time down there. the. riots broke out in several u.s. cities just hours after a new president joe biden files to overcome with a deep rift between democrats and republicans. we must end this civil war. pits really gives blue. is in the ground running biden says he wants to extend a key nuclear control treaty with russia at the same time work to hold moscow to account. and the e.u. moves a step closer to introducing covert vaccine passports to spies hostility from several

member states. and i welcome to our team's national live from moscow i'm daniel hawkins thanks for joining us on the program. and joe biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the united states bring to a close donald trump's 4 years in office the new leaders vowed to unite society but here with the scenes in some cities just hours after his inaugural address. and portland far left empty for members faced off with riot police officers fired tear gas earlier a mob descended on the democratic policies offices in the city where they smashed windows and sprayed out of his symbols on the building seattle also solve on its with protesters burning barricades and starting fires. in colorado protests the set

fires alarms us flag in denver scuffles broke out as counter protesters tried to put out the flames well you know the ration ceremony itself was like no other with washington resembling a war zone $25000.00 troops were called in as authorities fear the repeat of the capitol hill riots 2 weeks ago now as mentioned the unrest across the u.s. came just hours after joe biden stressed strive to bring about unity. 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 hard meet our hearts if we show a little tolerance and unity 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. 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 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 are not so worried. and. somehow need to be deprogrammed they are members of the. 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 the such love the joe biden gets from the media he has he's 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 or the new body of the ministration will seek to extend a key nuclear arms treaty with russia which was you to expire in february the news was confirmed by white house press secretary jen psaki. as the details. well there is only one treaty still in effect that restricts the nuclear arms race and that's the new start treaty and it appears that the policy of the biden ministration will be to seek a 5 year extension of the new start treaty the president has long been clear that the new start treaty is in the national security interests of the united states and

this extension makes even more sense when the relationship with russia is adversarial as it is at this time it's important to note that she did talk about how the u.s. intelligence community will be seeking methods of putting pressure on russia she did describe an assessment that's taking place currently about how to best place pressure on russia this is what she said even as we work with russia to advance u.s. interests to work to hold russia to account for its reckless and adversarial actions and to this and the president is also issuing issuing a tasking to the intelligence community for its full assessment of the solar winds cyber breach russian interference in the 2020 alexion its use of chemical weapons against opposition leader alexina vonnie and the alleged bounties on u.s. soldiers in afghanistan trump and ministration allowed the clear skies treaty to expire and allow the i.n.f. short range nuclear treaty also to expire so

a number of treaties that prevent you know an arms race from taking place between russia and united states those treaties have been allowed to expire now the current treaty of the new start treaty that does expire on february 5th the but the biden administration says it's seeking a 5 year extension on that treaty restricts nuclear warheads to $1550.00 and it also restricts the deployed strategic delivery systems to $700.00 and it is a treaty that that anthony blinken who is biden's pick for secretary of state he described it. granting tremendous access to data and inspections and said that it is certainly in the national interest to extend it so people are going to be following that pretty closely as this is a pretty dramatic issue if for some reason an agreement is not reached by february 5th at that point that will be a big game changer in international relations but i it appears the biden

ministration has made clear they are going to seek an extension of the new start treaty so quite an important announcement from jen psaki on behalf of the white house bought and got down to business by mediately reversing a whole host of doldrums policies including one of the gratian energy despite the sweeping changes domestically some are questioning whether the same will be seen in america's foreign policy road as the if possible. it all depends on where you stand for some biden's inauguration maybe the beginning of 4 sad years 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 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 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 at staying 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 wright me 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 accelerates at the. ideas the diffusion of fundamentalist islam islam in the middle east isis 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 danger here is we're 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 mind i was the man who stacked the senate foreign relations committee so it had to back the iraq war and then say it all changed because we heard from that speech full of the usual platitudes redolent of obama and they all change because it biden is being ruinous you're changing glueing lincoln and all the rest of them that he's appointed around. phil to come this hour another shot in the arm for russia's covert vaccine becomes that of the country to give the green light to the life saving job story on more after the break. 2 good clocks all of these what the. my grandfather was just not particularly good every day good one to make one a little bit higher wait

