riots in several cities just new president by. the deep rift between democrats. and this civil war. pitch blue. message if you know if he gets a gushing response from the mainstream media we'll look at whether the enthusiasm is justified. shacharit. on the european union moves a step closer to introducing

a vaccine passports to the spike resistance from several states. just after midnight. in istanbul right here in moscow on january 22nd welcome to our team 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 has voted to bring in american society together but here where the scenes in some cities just hours after his inaugural address. in portland far left until members faced off with the 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 and spray painted on their kissed symbols on the building seattle also saw violence with protesters creating barricades and starting fires in the streets let's take you to colorado protesters there are setting fire to a large u.s. flag in the state capital of denver scuffles broke out protesters tried to put out the flames. on the an organization certainly itself was like no other with security so how d.c. resembled a war zone unprecedented 25000 troops were called in authority is feared a repeat of the scenes witnessed 2 weeks earlier during the capitol hill riots as mentioned the unrest across the u.s. came just hours after joe biden stressed each strive to bring a bike unity. we must end this civil war pits

red against 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 or 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. good 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 they already love him and cherish him with trump the media war with against him started instantly like with 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 well. planned those who voted for trump there are millions of americans.

somehow we 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. encroaches on a speaking to neil harvey earlier well the media coverage of the an organization left the bad taste in some people's mudslinging clipping legal and media lists

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 played today's media coverage because i think i would upchuck it was the worst saccharin this is 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 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 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 yet just on

the point biden got done to business by immediately canceling a whole host of policies from the previous administration including on immigration and energy the spite the sweeping changes domestically some are wondering if there will be the same dramatic shift in america's foreign policy our senior correspondent out guess the of 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 wouldn'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. 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 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 accelerates at the. idea is the diffusion of fundamentalist islam ism in the middle east i see al qaeda so i think that is very worrying perhaps lincoln and others are thinking ok try and make some deal with iran civil tinsley fight iran by defacto helping islam islam but of course the big danger here is we're back are we back to the readers when the united states was supporting the mujahideen in afghanistan which lent to the destruction of the twin towers and these are the sorts of foreign policy. mind i was the man who stacked

the senate foreign relations committee so it had to back the iraq war and then say it will changed because we heard from that speech full of the usual platitudes redolent of obama and they all change because of biden is being less true changing glueing lincoln and all the rest of them that he's appointed around. this is are to international still to come another shot in the arm the uni becomes the latest country to give the green light to russia's covert vaccine story and more brain. is you'll need. a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation

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16 minutes into the program welcome back the united arab emirates has joined a fast growing list of countries which have approved a russian vaccine against covert one thing 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 shot we spoke to. ocean washing up 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 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 speech. today we received the important news that hungry has become the 1st state of the european union to register the speech 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. in the 2nd most populous country in the world india. or thrice phase 3 trials for the russian job dr reddy's the pharma company behind the indian trial ses it hopes to get full approval by march if all goes well sputnik we will be used alongside the astra zeneca job india's own kovacs in which already been rolled out we spoke to dr reddy's 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 who need access to the vaccine and hence more

better and i do believe that the sputnik world full of very advanced rexy not really hopeful that it will work very well and we were very pleased with the science behind the vaccine as you know. a human lives. are used but there's. then you have. different. no dives. made vaccine and the booster goes next the mother not to engage me also installed 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 based on. the platform was considered but it's saying that if you can see it going today don't look very good soul given

really but a religion honored 2 part of a deduction. russian company idea after being dislikes into india. the president of argentina being given the sputnik v. shot alberto fernandez making the announcement on twitter just some hours ago he also urged citizens to follow his example meanwhile here in russia foreign journalists are starting to receive the. media the half russians came to be so wrong that the river. salutes ubisoft's the this is really t.v. news and current delivered kill harf he came to moscow to reports on russia sputnik the job and ended up getting it himself dove shared his thoughts on the facts seen with us. as you were aware russian vaccine was it didn't get much credit in the world because of the i would 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 the head of family as you well aware and talked with the researcher who was the 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 den it continue with the experiments and only then a committee to the splats you know 2 other western journalists already took the book seen in a 1000000 over and a half of course of russian citizens didn't 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 book seen is nobody wanted their russian to take part in the cake in the party for

you couldn't call it that so i think the moment that the european medicine authority will sit on the papers going there and see is a need 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 well 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 however 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 has more people are vaccinated the documentation in mutual recognition of 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 all thinkable for nations whose tourism industries of already being ravaged by coronavirus so cold that passports may be the only way to go greece isn't going to let the idea get caught up in your requested 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 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 a really keen 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 parsons's 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 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 it's a certificate but at the same time such that if it gets might encourage people to get vaccinated and 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 would be discriminated but i do effects the nation at the 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 over r.t. . just to stick with our story earlier we spoke to richard verner a professor of banking at britain's de montfort university he believes there's a lot more at stake than just travel. if. introduced then used in order to discriminate against people then this would of course mean people who refused to take some experimental injection that has not really been properly tested and that's been rushed through they would not be allowed to use some public services that the 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 european community which guarantees

freedom of movement of people it certainly is it would be a violation of human rights because you know. restrict the movement of healthy people and you can't simply say that anyone who hasn't done x. y. z. . is potentially dangerous well that is discrimination and you can't treat healthy people like this. it's very interesting argument. that lawmakers they are calling for a major gas pipeline project with russia to be halted over the alexina vali case the european parliament passed a resolution on thursday condemning the recent arrest of the opposition activists they want sanctions imposed. 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 and the so cool and russian media propagandists who possess assets in the e.u. and can currently travel there and meet peace stressed the importance of critically review in cooperation with russia in various foreign policy platforms and on projects such as north stream to you the 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 the railing 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 with her. from anglo merkel that said that she doesn't want to mix up the volley case with the case of north stream 2 despite them finished his exit 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 and like satan a volley is in trouble with russian officials for want. of a 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 novelli 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. novell needs cases got so much international complicity everything that

happens in a vulnerable god and his return in detention is the business of law enforcement agencies we are talking about enforcing laws in some of the countries simply mentation 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 the volley is very likely to remain in custody for the next few weeks before a court decision and so pressure is building up now the north stream pipeline project hangs in the balance as well so let's watch out for new developments offer a lot for now but if you'd like to have your say on any of this our stories and for a few more besides why not leave a comment or 2 in our tease facebook page always like me there of an evening i'm.