Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Katty this is bbc world news america. The, joe biden says, his back, even if this transition is anything but normal the United States, joe biden says, is back, even if this transition is anything but normal. Longawaited report of the sex abuse by a former u. S. Cardinal finds failings by past vatican officials, including popes. We published the report with sorrow, to the victims, their families, the church in the United States and the universal church. Katty how will they Coronavirus Vaccine be distributed around the world . Welcome. Joe biden is pushing back against republican efforts to undermine his victory. At the current president tweets his outrage in all caps, mr. Biden is deliberately calm, telling reporters he is getting on with the job of building the next administration. He admitted the spectacle does american no favors. We are already beginning the transition, well underway. The ability for the administration, and any way by failure to recognize this does not change the dynamic at all. What do you say to e americans who are anxious over the fact that President Trump has yet to concede and what that might meanor the country . I just think it is an embarrassment. Katty joining me now from the white house is our north america editor. Uni have covered transitions before you and i have covered transitions before but i have never covered one like this. It is not normal, is it . I thought what joe biden was trying to do was to have his best bedside manner on. The doctor telling his republican patient you have been through a nasty shock but you are going to be all right and you will learn to come to terms with what has happened. Dont think any of this will distract me from what i need to do over the coming weeks and months. I thought it was very interesting, he just wanted to lower the temperature, sound chilled, sound relaxed about what was happening. Of course, he is not getting the money he needs to appoint the people. He is not getting the security briefings. Exactly for use ago to the day, four years ago to the day, barack obama invited donald trump into the west wing and said how can i help you . Katty 12 years ago today, it was barack obama invited in by george w. Bush into the building behind you. How long does all of this go on . John that is a really good question. I thought it was very interesting that joe biden he thought some republican senators were mildly intimated. Mildly . I think they are terrified. That is part of the explanation of what you have going on. They are sent to the president , of course, you must explore every legal avenue. Do any of them believe this is going to result in a different outcome . No. But they dont want to contradict the president. At some point, they will say, enough is enough. We have gone as far as this can go. Whether it is when Electoral College is due to meet in december or before that, you get the impression that this is a dance that will run its course. Do i think donald trump is going to pick up the phone and say president elect biden, i was wrong about the fudulent votes, of course i can say good luck to you. I do not see that happening. Katty is this all just a show on behalf of the president . Do you think it does have a real impact on the country, potentially damaging the country at all . John if you have a situation where you are not allowing any transition unlike a lot of countries around the world that has professional civil serce, in the u. S. , you appoint thousands of people to sta staff those departments. You do need to have these people place. You do need to have meetings with your counterparts in the old administration. You do need the intelligence briefings. That takes money. That requires money people to have government housing. That, of course, is going to hamper the smooth running of a transition. In areas of national security, those things really matter. Katty ok. Worth remembering the u. S. Defense secretary was fired yesterday. The country needs to be ready to deal with them the leaders of close American Allies have been calling president elect biden to offer congratulations. Boris johnson, emmanuel macron, and Angela Merkel all pledged to work together. Americas top diplomatic, mike pompeo, insisted today that donald trump would remain in power. There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump Administration. We are ready. Katty the u. S. Secretary of state. To hear more on how World Leaders are reacting to mixed messages is the bbc diplomatic correspondent. A little awkward, isnt it . James awkward, difficult, nervous. It is a tricky ti for American Allies in europe because they want to believe what everybody else believes that President Biden is the president. Mr. Biden is the president elect. That is why they are making the calls. They are trying to engage. They are trying to get to know all the key people around mr. Biden so they can start forming those relationships and starts sharing ideas. They can find areas of cooperation with the United States in the years to come. It is all about how we can cooperate on covid, the world economy, climate change. It is really tricky because there is a nervousness, there are still some months to go before january. Not only is there the difficulty of the optics and the fact that you have senior figures not acknowledging the results of the election, but youve also got the fear that the Trump Administration could take actual decisions could make actual decisions between now and january that requires some real respse from european allies. Take iran. We know mr. Pompeo is pushing for more sanctions. What happens if that turns into a crisis . How did the europeans respond to that . There is such a huge gap between mr. Trumps position and mr. Bidens. Katty this