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 sick r.t. hears from the head of the russian sovereign wealth fund investing in the research . well i'm one of them to the reject it's like see myself and my wife like it when you for your parents. the streets of belarus are seeing a 3rd consecutive night of unrest following the recent presidential election police

have once again blocked off public squares and are detaining people amid clashes with law enforcement. and in beirut people gather at the port where the devastating chemical blast occurred a week ago it comes a day after the country's government collapsed when the cabinet quit summoned huge pressure from protesters. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. russia's claiming to be leading the global race against the coronavirus president putin says the country is the 1st to register a vaccine which is now ready for mass testing. and that's we can use used to say when 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. but i've seen was developed at a moscow institute its 1st clinical trials were said to have been successful and mass production is expected to begin in september medical workers teachers and those considered to be other high risk groups will be the 1st to receive it its planned release to the general public is set 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 although welcoming the newest members of russia's science and research community we've spoken to say there's still much to be done dimitri of the head of the russians over in wealth fund that's investing in the country's research talk to r.t. about the new vaccine. both on the russians people as a wall the very body or tools the virus a very tired of the restrictions

a very tired towards the refuse to come on. it was one of the countries. in which we believe this very state very active. that if. people now have better hope to raise your normal life as a vaccination. well i'm confident enough to inject good legacy of myself my wife my of and your 4 year old parents and i think it's very important that we understand the science behind the vaccines so russia great historic knowledge of books you can get money interest groups has developed very successful all of it seen and mercy and then basically current virus just proved to be very similar the merce though we've had great science and will like that there is a good has been done really applied very close late it was a fight or not hyrst it depends. everything will be

almost i've seen to date i knows of 100 percent always a line cheers elop very strong immune response or significant side effects of 100 percent protection of animals for as you are just a level of immunity. it will produce stronger immune response going forward but we believe we as only ones who counsels do it for end of the night virus vector is a used miller was a vaccine and that means that our vixen response will last longer hopefully it will be more than a year while scientists believe the years but the horse shows us a fact a time will be needed to really understand the duration of the vaccination. and ever since people are starting to receive permission about how we're seeing it more and more interest but frank a lot of western media outlets a lot access to our information so i think now we have break ins through this

information bear is it exists and the more people understand what we can do they go because of all sites lauren involves a vaccine and more countries become interested even today with the age of onset and by israel serbia elude us oh brazil who are interested who or the russian but she don't work with us on. dr peter smith professor of tropical epidemiology at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine believes the cover crisis has meant that packed in trials have been accelerated much more than normal. for a 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 just 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 sure but it sounds as though relatively small numbers of people who have so far received a spike scenes in which case it's very typical i would say almost impossible to assess whether the bank scene is actually efficacious or what would have sound reservations about knowing that the safety of the vaccine 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 state of co that 19 and didn't meet. vaccine trials are being accelerated. under us triggered by the weekend's disputed presidential election and belarus has spilled into a 3rd night police have cordoned off public squares in the capital minsk and several people have reportedly been detained amid continuing clashes with law enforcement.

oh. now joined live by our correspondent who's standing outside of the belorussian embassy in moscow tell us what's happening where you are. course and well over the last 3 days we have been seeing the sun a dire team around me here in front of the bella russian embassy in the center off moscow and it's spina steadily increasing over the last 3 days and let me just show you what's going on here the bill russian embassy was just behind me and to the right you can see some of the protesters who are voicing their support for the

opposition in belarus well in terms of the number all people present here at the moment it's less than they were a couple of hours ago there were about least 350300 right now looks to be a little bit less of course it's not only the protests earth it's the members all thier media as well so these kind of solidarity rallies are taking place here in moscow in st petersburg as well as in the key is in the ukrainian capital in the 1st few days we also saw a similarity in the rallies in israel as well now at the beginning of the protests 3 days ago some wolf a few russian journalists had been detained along with the local journalists as well since then many of them have been released and some of them have actually already crossed the russia bill reuss border and. some of those representatives of

the russian media are saying that the bill or russian police use force against them beat them and they actually published in the video to support their claim let's take a look at that. there are still going to some rather going to look. out there's only a certain loser that. doesn't leave us. so protests in the bella ruse itself continued for a 3rd day in a roll and the police are using all kinds of crowd control equipment against the protesters and that includes tear gas or rubber bullets and stun grenades and it's all happening as we speak now minsk a city center is apparently cordoned off subway stations in a sense or at least 77 of them are close soul other people cannot reach the center

of the bell or russian capital in the police are doing everything in order to disperse the crowds the biller russian health ministry says that hundreds of protesters have been injured and they're now being treated at the hospital old soul over the last 3 days we saw one death of a protester and said the belorussian investigative committee are now have now launched an inquiry into this case and outride that sermon all of the circumstances surrounding the death of this allegedly protests are now the biller russian president alexander lukashenko has made a statement saying vat's law enforcement in his country their response to protests in belarus have been proportionate to say listen. but on the budget the oklahoma city beat the room $25.00 police officers have been injured legs and. broken they

