Ballots being ran through the tabulating machines numerous times being counted 8 to 10 times newer with return addresses shorter cells and. Whatnot to keep you in the loop this is all it international from everyone here in moscow very welcome to the program. While to start us off this hour the talk as president has knocked out his french counterpart claiming hes a button to his country and should step down it represents a new low when relations between one. Comes as power to crack down raja islam following a wave of terrorism in france. Macron is a burden on france and france are going through a very dangerous period actually my hope is that france gets rid of this mccraw in trouble as soon as possible well the spat between the turkish president at the one in france has been deepening for some time now you will remember that last week the French Senate adopted a non binding resolution in which they officially recognize the independence of Nagorno Karabakh and they called for Azerbaijani Forces to need to leave the wall from territories that had been captured in the disputed territory from september the 27th theyre also calling for an International Investigation into war crimes and at the same time prohibited weapons and senators also recommended that the french government look into the role that career has played and has called for Decisive Action against turkey now its it all of this while at the same time saying that frances Foreign Policy has not changed but of course this angered azerbaijans closest ally turkey. Because this you know much as a budget any president believe heard some advice for the french what did he say if they love the armenian so much they should give more suits of the media was making the same recommendation if they love them so much give them are sick the french president also caused outrage last month in the muslim world when he defended the right to publish cartoons of prophet mohammed. His criticism of political islam comes in the wake of the killing of a french teacher samuel patty that angered at one end of the International Leaders not everyone has responded by comparing the treatment of muslims to that of jews before world war 2 and hes also questioned the Mental Health of the french president at the same time you have a deepening of tensions between a turkey. And the European Union and in recent years weve seen the relations get increasingly right here brussels has repeatedly expressed content concern and protested of turkeys exploration of natural gas off the coast of cyprus and greece reached out to turkey in the dollar susman does negative with the continuation of you know actual acts and hostile rhetoric the debate of the european summit on december the term to use the means to tell disposal turkey must stop its provocations and its hostile rhetoric and as we heard there the European Union summit on the 10th of this month and e. U. Member states potentially discussing. Measures that they can take against and. Lets bring in our career sharmas a lawyer and middle east expert welcome to the program good to have you i want to start off do you think these calls to remove a president could actually end up backfiring on turkey. Thank you for having me on yet the tensions have been growing between french president and erdogan since a while ago and for a president. Asking for the move all of. Its a nonsense because we still have a mandate of 2 years to go and these tensions have started in libya which france and turkey are defending different different sides it continuing about Northern Syria when the turkish army attacked the kurdish army who were defending western countries against this and the french called Government Press the protestant about that and as you said earlier in greece they have found a huge gas field and greece and turkey are. Combating each other and france is defending france is defending turkey and the same in northern carabao which friend france wants to be independent but not france but the french. Now france of course has a big Muslim Community 4700000 people my question is how do you think that theyre going to respond to ones wireds and do you think that that could be a problem for. I dont think its going to be a big problem because as you said france has one of the largest Muslim Population in europe but most of the muslim people are a normal people they not drive the call so what macron is trying to do is hes trying to fight against radical islam and. The french prison macron has has been criticized by other. Political opponents because they say that macro was too soft on radical islam or on the Muslim Population i can tell you and they can assure you that prison micron is not. Islam is not a muslim hes just anti radical islam and he wants to control radical islam because in france as of today we have the coming to to preach in france they are sent by morocco algeria turkey and saudi arabia some of them dont even speak french so what prison mccrone wants to do is to get. Trained. In france and to teach muslim. Lets say the islamic view of france. Now we know that turkey as been very vocal it wants to be part of the e. U. Its been a long process a lot of discussions do you think that ones words will actually harm turkeys chances here. Erdogan the worlds going to harm his chances but we can say its been for decades turkey is trying to enter the e. U. Doing almost everything that the e. U. Asked them and they keep the European Union keeps asking them more and more and more and more time and one of one of the differences between turkey and france is because france doesnt want turkey to get into e. U. That has been since Jacques Chirac france or mitterrand and sarkozy and all along and not only mccall saw they keep discussing with turkey about then getting in the e. U. But i think they have no