no dares thinks we dare to ask russia's president says, fighting has completely stopped in the disputed region of newborn a couple. after the latest cease fire between azerbaijan and armenia, speaks with refugees who fled the war zone and sought shelter in armenia. i didn't want to leave my home, but another siren my daughter said mom, they're coming for the sake of my children. i left stuff and i can't rush of top diplomat suggests that kremlin critic could have been adjusted a nerve agent in germany or on the way there, but the kremlin spokesperson stressing that no one is willing to cooperate with moscow. on the cakes we want to know the truth. so we said please help us if you

have information that we do not have, please share it with us. but no one wants to cooperate. and the news that a corona virus vaccine developed by pfizer and biotech could soon be ready for release is giving hope, but mainly to rich countries, as it looks like for one might be priced out. this is our 2 international coming to you straight from the russian capital where it's just turned 6 pm. welcome to the program. russia's president says, fighting has come to a complete halt in the disputed region of newborn a car bomb. since the signing of a cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan, ottomar putin updated his cabinet ministers just now on the situation there,

saying more than 4000 people have died in the conflict, and tens of thousands of residents are displaced. russia has deployed almost 2000 peacekeepers to enforce the truce in karbala. armenia's prime minister has defended his decision to sign. the russian brokered cease fire, saying it prevented catastrophic loss of life, but he's facing strong public resistance. these are the latest pictures from your event where crowds have gathered, yet again outside parliament, calling for an equal question, you know, this resignation. many armenians are furious about the terms of the truce, which allow azerbaijan to hold on to the land. it's captured in the past 7 weeks, plus armenia is obliged to hand over 3 other districts by the end of the month. here's a look back at the past few days of unrest in the air about the uk, so it's a good time to be driving trucks

. because as we mentioned earlier, russia's president highlighted the plight of refugees fleeing the conflict zone. many ethnic armenians left right after the ceasefire was signed when it became clear that their homes and villages would be handed over to baku makeshift centers with volunteers and aid workers have been created to help accommodate them. but some of those fleeing have found shelter and homes of total strangers in armenia. artie's interest on the reports. we built our dreams. we wanted our dreams to come true, but after 30 years it's war again. again, everything is destroyed. there are many places in the world where peace spells torment, but nagorno-karabakh is one of them. the truce between armenia and azerbaijan hasn't brought any relief for those who fled the war, but not i didn't want to run,

not at the beginning, at least, but did for the sake of her children. yet as with the 1st bombing, i woke the children and we went to our neighbor's basements. we're in an area where there are no bomb shelters. i didn't want to leave my home, but another siren. my daughter said mom, they're coming for the sake of my children, i left step and i kept to care of the kids. well, while she's holding back tears, her little daughter runs around as if war has never been a feature of her young life. finding home in armenia has never been a challenge. people weren't just welcoming. they were actively searching for refugees to give them shelter from the bomb what i thought something needs to be done. and i started looking for a family to help. and they found me, they found me and i found them. and they have been living with me since october 1st, as none are, was following the war from afar. at 1st, everything seemed bright,

just as if victory was around the corner. but then troubling news from her husband on the front line was the 1st sign that all was not well in her homeland. the husband said that the is their version. he's were waiting outside the city to attack and that night a drone attack, the car in which he and other military personnel were and he reached and his relatives took him to the hospital. but he wanted to go back and fight and now he isn't stupid back at the peace deal, which for many looks too much like surrender. karabakh refugees like a hammer blow, says the by journey's will never give them a chance at co-existing. my adult. my relatives lived in how drouet it was very scary. they were in the basement until mid october, but they were lucky enough to leave there and escape. my other friend lived in shusha. she lost her home and her husband, and she has no idea how to continue living. as well aware of what happened and how much of new going to karabakh they have to give up and she finds it impossible to

