on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again. russia claims to have developed the world's 1st corona virus vaccine although clinical trials have yet to be completed the health minister says it's been tested and is safe also ahead. the streets of bell roofs are seemingly lining up for a 3rd night of unrest following the recent presidential election police have once again started blocking off public squares and detaining people. in beirut people gather at the port where the devastating chemical blast occurred

exactly one week ago it comes a day after the country's government collapsed when the gavel cabinet quit i mean huge pressure from protesters. there watching our to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. the unrest triggered by the weekend's disputed presidential election in belarus is expected to spill into a 3rd night police have already cordoned off public squares in the capital minsk and several people have reportedly been detained as follows 2 days of increasingly violent clashes between protesters and police that led to thousands of arrests and one person killed earlier today people could be seen bring flowers to the location where the demonstrate that lost his life. during the protests in minsk. no

reporters were detained while covering the clashes earlier the bell russian authorities released several russian journalists were taken to the russian embassy and driven by car to moscow one of the reporters stimmung pair of could be seen in earlier days after clashes being knocked unconscious and dragged away by security forces. just taking in people that i do not think. 'd i've swallowed yes q yes i've come out but i want to leave in a free and a peaceful country goodness that you. welcome was how much of this mass this is going on can you take i don't understand we're told. it's the worst civil unrest belarus has seen since the collapse of the soviet union

nearly 30 years ago protesters have been building roadblocks and throwing molotov cocktails videos also emerged of a car being driven at an officer present location to insist the police response has been in order despite mounting concern from. the u.s. is deeply concerned about the conduct of the election which was not free and fair severe restrictions on access for candidates intimidation tactics against opposition candidates and detentions of peaceful protesters and germ of the smog the process but on the. $25.00 police officers have been injured legs hands broken they would deliberately his it so they responded why are you crying now the response will be adequate so we will not allow you to tear the country apart which is well meanwhile the main opposition candidate has fled to neighboring lithuania saying she did it for her family. i took

a very difficult decision i did by myself my friends family colleagues and husband did not influence me many will understand me many will judge many will start to hate. russian citizens living abroad have been staging their own protests outside the embassy and moscow demonstrators demanded change at home a number of russians gathered to demanding the release of russian journalists who've been detained in minsk are trying to has the details. think of the following situation in a post soviet republic russia's western neighbor on the one hand the opposition daily gearing up for nonstop protests like there's no tomorrow against a president who is a covert dissident who's been in charge of the country for more than 25 years i can tell you that some of the opposition have already been posting ways and instructions how to go and combat with police how to build barricades and yes

indeed there have been some instances of authorities being attacked but then on the other hand that same president alexander lukashenko claiming a landslide victory in a poll where he didn't allow pretty much any international observers ironically because of covert 19 and he also said that he wouldn't tolerate anything close to the my down protests in neighboring ukraine under these kind of circumstances when officers it seems have gotten the orders to get hold of pretty much anyone who decides to go out in the street to voice their discontent up probably journalists are the ones that are becoming the most vulnerable after the protesters and indeed we got proof of that on monday night when quite a few reporters were detained in belarus and cluing r.t.

russian correspondent constantin but he did violent yes but i asked riot police officers where the road was blocked and they said no it's no come with us they twisted my hands and pushed me into their vehicle 200 or something meters away i should say they didn't beat me they behaved relatively well as well as riot police can behave as usual they put a plastic tonico my hands but didn't tighten it too much it was difficult to breathe so i didn't have enough force to climb on to the vehicles didn't just fall on its throat so these were just single isolated cases and i can tell you that with . some reporters' connection has been lost for more than a day but in constantine's case he was lucky to be released quickly and he didn't suffer any injuries but again that wasn't the case all the time because we saw pictures of another colleague of mine. who's an experience were a journalist we saw him being carried seemingly unconscious after being beaten up and i can tell you that here outside the all russian embassy in moscow on monday night we saw fellow reporters coming here to deliver