is the country that likes to see itself as spreading democracy around the wld. This week, it has reprimanded tanzania, raised questions about myanmarslections. How does look to see america going through this democratic turmoil of its own . James there is more understanding than you would might then you might imagine. The United States is not alone having divided electorates. There are many governments in europe that have had elections recently that have been close but have fallen to coalitions, subsequently proved fragile. There is an understanding that at the moment, democracies around the world are going through a tough time. There is a real question of legitimacy. We had it in the u. K. , for example, over the legitimacy of how brexit was proceeded. There is an understanng, but i think there is a hope that at some point in the coming months, the u. S. Will sort itself out. Katty thank you very much for joining me. The vatican has released a bombshell of a report that was the result of a twoyear investigation it found two popes and top officials from the Catholic Church ignored allegations of serial sex abuse by former cardinal in the u. S. He was expelled from the priesthood last year, the First Cardinal ever to be defrocked over sexual abuse. Vatican officials said they found Pope John Paul ii and benedict the 16th had been told of his assaults but chose to believe his denial. Lets get more from our rome correspondent. This is an institution known for secrecy. How much of a bombshell is it . It has exposed the litany of coverups and failures at the heart of the vatican. It has been remarkably forthright in its criticism of popes, john, who was made a saint in 2014 and benedict the 16th. To find that both popes ignored warningshey were given about mccarrick. In john paul iis case, he chose to trust bishops who hid mccarricks crimes. And mccarrick himself, who denied it, over the victims testimonies is damaging for the legacies of both of those popes. Pope francis comes out rather unscathed, although it ised that he was told about his past proclivities and it was only in 2017 when what was deemed to be concrete proof of mccarricks pedophilia emerged that the pope took decisive action. Katty is the feeling in rome that this report puts a spotlight uniquely on the Catholic Church here in the United States or is it broader than that . The sex abuse scandal is far broader than that. This report is about mccarrick himself and it is the first internal vatican inquiry of sex abuse that has been made publi pope francis is the pope that ordered it. It is very lengthy. It took two years to compile, 90 interviewees. Pope francis hopes this will show that this is a pontiff taking this seriously. It is so endemic within the Catholic Church, such a mountain to climb, this is the pope who has started to tackle the sex abuse scandal. He convened last year and removed the code of silence that covered sex abuse scandals. He has a mountain to climb and they will help that it is a watershed moment. Katty ok, thank you. The companies behind and expand mental Coronavirus Vaccine behind an experimental coronavirus act vaccine said they will apply for emergency to use it. One of the challenges will be how to get the drug to the people who need it. Everything from manufacturing billions of doses to transporting the vaccine will take international coordinated. As the scientists offer a glimmer of hope, the gravediggers continue their grim task. With the news this week of a potentially very effective vaccine, countries are racing to prepare for a possible rollout. This is absolutely an unprecedented situation we find ourselves in. Actually getting any successful product into communities is an epic gistical task, keeping vaccines cold or frozen will be one of the key challenges. Health workers will have to locate vulnerable elderly people in very remote places. Doing this protects all of us. No one is safe until eveone is safe. We know demand for a successful vaccine will far out strips apply in the initial months so three of the big Global Health organizations have come up with a new system. It aims to ensure everyone anywhere in the world who needs the vaccine most gets access to it first. He wants to procure 2 billion doses to protect at least one billion people in the next year. First Health Workers and then the over 65 will be prioritized. What you really want is a situation where you can begin to roll those vaccines out. If you hav region that has a raging epidemic, you may want to put our priority in that region to be able to bring it down that another place that alrea has goodontrol. Most rich countries are still making side deals directly with pharmaceuticals. The u. K. Has signed up for more than 300 millionoses of six different vaccines. The u. S. Hopes to get 300 million doses of various vaccines by january. All of this is a bit of a gamble. The World Health Organization says any vaccine for covid19 must be at least 50 effective. We are going to need more than one. We simply dont know yet how much protection these other vaccines could give or how long any protection will last. Some semblance of normality to continues. We are edging ever closer to that goal. Katty theey question, when will this be available, if it works . One pandemic specialist told me probably end of spring, next summer of next year before we actually have access on a big scale. Italy has reported its worst daily figure for covid related deaths since mid april. 