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u.k. prime minister announcing some tough new coronavirus restrictions with large fines for rule breakers after a surge in numbers. and similar measures are being rolled out across europe as the coronavirus continues to spread and the rights groups say for people at the evidence. also this hour russia gets ready to start clinical trials of another to run a virus vaccine across the country. watching our to international bring your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. the british prime minister has unveiled
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a range of new coronavirus restrictions to color on the latest surge in case numbers will be enforced in england to start with and similar measures will later be rolled out in other parts of the u.k. archies ali reports from london. these come in the weight of a number of the indicators that case numbers in the united kingdom are rising and that as a result of that there have been a number of advisories put forward by government health advisors and chief scientific advisors and so on who have stated that the problem is i'm getting significantly worse numbers of doubling every week sometimes cases if and with boris johnson updating m.p.'s in the house of commons today as far as he and his government are concerned the possibility of a 2nd wave is very real we always knew that while we might have driven the virus into retreat the prospect of a 2nd wave was real and i'm sorry to say that as in spain and france
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and many other countries we've reached a perilous turning point but unless we probably make progress through through the series that the restrictions i've announced who remain in place for perhaps 6 months now some of these measures will include advising office workers to work from home again where possible although workers in the public services and in professions where working from home isn't possible such as for example construction in retail those people are encouraged to go in people now last wear masks when they go to the shops to tax you know sitting in taxis workers and restaurants must wear them and so on and there are fines not being raised up to 200 pounds for a 1st time offense to people to system he or she used to wear last now one of the measures is to limit opening time so pods restaurants and lounges and so on to 10 pm and i will start from thursday that's led to a number of means people making fun of that saying that well this current of ours
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only impact after 10 pm and all of this of course putting a massive strain on the economy and into to kill up on the hospitality industry the catering and food industry which is such an already greatly. and m.p.'s including the leader of the opposition his star really criticizing the government for what he says is a failure at handling this crisis from the start over a fierce criticism of the way the government is handling this pandemic when restrictions are needed the national interest lies in clear communications and cross party support mr speaker farmers across the country will be anxious today many are already living on the local lock down many more fear that soon they will they're worried about their jobs about their loved ones of whether they will be able to spend christmas with their families now school star frustration those worries and of course the prime minister mentioning that this could last for
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another 6 months has seen some of those tensions of course boiling over that we saw before this announcement over the weekend a number of protesters gathering in traffic square against these types of measures and lock down the street show and thousands of people really peacefully mainly peacefully marching and demonstrating in central london although when police announced that they were going to clear trafalgar square some scuffles broke out with protests as was i was boris johnson has trouble is that the government will put their arms around the
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workers of this country now thus far the government has spent billions of pounds supporting people's wages the so-called flow scheme where they would pay up to 2 and a half 1000 pounds a month of people's wages but the chancellor if she so that has already indicated that scheme and others can last forever and with freezers to benefits and other public sector pay and now says well there are going to be seeing really tough times ahead this coming into. and it's not just the u.k. on the brink of a 2nd coronavirus wave several european nations including france and spain have seen a dramatic spike in cases and the health risks along with the ongoing restrictions appear to be disproportionately affecting the poor charlatans he reports. to cover the 19 pandemic has highlighted many problems from inadequate medical resources to a lack of trust in governments around the world perhaps the starkest issue that
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it's exposed is how different it is to experience a pandemic if you are poor compared to those with money. people and possibly with face new restrictions on movement there has been through some of the labeling as segregation this is an example of government defense of people confined in poor neighborhoods all the districts can continue to enjoy their kids. the president of the community of madrid treats this area like a ghetto the virus is here but why does that mean the workers need to be locked up it's even claimed in the evening at the oprah highlighted the disparity in how people in the cheapest seats were treated they were in those in the more expensive
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seats below had to put social distancing measures in place. social inequality has also been a topic for protesters in. well in the u.k. the editor of the medical journal the lancet lambasted what he described as being the true scale of social pathology underlying national crisis the gruner virus pandemic has exposed the reality of contemporary britain the countries
