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from moscow to the world this is our teacher national from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome to the program get to those headlines stories in just a moment but some news just in from france president mccrone has announced some drastic new measures to country a surge in coronavirus cases the details are starting from saturday night the paris region marsay to lose and several other cities will be placed under a nightly curfew from 9 pm to 6 am it's believed that will run for at least 4 weeks and people will have to remain in their homes during those times those who break the curfew will be fined $135.00 euro which goes up for repeat violations there are similar penalties for failing to wear a mask a state of emergency has also been declared across france after the number of daily cope with 19 infections hit a record high we'll be getting reaction from our correspondent in the coming hours from france on this story. a 2nd experimental russian

vaccine against corona virus has officially been registered at the voc corona has successfully passed phase one to clinical trials my colleagues and. discuss the announcement made on wednesday by president putin. lucy gives you. the vote to research center in the disappears is registered. the 2nd russian vaccine against corona virus the epi bot corona vaccine was developed by siberia based state a research center among the largest in russia it was founded more than 45 years ago that in the soviet times phase one and phase 2 of its clinical trials are now behind and we heard it was a success meaning the drug is safe now face 3 is coming and it is a study in whether the vaccine is in fact effective and we hear that around 40000 volunteers are expected to take part and for that purpose 60000 doses of the drug

will be produced and we hear from russia's vice premier that it will happen very very soon interesting to mention is that normally all 3 stages so phases of the human a clinical trials should be completed before registration but the world has been living in quite an emergency mode in the last 8 or so months so procedures have been slightly changed slightly adjusted so this is world's 2nd registered vaccine against call they'd 19 the 1st one was also registered in russia back in august it is known as sputnik all satellite feed it is and then the virus vector viral vaccine and we now hear from its developers that by november russia will be able to produce up to 6000000 doses of vaccine maining 8 to may take up to 12 months to vaccinate around 80 percent of the country's population and as we hear from russia's president vladimir putin the russian citizens house is among the

country's key priorities but. first we need to make these vaccines available on the russian markets they must be supplied to russian pharmacies on as large a scale as possible we continue to cooperate with our foreign partners and we will promote a vaccine abroad as well taken. international cooperation and foreign partners we know that 50 countries are already interested in russia's sputnik the vaccine against carvey that we heard that from the head of russia's investment fund who just earlier this week came back from the united arab emirates where phase 3 of the clinical trials of sputnik was approved billeted to the sputnik. you know gold piece 3 was made in the should participate to use the complete very important we believe you we use a strategic cob for concurring the bios not only of the middle east in the world now marie i know that you've been vaccinated yourself. be the 1st russian vaccine

can you tell us more about your experience with it is a double blind trial meaning placebo is used and neither doctor is know the participants know who is getting the wharton only 75 percent of the volunteer is actually jabbed with a real short and till the last moment i was hoping that i'm among them i got 2 injections already on the 1st and 21st day of the trial so i got reactions like fever muscle pain and had a to both injections actually now i just now received results showing that my body right now has i.g.g. antibodies meaning my body reacted to. 1000 to corona virus as if i was infected vaccine apparently i got the vaccine. job so i'm very happy with that. moving the program on russia's foreign minister has questioned whether the country can continue to do business with the european union if the threats and occupations

from brussels continue sergei lavrov spoke to russian media executives including artie's editor in chief margarita simonyan you addressed the range of issues including the rest in belarus and turkey's involvement in the current conflict or t. cells cotillard takes us through the main points. we had a very lengthy and really comprehensive conversation between foreign minister sergei lavrov and editors in chief of a number of media organizations that was so much to impact that such an array of topics but one that was given considerable attention was russia's increasingly difficult relationship with the european union now love prof notes that of course the 2 have mutual interests especially economic ones let's think of course just off the north stream to a gas pipeline but that all of this was made very difficult by what the fire of foreign minister described as a condescending attitude from the blog and this constant to mons being put on moscow this is what he said about the impact of that after that there was no go

through approvals. the question is not just where the business as usual is possible but with any business with the european union is possible a tool the e.u. behaves arrogantly towards us and looks condescendingly down at russia demanding answers from us for all the crimes it imagines we have committed i think we are under no obligation to respond to that. also add to that a versa for you but minority within the european union was only father undermining the relationship now of course this all comes against the backdrop of wosm diplomatic ties between moscow and brussels as a result of the election poisoning of russian opposition figure alexina found me now one of the significant part of what lavrov said talked about double standards and he said that often the puts much more pressure on moscow than it would on itself and he said especially when it comes to the idea of interference in foreign affairs as this is something that people few very subjectively but i wouldn't go to

