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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: There are two days left before Joe Biden's inauguration, one that will be unlike any that we have seen
before. Then.
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FRED PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Everyone is asking me if I'm scared. He says, I'm not afraid. I know that I will leave and go home
because I'm right.
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ANDERSON: Oh, boy, was he wrong? After spending five months outside of Russia? Alexei Navalny has returned but didn't exactly receive a warm
welcome home. Plus.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We starting to feeling depressed because we're not getting the vaccines.
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ANDERSON: While Israelis get vaccinated had a record rate, Palestinians are left to fend for themselves. We are live for you in Jerusalem.
It's 10:00 a.m. in D.C., 6:00 p.m. in Moscow, 7:00 in the evening here in Abu Dhabi. I'm Becky Anderson. Hello and welcome to CONNECT THE WORLD from
our Middle East broadcasting hub. The Trump era will end in a little over 48 hours when Joe Biden raises his hand and becomes the 46th President of
the United States. He will take the oath in a Washington, D.C. on lockdown.
It is a city on edge. Even the 25,000 National Guard troops securing the inauguration ceremony are being vetted. That is over concerns about an
insider attack. By the time of inauguration, Donald Trump will have left the White House taking with him and abysmally low approval rating. The
latest CNN poll shows Mr. Trump with just a 34 percent of those responding, approving of his performance.
It is the lowest rating of his presidency and other polls have him scoring even lower. President Trump may though get a vote of confidence from some
of his former associates, white collar criminals and high-profile rappers. They are on his list of about 100 people getting pardons and commutations
on Tuesday. It's also interesting to note who is not on this list. Neither his family members nor Mr. Trump himself.
Unless for Joe Biden he's made his own list of things he'll tackle on day one. Among them a giant immigration plan ending the travel ban on Muslim
majority countries and of course, getting a handle on the coronavirus pandemic.
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RON KLAIN, INCOMING WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF: We're inheriting a huge mess here, Jake. But we have a plan to fix it. The President-elect laid out
that plan on Friday, five concrete steps to move us forward to make peace with the vaccination. I want to give the vaccine makers credit they are
producing vaccine. We think there are things we can do to speed up the delivery of that vaccine.
One thing the President mentioned yesterday was using the defense production act to ramp up the production of a particular kinds of syringes
that allow us to get six doses out of the vials instead of five.
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ANDERSON: Well, CNN is the best place to follow. All the developments up to and during the inauguration. We've got special coverage all day on
Wednesday. I'll sentence Pete Muntean is out on the streets of D.C. looking at what is this unprecedented security setup in place for Wednesday's
inauguration ceremony.
PETE MUNTEAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Becky, it gets more and more restricted here in Washington by the minute. In fact, this is about as close as one
can get to the Capitol on foot right now. And we are blocks away. You can see one of the dozens of roadblocks going up behind me staffed by members
of the U.S. National Guard. The guard tells us 21,000 members of the guard are now in D.C.
That number going up to 25,000 by Wednesday. It is the National Park Service that oversees the National Mall, which has now been completely
emptied out. Closed through the rest of this week. It says all of the steps being taken are completely unprecedented for an Inauguration Day. D.C.
being emptied out and it'll be even harder to get into D.C. 13 Metro stations now closed. The FAA further restricting airspace that is already
very restricted around Washington D.C.
And the bridges from Virginia to D.C. will close starting tomorrow morning. There is going to be an inauguration day like no other. Becky?
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ANDERSON: Pete Muntean on the ground in Washington. Senior political analyst John Avlon is our man for all things. Presidential politics, we are
though going to start today with this issue of security in Washington and clearly outside and in other state capitals around the country. Quite
remarkable stuff. Just how credible are these concerns, John? About an insider attack? What are we hearing from authorities?
JOHN AVLON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, what we know is that the Department of Defense is screening National Guard members for any
association with extremist beliefs. That itself is incredibly concerning and very much outside the typical American experience. Obviously, we've had
world leaders who've had real lethal threats from inside their own security apparatus. But that has never been a urgent concern within the United
States.
And really looking at the general defensive posture of Washington. D.C. today, granted just a weekend change after the U.S. Capitol was attacked by
Donald Trump supporters. We haven't seen anything like this as a country living memory, certainly not since the Civil War as a President approached
his inauguration with this feeling of threat and division and really locked down for his own security and safety as they get ready to take the
inaugural address.
ANDERSON: -- out that attack on the Capitol.
