after russia claims to be the world's 1st with a coronavirus vaccine we visit the factory producing. also to come a week since the devastating blast produced much of beirut to ruins families struggle with their grief including those who lost firefighters in the tragedy. and who grows up she can. and she will know what happened to him. she will no longer.

still boils with anger over the presidential election despite calls for karm from the opposition candidate. hello those 5 pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now more than 20 countries have placed orders for russia's coronavirus vaccine just a day after the country claimed to be the world's 1st with. 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 to students a 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. our foreign colleagues who probably

want to kind of competitive advantage over the russians are offering judgments that are to our minds completely groundless in fact many countries have taken excel already decisions in their back seen studies but the russian vaccine has already seen a distinct clinical trials and evidence. of the vaccine itself was developed at moscow's gammell a institute initial clinical trials are said to have been successful mass production is expected to begin in september at local workers teachers and those considered to be in other high risk groups will be the 1st to receive it are released to the general public to set for the new year where the developers do expect around 2000 people to be vaccinated shortly as the research does progress more than 1000000000 doses to the russian vaccine have been requested around the world however there are plenty of skeptics as we've heard about the supposed breakthrough with huge concern

about the lack of testing and the fact no details of the drug have been released one quarter visited the factory where the sputnik 5 jab 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 5 and hundreds of thousands of units will be produced here. for the moment our company but the army is the only producer of the vaccine apart from the gamelan institute the production of the vaccine has already been launched

with a manufacturing capacity of about 1500000 doses a year we understand that it won't be enough but that's why we continue to invest in boosting production of the 1st batch of vaccine is ready to be delivered in the region the priority as i understand it is medical personnel because they are on the frontline of this pandemic and they are at risk for 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 of 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 pass and specs in there are labeled and prepared for packaging the factories had 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 back to. 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 donald quarter r.t. . ok well we're pleased to say that we can bring in russian for all of just now he's the head of the genome engineering lab at the moscow institute of physics and technology and good afternoon to you pavel we were hearing concerns from western countries about the safety of russia's vaccine can you understand their concerns. well we are all. looking forward to this folks and because. we are actually war looking forward towards this work since starts in january at the stars until i. realized that we are having and. you're most. you probably remember yourself was that everybody was actually there.

or scientists are wrong to like when we actually will have this vaccine so. now we have is this a wise versus a question why i actually was the one sole was deliver it to us so quickly they're. basically. we in russia and in most of the contras way united states great britain in most european countries they do have spare specific . war which actually allows you to produce vaccine foster when you have it be demick or specifically planned and damia around so basically if it would be just regular situation the way nope and. obviously. the development and production would take my shoes longer time but in this particular situation russia did as much as possible in order to

deliver but you could see him in a bicycle or time and i'm glad that russia was one of the 1st contras which actually were able to do this speaking involved safety of this particular bug seeing what we can do we can appear it was the data which we received from 80 people already. who actually injected this particular one vaccine with. vaccine from institute and what we can on our allies we can say that this vaccine was safe enough no any particular problems we didn't detect and what we detect to be quite effective fun to board. in a serial of this particular people would say i actually was able to neutralize. him

quite efficient so basically those that's what we say for now obviously will receive more data the longer we will be absorbing this people and people will be recruits in the next steps of. nation basically as a 2nd step more people i specifically to solve and people will be. tasty in 1000. it's mostly. medical professionals so basically people who are actually in quantico to his are people so it's kind of risk group and what i said just personally. is this vaccine for. the group or for people.

who are actually suffering from. the most ok good to talk to you thanks very much for your analysis on this and further details of this store we have to leave it there that was probable cause he was the head of the genome engineering lab at the mosque of the institute of physics and technology thank you. now in other news today huge protests have continued in beirut exactly a week since much of the city was destroyed by a massive explosion a middle east correspondent poorest clear source 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 basic nation of the lebanese prime minister they want to hold hanumant to resign at the same time make one point you did claim to the investigation into what happened oh i have to be very last they say it's not enough for an internal it's an easy investigation but the government here says that that's what they want to show you what are issue of sovereignty now the mood is quite volatile it doesn't seem that with the passing of days beat 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 was finally turns into was sami to come and sang tens of 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 for the danger. right behind me is the army isn't of tear gas in the air they've managed to push the protesters so they're 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 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 there has been accused are excessive force and they've admitted that they