accept, but it looks like she and tens of thousands of other refugees will have no choice but to get used to it. and my girls done of reporting from armenia for r.t. . a prominent kremlin critic, aleksei of ali, could have been targeted with a nerve agent after leaving russia at the suggestion of russian's foreign minister sergey lavrov. speaking at a video conference with journalists, the diplomat stressed that they've only had tested negative for any toxins, while still in that country are tastier for national reports. it seems russia has had enough after months of what more sco saw as groundless accusations. foreign minister sergei lavrov says vali could have been poisoned after he left hospital in russia last year. but we have every reason to believe that what happened to him in terms of chemical warfare agents get into his body, could have happened in germany or on the plane on which he was flown to the

sheraton hospital. exactly. how else can the sudden appearance of toxic materials in the bali samples be explained? he steps results were clear when he was in arms. that's according to russian doctors. wholly nischelle had treated him and several russian laboratories. it's only after volley was taken to barrel lean. that we heard about traces of navi chalk from germany 1st, then france and sweden. despite there being no solid evidence proven it. russia was very quickly accused of using a band nerve agent and punished with these sanctions. the quicker and more there was very clearly an assault and them assassination attempt that was made on russian soil against a russian opponent, with a chemical agent in the business related in russia. and therefore, it is on russia to give indispensable clarification that we will have to draw from the information that russia provides, the consequences all its refusal to provide clarification. if i

call on russia to do more to investigate this case, a key such as this must have consequences. the e.u. therefore, reserves the right to impose sanctions. russia is accusing now his western partners have been unreliable and is now ready to respond with mirror sanctions. it is difficult for me to understand the motives of the german partners. i already told this to hike among us, but i can repeat this. it's sort of secret that if we see how germany took the role of a leader in the new escalation of relations with the russian federation, there will of course be response to the sanctions. and since germany was the driving force behind these e.u. sanctions over the novelli case, and since these sanctions directly affect hiring in stouffer's of the russian president's administration, we will respond in kind all russian requests for proof or any lead date or were politely denied. so i would like to reiterate that we do not expect the bearer of the bad news, namely us to be criticized. it will be better to deal with the news itself. we have,

informed the o.p.c. w., an organization that the russian side can approach to ask further questions., ironically, one, addressing the o.p.c. w., russia was told to go back and ask germany, which made moscow doubt the organizations motives. i will be blunt the o.p.c. w.'s technical secretary as is increasingly turning into a tool in the west and which is being used to exert informational and political pressure on countries that fail to toe the line. this conclusion is backed by the watch dogs involvement in and russian campaigns early it with the script case. and now with the alleged poisoning of alexina vone, and now russia says it may consider leaving the o.p.c. w. . so the ball is in europe's court. that all they 1st fell on an internal flight in russia. in august, aircraft made an emergency landing in the city of homs square. he was taken to the hospital and put into an induced coma. the samples were sent to several russian

labs, and none of them found any traces of toxins, but only was then airlifted to germany where he was treated at a specialist clinic in berlin. we discussed the role of tit for tat thank sions. in the whole affair with german, i mean like the 1000000 cross and historian and international affairs specialist the who play and the whole plot on of army is shaming. germany is doing a lot of accusations against russia, but is not delivering evidence. so i'm very critical to what the handling of that case by did to him and political class by the government. and i'm fully with the russian authorities who demand stronger evidence. we are in the, in a spiral of sanctions. and i don't thi, where this might lead to on the one hand we have to enter russian sanctions, which are seen widely as ridiculous and unfair even in the german public,

not in the political class. but among the majority of the people, there is no support for those sanctions. and now russian is doubling. doing take fortec. i understand that russia is no, are sick of accusations which are most ridiculous. but if there drew would lead to 2 new countermeasures against russia. it would be to europe of what we want. so it's a dangerous game. my suspicion and indeed hope is that the sanctions and the noise about the o.p.c. w. is a cover for the fact that the pipeline will go ahead. that's my feeling right now. we haven't got to the point where the construction of the pipeline has been definitively abandoned. it hasn't been completed, but it hasn't been definitively abandoned. and so i suspect that the german political class is finding a way to save face. in other words,