. in 2017 during the election in france marine le pen's a legitimate politician came to moscow to meet with president putin then french foreign minister publicly claimed that this was an attempt at foreign interference in the electoral process in france. now look at who macro holding meetings with smith learned to cannot. no one pays any attention to the fact that this could also be considered as foreign interference in belorussian affairs for those suck a lot for laid out his few on what the end goal was from these verbal assaults from on fact competition for calls for sanctions and for causing tellme oil russia's borders. in the us the west will always try to hold us back to undermine our political and economic capacities this is all part of the same old game they want to throw russia of violence not just with direct assaults like dirty competition and illegitimate sanctions creating instability on our borders. now one out of

russia's key relationships on the international stage that was touched upon was of course with washington and quite frankly he said with less than a month to go to the election whoever wins in november whether it's trump or biden probably very little would change he reiterated that all moscow has ever wanted was good cooperation but i'm an equal footing and that sometimes washington's foreign policy made that very difficult other topics such as the protests in batteries or indeed a peaceful resolution to the conflict in the board i care about we're also discussed quite extensively but suddenly the lion's share from today's conversation was dedicated to the current status of russia's relationship with key international players and the future of it the message today seemed very uncompromising things cannot continue as they are business cannot go on as usual whether that serves as a trigger for more compromise or want to stand will have to be seen. or guessed

told us that the spying very harsh language coming from the e.u. the bloc still needs good relations with moscow. i think it will last for some time and then of course the dialogue will continue to measure the most important issue that germany and europe could take would be to stop the. pipeline between russia and germany nord stream too but of course the german star want to do that because that would get them and do it up very badly we need russian gas and so they don't put them on the sanction list so the sanctions are not really sanctions it's you know wagging the fame girl it's really not up to standard where you're to should be as an international power and talking with russia which is another you know power and the world we have a new wave of russian propaganda as well of anti chinese propaganda coming from the

u.s. there is a net group of n.g.o.s of the politically trained politicians and of the population that is uninformed on russia that it's very easy to make such a until russian company russia is very smart in using soft power so we don't have enough pro russian engineers they don't know that. european russian cultural exchange. it would be very helpful if russia could try to be a little bit have a little bit more p.r. that makes them also. and easier for us. to push the other side like. the leaders of russia and turkey have agreed on the vital importance of our polling the ceasefire between armenia and azerbaijan in a phone conversation with president or one block him or putin also raise moscow's concerns over the role of militants from the middle east being brought into the car

about conflicts. a fragile cease fire was brokered on saturday but has been repeatedly violated with azerbaijan and armenia pointing the finger of blame each other the fighting in cardiff back flared up more than 2 weeks ago but has roots going back 3 decades the area is mostly inhabited by ethnic armenians but is legally part of an oppression our correspondent ego shut down and reports from its capital. before the war this street used to be bustling with life neighbors would come visit each other mothers would read bedtime stories to their children well now it's almost completely abandoned after and as a by johnny airstrike basically there's a huge apartment building here which is no more there are no windows it has partially collapsed it's simply unsafe to live here here people as they ran to safety they abandoned their belongings like children's bicycles they simply had no time to pack everything and i have to admit that since the truce the city of step

on it the capital of nagorno-karabakh has it more or less easy been bodman do still happen but they are move rather than they used to be and they are almost entirely almost completely limited to nighttime it's more or less the same in other towns of nagorno-karabakh like the towns of martone and shushi in fact thing is similar pictures similar very very similar devastation can also be seen from azerbaijan its 2nd largest city of ganja came under shelling just a couple of days ago. and