a strong message to the authorities in minsk when you go to the visit with me and i'm renting simeone pier go flat before going to minsk he texted me if something happens to me send money to my wife yesterday night i was monitoring events and saw a photo of a guy being dragged by his hands looks like simul him but not his clothes so i forgot about it and on monday it turns out it was him see morning edition we want to see some of the news that is to known and others in the long list of journalists no matter russian or not who are abused violence against journalists is unacceptable the aren't produce a prince and the bands there are observers covering them does the opposition seem to have the intention of stopping what they're doing perhaps the answer is no you can look at the telegram channels through which the word is being spread in some cases they only had 100 or 1000 subscribers now again in some cases this number has gone up to hundreds of thousands so this is clearly

a signal that all the other had like i said with all the riot gear with rubber bullets with water cannon the authorities are saying that they won't tolerate any of this so we could be in for more trouble in the streets of del roose with protesters unfortunately possibly with journalists and police officers as well. joining us live now on the phone is a nice 1000000 sock ordinator of the bowler russian foreign policy program at the minsk dialogue council on international relations now as protests are apparently going to be spilling into yet another night of unrest what do you think it will be seeing tonight will there be more violence. it's difficult to say right now because last night. we saw very. bold. very. co-worker protests and was

a clash of all of the means and on the one hand there is a possibility that. protesters down the sued the government is very. ready to work the day for this would be less populated by bots on the other hand so there is a possibility that. people got angry after these clashes and now i think. most of governments are thinking all were either to introduce martial war or somewhere to fix matches according to the ocean constitution and stop this process quite severely or just to allow it to. read the only go down and today so i think today's evening. will be decided that. these day will be decided day and if we will see

mass protests in other towns and cities of dollars i think i can predict that those who use more force and for the use at least from some parts of martial law. we're talking about martial law other restrictions do you think such a brutal response is necessary in a situation. actually i don't know because i have no old information so well my. before my eyes but i think that according to the previous history or for what they were ordered to be doing. previous such type of on the rest of the provincial elections they're ready to use force. they feel that there are even just small springs of protest and you know them not to.

feed them up and to grow and there isn't one such a conception of preemptive authoritarianism when it comes to belarus and alexander lukashenko. still in power just because he's serious about every threats and every challenges to his personal for it is on the that's why i think all from those in authority they react overwhelmingly and they are not proportionately and i think to my mind that. these days we will see and we are seeing actually where we can a saying that models of government. taking these forcible seriously and respond very severe of many people have claimed that these scenes are extremely unusual for bell russian people do you think that the nation has just reached a turning point with this current president. no i don't think so.

this is creation more or less. was predictable it was predicted because from time to time. they need to. have their protest just to show. government that there is a big portion of the population that is not. support incumbent president and for example in 2000 and sam's weakness. not the same box still unrest protests and we have new generation growing up under a bush and co which needs. different different attitudes and different perhaps instruments of for politics they need more participation in politics and in these sectors of society is a. very into protestant. for at least

56 years in bellerive there was no. city or clashes and that's why they are more or less relaxed about be possible retaliation from authorities and. bhushan authorities able to show that they are ready to use force and these. added used by younger generations and. now were incumbent government they are contradicting each other and that's why we have. a situation where we do not have free and free or elections according to can international standards. produce such type of protests we've been speaking with denise mellon south korean leader of the ball russian foreign policy program at the minsk dialogue council on international relations thank you for finding time to join us

on the program today. and beirut people are currently gathering for peaceful protests are on the outskirts of the port it comes exactly a week after the massive chemical blasts reduced much of the city to ruins the number of those killed now tops more than $200.00 with hundreds of thousands left homeless huge demonstrations against the authorities have been held daily several 1000 protested on the streets yesterday under the slogan bury the authorities 1st but didn't even stop when it was announced the cabinet had quit they want the entire parliament to resign as well hundreds of wounded in the clashes with police and one officer was killed tear gas and rubber bullets were used against the crowds when they stormed government buildings the explosion has taken a devastating toll on families one couple were about to show you were feeling what was meant to be the happiest day of their lives thankfully they survived and along with their families described what they went through.

