find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. truth. thanks. elaine. in the headlines this wednesday the 12th of august taking a trip to what's hoped to be the pandemic panacea production line artie visits the factory making russia's now approved covert vaccine after getting orders for a 1000000000 doses. truck in the trouble a 4th day of protests in the last ravaged beirut for families of the missing grief is of course replacing hope you've got a story of one family with 3 firefighters describing the agony of waiting for news about what's happened to them. and who really when she grows up she can know there

was a hero and she will know what happened to him. she will no longer have died for a reason. and as a 3rd night of antigovernment protests following the disputed election there despite calls from the opposition candidate now to stop after she's fled the country. let me out here in moscow good morning there live from r.t. international's world news h.q. it's kevin oh in here with this half hour update for you. russia says it's received orders for about a 1000000000 doses of its coronavirus vaccine from 20 day sions choose day it was revealed that russia had given the world's 1st regulatory approval to a covert vaccine. you know who can use us in the sewer and 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 i hope but i haven't heard any. feel that i hope that the russians have actually definitively proven that the vaccine is in effect i seriously doubt that they've done it or bigger about this vaccine it was developed at moscow's gamma layer institute initial clinical trials of said to have been successful in 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 and then they're hoping a release to the general public will take place in the new year the developers are the 2000 people will be vaccinated shortly as the ongoing research continues more than a 1000000000 doses of this russian vaccine of already been requested from different

countries abroad as well now now the less there are a few skeptics about the vaccine including health experts in the united states don't cotton has been to visit the facility where sputnik 5 as it's called is being produced. it's hoped to be a game changer in the fight against the corona virus and while many questions remain unanswered about russia's new vaccine the authorities are confident enough to go forward with mass production and we were lucky enough to get an exclusive look into how it's done. the drug is nicknamed st nick 5 hundreds of thousands of units will be produced here the sheer speed at which russian scientists have been able to develop this vaccine has raised a lot of eyebrows across the world especially since russia's health ministry

approved it before the end of the 3rd phase of testing still all the initial testing phases were done without any problems and the management of this factory seems to have a very positive outlook. is that it's absolutely accurate that specific antibodies protective n.c. bodies are being formed as unknowns that's a vaccination we can also say that for the time volunteers have been injected with this vaccine the number of antibodies has been sufficient and remain circulating in the blood protecting them here's where the final stage of the production process takes place where the vaccine itself is inspected for the purpose of quality control if the units passon specs in there are labeled and prepared for packaging the factory said mechanic was able to tell us a bit more about what exactly takes place here. so generally we can pack up to 120000 vials a day those ready to go into production are loaded onto a conveyor and after that a special marking machine then they go to the box i'm getting packed.

the factory began vaccine production so quickly after moscow gave its approval that workers are still in the process of creating a packaging facility for the end products it just goes to show how eager russia is to get this vaccine into the hands of those who need it most dominant corder r.t. . dimitry of the head of the russian submarine well from this been investing in the country's research talk to us about this new event in small detail than. welcome the russians people as a wall the very air tools the virus a very tired of the restrictions of very tired tones they refused to come on. those of fags one of the contras is approved in which we believe this very state very

active raid was it if a month of all your people now have a better hope to resume a normal life is a vaccination. well i'm confident enough to inject good looks in myself my wife my of and your 4 year old parents and i think it's very important that we understand the science behind civics so russia great story knowledge which you can get money aims to you it has developed very successful in all of its seen and mercy and then basically current virus just proved to be very similar the merce so we could great science and will like that there is a good has been done really applied very closely it was a fight they're not hiring you tend to chill for auction because. everything will be almost i've seen to date i know is a 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 used to level of immunity. it will produce a stronger immune response going forward we believe because all the ones who counsels do it for and the number i respect there is a used billet was a vaccine and that means that our machine responds will last longer hopefully it will be more than a year our scientists believe that will be years but of course for this effect. 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 locked 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 there's of all lauren involves

a vaccine and more countries become interested even today with the age of bondsman by israel serbia. oh brazil who are interested who or the russian but she don't work with us on the. professor of tropical epidemiology at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine spoke to us to tell us about the code crisis the men know that that missing trolls have to be exonerated much more than normal. only significant in the sense that there are about 150 different back scenes that are being developed now no to my knowledge has yet been licensed 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 the specs scenes in which case it's very typical i would say almost impossible to assess whether the paxson