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defined by poverty insecurity and inequality science cannot guide the government in formulating this strategy a plan for britain's future must be guided instead of values and the lessons learned from the human consequences of this pandemic there has also been concern raised about the minority ethnic backgrounds who make up a 3rd of patients in the intensive care units we are continuing to see black asian and minority ethnic people suffering disproportionately in terms of intensive kid missions so not acting means that we're not protecting the vulnerable communities action was needed back in july and it's certainly needed now more than ever i think minorities so also faced issues here in france statistics from the government's own agency reveal that the disproportionate impact of coverage of the early on in the pandemic that saw it up by a 134 percent amongst north african immigrants it was up 219 percent for
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those who were born elsewhere in africa and it's not just saying europe that there are problems across the globe it's estimated the pandemic will have far reaching consequences with inequalities whitening an estimated $71000000.00 additional people will be living in extreme poverty due to covet 19 sudden asia in sub-saharan africa are expected to see the largest increases in extreme poverty would an additional $32.00 mil. in and 26000000 people respectively leaving the la danger national poverty line as a result of the pandemic the european commission has pledged to aid to poor countries with a vaccine when one is approved to use commission president this in a vulgar lane has said this was about ensuring its commitment to equitable access to the world's poorest and most vulnerable people but many people living in europe particularly those who restore points to the poverty line may be questioning where
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that help is but then right now how are they expecting people to respond to this all over it's not just europe it's all over the world people are being asked to make sacrifices if people saw beneficial results for the rewards coming out of sacrifices in terms of a drop in the infection rate or an improvement in their general life circumstances then they probably would be compliant no more complied but at the moment up saluted nothing and it seems to be getting worse by the day this is hitting all populations disproportionately the poorer and particularly ethnic minorities are being hit hardest the magic bullet of course that we're all after is a vaccine the acid test will be who gets the vaccine quickest is it going to be able to distribute it the people there are worst affected should be the people who
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get the vaccine 1st. the russian health ministry is approved testing of another coronavirus vaccine clinical trials will begin soon in cities across the country with around $3000.00 volunteers involved and this comes a month after russia registered its 1st covert vaccine sputnik me my colleague ivan i once spoke to our correspondent richard national about the new trials he's running backs he has named name yet but we know how it works it is a so-called inactivated. chrono virus vaccine meaning it contains the deadly virus in it but it has been we came to we've been killed depending so that it cannot infect cells or replicate but still is capable of setting off a needed response from the immune system of the body so it's quite a tricky thing the trials are indeed about to start very soon in 3 russian cities 3000 volunteers are expected to take part after the injection they will be isolated will 16 days this will be the particle requires that under close supervision of
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scientists and doctors and we expect to hear the 1st results by the end of november and this is russia's 3rd to corona virus vaccine entering human trials another one is factor we expect it's registration within the next month but that we don't face race so far here in russia ease of course the drug known as sputnik be it is the edna virus based viral factor vaccine meaning it has a new deadly virus that he needs and i have to say that aids why divided the world's scientific community and those who are worried about 8 and are concerned about the speed of its development and doubt its effectiveness just earlier this month around 40 experts signed an open letter expressing their concerns and expressing their attitude towards russian vaccine and on the yusuf thank russia for
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aids research and among those lost who are thankful to was russia is now the head of the world health organization's european off its let's take a listen to little news even if they didn't appreciate you. for being devoted to the full $94.00 seem to be pushing for the letter saying it isn't for the who are going to do the fun of the state if it works. mr clegg is in russia's capital today by the way. here visiting moscow's telemedicine center and we expect to meet him later today in a forest like loop i'll be able to talk about rushing back seats we need for you one of the early volunteers who came forward to say that year you try this book makes the question is what happened you know were the any any contra indications are you feeling all right other than go the by god and sputnik means action on saturday or maybe cavett was a placebo because this is