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will come back europe's moving closer to introducing controversial vaccine passports greece and italy already say the scheme could provide a way out of the current restrictions but not only you member states agree to all of our experience. 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 backseat passports has 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 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 unthinkable for nations whose tourism industries of already being ravaged by corrupt the virus 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'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 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 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 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 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 city forgets but at the same time such city figures 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 doing fascination 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. berlin illing to

a party member beyond arsole believes the only passport needed remains a standard e.u. one. i don't think covert passports have any role to play in stopping the spread of covert i think they're a matter that only serves to enhance the terrible controls that the european union already exerts over their citizens i don't think we need any kind of immunity passports i think the only passport that we should need is our standard european union passports that is everything is citizen should need to travel and immunity that hurts the wrong action and they have to be resisted by all political forces within the european union we see where the priorities lie and with the european union the priorities are on the free movement of goods and workers and the people people don't matter and we've

seen that time and again and this week over 19 prizes just clearly the only reason that a structure such as the european union exists now is because capital interests and big monopolies have an interest to use this structure to toss through their agenda and i think the question of whether this will be successful or it can be resisted is a question that only the citizens of european countries and member states can determine by their political engagement and their protests the united arab emirates has joined a growing list of countries which have approved the russian kovacs in the movies been welcomed by the head of russia's direct investment fund which is behind the global rollout of the sport negri job we spoke to him on the latest developments. a lot of the ocean washing up almost all 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 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 india the russian job has been authorized for phase 3 trials the company behind the trials as i hope to get full approval by march if all goes well it will be used the long side the astra zeneca job on the india's own kovacs in which i have already been of all dealt we spoke to the pharma companies

about having direct about why they chose. the 1st vaccines which are coming out in india his for the government. have 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 one strike scene and we're hopeful that it will work for a while we were very pleased with the science behind the vaccine as you nor it is a humanized. are used but this isn't a one day then you have 2 different. seed or dives of maybe vaccine and the booster goes next to motherhood what gauge we also saw the safety data and also some if you could see data and the science behind how this

vaccine was dead. and the platform which was in the ad if you wanted to know why it was like the best black on. the platform was considered but it's saying that if you can see i'm not going to date or not very good or small given very privileged and honored to partner with the russian government. russian government idea after to bring dislikes into india the president of argentina has been given the support to get the job well that if a man as citizens to follow his example in while here in russia foreign journalists are starting to receive example as well me in the half russians came to be so wrong that already exist. so let's give it a shot without says very t.v. news anchor dolphin kill hob he came to moscow to report on the vaccine and ended up getting it himself he 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 an interview in the we approach in the fortunately the russian fund for direct investment was receptive 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 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 other splats you know 2 other western journalists already took the book seen in a 1000000 over and a half of course of russian citizens did take the vaccine so i thought. this 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 the russian to take part in the cake in the party if you can call it that so i think the moment that the european menace in authority will sit on the papers going there and see 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. buster explores what could lie over the horizon for the new boy demonstration a coming up in just a few moments time that he was back in half an hour with the latest headlines join us again that. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the

world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. like absolutely are ok. then a 2nd wave is coming no the virus is mutating and i walk 2 blocks away from the apartment and i would get confused as to holly gets not. meanwhile patients who've recovered from covert started to report some unusual aftereffects the symptoms were different but. my hearing has been ok i think. one of the things i like research is all over the world are trying to determine the many pains and other problems and then turn it all into numbers showing my hair. but if you look carefully the 1113 there this is throughout the day right here just.

various sources reports that didn't just leave for 35 percent of recovered patients . there have been many complaints of vision loss joint pain and fatigue in the us these patients are referred to as post coded long holos i talked to multiple doctors in my doctor and they said we have a feeling that you're going to have a hard time in recovery you're going to be one of those people that they consider a long haul or. this is the one business show you can't afford to mess i'm rachel blevins in

washington coming up the new biden ministration is getting to work and wall street is on a high but how long will that last with jobless claims still above 900000. plus lafayette falling. major growth in 2020 and the trend could continue with political officials as former president revoked his own rules on his way out the door. china's top telecom companies are calling on the user stock exchange to reverse a plan to sand them from trading in u.s. market their request comes just hours after biden takes office we have a lot to get to celeste get started. the north stream to pipeline could be hitting yet another roadblock lawmakers in the european union are now considering dropping their support for the project following the arrest of activist alexei navai and moscow the proposed resolution aims to halt construction of the pipeline stretching from russia germany which is now 94 percent completed and it calls on the e.u.

to review its relationship with moscow based all on of all news case german chancellor angela merkel said the arrest of the activist which was highly anticipated after he was accused of violating his probation has not changed her support for the pipeline as for the ongoing threats of u.s. sanctions merkel said she is still waiting to talk it all out with the new biden ministration within the 2 days and of course we will talk about this with the new american administration because this is a very critically across party lines in the united states of america and is also viewed critically in parts of europe but we must talk about what economic relationships with russia in the gas sector are acceptable and what are and. speaking of relations between europe and russia hungry just became the 1st nation in the e.u. to approve the sputnik 5 vaccine this comes after the develop.