it would be wrong to say that the fighting has ceased elsewhere too as we're filming this there's a faint but a very distinctive sound of shelling coming from over the mountains to the south from here that is where the town of adroit is which is viewed as a gateway into nagorno-karabakh so it is a very heavily contested area the fighting is also fierce in the north the. seems both. by john trying to get a firm grip on some key strategic places and heights before real peace negotiations begin as both militaries are fighting for diplomatic leverage. reporting from the back. something beautiful in the midst of conflict. performed at a heavily damaged defeat. the the real was shelled

a week ago the musician who. played a piece by an armenian composer who told us what inspired that performance. played a concert exactly one year ago in. church and it was very hard breaking to see such a peaceful church can be. historical. building or he can just be bombed for nothing and force my way off my prayer. as a musician the only thing i can do and if every one in the ward does what they do the best will be a peaceful place. to stay. it's regions were being shelled by armenian forces both nations the 9 violating the cease fire these images are from the as you re city of turkey which has been shelled several times in recent days as a result people have taken shelter in their basements here's what some of them had

to say. well there are a hell of a there are many answers and constantly they're shelling us now with different weapons with missiles bombs tanks rocket launchers they use it all it have to put in one week ago a shell struck and abstemious neighbor's home was completely destroyed it was impossible to take anything from the building our home was also severely damaged doors windows even the walls everything is ruined. we cannot sleep at night when they stop shelling for an hour or so we can close our eyes naacp and we get woken up again it's the same thing over and over. still ahead donald trump claims his recovery from coburg 19 gives him immunity but a new study suggests otherwise the details on nots on world.

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hello again the director of the world health organization has urged countries not to pursue a herd immunity strategy against the coronavirus he said deliberately allowing the virus to spread among populations is dangerous and on earth. how do you mean. by protecting people from a virus not by exposing them to eat. never in the history of probably killed has heard immediately been used as just tried to e.g. for responding to an outbreak. a pandemic it's scientifically and

you could be problematic some scientists have argued that covert $1000.00 should be allowed to circulate freely to a large populations to build up a natural resistance to the virus the idea gain some traction early on in the pandemic sweden defacto pursued herd immunity while the u.k. initially considered it an option earlier i discussed the issue with a panel of experts. herd immunity is it really such a bad idea i think it is really a bad idea 'd one of the primary reason is that we don't really know a lot about this why this humanity against 4 lives is not long lasting the mexico what we can expect is that we year so this means that we have to go through this process over and probably will be very costly and probably optical that gets the basic idea that we that we hoping to achieve some level of immunity within the population indeed the herd level of immunity is just how do we get the do we get the through a vaccine or do we get the true through natural infection and what's going to

be what's going to cause least to us society's overall they w.h.o. it hasn't been perhaps as clear as it could have been particularly this week it also said that locked islands are bad are they contradicting themselves how do you see this this advice a lot of the information that's coming from governments and from world health organizations and agencies are are really confusing for most people if a lockdown is happening or not if it's a good thing or not and now about issues of herd immunity and so it's coming down to who is communicating the right message and what is the role of of the individual trying to protect their family do they think that it's a good idea if somebody gets chicken pox or they don't have it later in life do they get coded now and that's a really dangerous position to be putting individual sent increasingly people are looking at the example of sweden stockholm hoss and officially adopted a herd immunity strategy but that has been the result essentially in practice

another dealing death rail it's almost 0 how they got it right through one way or another well it includes people they have been claiming that there is no restrictions or backed level of the law that other countries have adopted but the have had all those control years that ought to quiet when might this infection on number of people. yeah there are there were pictures wear and tear of people in restaurants and cafes when essentially the rest of europe wasn't doing that they where in sweden oh yeah absolutely i think sweden is certainly of valuable computer abstentions off the phone and out me think it is a lot of your culture to move forward because we already know what's going to happen tomorrow in the swedish perspective so although certainly the swedish perspective is a very good very able to compare between but i think it is too early to nicole that they have. adopted right approach as the w.h.o. has pointed out lock downs are incredibly damaging each other ways and we and one governments are struggling with these balancing the damage from lock downs with the

