Im burnt off in berlin. This is the day the country is genuinely divided. How much damage has the president done . Thomas damage cant do that preceded donald trump, but it certainly was accelerated by his presidency. Well, i think he has definitely sent back to the democratic norm here in the United States, stop the abuse. We can invite people to bridge the differences that divide us the division. Lets begin that work to heal a new north, to heal and unite in america as well as the world. Also coming up when are you planning to travel again . By plane to the pandemic has grounded air travel. Now. The Australian Airline quansah says it knows how to protect your health and the health of the entire industry. And we are looking at changing our tense a conditions to say, for international travelers. At that we will ask people to fix nation before they can get on the aircraft. But you, our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world. Welcome. We begin the day with the kind of american exceptionalism that no one is bragging about. According to pew research, the pandemic has revealed how uniquely pervasive and deep the divide in american politics in society is 90 percent. Say a victory by the other Political Party would result in lasting harm to the u. S. But it is not only politics here, religion, trust in science, respect for government, race relations, national identity, attitudes towards the media. These are all areas where people usually debate, but in the us they have become markers of a toxic, tribal and binary system that gives you 2 choices. Youre like us or youre like them. It is this demonization of each other that president elect. Joe biden has promised to address biden is the closest to a bipartisan president. Americans have known in a long time, a centrist, yet his ability to bridge the divide may depend on what voters in the u. S. State of georgia decide in january. He doesnt use Washington Bureau chief in this poll has more tonight on a nation deeply divided in the heart of one of the most divided counties in georgia. Nice. The town minutes with half of its population is white and 48 percent. Disaffection. America, in an antique shop, in downtown, to find many items that reflect the time when milledgeville was jewel, just the state capital. That was during the civil war. When the confederacy including draw into, fought to keep slavery some elements of that time still seem relevant to shop owner in their youth and seems to be stuck in the past. There is never, were never going to be equality in race. He has a grim take on the current political situation now, and i dont think the republicans and the democrats are going to maybe own level play and feel like griffin has been doing his bit to level george, also a political Playing Field for decades. He was the 1st democrat to have been elected from this area to the Georgia Senate and also served as minute rules may or the bottom line is ratios on. Here in an american president majority, the White Community are going to be in a minority here pretty soon, and they fear that the black and brown people are going to take the divisions here in milledgeville, broadly, reflect those of the whole of the usa bringing together people who feel as differently as floyd, griffin, and, and takes up on in their reviews, didnt do, is a major challenge. And they need to Work Together on the many problems in the country. And in the town. Stephen hall was or has some ideas. He is the director of the local library and tells organize the initiative on the table brings people together to discuss local issues in a constructive way. The approach is low drama and encourages everyone to get involved. I think the Biggest Issue for us is what is america . Weve had a lot of changes in the last couple years and a lot of the norms that weve had for better or for worse and gone away. And i think were looking at a future of what is our value, what are our ideas of how we should behave toward each other . And what is the common purpose that we have . I think weve lost a little track about and id love to see that come together in the future or that americans have to start listening to one another and stop shouting over each other or just returned from georgia. She is back in washington d. C. Tonight. She joins me from our bureau there. Good evening to you, ines. You know, i enjoyed watching your story and i wanted to ask you, did you get the impression that voters in georgia, are they fully aware of the weight of their votes in these 2 Runoff Elections . For the u. S. Senate you know, political acts of people most definitely are in there has been a lot of voter outreach and Voter Registration programs, especially actually from stacey average because that they hope that they can bring more voters out even after the 6 trini contentious election cycle and unfortunately when there is no president on the ballot, theres usually less voter turnout, but these are kind of the politically active people, the average people. They kind of tired of going out and vote. It doesnt seem very, democratic or fair for one state to decide the fate of the u. S. , maybe even the biden presidency. How many times did voters in georgia tell you the political system needs changing . The, i mean, they have always been complaints about how the 2 party system is set up. I mean, if you are able to hold your own, the left to options and people to come play in about that a lot. Even. So i mean right now in this very divided country, those who are still strong trump supporters, they dont want any other party. They just want to be able to vote again for donald trump if you ask them. Yeah, we know georgia which for joe biden in this years election or voters in georgia. Are they in love with joe biden . Or do they love the fact that he has not done well drawn . Thats a good question actually, and its good to ask. The whole United States, i mean, we have to keep in mind at the end of the day, georgia is an incredibly red, conservative state. By all measures, there has been a mixture of pro biden and anti trump borders. I mean, i think what is really different this time is the democrats were able to get large turnout from democratic voters and new voters thats different from 4 years ago. And its not just about what can one. We know that its also about democrats and republicans in the its about this deep divide in the United States. How divided is the wider country at the moment . It is a very divided. I was able to travel the United States from one side to the other just before the election and we experienced that this country. And this also appears in the little piece we just saw, kind of has lost the ability to talk with each other to talk to discuss really complicated topics like abortion rights or gun restrictions or health care for everybody or the question, how much taxes people should pay but the problem here right now is that fact for many people dont really matter anymore. And that opens really the doors to conspiracy theories. So yes, georgia is very divided. So is the whole United States here before we run out of time, which is the answer is if georgia returns to republican senators in this Runoff Election in january will. Will that mean that the democrats will have to reach across the political aisle even more if they want to get anything done . Absolutely, i mean, if the senate stays in favor of the republicans, which actually many expect to happen biden, very, most certainly have to reach out across the aisle, which actually he is able to do. Thats kind of his political gift. But the real concern for him is how the liberal wing within his own party will then react. I mean, if, if he has to really reach out to conservatives, he might see some serious, serious political fighting within the democratic party. You know . Yes, we will see what happens in january. January will be the month when much is designed to in his poll our Washington Bureau chief in us, thank you. It was late on monday when us president elect joe biden finally received the go ahead to start the transition process, but biden, hes been preparing for weeks now. On tuesday he presented the people he plans to nominate for Critical National security and Foreign Policy positions. Is a team that will keep our country and our people safe and secure. Its a team that reflects the fact that america is back ready to lead the world. Not retreat from it. Once again, sit at the head of the table, ready to confront our adversaries, and not reject our allies ready to stand up for our values. In fact, calls from World Leaders and ive had about 18 to 20 so far. Im not sure the exact number in the weeks since we won the election. Ive been struck by how much theyre looking forward to the United States, reassert its historic role as a Global Leader. Well, joining me tonight from washington is karen de young. She is senior National Security correspondent at the Washington Post here and its good to have you on the day you coauthored a piece in todays post that caught our eyes. The headline reads, bidens nominees have pushed policies that trump used to fuel his rise. We have a dick, sir, i want to show our viewers here. You write that democrats are worried about bidens pick so far. How they tried to govern this time will be a major test of whether biden feels the need to respond to the anxieties among supporters of trump. Whether he views his election as a sweeping mandate to shift in an entirely different direction or whether he settles somewhere in the middle. Who among bidens picks have triggered soul searching and worries among democrats. Hello. Well, its good to be here. You know, it was interesting, bernie thing, anders who obviously represents the progressive party, put out a tweet today saying out where the progressives, in the cabinet, people that if its a are, there are very, very traditional people who have all worked for biden or with biden, for many, many years. Now these are only the people who, who are going to get in Foreign Policy and National Security. I think what sanders and the progressive the party care much more about are the people who are generating our economic and, and financial think so it remains to be seen who but its going to who by is going to pick all that. It looks a surgeon and he, you know, im going to be the treasury secretary, probably have the Federal Reserve and i think that is not something that will make the progressive wing very happy. You know, thats true. We did see the dell go over 30000 points today. On news of yellen being the nominee, who would you, or who would be a good choice in your opinion, to send a signal to trump, voters that president elect biden is thinking of them too. Well, i think that, you know, they have everything he said during the campaign other, i dont think many, many troops of course were listening at the point at that point. And certainly the president turned in his own campaign was sort of describing bidens platform in a way that wasnt necessarily completely true. I think that biden, you know, he said, look, my 1st interests are solving the problem of the coronavirus, righting the economy. And i think that thats one thing that democrats have said whether they are moderates or progressives. Have said, look, we learned from the last time we did let manufacturing jobs go overseas. We didnt pay enough attention to people in socalled, red states who are losing their jobs, who are unable to, to adapt to a service economy, to high tech and elite. So i think that thats something that hes going to be stressing. He did stress during the campaign, but again, i think that not many times push wasnt caring. You know, biden says that he wants to help heal the soul of america. He wants to end americans demonization of each other. I mean, when you hear words like that, i mean, you cant get much more centrist than that. Can you . No, and i think hes serious about it. I mean hes, he, if he feels like his task over the next 40 years is, is to unify america, which is, which is as your previous speaker was saying, you know, its just extremely divided. And so i think that he does view that not only out in the country, but certainly in congress, you know, as, depending on what happens in the georgia runoff an hour in january, i think that hes either going to find himself faced with a, with a very very narrow majority or with no majority at all in the senate. And thats going to make it harder. Hes hoping that he can use relationships that he built over many, many years in the senate itself. Dealing with republicans to bridge has to bite him, essentially get something done. And hes also hoping that a lot of these republicans in congress and senate are people who were secretly not very happy with trying but, and of were afraid to stand up against him. And that now that the elections over that perhaps theyll be more amenable. Im not quite so sure how good a bet that is. But i think thats his intention. I said at the beginning of our program that joe biden seems to be the most bipartisan president that the United States has had in a long time. Doesnt that mean that he is maybe, uniquely equipped and positioned to do to bridge this tremendous divide that exists in politics and in society . I dont think that that. Im not sure thats a fair characterization. I think that if you look at certainly bill clinton, george bush, obama, they all started out saying, you know, when america unity, president of the americans. And i think that the, the divided government where you, in many cases have had, have had a congress at least one house, if not to a Different Party than the president has made that kind of governing more and more difficult. Certainly, i mean is in a better position than others to to make that happen because he served salam in the senate and because he was known as a kind of guy who would reach out in the senate. And he was certainly like that as a mom, as well as president. I mean that was one of the roles played was to reach out to, to the public into except for the beginning of a bomb as 1st term or in the majority of the senate. Todays press conference with bidens picks, we were talking about in the newsroom. It was amazingly call not boisterous and even downright polite. Im wondering for 4 years, americans and the world have been hooked on donald trump. And his style of politics. We hear now from americans that they want the temperature in the bar, you turned down. Do you believe them care . Most of them want that. There are some who are not going to give up who are not going to turn the volume down, but i think by and large, people are exhausted. Its been a very tumultuous. 4 years. People are tired, people are tired of conflict then i think thats partly what, what biden is counting on. And thats why he hasnt been quite so fiery in a way that will generally be even more trump supporters. I mean, you can forget the fact that 73000000 people voted for donald trump. Thats a lot of people. And many of them have been out of the streets. I think that these divisions are going to last for a while, but theres no question that you know, this sort of waking up 1st thing in the morning and see what crisis or disaster, or conflict or contentious situation is going to dominate the day, or even have today because sometimes it turned over in the middle of the day, i think a large, theres a big relief and that will give biden some points at the beginning. Not a whole lot. Not for a long time. Itll give him a chance at least. Karen de young, so you National Security correspondent of the Washington Post there. We appreciate your time in your insights tonight. Thank you. Youre welcome. Thank you. Largest Airline Quantas is suggesting that it could make a coronavirus vaccination, a requirement for all International Air travelers. The flag carrier is the 1st Major Airline to suggest that such rules could become commonplace in the air travel industry of the news comes as the International Air transport association is announcing that its developing a Digital Health pass that can be used to record in fruit coded 19 tests or back to the nation. This is what quantas c. E. O. Alan joyce said about the vaccine require. It. We are looking at changing our terms of contentions to say for international travelers. At that, we will ask people to have a fax nation before they can get on the aircraft. And what do you need that domestically . Well have to see what happens with copa 19 in the market, but certainly for International Visitors coming out and people leaving the country. We think thats in the says city. And my colleague, dr. Drew is we hear the big table at the sea. Im not completely surprised by this. I mean, whats at stake here . I guess whats really at stake is the future of the Airline Industry itself. I think were seeing the 1st signs of what we might all have to live with. If you want to get back on board the airplanes, the Airline Industry has lost over 100000000000. 00 us dollars. So far this year, as the australian carrier has lost 2000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars, they have laid off 8 and a half 1000 Staff Members already. Theyve grounded 200. 00 airplanes, and of course this is the same across the industry. Weve seen bankruptcy, virgin australia, brazil, fly. Be in the u. K. Weve also norwegian air, which is on the brink, karen in europe. So the airlines are really doing whatever they can to make sure that they can get people back on the planes,