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Very good move only in New York Times. Correspondent reads Something Like straight out of a spy thriller live from moscow. Thanks for joining us. That was the north international. Welcome to the program. The 1st, the transition process to hand power to president elect. Joe biden has been officially kicked off in the United States. The head of the General Services administration confirmed the news in the last few hours and has more. Emily murphy, of the General Services administration, has said that she is now beginning the process of transitioning to a biden white house. Now she put forward a letter explaining that she was taking this move and she said that she was not asked to do this by anyone in the trump white house. They had not requested that she begin this process. But furthermore, she emphasized that she had been threatened and that she had faced quite a bit of pressure in the lead up to making this decision. I was never directly or indirectly pressured by an executive branch official, including those who work at the white house. Well, General Services administration with regard to the substance or timing of my decision to be clear, i did not receive any direction to delay my determination. I did, however, receive threats online by phone and by mail directed at my safety. My family, my stuff, and even my pets in an effort to cuss me into making this determination prematurely, even in the face of thousands of threats. So i always remain committed to upholding the law. Now what is significant here is that donald trump is supporting this move by the head of the General Services administration. He is announcing and he has made clear on social media that he supports emily murphy and her decision to begin the process of transitioning to a Joe Biden White house. This is the statement from donald trump, and while hes not conceding defeat, while hes making clear that shes not acting on behalf of his administration, it sounds like the trumpet ministration is essentially admitting that theyll be leaving office pretty soon. This is Donald Trumps statement in support. Of emily murphy, i want to thank emily murphy, a g. S. A. For his steadfast dedication and loyalty to our country. Shes been harassed, threatened, and abused, and i do not want to see this happen to her family or employees of g. S. A. Case, strongly continues, we will keep up the good fight, and i believe we will prevail, that a lesson the best interests of our country, im recommending that emily and the team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols and have told my team to do the same. Now its important to note that emily murphy received a letter from the u. S. Congress shortly before. And the u. S. Congress was urging her to take this action. Its also important to note that the trumpet, ministration has not conceded defeat. They still maintain, they were victims of widespread election fraud. The election was stolen from them. Donald trump main saints he is the legitimate winner of the u. S. President ial election. However, it seems clear at this point that the trumpet ministration is planning to leave office in january. Now it is also important to note that joe biden has considered himself the president elect for quite some time. Now. Hes been naming appointments to his cabinet, a number of which are former Obama Administration figures. And it seems like joe biden has been preparing to take office long before today. I mean, this seems to be the 1st indication we have from the Trump Administration that they will begin the process of transitioning away from power. And it seems like joe biden will be entering the white house in january. But joining me live now laurence chan, the host of a pod cost called pseudo intellectual. Lauren, thanks for joining us. That i ought to be good to have you with us. Now this announcement has come just hours off the minutes again. So defied its election results. Do you think this is the the final straw or if you will look for trumps hand, what was he really finally out of options here . Well, i think its important to note with this and like your other anchor mentioned, that this is in no way a concession on behalf of the trumpet ministration. Now the trumpet, ministration has been dealt some blows in terms of their litigation in michigan and pennsylvania, but they plan on appealing from what i understand. And a lot of people myself included, believe that ultimately this will end up at the supreme court. Now this is by no means over. However, by agreeing to follow this protocol, i think the Term Administration is doing their best to, i guess, appease media and the Democratic Party who are insisting on accusing him of staging some sort of sudoku, which is absolutely not the case. And even in the statement himself, the president made it very clear that they are by no means giving up the fight to ensure that you know, voter fraud. If it did happen is uncovered. Do you think trump is sort of treading a fine line here . Because in one tweet youve got him saying the transition can begin at the same time. Hes saying the good fight continues and hes going to win process legal action. Do you think this is his way of trying to sort of please will silence him . I think absolutely, and it is a fine line to tread if the g. S. A. Requests that the transition process begin, the troubled ministration were to say no. Then the media, his critics who are already accusing him of, i guess, defying democratic norms would absolutely have a field day for