we hear. 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 investing in the research . why why why would you or your parents. witnesses report gunfire and explosions in the capital minsk as well or of seize a 3rd night of mass following the disputed presidential election. u.s.

democratic candidate for president joe biden said california senator. is vice presidential running mate. in beirut people gather at the port where a devastating chemical blast occurred a week ago this comes a day after the country's government resigns amid huge pressure from protesters. from moscow thanks for joining us this morning an audience rational 6 am in the capital on down hawkins welcome to the program. russia says it's 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. 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. ok let's take a closer look now the vaccine was developed at moscow's again institute initial clinical trials are said to have been successful mass production is expected to begin as early as next month in september already medical workers teachers and those considered to be in other high risk groups are going to be the 1st to receive the vaccine are released to the general public is set for the new year and other developers 2000 people will be vaccinated shortly as the research carries on in the meantime more than a 1000000000 doses of the russian vaccine i've already been requested by 20 countries around the world there are of course many who are skeptical about the vaccine including health experts in the united states although welcoming the news members of russia's science and research community we've spoken to say this still a lot of work to be done killed to be true if the head of the russian sovereign

wealth fund that's investing in the country's research spoke to r.t. about the new vaccine. what the russians are people of the wall the very dire tools of virus a very tired of the restrictions a very tired of the refused to use those of one of the countries. in which the very active. duty of. people. to raise your normal life is a vixen. well i'm confident enough that the injected legacy myself my wife my you know and your 4 year old parents and i think it's very important that we understand the science behind civics though 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 colonel virus just proved to be very

similar the merce so we had great science and will likely that there is a good has been done really applied very close late there was a fight they're not hiring you tend to chill for russian because. everything will be followed almost i've seen to date i know as a 100 percent always a line tears fell apart or strong immune response or significant side effects of 100 percent protection of animals forest where is the level of immunity. it will produce a stronger immune response going forward we believe because only once who have those 2 different at the number i respect there is a used billet was a vaccine and that means that our machine response will last longer hopefully it will be in more than a year our scientists believe that years but of course physicist act. will be needed to really understand the duration of the vaccination. and ever since

people were starting to receive permission about a week to hear more and more interest but frank a lot of western media outlets blocked access to our information so i think now we have great construed this information beer is it exists and the more people understand what we can do they go because of our site to learn about the election more countries become interested even today which at the age of bounced and by israel serbia militants or brazil who are interest who explore or is a russian mix you don't work with us on that. we spoke earlier to dr peter smith professor of tropical epidemiology at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine he told us the climate crisis has meant the vaccine trials have been accelerated much quicker than normal and 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's in court announcement it's this is that says 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 back seems in which case it's very typical i would say almost impossible to assess whether the paxson is actually efficacious or we don't have sound reservations about knowing that the safety of the vaccine generally new vaccines are not the least until they been in trials 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. as his vice presidential running mate the california senator was borden's rival for a presidential candidate before dropping out and backing him is caleb open 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 answered 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 now tulsi gabbert the democratic candidate and u.s. congresswoman from hawaii called out common areas of the 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 his right

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. he 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 camel 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 regardless she will be the vice presidential nominee of the democratic party. to russian journalists find anything again cohen now safely back in moscow off to

being released from detention in minsk the arrest triggered by the weekend's disputed presidential election but of so spilled into with night police of cordoned off public squares in the capital minsk with several people reportedly detained amid continuing clashes with law enforcement witnesses also reporting explosions. a correspondent on course if with the latest on the 3rd consecutive nights of demonstrations. protests continue for a 3rd day in belarus and also we have

a 3rd day all fuss solidarity around days in various embassies all fabella roos like here in moscow for example people who are so directly with the opposition and bill russo are here for a 3rd day same thing is happening in st petersburg the same thing is happening in in kiev meanwhile some of the russian journalists were detained by the russian police and later released say that they were beaten up by the authorities and the later published video which appears to be proving their claims let's take a look. right here. yesterday if. you will not leave us. some journalists have reported earlier and she's day that men in black all wearing the same uniform approached them brought their equipment and actually confiscated