would deliberately hit 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. what we need. now is some footage from bella ruse show that protests heard protesters and indeed threw molotov cocktails in their clashes with the police so they do have some truth to their claims there meanwhile presidential candidate from the opposition svetlana. has left the country to join her family in lithuania noms now some of the social media out there suggested that she fled the country some other comments are said that she was forced out of the country by the belorussian authorities but she herself issued a statement refuting all of those allegations that have a listen. i too can very difficult decision

i did that by myself my friends family colleagues and husband did not influence me many will understand me many will judge many will start tate. european union is calling on the belorussian authorities to begin a dialogue with the opposition in order to prevent any further violence how will the state and also says that its european union is ready to take action against those responsible for clients for illegal arrests and of course those who are responsible for the rigging they election bill are russian authorities on the other hand they have already responded to that saying that they have irrefutable evidence that can unveil all of the underlying reasons soft for what's been happening in belarus over the last 3 days and the authorities in delarue so also said that

they're ready to share all of that information with other countries. bringing us the latest on the unrest and valorous thank you. joining us on the line right now is jaroslav president of a scientific research center in minsk very welcome to the program now we've already had reports of bullets being used stun grenades being used in the russian capital along with protesters again making those barricades do you think we're going to see further violence tonight. no the way it was civil disobedience is going on and things that ignited that completely deep sense that this so to put a whole week of. outrage with so many people who took part in the legal campaigning and all the look at frank opponents and they did not expect such an outrageous outrageous lie to happen and there right now is. a dissenter by the

local lady who will protect dignity and definitely there is only one thing all that gender must go by and there was nothing else it's not about economic policy it's not about your political thing and i think that you don't need. to stop right now i think that this is the end only the beginning of the end of the regime because nobody expected looking back in fact that by monthly disproportionately to . show his political rhetoric and look at the guys manage to hold on to power for 26 years now though do you think that this will actually be able to quell this unrest or is this going to be the point where things turn around. i think that he's been under control of will for most of the force structure that we have a carriage and services we have hundreds of thousands of people in uniform and dog sure that most of the commanders are definitely. in charge and they

do support overlook. june this political election campaign 100000 people. shit they sold that location crazy like can't make a cain he doesn't have any plan and the strategy he. made things worse with the show with you people in the end with the united states with civil society with women who are quite simple they will look at chandra so right now i. see every . major social group sex was before he was alongside so that's probably he made so many mistakes during this campaign that his political power you're likely to be your own deeply conservative no matter how hard you would i think that you've heard bloodshed happens in minsk and other below since it is right now i think that he is and the political leaders will definitely come close. look at anger have when

foreign powers are trying to stir the pot that they were trying to interfere in the last election itself if you have any grounds for such claims. of the like you definitely mentor russia. 33 person or that you're looking to belittle to. make a mask or print 200 more where around the country nobody told them nobody saw the exact criminal case here and i think moscow kiev did not have a chance to have a look deep into that i think the trend is standard saying no matter what happens inside the bellows by the rules it's always either the west or russia or or ukraine or the czech republic or united states on writing up with the likes of but this time the plea. people ordinary people who are sick and tired of such outrageous lies and people who would never we're not interested in politics if you look at not

about to go to the countryside you can probably find it somebody who would protect . his vote for wilkerson so definitely the civil disobedience would be growing and you would move this over to you do not hold iraq to something meaningful as a kind of a compromise with the civil society at the opponent i think that dollars would be even for the tonopah. god's love ramen truck president of a scientific research center in minsk thank you for finding time to join us on the program this evening. and beirut people are gathering for a protest around the outskirts of the port a week after the massive chemical blasts which reduced much of the city to ruins the number of those killed now tops more than 200 with hundreds of thousands left homeless huge demonstrations against the authorities have been held daily our correspondent paula flair reports from the city. but this is the 4th consecutive night that we've witnessed protests here in front of the parliament building the

situation remains as tense as it has been for the last few days as you can see behind me the protesters have started a fire and they throwing rocks and bits of pavement at the police officers and the army on the other side now the army has been responding with tear gas which claimed the crowd this side surges back what people here are telling me is that they're not satisfied with just the way as a nation of the lebanese prime minister they want to hold hanumant to resign at the same time make one important independent investigation into what happened at the very last they say it's not enough for an internal they have a nice investigation but the government here says if that's what they want to show what are issue of sovereignty now the mood is quite volatile it doesn't seem that with the passing of days the protesters here are in any way becoming satisfied if you just look around you can see that they still a lot of anger they still relatively large numbers showing out on the streets

essentially the situation in beirut continues to remain extremely tense and this comes as the numbers of missing suddenly turns into. some meat and i sang 20 people dead we're not hearing sounds of tear gas so the crowd is starting to move backwards the fear is at any moment the situation here and i can i can actually smell to get the situation is becoming increasingly fault with danger. right behind me is the army has a lot of tear gas in the air they've managed to push the protesters further away from the parliament building and down the streets. we've taken a position just behind the army the straight hero is the rocks and stones at the

protesters are throwing and there's the left overs smell of tear gas in the air as you can see the riot police and the army are in full gear they're taking this seriously they have been accused of excessive force and they've admitted that they have used live ammunition and tear gas in the process the explosion in beirut took a devastating toll on families there one couple were about to show you or filling what was meant to be the happiest day of their lives thankfully they survived along with their family describe what they went through. i was screaming because i was afraid that i might find some of my family missing.