that. So i think this is honestly making the best out of a bad situation for him. He can continue his legal battles and again, he has until december 14th, when the electors actually cast their votes to make his case. And in the meantime, he can at least be seen by the media and by the American Public. As going along with the transition process, if things dont pan out his way. But i think the people who are saying that this is over for him, hes admitted to defeat. Theyre saying so a little bit prematurely. Lets talk a bit of a few because she said there was no prussia to make this decision. At the same time though, shes revealed, shes been receiving death threats. Thats bit of a contradiction, isnt it . Absolutely, and i think its goes to show how toxic the american political discourse has become, when now even american officials like the g. S. A. , which is by no means a glamorous print prison, are receiving things like death threats. And i think when she says theres been no pressure, im assuming she probably means to you, you know, other politicians, people in washington in the federal government and all that. But right now we have this base of rabid extremists in the far left who believe that trump is actually a literal nazi Holding People in concentration camps. So in the minds of these people, anything they can do to remove him from power, including doing things like rioting, looting and yes, sending violent threats. Its justified and my heart goes out to this poor woman and her family who have had to go through this. Its not acceptable, and my hope is that, you know, if trump does end up leaving the white house that he at least uses his remaining time to try to clamp down on the voter fraud. That theres growing evidence did happen. Whether its enough to sway the election, im not sure, but he also needs to do something and you know, if hes out of office after this, then biden needs to try as well. To really extinguish the growing amount of extremism that is growing in the u. S. How much damage do you think has been done to us democracy as a result of this delay to the transition . I mean, what sort of message does this send out to the world . Well, a lot of people have been worried about what the, all the litigation in the election result challenges mean for the status of american democracy. And i think that is absolutely the wrong way to be looking at it. It is not the investigations and the allegations of fraud that undermine democracy. It is the potential for fraud and perhaps even fraud itself. That is the real issue here. The u. S. Is an outlier among developed nations and how little Election Security they have, you know, they dont have federal id requirements when voting, you know, they, they allowed mass mail and voting things that you countries like france have banned. I mean places like canada as well. We have strict voter id laws and are very tight on our voter Voter Registration protocols as well. The fact that the u. S. Has managed to continue with its elections and the way it has for so long without this being an issue sooner is really something to be concerned about. So regardless of who ends up again, going into the white house. I think this is a problem that has existed for a long time. And you know, its unfortunate that this is coming at such a contentious time. But this is absolutely a conversation that the American Public needs to have right now. And i also find it ironic. How for the past 4 years, democrats were accusing, trump of having benefited from foreign interference in the election, which there has never been any proof of, by the way, and the same paper, same people now are flabbergasted that someone could possibly suggest the elections are secure. It just screams of hypocrisy to me. Host of the seat of the actual porter goss, thanks for joining us. Good to have you on the program today. Thank you. And other headlines, the race for a covert vaccine is heating up. Now the british swedish farmers on astra zeneca has published interim test results for its shots, which is being developed with oxford university. However, as a detail, its not proving as effective as some of its rivals. Astra zeneca are the latest company to join the front runners in the coburg 19 vaccine race, analysing an efficacy over 70 percent after concluding their phase 3 trials. Know these preliminary results may sound humble compared to other vaccines. The companys c. E. O. Is optimistic, same as you will be highly effective and will have an Immediate Impact with the u. K. Having already preordered 100000000 jobs. Boris johnson is more than happy with the result. Incredibly exciting news. The oxford vaccine has proved so effective in trials. There are still further the safety checks ahead. But these are fantastic results. Well done to our brilliant scientists at the university of oxford and astra zeneca and all who volunteered in the trials. So why the relatively low efficacy of Developers Say that 70 percent figure is an average of 2 doses rose humans, too. High doses gave a result of 62 percent with a high dose following a low one raising efficacy to 90 percent. Now this 70 percent average figure is therefore lower than trial results announced earlier by madonna at 95 percent also provides a 95 percent though that company raise their efficacy from an initial 90 percent result with a russian sputnik v. Vaccine standing at 92. Now these figures are crucial, given the highly competitive nature of the market, and its been a bumpy road for astra zeneca. Today, as these results were published, the