united states is back and europe stands ready to reconnect we don't old and trusted partner to breathe new life into our 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. china is is present 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 and the new you recognize capital of israel jerusalem abstaining 2 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 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

trencher 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 islam in the middle east i says 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're back are we back to readers when the united states was supporting the mujahideen in afghanistan which led to the destruction of the twin towers in all these are the sorts of foreign policy mind i got was 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 saying rule unless you're changing glueing lincoln and all the rest of them that he's appointed around. him moving the program on now europe is moving closer to introducing controversial vaccine passports with greece and italy saying the scheme could provide a way out of the current restrictions some other e.u. member states though they're not exactly on board as peter oliver 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 a mutual recognition of 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 all 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 also won't understand oblique aim to get this idea off the ground than the european mutual recognized vaccinations are to figure that 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 paxson ating 70 percent of the. population by the end of the summer but not everyone sees covert per sports 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 climate 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 there they will be discriminated by do effect summation of the you will allow us to get back to normal and do things i say usual for the you 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 over r.t.

berlin. just thing with this story we also spoke to richard werner a professor of banking at britain's the monfort university he believes there's a lot more to that than just travel. if such covert passports were introduced and i actually then used in order to discriminate against people then this would of course mean that people who refused to take some experimental injection that has not really been properly tested and has been rushed through they would not be allowed to use some public services that they're paying for as taxpayers even though they're healthy and there is actually a fundamental legal problem with this because actually that's a violation of e.u. law we have european union and earlier european community law which guarantees freedom of movement of people it certainly is it would be a violation of human rights because you know why restrict the movement of healthy

people and you can't simply say that anyone who hasn't done x. y. z. we will declare as potentially dangerous well that is a massive discrimination and you can't treat healthy people like this. now e.u. lawmakers are calling for a major gas pipeline project with russia to be halted over the alexei navalny case the european parliament house just passed a resolution condemning his recent arrest and demanding sanctions. from. north stream to pipeline again in focus but how does it look to mr novelli. union hey there well i can tell you that the story is very complicated but these 2 are now linked because of the resolution that you mentioned the european parliament is stepping in with its reaction to the arrest of opposition blogger alike saying the volley the resolution though is not binding but it's clearly an indication of where

the wind is blowing in the european union the authors of the document are calling for extended antiderivatives saying the extension expansion of these sanctions that are already existing but also they want new measures against russia to be in place plus the punishment of russian officials so-called russian all of guards and also the people behind the so-called anti the volley of propaganda basically anyone that could have been linked to the arrest of the kremlin critic so it is clear that the european lawmakers are trying to teach the russian government a lesson as they see it and so they're willing to also block the north stream to pipeline project which is very important for russia which is intended for a direct natural gas deliveries from russia to the northern coast of germany the

project cherished by russian officials and i can tell you that the u.s. has long been seeking to direct the construction of it they've thrown sanctions against all the companies that were involved in the construction but this brings us to a major contradiction because while there are enemies of the pipeline in the european union as well and outside 2 of just mentioned america germany is in favor of it and it's been largely welcomed by the government in berlin. because of apparent benefits for the german economy so we've just heard from aguilar merkel that she doesn't want to mix european economic interests with politics here. but i consider these extra territorial sanctions to be inappropriate. but besides this

angola merkel is among the european leaders the western leaders that are also calling for the immediate release of alexina volley but like i said there are apparent difficulties between the german government and the u.s. governments that are seeking to do rail project and with the incoming u.s. administration things aren't likely to change now coming back to a like saying vali he was arrested at a moscow airport after the arrival from berlin where he was being treated for several months and the reason why he's in trouble with russian law enforcement arm of violations of his probation period because several years ago he was convicted for embezzlement for which he received a suspended sentence and as you can see this story carries on and on and on but

we've been hearing from russian officials that the european leaders should not interfere because this case is russia's all in business. novell needs cases got so much international complicity everything that happens to me regarding his return in detention is the business of law enforcement agencies we are talking about enforcing russian laws in some of the countries simplemente sion of their own laws is considered to be of secondary importance to achieving some geopolitical goals this is their problems in our case law enforcement agencies have made their position clear. alexina volley will remain in custody for another few weeks while his case is being examined but it doesn't look like the voices from the west will stop calling for his release so the situation is going to get worse in terms of european in terms of american pressure against

russia so let's have a look at where this goes. through about. the united arab emirates has joined a fast growing list of countries which have approved a russian vaccine against cuba dating the move has been welcomed by the head of russia's direct investment fund which is behind the global rule out of the sputnik be shot we spoke to. almost this partnership means disputant vaccine will be available in the united arab emirates and that's very important not only for the u.a.e. and russia but for the entire middle east and the rest of the world i would like to highlight a few crucial points firstly the decision was made after dispute nic was registered in more than 10 other countries it was based not only on clinical trials in russia but also on data that the u.a.e. received from its own trials. secondly the tests show in the high safety and

efficacy of speech. today we received the important news that hungry has become the 1st state of the european union to register the speed nuclear vaccine so we can see that it's being approved not only in the middle east latin america africa and asia but also in europe. and in india the russian job has been ortheris for phase 3 trials dr reddy's they pharma company behind the indian trials say its hopes to get full approval by march if all goes well sputnik 3 will be used alongside the astra zeneca job and india's own kovacs in which of being already rolled out we spoke to dr reddy's managing director about why they chose sputnik to be. the 1st. magazines which are coming out in india. for the. men. public workers and all that but there are many many many people will need access to these

vaccines and hence more better and i do believe that the sputnik. a very advanced vaccine and we hope for that it will work very well we were very pleased with the science behind the vaccine as. a human knives. are used but there's. then you have. different back. made vaccine and the booster goes next to motherhood one day age of me also stalled 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 best black on. the platform was considered but it's saying that if you concede a good day don't look very good soul give

a very privileged and honored to part of a deduction. russian company idea air to bring dislikes into india and back in russia they vaccination program is gaining momentum some foreign journalists have not taken the show. me in the have russians came to be so wrong that already existed so let's give it a shot. that says really t.v. news anchor dove tail hard came to moscow to report on russia sputnik the job and ended up getting it himself shared his thoughts on the vaccine 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 ginsburg the head of family as you well aware and talked with the researcher who was reask and 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 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 seen is nobody wanted their 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 katie 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. to washington again in moments the watching the hawks crew are standing by with another puck to the rafters show couch and immediately after the break.

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