is actually efficacious or 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 specter of co the 19 and damage vaccine trials are being accelerated. focus on beirut next where citizens racked with rage and grief turned out again in angry protests exactly a week after the devastating explosions killed more than $200.00 and laid waste to parts of their city huge demonstrations against the authorities have been held daily a middle east correspondent paula slayer 1st off source some of the latest overnight disturbances. 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 but suppose a from and 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 an easy investigation but the government here says that that's what they want to show our 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 sun tens of 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 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 here 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 paula slayer there as well as the civilian casualties from last week's blast has also been great for the families of firefighters who are still missing they were among the 1st responders to the blaze would show broke up before the huge blast paul is pretty hearing about the only wish there were letters are facing still waiting for answers. while relatives are burying their loved ones killed in last week's blast one family can only wish for that and as the hours slowly tick on they praise are fading 22 i'm son grandson and cousin on missing all members of the same 5 fighting unit that was the 1st to respond now from

a group of 10 fighters 4 bodies have been found and 6 on missing the 1st 2 days we were hoping they were live but now we're on the 8th day and now we lost hope now we are hoping that they can bring in mail from their fingers 40 kilometers from the scene of the blast its impact is still being felt this sign says rest in peace our heroes of carter bar and posters pinpoint the way to the family's home. mom was father of 2 daughters the oldest is just 2 and a half years old and keeps asking for her daddy he phoned her on the way to the blast instead he'll call back later but that phone call never came the other day i told my daughter the 3 of them operating from up above. i don't and she can also pray to them that they can hear her and hopefully when she grows up she can know her father was a hero and she will know what happened to him. she will know my father died for

a reason szabo cohen was not supposed to go to the fire he volunteered because the driver didn't know the way and he said let's get there even one minute only because maybe we can save his soul this video footage shows him in the bottom left hand corner almost out of the frame calling for backup a minute later the 2nd explosion erupted followed by deadly silence at 1st we were waiting for all of them to come and sit with us and continue our life and then we said that maybe one of them can come home even if he's deformed there even if he's burnt anything added least one of them can come home toss any one of them not all of them but this is too much they didn't find anything szabo he idolized his uncle and wanted to serve in the same fire fighting unit as him at just 20 years old he was his family's bread when i. was only 26 and preparing to get engaged i thought

should i hope that god help me i don't know how to live any more i can't imagine how can i live now because i only have one son whatever a turn here or there i find something for me belongings how could i live without my son the family says he won't hold a funeral until there is someone or something to bury their way that might not happen or else god that no one feels what we are feeling people cannot tell us rest in peace because there is no one to rest in peace we have found as we finish the interview tony says to me god bless you in the family had something i wish best for him to be sold policia r.t. pavement. shocking what they've been through in the south since national wednesday morning from moscow good morning from a kevin politico so how could a secular. from rival to running mate now where we profile democrat joe biden's pick for vice president named last night among our stories ahead.

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join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. there's been a 3rd night of unrest on the streets of belarus following the weekend's disputed election that handed the country's longtime leader a 6th term in office his main opposition rival now has fled to neighboring leafy way mia sporadic crowds increasingly angry at the vote result faced off with riot police using stun grenades and rubber bullets. the to.

work. some protesters tried building barricades only for police to dismantle them overnight also this video apparently of an apartment block or residents there trying to stop what appeared to be police beating up a protester by throwing a door at them it's then claimed that officers began shooting up at the windows in response and the internet in belarus fired back up earlier this wednesday morning after being blacked out for days sites might still get cut off again though depending on the severity of any protests expected again as dusk falls jacqueline

takes a look at the restive post-election beller us. right now the world is being reminded that one man alexander lukashenko has ruled belarus for a long 26 years and he intends to add another 5 claiming 80 percent of all the ballots from sunday's presidential election have a tick next to his name but that's not something a considerable amount of belorussians believe taking their frustrations onto the streets started off with a peaceful protests mass of groups coming out and shining flashlights but the tear gas and rubber bullets started flying and chaos has taken hold. there are 2 realities and deloris right now and the 1st there is looking go calling the vote a celebration but one that people are trying to spoil by inciting aggression and spreading misinformation foreign powers media and social media channels are to be blamed as well for example there's been claims of russia's interference with online