to put symbolic sanctions on russia to the ante on the diplomatic level, probably my guess is to complete the pipeline artie's and sat down with the kremlin spokesperson, dimitri pascoe, of their wide ranging discussion touched on than about the case they can bring us now, but now, but the explosive interview will be airing and less than 30 minutes. here we are interested in the investigation of all the circumstances of what happened if we want to know the truth. so we said, please help us if you have information that we do not have, please share it with us. but no one wanted to cooperate. sometimes it seems that the patient does not want that truth to be out himself. you know, because the world or anybody, sometimes it seems the patient is not that sick when there are a lot of questions about his illness too. and if he is ill, we need to know how bad and whether his disease can fade and come back. well,

you have to agree that there are more questions than answers as the world way through a viable covert vaccine finding a job isn't the only challenge whether it's making it accessible. all rich countries can afford stockpiling drugs or one can lack the specialist storage equipment needed are to charlotte, except the story within hours of pharmaceutical giant pfizer and by own tech announcing that couvade $900.00 vaccine was 90 percent effective that you swooped in and signed on the dotted line and europe wasn't alone. massive deals,, have also been struck with the u.s. the u.k., egypt, pan, canada, and new zealand, leading some n.g.o.s to question whether this is just a vaccine for rich nations. it's worrying that pfizer bio,

when tech has already struck deals with rich countries for more than a 1000000000 doses of its vaccine, leaving less than a quarter of its projected supply for the rest of the world. big pharma profits must not be prioritized over the health of billions. now, the european commission has been clear and member states can decide what to do with their vaccine doses. and that includes the option of donating them to lower and middle income countries. the u. is unlikely to help a lot because it is in deep trouble itself. and many poor countries are not going to be able to be all the supply expensive coaching infrastructure and storage on time to deliver the missing. this vaccine needs to be stored at minus 70 degree celsius, requiring a special freezer of the type that isn't widely available even in europe and america. meaning countries will have to build deep freeze storage and transportation networks from scratch to keep the vaccine from becoming useless is

for the action is costly, its component is unstable. it also requires call chain transportation and has a short shelf life. the requirement for extremely cold temperatures is likely to cause spoilage a lot of vaccine the price tag in building these and the difficulties in administrating the required $2.00 shots within a month, may be too much of a burden for my nations, leaving them essentially frozen out some engineers have called on following on tech, to clarify how the vaccine will be made accessible outside high income countries. and they want the firms to make their vaccine technology available via a w h o scheme. so billions of doses can be produced as quickly and this cheaply as possible. now that's unlikely, because when the scheme was launched, pfizer made its feelings clear, i think is nonsense and at this point of time,

it's also dangerous. there's a giant effort right now happening to find solutions. the risks we're taking represent billions of dollars and the chances of developing something is still not very good and adding insult to injury the day. the vaccine was announced, the c.e.o. of fine. so many $5600000.00 worth of company stock. now pfizer says that this was a scheduled transaction. once the stock hit a certain value, but for many this was a cold shower. of a reminder, the big pharma is also big money. so a vaccine for covert 19 may be closer, which of course is good news. well, for those who can at least afford it, i say centralize profit seeking the theory of home with market in some way. because the last country to be called that really determines when the pandemic is going to the one who paid for it getting worse. i mean,

we complain much, but the point is really if it is eventually optimal for them to leave all these poor countries untreated because they could eventually travel back to the bric countries at the same time. profit incentive shouldn't be in the mind. the world's greatest invention and treatment by a lot by products. meanwhile, a new medical study has added to the urgency of finding a vaccine. it found that catching code it can correlate with developing mental disorders. the study was run by the university of oxford and it found that one in 5 patients go on to develop mental health issues within 3 months of testing positive . and also this was based on 69000000 u.s. medical records, more than 62000 of them had coronavirus. and the majority of disorders attending coded are characterized by feelings of worry or fear, in some cases strong enough to make every day life seem unbearable. they include