companys shares actually fell on the back of the lower than expected average efficacy, even as european stocks rose on the good news of another vaccine entering the market. Now the vaccine trials had to be halted in september because of a serious suspected adverse reaction in a participant. And in october 1 of the volunteers in brazil died, causing uncertainty about its future. Why the advance trial of a promising vaccine was suddenly passed . Astra zeneca has caused its trials out to an unexplained illness in a participant in the u. As one Company Makes huge strides in the vaccine race and other drug giant hits the possible option on its late stage Trials Volunteer and where the most at vance to corona virus vaccine trials in the world has died. And despite the news, astra zeneca is testing continues. Well, those adverse effects were investigated. Though the company and the Brazilian Health authority refused to comment in detail on the case. The trial was deemed safe to continue there in the United States. The delay lasted several weeks, and todays results dont include data from american trials, or despite the lower efficacy, the upside to this vaccine is cost effectiveness. While the estimated price of the Pfizer Vaccine is around 19. 00, the modernity job between 25. 00 to 37. 00, those prices go up to over 40. 00 and as high as 74. 00 respectively for the total treatment of the cost of the sport mcvie vaccine is estimated at 26. 00 per treatment the final cost so yet to be announced. The astra zeneca job would not only be easier to manufacture and store, but the cost for both doses could be as low as 8. 00 for the race is now on to register. These vaccines, Astra Zeneca States that it would seek emergency use listing from the World Health Organization with russia saying theyve already begun the sputnik registration process. Despite the good news, its too early to say. Weve seen the back of the pandemic, even with these promising trial results, doos is not the time for complacency. While we continue to receive encouraging news both called good 19 vaccines and remain cautiously optimistic about the potential for a new tools to start to arrive in the coming months. Right now, we are extremely concerned by the surging cases we are seeing in some countries, particularly in europe and the americas hold workers. And the systems are being pushed to the breaking point. Even with several vaccines hitting the market in coming months with the world in the grip of the 2nd covert, 19 wave, there is still a very long and difficult road ahead. Until we see a return to at least some semblance of normality and head of the roll out of covert vaccines, chinas developed a way to limit the spread of the virus. Its calling for a global fire wall in the form of a system of q. R. Codes that would allow International Travel to resume. China has proposed a global mechanism for the meat recognition of Health Certificates based on nucleic acid test results in the form of internationally accepted q. R. Codes. We hope more countries will join this mechanism. Or chinas been using q. R. Codes. Essentially, visual bar codes to provide health data since february to generate them, users how to install a smart phone, which stores medical data and tracks their movement. Thats raised privacy concerns in the west. Or europe though, has similar schemes, including the idea of immunity passports in the u. K. Our colleagues ask you taylor put that issue up for debate. These tests can be a lot of false negatives. A lot of false positives and youre no better track and trace me werent going in terms of this town or that this incredibly dangerous. It is not only for my safety and youre seeing in the United States as well as across the globe. The people are starting to rise up saying enough stop, protecting me. I wouldnt live my life the way id choose. We not only i was reading today at heathrow airport, used to be one of the busiest i had seen. 82 percent fall and passengers. Whats the way that to get wheels out into, if not as a similar system to this reason that travels collapse is not the pandemic because the lockdowns, i mean, since march 12th, europe has not been able to fly to the us and europe retaliated, and we cant fly there and now were living under the region situation where yeah, we once believed in the right to travel, but thats been denied to us so many people have been locked in their nation states right now. The answer is to is, liberalism is to liberate, travel and liberate and recognize human rights. Again, do you think that we do need a cohesive Global Policy in order to try and move on somehow to try make 2021 better than 2020 . There have been studies that show the virus respond differently in different regions, that there are different conditions and different places on climate and so forth. So, you know, we dont want the world or standards because Global Standards means a lot on a fact thats, thats just leave about, oh, we dont care about cases. I care about the death rate and the death rate is very slow. And again, we have to be very cautious with technology because once you turn the saw, its very hard to turn off. They will never relinquish. I mean, passports were supposed to be temporary and rubra still stuck with them. A texas man suffering from around muscle wasting disease has come all the way to, russia for treatment. And spencer was told back home in the u. S. , hed never walk again. Since arriving in the russian city of perm back in october, you seen reza call improvement. I had to use this everywhere. I went when i was going to, when there was a new partner, she couldnt what without the right to know what i found, spencer could have been dead by now or in a wheelchair all bad bound. Thats what doctors back home in america told him 5 years ago. I used to use this all the time. It was absolutely necessary. Im going to go now into scary people walking in an incredibly allen has escaped all those outcomes. When i started to notice a Little Something with my hands, they were going to go on like this. So that not some sort of right. I didnt have any problem with strength, so i didnt think i heard anything wrong. 