posts about russian special forces supposedly spotted attacking people on the streets of minsk. not eyes yes. yes just all that information was later corrected to saying it couldn't be confirmed they were russian once it's out there there's no take it back so look at shingles the reality is that the protestors are bad and the special forces have no choice but to act like this. but only about. $25.00 police officers have been injured legs 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 the 2nd reality though is that of the protesters hundreds of thousands flooding the streets of the country calling for the president to step down and contending authoritarian

rule but also posting instructions on how to make multiple cocktails on social media accounts were. just literally playing with fire with tensions so high and while we can't ignore the videos of police beating people on the street we can ignore this clip showing a car ramming into troops in the capital either we haven't judging either of the realities but the international community is condemning the election as neither free nor fair not that they were invited to observe it and they've also expressed concern over the treatment of journalists trying to cover the unrest. you know that only if. you will not leave the. machine so where does that leave go he's a man largely without friends the west still dubbed him europe's last dictator while he's slowly pushed away his closest ally russia but nevertheless he's still claiming victory and his political rivals have either been put in jail or fled the country including his opponent in the election so.

i took a very difficult decision i did that by myself my friends family colleagues and husband did not interest me many will understand me many will judge many will start to hate at this point nothing but chaos reigns in the country nightly protests continue to descend into violence all the president continues to turn the screws on his own citizens everyone is suffering and it's not clear who will win if anyone political science professor from moscow state university told us he thinks both sides are equally guilty at the moment in their own willingness to talk to each other. because it is escalating that means that both sides are short sided of the hair a lack of strategic vision of the situation of trauma governmental side it would be wise to ask the opposition to at least of their interests so why they are so

keen to get to read off the ball for president lucas and go to the opposition should also try to find their way to be integrated into into bone to legal political process drive to suggest something that is acceptable to the government but if they just exchange an acceptable ideas with a child the inacceptable demands and exaggerate those demands it's pretty clear that this old imagine will not be accepted by any side next the us democratic party's candidate for president joe biden's picked his running mate kamala harris had been biden's rival for the nomination before dropping out i'm backing him caleb maupin profiles the woman hoping to be the next v p. 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 the 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 children 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 now tulsi gabbert the democratic candidate and u.s. congresswoman from hawaii called out kamel harris at 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 is 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. he was right around 2 percent. had a lot of money he had a lot of things happening and so i was a little surprised that he picked it 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 that comma harris has quite a record when it comes to issues like police brutality and mass incarceration she is 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 she could excite the black vote during the primaries she can excite anybody during the primaries the left of the party the progressives have a lot of ammunition to use against her they're not happy when she was attorney general and a law enforcer a prosecutor in california they say she was too tough on criminals she was too easy on cops she's a walking contradiction and i think there's going to be a lot of just not excitement for her and at the prospect that she could be president if something happened to biden i think it's going to scare a lot of people. well the 5000 files have been recorded in the brazilian amazon since the beginning of august but these are no naturally occurring phenomenon the deliberate the forestation and despite the destruction big globally condemned none

the less illegal as well the president is turning a blind eye. to . the 1st day of finally happened on orders of the 10th and 11th of last year where social media group coordinates and phone was to burn both past and forest areas to demonstrate their approval of the n d environmental policies the government has been implementing in prison.

back when we return to the battle and has the power to rapidly regenerate other biomes and other actor systems however what's being done by this fire cannot be estimated this fire has a huge impact especially during the time that we're going through a very severe cases in with very strong winds and mr prosser wetland specifically it's causing small fast saw into large ones that cross large and many have tests have burned so it's a criminal fire. the controversial book continuing nonetheless will continue to date on all the stories out there around the world on a social media and an artsy dot com as well a web teams 247 across all the big news for you the day here in moscow for a lot of the t.v. side of things is when the states cover that we're reporting on but with more in just about half an hour and if you let me do it today were of you to did have

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