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SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC): It was horrendous to see people come and take over the Capitol, the House in the Senate, beat officers, the foul, the
seat of government, how the hell could that happen? Where was Nancy Pelosi? It's her job to provide capital security. We'll get to the bottom of that.
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ANDERSON: What do you make of what Lindsey Graham had to say?
AVLON: There obviously should be and will be an is an investigation into how the security perimeter of the Capitol was broken. But what Lindsey
Graham is doing his arms must be tired from carrying so much water for Donald Trump this late in his administration.
This is purely an attempt to deflect and project and to say the problem with the assault on the Capitol somehow lay in Nancy Pelosi, rather than
Donald Trump supporters who are whipped up into incitement by the President and his allies at a rally and for months before until they really had an
act of insurrection and assaulted the Capitol.
So, it's a bit pathetic for Lindsey Graham to do this. But in recent years, he has decidedly fallen into the camp of Donald Trump, not his longtime
former best friend, John McCain.
ANDERSON: Despite having warned Republicans about Donald Trump back in 2016, what a turn of events. Donald Trump is set to issue around 100
pardons tomorrow. That is his prerogative as a president. You said in a recent op-ed, that nearly 90 percent of his pardons to date have gone to
friends or politically connected allies including corrupt politicians.
And you went on to say and I quote, John, "If President Trump offers a broad pardon or amnesty to his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in
an attempted coup on January the 6th, the prospect of a general pardoned would be to reward his supporters for an attack on the government, not to
secure the common good." Is it likely do you think at this point?
AVLON: I wouldn't say it's likely but it's possible and that means it's a nightmare scenario. And that's why it's something we should discuss because
anybody who's bet that Donald Trump can't sink lower, has always lost that bet, there is no bottom. And while CNN is reporting that it appears that
his family and indeed his he may not attempt to self-pardon, I don't think any of that is cooked until noon on January 20th.
And here's the important thing about that nightmare scenario. When the founding fathers came up with a presidential pardon power. It is broad, but
it was not without limits according to their intention. They did not contemplate something like a presidential self-pardon. And well, the
founders did contemplate the necessity of partnering people who committed insurrection, which indeed Washington did after something called the
Whiskey Rebellion.
Lincoln intended to do after the Civil War. It was never for President's own supporters who attempted to attack this government. And so, the idea
that a presidential pardon power is completely unrestrained lacks necessary context and intent from the founding fathers and if any judges out there
want to call themselves originalist, I think if Trump tries to go in that direction, he will find himself smack down in historic proportions.
ANDERSON: It is the reason that we regularly invite John Avalon onto the show because it's that sort of insight that is so important as we watch
things unfold from around the world.
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ANDERSON: John, always a pleasure. Thank you so much for joining us. We are getting a frightening new look folks at the moments that rioters stormed
the Capitol nearly two weeks ago. The footage released by the New Yorker shows insure -- insurrectionists searching door to door for lawmakers and
proudly proclaiming they are following President Trump's call to action.
And I've got to warn you some of the video that you are about to see is disturbing and we have not censored what you might believe to be bad
language. There is a lot of swearing in this. We are playing it out in full because we want you to see the full truth of what happened.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're outnumbered. There's a fucking million of us out there. And we listening to Trump, your boss.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let the people in.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It ain't safe for your guys.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We love you guys. Take it easy.
PROTESTERS: Treason. Treason. Treason. Treason. Treason. Treason. Treason. Treason. Treason. Treason. Treason. Treason. Treason. Treason.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Defend your constitution, defend your liberty. Defend your constitution.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: 1776.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're afraid of Antifa? Well, guess what? America showed up.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Where is the rest? (INAUDIBLE).