580 more people have died. Italy was the first country in europe to be badly hit by this pandemic. It is trying to avoid a total lockdown, operating a tiered systemf regional restrictions instead. An iranian task force has imposed fresh strictions on the country as it battles a third wave of the virus. State media reported that starting today, all nonessential businesses in major cities must close at 6 00 p. M. Iran also plans to double the number of tests it carries out. The total number of detected cases is now over 700,000. In spain, three men have gone on trial over to deadly jihadist attacks that killed 16 people and injured many more in and around barcelona in 2017. Islamic state claimed responsibility for the attacks, one in which involved a van. The three defendants appeared under heavy securitin the high court near madrid. You are watching bbc world news america. The protesters have stormed the Armenian Parliament after the country agreed to surrender territory to azerbaijan stop the war over the region of nagornokarabakh. Yesterday, we are the first covid19 vaccine had come through final trials. There may be a rush for those who want to get vaccinated. Many people might not want it at all. This could be down to vaccine conspiracies aisinformation circulating online. Mariana spring has more for us. There are some outlandish things out there, suggtions that bill gates will use a vaccine to commit mass genocide, that it is a way of d populating. We are also seeing various things about microchips, the idea that a vaccine will be used to inject microchips into people and control them. Those are totally different from legitimate concerns. They wanted to be safe, properly tested and not to be rushed. Does the gym at concerns those legit concerns are things people can express, a probably should. Katty armenia and azerbaijan have signed a deal to end the military conflict in the disputed nagornokarabakh region. It is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but the area has been run by Ethnic Armenians since 1994. A russian broker truce was signed at the end of the war in the early 1990s but there was no peace deal. Although both sides took steps to reduce tensions last year, fighting erupted again at the end of september. Several attempts to end the conflict failed and left several thousand people dead. International correspondent with more. United around their flag, voices raised in our National Anthem in their National Anthem. No covid precautions here. For azerbaijanis, there is plenty to celebrate in the overnight peace deal that was signed, sealed, and delivered by russia. It is hard to put into words, this man tells us. For the nation and the public, it brings us great joy and pride. And from the beaming azerbaijani president , blatant derision for the armenian Prime Minister. What has happened, he asks . This will probably be the talk of the town for many years. And more derision in the Armenian Parliament overnight. Protesters accused the Prime Minister of the trail betrayal. Even attacking his namepla. He said the deal was unspeakably painful but there was no other choice. Under the agreement, azerbaijan gets to keep the gains made in battle in recent weeks. That includes the second largest city in nagornokarabakh but not the capital. Armenia has to withdraw from large areas it occupied around the disputed region. Russia gets boots back on the ground in this corner of the caucuses. Its peacekeepers and tanks peacekeepers and tanks rolling out across nagornokarabakh. Some here are already planning new lives in the region. Like the students whose families were driven out nearly 30 years ago. Could they live sidebyside with armenians who remain . What is the problem . It takes a long time for being calm bank calm. Maybe years . Maybe years, maybe decades. Maybe our sons and daughters will see this. Crowds are coming and going, young and old, family groups, people have been gathering to celebrate, and there is a real sense that a key victory has been achieved after many long years of waiting. It is not just the end of the past six weeks of fighting, it is the recovery of territory that is seen here as a missing piece of the homeland. After decades of conflict, it is not reclaimed all of nagornokarabakh. For azerbaijan, this is not a complete victory. For armenia, it is a comprehensive defeat. Katty the chief palestinian negotiator has died at the age of 65 after contracting coronavirus last month on top of previous Serious Health problems. The palestine president says has declared three days of morning. Of mourning. You might not have known his name but you will have seen his face. For three decades, whenever palestiniaand israeli leaders met, he took a prominent place. Fluent in english, he studied in the u. S. And u. K. Before becoming a key figure in the Secular Movement back in the occupied west bank. In 1991, he drew attention wearing his palestinian scarf at the madrid peace conference. He was close to the palestinian leader. With the breakthrough of the oslo peace accords, he became a peace negotiator. Sticking to the job after the president took over through on through rounds of on and off talks he was a strong advocate of the two state solution, the longstanding International Formula for peace abandoned by the Trump Administration. He opposed arab gulf states normalizing relationships with israel but remained a moderate voice. It is to solve the israelipalestinian conflict. He had a Lung Transplant in the u. S. In 2017 ands had survived and earlier had survived a heart attack. Palestinians will feel hisoss strongly, the time when relations with israel or at a new low in prospects for the creation of an independent palestinian state look increasingly dim. Katty before we go, you might have felt a moment of relief yesterday when it was announced that early results from Coronavirus Vaccine trials showed the 90 success rate in preventing people from getting covid. There was there is one small hitch. The safety of any new vaccine could depend on help from these humble horseshoe crabs. 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