and. so join us in the deaths. or remain in the shallows. russia says it's developed the world's 1st coronavirus vaccine though clinical trials have yet to be completed the health minister says it's been tested and is safe r.t. hears from the head of the russian sovereign wealth fund that's investing in the research. myself my wife my. parents. witnesses reported gunfire and explosions in the capital minutes because the 3rd

night of mass on a rest follows the disputed presidential election. u.s. democratic candidate for president joe biden the former senator. is vice presidential running mate. people gather at the port where a devastating chemical blast occurred a week ago this comes a day after the country's government quit huge pressure from protesters. live from moscow thanks for joining us tonight r.t. international i'm daniel hawkins revue tuning in from welcome to the program. russia has said it's leading the global race against coronavirus president putin says the country's the 1st to register a vaccine which is now ready for human testing. you know who can use us in the sewer and 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. so more about the vaccine it was developed at moscow's again institute initial clinical trials are said to have been successful a mass production is expected to begin in the september now medical workers teachers and those considered to be in other high risk groups will be the 1st to receive it released the general public is set for the new year the developers add 2000 people will be vaccinated shortly as research continues meanwhile more than 1000000000 doses of the russian vaccine have already been requested by more than 20 countries across the world now and nevertheless there are many who remain skeptical of course about this vaccine including health experts in the united states they are welcoming the news members of russia's science and research community we've spoken to say this

a lot to be done now kill to be 3 of the head of the russian sovereign wealth fund that's investing in the countries researched spoke to us about the new vaccine. or when the russians people all as a war a very tired of the wire was a very tired of the restrictions a very tired all the review. it was. one of the countries. in which it was very very active read all sorts of. people now about the whole. there's a vixen. well i am confident enough to inject a 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 defines of exchange so russia great historic knowledge of books you can get money institute has developed very successful of all of it seen and mercy and then basically current virus just proved

to be very similar the merce so we've had great science and will likely that there is a good has been done really applied where 8 loza lead was a fight or not hyrst event to chill for russian because. everything will be fobbed almost i've seen to date i knows a 100 percent always a line tears fell apart or 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 are still only ones who capsules do it for and at the number i respect there is of the lid was a vaccine and that means that our books in response will last longer hopefully it will be more than a year all scientists believe that years but of course physicist fact. will be

needed to really understand the duration of the vaccination. and ever since people are starting to receive permission about it more and more interest but frank a lot of western media outlets logged access to our information so i think now we have break ins through this information barrios it exists and the more people understand what we can do they go because there's a outside lorna valves of x. more countries become interested even today with the age of onset and by israel serbia elude us though brazil who are interested who or the russian mix you know work was awsome. and look to peter smith professor of tropical epidemiology at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine told us that code crisis has made the vaccine trials have been accelerated much more than normal . only significant in the sense that there are about 150 different back scenes that are being developed none of them to my knowledge as yet in license so in that sense

it's important alex that if 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 sure but it sounds as though relatively small numbers of people have so far received this fax scenes in which case it's very typical i would say almost impossible to assess whether the facts scene is actually efficacious we don't know 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 suspect a co that 19 and damage. faxing trials are being accelerated.

the u.s. democratic party candidate for president joe biden has picked the commander harris as his vice presidential running mate a california senator was biden's rival for a presidential candidate before dropping out and endorsing him instead of more pain with the details. after much anticipation joe biden has finally announced his vice presidential running mate it will be the california senator kaamelott harris who has a long record in california politics as a prosecutor and an attorney general in the state before rising to the rank of u.s. senator now what's quite interesting is that she was one of joe biden's opponents for the democratic nomination and on the debate stage among other democratic candidates she had some rather harsh words for joe biden she called him out on his record supporting school segregation and she invoked her own life experience to criticize him for it this is what kamel harris said to joe biden you know there was a little girl in california who was part of the feck in class to integrate her

public schools and she was bused to school every day and that little girl was away now kamel harris is known for playing up the idea that there is some kind of russian conspiracy against her she claims that russian bots were targeting her on the internet that russia was out to get hurt cetera probably the most controversial thing about camila harris is her record as a prosecutor in california comma harris locked up the parents of the children things who were truant from school she also jailed thousands of people for the crime of smoking marijuana and then in a recent interview joked about the fact that she smoked marijuana in her south and if now tulsi gabbert the democratic candidate and u.s. congresswoman from hawaii called out calmly there is a debate and significantly hurt her in the polls by highlighting her record as a criminal prosecutor now donald trump has already reacted to the fact that kamel harris was selected as joe biden's running mate here's what he said to me why

number one draft pick and we'll see how she works out she did very very poorly in the. primaries as you know he was expected to do well. and she. it was. right around 2 percent. and spent a lot of money he had a lot of things happening and so i was a little surprised that he picked him so that's donald trump saying that he's pretty surprised in thinking that it's not a very strategic choice now what's also interesting to point out is the comma harris has quite a record when it comes to issues like police brutality and mass incarceration and she's very much not the favorite candidate of the black lives matter movement her record as a prosecutor is all over twitter right now being highly scrutinized but regardless she will be the vice presidential nominee of the democratic party. 2 russian journalists if you have to tell if i'm denise that i can come on now safely