adjustment disorder, post-traumatic, stress disorder, panic attacks, insomnia, and even dementia, which talks to a co-author of the study. the short answer is that we don't know yet, and we have to do more research to find out, you know, we can start to speculate about what might be the reasons and i think the might be 2 main reasons. one is psychological. the n one is biological, the psychological one is quite intuitive. it is, you know, people suffer with the 19 which is quite scary in of itself and the fear of having a potentially life limiting in this might cause things like anxiety and depression . there's also a possible biological explanation, which is that it is possible that sask of to say the very virus that causes of it 19 my get into the brain. we know that some viruses do. we don't know yet. as far as i know where the source of 2 does, but it's possible that it does. and in that way it might be affecting the brain and

damaging the brain if you will, within the biological explanation is also an inflammatory explanation. so we know that of 2 as a virus causes an information throughout the body that can be, can expand well beyond the lungs. and it may be that, that inflammatory response also involves the brain. and if that's the case, that in my view that the inflammation to the immune response of the body mount against infection might be the cause of the cycle. given that there's going to be more people suffering with mental illness as a result of 19, we need to make sure that there is services provided for those people in therapy provided for the people. we know the things that he depression, for instance, for example, is of treatable diseases. most people that receive treatment for anxiety, depression do get better. and so it's very important that those treatments are available to all that need them. during the pandemic watching r.t.

documentaries can be an upsetting experience. at least a few to warnings are to be a believed our latest film on armed activists in the united states from both the extreme left and the extreme right has been flagged as potentially offensive. let's take a quick look. the biggest political events of the last 4 years is happening amid the coronavirus spend. the rest of them to the level of civil unrest sparked by the death, george floyd in the lives of the radical groups on both sides of the political spectrum. you hear words only you know what's about to happen if you want a war, let it begin with us. we're going to meet these groups and their leaders to find out how far they're ready to go, to fight for what they believe the steeds for this country. there are also different versions of the you tube warning for that documentary,

depending on your language settings. russian speakers are told the material could frighten or shock some users for english speaking viewers, it's branded, quote, offensive, or inappropriate for some audiences. and to watch it, you have to sign in to prove your age. earlier i spoke with the creator of the film . of course, it's not exactly the kids' content, it is about american radical groups and people who are having to involved in the protest movements that is on the rise, especially in the days and months before the election. but i think in that, in this documentary, there is nothing that is overkill or over the top. and for me, it is really weird and strange why it was flagged and especially the way it was flagged. so we have to fold the notification system in place for this particular documentary, and that is word, this is something unheard of. i think well as you're mentioning there, you actually have to log in. so for me personally, you know,

i tried to just open up the you tube, google it, and open it up and look at it. and it said you have to sign in. i don't have a youtube account, which means that certain people are not going to be able to access this movie. whereas i looked at what i just searched in youtube for one of the groups that you said was in the film, the boogaloo boys. there's plenty of documentaries of news stories about this group where they're talking about their doctrine where they're standing there with guns. 5 and you think it would be about the same thing? is that the sort of content that's in the movie, it's these men talking about their beliefs? pretty much so. so yeah, we spoke to the members of boogaloo movement. these are probably are and guys who are not afraid to come out to protest, although none of them are criminals of clause in, in that any possible way. so it's not that we were talking with, you know, bad people or criminals know they are just regular citizens, but they are having involved in protests,

but it's not against the law. right. in the u.s. . would you say that anything they spoke about would have been considered radical? i would say so. some of the things that they were mentioning are quite disturbing. you think about it because they were talking about the looming civil conflict in the u.s. about the deep division and polarization. that is taking place in the country about the probable on the revolution, whatever that means. but it's not that they were, you know, getting into any kind of specifics and we have, we have a special waiver before the film saying, just watch out guys, 3rd by disturbing content. so we told radio now instead to your audience, we asked you to explain why our documentary was labeled as potentially offensive. they reply that violent or gory content is a violation of their rules. except for when you use for documentary purposes, in which case you may apply an age restriction so that only adults can view it. but

