in last year's disputed presidential election, his supporters are convinced his confession was made under duress. the same goes for this supposed confession from practice age, his girlfriend, sophia pagan, in a video that emerged tuesday. they were both arrested on sunday after their flight from athens to vilnius was intercepted by a bela lucy and military jet and forced to land in minsk. the incident sparked international outrage. the you slapped sanctions on min check and the u. s. is considering doing the same bella, russian leader, alexander lucas shinkel, lashed out in response. cut me progress you order. last week predicts this is our ill wishers from outside the country. and from inside the country changed their methods of attack on the state. you put it to you, they have cross many red lines and have abandoned common sense and human morals, each of his grandmother that those are in full. this is not information warfare any

more modern hybrid warfare. why not? we must do everything to prevent it from becoming a real war, it at a slow, good extra shanker denies, the plane was diverted in order to our restaurant, the savage, claiming the move was a necessary response to a bomb threat. he chaff now that bella, lucy and opposition, including leaders, she atlanta, teacher, and sky, or say they're preparing to stage new protests and hoping international pressure will help keep process h safe. south africa and after years of delays, the former president jacob zoom has gone on trial for corruption. he pleaded not guilty to bribery fraud, and money laundering charge is connected to a $999.00 arms deal. the french arms manufacture toddlers. he w is the advent crease, reports in the port from the court in pitt amount its back today many south africans. i've been waiting for 4 years. jacobs to mass corruption trial have to find these dots if he's accused of accepting bribes from

a french armed manufacturer. but he denies any wrong doing and pleaded not guilty to all charges. how do you agree to them and plead not guilty. as a supporter came out in the under today's repeatedly said that it is political forces slaying against my wife, monopoly of capital, as well as for and by agency. they, however, never presented any hard evidence that hen luma was written in very big letters on the stage. but the setup right next to the court, i do not expect a fair trial. i do show this will group. and then we know that this judiciary has been report nice to have the freedom fight of the triple know brought this liberation. it has been, we put nicely truck gets those that's true to stand on the side of the majority. we know and written down in the case state spec to an am from 998 in 2005. you must form a financial advisor was convicted for taking

a bright from the manufacturer and passing it on to zoom out afterwards. the prosecution also started to look into zoom up, but the case was dropped shortly before you became president after his presidency in 2018. the case was picked up again, but since then they have been multiple delays, mainly due to legal technicalities. it's already bad that it is taking so long. one thing more over and above this case. we don't have justice in of justice and so the forgot very, very slow. very, very slow. your talk about the, the state capture commission. how many relations have come up there and not a thing? a testing is behind bars up to now i'm still case is likely to drive on 4 months. possibly even yes, more than $200.00 witnesses. why the observance? believe that's another case that could possibly bring do my to jail even bossa, the case is related to the states kept a commission, a commission that month and up himself during his presidency to investigate

corruption through my 4th year times. but later said the commission is biased and refused to appear again, the constitutional court ruled, but he had to appear, he didn't do to make it effective that the constitutional court rule and the results could possibly even be a jail term. within this year, we'll take a look at some stories making news at this. mom is entering president. bon dow on prime minister mac was resigned on wednesday after being arrested by the ministry this week. they've been accused of trying to sabotage the process, the steering the west african country back to civilian rule. following the crew in august. the un security council is to hold an emergency meeting on the growing crisis. there have been deaths and injuries and a mass using in san jose in the us state of california authority say a gunman, opened fire city rail yard. exact number of casualties is

a clear cities mass says the suspect is now dead. a court in the netherlands is ordered the oil change was dutch shell, to reduce carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. the case could set the states for similar legal actually gets major energy firms around the us secretary of state and to me, blink. and hell, talk with the chips and president dal santo of cc at way of the israel garza conflict. they discuss last week. see 5 possible long term solution to ask his secretary blane can travel to jordan after the meeting to syria, which is holding elections today. and i hope that many observers say is not free and definitely isn't fair. president bashar assad is almost certain to win another term in charge of a country roads by many people in government health areas that are allowed to vote

. and just have demonstrated rebel held a live top to the streets to denounce the vote, which the opposition describe the thought. it's the 2nd presidential election since civil war broke out 10 years ago. bashar al assad face is all over the syrian capital, damascus. his campaign posters, door for those of the other 2 candidates cleared by the legislature to compete. the final vote tally is expected to show similar dominance by assad. so why is everyone so sure of an assad victory? to start with? not all syrians can participate. only residents of areas under government control can vote in the country that has the largest number of displaced people in the world. those in rebel held districts are ineligible, and the economists curtis regions in the north are not participating. millions of syrians have fled the country during its years of civil war. some of those living abroad can vote like here in lebanon. on the other hand,

germany has forbidden the syrian conflict from registering voters. the president, bashar al assad is running against 2 other men. abdullah saloon, abdullah and mark mood after marie who stand very little chance of winning they qualified for the vote after an extremely restrictive process in parliament. all candidates must have the support of 35 members of parliament, which is overwhelmingly dominated by a such as party. candidates must have lived in syria continuously for 10 years, excluding any one from the diaspora, and they must be married to a syrian citizen. the united nations have said it is not involved in the election, and the u. s. says without un involvement, it won't recognize the results. syria media says the regime has invited observers, but from regime friendly countries like russia, iran, china, and venezuela. the last elections were held in 2014 at the height of the civil war

and saw a sod when in the landslide in a vote that was also widely condemned by the u. s. and the u, as neither free nor fair. let's get more from a banter shallow. she's had of the middle east division at the german political foundation, the 100 bonds shift on a welcome to the w. so how much support does basha alice had really have you look at how the elections are being held. you can already estimate how much the population is not able to vote because they are simply enough in areas that are participating in the voting and all those. so, i mean, there are so many people signing with their own lot. there are lots of posters and all just president bashar if you mount. so this is where these elections you can get his real support, at least he himself has felt about it. ok, so he's promised to to, to use. he's next term in office to rebuild the country. so who's going to assess

them in that if he wants assistance, he would need to perform them very severe changes and he has not shown any indication that he's ready to do that. so on that he'll be left with his wife around russia. please, however, have constantly demonstrated that they are willing to both military 1st and to help him in winning the word. but they have not done any efforts to rebuild the country in a military and a, this is not coming from allies. so what, where will it come from because the country needs to be reconstructed. what regardless of whether aside is in, is in, is in power or not. well, this is what we would say, but obviously the sea and machine does not see it that way. they installed a tax so they are collecting texas on citizen said to pay for reconstruction. they have done so for a few years that you can see nothing of that happened and it strikes it is to remain in rebel in rubble and destroyed areas. and cities have not been rebuilt.

what has been done with this money is to invest in some government buildings into small amount. this money has also been used for the military. so far the concession tax has not been used for that. why would anybody else jump in and say, well, then we send a bit more and we will flow into the construction was better shell. i found the job political foundation behind the bush didn't oppose stiff. don't speak to me a little early in sports and german current of our roles could cause problems for teams that the european championships in summer the german government says football is traveling from the united kingdom would have to quarantine because of the spread of the indian variant their music's army of arena were host several of the games and some players may have to travel from scotland or england. the german government confirmed football as a nurse exempt from the to be quarantine rules and non residents are banned from

traveling together to them. and tokenize that in the way it's monitoring the situation. and in the german bundis league, i'm tracked from 4 to hired vaults for coach oliver glass. now on a 3 year deal. the ostrich took over vol, spoke in 2019 or lead them to 4 places, facing the spot in the champions league glass, and replaces the hooter. who's moving on to join marcia? much and glad that the new club frankfurt failed to qualify for the champions league finishing the stones. and finally, star gazes across the pacific ribbon have been enjoying a heavenly treat. the 1st total due the eclipse for 2 years. this was the view from the sydney harbour bridge blocking the lights from the sun onto the moon during a super blood. astronomers se isn't once in a decade on leave you with the view from california griffith observatory,

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criticism got loud when it was revealed, candidates signed enough supply contracts to vaccinate every citizen 10 times over . we'll talk to a canadian doctor about that in a moment. first, more on the quest for ne, believe, love coming from the other side of the border with the united states. the there among the unsung heroes of the pandemic, the truckers transporting goods back and forth between the us and canada. one of them is driving from winnipeg in the canadian province of manitoba right across the usa, always driving into the hot spots into hot city. going to the truck stops where there's guys from all over north america there as well too. we're all within 6 feet sometimes. so surprisingly that we haven't been

spreading it around 1st, adam has to the depot to take up his load. ms. time is to take. so friday the texas book comes out to wish him luck. today's a very special trip for adam is going to get back to games cove at 19, in the us actually quite excited about that. i've been hoping to get it for some time. no way wife has been faxing it already 1st and 2nd because she works at the hospital. so was hoping for a matter of time that i can get mine to border between canada and the u. s. has been closed for over a year. that truck is transporting essential goods have been allowed to cross, even without vaccination. but now health is waiting for the canadians in fargo. the 1st major stop on the american side. people here happy to share. we

have extra vaccine in north dakota. and so if people want to be vaccinated, i personally welcome them all to come and get it here. if they, if they choose sure, that makes sense. if they are going back and forth a lot and vaccines are available, you might will get it to as many as you can. sure. why not? i think it's a good idea to get it out to as many people as possible. canadian truckers can take the next highway exit and head the rest area where they can get vaccinated wednesdays to fridays. the inoculation comes just in time for adam. canada is currently in the grip of a 3rd wave and the risk, the truck is growing. adam has nothing but kind words. so his neighbors. thank you for for this cooperation like series coming together like this for truckers is a big plus for sure because sometimes that feels that we're we're the forgotten front line for sure. the hill, 18 canadians on us soil is the only way of getting around the u. s. ban on vaccine

exports. next up, it'll be the teachers. here in north dakota, the america 1st mentality has given way to putting neighbors. don't mcdonnell is a professor of pediatrics in canada. as we heard in that report. we see truck is going across the border to get their immunization. although canada seems to have quite a lot of doses itself. how would you rate canada is vaccination drive in all actually it's been very good been week of the doses that we've received. and it's a large number. 20 some 1000000 more than 89 percent had been distributed to the provinces and territories across the country. and most of those probably just in territories, more than 80 to 90 percent of our are already in arms already immunized. so you wouldn't agree with the criticism from below, and that there's been

a dispute portion that back seen in, taken in, in canada like some other o e c d countries as well. so we have more orders for vaccines than we have population. but whether all those vaccines will arrive is not even clear at this point. so as an example, we have large orders in from a, during evac seeing, but it's not coming as you know, they've been real problems with the delivery of madonna. so candidates decision had been to order from a number of different countries in case the word delivery problem. so it's always different what you've ordered and where you actually get and you know, if we were going to look at who has had the most back seen, well, it would be israel by population. sho, canada is a different strategy though. a single dose covered 19 vaccine strategy. is that working? i mean, that they're telling some people to, to wait so much longer than others in some cases after 4 months. so what happened

is the public health chief public health officer for british columbia was the 1st one who really push for the single dose. she was extremely worried. they have large numbers of seniors proportionately in that province. and she wanted to make sure that all the seniors, all those over 65 got at least one dose as opposed to waiting and to get any dose. and then that was picked up across the country. well, actually she was really quite prescient because we now have data to show that with the back seems that we have both the m r n a back seen and the viral back to back scenes waiting longer than your 4 weeks actually is better. because the 2nd dose is actually a boosting dose. your rates don't go down rapidly after you've had your 1st dose in canada, what this is meant with our 3rd wave of cov, it we're not seeing senior people that are over 65 if 708090 in the hospital. those who have been immunized,

they're just not there. be our average age are in the hospital now. it's in the fifty's with this 3rd way because of all the ones above it have been. well, i mean, i did my province and those between 75 and 7999 per se, and i've received at least one dose for not getting sick vaccines working. and other point of contention mosque policy. what, what do you think about that? as far as people who've already had the virus or have been vaccinated in terms of their b at what they can do now, is that terms of having yeah, there's been a big controversy about mass because you know, the center for disease control in the u. s. fed, if you've been immunized with 2 doses and or you've had to see you're fine, you're good to go. you can go into a restaurant or any bar or amusement parker sports event. canada has been much more quiet about this. number one is, most of our people have only had one dose,

they'll have had a 2nd dose by the summertime, but only one dose so far. the 2nd one is, how do you know who's had vaccine and who has not. and this is discriminatory about your being able to do this because we do know, even if you had 2 doses, a backseat doesn't prevent you from being colonized, having a, some dramatic infection with covert and then taking it back out into the community again. so candidates being much more cautious in the us on a sidebar, did that the us thought that this might increase people's vaccine acceptance because hey, i could now do more things by with immunized. we've not used that as a strategy because right now, surveys have shown, well over 80 percent of adults in canada from 20 years on up want to get tax unaided and a very high percentage already or we're already ahead of the u. s. in terms of those who actually had one dose and actually so we don't see it, it's the same issue. if they do, and we don't think it's

a really good strategy really briefly just a yes or no, no the you've had both jobs. your husbands had one jobs so far i've had one as well . do you finally see some sort of light at the end of the tunnel? yes i do. if you look at the countries where they have very high percentage for people like israel and the u. k. received one or 2 doses of faxing, they are not having the same problems with the 3rd wave of cove it and there will be a 4th wave and probably a 5th way. so yes, it's really effective. mcdonald, thank you very much for being on the show today. you're welcome. now he's a vi question. no, no touched on there. let's see what derrick has to say about it. paul. oh, if you are fully vaccinated, can you still carry the virus and spread it to others? this issue has really been top drawer concern, among health authorities for months. but we now know that so called breakthrough

cases, which is when someone tests positive for coven 19, even after full vaccination, that they are actually really quite rare. we also know that many of the authorized vaccines are extremely effective at preventing serious disease in those rare break through infections. a number of studies have confirmed that if you're fully vaccinated, the chances are more or less the 0 that you'll be hospitalized or die from covert 19. if you end up contracting at anyway, still the worry about vaccinated people catching and possibly transmitting the virus to others. that's persistent for months while the data has slowly built up about exactly how much of a danger they really pose for the centers for disease control. in the u. s. the

data is now convincing enough to have real world consequences in a move that took a lot of experts by surprise, america's public health agency earlier this month, changed masking guidelines. it now says that fully vaccinated people can feel free to go without a mask in most situations. because enough studies like this one from israel show that the number of breakthrough cases is indeed very low. and the chances that those individuals might transmit the virus to others is extremely low as well. that's kind of an about turn and it's really sparked some controversy. some experts don't like it or agree with the agencies decision. but i think it's fair to say that the evidence is quite strong. now that if you've been vaccinated,

fully vaccinated with one of the highly effective vaccines and waited for a couple of weeks, then you're unlikely to carry the virus or, or to spread it to others. for at least a few months after vaccination me derek williams and ben physical and thanks for watching. stay safe to see you again. the the the the

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