i was screaming because i was afraid that i might find some of my family missing were injured or something bad happened to them. the most terrible moment was when we heard the loud explosion. and when we heard scream and we were looking at each other to now if any of us hadn't heard. that one that the wedding took place in a miserable state of mind because we knew that they were willing to didn't dead and there was chaos and missing people the groom in the bride and everyone else were confused thank god they got married but this state of mind was bad. during the explosion and i was sitting here on this sofa and we were eating chicken

. look at the blood on the window. on the day this calamity happened there was no hospital to receive a patient a sister stayed with me for 12 hours and called the hospital and they were taught that they were unable to receive anyone but. my eyes and head were all affected by the explosion with time i feel better. rush is claiming to be leading the global race against the corona virus president putin says the country is the 1st to register a vaccine which is now ready for mass testing next week i'm using it she would you as far as i know this morning the 1st vaccine for corona virus in the world was registered on the country's health minister to further inform us about that but i

already know that it's working effectively and forming a tough immunity. that axion was developed at an institute in moscow its 1st clinical trials were said to have been successful and mass production is expected to begin and september medical workers teachers and those considered to be in other high risk groups will be the 1st to receive it as plan released to the general public is that for the new year the developers say 2000 more people will be vaccinated shortly as research continues meanwhile more than 1000000000 doses of the russian vaccine have been requested by more than 20 countries nevertheless there are many who remain skeptical about this vaccine including health experts in the us now to discuss this live issue we're going to cross live to dr peter smith professor of tropical epidemiology at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine now how significant is today's announcement that a russian vaccine has been registered. oh it's significant in the sense that there

are about 150 different back scenes that are being developed none of them to my knowledge has yet been licensed so in that sense it sets in court announced that it's this is the 1st license vaccine unfortunately what we don't know at the moment is what the data were that actually was the basis for the license here and it sounds as though recipe small numbers of people have so far received this taxi in which case it's very difficult i would say almost impossible to assess whether the bank scene is actually efficacious or even which have sound reservations about knowing that the safety of the vaccine so that i think one has to sit and stew onesies much more data on this vaccine one has to be very cautious about this announcement when it comes to that how long do they usually take to prove the safety of a vaccine and. whether 2 kinds of. safety has one has to be concerned about the

facts there are some events that occur shortly after tax nation and those can overstate the absurd fairly quickly the generally one will want to put the product into several 1000 individuals to see whether or not there were a person fakes of the vaccine. and it doesn't sound as though this vaccine has been in anything like that number of people however vaccines at this general nature have been used you know the experimental products and that's generally how to be safe so that the short term safety of this vaccine. i would doubt that it's a stablish that his taxi in one couldn't be great the concerns about the moment the other sort of safety issue ones that occur some time alter backs nation and of course that can't be assessed with this vaccine because it's a very new vaccine and so we don't know about the long term effects so generally

new vaccines are not the least until they've been in trials for a year or 2 years possibly even 5 years because of the exceptional situation with the specter co the 19 pandemic. vaccine trials are being accelerated but i know that each the fast is that some of the other manufacturers are expecting to get use results is in a stream to 6 months after starting their so-called efficacy and safety trials do you think that other countries will continue to wait for their own vaccines and study them or is there likely to be an international approach to this i'm pretty hopeful there's going to be an international approach as soon as a back seat is established as being safe and effective in preventing the disease then i think. the there will be interest across the world in having access to that

back scene if it is sufficiently efficacious that will be of course challenging because x. meeting ultimately 7000000000 people is going to take quite a lot of maxine whether it's one vaccine manufacturer or many so that in terms of access to vaccines initially that's going to be quite challenging and clearly a vaccine that is produced in need to be to country it's likely that there will be 1st access to that bank seen in that country although quite to get it so he may to ensure that particularly to know in term time treats it went back seen zone keep at it they are rapidly and mailable in those countries which would normally not be entrance forward to buy back scenes of normal market prices. and exactly is there any way to ensure that the vaccines remain affordable and easily available to all people yeah other big effort separate international efforts been made to ensure