of course, it's not the 1st example of our team material being flagged online before the us election. twitter marked one of our reports as misleading, meaning it could not be shared. twitter has rules against manipulating or interfering in elections, but in fact, the video was an account of ballot fraud allegations, which had been made by the term campaign and were widely reported elsewhere. and appended journalist to create gave us his views on the way videos are being censored on the major online platforms. this is crazy, dead gone much too far before as you say. i mean, if you put a blur or a nudity almost a still, or a trickster at the office, stopped immediately. no problem. now they venture into political world. there are other things that you can say and those that you can't,, especially if it comes from our t.v., it comes from russia. everybody knows it's own, every american,

this rifle and a submachine gun in the cupboard, too many weapons in america. and when you have thought of the left or on the right, you know, those in the streets, ready to fight each other over a dangerous full democracy. and this must be shown so that the people who rely on medicare is going to jump the gun. so it was certainly very young who are doing the job of selecting what is good or bad. i don't know really about all this relatively new to politics, to the old time politics or maybe they don't really know what they do. it is just the beginning of censorship own being put in place in america, especially for russian news. joe biden's team is stepping up preparations to take over in the white house and it's promising a clean slate after long accusing the trumpet, ministration of handing out top jobs based on personal connections are to scale up

and looks at whether things will be different this time around political appointees are supposed to be selected based on their experience and their merit, not their family connections in an ideal world. now, democrats have never tired of braiding. donald trump, for what they see as nepotism. kirshner's, lack of political experience is the daughter the president is engaging in diplomacy on the world stage with absolutely no fraud on what she says or does. it's the result of her father deciding to expand her role in the federal government? sure those objections might be justified, but democrats don't seem afraid to do the exact same thing. vice president elect camila harris's husband, douglas' him off a lawyer is going to be part of the biden administration. is working with the biden harris transition team to develop the tools he will focus on to support the work of the administration. although last month he did make clear, he will not be joining the ranks of kamel as advisors. and kitchen cabinet has been

here for now. joe biden's next of kin have long been reaping the benefits of having a high achieving relative joe biden's. son hunter got a nice gig working for barista holding a maid roughly $50.00 to $80000.00 per month. even though he had very little experience in the energy business and her biden also maneuvered into owning 10 percent of a chinese state controlled investment firm. obviously having a dad who was vice president has really provided hunter biden with quite a few opportunities. if your last name was invited and do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of the reason? i probably know if my last name wasn't james. the brother of joe biden is also known to make use of his family's connections back in 2011, a us real estate company got a 1500000000 dollar contract for iraqi reconstruction. at a time when joe biden was overseeing the reconstruction of iraq and that

$1500000000.00 deal was signed just a few months after james biden was named head of the company. republicans look at all of this and they cry foul. they say it's just plain obvious nepotism. the people who benefited are his family members, not the american people. i wish my name was under biden. and who can blame them? right? to get ahead in the world. gotta take care of the family here, the well spread it around, you know, other people at the top 5 bills, this company with my own 2. hey, it's just me. computers and a $1000000.00 loan from my father. now it's often been said that one should never put their job ahead of their family. but if you give all the key jobs to your family, everything works out. ok. ok. i think it's the way things have been. i mean, look at the trumpet ministration with his son in law and his daughter playing advisory roles, right in the white house and on payroll. so they're both,

they're both paid employees of the white house. so it's a, it's been, you know, it's just been a continuous thing like that. part of it is corruption. and part of it is that americans kind of like it, you know, look at the kennedy administer, you know, the kennedy family, you know, people sort of will know the name, and so they'll vote for it. it's kind of sad. you know, that there's not any concern about what they really stand for. it's just sort of, oh, i liked john kennedy, i guess i'll vote for her daughter or whatever. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for this hour coming up next though, is our teams exclusive interview with kremlin spokesperson dmitri pascal statement .

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