or is it you see gerrymandering all sorts of democratic practices. in the world of the world. taking a trip to what is hoped to be the pandemic panacea production line party visits the factory making rushes now approved vaccine after getting orders for a 1000000000 doses also to come this hour on r.c. a 4th day of protests in beirut and for the families of the missing following huge explosion grief is replacing one family with 3 firefighters describes the agony of waiting for news. and who not only once she grows up she can know the healing and she will know what happened to him. she will know parker died.

bellary sees a 3rd night of anti-government protests following the disputed election there and is despite calls from the opposition candidate to stop after she herself fled the country. oh well can you watching out international this wednesday afternoon just gone 3 o'clock am in moscow now russia says it's received orders for about a 1000000000 doses of its corona virus vaccine from 20 nations has been a cautious welcome and scientists around the world after russia became the 1st country to give regulatory approval to a code for treatment. i hope that the russians have actually definitively proven that the vaccine is safe and effective i seriously doubt that they've done that it is not about being 1st it is about having

a try sas didn't say vaccine which will be given that's the important part to hundreds of millions maybe even billions of people the problem is that we know very little because the russian authorities are not being very transparent and so i am very skeptical about what's happening in russia. but our foreign colleagues who probably feel some kind of competitive advantage over the russian vaccine or trying to offer opinions that are to our minds completely groundless in fact many countries have used speeded up decisions in their back scene studies of the russian vaccine has already had distinct clinical trials and evidence. for the vaccine itself was developed at moscow's gammell a institute initial chronic clinical trials are said to have been successful and mass production is expected to begin in september medical workers teachers and those considered to be in other high risk groups will be the ones to receive it are

released to the general public is then expected sometime in the new year where the developers do expect to around 2000 people to be vaccinated shortly as the research progress is meanwhile more than 1000000000 of the russian vaccine have been requested from different countries abroad however there are a few skeptics as we said the concern is whether enough conclusive testing has been carried out at this stage we 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. by.

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. it's absolutely accurate that specific antibodies protective are being formed as an instance of 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 their 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 miles a day those ready to go into production that are loaded onto a conveyor and after that a special marking machine then they go to the box and i'm getting. my. factory big. 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 quarter our team. the head of the russian sovereign wealth fund that is investing in the country's research gave us more details about the facts and.

welcome the russians people as a wall the very body or tools a virus a very tired of the restrictions of very tired old the refused to come on. those are fags one of the contras is approved in which we believe this very state very active. as if the 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 it was your 4 year old parents and i think it's very important that we understand the science defines a big so russia great story. has developed very successful in overseeing and mercy and then basically they're not

just proved to be very similar the merce so we could great science and will like that there is a good care has been done really applied very closely it was a fight we're not hiring it's beneficial for russian because. everything will be published almost assumes that they die in those a 100 percent all the line tears fell apart a strong immune response or significant side effects of 100 percent protection of animals forest where is the level of immunity. it will produce stronger immune response going forward we believe because all the ones who capsules do it for and at the number i respect there is a used the lid was a vaccine and that means that our vaccine response will last longer hopefully it will be in more than a year all scientists believe that 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 recede from asian about how we're seeing it more and more interest but frank a lot of western media outlets a lot access allow 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 a cycle on the valves of action the more countries become interested even today with the major announcement by israel serbia elude us brazil or interest. or the russian because you don't work with us on them. but we also spoke with dr peter smith a professor of tropical epidemiology at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine he told us that the crisis has meant that vaccine trials have been accelerated much more the norm. 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 sat 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 paxson is actually efficacious we don't know what would have sound reservations about knowing that the safety of the vaccine generally and 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 because they're 19 and to meet vaccine trials are being accelerated. ok we'll turn to beirut now because citizens there

wracked 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 the city huge demonstrations against the authorities have been held daily while middle east correspondent paula slayer's saw some of the latest overnight disturbances. 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 resignation of the lebanese prime minister they want to hold hanumant to preside at the same time make one point 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 us but our issue of sovereignty now the mood is quite volatile it doesn't seem that with the passing of days be 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 family turns into. semi to come sun 20 people dead we're not hearing sounds of tear gas so the crowd is starting to move backwards the fear is that any moment the situation here and i can i can actually smell to get the situation is becoming increasingly fault with danger. i was.