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 had been heard. that one of them at the wedding took place in a miserable state of mind because we knew that there were wounded in dead and there was chaos and missing people you agree even the bride and everyone else were confused thank god they got married but their state of mind was bad. during the explosion and i was sitting here on the sofa and we were eating chickpeas. look at the blood on the window. on the day this calamity happened there was no hospital to receive the patient a sister state looking for 12 hours and called the hospital and they replied that

they were unable to receive anyone but. my eyes and head were all affected by the explosion with time i feel better. still to come in the program europe's health authorities call for a lockdown measures to be brought back amid fears of a 2nd wave of covert infections details on that story and more after this. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

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welcome back with covert cases spiking and a number of european countries e.u. health authorities are calling for a certain restrictions to be reintroduced and according to their latest risk assessment it needs to happen sooner rather than later are to charlotte n.c. has the details. european health authorities is urge countries to reconsider imposing certain restrictions as is in the uptick in the coded 19 transmissions rates this is the european center for disease prevention and control and it is an aging member states to take action now in countries where there is evidence that is suggestive of increasing transmission the risk of further escalation is high for those countries the risk is very high if they do not implement or reinforce multiple measures including physical distancing and contact tracing now the report talks about reinstating control measures and while it doesn't specifically absa cape new york down seen here in europe it does state that when those lockdowns happened there was a dramatic decrease in the transmission rate over could be 19 this comes as the

european commission is also urging member states to take action together to avoid a 2nd wave of uncooled action this is a particularly the closure of the border is the situation is now volatile with some member states experiencing falling numbers and some unfortunately experiencing a rising number of cases we noted that in view of these developments some member states decided to maintain will reintroduce certain restrictions to cross border movement sometimes in iraq uncoordinated manner this comes as member states and the new k are imposing quarantine on individuals coming from certain countries now the european commission is at pains to state that the freedom of movement within the european borders is in poor to have despite the warnings of this upsurge in transmission rates could be 19 and the new restrictions in place for example here

in france which means now in certain areas do you see you must wear a face mask there are many people who are still flouting the rules particularly down in the south of france over the weekend where 10000 people are said to gather for any legal. great so while authorities are urging more and more caution it seems that there are more and more people willing to flout those rules. so if 6 gulf powers including saudi arabia have backed plans to extend an arms embargo on iran in a letter to the un u.s. resolution will be put to a vote later this week but it's widely expected to be vetoed at the security council meanwhile a veteran diplomat with a colorful past has started working as washington special envoy for iran a quarter as a story. meet washington's friendly new envoy to iran mr elliott abrams who once had this to say a military strike at iran's nuclear facilities should be viewed as a realistic option he's anything but the new kid on the block though in fact he's

got a very long record of being not exactly diplomatic. you might have heard about his most recent exploits in venezuela where he was appointed on boy just weeks before the failed coup against president nicolas maduro no dictatorship lasts for ever on the sanctions there are plans to reinforce the effort the purpose of the effort is to diminish the resources available to the regime it's very hard i would say for me to see. a dictator such as from the girl can really have a role to play in the building of a democratic venezuela. but venezuela wasn't elliot's only latin american adventure back in the 1980 s. he played an enterable part in trying to overthrow the governments of el salvador and nicaragua i'm glad i'm all up for ronald reagan's administration.

it appears to be an incident which is at least being significantly misused at the very best by the guerrillas. last but definitely not least a twist the iran contra affair when the us government facilitated the sale of weapons to iran and hoped to use the profits to fund drug smuggling concert rebels fighting the socialist government in nicaragua although the reagan administration was able to skirt the borders of legality abram's admittedly guilty. to lying to congress about it and was given a free pass by president george h.w. bush i fail to understand why members of this committee or the american people should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful

washington says abrams as it's new on voight but for turan it's anything but new. no difference between john bolton bryan hook elliott abrams when it comes to the u.s. iran policy american officials have bitten off more than they could chew same applies to my pump aoe donald trump and successes in addition to promising to suffocate iran with maximum pressure sanctions trump still hasn't provided a better nuclear deal than the one he took the us out of 2 years ago but who knows give him another 4 years and maybe it will get done if and when we wish. we will make deals with the rand very quickly washington's been slapping sanctions and embargoes on iran for decades and you know what the country's still kicking but don't worry throwing another war hawk at iran will work this time washington promises. a round up of the day's top news for now thanks for tuning in.

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