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is this the Senate?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, where the fuck are they?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: While we're here, we might as well set up a government.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, let's take a seat, people. Let's take a listen.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: -- Nancy Pelosi.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's vote on some shit.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Where the fuck is Nancy? This is our House.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, this is our chair.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I agree with you, brother, but it's not ours. It belongs to the vice president of the United States but he isn't here. It's not our
chair. Look, I love you guys, we're brothers, but we can't be disrespectful.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They can steal an election, but we can't sit in their chairs?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. We're not putting up with that either. It's just -- look, it's a P.R. war, OK? You have to understand it's an I.O. war. We
can't lose the I.O. war.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're better than that, OK?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Information, information operation. You can't do it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's get a snap of that.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. I took a picture.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Go downstairs.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look here, look.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ted Cruz's objection to the Arizona --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: -- objection, he was going to sell us out all along.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Really, what?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Objection to counting electoral votes of the State of Arizona.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I know, that's --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I know, that's OK. All right, all right --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's with us. He's with us.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's got to be something in here we can fucking use against these scumbags.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: America's republic -- no, this is good stuff.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, we have been fooled.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Give me a wallet or whatever. Hawley, Cruz.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think Cruz would want to do this.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, absolutely.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think we're good.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey. Fucking hey, man. Glad to see you guys. You guys are fucking patriots. Look at this guy, this guy is covered in blood. God
bless you.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you guys need medical attention?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm good. Thank you.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I got shot in the face. I got shot in the face with some kind of plastic bullet.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Any chance I can get you guys to leave the Senate wing?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We will. I'm just making sure they ain't disrespecting the place.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. I just want to let you guys know this is like the sacredest place.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I know.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I know. I ain't going. I'm going to take a -- sit at this chair because (INAUDIBLE) fucking chair. I'm not one to usually take
pictures of myself, but in this case I think I'll make an exception. Hey, can you take a picture of me? Thank you.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, we ain't got a choice. There's a half a million people here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You should be stopping us.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, no, no.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's doing the right thing. He's obeying his oath.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm making sure you guys don't do anything else. Now that you've done that, can I get you guys to walk out of this room, please?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, sir.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, come on, man.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I feel like you're pushing the line.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on, man. Come on man.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is our Capitol. Let's be respectful to it. There's four million people coming in, so there's a lot of control. We love you
guys. We love the cops.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's only a matter of time, justice is coming.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right. Come on. Over four million people are coming, everywhere, all the way back to the monument, D.C.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jesus Christ, we invoke your name. Amen.
CROWD: Amen.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's say a prayer. Let's all say a prayer in our sacred space.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you, Heavenly Father, for gracing us with this opportunity (INAUDIBLE)
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Amen.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This opportunity to stand up for our God-given unalienable rights. Thank you, Heavenly Father, for (INAUDIBLE) the
inspiration needed for these police officers to allow us into the building, to allow us to exercise our rights -- to allow us to send a message --
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Amen.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: -- to all the tyrants, the communists, and the globalists that this is our nation, not theirs.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That we will not allow America -- the American way, the United States of America, to go down. Thank you, divine, omniscient,
omnipotent and omnipresent and (INAUDIBLE) creative God for filling this chamber with your white light of love, with your white light of harmony.
Thank you for filling this chamber with patriots that love you and that love Christ.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Yes, Lord. Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you, divine omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent creative God for blessing each and every one of us here and now.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Amen.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you, divine, creative God, for surrounding (INAUDIBLE) with your divine omnipresent white light of love and
protection, peace and harmony. Thank you for allowing the United States of America to be reborn. Thank you for allowing us to get rid of the
communists, the globalists and the traitors within our government. We love you and we thank you. In Christ's holy name we pray.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKERS: Amen.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: This way, this way.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: We support you guys, OK? We support you guys. And we (INAUDIBLE) what you're doing, we know you're doing your job.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's all we got. (INAUDIBLE)
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ANDERSON: Incredible scenes, right? Really quite remarkable to watch. There is a lot going on in Washington ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration just 48
hours to go. Security is in place given what we have just seen. We are also watching what else is going on around the world. We are in two places that
are rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine fastest. One of them is here, the UAE The other is Israel
But should it be responsible for vaccinating Palestinians in the West Bank as well? Israel and the United Nations are on opposing sides on that
question.
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NAVALNY: I'm not afraid I feel completely fine walking towards the border control.
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ANDERSON: The pull of home for Russia's leading Kremlin critic but Alexei Navalny will only be seeing the inside of the jail cell for a while.
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ANDERSON: We are on the ground for you in Moscow. Up next.
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ANDERSON: We knew he was in for a rough ride. Still, the Kremlin's top opponents decided it was time to go home even if he faced prison on
allegedly bogus charges. And even if it was the Kremlin that had attacked him with a nerve agent that nearly killed him.
But of course, I'm talking about Alexei Navalny and with all that he has been through, he was still taken aback a short time ago being told he would
remain in police custody for the next 30 days after finding himself in the middle of a makeshift hearing, held not in a proper court, but in a Moscow
police station. Navalny responded by calling on his supporters to take to the streets.
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ALEXEI NAVALNY, RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER (through translator): Sure, what is this toad afraid of? What are these crooks sitting in their bunkers most
afraid of? You know very well, people taking to the streets. That is the political factor you cannot ignore. That's the most important factor the
essence of politics. So come to the streets, not for me, but for yourself and your future.