right behind me is the army isn't of tear gas in the air they've managed to push the protesters further 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 at the protesters are throwing and there is 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 there has been accused of excessive force and they've admitted that they have used live ammunition and tear gas in the past. or slave reporting that will now apart from the civilian casualties from last week's blast there's also anxiety and grief for the families of the firefighters who are still missing they were among the 1st responders to the blaze which broke out before the blasts poor 2 has

been hearing about the anguish their relatives face 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 tony terrans son grandson and cousin on missing all members of the same firefighting unit that was the 1st to respond now from a group of 10 finds his 4 bodies have been found and 6 on missing the 1st 2 days we were hoping they were live but now we're only a youth day and now we lost hope but now we are hoping that they can bring a nail from their fingers 40 kilometers from the scene of the lost its impact is still being felt this sign says race to peace our heroes of cotton and posters pinpoint the way to the family's home. 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

last instead he'll call back later but that phone call never came. the other day i told my daughter the little 3 of the ring from up above. are all men and she can also pray to them as they can hear her and hopefully when she grows up she can know her father was on the ropes and she will know what happened to him. she will know when father died when reason. 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 did he silence at 1st we were waiting for all of them to come and sit with us and continue our life support and

then we said that maybe one of them can come home even if he's deformed there even if he's burned anything added least one of them can come home toss any one of them not all of them but this isn't 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 breadwinner and i was only 26 and preparing to get engaged i thought should i hope 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 term 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 failed as we finish the

interview tony says to me god in the family has something i wish best for him to be sold. gave me. another news today a passenger train has derailed in east in scotland in what is being treated as a major incident an unknown number of people are said to have serious injuries i'm confirmed reports say that one person has died recent heavy storms a suspected to have caused the trying to slide down in the bank mountain aberdeenshire just after 9 30 am local time smoke as you can see from these pictures we're seeing billowing from the train after the engine apparently caught fire and thousands of emergency vehicles on the ambulance a currently attending these are some of the latest pictures we've received from the city. you want.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy thing for him to let it be an arms race in this very dramatic development the 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. seemed wrong but. just don't call. to make you believe you have to shape out this day become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground.

welcome back to r.t. now there has been a 3rd night of unrest on the streets of better roofs following the weekends to speak to the election that handed the country's long term. in office 51 paper have been taken to hospital in the last 24 hours according to officials meanwhile alexander lukashenko has made opposition rival has fled to neighboring lithuania and as sporadic crowds increasingly angry at the vote result faced off with riot police using stun grenades i'm rubber bullets. were.

some are tested to try to build barricades only for police to dismantle them overnight also in minsk this video apparently of residents in an apartment block trying to stop what appeared to be police beating up a protester they threw a door at them it's then claimed that officers began shooting at the windows in response. meantime internet and better research back on early this morning are to being blacked out for days however sites might again get cut off later today

depending on the severity of any further protests that are expected jacki buger takes a look now at the restive post-election batteries. 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. being at the top of vertical power being the head of the government having 80 percent of the vote should voluntarily transfer power to them that's the demand to the dutch laws but that's not something a considerable amount of belorussians believe taking their frustrations onto the streets it started off with a peaceful protests massive 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 look shango 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 so look at saying those were all the is that the protestors are bad and the special forces have no choice but to act like in this. area. but on the. around $25.00 police officers have been injured legs broken they were deliberately hit so they responded by you crying now response will be adequate we will not allow you to tear

the country apart 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 which is literally playing with fire with tensions so high and while we can't ignore the videos of police beating people on the streets 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. very good. you know really if. you will not leave. so where does that leave look he's a man largely without friends the westell dubs him in 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 entranced 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 while the president continues to turn the screws on his own citizens everyone is suffering and it's not clear who will win if anyone. is by us right police officers whether the roads are blocked and they said you know

it's not come with us. but we spoke to the political science professor offered them truth from moscow state university about better race and he does think that both sides are guilty of not trying to talk to one another. because it is escalating that means that both sides are short sided of the heroin land 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 rid of the ball for president look at a position 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 each other in acceptable demands and exaggerated those demands it's pretty clear that this old

imagine with a lot to be accepted by any side. now the us democratic party's candidate for president joe biden has picked his running mate come out a harris had been his rival for the nomination before dropping out i'm backing him more pain and i profiles the woman hoping to be the next spring. 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 calmly 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 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 it took to 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 kamel 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 could 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 enforcement 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 that the prospect that she could be president if something happened to biden i think it's going to scare a lot of people. within 5005 of the record in the prison in amazon since the beginning of august but these are not naturally occurring in fact they are part of deliberate deforestation and despite the destruction often being illegal to condemn to globally the president seems to be turning a blind eye. to the for the 1st air fire happened on north was the 10th and 11th last year where

social media grid coordinates of farmers to been both pasture and forest areas demonstrate their approval of the anti environmental policies the government has been implementing in tourism in. fact we just about land has the power to reckon he would generate other biomes and other eco systems however what's being done to buy this fire cannot be estimated at this far has a huge impact especially during the time that we're going through a very severe this is in with very strong winds again that metaphor so wetland specifically it's causing small fast so into last months across slush and the aside

of many have tests have burned so it's a criminal fire. you're watching out international just coming up to half past 3 here in moscow we're back again at the top there. as the u.s. economy was booming gaining numbers of people made homeless. you can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing.