but i decided not to take the plight. i gave you that. the headlines this hour a poll suggests that trust in the media has fall in america in the wake of the elections of the mainstream media. going divisions in the us. muslim federations of france rejected by new micron's antics 3 disenchanted designed to radical islam the president of the paris islamic federation was. drawn many paragraphs anyway asking muslims to clarify that positional subjects of this subject look they have respected for years and years. of things to come for u.k. tribalist post breaks it. confiscate. as it contains items from outside.

after checking a few items. the majority of you can't take screen because the house purchased vegetables on. their very good morning to you this is. a recent poll suggests trust in the media has fallen in the us on both sides of the political spectrum despite a general upward trend among the other 26 countries in the survey. after became clear in november the trumpet being ousted from the oval office no one was more relieved than his greatest enemy the media i don't dare speak for my colleagues but i can tell you how difficult it has been as a journalist to cover this dark part of our history let's hope the attack on

journalists journalism and everyone and time to move into the light well don lemon who bravely soldier through those dark years has got his wish as joe biden was and moving to the 42nd president of the united states t.v. screens up cross america one magic and filled with the rainbows and unicorns those lights 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. greason regret out of the privacy of our hearts just for a moment so that we all could share 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 now report says might have taken it easy on biden during the campaign trail but that john and mystic integrity demanded that they ramp up the pressure during his phosphates and office player who he borrowed from stair force

$1.00 each this is such a good question such a good question because while america might be staring down the barrel of unprecedented political polarization civil unrest racial inequality a raging pandemic the annihilation of small businesses and sky high unemployment it's the future of the false one color scheme that really keeps people up at night but if john does do decide to ask about one of the other insignificant challenges the us face says the head of state is only too willing to give a thorough answer who. may be. more of a p.c. with us right now. we're down to your city's no come on give me a. young man give him a break it's his 1st day on the job his time probably could do with a nap anyway what do you think this is a press conference meanwhile over in florida donald trump goldfinger his way back

into civilian life is probably feeling a bit hard done by because just months ago was a study showed that 95 percent of u.s. broadcast coverage of trump was negative and to make it was he could even tweet about it. could be embarrass himself in any. further you look small he just looks like a small man. we all lived through a president who was assisted in his elevation to the white house by illegal assistance from a hostile foreign power with so much collaring bias is that anyone to trust in mainstream us media has hit a record low reporters are probably patting themselves on the back they survive but don't care if they aren't at a holiday right but does it show not like apart from a softball question here and there for the byington fun club sorry the mainstream media the next 4 years will be spent kicking back and taking it easy for.

the media supposed to be the bit the state of supposed to be the watchdog they're not supposed to be in the public relations business the trust in the media in the us is is has declined it's been declining for many years. the public is correct to suspect that journalists are not being fair what we need to see is a robot have all of the principles that facts count and you know if you need to hear both sides to a story what's going on going on right now is just the opposite of that and some of the so-called for that checkers are anything but they're basically trying to tip the scales in again in favor of 11 side and they're not looking at it objectively. the full interest in the media comes hot on the heels of the u.s. elections that saw divisions

a violent spillover in the capital siege classes also breaking out of portland seattle and down the hours after joe biden's a no vote address on his prestigious but a philosopher and i'm chomsky believes deep division in the us is nothing new. we were always at war united states is one of those rare countries that's been at war almost every day since its founding but we just saw we have the most wonderful military system in the world to defend america and if you look at the oath of office that the chief of staff transdermal the joint chiefs takes that to defend america against enemies foreign and domestic was unable to defend the capital couple of the under nurse xx. not that i noticed one of the most remarkable things that trump has done was to dismantle the entire arms control

regime how we perceive reality and i want to discuss that that how is our cultivated perception of reality a form of social control of course you referred gramsci well we're seeing pretty dramatic examples of that right no united states is always trying to do good things but makes mistakes here and there and we have to correct these mistakes and that everything is fundamentally wonderful and so this assault on the couple of shows the power of american democracy because we didn't go up into a version stayed very much like the reaction after watergate. odes to the magnificence of the democratic system when right after the demonstration of corruption and even in the effort to conceal what happened.