with the damage from not look down and they can't win whichever decision they make their own their prices to be paid and it's extremely difficult to know which also the action is the right one and we probably only know in retrospect government account to everything if people i suppose are aware of the risks should they be allowed to go on to expose themselves to potential infection and take their chances and perhaps get that immunity level well the real issue is this is the inequality lockdowns are showing at the choices that people have to make a not a person who has to put food on the table leg like all of us. may have to leave the house to to do that so we have to be concerned about not just emotional wellbeing but the economic well being of the educational wellbeing and so those are the risks that people are are also balancing out. lee 1st case of covert reinfection has been confirmed in the us according to a study published by the lancet medical journal the patient's symptoms were far

more severe the 2nd time around the 25 year old from nevada who has no recorded immune disorder 1st tested positive in april he later recovered with 2 negative test but in june develop severe symptoms on again tested positive it's the 5th proven case of reinfection registered worldwide in the netherlands the 1st death after reinfection was confirmed on tuesday mark penn dorie lead author of the us study says people should not assume they're safe after recovering from covert scientific data that we have from this case and other cases would indicate that if somebody has had hope that note we just don't know whether that person can be reinspected again it's possible that they could be reinspected again but it's also possible that some people are immune in fact it could be that the vast majority of people are immune and it could be something else that could be in our immune system gives us a resistance that makes the 2nd case of a lesser but asymptomatic action despite the confirmed cases of reinfection some

people do assume there are immune having caught on recovered from the disease donald trump seemingly among them the u.s. president battle covert earlier this month he said he's even ready to get off close and personal with his supporters. now they say i'm amused i can feel i feel so powerful what it was i walked in to see everyone have august that guys are you to fold women and everybody just give you a big fact is. a controversial new york times project which labels slavery is the most significant aspect of american history has sparked a rug between the paper's own writers one columnist wrote that off the 161000 project had failed and he got this response from the paper's union of employees. it says a lot about an organization when it breaks its own rules and goes after one of its

own the act like the article reeks the tweet has since been taken down the project was developed by new york times magazine with a series of pieces published last year 1619 was when the 1st slave ship arrived in the colony of virginia the writers argued that date should be considered the birth year for the united states rather than 776 the year independence was declared the research again plenty of publicity on the creator one appeared at surprise but last week new york times columnist bret stephens wrote an opinion piece questioning the 69000 project he praised the quality of the research but said it's not the job of reporters to really frame mystery journalists are most often in the business of writing the 1st rough draft of history not trying to have the last word in it we have best when we try to tell truths with a lowercase t. following evidence in directions unseen not the capital t. truth of a prius stablished narrative in which inconvenient facts get discarded as fresh

concerns make clear on these points and for all of its virtues buzz spin offs and the pulitzer prize the $161000.00 project has failed we spoke to legal media analyst lying all about the infighting in the new york times over the project he thinks it demonstrates left wing intolerance of the scenting views. well it amazes me that somebody who represents or than organization of journalists would basically have a problem with somebody expressing an idea or performing journalism it just goes to show you that this comes down to one very simple fact there are some things that are allowed to be said within let's say the alter left journalist platforms and things that you can't say if you say anything that challenges you to the new york times or particular ideologies espoused by the time

or even that you dare say something that goes against the grain you're cut down immediately let me make it even more simple there is no journalism anymore. a russian photographer has won a coveted international award with a once in a lifetime image of an endangered sign pierian tiger surrogate course cults work is titled the embrace it shows a tigress scent marking an ancient manchurian fir tree in russia's far east it took a level months of trial and error to finally capture the close up of the big count using motion sensors the british natural history museum chose the piece out of 49000 entries with course cough claiming that wildlife photographer of the year award. the emerge tiger was pushed to the brink of extinction a few decades go due to poaching and deforestation but the population falling to

just a few dozen it's recovered somewhat in recent years with the help of strict conservation laws but the species is still cost endangered around $500.00 siberian tigers living in the wild in parts of eastern russia. well don't serve game right just coming up to half past 10 here in moscow that's where they'll be back with more of the midweek news headlines at the top of the hour would be a pleasure if you join me too good bye for now. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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