back in moscow off to being released from detention in minsk and rest triggered by the weekend the speech of the presidential election and but it was a spilled into a 3rd night but he said cordoned off public squares in the capital minsk with several people reportedly detained and continuing clashes with law enforcement witnesses have also reported hearing explosions. correspondent traveling across sort of highs that i test on the 3rd consecutive nights of protests. protests continue for the 3rd day in villa roots and also we

have a 3rd day all fuss solidarity around these in various embassies all fabella or is like here in moscow for example people who are so dire to people position militarists are here for a 3rd day same thing is happening i think you just heard the same thing is happening in egypt meanwhile some of the russian journalists in my. piece i think for me say that they were beaten up by the leader video which appears to be proving their claims they think. feel like they are feeling good somebody's going to look. out you know what are you free to do that. doesn't leave us with you. some journalists have reported earlier and tuesday that the men in black male wearing the same uniform approached them broke their equipment and should be confiscated they're the memory of course with all of

this footage minsk meanwhile remains under lockdown i'm talking about the center of the city and police continue to that same protesters the russian president said i think that over the 2nd says that the response from the enforcement and from the roof has been proportionate but on the edge of the cliff the city around $25.00 police officers have been injured legs hands broken they would deliberately hit so they responded why are you crying now the response will be adequate we will not allow you to tell the country or parts of the well. what some footage from below who's actually you did show with that the protesters were using cocktails against the police so all of those claims were substantiated i mean while the opposition they can did for the president told bill rooms that were. or to the left

for me or your family in lithuania now some social media reports said that ship fled the country some others said that she was forced to by the bill of russian authorities to leave however she sure refuted all of those allegations in this post hippy know she has really big issue here i took a 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 to hate the european union is calling the bill russian authorities to begin a dialogue with the opposition in order to prevent any further violence that the russian authorities are saying that they have irrefutable evidence that can and dale but the fact that so all of the underlying reasons for the prompt killings actually came from a broader narrative why that information any other country that 1st. editor and

publisher barrister those those little breathless can do in the face of a growing police crackdown. so it has been backed into a corner his own people have risen up against him after 26 years in office and he can't accept that he his whole regime is built on the myth he's the father of the country that he's extremely popular and that's simply not the case the police have been extremely brutal up to now and what's remarkable if you compare this to ukraine or some of the other kind of revolutions that we've had across the region the. protests have become very violent very quickly at the end of the day there's very little that the protesters can do i mean they're building barricades last night they're shutting down the city every day after 7 pm however that can only go on for so long. in beirut people have gathered for a protest there on the outskirts of the port a week after a massive chemical blast there reduced parts of the lebanese capital to ruins

a number of those killed is now more than 200 with hundreds of thousands more left homeless huge demonstrations against your thirty's have been held daily our correspondent paula 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're 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 at which point 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 they call important independent investigation into what happened at the very last they say it's not enough for an internal of unease 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 the same surely the situation in beirut continues to remain extremely tense and this comes as the numbers of missing suddenly turns into. some meat and i've sung 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 for the danger.

right behind me as 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 ami v $380.00 is the rocks and stones at the protesters are throwing and there's the left over 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 past but now the explosion has also shaken the lives of survivors in other ways one couple were filming what was meant to be the happiest day of their lives they survived the blast but describe what they and their family went through.

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 screaming we were looking at each other to now if any of us had been hurt. or dead one minute and then the wedding took place in a miserable state of mind because we knew that there were wounded and dead and there was chaos and missing people the groom and 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 chick peas. look at the blood on the window.

on the day this calamity happened there was no hospital to receive the patient a sister stayed with me. for 12 hours and called the hospital and they were told that they were unable to receive anyone but. my eyes and head were all affected by the explosion was the time i feel better. cases rise in multiple countries fears of a 2nd wave a new restrictions one that such just in a few moments time. something seemed wrong wrong just don't call. me. yet to shape

out these days. and in detroit because the trail. went on many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory dramatic development that only moves. very.

welcome to the program with sparking a number of european countries. calling for certain restrictions to be reintroduced and according to their latest risk assessment it needs to happen sooner rather than later to stop the spread. european health authorities is urge countries to reconsider imposing certain restrictions as is in the uptick in the code with 19 transmission 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 while it doesn't

specifically absa cape new york down see 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 the particularly the closure of borders 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 mannah this comes as member states and the new k. are imposing poor until 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 all this surge in transmission

rates over could be 19 and the new restrictions in place for example here france which means now in certain areas at tools 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 in the legal. grave so while authorities are urging more and more caution it seems that there are more and more people willing to flout those rules. 6 goals powers including saudi arabia have backed loans to extend an arms embargo on iran in a letter to the united nations now a u.s. resolution will be put to a vote later this week but it's widely expected to be vetoed at the security council mean in the meantime a veteran diplomat with a colorful past the started working for washington's special envoy for iran and all quarter has the details. 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 and 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 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 missed used 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 its new envoy but for turan it's anything but new no difference between john bolton brian who 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 will. we will make deals with the rand very quickly washington's been flopping 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

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invisible class up next article question shall go back in 30 minutes with the latest see about that. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area rush up. what is it suddenly about the south china

sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on this story for you today right here 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. is what i did. master of the masses. i'm still working on this one it's called gnostic. and it's about a girl.