their memory cards with all this footage minsk meanwhile remains under logs and i'm cloak talking about the center of the city and police can seen you to detain protesters bill russian president i think that over the shank law says that the response from the law enforcement. has been proportionate but on the lunge at the local of the city the room $25.00 police officers have been injured legs 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 opposed to some footage shot from belarus actually it did show that they protesters were using tales against the police so those claims were substantiated i mean while the opposition a candidate for the president told bill roos has reportedly left the country in order. he joined her family in lithuania and now some social media reports said

that shit fled the country some others said that she was forced to buy the bill or russian authorities to leave however she she refuted all of those allegations in this post. 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 tate the european union is calling on bill russian authorities to begin a dialogue with the opposition in order to prevent any further violence the bill russian authorities are saying that they have irrefutable evidence that can and dale the fact that all of the underlying reasons for the pro disability actually came from abroad and they're ready to supply that information to any other country that requests it editor and publisher of been little protest this can do in the face of a police crackdown. sinkers been backed into

a corner his own people have risen up against him after 26 years in office and he can accept that he is whole regime is built on the myth is the father of the country that he's extremely popular and that's simply not the case the police have been extremely brutal 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 that they're setting down the city every day after 7 pm however that can only go on for so long. 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 but are of those killed is now over $200.00 with thousands or hundreds of thousands more left homeless huge demonstrations against all thought is have been held

a daily our correspondent paula has this report from the city but this is the 4th consecutive night that we 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 at which point the crowd this side surges that what people here are telling me is that they're not satisfied with just the basic nation of the lebanese prime minister they want to hold harlem and to resign at the same time make one point you give them to the investigation into what happened at the very last they say it's not enough for an internal investigation but the government here says that that's what they want to our sovereignty now the mood is quite violet towel it doesn't seem that with the passing of days be pope. is to say here are in any way becoming

satisfied if you just look around you can see that there's 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 was only turns into. semi to come and sun 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 is the army has a lot of tear gas in the air they've managed to push the protesters so they were away from the parliament building and down the streets so we've taken a position just behind the army the straight hero is the rocks and stones of the protesters are throwing and there is the least 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 there has been accused of excessive force and they've admitted that they have used live ammunition and tear gas in the past the explosion has also shaken the lives of survivors and all the ways one couple were filming what was meant to be the happiest day of their lives they survived the blast but the scribed what they and their families went through.

i was screaming because i was afraid that i might find some of my family missing or 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 it's now if any of us had been hurt. or dead one of them 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 you the groom in 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 a patient a sister stayed with me for 12 hours and called the hospital and they replied that they were unable to receive anyone. my eyes and head were all affected by the explosion with time i feel better. with cobra despite a number of european countries. according for certain restrictions to be reintroduced according to their latest risk assessment it needs to happen sooner rather than later to stop the spread shot of devinsky has this report. european health authorities is urge countries to reconsider imposing certain restrictions as this in the uptick in the coded 19 transmission rates this is the european center for disease prevention and control and it is 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 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 u.k. are imposing quarantine only individuals coming from certain countries now the european commission is at pains to state that the freedom of movement within european borders is in poor to have despite the warnings of this surge in transmission rates old 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. the rape so while authorities are urging more and more caution it seems that there are more and more people willing to flout those rules. artificial intelligence may be the future but it's still far from perfect at least that's according to a u.k. university study which claims that technology can suffer from racial bias.

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a personal question thank you wait is your operating system is initiated. hello i'm here. siri you're the best thanks mr big and beautiful. to live. in peace where this is jim's our racialized is white that could have dangerous consequences for he was there or not the perceived whiteness of ai will make it more difficult for people of color to advance in the field. 6 gulf powers including saudi arabia have backed plans to extend an arms embargo on iran in a letter to the un and us resolution to be put to a vote later this week but it's widely expected to be vetoed at the security council in the meantime a veteran diplomat with

a colorful past the started working as a washington special envoy for iran and all quarter as the 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 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 him 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 and gautam allah 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 its new envoy but for turan it's anything but new. no difference between john bolton and brian who go 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 a 0 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 given another 4 years and maybe it'll get done if and when we win 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 promises it's going up to 6 30 am here in moscow that's it for the see myself for no join us again and off with the latest news headlines.

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