has a report. riots in several u.s. cities just new president joe biden follows to overcome the deep rift between democrats and republicans we must end this civil war. the. sense of unity gets gushing response from the mainstream media we look at whether the enthusiasm is just the. the word shackling. coming up on the program the european union moves

a step closer to introducing passports this resistance from several years. cross the world or on the caucuses or to international pleasure to have your company my names you know. joe biden has been sworn in as the 46 president of the united states bringing to a close donald trump's 4 years in office the new leader to bring american society together but here where the scenes in some cities just hours after is an org. in portland far left members faced off with riot police officers fired tear gas into the crowd earlier a mob the sended on the democratic party's offices in the city where they smashed

windows and spray painted america's symbols on the building seattle also saw violence with protesters creating barak aides and starting fires in the streets some are seen in colorado protesters setting fire to a large u.s. flag in the state capital of denver scuffles broke out protesters tried to put out the flames. will be an organization certainly itself was like no other with security so high that d.c. resembled a war zone and unprecedented $25000.00 troops had been called in to avoid a repeat of scenes like the wall once witnessed 2 weeks earlier during the capitol hill riot it was mentioned the on rest seen across the u.s. just hours after biden stressed he'd strive to bring about unity. 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 harden our hearts if we show a little tolerance 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 and 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 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 well. planned those who voted for trump there are millions of americans. somehow we need to be deprogrammed they are members of our. 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 trying to 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. igor's is on of speaking to neil harvey earlier the media coverage of the organization did indeed leave a bad taste in many people's minds 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 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 thrown into a hat and just pulled out and read and this this finding this almost. cult like it is incantations up. staged 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 the president trumped 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 there the executive orders very interesting biden got down to business by immediately counseling a whole host of policies from the previous administration including on immigration

on energy the spite the sweeping changes to mystically some are wondering if there will be the same dramatic shift in america's foreign policy or senior correspondent out there as the if reports. it all depends on where you stand for some buggins integration may be the beginning of for sad 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 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 of 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 in the new administration has inherited and braced trumps hostility to china for example so if you open 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 present the 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 white me is 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 islam in the middle east i says 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 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 and these are the sorts of foreign policy mind by degrees 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 how they all change because it biden is saying and we were last year changing glueing lincoln and all the rest of them that he's appointed around. to come this hour another shot in the arm they use a becomes the latest country to give the green light to russia's covert acts enough story and more after the break. well we said in 2008 right here on this show was that because there was no attempt to reform what the banks had done and the global financial crisis was caused by the banks who were hoarding the cash they were sitting on the cash they were lending it here we are in 2021 exactly as they predicted they did reform the banks in fact

they just expanded their credit card they expanded their capacity to print and borrow and give away cash to their friends causing now this huge crisis. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. theory dramatic probably the only move really . i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. hello again the united arab emirates joined a fast growing list of countries which have approved

a russian vaccine against. the move is being welcomed by the head of russia's direct investment fund which is behind the global rule out of the sputnik the scheldt we spoke to. almost there but 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 sputnik 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 trolls was. secondly the tests have shown the high safety and efficacy of scrutiny. today we received the important news that hungry has become the 1st state of the european union to register the speed with the 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 in india the russian north rise for

phase 3 trials dr reddy's there pharma company behind the indian trial says it hopes to get full approval by march if all goes well sputnik 3 will be used alongside the astra zeneca. india's own kovacs which of being rolled out already we spoke to dr reddy's managing director about why they chose sputnik to be. the 1st vaccines which are coming out in india it is for the government. have public workers and all that but did many many many people will need access to these vaccines and hence more data and i do believe that the sputnik is also of a had once vaccine and we hopeful that it will work for a while we were very pleased with the science behind the vaccine as you are