3 muslim federations in france have refused to back him on your micron's anti extremism charter the president's been touting his challenge as a way to fight radical islam we regret that this charter was signed before getting approval of components of the french council of the muslim faith we believe that some passages and warnings of the text submitted i have a nature tweak and the ties of trust between the muslims of france and the nation in addition some of the declarations infringe the honor of muslims with an accusatory character and marginalizing. number of other muslim federations signed up for the charter after intense and drawn out discussions the charter and visions the setting up of a new national council responsible for vetting a man's practicing in the country he rejects polarized brands of islam and reaffirms equality between men and women islam is terror reared its ugly head again in france 2 months ago when a teacher was beheaded for showing his class cartoons of the prophet mohammed.

i'm not like i'm patridge was the victim of an islamist terror attack. establishing islam is a religion that is in crisis today all over the world is on that we don't just see it's not even history year that don't shortlist america to the will of the islamists is precisely to turn our citizens in the republic using their religion and we can't let that happen. the attack on samuel party triggered a crackdown against extremists mosques and islam is the cessations we heard from fatty sarika president of the paris based islamic confederation which rejects rejects macron charter he told us why. some of these look at that humans we disagree on a number of matters one being the group this charter was to be addressed to at the

beginning it was about drafting a charter republican principles as the national council of so it was supposed to concern mosques here we find ourselves with a charter of principles of islam that's france and if they do it's to make the proper distinctions many paragraphs anyway asking muslims explicitly to clarify their position on the subject is that all of this subjects that they have respected for years and years those any problems for them as for the principles of the french republic the french people of the muslim face in this country and serenity in respect of the values of the french republic that to gauge us all we do not have to ask them explicitly to measure their religious convictions to prove how respectful they are to the values and principles of the french republic it is certain that the right and to muslim bags we call that islamophobia we're not going to get into semantics we have a commission called fight against islamophobia so we call it that the reason deaton increase and these acts especially in light of current events now i also don't want

to say the result institutionalized islamophobia in france i really think that our country is doing its best to fight against and to muslim acts against islamophobia but that does not mean that these kinds of acts are not increasing. new variant of covert which was 1st detected in the u.k. is now believed to be not only more factious than of the strains but more deadly shot had been stashed he reports from london. of course we always knew that the virus could mutate and we know her latest strategy is more transmissible but now we have the confirmation it's more that in addition to spreading more quickly it also appears that there is some evidence that the new variant the varian that was 1st identified in london in the southeast may be associated with a higher degree of mortality and i want to give some context if you took somebody

in their sixty's a man in their sixty's the average risk is that for a 1000 people who got infected roughly 10 would be expected to unfortunately die with the virus. with the new variant for a 1000 people inflicted roughly 13 or 14 people might be expected to die well the latest statistics are incredibly worrying today's daily cases is now well over 40000 and deaths also continue to rise day by day far as johnson also saying that 70 percent more likely to for people to be in hospital with 19 than there were at the peak of the pandemic in april but it is also worth mentioning that the data isn't very clear at this point as we heard from patrick violence there is a degree still of uncertainty signs of the lockdown will be relaxing any time soon in fact there's much speculation mounting that this lockdown could even move well

into the summer months as well still the government today trying to reinforce that key message of stay at home as that is really where things can get taken in control of our storms and then moving on to talk about the vaccination program as well we are now at the 2nd week of the government's run out of the vaccination he says of the u.k. is well on track to deliver 15000000 doses by mid february of course many people have long said that's quite an ambitious target especially considering now we're only at 5400000 people being vaccinated so the government will have to get a move on. we spoke to health policy analysts roy lilley he says that he's not too optimistic about the kobe situation will unfold. it was some worrying user earlier this morning as well from one of the professors at the university of east anglia who was saying that the even though we're flat out that's an 18 people we won't that's enough people with that with a single dose of vaccine to accomplish herd immunity and that's worrying as well

because that push eased hoed immunity if we were vaccinate everybody twice a long way down the road it looks to me like we're in for a long haul i think people were trapped optimistic leigh believing that well you know march april around easter time things might change abnormal to. really. puzzled by the prime minister's intervention tonight and i'm not at all want to mystic to the future. taste of things to come now that britain's left the e.u. a britain living in spain and working in the u.k. controlled enclave of gibraltar how does shopping bag by spanish border guards and was forced to leave behind much of its contents at the border an individual case that highlights a change of rules for britons crossing the blocks front is usually you just walk straight through while they may be out not check your bags outcall tobacco. but this time they showed them a bag and they say to the times it looks

