in the shallows. i protest by the disputed election. police begin dispersing crowds and the arresting demonstrators. claims to be the world's 1st country with a coronavirus vaccine we visit the factory producing it. devastating blast reduced much of beirut to ruins families struggle with grief. who lost firefighters in the tragedy.

and she will know what happened to. live from moscow thanks for joining us throughout the night international welcome to the program. and despite calls for calm the unrest continues as the country and as a 4th day of protests police have already started dispersing crowds and arresting demonstrators in the capital mints. and he pulls the bushies to have folks know. people can think it's meant to be some people who see nothing. more than a small team but there's.

a chorus one of them on call said if i was being following developments. well let's start off with the with what's happening here in moscow we're standing outside of the villa russian embassy right in the center of the russian capital where solidarity rallies are taking place. of course of the protesters in the belarus said the moment there are very few people here but little bit earlier there were hundreds of people and the police even had to disperse the crowd asking the people not to appear with the pedestrians and according to officials at least 5 people were it's a good thing meanwhile unsanctioned rallies or protests rather continue in for the 4th day in a row and police are using all kinds of crowd control equipment like stun grenades

. gas and others as well now protestors are now using a different tactic in them and they're blocking this freeze trying to prevent the authorities from coming over and disperse and of course central subway stations in minsk have been closed off by the authorities as well once again to prevent people from gathering with no immediate arisen the ocean to the conflict there neighboring countries such as and with the mania of poland they have offered to become mediators in the internal conflict in bill. for example they're calling for reelection and it's for in ministry are calling for sanctions against all those who are responsible for a human rights drives now. and the foreign ministry they've also added that the e.u.

foreign ministry are ready to convene as soon as august the 14th in order to discuss the measures. that can be taken against villa roosts and meanwhile bill a russian law enforcement continue detaining people all over the country and i have just a few examples. here just recently they did st a man who was on route to the capital and on him he had. improvised explosive device he had fireworks he had knives we also had reports from elsewhere in bellew's where an army lethal rammed a civilian car and was still don't know whether it was an accident or whether it was intentional but the result is a mother and a daughter are now in hospital and and little girl is now awaiting an operation we've also seen reports. about the journalists who have been detained

now bill a russian interior ministry are saying that so those journalists have a credit station that will work in their illegally if they were detained there were released right away meanwhile a couple of people from iraq to the video agency pulled their fate is still unknown and they're still unaccounted for initially it was all 4 people from the agency but one of them. got in contact with the sea and it was a woman actually and she said that she was it saying she was in prison she was in a cell for 6 people that contained a lot more than 20 people sold the the surrounding the circumstances were no the best if you will so this has been happening over the last still 4 days and that we've compiled a little bit of the footage of what's been happening in belarus let's take a look. sure

you. look it was really really really nice if you look like. it was. the time of year but not. now we've also seen reports so from the roofs off a couple of traffic police officers who were run over by civilian cars and colleagues of the traffic police officer they said they had to see use a live fire in order to did say no those people the wall one of those people has

been detained the are the one that is they still at large meanwhile in belarus all of the protests were violence actually earlier on wednesday we saw groups off all women going out onto the streets carrying flowers and said they joined their arms in the link and expressed their support for the protesters the passing cars they were honking also expressing their solidarity we also spoke to one of our correspondents for the russian who was in the thick of the protests he was detained at one point they were later released he told us the scenes of something but others i have never witnessed before. this here. the protesters have done something unimaginable nothing like this is ever happened in bella ruse to build barricades in minsk like those one seen in ukraine you couldn't even imagine but they barricaded some streets they made a really interesting strategic move they decided not to gather in one place because

it would be easier for security forces to slap them down when everybody's together so the puppet masters of the oppositional told them that they really do exist it's just that i was skeptical about it but when i saw for myself that there are certain guys who coordinate the whole process when they write let's go to sport or the nice station and people go let's build barricades and they build barricades they give coordinates where the water and medical kits is stored because you know this is the 1st case when rubber bullets tear gas and water cannons were used against protest is that i wouldn't call them protest is in my opinion those who came out on sunday were actually ideological protest is to actually against alexander look at shingo who didn't vote for it but on monday yesterday those who just want to have a fight with the security forces k. . you know him a prime a director of the minister thought of council thinks that the situation might be approaching a critical moment. but we have at the moment is partially the result of several

really big mistakes his government government made over the last years but most particularly the way the government treated the coronavirus cry says this situation has escalated to a very very dangerous level and they're reporting just seeing seems to point to that where soon approaching a critical point where it's either going to be kind of military. state of emergency what do we quired and that will be the only way to the government to deal with the situation or. new negotiations should be against. more than 20 countries have placed orders for russia's coronavirus vaccine just the day after the country climbed a claim to be the world's 1st with the job of a much of the global scientific community has doubts about the supposed breakthrough i hope of 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 safe 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 excel already decisions in their vaccine studies but the russian vaccine has already seen a distinct clinical trials and evidence. or more than a 1000000000 doses of the russian vaccine have already been requested around the world one brazilian state has also reached an agreement to locally produce and distribute the sputnik of the vaccine will quarter visit the factory in moscow