2012 came, i had a fall and i was like, whoa, that was unusual. 2014 i came again and i had a really bad fall. It was like, ok, theres something wrong, something wrong happened to be a rare inflammatory muscle disorder known as inclusion, body myositis, between 5. 70 people per 1000000 habit. They said theres nothing we can do for its completely untrue. What did you feel when you were that good . Will i wasnt as disappointed, she would think my father had died of a form of a. O. S. And so i thought, well thats as a doctor said, good news and bad news. The good news is youre not going to die. The bad news is youre going to be trouble to spare for the Vice President of Time Warner Cable for west taxes. As successful man allen had to quit his job in 2017. He simply wasnt able to work any more, that his ease was eaten away at his muscles, stealing his abilities and his life. But then he heard from a friend about a clinic in perm russia that could potentially treat him at 1st. He didnt take it seriously. My friend andy had said in, in february theres going to be a wedding are about this clinic that i think by be able to help you are you interested . It was kind of like, well not really. I didnt tell him that. To be perfectly honest with you. Yeah, i dont, i think is an american youre, you probably have a stereotype of what the russian hospital looks like if mayo says that nothing could be done. Probably nothing can be got sent to me mail gave my email interest the next day i got a, an email back from the director. The c. E. O. Actually of the clinic in the government purchased me a wince and said if you come, we think we can help you. We are not sure to work degree, but we do believe that we can actually help you a glimmer of hope was born. But coming to russia in the middle of the college, 19th and jamming with borders shot in planes grounded, it seemed like mission impossible. Back in may one of the gals from marty called dandy and said, hey, hows your medical tourism . But Building Business doing, he said through or that started the process, it took helen 7 months to finally come to russia and it was worth every single day of trying. He says, so they started me on this treatment of injections infusions. And the neurologist put this Magnetic Field on my here, pulsing through. And what it does is it wakes up the neurons in the head. So they started to move in the wake of the muscles. My eye could actually swallow better, and i could talk a little easier if i would, you know, world, this is starting to actually work. What turned out was we were getting this world class held help in this clinic in perm russia. If we can get travel to open up, i really intend to work within d. And others to get people here from america. Its a wonderful thing. I mean, its, it shouldnt be a secret. Here you go. Wow, good job. New york times has been accused of russophobia over its latest from moscow correspondent it says, successful candidates are expected to deal with hit squads, cyber agents and shadowy military figures. And while this may all sound more like the plot of a spy in movie, as he was down off, explain this fact and fiction can often get mixed up when it comes to russia. What youre about to hear . Sounds like its being ripped straight from the blog buster screenwriters playbook. Vladimir putins russia remains one of the biggest stories in the world. It sends out hit squads on with nerve agents against its enemies. Most recently, the Opposition Leader alex, in a van only. It has its cyber agents, so chaos and disharmony in the west to tarnish its democratic systems while promoting its phone version of democracy. It is deployed private military contractors around the globe to secretly spread its influence at home, its hospitals are filling up fast with coated patients as its present hides out in his villa. I mean, add some dramatic music. Do a call video edit paper, the whole thing with a few explosions here and there. And youve cooked up a trailer for the next hit limited series on netflix. But no, its not that not by a long shot. Its actually the opening of a job advert for a russian reporter with the New York Times. Page searches for unbiased to impartial balance. Come a blank, no results found in the text. Not that its much of a secret though, that the New York Times isnt that interested in covering a happy russia. But some readers werent that impressed with the sudden spasm of honesty from the paper did the see any right. New york times new russia crisp on in job at these job for a New York Times correspondent in moscow is telling and not in a good way screenwriters wanted for a new james bond film. Imagine yourself working undercover in moscow. The capital of love to meet putins evil empire. If you think you have the creative writing skills to turn the monday into juicy narratives of horror and suspense, contact the New York Times, weve been in touch with the New York Times for