24 hour news live from the russian capital. This is your r. T. International pleasure. Your company, my names, you know me. The transition process for the u. S. Presidency is still in limbo with donald trump refusing to concede defeat. But joe biden is already lining up candidates for his proposed administration faces from the obama. Weve heard from the Biden Harris Administration that they have named 6 individuals that will be in their cabinet, one of those the nominee and the person they will select for their secretary of state is Anthony Blinken. Now Anthony Blinken is certainly not a newcomer to the washington d. C. Foreign policy establishment. He served as a Deputy Assistant to president barack obama as a National Security advisor to joe biden, as well as a deputy secretary of state. He has indicated that basically under his leadership of the u. S. State, department trumps america. 1st Foreign Policy will most likely come to an end, whether we like it or not. The world simply doe
Very good move because a New York Times vacancy for a moscow correspondent reads like something straight out of a spy thriller live from moscow. Here in the capital, youre watching r. T. International. Im daniel kids. But 1st, up this hour, the transition process to hand power to president elect. Joe biden has been, officially kicked off in the u. S. , the head of the General Services administration to confirm the news in the last few hours. Without further ado, lets cross our live to caleb or pointers for the latest for us. Caleb, thanks for joining us. Is this, do you think as close to a concession as were going to see ministration . Well, look, i mean, the transition process has begun this point. The General Services administration is informing president elect joe biden, now that they will begin the formal process of transitioning to a Joe Biden Administration at this point. We have this letter from emily murphy, who is the administrator. Take a listen. I was never directly or indir
China launches an unmanned spacecraft to the moon and a mission to bring lunar rocks back to earth. We ask a planetary scientist, what success would make for chinas ambitious space program. Im rebecca riches, welcome to the program. 3 weeks after the u. S. Election president elect joe biden has finally been given the green light to start the transition process. The President Donald Trump tweeted tuesday that he was directing his administration to cooperate in the handover process. Its the closest hes come to conceding defeat. Meanwhile, biden has pushed ahead and began announcing nominations for his own administration. Looking president ial didnt elect joe biden efficiently, revealed his picks for the top positions of his cabinet, monday, signaling his readiness to take over the helm, bidens Foreign Policy and National Security choices. Mark a clear shift away from trumps america 1st doctrine. Instead, a lot of familiar faces from the Obama Administration so many that some are calling
The global stage. And we just heard minister come qanbar also, you know, taking that line with a biden and his administration starting in january. What does that mean for the e. U. . I think the e. U. Sees that also as an opportunity because they have a huge agenda of things that have not worked with the trumpet ministration on trade on technology that are no open for agreement. Its clear that theyre 1st looking at the low hanging fruit areas in Technology Cooperation for instance, that might be easier to get. But also in trade, when the tariffs that were punitive against European Companies might simply be now abolished. And one could be green again on deeper cooperation and a joint under the joint approach. When it comes to meeting china rises specially in the area of technology. Theres so much the europeans and the americans are going to do together, and they need to better forwards for their concerts, where they can talk to each other, but also a willingness to cooperate and to an u
Morticians. Welcome to do that. You could join us. China launched a rocket today to the moon seeking to bring samples of luna rocks and dust back to the john 5 name for the ancient chinese moon goddess. Took off successfully from china. Its the 1st mission in 4 decades. And if successful, it would make china only the 3rd country to bring back samples from the moon after the u. S. And the former soviet union. And for more on this launch, im joined by mark mccall cohen, Senior Advisor for science, an exploration of the European Space agency. Marc welcome and rocks have been brought back from the moon before. What is the scientific importance of this mission . Well, as you know, the Apollo Missions and also soviet Unmanned Missions brought back rocks in the sixtys and seventys. But where the Chinese Mission is going is actually interesting. Its a much younger region of the moon than the Previous Missions have been to the top of a volcano, a very smooth, flat volcano, not a spike, but its