where the 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 5 and hundreds of thousands of units will be produced here. for the moment our company but the 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 regions the priority as i understand it is medical personnel because they are on the front line 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 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 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 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 dominant quarter r.t. . it's exactly 20 years since disaster struck

a russian nuclear submarine which sank in the barents sea killing all $118.00 on board the tragedy remains one of the worst maritime disasters in russia's modern history the vessel had been taking part in drills when an explosion on board caused it to sink over 100 meters to the sea but it took divers 9 days to reach the crew but by then all will last and it was found on board saying 23 sailors had survived the initial blast and morals are held annually across russia in 20151 widow told us about the struggle of coming to terms with what happened. here for several days we were told that everything was fine with our voice and we communicated by tapping we're told that they were alive and received oxygen and 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 that the rescue workers finished and they were all declared dad i couldn't believe it i didn't shed tears at the time of them maybe closed up 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 even when prosecutors called me to say they'd found my husband i still couldn't believe. still ahead from arrival to running mates we profiled joe biden's pick for vice president. and illegal takeover of the government by a small group. rather than the revolutionaries or so just that small group the corporations when you have a tiny group of people who have all the power you have to have some means to make sure the rest of us don't get together and take it back. these are sacrificing. places that capitalism exploited and destroyed for profit and left behind

misery poverty environmental devastation and so you see things like voter suppression building more prisons you seem gerrymandering all sorts of undemocratic practices are well in that world are well into. question the. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going for and let it be an arms race in this very dramatic development 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. was was. going back to the program furious protests have continued in

beirut over a week since much of a city was destroyed by a massive explosion in while the families of some firefighters still have no news about their loved ones who were at the scene shortly before the explosion or slayer spoke to some of them. 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 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 are 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 the sinus's rest in peace are here as of car to buy 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 blast instead he'll call back later but that phone call never came. i told my daughter the 3 of them are praying from up above. 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 her 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 but at 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 whatever 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 been found as we finish the interview tony says to me god bless you and your family is something i wish better for him 3 fold policia r.t. they would. a passenger train has the rail the noose and scotland with your thought is the sharing it's a major incident police have confirmed the deaths of 3 people including the train's driver a number of others are said to be seriously injured overnight heavy storms are thought to have triggered a landslide smoke was seen blowing from the train off of the engine caught fire. in peru a demand for better working conditions brought hundreds of health workers onto the streets police used water cannon to disperse the rally demo comes as the country braces itself for a 2nd covert wave 2 the country's already had almost 500000 cases and more than 20000 deaths. in india overnight protests in

bangalore by muslims over a facebook post deemed offensive to islam left at least 3 people dead and more than 100 arrested on the street as gathered near a police station on the house of a local politician who made the post police used tear gas and live ammunition after crowds threw stones and torched vehicles. so biden is named as his running mate as he bids for the white house she has been had been rather one of his rivals before dropping out and endorsing him more than 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 at 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. a lot of money killed a lot of things happening and so i was a little surprised that he picked him so that's donald trump saying that he's pretty surprised in thinking that it's not a very strategic choice now what's also interesting to point out is 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 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. and environmental catastrophe how deliberate fires burning in the amazon have been described by green activists more than 5000 fires have been recorded in the prison in more than just this month despite being laws of it illegal the president still turning a blind eye. to

the school the 1st day of fire happened on northwest the thames 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 source in. fact we just about land has the power to grant that he would generate other biomes and other eco systems however what's being done to fight this fire cannot be

estimated at this far has a huge impact especially during the time that we're getting through a very severe says in with very strong winds and it must have crossed so wetland specifically supposing small fausto into large ones that cross launched and via satellite many had tests have burned so it's a criminal for i ask. veteran journalist john pilger is the guest on going on the ground coming up in just a few moments top of the to back at 6 am moscow time to bring you all the latest headlines we'll see about then.

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slopestyle for the most you by going by each. moment if you show us. our life influx of. change or more of a lifestyle change each. sex geysers by the actual survival. when customers go by you're disappointed. in elf well reduce a flower. that's undercutting but what's good for market is not good for the global economy. of action or tense here we're going underground back in the. you know for this season's finale coming up in the show as the 75th anniversary of the u.s.

nuclear attack on the regime or in coincides with the world arguably never near a nuclear war we speak to one of the world's greatest join the filmmaker john pilger on the coronavirus pandemic geopolitical brinkmanship and the ongoing u.k. detention and torture of wiki leaks founder julian assange and all the civil coming up in today's going underground but 1st let's go straight to sydney in australia as new south wales grapples with a spike in coronavirus cases john pilger welcome to the show the last time i spoke to you you were telling us what the media here wasn't telling us that there had been a pandemic rehearsal in 2016 and there was a cover up of it what what's your take now that tens of thousands of people in this country have died because of coronavirus and how is it there in australia. well it's a shocking state of affairs isn't it i mean just last week before the public accounts committee and in london the whole shocking landscape was laid out that

thousands of people had been thrown out of hospitals back into chaos it really is the kind of making up of an expendable society where experts talk blithely has as one of them did in this particular report the 12012000 excess deaths would have happened another expert said no wait a minute if there's another spike it's likely in the u.k. to go up to $35000.00 now we're not talking about the total of coronavirus victims we're talking about people who die in care homes who were thrown out of hospital i think that's one of the great scandals of this that public health england in effect.