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ANDERSON: Well, we are connecting with Moscow now where Fred Pleitgen is standing by for us. Fred, just set the scene for us, if you will.
PLEITGEN: Well, I mean, it was certainly a remarkable little over 24 hours now since Alexei Navalny touched down here in Moscow. And, you know, you're
absolutely right. He was pretty angry about the fact that he had that hearing today because he was taken into custody yesterday, when after he
landed at Sheremetyevo airport here in Moscow wasn't allowed to see his lawyers.
And he said that early this morning people came into his cell and told him by the way, there's a hearing against you. And that hearing starts in
exactly one minute. Now the courts that he was brought into wasn't actually a real court. It was a room that was made to be a court inside the
detention facility, inside the police station that he was in. And Alexei Navalny in a video that he was able to get out call that a mockery of
justice even by the standards of some of the things that he had seen here in Russia over the past couple of years.
So, certainly a very angry Alexei Navalny and really a remarkable turn of events after Alexei Navalny touchdown here full well knowing that he could
be arrested upon arrival here in Russia. Let's have a look at what we saw.
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PLEITGEN (voice-over): A final kiss, a final hug with his wife Yulia and then opposition leader Alexei Navalny is led away by Russian security
forces. Detained shortly after landing against Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport. His first time back in Russia in five months since he was medivac to
Germany in a coma after he was poisoned by the chemical nerve agent Novichok. Shortly before detention Navalny saying he's not scared.
Everyone is asking me if I'm scared, he says. I'm not afraid. I feel completely fine walking towards the border control. I know that I will
leave and go home because I'm right. And all the criminal cases against me are fabricated. When Alexei Navalny boarded the plane hours earlier in
Berlin, Germany, he was still joking when addressing reporters. Me, arrested? That's impossible, he jokes.
But the events that then unfolded were remarkable. As the Navalny was in the air, hundreds of his supporters and many journalists gathered at the
airport, where his flight was initially supposed to land. Scuffles broke out and riot police arrested several people. Minutes before landing, the
flight was diverted to another airport. Navalny saying he believes the move shows, President Vladimir Putin was afraid of his return.
This is not just the power of some despicable crooks, he said. But the power of absolutely worthless people that are doing some nonsense. They are
jeopardizing the air safety of a wonderful big city. Why? Just so Putin can say who needs him? An exclusive CNN and Bellingcat investigation implicated
Russia's intelligence service the FSB in the plot to poison Navalny. The Kremlin denied involvement.
CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward even confronted one of the agents alleged to be behind the plot.
CLARISSA WARD, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: My name is Clarissa Ward, I work for CNN.
PLEITGEN (voice-over): After he recovered, nobody said he wouldn't give Putin the satisfaction of keeping him out of Russia. And he decided to
return knowing the threat of arrest was real, as Russian authorities said he'd violated the terms of his probation in 2014 fraud case, which Navalny
is politically motivated. Alexei Navalny never made it out of the airport, he will now remain in custody until at least the end of January, Russian
authorities say.
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PLEITGEN (on camera): And on the 23rd of January, Navalny's people have called for nationwide protests here in Russia. Alexei Navalny in that video
message, obviously, that came out calling on people not to go out for his sake, but for their own sake.
And Becky, we do have to point out that Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, he today ripped into the West over all of this, he said Western
journalists were covering with such passion as he put it to distract from the West's own problems. It' was what Lavrov said, Becky?
ANDERSON: Thank you, sir. That's your reporting out of Moscow. When we come back, we're going to get you to the Jerusalem neighborhood that highlights
the start vaccination divide between Israel and the Palestinian authority. More on that in a moment.
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ANDERSON: Well, we will talk next hour about how the UAE where I am here is vaccinating its people. Emirates and UAE residents at a record speed. The
UAE and Israel have the highest vaccination rates in the world, Israeli government has already vaccinated over 20 percent of its population. But
for Palestinians in the West Bank in Gaza, it is a different story. United Nations says Israel is an occupying power and has a responsibility to
vaccinate Palestinians.
Israel says it's the job of the Palestinian Authority. Well, CNN's Sam Kiley is in Jerusalem with more reporting on there. Sam?
SAM KILEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Becky, Israel, as you say, is 20 plus percent of the population that it's intending to vaccinate.
Some -- more than five million people and Israel is doing very, very well. But as far as the United Nations panel of experts from the high commission
for human rights is concerned, it's not doing enough because this is a view shared almost inevitably by the Palestinian authority.
Israel is considered as you said in the intro, they're an occupying power. But there are other areas also, even under Israeli legislation, which means
that there is some very strange conundrums that have been thrown up. This is our report.
