Peace deals. Heres a look. Jerry good morning and welcome. Im pleased to welcome you all to todays event, election 2020, president elect joseph biden. Following a contentious u. S. Election, joe biden will be the next president of the United States. Leaders in the middle east have mixed emotions about that result, especially those who have prospered throughout Donald Trumps presidency. The entire region undoubtedly will be following the biden team closely as it articulates its policy leading up to the inauguration in january. While there is a theory that the new administration focused on domestic problems needs to push back against major challenges from china will want to put the middle east on the back burner but it is not clear they can succeed. Major questions about the u. S. Approach to the ongoing in conflicts in syria, tensions with saudi arabia and turkey and what to do about israel and the palestinians will confront Vice President resident elected biden whether or not he seeks
Event. Election 2020, president elect joseph biden. Following a contentious u. S. Election joseph biden will be the next president of the United States and leaders in the middle east have mixed emotions about that as adults, especially those who have prospered throughout down times presidency. The entire region undoubtedly will be he retired from 2019 four years. Me say a few things about leading up to the inauguration that should happen on january january 20. One that the electoral event itself in the u. S. Resonates in the middle east and america has been the leading democracy in the world for two centuries and the middle east since the late 19th century up till yesterday was still combating or struggling over the issue of what is the best political system, should it be a form of monarch or goal or military authoritarianism or islamic system or a democracy in these things are very real issues, particularly among the populations of the middle east. President trump has been somewhat an
A warm welcome youre watching r. T. International with me in a chair and our top story the Prominent Russian opposition activist alexina valmy is out of an induced coma but the hospital treating him in berlin says its too soon to say if he suffered any long term effects meanwhile the Russian Ambassador in london was summoned to the Foreign Office where he said there had been nothing but unfounded accusations against russia paid to all of the reports from berlin. Of the statement put out by a shot at a hospital here in berlin says that Alexei Navalny has been woken from the induced coma hes been in for just over 2 weeks that hes starting to breathe on his own and hes responding to verbal stimuli the patients artificial coma maintained by medication has been ended the patient is gradually being taken off mechanical ventilation hes reacting to being spoken to but long term consequences of severe poisoning cannot be ruled out or berlin claims that alexina volunteer was poisoned with the de
A room hit hard by coronavirus medical workers say they are not getting the protective equipment they need. To begin this hour with our focus on one of the Biggest Challenges of our time people uprooted from their homes that number has now reached nearly 80000000 says the United Nations the highest since its records began war persecution human rights abuses are all forcing millions of people to make a life or death decision every year to stay or to go displacements have nearly doubled over the last take it decade that is reaching 79500000 people by the end of last year thats one percent of the entire global population and just 5 countries account for 2 thirds of those displacements syria venezuela afghanistan south sudan and me and more now turkey has the highest number of syrians displaced by war has more from istanbul in the predominately syrian neighborhood of posse. This area where i am stented standing is called multipurpose or it was always a markets even 50 years ago my father a
Ceo Dennis Muilenburg pays the price for his repeated failings regarding the 737 max. And what were we thinking . The social habits, the fashion faux pax, the must have gadgets of the last decade, that we can finally say goodbye to. Hello and welcome, im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. There are very mixed reactions today, to news that 5 people have been sentenced to death in saudi arabia for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Amnesty International Calls the sentences a whitewash, the Human Rights Group criticised the process, because the trial was closed and there were no independent monitors. But mr khashoggis son, salah, publicly disagreed, tweeting. Fairness of the judiciary is based on two principles, fairness and speedy litigation, so there is neither injustice nor procrastination. Salah still lives in saudi arabia and its not clear what pressures he may or may not be under to support the government. The last public sighting of Jamal Khashoggi, s