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a so-called double blind trial when neither participant a doctor is know who eaves receiving what kind of drug is it a drug or placebo no one knows and actually i don't know whether i'll have the answer to this question at all and this is the idea of these trials so i got it on saturday whatever it was and the next day i felt quite bad to be honest as if i had some kind of earth virus so i was starting and so i got muscles he i got some you had a it was very hard for me to like concentrate in terms of these and. it faded away like next day so it just lasted around like 16 hours but i was again under the supervision of doctors are like you know millions of them called me during the day osteen i mean my feelings about my health. and i hear young people praise me for
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taking part in this trial i'm one of the drug 40000 to 56 paid actually in phase 3 of the clinical trials will be but i don't like the agree that there is like bravery or hair reason behind these moves because i entered the trial after phase $1.00 and $2.00 were complete and the goal of the 1st 2 stages east to prove that the vaccine all the drug is safe so i don't put myself into any danger but there are. is a chance that i mean off to do so injection if it was not to placebo my body can produce on and tight budgets and i can be able to receive the run of virus so and this is what i just pray to in the strong biblical based chance to be able to receive these from the foreign studies i mean in the world in such a matter for the last 8 months. britain's 1st refugee
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camp has opened its doors in former army barracks and folkestone and southeast england will house up to 400 asylum seekers a local authorities have expressed their concerns saying they were never consulted over the new facility assaults a surge in sea crossings with almost 6500 migrants crossing the english channel in small boats since the start of this here. he. is
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fed up hearing it we don't want to call the number of people the plight of babies got big don't you fuckin know i haven't a chance to get to use this is happened quite quickly we 1st found out about it maybe 2 weeks ago and we've had a lot of questions none of which we've had satisfactory to yet i think is a good idea because clearly many many and most buildings here that are empty i think these people have some would be no safe to live she really seeking asylum that's fair enough to do it in the proper manner this could have bad only the i mean we don't know. that bobby just very grateful to be. i don't but i never used against him this is just a very nation community here and people are very friendly very nice but i know a lot of them don't like sharing and she just coming em all but see that the illegals that see it be worse if their charity a sakti it stand up
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a seed company can for money get out of it try to change. twitter has apologized for an image cropping feature which some users have branded racists algorithm apparently shows a preference for white or black faces a social networking firm has says it's working on a fix to prove. point one user placed an image of republican senator mitch mcconnell above one of barack obama when generating a photo preview the app automatically cropped out the former president and the same thing happened with other combinations of black and white people were surprisingly though the twitter algorithm appeared to prefer yellow over red simpsons characters and golden or black labradors it's not the 1st such controversy a zoom use or earlier question why his dark seeing skin colleague was vanishing during a virtual meeting of the a conferencing firm later explained that the software can sometimes mistake a human face for the background social media laurie or cohen gave us his views on the twitter scandal the reason why twitter appears to be gripping images in the 1st
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place is to make the mi g.'s more acceptable to the eye. more pleasant to the a spot of the over the. the d.d.d. machine is being fed with the by easing stick to tional dice the later the by see something that people deliberately cause when we talk about institutional buy she might be talking about statistics being fed into the into the machine about people's preferences about all sorts of information 8 the year ended cozies some sort of prejudice against a particular group of people to the researching this is more of a technical issue rather than something that the machine had to learn from from people. i was 200 world leaders politicians lawyers and
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academics are urging britain to free wiki leaks co-founder julian sons is behind bars waiting for in london court to rule on his extradition to the u.s. and that call came in the form of an open letter to the government a number of lawyers for a songe says his case is clearly politicized. piece of the sound is very clear cut morally there there is no doubt who is in the right and who is in the wrong on the one hand we have a journalist who has exposed incredible work crimes and torture and corruption on the other hand we have the embarrassed superpower that wants to prosecute him it couldn't be more black and white than this as legal experts we can see unequivocally that what is going on is a political process a songe is accused of leaking a trove of secret u.s. military and diplomatic documents his extradition hearing has been delayed by the covert pandemic but the proceedings have been repeatedly marked by protests outside the court building
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a public figures and political activists coming to support him former and ally and rapper and reacted to the developments. i still feel how. he was just nice i wish i could tell him the ways that you know it is changing and people's press just eat the trees speak freely on the internet is actually way where this then it was the area and yes and much sense is the trial is back on again but you use the best war that i've heard to describe it trudging on it's trudging all day in complete silence none of the british media are covering this story at all even though it's the trial of the century right in the heart of london in some cases a few 100 yards away from the big media houses but none of them none of them
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are interested even though all the journalists in those media houses if julian our sons goes down so does journalism and where he goes there might one day be forced to follow. we know how the case is going it's going extremely badly for the u.s. government and the british government the tragedy is that probably won't make any difference at all the. world leaders are now addressing the united nations general assembly which is being held a virtually so far the session has been dominated by washington's move to unilaterally reimpose un sanctions on iran come up and reports the 75th united nations general assembly in new york city is certainly unconventional as it's being held virtually with travel restrictions imposed due to the coded 19 pandemic now despite the fact that it's basically
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a cyber gathering with very few people on the premises of the united nations there has been no shortage of drama the week began with the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh imposing new sanctions on the islamic republic of iran these are the sanctions that were lifted after the 2015 nuclear deal however the united states is taking the unilateral move of restoring those sanctions or actions today or warning that should be heard worldwide no matter who you are if you violate the u.n. arms embargo on iran your wrists the country that's isolated today it's not tonight it states but rather iran by these actions we have made very clear that every member state in the united nations has a responsibility to enforce these sanctions now other nations have denounced this unilateral move from the united states and voiced strong disapproval the united states pretty much stands alone at the united nations when it comes to their skirt
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standoff with iran today we can see the maximum pressure policy of the u.s. against the iranian nation at least in the political and legal fields has turned into maximum isolation for the u.s. we don't need a cheering section to validate our moral compass we do not find comfort based soley on numbers particularly when the majority has found themselves in an uncomfortable position under writing terrorism chaos and conflict. we refuse to be members of that club almost every country in the e.u. and the u.n. security council has not followed the lead of the trumpet ministration an opposing sanctions on iran the un secretary general has already announced that intergovernmental organization will not support the imposing sanctions and what they're doing is essentially attempting to. muscle their way back into an agreement that they walked away from and demand sanctions although they have almost
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no support outside of israel amid the coded pandemic as well as rising tensions in many corners of the globe all eyes will be on the u.n. general assembly now tuesday not only is iranian president hassan rouhani and u.s. president donald trump expected to speak but we're also expecting to hear from russian president vladimir putin turkish head of state era one and french president mccraw speeches by heads of state are expected to continue throughout the week as this is the big week of the u.n. general assembly and of course held virtually this year due to pandemic and health concerns this latest play by the u.s. only reinforces what his traditional allies in europe. and even what rivals you might say in russia and china they regard
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this as another indication of the untrustworthiness of the u.s. to maintain any agreement it makes the u.s. has walked away from strategic arms limitation agreements with russia the u.s. has quit the w.h.o. the us walked away from the j c p o a. so they the traditional allies of the usa they are reluctant to enter into any further green. it's worth it so therefore i would say yes indeed the us has lost a lot of credibility and has succeeded only in isolating itself from its former allies and friends. the world's richest one percent cause double the carbon pollution of half the world's population that's according to a new oxfam report the 25 year study found they make a wealthy as carbon budget was also higher than the entire population of the put
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together if left unchecked the emissions would be enough to increase the earth's temperature by one and a half degrees celsius and just the next decade and one of the report's authors warns the rich are simply getting richer we say this is the result of government policies in most countries around the world that have seen over the last 20 to 30 years economic inequality really exploded the global rich are using up the carbon budget just in the process of getting even richer but we also need to do more to reduce the outsized carbon footprint of the richest people and that means things like much higher taxes or luxury carbon consumption like big highly polluting cause pretty quick clyde's private jets. that's a breakdown of the day's top headlines for now but if you're looking for more you
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can always head to our web site our team dot com so to me at this hour. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going from duration let it be an arms race move his arms off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of the armed times to sit down and talk. we are segregated only by social class lower middle class people also in poverty by 1st place if you're born into a poor family och you're born into a minority family if you're born into a family that only has a single parent that really constrains your life chances people die on average 15
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