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KILEY (voice-over): This Jewish man, and these Arab residents of Jerusalem have something lifesaving in common. They've both got Israeli I.D. cards,
and can therefore benefit from Israel's world leading anti-COVID vaccination program. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on track to meet
his claim of inoculating Israel's entire nine million population by the end of March. But that says the United Nations isn't good enough.
The U.N. insists that Israel as the occupying power is responsible for ensuring that more than 4-1/2 million Palestinians also get vaccinated.
Morally and legally, this differential access to necessary healthcare in the midst of the worst global health crisis in a century is unacceptable
U.N. experts said.
KILEY (on camera): A recent study produced by B'Tselem, Alexei Navalny Israeli human rights group now says that the treatment of Palestinians
across the whole area under Israeli control, it's so unequal, they've labeled it apartheid.
KILEY (voice-over): Israel's Embassy in London dismissed the report as not based in reality, but on a distorted ideological view. Israel also rejected
claims that it was responsible for the health of Palestinians, insisting that the Palestinian authority was in charge.
YULI EDELSTEIN, ISRAEL HEALTH MINISTER: We're trying to get as many vaccines as possible, but our calculation was based on the Israeli
citizens. It will get to the station where the old -- those in this country who wants to be vaccinated will be vaccinated, we will be more than ready
to share the vaccines with our neighbors. At this stage we're talking about Israeli citizens.
KILEY: This is Kafr Aqab, a Palestinian town annexed illegally according to international law to Jerusalem by Israel. It's cut off from the city by a
security wall. Some Palestinians here like Anan on the right can get the COVID vaccine with their Israeli I.D.s. Others like Mahmood on the left
cannot.
It's racist, Mahmood says. Anan says half of the people here cannot take it and also I'm not going to take it. Why would I take it when they can't? I
won't. The Palestinian hospitals are struggling for funds after Donald Trump cut U.S. aid of $200 million to the Palestinians in 2018. Still the
Palestinian authority says it's hoping to import vaccine soon but is struggling amid a worldwide shortage.
The percentage of Palestinian patients infected with COVID-19 who die is about 1.1 percent. Israel's is 0.7 percent but worse is the U.S. at 1.7
percent or the U.K. 2.6 percent. Yet infection rates are climbing and medics here cannot get vaccinations.
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WAFA SHIHADEH, RESIDENT GENERAL SURGEON, RAMALLAH CENTRAL HOSPITAL: We are starting to feeling get depressed because we're not getting the vaccines
here in Palestinian territories in Palestine and we are seeing our -- at the borders at the -- at the other side of the border Israel are getting I
think three days ago one million 600 people got vaccinated and here in Palestine, the number of vaccinated people is zero.
KILEY: A statistic that shocks few Palestinians but is certain to add to the bitterness so many already feel towards their efficient and powerful
neighbor.
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KILEY: Now, Becky, clearly there is a worldwide shortage of vaccines. But the Israelis are concerned principally at the moment with carrying out
their vaccination program. They have said as we reported there, that they would help the Palestinians out once that was completed. They also
acknowledged Becky, that there's not a great deal of point in having herd immunity established among Israelis only given that they live so cheek by
jowl with their neighbors, the Palestinians. Becky?
ANDERSON: Absolutely. Thank you for that. That's our reporting out of Jerusalem for you. Sam, thank you. Jordan putting much of the world to
shame when it comes to vaccinating the thousands of refugees and asylum seekers that it is hosting. I'll be talking to the Jordanian health
minister in the next hour here on CONNECT THE WORLD. We will be right back after this.
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ANDERSON: Poetic stuff. And perhaps no one spins poetry with a football better than Lionel Messi's canvas, any pitch anywhere. At least most of the
time. He just hit a career first. A red card is only one and only in 700 games with Barcelona. Don Riddell is in the house. What happen? Someone of
course, we'd never show a red card to you because you've always got a green light on our show, sir.
DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: Yes, thank you for having me back on your show, Becky. Yes, it's more than 700 games. 753 games Messi has never
been red carded. And that's quite remarkable, especially when you consider the amount of provocation that he faces in every game that he plays. I
think is perhaps an indication of how he feels about life this season. Remember, he didn't really want to be at Barcelona.
They lost the Super Cup final two Athletic Bilbao and the end of the game with an early shower, albeit only a couple of minutes earlier than
everybody else because he was right at the end but, yes, not a happy man.
ANDERSON: Couple of minutes away is WORLD SPORT with Don Riddell. We'll be back after that. Thank you.
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