a little bit more caffeine and they normally date and they started back probably this night pulling everything out after checking a few items they basically just told me that the majority of this you can't take through because their house processed vegetables on it and saying that they were going to essentially just put them in the vent. in the confiscation was in keeping with the travel guidelines they prohibit the travelers from bringing meat dairy products process vegetables from nonmember states among the things that got the brit there into trouble was processed stun ins in a spicy sauce he did try to make the best of the bad situation by eventually selling the prohibited products at a loss on mine. i don't think it's reasonable i had a brief conversation with one of the guards in the office there and i've made my point if i can't take these items it seems to me that would be more like large export quantities not for snow items and there was no documentation does all of fact at least to my knowledge at that sign that i can say these things over so. if

this is already happening on in the 1st week after breakfast then you are probably enters a bait a few a few other issues next on our post brigs that menu sour grapes is around breaks out after the bastard to britain was denied full diplomatic status london insists it's not obliged to treat representatives of international bodies the same as foreign diplomats working for nation states and iceland and changes tack the ambassador will not be able to get approval by the queen as head of a diplomatic mission u.k. decision is at odds with the way the blocks reps are treated in most other countries london's move doesn't sit well with brussels we are not the national organization of the ozols we have a union i think it would be very in my view to for do you could to find. britain's foreign office tried to allay brussels concerns saying me use representative will receive quote the privileges and immunities necessary to carry

out work in the u.k. effectively the school commentator jonathan fryer believes london's approach could backfire. i think this is a rainy sad position that the british government has taken because after all we were members of the european union for nearly 50 years and brags that a part is not enough they now want to downgrade the status of the european union and all the more than $100.00 fallacy countries around the world give full diplomatic privileges to iran bassa does under the vienna convention and this is a situation that he's landed to say now with the government surrounded by cabinet ministers who support this nationalistic break z.t. airline which is actually not a toll championing britain's global role as he would see it the diminishing britain's role in the international stage if we want to have a good working relationship with not easy to 27 neighbors who are our main trading

partners has taken as a whole we really need to have a much more him a grown up attitude towards this. become the question of vaccination becomes more urgent in africa where the cut the death rate is now surpassed think global average or not after the berthing. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. high salacious or community. are you going the right way or are you being that. direct. what is true what is faith.

in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. the african center for disease control and prevention is sounding the alarm after the coded 19 deaths rate on the continent supports the global average of these

constantine's reports. seba system or year has become the 3rd top official in zimbabwe to die of covert in the past 6 months mr moyers served as foreign affairs and international trade minister and his passing is yet another sign of a growing coronavirus crisis in africa the continent's total number of registered cases might not look too dramatic if you compare it with other parts of the world 3300000 infections but the faith talent rate from coburg 19 has gone through the roof of surpassing the global average to reach 2.5 percent so when the african union announced the pre order of 270000000 doses of western vaccines it felt like a ray of hope these are historic times for the 1st time in history africa has secured access to millions of vaccine doses in the middle of a pandemic but as with most western countries there's still

a huge shortage of vaccine doses and that's why this continental collaboration has designed a fair allocation coupled with timely and equitable access of coded 1000 vaccines across the continent so far none of the promised western vaccines have been supplied to africa almost 2 months after the 1st doses were rolled out in europe according to world health organization officials that's partly because rich nations care about themselves 1st and foremost even those they speak the language of equitable axis some countries some companies continue to prioritize bilateral deals bypassing kovacs driving up prices and the time to jump to the front of the queue given the vaccine leftovers that african nations are hoping to get invention we will probably cost them more than the rich countries need the south african health ministry claims for instance that it was offered doses of u.k. pharma giant asked for a senate as a vaccine at

a price $2.00 times higher than in the european you. but supply shortages and price gouging are not the only problems for the poor african nations when it comes to getting jobs what we're seeing in the roll out in some of the high income countries is that it's complicated it needs to be resourced and properly planned and there haven't been enough global resources to lower income countries in other words most african nations simply can't afford the sophisticated infrastructure needed for vaccine distribution even if they receive the actual doses is especially true for the pfizer by one tech shot which has to be stored and transported at minus 70 degree celsius the plan to save africa from than that make it look good on paper but the reality is very different we have to vaccinate africa it's quickly as we take the rest of the world and we have to give the vaccine for free that's what we should do because that's the only moral and intelligent thing to do to fight this

