which your thirst for action. please vehicles and hard won have been seen rolling in summits as the bell of russian capital still boils with anger over the presidential election another night of undress is expected. after russia claims to be the world's 1st country with a coronavirus vaccine we visit the factory now mass producing it. for the week on since the devastating blast reduced much of beirut to ruins families struggle with their grief including those who lost firefighters in the tragedy. and who normally when she grows up she can know with a hero and she will know what happened to be. she will no longer died for the

reason. very warm welcome to you watching r t international with me. now our top story despite calls for calm the young rest in belarus continues amid claims the weekend's presidential election was rigged neighboring countries including lithuania poland and lot fear have released a joint statement announcing a plan to resolve the crisis passes vehicles on police hardware have been seen approaching the capital minsk with another night of on rest on the horizon let's get more on all this now and join our correspondent ramon calls a robust so rym on what's the latest. our crew are outside the bella russian embassy in the center of moscow at the moment where another solidarity rally continues. for a 4th day in

a row we can probably see them behind me there it's kind of it's quiet calm right now the embassy itself is right across the street similar so the diaries around these are being held in other countries as well for example in a key have not only outside the embassy but it's. groups of people actually came out to independence square in the center of the ukrainian capital and are voicing their support for the protesters and meanwhile unrest continues for a 4th consecutive day in belair reuss as well and reports are coming in now that saying that they have stories he's up bringing in heavy equipment to the center of the bill a russian capital in an effort. to prevent people from my gathering protesters however they have employed another tactic and they're gathering in large groups and blocking off the streets in order to prevent law enforcement from coming over there

and dispersing them central subway stations in minsk are closed off as well so that's another measure to prevent people from gathering now with the no immediate set rizza lucian to the conflicts in that. some of the neighboring countries like and the thing for example already offered to take on the role of a negotiator in russia's internal conflicts now the thing is authorities are calling on bill roos to to have a reelection as soon as possible and its foreign ministry are calling for sanctions against the authorities against all those directly involved in human rights violations now they also added that say e.u. foreign ministers are ready to meet as soon as the 14th of august in order to discuss the measures that could be taken against this meanwhile. xander look at

schenkel is has summoned his security the security council and that should take place very soon as well in earnest statements that he's out of the shank of the standing president talked about some of the protesters that's having a sense of what he said. this it would be mutable tip don't everyone who's out of work today is supposed to be assessed and offered a job the underlying characteristic of all the supposed protest is is that they have a criminal record in a job bliss have no job to take a hike so i asked you nicely at that what everyone who doesn't have a job needs to find. a bill or russian law enforcement are continuing to detain people in various parts of the country just so recently this wednesday they have announced that they arrested a young man who was on routes in minsk and apparently he was detained with

improvised explosive devices fireworks and knifes as well now we also see in reports from elsewhere in the rooms where an army vehicle rammed civilian car it's unclear whether that was intentional or that was an accident but the result of that crash is a mother and a young daughter are now in the hospital and a little girl is awaiting an operation now interior ministry in. are saying that all the journalists that we've been talking about who were detained now most of them have been released and the interior minister he says those people who are working with proper accreted stations should not be unless they get in between law enforcement and protesters however despite all that for all erupt lead video agencies fingers who have been detained while their fate is still unknown because they're still unaccounted for and. so

a lot of been happening over the last couple of days let's take a look at some of the footage that we've seen. feel. it doesn't look. like. it's not. the 150 miles. not all rallies in minsk resulted in violence however earlier on now wednesday a group self-aware men decided to take off to pick up flowers and go to

various places in the bella russian capital they joined to their arms together to make a link and that passers by the cars were honking expressing a solid saturday with the protesters more from the men's as soon as it becomes available from on thank you those details from on calls are up with the latest we're joined by i guess now we're joined by andrea kazakh of which directs the obvious to political studies a place called spear and thank you for joining us on the program never nice of unrest seems almost inevitable at this point is there any sign that these protests will died down food. we were to go to party but in general it seems the results are to use this as a. power. force and not. to suppress the use way for approach esteemed. in nearest future but it's

a constant it's not the solution of the situation because it's all the test of that on the political solution could be. sustainable in the case and now we have a confrontation between. wides and psychosis over the recent society and the results are it is and that goes that it's that it's a great problem so just so we will be you know on the eve. of a wave of protests that will be suppressed by the authorities and now we have if there were any opponent in latvia who say they have a plan to resolve the crisis do you think it would have any impact. yes probably on some extent but if we speak about. the situation and. a cause russia should be involved and inside negotiations are inside.