this. both countries are being asked to sign up to something called the kovacs facility which is hope it'll be something night 7 or $8000000000.00 donated which will be enough to purchase something like $2000000.00 doses of vaccine when vaccines are available and those would be distributed to the countries signing up which would include glowing terms countries and they would i think get them for 3 court great unsubsidized prices went as high income countries that are on the scene pay much closer to what the market price for a vaccine would be and the world health organization last week was arguing that any vaccine would not represent that magic bullet that people seem to be looking for how much should hope be managed at this point. yeah i think it's not the magic bullet it being 1st the issue that i've just raised actually producing say from 1000000 doses of vaccine or anything like that number is going to be extraordinary

challenging so that it's going to be a number of years before we really even if we have effective vaccines we had a vaccinate them the whole world's population so in the meantime. there's going to have to continue to be other control measures to stop the spread of infection but it's possible that some would say blithely that any vaccine is developed will be totally efficacious it will reduce the risk of disease for it won't eliminate it and so there may be this may be an infection lightly i think that we're going to have to leave we would have a very many years possibly decades we've been thinking with dr peter smith professor at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine that you for your time and your comments. despite being the height of summer it's time to cover up in paris where mouth has become mandatory even out on

the streets as part of efforts to quell a worrying spike encoded infections in the french capital are charlotte urban ski reports. the french capital has become the latest city to make wearing a face mask a bleak a tree doors now in certain parts of paris and its suburbs it's no longer only shops and enclosed public spaces where you'll need one of these meaning on this street i can walk freely without a mask but as i turn here i am compelled to moscow. areas indicated on this map in red show where the new rules will be inforced the aim is to slow down there is option of the covered $1000.00 a 2nd wave is expected there's an urgent need to strengthen prevention measures if we do not want a new lockdown as well as outdoor markets around the busy streets wearing the mask is now obligatory for anyone walking here along the banks of the sen though some

are already ignoring it with paris in the grip of a heat wave some have questioned the logic behind that decision sensible. especially here yesterday i think it was 40 degrees so the mosque is hard to take it is indeed difficult to swear to it's uncomfortable it makes even more seek what i don't interest in the decision because we already were called leaves mosques but in the street we are not in contact with people for long. know her many people with khun a virus so it's important to wear a mask for good health. i see that on the street a lot of people do not wear masks i don't think that. checks will be carried out to ensure compliance but in other french cities more extreme measures of being taken.

here in nice cameras equipped with loud speak is being used in a bid to remind people that masks must be worn so much have questioned the signs behind a mask wearing in an open environment so far no cluster originating from an open environment has been revealed in france while a recent japanese study estimated that you are almost 20 times less likely to contract the virus outside civic through the best because it is true that wearing masks is important as they protect others and ourselves but what is difficult to accept is that masks are believe it or in some places where we are not in danger and where we wouldn't put others in danger jurists might find it confusing when they come here and there monitored by cameras obliged to wear masks and here in los because reminding everybody to keep their distance i know it is annoying but i wear

a must even when it's 30 degrees i prefer to stand at home and not being able to work i think mosques are effective in crowded places like home public transport on main street or in shopping malls even the french health minister has conceded that masks a foothold to the transmission of coping. will say to the to the advice is to stand for france needs to hang on the french need to hang on you've seen the increase in the circulation of the virus in france in europe and in the world and japan for example is facing a resumption of the circulation of the virus despite the wearing of mosques including in the outside world. but as front struggles to administer enough tests to keep up with the demand and the country's top scientific body warning that the battle could be lost at any moment to control the spread of the virus it's possible that politicians feel the need to be seen doing something even if that

something in this case wearing a mask outdoors leaves many doubting. paris. artificial intelligence may be the future but it is still far from perfect at least that's according to a u.k. university study which claims the technology can suffer from racial bias. their presentations of intelligent machines and our future with them are back to the white racial their whiteness a proxy for how we perceive they see this passion. and . the landing suggested robots quite naturally i was hoping to

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