deadly pandemic this virus has spread faster than any virus we've seen in this century this virus is deadly. and they have poor are not too sure that every country has that if you have an idea you're going to protect your country. then you are actually going to be committing murder and rescue will put your children be killing yourself because until. that snaky. the university of york in the u.k. has removed an image of the 3 wise monkeys from this website of affairs that some could see it as a racist stereotype. upon reflection we strongly believe that our 1st post is not appropriate as it's i can only g. promulgates a longstanding legacy of oppression and exploits racist stereotypes the 3 monkeys represent the old japanese probert see no evil hear no evil speak no evil

a spokeswoman for the uni says that the picture was used to call for research papers for an art history conference including quote papers that represented black indigenous and people of color we discussed the situation with columnist and radio host john galt i don't know how anyone a just do not understand how anyone can see the 3 wise monkeys that in any way that represents black people or is racist it clearly isn't it's 3 wise monkeys want to see a black person i don't think all they're like a monkey the only people who see that are people who are looking for racism or in fact perhaps hold or racist attitudes themselves it's not even one coach in a sense it's nonsense culture it's complete an absurd drivel and you know what this actually does or undermines your real racism there's plenty of racism in the world that we need to confront without looking for it where it isn't there finally to the

netherlands where a young designer has already sold $1500.00 decks of special range of playing cards she says what sets them apart from the usual run of the mill packs of cards is that they're free of sexism. if we have this hierarchy that the king is worth more than the queen then the subtle inequality influences people in their daily life because it's just another way of saying hey you're less born. technically the queen cars is worth more in a game of queenie. gender neutral deck of cards there's the cure for all those

biggest problems when it comes to gender inequality the king of spades sure kept me up at nights. i'm pretty triggered by silver being a lower rank than go. brings you right up to date don't forget to check out our website more news stories. thirded ministration we've been down this show for 12 years anyway you know the big same 820202016 was station. and now it's all coming to.

time after time see welcome to another lockdown edition of going on the ground in a week of the inauguration of the 46th president of the usa joe biden hailed and heralded all around nato nation media but joining me now is the legend that is the publisher of tribune and the founding editor of jacobin caro thanks so much for coming on he joins me now from new york i'm going to start by saying what do you make of the inauguration we saw lady gaga wearing a brooch depicting what looked to me like the piece. when we did

spanish banks because so how optimistic are you. well i should say that certainly as a socialist i'm used to being perpetual opposition i think if you're a good socialist in the united states given the horrors perpetuated by the us economic system at home and the horrors propecia waited a broad one is used to a posture of opposition i honestly would rather be in opposition to i joe biden i ben to donald trump i think joe biden is more susceptible to pressure and saying that isn't really much of a credit to joe biden either as a human being or certainly his political history which is quite a sword one it is a credit to the fact that due to the fact that he has a social base that is disproportionately rooted in minority communities and so on there is some room to be in opposition and to pressure from the outside but i get

that that optimism is very cautious very guarded most of all i'm just glad that the culture war of the last 4 years might possibly be over a resource a pathway to and again i think both the liberalism and conservatism in the us have been driving themselves to the brink of evan sanity and it's going to be on that he seemingly moving beyond some of atoms and well being on one's god could arguably be . justified and he will justify suspicion of maybe virtue signaling of moving up the bust of winston churchill infamous for famines in the global south and putting in say chavez but even you presumably were impressed by these a can of what is announced within hours of him taking the oath excel keystone pipeline paris climate change must mandate no arctic drilling and he races in the dream i am a good program the trump wool amazing. i mean some of these things are are

progressive measures i think some of these things are steps forward and obviously the scope for what the u.s. president can do is somewhat limited it's a limited by the fact the u.s. system of government is extremely dysfunctional you could do something with her executive order you could do something through a process called budget reconciliation which allows us with a simple majority in the senate and the house of representatives to get through certain biodome necessary measures but on the whole in the u.s. system in order to get for any gridlock you need a supermajority of 60 senators the democrats now only has to 50 plus a tiebreaker in the form of the vice president and the us political system is such that if you really want to win the super majority if you're a democrat you have to win a super super majority of the popular vote but you know with biden again he's a somewhat savvy politician farce after the hillary clinton.