sides consultations and so on because of course of russian influence is great on belarus and. it's difficult to predict any successful results of such efforts to monitor. that many countries that condemn the situation in belarus but the international some response so far seems relatively tame doesn't say do you think it will stay that way. i think their reaction we will be on and we will be serious for response our it is the mental fire because you know. on the scale of for ations is a very. he's created actually. unproductive potentially you know. on the face time of you know how are you still history that the. white precious

where. were used by and by authorities to suppress the need to come to you to do so and i think that to this or action of will be you will be serious and . will depend also on. the response or. i thought since they still age in the situation. to explain why it was such violence was used against the citizens while many people in if the mania want to be election to be run do you think he's likely to do that. no i think. it's practically impossible but 1st of all we need know just straight out. do you consider your story form when he took over from he and dealers . distribution of power we change our product rule system and so on so faucets not only both elections but. at the same time

of course i don't think that look at shankar will it really get to. the house and you knew the elections i think there is some kind of negotiations probably some dialogue between political different political forces that would be fair and to the political entities he engler is used much more likely and. we should we should think in these sort of direction. and i cause i think it's correct to at the institute of political studies political sphere thank you feel it's time . more than 20 countries have placed orders for russia's coronavirus vaccine today off the country claim to be the world's 1st with a job however much of the global scientific community has doubts about the supposed break. 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 tested and see 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 russian vaccine or offering judgments that are to our minds completely groundless in fact many countries have taken accelerated decisions in their vaccine studies but the russian vaccine has already seen distinct clinical trials and evidence. although 1000000000 doses of the russian vaccine have been requested around the world although major questions have been raised about the lack of testing and the facts no details of the drug have been released one quarter visit the factory where

the sputnik 5 job 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. for the moment our company but you know farm is the only producer of the vaccine apart from the gamma layer 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 that's why we continue to invest in boosting production 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. 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 antibodies 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 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 factory said mechanic was able to tell us a bit more about what exactly takes place here. so generally we can pack up to $120000.00 bottles 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 books and get packed. by. 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. . professor tropical epidemiology dr paid to smith the covert crisis is seen

vaccine trials accelerated much more than normal. oh it's significant in the sense that there are about 150 different back scenes that are being developed not 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 sure but it sounds as though recipe small numbers of people who have so far received this back scenes in which case it's very typical i would say almost impossible to assess whether the fact scene 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 suspect because they're 19 pandemic. vaccine trials are being accelerated. huge protests have continued in beirut for a week and for much of the city with destroyed by a massive explosion meanwhile the families of some firefighters still have no news about their loved ones who were at the scene shortly before the explosion point to flee i spoke to some of them. well 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 to ram son grandson and cousin are missing all members of the same firefighting 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 a nail 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 post as 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 blast and said he'll call back later but that phone call never came. i told my daughter the 3 of them are praying from up above. i don't and she can also pray to them 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 his 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 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 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 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 firefighting unit as him at just 20 years old he was his family's breadwinner and i was only 26 and preparing to get engaged what 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 whenever

a term here or there i find something from his belongings how could i live without my son the family says they won't hold a funeral until there is someone or something to bury but 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 and your family had something i wish best for him 3 fold policia r.t. they went. exactly 20 years since disaster struck a russian nuclear submarine which tank in the barents sea killing. $118.00 on board because tragedy remains one of the worst maritime disasters in russia's modern history the vessel had been taking part in drills with an explosion on board cause it to think 108 meters to the seabed it took divers 9 days to reach the crew but by

then all were lost a note was found on board saying 23 sailors hudson vive the initial blast memorials are held annually across russia and 20151 widow told us about the struggle of coming to terms with what. for several days we were told that everything was fine with my boys and like you medicated me tapping we're told that they were alive and received oxygen and me and my husband's mother and were really worried about whether they had and we were convinced they had enough. so we were counting the days on the 21st of august we found out in the news that the rescue workers a dentist and they were all declared that our or they couldn't believe it i didn't even shed tears at the time but maybe closed out or maybe 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 everyone has a curious called me to say that found my husband i still couldn't believe. a

passenger train has derailed in eastern scotland with your thora he is declaring it a major incident police have confirmed the deaths of 3 people including the train's driver number of others are thought to be seriously injured overnight heavy storms are thought to have triggered a landslide smoke was seen billowing from the train after the engine cool fire. in korea with demands of better working conditions brought hundreds of health workers on to the street police used water cannon to dispersed around the demo comes as the country braces itself for a 2nd coded wave the country has already had almost 550-0000 cases or more than 22 . 1000 deaths. in india an overnight protest in bangalore by most limbs over a facebook post deemed offensive to islam left at least 3 people dead and more than 100 arrested demonstrators gathered near a police station in the house of a local politician who made the post police used tear gas and live ammunition after

crowds threw stones and think to be ok. well joe biden has named camilla harris as his running mate as he bids for the white house she had been one of his rivals before dropping out and backing him caleb profiles the 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 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. spent a lot of money killed 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 kamel harris has quite a record when it comes to issues like police brutality and mass incarceration and 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 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. and environmental catastrophe now throughout the liberal fires burning in the allison have been described by green activists one of 5500 being recorded in the brazilian on within this month and despite being launched the illegal the president still turning a blind eye. to the school the 1st air fire happened on or just the thames and 11th last year where

social media grid coordinates of farmers to burn both pasture and forest areas demonstrate their approval of the anti environmental policies the government has been implementing in some recent. but i'm back to me to answer the question and has the power to correct the regenerate 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 you must have also wetland specifically supposing small fossil in to last months across slush every aside and

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