have used live ammunition and tear gas in the past well poor sleep reporting there from some of the latest protests were a week since the blast the families of some firefighters still have no news either about their loved ones who were at the scene shortly before the explosion paula or so i spoke to that. well well it has a bearing the loved ones killed in last week's bloss one family can only wish for that and as the hours slowly tick on they praise are fading tony kurang son a grandson and cousin on missing all members of the same firefighting unit that was the 1st to respond now from a group of 15 his 4 bodies have been found and 6 on missing the 1st 2 days we were hoping they were live on her but now we're only a year and now we lost hope that now we're hoping that they can bring a nao from their fingers or 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 found her on the way to the boston said he'll call back later but that phone call never came the other day i told my daughter the little 3 of them i am writing from up above. our own and she can also pray to them as they can hear her and hopefully when she grows up she can know her father was only roadside and she will know what happened to him. she will know when father died when i realize i'm sure 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 his 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 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 burnt 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 firefighting 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 god help me i don't know how to live anymore i can't imagine how am i live now because i only have one. whatever a term here or there i find something for me. how could i live without my son or the family says he won't hold a funeral until he was said or something to bury their way there 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 finished the interview tony says to me god bless my family it's something i wish best for him to be sold. r.t. pavement. despite calls for karma has been continued unrest in bellary similar claims the weekend's presidential election with rigged officials say that 51 people have been taken to hospital in the last 24 hours meanwhile alexander lukashenko is opposition rival has fled to neighboring the thruway near increasingly angry crowds have been clashing with riot police who've been using stun grenades i'm rubber bullets.

i. know. some protesters to try to build barricades only for the police to dismantle them overnight or. this video has appeared it is said to show people in the apartment block throwing a door down at police who were beating up a protester is claimed that officers then began shooting at the windows in response . the internet batteries came back on line today having been taken down for days although that's not much of

a sign of life returning to normal check if you go takes a look now at 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 how to take next to his name. you can 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 influx but that's not something a considerable amount of belorussians believe taking their frustrations onto the streets it 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.

it. 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 those were all the is that the protesters are bad and the special forces have no choice but to act like this. around the. around $25.00 police officers have been injured legs broken they were deliberately hit so they responded why are you crying now response will be adequate we. 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 go he's a man largely without friends the westell dubs him in europe's last dictator well he's slowly pushed away his closest ally russia but nevertheless he still claiming

victory and his political rivals have either been put in jail or fled the country including his opponent in the election so it. is really. very difficult decision i did 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. used by us riot police officers whether the roads are. you know it's not come without.

political science professor at moscow state university afterward then says that both sides are guilty of not listening to each other. because it is escalating that means that both sides are short sided the heroine of strategic vision of the situation overthrown our governmental side it would be wise to ask the opposition to the least of their interests so why they are so keen to get rid of the ball for president look at the opposition should also drive to find a way to be integrated to the jury to vote 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 with a lot to be accepted by any side. in other news tonight

a passenger train has derailed in eastern scotland the rescue services have declared a major incident there a number of people are said to be seriously injured in some reports the claim that one person has been killed these are some of the latest pictures overnight heavy storms are thought have played a part in the tragedy causing a landslide the smoke was seen billowing from the train after the engine apparently caught fire dozens of emergency vehicles and ambulance taking currently at the sea . but it's exactly 20 years since disaster struck a russian nuclear submarine which sank in the barents sea killing all $119.00 people on board the cursed tragedy does remain one of the worst maritime disasters and russia's modern history the vessel had been taking part in trails when an explosion on board course it to sink 108 meters to the sea bed it took divers 9 days to reach the crew but by the end all of them were lost and no there was found

on board saying that 20 who say this that actually survived the initial blast morals are held annually across russia and 2015. to tell us about the struggle of coming to terms with what. for several days we were told that everything was fine with our voice they communicated by tapping we're told that they were alive and received oxygen to me and my husband's mother were really worried about whether they had food and we were convinced they had enough for 18 days so we were counting the days on the 21st of august we found out in the news the rescue work was finished and they were all declared that they couldn't believe it i didn't even shed tears at the time but maybe closed up or maybe it's because i just couldn't admit it until the last moment even when they were declared dad i waited for a year and i have and even when prosecutors called me to say that found my husband i still couldn't believe. that joe biden has no income on her wrist as his

running mate as he bids for the white house she had been one of his rivals before dropping out and then backing him up in profiles a woman hoping to be the next vice president. 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 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 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. spent 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 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 that the prospect that she could be president if something happened to biden i think it's going to scare a lot of people who are not international appreciate the end of this half don't forget i always plenty of stories to on a website i don't know. as the u.s. economy was booming growing numbers of people will need those. you can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the land of opportunity the reality of we're not financially equality and the lack of affordable housing living minimum wage give many people new choice. that's been

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