chance because European Union they consider themselves as a christian a christian part of the world and turkey is a Muslim Country so they dont want turkey to get in and i think there is nice with the European Union here if he keeps insulting insulting all the president he has almost no chance in getting into the European Union and the Bigger Picture also we had one before he called on people to boycott french products you know he has criticized before and that has been a wave of anti micro protests as a result in muslim countries do you think that these latest wireds are just going to see that intensify. Its not going to intensify because the prison micro on fuel t. V. In order to explain to this population what freedom of speech is what freedom of satire is that you can makes a tire of everyone every religion its not a one religion in political or but every religion and this is part of the freedom of speech of france and even if prison michael one needs to to stop that and stop publishing the discourse on our distant tire he cannot do it because its a constitutional right here in france so he cannot do it by himself so the so the diff between muslim countries and france will grow but at the end despite a court of one change anything because a people will buy Fresh Produce at the end and. Recently the short picture of the guns wife with the hermes bag that she is that theyve been they are calling for people to boycott french products whereas his wife is. Buying french for the french Luxury Products while certainly a time of big tension for the 2 countries will be watching to see what develops next thank you so much for coming on and speaking to us that was courage shammy lawyer and middle east expert. Thank you very much. Now one of the latest track teams being put forward to tackle coronavirus in the u. K. Has come under increasing scrutiny thats after the c. E. O. Of fines or admitted its job may not stop those who take it from spreading the virus. Even though its good that protection and most. Other people i think this is something that needs to be examined we are not certain about that right now 2 days ago it was the news we were all of waiting for it was described as a historic moment but now it seems like its historic so all the wrong reasons the approval of course of the kind of it 1000 vaccination just a few days ago by the british medical regulated meant that as soon as next week the vaccine could be rolled out but now its been proved almost too good to be true of course the United Kingdom was celebrating being world beating world leading and now it seems as though it potentially is just a guinea pig in the science of all of it not because pfizer has come out to admit that actually while the job might be 95 percent effective against private 19 there is by no means any guarantee that it can prevent carrying the transmission of that 19 as well now interestingly the e. U. Regulator and the u. S. Top Health Officials have both come out say that the u. K. Has entirely jumped the gun here its been far too quick in its procedures because for their for their every settings they think that approval process is necessary to ensure safety and effective ety kind of a real around the corner of the marathon because. They really rushed. Well there you heard from the top u. S. Immunologist who has since apologized for slamming the u. K. s too hastily oversee private tracking saying it was all a misunderstanding however the initial statement sparked some controversy and apparently put the director of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases on the defensive but regardless 40000000 doses have been preordered by the United Kingdom the 1st batch of 1st supply will head towards the United Kingdom as soon as next week it could be around the figure of 400000. 00 doses many immunization could start within the next few weeks now top of the list is those most vulnerable those over the age of 80 plus care home residents and stop. And of course those n. H. S. Workers on the front line however there were many people gassed casting doubts even right here within the United Kingdom particularly over the logistics whether or not there may be a lag as soon as next week is just around the corner but also in terms of the distribution of the vaccine as well considering it needs to be stored in conditions of minus 70 degrees so those handling the vaccine argue that they need to be instructed exactly how to do so then of course theres the political narrative in all of this because the government has been criticized for many a failure throughout the 1000 pandemic from selfimposed targets and deadlines certain missed to really just handling the crisis in general now many people would argue that we really need to see these promises being delivered and at this point in time its more of a case of more talk rather than action especially when were hearing rhetoric like this from cabinet ministers i just reckon weve got the very best people in this country weve got the best. Is much better than the french better than the belgians have much better than the americans and that doesnt surprise me at all because we are much better country than every single one of that also so it did help but weve recruited for a user willing to rue the number of deaths in the u. K. Must prove that we march worse come true than france and belgium not the us obviously what a facile boost that sort of thing you hear in the playground not to be on National Radio world teaching jingoism brits got it 1st because of how badly theyre doing in controlling covered 19 so exactly the opposite of what theyre claiming to their government williamson saying that the United Kingdom is worlds leading and is a much better nation than any other but what is the question the public really have political commentator believes this rush to roll out the vaccine it just isnt necessary. Those fast wraps this create or are on the basis that it its for emergency situation for power and direct my food not such a very debatable because we have a sort of pound our military just made here proud of that made which is a fact so you can combine the proportion of the population normally what they mean with a pandemic you just need a whole lot of issues potentially reduce so i dont think this really qualifies surgery astra bussing only you only have to look at the books absent the great youre so 30000 with a population of 67000000. And we know that every minute. Of critic on t. V. So far its a complete overreaction people are going to be. But there are going to be big amounts of money to be made all right the producers for the. Nation are going to say were open and yet its leadership. Really because most people dont actually need it. Employees of russia affiliated news agency and years and sputnik latvia have been released from interrogations on condition they dont even up here but after the journalists were charged with violating all sanctions cossar f. Has the details of the now at the moment is that theyve been accused of violating personal European Union sanctions against the c. E. O. Of russias a receipt a subordinate news agency me tricky self now Russian Foreign ministry they have already reacted to whats happening in riga and they said that latvias crackdown on russian speaking journalists under the pretext of the violation of the you sanctions is apps. The unacceptable the Foreign Ministry also said that the e. U. Restrictions are of a personal nature against mr kissel off and they cannot apply to just about everyone who cooperates with the news outlets that are under his management and they consider the aggressive actions of. Security service a blatant example of violating the foundations of the Democratic Society which is freedom of media and expression it is a completely punitive action which leaves no doubt about the use of 4 big subtext of the fabricated accusations you would think a crackdown and dissent violation of the fundamental principles of freedom of speech were totally incompatible with the status of an enlightened european state but thats the case of the complaint before so dissenting media is gaining momentum now the accused journalists and their colleagues are certainly. Outraged and mind you this is a criminal indictment against journalists and theyre being persecuted for coal parading with russian news outlets now the crackdown on the russian speaking latvian journalist. Well it had all of the intimidating attributes and features and they were there were searches in the homes and places of work there was confiscated of personal property and equipment they were interrogating which lasted for hours one person was interviewed for 8 hours. After all of that was done the journalists were released but they were asked to stay in latvia not to leave the country and of course sign a nondisclosure agreement sputnik had a statement about this as well the latin citizens are accused of violating the sanctions regime because of their work for the receipt of civil and news agency according to a lot of lithuania and estonia the agency subject to the personal sanctions of the imposed on the agencys general director joins ricky sort of in 24 scene. No Russian Mission and the sea they also expressed their concern tweeted out saying this is another flagrant violation by rigo of the o. E. C. D. Commitments on freedom of speech and access to information and persecution of russian speaking journalists in the baltic countries is not something new for example just the end of last year going into this year sputnik. And now there journalists were forced to break their contracts with the sputnik because this tony and. Police were threatening them with jail terms of up to 5 years so basically they were forced to resign and the police also cited these 2014 you sanctions person begins to mr however the outlets that weve been talking about today none of them have ever appeared on the sanctions list so thats what we have for now now there was some small protest in reeker itself against the charges and we also managed to have reaction from veteran john. State affiliated media. Are all over in the United States in israel in many other places what is the army radio in israel what is the b. B. C. What is the voice of america if one starts a tricking journalists. d other then Media Persons just because our their livelihood depends on the state or are. Our rich person who owns the network that is unfair and journalists the world over should rise up against the question was question is why have they done this no and of course the the wider question is is it legitimate to use sanctions as a means of preventing the alternative views that you dont like and of course at the most extreme we saw that in the news for you slowly the bombing of the Serbian National t. V. Station or the missiles that were used to take a 0. In kabul during the the afghan war. While having stateside u. S. President elect joe biden has invited donald trump to his inauguration and claims that will give a positive sign that the postelection chaos is ending but its unclear whether the millions who still think that fact it was stolen from charm believe this move the diffidence. No. Trump supporters are still coming out on tng stop the steal and citing multiple irregularities thats despite officials in swing state general just saying a 2nd recount should confound biotin as the winner. Looks at how the dispute is affecting the reputation of the u. S. Election. Is only about a month left until the big transition of power in the white house and yet it looks like the battle for the presidency is not yet over this may be