comment. You know, both sides of the story and all that. But weve yet to hear anything back from them. Cynically speaking, it makes perfect sense. Positive stories from russia dont tickle the fancy of pulitzer prize. Judges allegations lacking evidence. Or though, do just believe in the bogeyman. Pulitzer prize winning journalist and former New York Times Foreign Correspondent chris hedges feels the ad exposes the true russia angle of the paper. I initially thought it was satire, i didnt think it was real. And then i went on the New York Times website and read it. And its really kind of an obituary to journalist. The role of a Foreign Correspondent is to be bicultural. It is to get into that culture and explain how they view reality. And here you have this narrative, pre written, narrative, demonization, really of russia and vladimir putin. And i have to say that theres nothing in that description that the United States doesnt do in spades and far worse. And so why even open of bureau in moscow . Why have somebody spend hundreds of hours studying russian and reading russian history and literature and, and culture . Why not . Why not have algorithms do it . It was absolutely appalling, but its part of the silent when of the American Press to serve a particular demographic. In the case of the New York Times, it is a Democratic Party based readership. Its a way to make sure that whoever they send to russia feeds back to them what the, what they want. The Holocaust Museum in florida has sparked outrage with a new exhibition honor of someone who had nothing to do with that chapter of history alongside exhibits of nazi war crimes. The Memorial Center presented images and quotes captured in the aftermath of George Floyds death. The killing of the american man in minneapolis back then may spark back in may rather spark months of protests against Police Racism and brutality. In the u. S. And beyond. The museum said the Florida Mission is supposed to counter any identity based hate, but members of the Jewish Community found it hugely disrespectful. When someone faces an act of anti semitism, racism, or any form of identity based hate, what they to result in death or not. And there is an uprising of many emotions. We felt it was important to bring the Human Experience of the aftermath to our museum. We strongly question placing the george floyd exhibit in a Holocaust Museum, one wouldnt expect to see holocaust exhibit and museum about the africanamerican experience. It is deeply offensive to appropriate our persecution to score cheap political points masquerading as intersectionality. Holocaust historian, Efraim Zuroff is the new exhibition reflects a dangerous trend of equating all the events to the atrocities of the holocaust. The death of george floyd compared to the holocaust. I mean thats absurd, totally absurd and totally inappropriate today. Especially in the western world. The major problem that we face one of the major problems is of course, of course, distortion. How, of course, distortion is not to deny that the tragedy of the scope of the holocaust took place. But to change the narrative of the holocaust, in many cases, to hide the involvement of people other than the german and austrian, nazis. And this attempt to universalize the holocaust is a very dangerous phenomenon as well. And this is a classic example. Not every tragedy is the holocaust that every tragedy look at the holocaust or should the holocaust be compared to 2. Far less the tragedies. So here too, you see this is a battle over the accuracy of the narrative and the perception of the average police in central paris of use tear gas to rake up a large pro, protest in the french house, all of which are up there after a temporary camp was cleared while authorities the protest was organized by a migrant Advocacy Group which says, hundreds of refugees have been left homeless in the city. I saw for almost 2000 who are victims from one of the gold camp on the outskirts of paris last week. Human Rights Groups of the morning emergency accommodation, riot police were deployed to the scene in an attempt to restore calm. We got more details from our correspondent to see what the last film in this camp was set up by various organizations in response to the evacuation of the migrant camp. Danny, last tuesday. The goal of the organizers of the tent camp of the past in the republique is to make their voices heard to draw the attention of the authorities to the plight of migrants. Let me remind you again that last tuesday the camp in centennial was evacuated. It was home to 1500 migrants, 800 of them are still there. The rest are trying to find a way out of this situation. And of course, some refuge in paris, various pro migrant organizations are trying to help them. The government has not yet proposed any solution, which is why the prime migrant new organization launched these protests and is trying to reach out to government authorities. Its been reported several attacks have taken place against journalists during the protests. One of the assaults was filmed by arties crew, and journalists was not to the ground by an officer. Of the incident comes amid a developing mistrust between police and the press. The governments introduced the new law that could ban the filming of officers for malicious reasons. Boom bust brings you the latest on the u. K. s post trade deals plus more, an economic stimulus talks in the United States. Thats in just a few a bit of time. Were back in half an hour with the latest join us again that the world is driven by