more it does a humanized. or used but this which is an odd one dates then you have are different back. seat or dives for the made vaccine and the booster goes next to mother not to engage me also saw the safety data and also some if you could see data and the science behind how this vaccine was deadlocked and the platform which was in the ad if you meant i didn't know why it was like the best black on. the platform was considered but it's saying that if you can see mom going today don't look very good soul give a very privileged and honored to part of adoption but russian company idea after to bring this like scene to india. the president of argentina is being given the sputnik v. shot to fernandez making that announcement on twitter

a little bit earlier today he also urged citizens to follow his example you know here in russia foreign journalists are starting to receive the china. millionaire have russians came to be so wrong that already exist. so let's give it a shot that is really t.v. news anchor adele of guilt hard he came to moscow to report on russia sputnik ended up getting it instead of dove shared his thoughts on the vaccine with us. 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 in the 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 ahead of me as you well aware and talked

with the 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 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 russian 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 katie to prove be approved or not will be a really important day for this book and the coffee and of course i'll be happy for

you if you get the approval. 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 european union member states do not agree peter over explained. 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 vaccines it if it gets for other purposes than health protection and a your 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 pyroclastic navel gazing they've already got the certificates in place we're starting to she does just a vaccination certificates this is not a restriction on the country it will help us to get rid of the restrictions the code places and 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 a really keen to get this idea off the ground when 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 e.u. 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 vaccinated with with

a 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 there will be discriminated. by doing fascination at the will allow us to get back to normal and do things i choose or for the new it does seem that some kind of vaccine document will be the way forward we'll know more after thursday's virtual 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. e.u. lawmakers are calling for a major gas pipeline project with russia to be halted over the alexina valmy case

the european parliament passed a resolution on thursday condemning the recent arrest of the opposition activist and want sanctions as well imposed on moscow told me more. it's time for the european parliament to step in whether it's reaction to the arrest of opposition activist alexei vali and this resolution that you mentioned is not binding but it is something that indicates where the wind in the you is blowing so the lawmakers are making it clear that they want to teach russia lesson the authors of the document are calling for the expansion of existing and western sanctions and also for new measures against moscow sanctions should also be imposed against russian oligarchs linked to the regime members of president putin's in the so cool and russian media propagandists who possess assets in the e.u.

and can currently travel there any piece stressed the importance of critically review in cooperation with russia in various foreign policy platforms and on projects such as north stream to you they cool need to meet you stop the completion of the controversial pipeline the north stream pipeline project which is very important for moscow it's intended for direct natural gas deliveries from russia to northern germany cherished by russian officials and the european parliament wants to block this once and for all as well and this was something that has long been the goal of the u.s. government to deal raising the construction of north stream to a regardless of the administrations that are in charge things aren't likely to change with the arrival of joe biden so this brings us to a major controversy on the one hand we do have the enemies of that project in the

european union a bunch of them plus outside the e.u. america like we mentioned but the project is largely wild biber led because of apparent benefits for the german economy and that's why perhaps just recently we heard from anglo merkel that said that she doesn't want to mix up the in the volley case with the case of north stream to them i consider these extra territorial sanctions to be inappropriate. now just to remind you alexina vali was arrested at a moscow airport this weekend after his arrival from berlin following several months of treatment there a like satan a volley is in trouble with russian officials for violations of probation period i can remind you that several years ago the major opposition figure was convicted for embezzlement for which he received a suspended sentence but mr no volley believes that this case is politically

motivated a little earlier we heard from the russian top diplomat surrogate. he warns the european officials and western officials in general from interfering in russia's own internal affairs when it comes to trials against suspected criminals. know melanie's cases got so much international publicity and everything that happens to nirvana regarding his return in detention is the business of law enforcement agencies we are talking about enforcing russian laws if in some of the countries implementation of their own laws is considered to be of secondary importance to achieving some geo political goals this is their problems in our case law enforcement agencies have made their position clear now vali is very likely to remain in custody for the next few weeks before a court decision and so pressure is building up now the nord stream pipeline

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